Raise the t'gallants!

nina, they/she, australia

[bathetic]

in an effort to remember if in the flesh (2013) has an opening theme or not i am halfway through the first episode for the first time in about a decade and this show really was like. what if you were gay and eighteen and you killed yourself because your best friend/boyfriend died after enlisting in the army to prove his masculinity to his homophobic dad (you feel it's your fault he's dead, that you somehow infected him with your own softness, your own queerness) and then years later you come back in the fucking zombie apocalypse and you get cured of zombieism!! but then suddenly you're alive again and you have to go back to your shitty hometown and the rot that killed you is still there and now the people who hated you for being gay now hate you (& will kill you) for being a zombie too and there's nothing you can do about it. AND you're still eighteen. kieran walker is stronger than me i would be biting people <3

[bookshelfdreams]

this post made me start rewatching In The Flesh and it's like. What if you died and came back wrong and then were kind of, sort of treated for wrongness, but you still remember what you did, you remember ripping a girl apart, you remember hunting people, you remember the taste of human brains and you're not even allowed to feel guilty, you are made to affirm your innocence like a thought-killing mantra, if you feel guilty for what you did it means you did it, and that can't be allowed, everyone needs you to be normal, to be separate from what came back wrong, but you aren't, you remember, and you couldn't help it, you can't help it, but you did it you did it you did it

and everyone needs you to look normal, to act normal, and you play along because what else are you gonna do, pretend, pretend, pretend, for as long as you exist, bear the guilt and the horror alone, you cannot need help, because you cannot be the thing that rose from the grave (but you are, you are, you remember)

you couldn't help it. you still did it. if you are allowed no guilt, you will never be forgiven.

[bathetic]

hi i really love how unexpectedly big this post got this reblog (plus tags from prev @no-resolution ) especially are so so so good <3

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[ctimenefic]

Seasonal Affective Disorder is just emotional scurvy, all my core wounds are reopening and they won't be fixed until the big lemon in the sky comes back

[kabaks]

"So that's what this is. We're all reasonable men, we all want the same thing, you offer me a pardon, I accept it, this all ends?" "Maybe."

BLACK SAILS | XXV

[ex-caliberr]

comforting a friend

[dreamstars]

[chantssecrets]

Visitors gather to watch giant gushes of water released from the Xiaolangdi dam on the Yellow river in Jiyuan, China.

[quelmdn]

"The image was damascened, as beaten metal. He was reading."

(That small crumb of bookish Laurent from book 1)

[cartoonrival]

im completely addicted to Open Link in New Tab

[cartoonrival]

if Open Link in New Tab is wrong then baby i dont want to be right

[achillesinhighheels]

'Not What You Saw' [2024-ongoing] by Keerthana Kunnath

Shot across beaches, fields, and village edges in Kerala, India,

'Not What You Saw' documents the lives and presence of India's female bodybuilders.

[deluxe-fish]

chill bro he's not going anywhere (this time)

[jurassic-cunt]

flint hates himself too much to jerk off

[howlerbat]

I’m clearheaded, Billy, I see him

[cair--paravel]

Page decorations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1899 edition.

[normalmammal]

flint gives his mini speech about how people only need to realize that there can be a world without the british empire in order for them to stand up to it and madi quotes cervantes at him to obliquely compare him to don quixote and flint makes This Face because there's no way she can know that ten years ago flint knew another guy who was compared to don quixote for his idealism and who was deemed mad for it. you'll never get away from the sound of the english nobleman that loved you

[normalmammal]

also I love madi in this scene because she definitely doesn't know about flint's deep personal history with don quixote but she must have a sense of how important it is to him because she makes this face as she walks away

like, she's speaking to flint in the language of literature as an olive branch, to try to reach him and let him know that she's an ally, that there's hope for their cause in the wake of their recent losses. and she can see in his reaction that it works. but what she doesn't know is that the last time there was a woman in flint's life who shared his love of literature it was miranda. have I mentioned the flinthamiltons polycule which repeats itself across time and space

[mellie-art]

[hr-rep]

The vibe Ilya was prepared to bring to Tampa

[estazolam]

To others, the yellowed pages hold nothing but a legend; to him, they hold the very ideal he has believed in, the faith he has clung to, the other half of his soul, the one he has loved devoutly, and waited a thousand desperate years to see him again.

Inspired by twi: solisolsoli

[zabadi]

[annoying mom voice] you're bored? and you haven't started black sails?

[trashcanprince]

boys!