Remember Amelia Radley? I don't blame you if you don't. I'd envisioned this sheltered young lady's world turning upside down when a corrupt official frames her father for a crime he didn't commit, and an aging Captain Jack Sparrow on a quest to regain his former glory is the only person who can help her. Jack would act as a sort of mentor to Amelia, and she would gently help him to realize that he's no longer the man he once was. The fic would end with him dying in a suitably dignified fashion.

Why didn't I write it? Because I'm not sure Jack Sparrow is the right character for this kind of story, and even if he is, I don't trust myself to write him in-character.
betweensunandmoon: (PotC)
( Jul. 3rd, 2018 07:15 pm)
This is going to sound hypocritical of me, since I proclaimed that I hate writing fanfiction only five posts ago, but I was bored and thinking about how there would be fewer Mary Sues if authors based their OCs more on their actual selves than their ideal selves, and...well, this happened.

Read more... )

Not a pure self-insert (which is good) and hopefully not a Mary Sue, either. I almost feel sorry that I'm not going to write about her...

betweensunandmoon: (PotC)
( Feb. 19th, 2018 04:06 pm)
Filmento's take on the OOCness of Captain Jack Sparrow in PotC 5.

I think it makes a lot of good points about why and how Jack didn't feel like himself.
betweensunandmoon: (PotC)
( Feb. 4th, 2018 08:26 am)
I had a dream last night about a Pirates of the Caribbean OC who was Jack Sparrow's daughter, but in a plausible way. Her mother was a prostitute whom Jack visited sometime in between At World's End and On Stranger Tides, so their daughter Rose (short for Rosamond) would be about the same age as Henry and Carina in the present. No one knows that Jack is her father, and even if she meets him, she'll probably never find out.

*files idea away for possible future use*
betweensunandmoon: (PotC)
( Jan. 4th, 2018 07:44 am)
A Guide to Writing Better Pirates of the Caribbean OCs

I hope I can do what I promised in the summary...
betweensunandmoon: (PotC)
( Aug. 7th, 2017 07:33 am)
Day before yesterday:

Found out Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn appeared in a movie together.

Yesterday:

Saw Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

Was not disappointed.

Best weekend I've had in a while.

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