Tuesday night, rainy

[cleolinda]

It's not even September yet, and here my thoughts are already turning to Halloween. This is probably for the best, as I associate Black Ribbon most with Halloween--it's just that whole gothic Victorian thing. Not Hot Topic gothic, but rather English ghost story gothic. I've let rosehannah languish a bit while the Harry Potter-Stardust summer fantasy

Comments

[marciamarcia]

Hey, that's my chick pirate story! Sweet!

[cleolinda]

You wrote it? (I did notice it was a Mental Floss story...)

[marciamarcia]

Yup, that's me...that story has been everywhere today.

[particle_person]

Hee, I saw that earlier. It made me think that POTC III missed a chance to use her as a foil for Elizabeth.

[lily_handmaiden]

Yes, although (not that POTC has always been very consistent with this) she did come almost a hundred years after Elizabeth. Still, I think it's funny that she was from the South China Sea, which Elizabeth became Pirate Lord of, via Sao Feng.

[particle_person]

I don't think the dates are that far off. It says Cheng I Sao started her pirating in 1801 with her husband, and the POTC events take place toward the end of the age of piracy, probably the late 18th century (some things in the film didn't exist until the 1770s according to Wiki). I think they could have fit her in given how generally sloppy they were about the dates.

[lily_handmaiden]

Really? That late? I'd heard 1720-1740. My geeky self so wishes they'd just picked a year to set it in, because I have a very hard time just saying, "Oh, Pirates. You take place in Crazy Time."

[particle_person]

Take it with the usual salt grains, but here's what wiki said.