I've been SO too long without researchsquee.

[themeletor]

Fomg.

Whoever said period PotC was messy / dull / dreadful to do? LIED.

Just set it in 1692, is all.

.::falls over::.

You'll have to excuse me; I'm in the throes of research adrenaline.

[ETA: YES! WorldBookOnline's research libraries are back!]

Comments

[gryphons-lair.livejournal.com]

Hmm... full points for that one. I'd never heard of that ship before.

My take on the POTC universe is that it's a fun place that's obviously not our timeline (undead pirate monkeys, and all that) and in that timeline the earthquake hasn't happened yet, and go on happily cherrypicking the bits of our-world history I want to use and ignoring the ones I don't. 'Cause if I wanted to do excruciatingly historically accurate British Navy fic? I'd be writing Hornblower.

But I'm looking forward to watching you Explain It All. :)

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

Ok, actually, I think I lied. It was 1775, the revival of the three-decker. Oooops.

And yeah, PotC 'verse is fun for that freedom from detail-madness, and that's a great, fun thing. Lovely to take advantage of. It's beautiful, because a writer has that option, to completely, as you said, cherrypick, and there's no stigma for it because DUDE, there are zombies.

As for myself, there are times I just want to reconcile PotC, historically, for my own obsessive intentions. So I decided to do that.

But I'm looking forward to watching you Explain It All. :)

Ohhh, I shall.
(though if PotC2&3 somehow break it, I'll practice Studious Non-Attention)