On ne voit rien ici...

[fajrdrako]

One thing I will not do today is talk like a pirate.

It isn't that I don't like pirates; mostly thanks to Captain Jack Sparrow, I do. I like a lot of pirate types. Captain Jack Harkness is a pirate type, too. He stole the Chula warship - just as the Doctor stole the TARDIS. I am almost disappointed that Jack seems to have acquired Torchwood by legitimate means, though he runs it like a pirate.

No, it's just that I don't want to do it when everyone else is doing it. A pirate should not be a conformist.

Comments

[erastes.livejournal.com]

You could have a talk like Harkness day?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

talk like Harkness day?

What, flirt with everyone I meet?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Absolutely!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Could be fun.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

A very true statement! I've never done the whole talk like a pirate thing, unless you count roleplaying a character who did.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Roleplaying is a different thing entirely! And it isn't as if I wouldn't write a Sparrow story, even on TLAP Day. But. There are limits.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Too true.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Such an excellent point about conforming non-conformity!

Here's my current big annoyance re that particular mindset: non-het people who still conform to binary sexual expression, and get all upset when someone points out that it is not a given and the absolute only way. I just ran into it in Curve magazine, alas indeed: a letter from someone wondering why out gay people are so adamant about defining themselves as "butch" or "femme" -- and the columnist wrote back chiding this person that it's not conformity to the underlying het presumptions, no no naive little one! Instead, it's embracing our difference in any way we choose! ...Gad, that was inane.

I, too, will not talk like a pirate just because of what day it is. But I do like the notion [g].

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Everybody's got their own personal style, whatever it might be - and most people don't choose it because it's conformist, even if it is, but because it's what suits them. Or at least... ideally, that's what they do.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

My friend told me last night that talking like a pirate day was all fine and dandy until her boss started sending emails that began with ARRRRRRRR and continued in like form. Then it wasn't so cool.

Her boss being a library director.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

LOL! Today libraries, tomorrow the world! and madness rules.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

With ex-Merchant Navy father and maternal grandfather, I find the romanticisation of piracy disturbing, in any case. It's still a major danger, especially in the seas off SE Asia and E Africa.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes. I've also enjoyed the use of pirates as serious villains, which you don't see so much. Karin Lowachee does this in her novels, to superbly good effect - the pirates are slavers and very scary. I've also enoyed this as a theme in some of the Alexander Kent novels.