GBP GIP GKP (gratuitous kink post)

[avrelia]

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.

Comments

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is a really, really gorgeous icon!

I used to love pirate stories too. I don't know why I haven't read any sea adventures lately. I don't recognize the ones you mention. Do you know any of the really campy ones by Sabatini, like "Captain Blood," that were made into even campier Errol Flynn movies?

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Those are fantasy books - rather rare type, with seas, and pirates, and voodoos, but I read "Captain Blood", and it was fun, rather chhesy of course, but fun.

I know that there are more of them, but for me less here gives more space for imagination, and I am not too obsessed about this topic. Just a fancy dream, I guess. That French book is great though - non-fiction, but so very readable, informative and entertaining!

[asta77.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to comment on how cool the new icon is. :)

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

It is! I am so happy to have it!

[molly_may]

Thank you Avrelia! You know, last year you were the only person on my friend's list who noticed that it was my birthday, and I always appreciated that. I'm glad we're both still here a year later. :)

I love the icon. So pretty! I haven't read much about pirates myself, but I have seen this very interesting looking book at work called "Raise the Black Flag" that's a history of pirating.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

I'm glad we're both still here a year later. :)

I am glad as well. ;)

I'll look into this book, so it is not so much about pirates, as misteriuos countries and strange places, and that special feel that sea adventures have.

kind of on par with watching the passing trains: you know that they go to concrete boring places, but when they passing from somewhere to somewhere you can imagine they go Hi Brasil, and Atlantis and etc.

[lillianmorgan.livejournal.com]

Lovely icon - it's so nice when it means something specifically to you!
I studied James Cook at school - so I know all about his sea-faring exploits, sort of...

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked the icon - I mean I didn't make it, but I am so happy to have it, I can just be running around showing it off...

and sorry, I didn't answer your previous comment; I friended you back!