Ahaha. Actually, most of the time, I'm spamming her six times every single bloody day with fic ideas and so forth, and most of the time, she's sweetly like, "quigonejinn, dear, they didn't actually have _______ back in the day."

And I go, "Oh. :/ Well. Um. What about [insert another stupid idea]?"

I'm glad you liked this fic, though. It's been fermenting for a while, and then black_hound did some digging last night to figure out what officers did really carry in their sea chests, and I was all !!!!!!!!!!!!! *STEALS LIKE BANDIT*