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I seriously thought it was about people dancing on the chest of a literal corpse, which... yeah. That's so, so obvious.

-Ls is actually younger than the PPC.

ahem

That was wonderful. It was so nice to see a bunch of old PPC faces - well, usernames - that I've heard of or read works by. Of course, I've actually had the chance to meet and interact with a few of them--and they're all quite lovely people.

I don't have much else to say other than that.

-Ls is sad to realize that he is a bit of a semi-lurker.

We say "skattkista" (treasure chest) for well, the kind that you put treasure in. But just a kista? Well.

That's "coffin".

Honestly, this just struck me as a very relevant detail, because it literally hit me that OBVIOUSLY in the English version it's a treasure chest and I just didn't put two and two together. XD But yeah! This probably plays into how they're ghosts in the Swedish version... It's also a particular kind of ghost. A gast is often used in connection to drowned sailors that were never buried, unlike the more generic spöke that is more commonly used. ("Spook" in English, of course, there's a lot of overlap in the etymology here. Words are fun!)

ANYWAY. Yes, I enjoyed Ekwy's pirate talk! It's totally fine that it's nonsense. She's a little confused, but she's got the spirit! Which... samesies. XD

I should note that Archivist Neshomeh's bootleg Rhum came about because I tried to do a different version of the pirate accent but it completely failed. I considered sending her full Cockney, but instead left it ambiguous.

hS

I think the wildest thing about this is that the English "fifteen men" have become Swedish "fifteen ghosts". I always thought they were living men raiding the chest, but apparently in Sweden they're dead too!

And apparently hungry for sandwiches. (I know, I know... ^_^)

hS

PS: I should note, given that you mentioned Agent Ekwy's pirate idiom, that she mostly speaks nonsense. "Avast the scurvy mainbrace, ye grog-lubbers!" makes about as much sense as "Splice the ahoy, ho-ho!", and for pretty much the same reason.

hS

....That was the correct phonetic spelling! It's not a different version, it's just three different ways of writing the word "och" ("and") and sung exactly the same either way. The word is pronounced like the 'ock' in 'sock', if you want to be specific, but nobody has time for that when you say it and especially not in a pirate song. Like you're more likely to write "bottle o' rum" and not "bottle of rum".

This is Pippi's version translated, and a recording of her singing it. (It has some imagery of skeletons and spooky horror pirates, if one prefers a heads-up on that sort of thing.)

"I'm gonna be a pirate when I grow up! Are you?"
Fifteen ghosts on dead man's chest
Heave and ho and a bottle of rum
Fifteen sandwiches in my stomach (She's rhyming "kista" with itself but she means two different things, the word "kista" is also slang for stomach)
I need to have for my belly's empty
Fifteen pirates and fifteen ghosts
Heave and ho on the storming sea!
Fifteen pirates and fifteen ghosts
Heave and ho on a dead man's grave!

/Ekwy, hyperfocusing on Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Efraimsdotter Longstocking

I confess to cheating outrageously with the Swedish - the song happens to have a Swedish Wikipedia article, though sadly it looks like I used the non-Pippi version. [Sneakily changes it, along with the dates]

(For any of ye scurvy English-speakers wondering: "Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!")

I'm having real trouble with the "twenty years" myself. Like... how? That's ridiculous! But then I think on all the things that have happened since I was sitting in my parents' dining room way too late and wondering how to introduce myself on an Internet forum, and... yeah, actually.

hS

I will say, the Ekwy of the story is better at pirate words than I am! (I'm there in spirit, but the vocabulary tends to be a challenge to me.)

I love love love the Swedish in this. It's very Pippi Longstocking. She is very dear to me and I even used to RP as her, so it warmed my heart. =) And you got the phonetic spelling right! Five stars for hS, you go hS!

All in all a very fun story with so many familiar names to me... It felt like having tea with very old friends. (Twenty years though... Did you double check that? Are we sure this is how time works? Seems sus, but okay.)

Minor correction on my Boardness, I am pretty sure I wasn't fully gone until like 2007... It felt like the PPC was part of my life longer the first time around? Honestly, I might be wrong though. What I do know for sure is that I didn't return until 2021, and that one is easier to check. XD May 7th, 2021 is when I wrote my "It's been 84 years" post that spiralled out of control a bit.

/Ekwy, feeling nostalgic

On every timber ye can see the names of them who crewed her in years gone by, but there be still plenty of room for a young landlubber to carve her mark and make her fortune. We got our cutlasses, our parrots (or lobsters), the wind in our sails - and a horizon out there to tell our tales beyond.

Yo ho!

hS

To those who don't use Discord much, howdy! I'm Damian! You may remember me from such esteemed accomplishments as that one mission I posted TWO?!?!?!?!!??!???! TGWO YEARS AGO?!!??!??!!???!! and... not much else. I only recently figured out how to write and have been alternating between projects to pour thousands of words at a time into, and one of them just so happens to be another mission! I've had like two false starts on this whole being a PPCer thing (well, the Larry and Azeraath thing is still canon, but they don't even have wiki pages yet), but I think they were okay, and this is most surely my best start yet. It's got themes! Gags! Unconventional subversions that naturally emerged as the story went on! And my best descriptions to date! Only problem is, it's still in need of a beta. I'm willing to wait on Lily Winterwood, who has already agreed, but she's banging out her own bangers and it might be a while before she gets the time. So in the meantime, I'll put a feeler out for someone else.

Continuum is The Simpsons but canon knowledge is not necessary, wordcount is 35000 or so.

as a youngin who joined this here ship 6 sailings ago, i am happy to be part of yer crew

(you’ve been on this ship longer than i have been alive XD)

It may be that ye'll not recognize many of the hoary dogs herein, but be hearty! The PPC is a fine old ship, and it be well to honor them as crewed her ere ye set foot upon her salty decks.

Also it's a fun read, savvy? ^_^

And—oh dear, I'm out of Rhum. So much for the "pirate"-speak. Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for this, Cap'n. I love the tea club. My only complaint is I'm not old, you're old, shurrup. >.>

^_~ <3

~Neshomarrrrr

Like many of you, I invented the concept for myself before I found out anybody else did it.

Around the new year of 2001, my parents invited our old neighbours round. Their daughter was about my age, and clearly had a well-developed addiction to fanfic because she had to borrow our computer to check for new Harry Potter fics during the course of the evening.

To my absolute astonishment (then and now, as it had been MANY years since the latest book) ff.n had a Young Wizards section, with.... like.... three? fics in it, which which I rapidly became obsessed. At some point in the next few years I did a summary search for 'Mary Sue' and found TOS. At some point after that I found a link to the board, where I met hS, married him, moved from Georgia to England to be with him, bore him two children, joined two different professions I would never have considered in the US, and rescued a spooky black cat.

In conclusion, fanfic has affected my life to a detectable degree.

I don't be remembering the exact day I boarded the good ship PPC, but the first event I recall aBoard was the scurrilous celebration of International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Five years ago, I adopted that as me official boardiversary, and penned a story for the occasion.

This year be markin' 20 years of my time in the PPC. Which is crazy as a parrot with a hook for a wing. I've spend more than half me life on this here Board. There be children out there whose parents weren't born when I joined!

In honour of the entirely unreasonable passage of time, me story this year be a commemoration of me shipmates from those most ancient of days. Most of them be long gone now, but they still sail in me heart.

Talk Like 20 Pirates

Yo ho!

Cap'n hS

I'm glad you liked the opening scene! Yeah, Draco's been growing out his hair since 3rd year because 1) Luna influenced him, and 2) it's a lot more solid of a way to store and keep extra magic, gender roles be damned!

Pansy and Ginny have known each other as Quidditch rivals since the end of year 2, so.... you'll see more of this as it develops :D

I was so excited to give Neville this fun triumphant moment :D And I'm afraid the decision to go for Mama Mia was 1) the orchestral cover was better and more dance-like and 2) the lyrics have thematic relevance eventually :P

Thanks for commenting; I really enjoyed writing this Yule Ball scene :D Also, thanks for catching that repetition also ;)

I kind of love the scene where the Slytherin boys are all helping each other preen up for the Yule Ball? Because even though they only care about their looks because they’ve had classist standards of appearance trained into them, it’s still kind of charming to see them helping each other out like that. Degenerate Muggle boys would be too scared of “looking gay” to do that! I also love that, in trying to restore his drained magic, Draco has settled on the counter-cultural solution of “I’ll just grow my hair out long like a woman!” Ah, the options that open up when we aren’t bound to arbitrary social rules about gender and appearance! Speaking of terrible social rules, uuuuuuuh, “he would still be in the clear with his parents to do his duty in two years’ time.” I knew the marriage was arranged, but like. Age 16?! The Malfoys and Greengrasses are seriously planning to marry the kids the second they turn 16!!?!?? Still students and everything!?!??!?!?!? picks up entire culture and dumps it into trash bin

Man, say what awful things you will about Pansy, she really knows how to make herself the imposing centerpiece of the Slytherin common room. Is she actually interested in Ginny, though? Never saw that coming! Pansy also taught me a new word there, “swotty.” I was REAL scared to look it up though, because a Pureblood Slytherin calling Hermione an unfamiliar word is usually pretty bad vibes, but I guess Hermione would agree with that one!

Congratulations, Neville’s dress robes actually sound like something I would want to wear as long as I can wear it with flip-flops, of course. And I love that he’s Fleur’s date to Yule; she’s made quite a catch! (I had to look up who she had gone with in canon; I definitely don’t remember “Roger Davies” existing at all.) And, and, and . . . The Weird Sisters wanted to play an ABBA song, while Beauxbatons was visiting from France, but they didn’t pick “Voulez-Vouz?” D : Shameful!

THAT FRIGGING BEETLE MAN DANG IT DANG THE BEETLE

Loving all those orchestral song covers you linked! I also love, “Draco could practically hear the cauldron stirring in his head,” as a wizard equivalent of the “gears turning in their head” idiom. Fantastic!

Also:
“. . . which also happened to be a question also on Draco’s mind at the moment . . .”
Also, an extra “also,” also!

—also, doctorlit also

Yes, today is a two for one deal from me!

We have the second chapter of the Cyber Circuit spinoff, in which Corolla's new deathtrap is revealed, and Sergio somehow likes it.

And we also have the first chapter of The Odd Bits, my collection of deleted scenes and other assorted one-shots, first one being Ami's first day of Unravel experiences until Sergio and Johnson were picked up by the Wolfram.

The Yule Ball, at last!

I think on the most part it would've been fine, though I imagine some kids deeper in the Circle of Gits would've had a field day and... yeah, consequences, consequences.

Glad you picked up on the beetle ;) For some reason, I knew you would ;)

It's normalised with the wizards, since there's a different angle to it--magic exists to remove the barriers between queer people and "being normal", so obviously all queer people should aspire to Bonding and children... but yeah, Seamus and Dean's actors were dancing together in the Yule Ball during the films:

So it just felt like a cute detail to bring out into the open!

Aw, it would have been nice reading Rose (and Gary!) attending the ball! But Dumbledore does have a point . . . then again, without the parents around, I do feel like the Muggles would be safe with the other students? As long as they weren’t alone too long? >_> Oh, also, perfect Dumbledore line here: “We could . . . and then we would have to live with the consequences.” Extreme 10/10 Dumbledore, good job!

You almost got me to overlook that beetle! I’m so used to finding spiders and moths stuck inside at work (and I just pulled a shiny figeater beetle out of the black-and-white ruffed lemur’s room last week!), I’m like, “Ah yes, a beetle has wandered into Dumbledore’s office. It’s probably not the point of this scene, but if I were there, I would be catching that beetle and releasing it outside . . .” But that’s not a beetle, THAT’S NOT A BEETLE! And I suspect the resulting article will be more accurate and truthful than usual, because “Dumbledore and Potter were discussing breaking the Statute of Secrecy” is already pretty bad on paper!

And I know I’ve mentioned it before, but I still love how normalized homosexual relationships are in this universe, and how everyone in Gryffindor is excited by Seamus and Dean going to the ball together.

—doctorlit will totally get around to reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin any decade here

i discovered it pretty recently actually!! a friend introduced it to me right before i happened to join lol, and i ended up loving fanfic!

Doesn't help that Krum is like, 70% of what we know about Durmstrang . . .

—doctorlit needs to pay closer attention to Luna's lines!

It's called primarily the Room of Hidden Things because that's what people need from it most of the time. Only a few students know that it can change its shape, I think. But I'm still developing who knows what about the room in 5th year. The Marauders didn't know about it (since it's not on the Map in the books), so I imagine that the room was "discovered" in between theirs and Harry's eras. Fred and George are probably likely to figure out that it can change shape depending on your needs, though.

Luna frequently makes good points, it's just that she covers it in a thin veneer of bullshit, haha. If you pay attention to some of her lines, you might notice that she predicts the big bad each year! (Astoria's wrackspurts=grief, Ministry Atrium bombing being an inside job, the Umgubular Slashkilter stalking Harry...)

Yes! The dragon has a reason to escape this time! And French house-elves take no shit! There is magic in a union, Dobby~

Durmstrang is located in the far north, while Bulgaria... isn't. I didn't want to put Durmstrang in Russia, given that there's already a Russian magic school, so I decided to put it in Svalbard, Norway instead. Hence the Task being spellcast to Norway (and Bulgaria because Krum is Bulgarian). There were hints of it earlier with some of Viktor's coterie having Scandinavian names and Camilla Storstrand (Miss Cam, you might even say) taking a Norwegian dish from the Gryffindor table.

~Lily is excited for hot labour... fall!