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“You seem a formidable woman, ma’am.”

#blacksailsedit #black sails #eleanor guthrie #hannah new #adamparrush #tbh saachi...i can't tell if i'm tagging u to hurt u or to hurt me but it's eleanor so it will always be both #eleanor's face after abigail says that is the tiredtiredtired face of a woman who's not wanted to believe her sufferings were requirements #to all that she has come to be and achieve #but has resigned herself to accepting that it's true #(and it extra hurts bc almost immediately after this all that she has come to be and achieve she's made to believe is vile and wrong #and she needs to turn entirely against it against who she is who she's spent her entire life since childhood becoming to be good)#whether eleanor's aware or not she's internalized a naturalized desperate need to defend women when she's confronted with their harm #and i just...cry everytime eleanor spurs into almost involuntary action bc someone is getting hurt #i will NOT tag rant again NO!!!!!!#(but just know...i ache....eleanor literally always immediately desperate to shield women when confronted with their suffering #and almost everytime it is in direct danger to her life. the survivalist that she is abandoning self-preservation entirely to protect women)#not to be rude but eleanor had literally zero reasons to not deserve redemption in the eyes of the narrative esp in comparison to others #she was one of the few who showed a strong moral drive from the first episode (as opposed to jack vane etc)#and it made no sense to abandon her to service entirely the established villain of the story (he's literally NAMED the villain)#that's my 200 cents:)))#a woman who had no fear of the world #civilization needs its monsters #*#*bs #*gifs

“She’s as wise as her father; she’s as strong as her mother.”

#blacksailsedit #black sails #madi scott #not to cry over this on main again but black sails said 'hope in revolutionary solidarity!' and the scotts said 'yeah!!!'#was just talking abt how when miranda told flint he's not alone in his vision immediately after he tells the queen 'we can help each other'#seeing the reminder of what his fight was about (not a return to/acceptance by civilization but a better world than the one it offered)#speaking to mr scott before his speech to the queen. having the option of threatening her and realizing it contradicts the goal of this war.#in the maroons' cage watching them to do to slavers what he longs to do to england as a whole he remembered #and he re-pledged his allegiance to this cause and to their lives and futures from there #and in his total solidarity i think the scotts began to see a chance for allies. and in allies bigger hopes than mere survival.#i don't think any of the scotts owe flint their revolutionary aspirations #i don't think any individual person on that island needed flint to remember they wanted a better life than barely alive #but i think finding unflinching allies (and flint in 4x02 against literally all odds was just that) is a reminder that hope isn't delusion #i think i just love ruining myself on revolutionary solidarity in narrative bc it’s always corrupted by one trusted but disbelieving #tbh let's play a game of can minx stfu in the tags for once in her collapsing life #civilization needs its monsters #*#*bs #*gifs

“Flint would have fought to the death before allowing it!”

#blacksailsedit #black sails #captain flint #hope y'all die over how repeatedly james flint relearns hope for a better world solely for the justice of others #only to be robbed of it by the people he chose to entrust that hope to at the time:)))#cause i sure did making this and having to see him ache more and more with every row. with more blood on his skin. lines on his face.#black sails synopsis for anyone who hasn't watched it yet should be: good man pursues the construction of a better liberated world #only to be betrayed by the straight white men he keeps for company at the time #and to simultaneously lose the non straight/white/men he worked alongside because they pay the price of said straight white men's betrayals #remember when eleanor gave that speech about being doomed to repeat everything and it's 'some kind of hell' she was channeling Her Dad #anyway i'm Losing My Mind over how much darker the scenes of him gaining hope get with the progression of his resistence stance #the closer he gets to total rejection of empire the darker the scenes get wherein he expresses hope in the image of a new world #also: the more revolutionary his resistance the more filled with conviction his response to its betrayal is #first row? stress and confusion. his 'sir idk what he told you' attempting to conceal the truth if only momentarily to salvage the situation #it isn't a lack of belief but the newness of such conviction met with the shock of not knowing such betrayal was quite so possible #second row? anguish and fury. his questioning of peter's motives so aggressively bc he sees nothing but rot in everyone he looks at then #it isn't a lack of belief still but the loss of a last link to hope in miranda met w/ the waste of the final opportunity to forgive england #third row? literally pity and rage. he pities silver his inability to want for a better world & is angry w/ him for viciously taking it away #it is the persistence of belief now solidified through betrayal after another through resurgence of truth in hope beyond them again & again #flint will DIE carrying the idea that this is not a good or just world nothing has yet taken it away it's in his skin and his eyes uGHh #*#*bs #*gifs #civilization needs its monsters #i will be your monster

“If no one remembers a time before there was an [empire], then no one can imagine a time after it. Empire survives in part because we believe its survival to be inevitable. But it isn’t.”

#blacksailsedit #black sails #this is a photoset of horrors explicitly shown by the narrative to be results of total NON-resistance to empire just existence under it #the first time i watched that scene i was empathetic towards the sentiment of losing so much to even a justified war #but every time after it i wanted to scream because it's purposefully placing blame where it should not be directed #madi: is killed/taken by spanish empire soldiers in accordance with a request by an english empire governor; silver: flint's war did it #his refusal to admit that it is empire that has robbed and will continue to rob him as well as everyone is infuriating #largely because he then goes on to place blame on a war waged against THE HORRORS SHOWN IN THIS GIFSET #empire's violence for the sake of extracting profit and imposing power =/= revolution's violence to suppress empire's violence #the fact that he is not only privee to all the sufferings flint entrusts him with madi entrusts him with #an island full of self-liberated slaves entrust him with a continent's worth of pirates entrust him with #but that he is informed time and again of HOW this war is in direct attempt to cease such sufferings #the means available the methods to use the goal at hand the concessions to make the considerations to take #he is afforded all that information because he is TRUSTED with it #and he chooses to view it all as the root of his own suffering the cause of his hurt and the maker of his horrors #and my empathy for that sentiment would have sustained if he was shown to have only said/believed this in the grief of the moment #but he truly believed it. in his final scene with flint he says his war/madi's war (ughhhhh) is the nightmare itself. stands by that.#for him to be doubtful about the viability of the revolution is entirely understandable to enforce his doubt on MASSES is criminal #i just...i just can't believe anyone would choose to gape at the horrors of a war waged on practitioners of unimaginable historical violence #and when that war turns violent in turn bc they refuse to relinquish their hold on a right to power to violence THEY BLAME THE WAR??#empire had long waged a war on humanity the revolutionary war was an attempt at reclamation of it thx 4 coming 2 my non-ted talk #i spiraled but what's new l o l :)#civilization needs its monsters #*#*bs #*gifs

“What is the best thing to do with a mad person? Write him out of your novel…But Sokrates’ approach is radical. He does not deny that love [eros] is a takeover, a form of mania, but he vindicates it.” - Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

#blacksailsedit #black sails #james flint #thomas hamilton #flinthamilton #me? frankensteining the shit out of this chapter of the book to fit it onto this edit?? absolutely #most of these are...so ugly...but it's 5am and i'm getting dressed for work and couldn't not make this oh well #when carson went 'when you fall in love you feel all sorts of sensations inside you painful and pleasant at once #it is your wings sprouting #it is the beginning of what you mean to be'#flint was like 'yeah' and i was like 'yeah'#i have nothing to say here but yes kids madness borne of true love set flint free and man did he soar #*#*bs #*gifs

no offense but the resilience and bravery it takes for flint to continue to believe in the possibility of a better world to come beyond that ‘dark moment of hopelessness’ once empire is removed–even when he cannot guarantee what it is, only that the injustice of the current world is nonnegotiably unacceptable–are unparalleled, and anyone who diminishes them as delusion and self-importance fails to grasp that empire is a violent prison and condemns in their failure worlds of people to said violence, as well as purposefully misunderstands flint.

to accept the world as it is once he had come to see it as it is was unimaginable to flint, perceived not only as acceptance of it, but at some point, as compliance and complicity–“a good man has to fight it”–and to continue to partake in it was not an option for him.

he’d sooner burn than fall back in line with it again. hell, he does burn to make it fall. not as a martyr or a hero, but just another person whose seen where empire’s been and sees where it’s going and stands on the road in between, as long and wide and punishing as it is, and just wants to stop it.

#knowing that the monstrosity of empire has devoured all that resisted before and all that didn’t just the same #seeing it devour still what resists and what doesn’f #he can’t just pack it up and hope empire doesn’t continue what it will always do by defintion #and he’s VILLAINIZED FOR IT by enemies and friends alike...Goddd #s03e05 and on flint is faultless to me thx #he really said ‘a good man has to fight it’ like. he can’t bear the idea of england continuing to inflict what it has thus far on anyone.#he’s already LOST SO MUCH and he never once blames his loved ones’ deviation from or resistence to england for it #it is england’s fault. and england will do to the world as it did to all he loved. and he can’t stand to let it.#like?? if ever you wanna condemn flint for continuing to pursue this fight for liberation ask yourself #why does he truly believe in a better world at the end of it if he himself won’t be happy within it bc he’s already lost all that made him s #why not be vane and believe the virtue of liberty is in the total instability of chaos itself?? in eternal fighting??#if he really were acting on what silver accuses him of in the finale. on blind hopeless rage. he would not want a stable world at the end.#he would not urge for it. entrust silver and madi for it. accept loss for it. overlook personal pains for it.#he has nothing waiting for him in that better world and he knows it but understands others do #you see it in the way he removes himself from the image of the future when talking about it. paints madi & silver as happy in it.#but he does it anyway. works tirelessly for it anyway. because he cannot be one who is compliant with this world instead.#he’s Pure s03e05 purified him fight me #i mean he had my heart always but he was RIGHT e5 and after yk??#I CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT JAMES FLINT EVERY SECOND OF THE DAY #i will be your monster #civilization needs its monsters #queue.

“Thomas Hamilton fought to introduce the pardons to make a point. To seek to change England.”

#blacksailsedit #black sails #thomas hamilton #justjamesthings: accidentally radicalizing your boyfriend's idealism when you were literally just tryna temper his liberal idealism #james: civilization needs its monsters; thomas: WORKERS OF NASSAU UNITE #anyway i think abt thomas saying 'i'm trying to save nassau' the day he met james ALWAYS bc he forgoes the savior complex entirely by theend #he gets progressively and increasingly and so so speedily reluctant to keep thinking in terms of england's benefits and more the people's #he says he wants to save nassau and by the time he's fighting for the pardons in whitehall he's redeeming it #not even so. HE NEEDS THE PIRATES TO. nassau's people 'vested in its interests' to. redeem it for their own selves bc it is theirs.#he repeatedly tries to say this is the best option to 'return nassau to stable profitability'#but can't help but confess why he's TRULY doing this. 'bc it's the right thing to do'.#his argument is profit. but his reason and goal is justice. and he can't help but reveal that his dedication lies with the latter every time #it's why he says he knows the safest option is condemning the pirates. why he refuses james' cheapest option.#it stopped being about 'my family's lot in the new world' imperial expansionism so quickly #and started being 'they're men! does it matter if they're traitors to the crown?!'#not to repeat this for the 238472879835th time bc i always say this but at the rate he developed in that wisp of time while still in england #if thomas had made it to nassau had stepped foot where james grew into the revolutionary he became he woulda dropped england so fast #a man who can stand in front of his supposedly politically and personally terrifying father & insist looking a traitor to the crown is fine #so long as it is to do the right thing by people is a man who has long began abandoning loyalty to said crown #once he sees what that crown actually did to those people? lol he’d revolt pls #thomas kissing james in the field in front of armed guards after 10+yrs of abuse was thomas saying england’ still wrong don’t change my mind #i just...i love him and wish he didn’t have to face increasingly worse punishment with increasingly better growth #LADS IS IT GAY TO NOT STOP THINKING ABOUT BUDDING GAY REVOLUTIONARY THOMAS HAMILTON??#when miranda said england won’t let you be happy she was right but if thomas were giving that speech he’d say england won’t let you be just #civilization needs its monsters #*#*gifs #*bs

i’m ready to burst into flames for you

“his feelings for adam were an oil spill; he’d let them overflow and now there wasn’t a damn place in the ocean that wouldn’t catch fire if he dropped a match…he released his hand. the ocean burned.“

#trcedit #the raven cycle #adam parrish #ronan lynch #pynch #this is the ugliest thing i ever did make wow #also it exposes me as vance joy trash and honestly...i deserve it it's about time i confessed my basic truth #best that i can is my sobbing song WHAT OF IT #anyway y'all ever tryna go about your day driving to the library to finish off some research and lo and behold i'm with you comes on #and he goes 'i was just coasting till we met you remind me just how good it can get' and you wonder to God himself who ASKED #sometimes i'm reminded of how overwhelmed ronan is with love for adam how constantly overwhelmed he was always how utterly enamored #and first of all relatable but second Them #ronan couldn't believe adam was real not because of how much he loved him but because of how incredible he himself was beyond that love #and so he loved him in all his enormity of wonder #adam couldn't believe ronan was real because he was a constant in spite of #and so was loved by him in spite of all his conviction he is unlovable #and loved him back in spite of the same #and like?? tf are two kids like this doing having a greater love story than most ever know lol wtf #maybe i dreamt you #that's all there is #*#*trc #*edits #queue.

Cocktail (2012)

“I need you. I have thousands of hang-ups, but with you...You’re good for me. You’ve made that apartment a home. For the first time, I understand how it feels to be home. You’re important to me."

#cocktail #deepika padukone #diana penty #filmedit #bollywoodedit #queue.#in honor of ek ladki ko dekha toh aisa laga i wanted to reminisce over some wasted wlw potential:) and this was Peak Gal Pals tm #let not compulsive heterosexuality fool you my friends they were IN GAY LOVE #watching this for the first time felt like the bollywood experience of bend it like beckham #and by that i mean these women were written to be gay and fall in love it was literally a wlw love story for the 1st half and then SWERVED #deepika was hired for this film to 1) break my heart 2) kiss diana 3) feed her 4) shuffle ever closer to her 5) watch her wistfully from afa #the scene where they're dancing in the club veronica rolls her eyes at gautam and shoves him away to dance with meera #and if that isn't the mood for the whole film.......#*#*gifs #*bollywood

anyway if i once more have to read that one of black sails’ main themes is “how much are you willing to lose to fight empire?” i’ll throw hands because none, n o n e, of our dispossessed heroes (hell, even our side characters) had to start fighting civilization to lose things, to be abused themselves. they just did and were.

civilization will slowly take their lives (anne and jack), take their loves (james), take their potential (eleanor), take their peace (max), take their security (julius). even madi, whose father ensured she lived out her life far away from empire’s impositions, lost him to it. and gradually, most everything else after that, because that distance was carefully maintained by her father, and he died for doing even that. because to empire, her life, her love, her potential, her peace, her security–everyone’s–belongs to it.

to ask “how much are you willing to lose for this?” is so profoundly unfair to all that loss. it is to make the same accusation (and i say this word cause it is one) silver made, to blame the dispossessed for their suffering under empire. to basically say if they were better subjects of self-erasure, of subjugation, they would not have lost so much. if they were quieter (eleanor), had less opinions (thomas), less life to live (miranda), love to give (james), morals to stand by (madi), wants to strive for (max), mistakes to make and amend for all, they would have been fine. if they weren’t so damn LOUD, they might not have lost everything. if they kept quiet and infiltrated from within, they might have gotten somewhere. and if they got nowhere, at least they wouldn’t have lost everything. a cycle of stunted silence. but mr scott was a slave till death (lost a life with his family for it). julius knew his freedom existed in minutes (forced to leave many like him behind for it). max resigned to the shadows (subject to guthrie whims and sexist, racist law for it). these are all characters that to some extent resolved themselves to existing according to empire’s apparatus and lost REGARDLESS of their non-desire to fight. empire’s foremost enemy is the people’s prosperous liberty, for by its very nature, it ‘steals’ from empire–because empire is the thieving of lives for the gathering of power and profit.

it isn’t that fighting back makes this war a nightmare, as silver says. it is that fighting back confronts the dispossessed with their collective suffering. and it is a choice of whether one is willing to share in the collective pain and fight for all, self included, or decide they know how to bear their own suffering alone and others’ is their issue. (and not all oppression is the same. not all endurance is, either.)

the nightmare is not the cost of the revolution. it is the cost of the very existence of empire. to place blame elsewhere is chosen blindness to continuing pains because it’s easier than seeing them.

#black sails #THE ROOT OF LOSS IS EMPIRE NOT REVOLUTION #revolution is the fire that burns it #and yes silver is included in the dispossessed characters catogory i speak of #he suffered before the show’s story and during it #but we are told specifically that he ignores his past #(and even while doing so can’t help but blame his ‘unending horrors’ on the world–a world run by empire)#but chooses to see his ~current horrors as the fault of the revolution #instead of seeing the revolution as an attempt at ending the order that resulted in the world being so horrific to him #julius and max don’t do this. they KNOW they are disenfranchised and accept it bc ~10000yrs of fighting civilization prove this is futile #not bc fighting civilization itself is the root of their suffering #but either way this IS how they win. convincing the people it is futile.#why lose 10 of your loved ones at once when we could suck them dry for 10yrs straight and GRADUALLY kill them asks civilization?#and the tired and abused think hell even one year is good enough at this point #WHICH IS UNDERSTANDABLE #but to not only forget who your abuser is but to blame your fellow sufferer for your (and THEIR) pain is...not a hot take yk #i think i’m just tired of seeing people say if you were in that position you’d do what silver did!!!#i don’t know how anyone who has had to live as the subject of total oppression by empire could walk on that maroon island #see the entire atlantic ocean’s pirates and maroons gathered in belief in their ability to not hide in phantom chains anymore #and believe THAT needs to be stopped because the heart aches with weight #that THAT is what stole madi. not rogers. or england. or civilization (the three who stole HER father).#i have sympathy for the difficulty of the decision. i don’t have sympathy for the chosen ignorance of it.#and neither does that decision make the question ‘how much are you willing to lose?’#madi AS SHE IS IMPRISONED says the history of loss exists and continues still. it isn’t a choice of losing. but one of trying to stop losing #guYS so many people i respect kept saying this and so i was...hurt is all:)#and so typing on mobile and hoping for the best result is ofc the solution hah #civilization needs its monsters

“The measure of a man is in the moment when he is confronted by himself. By opposing voices in his head, both arguing that they are right, but one has to be wrong…To know the difference in that moment is what makes a man. Well, I see the difference here…I know it.”

#blacksailsedit #black sails #james flint #queue.#not being dramatic or anything but his conviction in knowing without allowance of any breath of doubt that his love is good and true #is unparalleled and in itself revolutionary and straight up saved me #and it isn't because he won't be swayed in general he is time and time again brought to doubt and moved to compromise #he may not be malleable (no he is hard joints and rough points) but he is flexible because he is moral and strategic both #his whole backstory is both a tragedy of oppression and betrayal but also!!! a show of how capable of and willing to change he is #when morality and strategy make their appeals (he did not board the pardons train because he loved thomas only #he loved thomas for many reasons but the one he stood before alfred for was the honesty of his pursuits bc THAT justice demanded defending #you see it in the way he speaks of nassau's promise in the way he doesnt attempt to sway thomas away but presses himself further in with him #you see it in the way he was willing to die for it!!! hang for it!!! bare himself whole before england's teeth for it!!!#smiling so small and sad right b4 he shake's ashe's hand bc love taught him this left it in his hands and at last he unclasps into justice)#MY POINT IS!!!! he is sooo willing to change when change is necessary speaks of circumstances like dust in the wind he can and DOES rethink #but as much as he is a willing subject of persuasion he refuses without question erasure or distortion and it's????? BRIGHT??#IMAGINE loving like that. he has to use the word 'embarrassing' to describe the truest thing he's ever known #he knew his most trusted called it 'damaging' not out of malice but out of care out of fear for him and learned they were RIGHT to fear #he heard his father spit it out as 'profane' knew the only home he's ever known marks this truth a shame #a flaw in him. the sweetest thing he's ever known and he's expected to spit it out like they do #AND HE DOESN'T! NOT EVER NOT ONCE! H O W HE KEPT THAT CONVICTION IS BEYOND ME #i think the only time we ever hear st REMOTELY positive said about his sexuality and/or his relationship with thomas #is miranda's ''what he shared with you'' bit which isn't so much an affirmation of goodness so much as a reminder of un-wrongness #i can’t even BEGIN to imagine the emotional strength it took to reproduce the implications of shame in his own speech w/o internalizing thm #to call it embarrassing without ever being embarrassed by it to act as if it is damaging when it heals and saves him #to never speak of it for a decade must have been his effort to maintain it the one constant untouched by the distortion of speech #EVERY voice in his head screamed shame but every known memory every felt truth knew none and?? ugH GOODNI GHT #i will be your monster #civilization needs its monsters #*

Hobbes Lied: The James Mcgraw Flint Story

#blacksailsedit #black sails #james flint #i loved making this bc you're watching his brain and face go 'absolute sovereignty based on malevolence!!!'#to 'absolute sovereignty based on benevolence...??'#to straight out 'revolution! the people once unburdened will lead!!!'#he really went from being unable to conceive of trusting the people with their own liberation's realization in ep1 saying he'll be king #(and it's likely a leftover of his belief that people are inherently corruptable--the first few sets of gifs in this show that #and need to be led into being unchained by civilization #a mindset so dangerous it is exactly what made him the uneasy protagonist of the first season that made you care and fear simultaneously)#to not being able to conceive of the revolution without its peoples trust and hope in it #(his insistence on saving madi AND the chest bc of what they meant TO the people what they symbolized to the maroons and to future security #his delineation of power to silver bc silver's become both the people's hope and guide #his acceptance of the slaves' refusal to revolt on nassau in concern for their families #these are all strategic choices yes but he is a strategist in pursuit of what? the people's trust in the viability of their own unburdening)#by s4 he's given up the idea of inherent corruptability and adopted fully the opposite idea of inherent hopefulness #stopped believing there are specific men with an honesty and truth unattainable by the rest #(like thomas in the 3rd row. he will always believe thomas is goodness and truth but no longer does he think others CAN'T be like that)#stopped believing there are specific men unable and unworthy of realizing they deserve to can and SHOULD fight for their freedom #(like vane in s1 who he once disregarded but came to argue with. discuss with. beside the fact that vane was symbolic and necessary to him #he also spoke to him personally with the intention of dismantling his insistence on the 'total chaos is true freedom' mentality #if a little half-heartedly bc lbrh james flint is not here to demystify the virtues of peace to straight white men he's Tiredt)#my point is: he very markedly came to dispose entirely of the deep rooted belief that we are bound for pain and to inflicting it #and replaced it with the earnest insistence on the fact that we need not be hurt and need not hurt one another #anyway that's why seeing his journey's end disregarded as obsessive or selfish and needing to be stopped is death to me lol #one need not absolve him of any of what he's done need not disregard the necessity for accountability to see that he was..right in the end #tumblr erased half my tags and honest i deserve it #*#*bs #civilization needs its monsters

“Set us both free.”

#blacksailsedit #black sails #eleanor guthrie #bsmax #adamparrush #tbh saachi...i'm just tagging u bc i intimately kin ur unmanageable maxanor feelings refusing to die since day 1 #anyway can y'all believe these women were driven to believe they can only ever POSSIBLY find happiness in love in secluded isolation lol #can you believe that they both saw peak happiness as the elimination of any interaction with the world as they came to know it #that they got cornered and cornered and cornered again into believing that they have to run and bolt the doors tight #squeeze their eyes shut and hold their hands to their ears and scream into their lover's mouth as they scream back to shut the noise out #that that was the only way to not be disturbed by the world hunting to not be separated from a lover #remember when eleanor was like i need something sharp enough to cut a whole piece of me away from myself. to make it out with my love intact #I JUST FIND IT SO FUNNY THAT THE WRITERS THOUGHT THIS WAS FINE TO DO TO ME YK THAT'S ALL #nothing breaks me more than how they were shattered away from one another but somehow there was still boundless love there #max telling anne that eleanor was trying to teach her one last thing about love before she died #that she didn't hear her in time #eleanor telling max that she would have gone with her. that she was right about how to love from that day a thousand pains ago.#they fell apart in fucking 1x02 and seemed to walk in straight lines opposite one another from that day #AND YET SOMEHOW IN THE END THEY WERE?? COCOONED IN THE LESSONS THEY TAUGHT ONE ANOTHER IN LOVE??#anyway i think i 100% blame bean for this for reminding me of maxanor yesterday thx n have a Gud Nite #civilization needs its monsters #where would we have gone?#*#*bs

Silver absolving himself of his own past and dismissing its relevance to his present actions vs. Silver blaming James for his past and victimizing himself for the present result of it.

#blacksailsedit #black sails #james flint #i won't tag s*lver bc i'm trying not to get this to show up in the character's tag bc if u like him this'll probably not be ur cup of tea #i mean...it's straight up the truth but still. i think the tag for this is #js critical #here's the thing about this that you can argue with me day and night about and i will still not budge #s*lver isn't by any means required to share his trauma or his past or his reasons or anything #esp given the way this show purposely shows some characters punished for their honesty with the wrong people #him withholding his past is not at all a fault here (it speaks to the extent of his pain it is incredibly more sympathetic than not)#but his manipulation of james' past into a narrative servicing his (loooong meditated) ends is!!! it is fucking terrifying!!!#and it is certainly not come of love!!!#you do not morph someone's life into something it isn't to realize a conclusion to it you see best fit because you LOVE them #you do not disregard someone's express wishes in favor of your own perception of them as wrong/futile because you LOVE them #you do not eliminate any possibility for someone to reaccess a life outside the one you chose 'for their own good' because you LOVE them #you do all this because you believe it is within your right to have of them what you'll please and love what pleases you #to be sensitive to s*lver's traumas is not st to be overlooked ofc it isn't and there's much to read into of it in the show #but to even so much as imply that trauma=the right to dictate anyone else's life/purpose bc you happen to be involved with said anyone is???#ESP WHEN THAT LIFE/PURPOSE IS BOTH FOR MADI AND FLINT A CONSTANT BATTLE TO ENSURE THE CONDITIONS WHICH CREATED THEIR TRAUMAS ARE REMOVED!!!#s*lver: I just don’t think revolution is good for us; james and madi: our lives were corrupted and countless others are living the sa-#s*lver shutting the revolution down anyway: it’S MY OPINION #s*lver: I have done nothing wrong ever; s*lver to s*lver: i know this and I love you #idk man i'm just always stressed tf out by the way s*lver inserts himself into james' narrative and gradually dictates it to him #(james constantly resists him if you notice but his every later action shows s*lver's dictates wormed their way in)#it rly is just at the point of idrc if s*lver actually did or didn’t care for flint bc if this is care then it’s cruel #(and this isn’t to discount all the cruelty flint enacts on so many but its intimate personalization in s*lver is different. targeted.)#civilization needs its monsters #*#*bs #*gifs

“Lord Hamilton isn’t someone we should be wary of; he is exactly the kind of man we should be listening to.”

#blacksailsedit #black sails #thomas hamilton #james flint #miranda barlow #i am consistently impressed with how well this show manages to embellish his loved one's memory of him #(memory that is so clearly veiled BY their love for him memory that certainly washes him in a kind light)#with the REALITY of how he was and what he did #it doesn't want you to just believe the heart that drove this fight is a good one it wants you to SEE IT #everything they say of him is so transparently borne of their love for him so colored by their adoration #but it is also the truth!!!!!!!! it is who he truly is!!!!!!!#(there's something to be said here abt the unbelievably stark differences in the story depending on their voice of narrative #when the intention was to dispel his reformist notions he was villainized in london dubbed the mad lord through whispers in whitehall #when the intention became to erase him and eliminate the possibility of his growing efforts' realization he was pacified in bedlam #made the grieving cuckold through disciplinary action and high society's renarration of him from fellow thinker to fallen mind #when the intention is to honor him and his defamed/erased memory he is aggrandized #turned the image of a saint the beginning and end of all goodness through argument and action in pursuit of his dream #but to see him as he is! which the show brings to light not only by showing him actively in flashbacks #(which themselves could be biased in mere selectiveness)#but in what HE SAYS and what HE DOES (BOTH of which have tangible influence over the story that proceeds him and so are necessarily true)#to see him as he is not only allows u to appreciate him as he is but to observe the roots reasons and repercussions of relayed narrative)#honestly all i'm trying to say is this show narratively slaps #and yeah i made a whole gifset to basically just say everything good ever said about thomas is right and anything bad ever said is FALSE #thx for coming to my tedtalk #civilization needs its monsters #*#*bs #*gifs

“I found his argument persuasive. I find his intent to be good and true.”

#blacksailsedit #black sails #james flint #flinthamilton #jamesflintmcgrawhamiltom #technically. cause this is raw footage of true love deadass transforming a man innit #has anyone made the necessary cheese comment yet about how thomas literally illuminated the promise of prosperity #in what james previously only saw as the festering of corruption in nassau??#has anyone talked about how james 'in the dark once someone has illuminated it' flint is the direct product not only of love #but of this particular love #to love someone wholly become their cause is to love the cause #and to lose them is to become it too #james flint on miranda barlow’s porch at 2.37am drunk off his ass: hozier_-_my_love_will_never_die.mp3 #WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS DOES ANYONE WANNA TALK TO ME ABOUT IT CAUSE I SURE WANNA S C R E A M #THIS MAKES THE TIMES FLINT TALKS TO ELEANOR AND MADI ABOUT THE MADNESS OF THEIR NASSAU ENDEAVOR ALL THE MORE PAINFUL!!!#his love the very light that showed this nassau to him this possibility of it was labelled a madman for it punished as one for it too #he knows it isn't true. but he wants to hear it. he wants to hear it on the tongues of others. his love was not mad his love was GOOD. TRUE.#*#*bs #civilization needs its monsters #i will be your monster

“for pleasure is an affection of the soul, and each man takes pleasure in that which he is said to love” - aristotle, the nicomachean ethics, book ii.

absolutely inspired by this gem by @ceraunos

#blacksailsedit #flinthamilton #black sails #james flint #thomas hamilton #is there going to be an onslaught of flinthamilton/classics stuff for a while to come? ab..solutely...#and man oh man the decontextualization of aristotle in that fic had me HOWLING with joy and love and YEA ME TOO OP /ME TOO/#i had to take it that extra mile #civilization needs its monsters #know no shame #*#*bs #in other news this is...super ugly but i have zero access to good software rn so i'm just...tryna release this pain this is all that this is #i wanna talk infinitely about this pair and philosophy. their philosophies. the role of philosophy in their lives. in their story(/ies).#i wanna talk about its textual narrative use i wanna talk about thomas and shame and philosophy #i wanna talk about james and hope and philosophy #i wanna talk about how they probably kissed everyday with a text burrowed between their chests #having just tossed its ideas and its arguments and its wisdom and silliness between them in discussion #they in between them both an ocean of thought and they row and they row breathless with joy breathless with want breathless with one another #they're so good for each other Fuck Me #ANYWAY 'thus the act is noble' A WHOLE CONTEXT-LESS MOOD

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