• EldritchFeminity
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    3 days ago

    I mean, have you seen how they dressed?

    Pirates were also largely LGBT/PoC - the maligned of society. The practice of a captain marrying people at sea supposedly started with pirates marrying gay couples because they couldn’t get married onshore.

    Pirates are like the definition of Be Gay, Do Crime.

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      3 days ago

      Born too late to be a gay pirate.

      Born too soon to be a gay space pirate.

      Born just in time for the cyberpunk dystopia.

      • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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        Born too soon to be a gay space pirate.

        if it happens like it does in the expanse; we’ll all be incidentally bi because of polyamory and bigamy. lol