bibliomancerkay asked:

Hope I’m doing this right - my small human has become very interested in the idea of working on ships when he’s older. He wants to know what it looks like if your goal is to work your way up to a captain / owner of a ship, and possible jobs for ships to do, especially with passengers.

He’s seven so I’m not worried about him running away to sea just yet, but we like to encourage his interests! And if it sticks around we may try to teach him knots or something. Thanks for being so immensely interesting!

Hi! That’s so cool, it’s awesome you’re supporting his interests!

At least for tall ships, if you want to be a captain you usually begin either as a messmate or a deckhand. A messmate helps the ship’s cook, with things like washing dishes and chopping vegetables. It’s a good job to start with when you don’t know anything about boats yet! And then a deckhand does a lot of the hard work that a ship needs: raising and lowering the sails, climbing the rigging, cleaning the boat. If you want to be a captain, you usually have to spend a lot of time as a deckhand first.

To be a captain, there’s a test you need to pass, which is all about the rules of navigation, and how to signal other boats, and what to do in emergencies, and how to read charts and plot a course. So you need to pass that test, and you also need to have a certain amount of time at sea. Like (if I remember correctly) for a captain who wants to sail near the coast, 720 days of sea time, and 90 of those in the last year.

Tall ships these days can do a lot of different things! Some of them take people out on vacation, and sail around the coast for a couple days at a time, stopping at different islands and ports. Some of them do shorter trips, taking people out on the water for a few hours at a time. Those are the kind of boats I’ve worked on! Some of them teach people how to sail: there are programs where whole classes go sailing for a week, or day trips where the sailors teach passengers about the history of the boat, the local ocean wildlife, and how sailing ships work. And there are also some sail-training vessels like the bark Europa and the Picton Castle, where they sail all over the world, and the people who come on to learn sailing stay for months at a time! Last, there’s a few tall ships that do other things, like Tres Hombres, which is a sailing ship that works as an eco-friendly shipping alternative. They have no engine, wholly reliant on the wind, and they carry things like rum, cocoa, honey, and canned fish back and forth across the Atlantic.

I hope this what you’re looking for, and that it was interesting and helpful!

7 hours ago
Anonymous asked:

Is the lit tarot going to be available anywhere else besides what was the Kickstarter? I couldn't back it at the time and hope to be able to purchase a deck when I have funds.

Hi! So sorry for the delayed answer, I had to ask the person handling that side of the project. And the answer is yes! The plan is to open a pre-order store via BackerKit ideally in the next couple of weeks or so; once it’s up off the ground I’ll post the link.

9 hours ago

charminglyantiquated:

The Star/Emily of New Moon from the Literary Tarot!✨

Amal El-Mohtar chose to pair Emily Byrd Starr, from the series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, with the Star: a card of hope and creativity immediately following the cataclysm of the Tower. Emily’s profound sense of self, her future as a writer and the necessity of writing to her happiness, even following the tragedy immediately preceding the story, resonates with the card’s themes.

Especially from the illustrative side, this was a really pleasing card to work on. The classic illustration typically involves a woman by a body of water beneath a starry sky, pouring out twin pitchers of water symbolizing the conscious and unconscious. Emily herself develops a deep love of Prince Edward Island as she grows up there, so placing her in a secluded little spot on the coast fit not just the card but the character, and her connection to the land around her. And of course she’s writing, which I think is a fun little stand-in for pouring of both conscious and subconscious thoughts at once, albeit in ink.

5 days ago

charminglyantiquated:

Black Beauty as The Sun from the Literary Tarot!☀️

The Sun is a card of optimism, perseverance, and personal fulfillment, however long and difficult the journey may have been. The author who paired this book and card chose to do so because Black Beauty’s final pastoral days, after a lifetime of struggle, uphold the Sun’s themes, and the book itself teaches animal welfare, and the vital importance of treating others with compassion.

The classical card illustration involves a horse and backing of sunflowers; I clearly took that and ran with it for Black Beauty’s peaceful retirement to the country. This might have more gold than any other card, which feels fitting!

5 days ago

Black Beauty as The Sun from the Literary Tarot!☀️

The Sun is a card of optimism, perseverance, and personal fulfillment, however long and difficult the journey may have been. The author who paired this book and card chose to do so because Black Beauty’s final pastoral days, after a lifetime of struggle, uphold the Sun’s themes, and the book itself teaches animal welfare, and the vital importance of treating others with compassion.

The classical card illustration involves a horse and backing of sunflowers; I clearly took that and ran with it for Black Beauty’s peaceful retirement to the country. This might have more gold than any other card, which feels fitting!

5 days ago

The Star/Emily of New Moon from the Literary Tarot!✨

Amal El-Mohtar chose to pair Emily Byrd Starr, from the series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, with the Star: a card of hope and creativity immediately following the cataclysm of the Tower. Emily’s profound sense of self, her future as a writer and the necessity of writing to her happiness, even following the tragedy immediately preceding the story, resonates with the card’s themes.

Especially from the illustrative side, this was a really pleasing card to work on. The classic illustration typically involves a woman by a body of water beneath a starry sky, pouring out twin pitchers of water symbolizing the conscious and unconscious. Emily herself develops a deep love of Prince Edward Island as she grows up there, so placing her in a secluded little spot on the coast fit not just the card but the character, and her connection to the land around her. And of course she’s writing, which I think is a fun little stand-in for pouring of both conscious and subconscious thoughts at once, albeit in ink.

6 days ago
anonbeadraws: “…where did you go?fun lil sketch, channeling some mignola here tip link in source if you’re feelin generous ✨ ”
anonbeadraws: “…where did you go?fun lil sketch, channeling some mignola here tip link in source if you’re feelin generous ✨ ”
anonbeadraws: “…where did you go?fun lil sketch, channeling some mignola here tip link in source if you’re feelin generous ✨ ”

anonbeadraws:

…where did you go?

fun lil sketch, channeling some mignola here
 tip link in source if you’re feelin generous ✨

6 days ago

charminglyantiquated:

The Chariot/Treasure Island from the Literary Tarot!

This card was paired with Stevenson’s classic pirate story by Simon Tolkien. It’s a favorite of mine as well, to no one’s surprise! His reasoning is that the Hispaniola stands as the chariot itself, while Jim Hawkin’s courage and resourcefulness in the face of danger exemplify the key characteristics of the card: determination, willpower, emerging victorious.

1 week ago
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