Metal Beard and the Endurance; an unlikely pair

In my house, on a special shelf, is a Lego pirate ship and a copic marker painting I did of Shackleton's Endurance. 

One year we got one big Lego set for the entire family to build on Christmas day. Sweet hu? 
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Everyday I look at the Endurance picture and go, "Whoa! History is so cool! They were such badasses. Antarctica ice ships dogs...etc."
At the same time I look at the Lego pirate ship and go, "Whoa! Metal beard! Pirates! High seas Adventure! Awesome! LEGO!... etc."

They only have two similarities: they are both ships, and they both represent something epic. 
​How much of history is romanticized? It can be the same kind of joy you get from a toy; you get from it what your imagination puts into it.

"History is boring," says the kid who wanted to go home and play, not realizing stories of ships and seas ultimately lead to the creation of Metal Beard and the Sea Cow. 

​In my house, they're the same. Both ships, and both epic.
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