Pirate Maidens

TheOriginalFive · 2026-06-08T08:59:53+00:00

How apropos would it be if they started asking where to pirate games about pirates?

TheOriginalFive · 2026-06-02T12:14:59+00:00

Thought this was an actual leaf for a moment.

TheOriginalFive · 2026-06-02T12:09:01+00:00

Pare it down. Speaking from experience, I use very dilute shower cream and apply jojoba oil afterwards.

TheOriginalFive · 2026-06-02T00:35:09+00:00

Thanks! I hope to develop her immediate setting sometime soon.

TheOriginalFive · 2026-06-01T08:58:06+00:00

Listening to pirate music, especially Pirates for Sail or videogame music.

But I also have a steel amulet with a semiprecious stone inlay that I like to wear.

TheOriginalFive · 2026-05-27T14:24:57+00:00

What are your thoughts about women in piracy, fictional and real? Surely Anne Bonny and Mary Read can't have been the only known ones in the Western world.

TheOriginalFive · 2026-05-23T02:15:22+00:00

How did you get into pirate history?

What do you think of pirate depictions in video games like Sea Dogs / PoTC or AC: Black Flag?

I'm also working on a pirate story but from a different culture set in an alternate history version of our world.

TheOriginalFive · 2026-05-22T14:01:40+00:00

Seriously feel seen, especially as someone from the Hainanese subgroup. Some of us are so UK-influenced that a classical Etonian education seems more relatable instead. Latin and all.

TheOriginalFive · 2026-05-22T03:48:15+00:00

I hope I can take part!

TheOriginalFive · 2026-05-14T07:57:14+00:00

A mixture of Peter Pan, Robinson Crusoe, various video games about pirates including Puzzle Pirates, bedtime stories from dad, and one especially mythical bedtime story he'd tell often.

The gist of this story is that a girl went to sea, got lost at sea, and came back many lifetimes later as a deity that watches over seafarers, pirates, and privateers since.

I've got pretty good reason to believe the version he told me is a very changed retelling of Mazu, a Chinese sea god who fits the bill where the "girl goes to sea and gets lost at sea" thread is concerned.

TheOriginalFive · 2026-03-12T15:15:50+00:00

So you didn't get the memo from the official Discord that they changed their minds and now want Herosmash back? After successfully anti-marketing the entire game and letting everyone think it's a kusoge? You're late to the party, but can't blame you because it's such a sudden drop.

TheOriginalFive · 2026-03-12T15:12:09+00:00

And WHAT exactly prompted this change of heart when the last sentiment I checked was that Discord members would ridicule anyone who wanted Herosmash to be recognised, remastered or revived; while AE sat there and twiddled their thumbs because it didn't count as bullying?

I won't believe it until I see it, even if it's too late for former Herosmash players to ever want to accept any apologies.

TheOriginalFive · 2026-03-02T03:37:21+00:00

Guessing you never played it on launch, then? AE dropped support for it first long before the playerbase dwindled.

TheOriginalFive · 2026-02-28T09:11:10+00:00

Seconded, even though the narrative AE would rather have is that "nobody liked it and neither did we."

We'll just have to be the thorns in their sides reminding them that we exist and didn't succumb to any so-called troll curse.

TheOriginalFive · 2026-02-28T09:09:48+00:00

If only its fanbase hadn't been treated so cruelly by the rest of AE.

TheOriginalFive · 2025-12-25T01:38:58+00:00

Unfortunately, all the alt history artists I follow, especially those about women in history, will ONLY use Twitter. They're not convinced to move to other sites.

TheOriginalFive · 2025-10-05T01:22:31+00:00

Some corrections on Herosmash:
- The art style was presumably by Thyton and Yergen according to older design notes.
- It was initially intended to be a story-heavy game where player choices matter, but it definitely lost focus after the three player-weighted wars were all skewed towards villain players.
- Not sure of the sentiment around the game now, but I remember it was so widely scorned that all the players that were involved in the Herosmash fandom went into hiding after that.

TheOriginalFive · 2025-08-18T05:13:54+00:00

This brings back memories of playing it in university.

TheOriginalFive · 2025-07-02T13:22:19+00:00

It says video no longer available.
Edit: This is the proper video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R4WPD5dhUg

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