Nothing rhymes with airship pirates!

[featherynscale]

anachrotech is often full of excellence, but today, robert_from_ap is soliciting help for a song about airship pirates. Ever-helpful commenters want to know, "Is the song pro- or con- airship pirates?". This cracks me up for no good reason.

Another thing that cracks me up for no good reason, which also happens to be related to airship pirates is Tradewinds Legends. This is a shiny little commodities game in which you play one of four ship captains and trade, fight, and snark your way around the mythic Middle East. I lost much time to it this weekend. You start with a single ship, then build a fleet, and eventually trade your sailing ships for dirigibles and mystical flying dragon boats. On the way, you play with characters like Scheherazade and Sinbad, hook up lonely genies, steal phoenix eggs for the omelettes of sultans, and so on and so forth. Wildly funny. The character I'm playing with currently is searching the world for his missing "brother", who, it gradually becomes clear, is his 'brother' the way that Patroclus was Achilles' 'cousin'.

Also, only vaguely related to airship pirates, I'm becoming very enamored of the concept of a sort of retro-biomechanical tattoo. I'd like to have something that looked like a cutaway to reveal steampunkish gears, dials, and pipes. I've thought of this before, and it still seems like a good plan, but I'm still working out the finer points of where that goes and how to express it. Suggestions gladly accepted.