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Wilson Kane wins a fortune and his future bride at a game of dice from the former pirate Balthasar. When he decides to go and get the girl, the pirate way, by kidnapping her, not only he finds out that she is more than a pirate could ever want from a wife... but that she has 4 identical sisters as well.
This discovery hits him when his men, who were supposed to help him out, each kidnaps a different girl... and none of them gets the right one! But Wilson Kane wants the girl he had met and no one else! Luckily for him it will be the girl herself to solve his problem and put an end to his dilemma...
a solution that will eventually fling her into a new way of life, aboard the Alidivento, across the Mediterranea sea!
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Saturday, April 30, 2011
The OC Game.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Castalia - Fan Art

Thursday, April 28, 2011
Chapter 12 B - curiosities.

Now a few things we need to know about head lice:
2) they are specie specific: animals cannot spread lice to humans and vice versa.
Human lice, to survive, need human blood. Therefore, for those of you who were worried about Rose, do not fear! Rose is save!

Wednesday, April 27, 2011
The Pirate Balthasar - Chapter 12 B
14 new pages for the second part of chapter 12!
I hope you enjoy it and see you tomorrow with the curiosities :D
Il Pirata Baldassarre - Capitolo 12 B
14 paginette tutte per voi, buona lettura!
Ci sentiamo domani per le curiosities ^__^/!
Monday, April 25, 2011
Chapter 12 - Special

English:

Sunday, April 24, 2011
Happy Easter!
I am going to put a copy for download in the right column on the blog right now.
Thank you all for reading The Pirate Balthasar, this is something I do for fun but if other people enjoys it too... hey, the more the merrier! :D
Italiani non mangiate troppo! hahahaahahha. Buona Pasqua.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Happy Saturday.

So I bring my sketchbook and my 4 copic markers, yes, that's why I work with limited palette lols... (I will buy more after I learn how to use them properly).
So here, out of the boredom of my heart (XD)
Castalia going meow meow to Kane.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Da Fashion game end and polls.
Callista
Castalia
Lio
Kes
Pea
Another little painting

Thursday, April 21, 2011
Little painting and updates

173 for Foxy (the first guy leading the competition)
169 for Cat (the first guy leading the competition)
122 for Martin (the first guy leading the competition)
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Castalia Cutie Cubee

Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Pinocchio Kes

Monday, April 18, 2011
Water
Water by ~Dedasaur on deviantART
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Fixing the keel
Pride and Prejudice fan art.

Saturday, April 16, 2011
Air - final

Air final by ~Dedasaur on deviantART
Friday, April 15, 2011
Linearts in color

Thursday, April 14, 2011
calendar updates shifting
some updates have been moved around a bit, not after their original release date, but before.
I am restructuring the chapter and dividing it better... and this will shift some updates up in the month.
Originally there was only one update in April, now I have two releases. Happy? :D
Also the blog will undergo a little make-over.
Duplicate content is not appreciated by google so some link will have to turn into buttons soon.
The super gift!


Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Chapter 12 A - Curiosities

When talking to the doctor she says that she needs to make clarity in her feelings. Usually clarity is used for ideas, not feelings. In the Italian version of the comic she uses a similar word which is "schiarisco" also used for ideas, not feelings.
Did you know? A lot of the concepts that are linked to emotions, passions, feelings and stuff that is heart related - in short "romantic" stuff - belongs to Romanticism and developed a lot from that era through the XIX century and the XX century. Very recent stuff.
Wait, Deda, are you saying that before that people did not fall in love? They did but starting from the fact that each culture and historical period lived love in a different way... love was not related to intimacy or emotions in a relationship for veeeery long time.
It was: spiritual, philosophical, religious... just look how complicated this wikipedia page is and how many external links it comes with.
A lot of things were born in contemporary societies... terms of endearment? XIX century mostly. Before that it was standard poetry, literary convention, words. Real life experience attached to it? Very little.
The other thing to take into consideration is that love was to be sought outside of marriage, especially for higher classes people.
At this point Cassandra is very confused. Emotions and Ideas are not different for her; her heart and her brain are the same thing: in fact everything resides just in one place.
Her dilemma is atrocious: she likes her husband a lot.
The wedding thingy was not there to get society approval (society approval is what she will seek for with her aunties and uncles while defending her choice for a husband)... the wedding was there so she could get in his pants (XD - because Wes is very traditional and likes to do things the traditional way, it's the XVII century guys, let's not question that! You'd be surprised to know how strict and traditional some pirates could be)... but they also had a private/personal rite, just for themselves and exchanged an everlasting promise.
That is something you want to clear your ideas about.
Getting an "I love you" from your husband, in public it's a big deal. By the way... somebody noticed that the kiss looked like Hayez'... mh, although the hand might be misleading I was actually trying to echo V-J Day! XDDD

It's the pirates' fault, clearly, she was more bashful at the beginning of the story, if you remember... or maybe she is just too passionate about her plea.
Skin is something you didn't get to see everyday. I'm afraid the poor Swiss Spearmen didn't see much of it either!

Now it was about time we at least touched the topic in the comic itself.
Cassandra spills the beans: Wes was right the first time he spoke to her and called her a spinster (then rescued her from spinsterhood, how ironic could life be!).
I made up the name of the religious order... but of course it goes so well with the aunties' names! XD

Probably the word used by Westley is only very common in Latin rooted languages (and yes, English is not Latin rooted but 75% of its lexicon comes from Latin languages <--- I am not making this up, you study it when you take "history of the English language" in college! XDDD) and I mistakenly took for granted that most people would know it.
Also, gentile is a tricky word and can be read as gentle if you read very fast. So sorry ^^"!
Gentile: means not Jew. (apparently it can also be applied to not Mormons, nowadays, but Joseph Smith came way after our storyline... so I applied it traditionally to Christians). I used this word once already as joke that was also a play on word, I don't know if you remember but it happened when Kes had fallen in the laundry tank.
Here, in short, he is saying that Jews are not allowed to marry Christian girls, and shouldn't even look at them! So she is not the one who scored big (by marrying a doctor) he's the one who got lucky!
Ain't that sweet! :D

I would like to remind everybody that this woman is still part of the gossip society.
Sliding in to fill the aunties with bits of info about Kane is part of her evil (LOL) nature.
No, love doesn't change people it makes them happy (or sad) but their true colors will always shine through.
Remember my words when your best friend will be stolen away by a new love relationship... they were never your best friend to begin with! Muahaha ah sob sob sigh.
(even near death experience will only change your view on things but not your nature. The only thing that could change your nature is becoming a parent - and it usually works mostly on women because of the way pregnancy changes your chemical balance too).

Apply what he says to him, to his past and his life... his speech takes a whole new meaning.
Nothing can really save him from how trapped he is, I'm afraid, but a few things could ease his pain.
Wilson Kane is definitely not a happy person.

He is very honest and straightforward but there might be a streak of sarcasm in what he says.
He is not a malicious person but let's get real... can you really become a captain of a ship if you are a complete idiot?
Judgmental, he is not. But he fights back in his own personal way.
At this point the display of generosity, falling on a girl who treated him like crap up until that moment... is a lesson of humility.
Pea must be feeling the weigh of the unfairness she inflicted... pretty heavily and it burns.
This blond man, who never thinks before he acts (that's what she says) is putting this lady like, devilish minded, Papadopulos to a test: if you are accomplished, you can fix them.
If she fixes them she will show that she is used to hard work (we are talking about sewing leather here) and that will surely not make her lady like at all. Pretty tricky, eh!
What will Pea do?

But first of all, the line quoted in the last caption is by Claude Debussy (translated and adapted like poop by yours truly ^^").
Lio is looking at the future: she is the kind of girl who's afraid of nothing because she knows she'll always find a way around things.
Castalia is waving bye bye: well, she couldn't wait to get out of her past, we know that!
Callista and Pifo have unresolved situations and feelings: acceptance is something they won't get from the past but it's still sad to leave for a future of acceptance thinking "why couldn't it work for the ones I loved?"
Kes and Pea are looking back at a past that could have led them to an unwanted future: they could have been like the aunties. You know out of all the girls these two are the ones who followed rules in order to get married and a "regular" life. Even if they are escaping toward a better chance they do feel sorry for the aunties. They never had any chance at all.
At this point Pea still does not spare a single thought for Martin and their relationship is still on a platonic level, actual she is indifferent and he is curious, but that's mostly it. But do look forward to their next meeting :D some things will be changed by then.
Some of you have noticed that aunt Defrauded was looking at somebody with pretty eyes at the end of this Independence War... look better, she did look at somebody once already in the earlier pages. Remember what I said about Independence Wars? (I said many things so I'll leave you to speculate on this emblematic sentence, now).
We'll see the aunties again... do look forward to the next encounter as well! ;D
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Il pirata Baldassarre - Capitolo 12 A
Questo capitolo 12 รจ molto importante... segna il giro di boa per la nostra storia.
Oltre a chiudere il terzo volume conclude la guerra d'indipendenza iniziata nello scorso capitolo e porterร a un po' di rivelazioni e a qualche rito di passaggio.
Buona lettura!
The Pirate Balthasar - Chapter 12 A
Hurray!
This chapter kind of marks the mid point for our story.
In fact we'll see an independence war, some rites of passages and a few... revelations!
Let's start with the end of the independence war.
As usual if you click on the title of the post it will take you to smackjeeves.
Enjoy!!!
Almost there...

162 for Quoque (the first guy leading the competition)
162 for Cat (the first guy leading the competition)
159 for Kane (the first guy leading the competition)
118 for Martin (the first guy leading the competition)
Monday, April 11, 2011
Elements : Air

Sunday, April 10, 2011
new friends

Some release dates might shift.
Saturday, April 09, 2011
Another Quoque Fan Art

Friday, April 08, 2011
Fan art again!

Thursday, April 07, 2011
per i lettori italiani...
Release anticipated!

Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Wallpaper chapter 12

Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Balthasar brothers... fan arts


Monday, April 04, 2011
Castalia Fan Art
Castalia by ~shylalee on deviantART
Sunday, April 03, 2011
Hooking up

Kane as Peter Pan and Castalia as Wendy 11 (13%) was changed into Castalia as the Pan hooking up with hook!
(although the book is from the early 1900 I used the timeframe of the Pirate Balthasar, so he is wearing XVII century clothes... also she is wearing a dress made of leaves and spiderwebs - closer to the original description of the original Peter Pan)
I always rooted for Hook! ^^"... all my love shows here.
I got the starry sky here
The pixie dust... that's original Disney standard according to styleguide (old school though, right now, pixie dust rains down)! ^__^
tha Fashion Game: fifth entry with alternative.

Saturday, April 02, 2011
Updates on updates
159 for Foxy (the first guy leading the competition)
159 for Quoque (the first guy leading the competition)
155 for Cat (the first guy leading the competition)
152 for Kane (the first guy leading the competition)
113 for Martin (the first guy leading the competition)
Tha Fashion Game: fourth entry

Friday, April 01, 2011
Chapter 11 final curiosities.



