novel about a morally grey pirate captain who is cursed to die within 5 years for stealing some forbidden treasure, and only giving her heart to someone and expecting nothing back can break the curse
but rather than go on some journey to find some true love or whatever, she decides to use her last years to travel the seas with her crew and collect treasure and drink and be merry
and on the day of reckoning, she is falling more and more ill, and her crew gather all around her to say goodbye to their captain when suddenly the curse is broken. because she gave her whole heart to her ship and her crew, and expected nothing back.
Here’s your daily reminder that Ngozi wrote an entire 4 season, award-winning webcomic just because one time in college she and her friend were in the library having a conversation about how many people at Yale were LGBTQ+ (one in four, maybe more) and Chad from the Yale hockey team interrupted with, “haha not on the hockey team!” Like….Check, Please! was basically created just to spite that one guy and honestly… iconic.
Did everyone just…. forget how to create, all of a sudden? Disney pumping out the fourth remake in a row? Movies are like 70% sequels? Stories in games being just bad if they exist at all? Haven’t had a book get hyped in like half a decade? Are we okay? What’s going on?