@EricIndiana
Sadly not the same as the one with the glowing Kirkus review from 2009

But the author’s site talking about its semi-autobiographical (!) punk rock OCD #disability narrative for #YA readers makes it sound quite tempting

I think I might get this book
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https://ocd-free.medium.com/water-dogs-167ce1efedc5 #scifi

@EricIndiana
Time travel is the solution to so many anachronisms

And the opportunity for so many exciting adventures

See, the fact that pirates never played Accordion because they had not been invented

@AccordionBruce @EricIndiana

I've never thought that 18th century pirates played accordions and can't recall seeing any pirate based entertainment showing that, so I suspect that someone mistook the British Royal Navy of the 19th century for pirates (which would be an accurate observation).
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@miguelpergamon @EricIndiana
The Golden Age of Piracy was between the 1650s and the 1730s, so 18th century yes?

When I say “accordions” I include concertinas because they’ve both got key patents the same year, 1829. So we can say they were invented that year more or less

That puts every squeeze box 100 years after every fictional “pirate“ movie

But you can have one in the soundtrack! 🎥 🪗 🏴‍☠️ 🍿
https://pirates.fandom.com/wiki/Concertina

@miguelpergamon @EricIndiana
There’s a page in #TVTropes about it

“When the audience hears accordion music, it sets the stage for adventures with sailors and pirates on the high seas”

(This says most pirate media is set in the 1830s. I don’t know about that. Errol Flynn’s Captain blood is in 1685)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccordionToMostSailors
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#pirates #accordion #movies

@miguelpergamon @EricIndiana
I haven’t been able to figure out where exactly the pirates in media/movies/TV shows stereotype originated

Like, it’s inspired by the fact that sailors played concertinas in the 19th and early 20th century

But I haven’t found the first place where somebody anachronistically portrayed pirates playing them

I know it’s part of Walt Disney’s Pirates in the Caribbean ride which opened in 1967
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#pirates #accordion #disney