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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] OrganicMustard 37 points 1 month ago

Born in time to pirate gay stuff from the internet

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