i love love loooove 'better than the fucking yankees' because shane's not just some hockey-obsessed jock, he's a straight up jock across the board. he's an all-rounder!!! he's a hockey player, and hockey players literally spend like 80-90% of their time talking about all the other sports they're watching. he watches sportscenter like it's the nightly news, has the baseball on in the background all summer. he's showing up at the olympics for sports simply because he knows the athletes, and as a top canadian athlete with his level of marketing and sponsorship, he's met and knows A Lot of athletes. he's getting invited to grand slam tournaments. he's reading all those high performing athlete biographies. he has an opinion on who's going to win the super bowl, who looks good in the nba, which teams will do best in the world cup, who's in form for the masters. in tlg he's participating in the great canadian pastime of putting on some late night australian rugby/aussie rules just for the sake of having some live sports running in the background. he and ilya put the tennis on later in the book for the same reason. that boy is a fucking jock!!!
“Shane fuck Shane help we fucked up, we lost Ilya, I swear he was here one second ago and now-“
“Haas, where are you right now?”
“The club by the hotel.”
“And he’s not in the bathroom?”
“No.”
“Not on the roof?”
“No.”
“Not trying to access any of the dancers poles?”
“What? Why would- Oh, Troy says no.”
“Is he hanging out with drunk girls in the women’s bathroom?”
“Umm, one sec. Harris, can you ask her if Ilya is in there? … Harris says no.”
“Ok. What were you talking about before he disappeared?”
“We were trying to figure out where to eat.”
“Did anyone bring up sushi?”
“He didn’t say he wanted-“
“Just answer the question.”
“Uh yeah, someone suggested it, but he said he wanted-“
“He’s at the pier.”
“What?”
“He got bored, sushi put fish on his brain, which made him think about water, and he likes going to piers, and the hotel is walking distance from a boardwalk by the water. He’s there, most likely trying to look at fish going under the dock.”
“… How do you know that?”
“Do you have any ideas how many times I have gotten this exact phone call? He’s easier to catch if you bait him with mozzarella sticks but make sure he knows he only gets them if he comes quietly. If you let him negotiate he will take the sticks and run. Cliff always fell for that.”
I made a supercut of every instance of the word partner (or partnership) in Black Sails... mostly as a side effect of wanting to analyze how the word was used in the show. More information/breakdown under the cut.
"Partner", "partners", or "partnership" is said a total of 92 times in the show, not counting 11 times when it's part of a "previously on". Of those 92 instances, 11 are in Season One, 24 are in Season 2, 33 are in Season 3, and 24 are in Season 4. Some form of the word gets said at least once in all but eight episodes (1x01, 1x05, 3x01, 3x04, 3x09, 4x02, 4x03, and 4x05). The episode with most instances is 3x02 with a grand total of 7. In the video, the clips are arranged in chronological order according to when they appear in the show. I used the transcript site to double-check my work so I'm pretty confidant I didn't miss anything.
A lot of the time the relationships that get called partnerships also get referred to with other terms (friendship, alliance, husband/wife), either at different times than they're called partnerships or in conjunction with the term, but "partner" as a term interests me because it is non-specific in a way that allows for it to hold a lot of different meanings, sometimes all at once. Black Sails is clearly very specific about what terms are used for relationships, just as it is specific about what name a character is called by, and often there is significance placed on moments when a relationship is called a partnership. (Miranda and Flint in 2x06, Jack and Anne in 2x10, Flint and Sliver in 3x03, etc.)
SO I've made a full chart with details on each of the 92 instances which you can look at here. It has the episode each instance is from, who says it, and to what partnership they are referring. Generally this is pretty straightforward, though sometimes a character is directly referencing one partnership in a way that implicitly applies the label to another, i.e. when Silver says he's "not the first to have been a partner to [Flint] in this way", he is referring to himself as Flint's partner, but also implicitly stating that Gates and Miranda were each Flint's partner as well. Whenever this happens I've noted it in the chart. I've also noted when characters are speaking hypothetical partnerships that do not (yet) exist, or do not (yet) exist in the form they are currently discussed, and when partnerships are referred to in the past tense.
Highlights of some stuff I found interesting:
Silver and Flint are referred to as partners (or as having a partnership) a total of 7 times, and implicitly labelled as such once. This is more than any other partnership between individuals, and depending on how you count more than any partnership between groups, too (see below). The first time they're ever referred to as partners is by Silver in 3x03
Jack and Anne are just behind them with a total of 6, followed by Eleanor and Rogers with 5
The individual relationships between Jack and Max, and between Max and Anne are each referred to using some form of partner/partnership three times, and Jack, Anne, and Max a group of three are referred to using the term once by Max and once by Jack-- though when Jack uses it (while speaking to Marion Guthrie) he doesn't specify who he's speaking about could arguably also be including Featherstone, and possibly Idelle
The pirate and maroon alliance is referred to using partners/partnership 6 times (7 if you count one instance where Flint is used as synecdoche for the pirates as a group), and there are two instances of partner/partners being used when discussing another person or group joining the alliance (Jack in the first case, and Julius and his men in the second), for a total of 9 times that some form of the alliance is discussed using partners/partnership
Other than Flint, the only person who is ever referred to as Silver's partner is Max
Eleanor says partner (or some variation) more than any other character, for a total of 14 times. Runners up are Max (12) and Vane (9)
4 out of the 9 times Vane uses partner/partnership, he's talking about a partnership between Eleanor and someone, though that someone is not always him. Of the remaining 5 instances, two are in reference to his partnership with Teach and two involve Jack in some way (one with the two of them and Flint, and one in the context of Jack joining the pirate/slave alliance)
Max never uses the word partner to describe any relationships that she is not directly a part of, unless you count one instance of speaking broadly about her own experiences in a way that also includes Eleanor's (when she says the chair "demands you win partners" to get it)
Flint doesn't say any form of the word partner until 3x05, though before that point there are other people who call him their partner or apply the term to relationships he has
Thomas says "partner" a total of 3 times, two referring directly to Flint and one speaking generally but in a conversation about a partnership between him and Flint. Miranda says "partners" twice, both times about herself and Flint
"Partner" is used as a verb exactly once, by Madi
Madi, Mr. Scott, and the Maroon Queen each only say partner(s) once (they're not the only characters who only say it once, but i did think the family pattern was neat)
My personal theory is that it was originally a Dutch vessel.
They were one of the four major powers in the colonies (with England, Spain and France), and of the drawing I find of 18th century ships, the Dutch ones are the most similar, especially when looking at the quarterdeck design.
Partial Sketch of a Dutch Vessel Seen from Port Quarter (x)
can we please get the ED / chronic back pain / disabled sex fic recs 👀
hello yes!! @youweremovingyourfeet requested these also
Adjustments by sheepknitssweater (2.8k) hookup era, ilya has a herniated disc, shane frets that his bottom prep was inadequate, the mortifying erotic ordeal of having a body, sex as communication, the intimacy of exposing your injuries to your rival
two hours year-round + ten years and counting by @radialarch (2.2k + 5k) long distance era, ilya takes lexapro and uses his fingers and a dildo to fuck shane, jock4jock banter, i think i have every single radialarch fic bookmarked the characterization is just soooo good
The Performer by @toxotesjc (14k) shane having sex through the years, the closeted queerness and undiagnosed autism, "It’s like everyone’s interacting naturally, and you’re an imposter, an alien trying to blend in."
a winner at heart by @ellisonwongparty (32k) depressed ilya and SSRI-induced ED, anxious shane, doing molly in monaco, the humiliation of ottawa losing, the humiliation of dating not just a loser but a quitter, sex as metaphor for hockey as metaphor for sex, i genuinely love how insane they are about hockey in this, my #shanetashi agenda
#goalbody by toomuchplor (5k) husbands era, cozy and lived-in, keeping a microwave on their dresser during playoffs for heating pads and grumbling at each other half asleep in the middle of the night to go take ibuprofen, a lovely convo between shane and yuna about infertility, sacrificing your body at the altar of hockey, and this incredible line: "And Ilya went faster, and Shane went boneless. When he came, it was better than a hot compress and ten hours of sleep and a dozen pelmeni laced with dilaudid. He was loose and liquid and drowsy." like. yeah!! IV dilaudid DOES feel like an orgasm, opioids are crazy
a nothing play by viviaano (9.6k) husbands era, shane-centric study, the ableist hierarchy of acute vs. chronic pain: "There are injuries you’re allowed to talk about, the dramatic ones. Broken bones, blood, the ones that leave scars or bruises you can point to and say, I got this one here, on this night, in front of witnesses. Those get you sympathy, headlines, and a timeline on recovery. Then there’s everything else."
another flaw in our equation by liveinsalt, @placebythering (50k and counting) husbands era, shane has a career-ending knee injury, they're both hurting and it makes them hurt each other in a gut wrenching but realistic and compelling way. the day the final chapter comes out i will be calling out of work to read it that's how much i love this fic
Route 96 Kanata by Anonymous (59k and counting) AU in which a knee injury ends shane's career before it starts, but he's still hooking up with pro athlete ilya, sex as self harm, sex as the blur between wanting to be someone and wanting to be with someone
here we are and what the hell are we going to do with it by walkingthroughwindows (24k) yet ANOTHER career-ending knee injury fic (sorry shane), but this one has the most well-adjusted versions of shane and ilya adapting to sex, retirement, and becoming a billet family (i love the sequel even more, although it's less pain/disability focused), like i just adore the casual care and access intimacy: "He rubs his face against Shane’s shoulder, yawns loudly. 'Can you sleep like this? With me inside? Or do you need pillow for your knee?'"
speaking of, i'm also going to plug the essay Access Intimacy by Mia Mingus and the book Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire edited by Alice Wong because both have been foundational texts in my understanding of disability and pleasure.
What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another person. Explorations of caregiving, community, access, and friendship offer us alternative ways of thinking about the connections we form with others—a vital reimagining in an era when forced physical distance is at times a necessary norm. But don't worry: there's still sex to consider—and the numerous ways sexual liberation intersects with disability justice. Plunge between these pages and you'll also find disabled sexual discovery, disabled love stories, and disabled joy.
shane is actually the best boyfriend that ever boyfriend’d. he’s opening doors, pulling out chairs, having his arm over back rests, holding hands while he drives, standing on the road side of the sidewalk. he’s so boyfriend coded. and ilya eats it all up! he loves being dotted on! he loves having a boyfriend!
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