So I am a lover of pirates. This is a very specific hyperfixation of mine. One of the issues I tend to have is that I can't seem to find a pirate novel that interests me as much as I'd like it to, and always feels incredibly sanded at the edges. Black Sails remains the ultimate pirate media for me, and I have read Treasure Island (though I plan to reread soon because it's been a long time.)

This might be a longshot, but I'm looking for recs that deal with the following:

1. I find a lot of the books I've been recommended are entirely too put together. Obviously pirates were people and people are nuanced, but there is a santized desire to 'Robin Hood'-ify pirates that I find narratively boring.
2. I wish I could phrase this in any other way, so forgive me for being a bit blunt, but books about famous female pirates turn up the 'girl boss' dial to a thousand. I've not come across a lot of interesting explorations of gender in the historical fiction I've found. For context, I'm a nonbinary person who stays pretty androgynous if I can help it. Life for a female pirate was incredibly complex, and I find most novels I've been recommended largely ignore that.

It can be a little silly and fun--I'm a big fan of the Pirates of the Caribbean films--but I just want a story that doesn't seem to be afraid constantly that I might not adore their dashing pirate character.