Sailing the high seas with a feathery hat
Sep. 22nd, 2023 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alchemicinkI forgot that Talk Like a Pirate Day was earlier this week, which is slightly disappointing because it's really one of my favorite silly made-up holidays. I just love everything about pirate aesthetics in general, and that includes exaggerated pirate speak.
(Fun fact about me: I switched my Facebook language to "pirate" in 2008 and then just... never changed it back 😂 I rarely use my account anymore, but I still crack up over how "like" is translated to the very unwieldy "arr this be pleasing to me eye")
But I digress. I'm just making this post as an excuse to ramble about the few pirate AU fics I've written because they're some of my all-time favorites!
First is a hsj fic featuring plenty of cameos from other johnnys groups.
Operation: Become Pirates
Summary:
The crew of the HMS JUMP tries to show everyone they’ve grown up and become mature adults by, of course, going through a rebellious phase. Or, more specifically, they drop out of the Royal Navy to become pirates and plunder every bakery in the Caribbean.
I have long since moved on from writing hsj fic, but I still think this one was my funniest. Though, admittedly, a lot of the humor relies on meta references squeezed in everywhere, so if you don't know johnnys, it's probably less funny. But, hey, when KAT-TUN literally has an album named "Queen of Pirates" then you have to throw that into the pirate fic!
I'm still pleased with the way I structured the story so that each scene is a different character POV, and the order goes from oldest to youngest member. Sometimes giving yourself arbitrary rules about story structure helps?? Idk lol
Of course, I also managed to throw in one Pirates of Penzance reference too ("with cat-like tread") because it's one of my favorite pieces of pirate-based media... even if it's been about 15 years since I saw a production of the musical. (It was a high school theater production and I'll never forget watching one of the pirates do a barrel roll under the grand piano providing music in front of the stage 😂) I should have added some Modern Major General jokes too.
One last thing I'll say about this fic: I still think the bit with Kanjani the Kraken Hunters is the funniest thing I've ever written!
Now, the other fic is a lot more recent. It's a bnha fic, and the first time I wrote the kamisero ship. (Pun intended)
The Short-lived Adventures of the Lighthouse Point Pirates
Summary:
With fortune in their favor, Sero and Kaminari spend three weeks as pirates
This was for the monthly bnha fic exchange and that month's theme was "diamonds, clubs, hearts, spades" so I had a ton of fun figuring out how to add as many references to that as possible. Sailing club, finding stolen diamonds, threatening real pirates with a spade, etc. If I'd had more time, I probably could have done more 😂
Like my other pirate fic, this one is very silly. I don't mind watching/reading very menacing pirates, but I definitely like them best when it's just a crew of people having fun together. So there's not a lot of real pirating going on in this fic, but that's the whole point really. Kaminari and Sero are just playing pirates as an excuse to spend more time together anyway.
I remember the hardest part about writing this fic was resisting the urge to recycle a bunch of pirate jokes from my hsj fic. Kaminari does, however, mention plundering a bakery tho 😂
As much as I love pirates, I'm surprised these are my only two pirate fics in almost a decade of fic writing. But hopefully I'll be inspired to write more in the future. I'm particularly interested in space pirates sometime...
Hope y'all enjoy these fics if you decide to check them out, and feel free to rec me any of your favorite pirate fics too!
(Fun fact about me: I switched my Facebook language to "pirate" in 2008 and then just... never changed it back 😂 I rarely use my account anymore, but I still crack up over how "like" is translated to the very unwieldy "arr this be pleasing to me eye")
But I digress. I'm just making this post as an excuse to ramble about the few pirate AU fics I've written because they're some of my all-time favorites!
First is a hsj fic featuring plenty of cameos from other johnnys groups.
Operation: Become Pirates
Summary:
The crew of the HMS JUMP tries to show everyone they’ve grown up and become mature adults by, of course, going through a rebellious phase. Or, more specifically, they drop out of the Royal Navy to become pirates and plunder every bakery in the Caribbean.
I have long since moved on from writing hsj fic, but I still think this one was my funniest. Though, admittedly, a lot of the humor relies on meta references squeezed in everywhere, so if you don't know johnnys, it's probably less funny. But, hey, when KAT-TUN literally has an album named "Queen of Pirates" then you have to throw that into the pirate fic!
I'm still pleased with the way I structured the story so that each scene is a different character POV, and the order goes from oldest to youngest member. Sometimes giving yourself arbitrary rules about story structure helps?? Idk lol
Of course, I also managed to throw in one Pirates of Penzance reference too ("with cat-like tread") because it's one of my favorite pieces of pirate-based media... even if it's been about 15 years since I saw a production of the musical. (It was a high school theater production and I'll never forget watching one of the pirates do a barrel roll under the grand piano providing music in front of the stage 😂) I should have added some Modern Major General jokes too.
One last thing I'll say about this fic: I still think the bit with Kanjani the Kraken Hunters is the funniest thing I've ever written!
Now, the other fic is a lot more recent. It's a bnha fic, and the first time I wrote the kamisero ship. (Pun intended)
The Short-lived Adventures of the Lighthouse Point Pirates
Summary:
With fortune in their favor, Sero and Kaminari spend three weeks as pirates
This was for the monthly bnha fic exchange and that month's theme was "diamonds, clubs, hearts, spades" so I had a ton of fun figuring out how to add as many references to that as possible. Sailing club, finding stolen diamonds, threatening real pirates with a spade, etc. If I'd had more time, I probably could have done more 😂
Like my other pirate fic, this one is very silly. I don't mind watching/reading very menacing pirates, but I definitely like them best when it's just a crew of people having fun together. So there's not a lot of real pirating going on in this fic, but that's the whole point really. Kaminari and Sero are just playing pirates as an excuse to spend more time together anyway.
I remember the hardest part about writing this fic was resisting the urge to recycle a bunch of pirate jokes from my hsj fic. Kaminari does, however, mention plundering a bakery tho 😂
As much as I love pirates, I'm surprised these are my only two pirate fics in almost a decade of fic writing. But hopefully I'll be inspired to write more in the future. I'm particularly interested in space pirates sometime...
Hope y'all enjoy these fics if you decide to check them out, and feel free to rec me any of your favorite pirate fics too!
