Meme or proactive procrastination? you tell me! ;)

[elanya]

Ask me about one of my interests.
I'll explain it.
Then post this in your journal, iffen you're so inclined

(This is so that I can have something to kill time with tomorrow, see ;)

Comments

[random-echoes.livejournal.com]

Alright I'll ask the obvious one. Pirates?

[fritzleonhardt.livejournal.com]

The only one I don't really know is Charles Johnson.

Fill my head with your spurting fountain of knowledge!

[devradigestion.livejournal.com]

Tell me about Assemblage 23!

[sabournine.livejournal.com]

perseity

[freakwoman.livejournal.com]

bartholomew roberts?

[longpig.livejournal.com]

Perseity is only the best thing since sliced bread, it is.

[longpig.livejournal.com]

Barti Ddu!

[longpig.livejournal.com]

Adam Baldridge. I give up.

[elanya.livejournal.com]

I'm not realy sure what to say, ha! I'm most interested in late seventeenth/early eighteenth pirates originating in Europe and the new world colonies. They intrigue me, as a group that existed kind of on the firnge of society, and because the attitudes towards them changed so much from place to place and over time. They went from being a tolerated but almost necessary group who provided cheap illegal goods to undersupplied colonists to being seen by pretty much everyone as the ennemies of all mankind. And because so little is know about them, and how they did interact with the rest of society at large. Other periods of piracy also interest me, but not quite as much.

[elanya.livejournal.com]

Captain Charles johnson is the author of A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates, also know as The general History of the Pyrates after its second edition came out. He intrigues me because absolutely nothing is really known about him. There was a theory that the name was one of the many pseudonyms used by Daniel Defoe, but that has since been rejected by most scholars. However, I think it is possible that defoe had a hand in the production of the second edition, as editor and possible contributor. Interestingly, the sections most strongly likned to Defoe in that edition is the passage on Captain Mission, and his pirate haven of Libertatia, which is generally accepted to be complete fiction and doesn't really fit wth the rest of the History.

[elanya.livejournal.com]

Assemblage 23, or a23 is an techno-industrial. I like their stuff... The music itself is fairly simple, but I like the lyrics, and the combination works well for me. Kind of Gothy, kind of not. I can't really explain mre, but there are samples and crap on their site :)

[elanya.livejournal.com]

Sas is not supposed to answer my memes! bad sassy!

Anyway, Perseity is a future-earth civilization Sci-fi game that my friend forthright runs online. It is set on a colony in a universe discoveres and colonized by humans about 300 years ago in-game (where is it about 2555 or something? I forget ;p). It's very roleplaying intensive. There is no 'party'. people have different characters that ginteract with individual plots, which occasionally overlap, and are involved to different extents with politics and social life of the station. The main rules website is here, and there is an out of character livejournal at perseity_ooc and an in-character one perseity. We also keep journals for the characters involved, whch you can access from the friends page of the ic journal.

The game is a lot of work for the GM, because it is run onlne, because of the focus on individual plots, and because of the extra nline components, so after running for about a year and a half, the final session is slated for February 10. We are sad, as it is pretty frickin' awesome. Arr.

[elanya.livejournal.com]

Bartholomew Roberts was the most successful pirate of his age. He was pressed into the pirate life by Howell Davis (my *favourite* pirate ;) in about 1719. After Davis's tragic death, he was elected captain. he wasn't very successful to start, but he had a few good runs, capturing hundreds of ships in the 2 years or so he was in operation. Eventually, the British navy sent some man of wars out along the west coast fo Africa to catch him, and they were successful in hunting down him and his consort vessel. Roberts himself was killed in the battle with the Swallow (I can't remember the captain's name), and died kind of anti-climatically when he was hit in the throat with grapeshot. The crew surrendered almost immediately after he died, and were tried and hung in....Africa somewhere -_-.

He was a Welshman by birth, but I can't remember the name of the town he came from... I have it several places at home, including the book hazel got me for Xmas. arr!

[elanya.livejournal.com]

Adam Baldrige (Not to be confused with the much more well know Adam Baldwin ;) was an ex-buccaneer who was hired by some New York merchants to go and trade for slaves and pirate goods in Madagascar in about the 1690's. He set up a fortified tradng post on Saint marie's island, or possibly on the little island off its coast which is now knows and Pirates Island. There he traded with pirates and the locals for goods and slaves. he involved himself in local malagasy politics, and according so some sources, was considered a chief among them and was granted an annual tribute of cattle and slaves. While he was away on a trading voyage to Mozambique, soe of the pirates staying at the fort managed to piss off the locals (by stealing cattle I think), who rose up and slaughtered everyone. he heard this news while he was on his way mack to madagascar, and wisely changed his mind and headed back to New York. The merchants sent out someone else to replace him shortly afterwards.

Meme or proactive procrastination? BOTH. :)

[vureoelt.livejournal.com]

'Bookcrossing'?

[chairman-matt.livejournal.com]

diablotin???????
matt

Re: Meme or proactive procrastination? BOTH. :)

[elanya.livejournal.com]

Bookcrossing is the act of leaving books in places for other people to find and read them. It's like a random a book exchange. With the site, you can register books, and track them if the people who pick them up report finding them. Its neat. I have crossed a few books, but since I had to pare down my collection, I don't have a lot of stuff I'm willing to part with right now. And I don't have the time to go and track down other people's crossed books, either :o Still, I like the idea.

[elanya.livejournal.com]

It is also a really awesome 3rd ed. D&D campaign run by my friend curtana I'm not sure if that is the exat proper page address. Anyway, the premise of the games are that we are all guards, working in the city of Diablotin, the captial of the Averyone Empire. So, we have the perfect excuse for party-nbased adventures, but there is also an over-arching plot of which we are all a part (There is an evil god who lives in the magic archway that is used to select the rulers of the empire, and it is trying to get free, ooooooh!), plus we all have personal plots to deal with (for example, my in-laws tried to have my marriage annuled because they think I'm not good enough for their daughter ;). It's all run online over IRC, and our GM puts in much work to make it exteremely fun and generlaly awesome. OOg logistics stuff gets sorted in rocksfall. Arr!