Who doesn’t love a story of dashing, derring-do and some swashbuckling in the bargain? Ahoy are stories of ships and the sea and magic and mermaids. Airships and kissing — the kiss, IYKYK — and love and loss and everything in between. Pirates continue to capture the imagination because they are agents of anti-capitalist, anarchic chaos. They refuse to follow the rules of the land, instead taking what they can and giving nothing back. They are dangerous, but often have a soft heart (in literature, at least), and the denizens of a pirate ship are made up of the ultimate group of misfits. Misfits whose criteria for adding a crew member is not tied to race or class or wealth, but instead to ability, wit, and a hefty dash of chutzpah. Buckle up, me hearties, because I have got some boo-tyful treasure for you (I can’t help it. I’m not even sorry).
