GBP GIP GKP (gratuitous kink post)

First of all, happy birthday, molly_may! You are altogether lovely and mightily smart, but beyond that you are forever in my heart as my first LJ friend ever!

::clings::

Second, I proudly present my new personal icon made by incredible awmp. It is absolutely what I wanted, and it made me think why I wanted it so much:

Obviously, I have a kink. The kink is the high-sea adventures: pirates, explorers, travellers and people who accidentally got caught in the adventures.

One of the first exposures was a wonderful book by Georges Blond, La grande adventure des oceans – obviously, in Russian translation (btw, how come there is no an English one?)

It was a lush and beautiful book about pirates of the Caribbean, the real ones, and it was both romantic and realistic, with unpleasant and weird details, and I was captivated. Not so much as to seek more of that, but enough to get a taste.

Then there was a book about famous explorers – James Cook and others.

Then the was Tim Powers, On Stranger Tides – which is definitely change of direction and another fantasy, Chase the Morning by Michael Scott Rohan that I rarely see mentioned (not at all), but I liked it for the atmosphere, and the idea that is at the base of it – that at the edges of our world exist everything else, and you can find it by turning another street, and that ships are sailing into the sky to go to strange places where time and space bleed together.