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Why are people out there complaining about the whaling industry info in Moby Dick like it's not the most rivetting shit in the book. In the latest chapter, Ishmael says, "yeah btw when we're in the whaling boats we lash multiple harpoons to the same line to get a more secure hold on the whale, unless it goes wrong like it usually does, then the loose harpoon is flung around hitting people. Sometimes there are like 8 or 10 of them all flying around hitting people. This kills people frequently, it's still industry standard, and it will be relevant to us later :)"

amantisea

That tag is excellent, OP 🙂‍↕️

remarkablecows

glitteringpoet1685

"you're still watching my eyes" I said oh I'm sure

#black sails #silverflint

kabaks

its actually so funny how flint literally kills gates with his bare hands and when the crew reacts um poorly to that he’s like you are the stupidest bitches alive. i hope every last one of you dies

kabaks

all of a sudden murder is not ok? god forbid women do anything

kabaks

longlukearnolds

synthfagz

"if yr stabbed dont take the knife out" okay so thats basiclaly cockwarming

amrv-5

Does anyone know what to do about the temperature and also the prices

whatagrump

Ending a dramatic, tragic series on a joke that’s a) genuinely funny and b) connects in a meaningful way to the themes of the show is really A++, I mean honestly.

(source)

we-are-rogue

Reveal of the most iconic pirate flag of all time.

Jack Rackham: Meh.

@we-are-pirate, @we-are-scarlet-corsair

#black sails

sapphic-haymaker

warm welcome back

winged-void

My enemies will warp the facts at every turn to construct a narrative that suits them.

commodoresays

#black sails

sword-wielding-sapphic

John Silver and text posts part 2 (part 1) (Black Sails 15/?)

#the worst to ever do it 💖#black sails

goldcrescent

First day on the job and I’m getting my long awaited vengeance against my father’s evil vizier but it turns out no one else knows how to do his job so I need to at least hire an accountant because I’m too rich to understand the concept of a budget, but we scared off the city’s comptroller who hid all our liquid assets and told only the master of laws, who we beheaded without checking on that and a rat crawls up my pant leg. So I try to at least call over some pest control but my stupid chud brother already killed all of them because they killed his son because our other brother killed MY son. So now we’re overrun by rats and I pivot to taking some petitions and this lady that looks strangely like my siblings’ mom (why?) tells me we’re out of food because of the blockade I put in place. So I ask my husband’s ex, who is on my cabinet because I’m kind of fucking her because of my complex about not being my father’s son, and she asks what my dad would do. So I do what my dad would do and ask a sad woman I’ve locked in my house, but she’s mad at me because I killed her dad. So I try to handle both the rat and the budget problem by making my entire merchant class eat the rats and sending my corrupt police force to rob their houses and now all my merchants are both pissed off and absolutely going to tell everyone the blockade was my fault. So I ask MY evil vizier what I should do but he’s mad at me because I won’t legitimize his peasant sons, one of which has one of my nukes and I just publicly humiliated twice. So I leave to consider if I should kill my littlest brother to relieve some stress, except another one of my fathers’ evil viziers’ evil fruit relatives tricked me and this isn’t any of my brothers. So I walk away with no one for protection except the chief of the aforementioned police force who I just encouraged to seize the property of nobles and we get stopped by one of my other nuke holding peasants who asks why he hasn’t gotten a paycheck in 4 months, and I tell him I’m broke as shit in front of the aforementioned corrupt police chief, who is also on the payroll that I don’t have. So I give up and circle back to my vice president and he thinks for a few minutes and then asks if I’ve tried bombing Iran

#house of the dragon

sparvverius

sometimes i like to look at the old black sails vs ofmd poll feud for low-stakes Pissing Myself Off and while i have never seen ofmd and have no real opinions on it there is this sense of insecurity coming from the fans who were reacting very defensively to essentially just being told "our show is better in every way and our pirate is cooler than yours heehee" i don't see any other explanation for why people were getting mad about the black sails guys writing "graphic gore" in the tags which as far as i could tell was stuff like "flint could eat stede bonnet alive" "flint would incinerate that man with a glance" which is not very graphic or even really that polemical. it's also literally indisputably true and you don't have to take my word for it. why do you think there's no stede bonnet in black sails world even where there should have been according to the timeline. that's right. because flint ate him.

#fun entertainment show vs show that altered my perspective on life

normalmammal

every time I call flint gay someone tells me I’m doing bisexual erasure you people are so stupid

normalmammal

I’m aware that he has sex with women I just think he’s gay I’m not “erasing bisexuality” I’m literally bisexual I just have an interpretation of a character. I hate fandom I hate fans

rvn-poster

Firing off the “gay can be a synonym for generally queer” gun and seeing if the rent has gone down

normalmammal

thank you rvn-poster once again for understanding me

abysta

i think it's really disingenuous to judge black sails characters (silver) by their betrayals because this is literally all they do the entire series, betray each other and anticipate betrayals and act accordingly in order to achieve their goals. so the thing that's killing me isn't really a breach of trust that was done by most of them in the end - it's how unbelievably wrong they all are. silver didn't just betray flint and madi, he decided he knew how to make them happy, and he was wrong. max didn't just betray nassau, she thought she was securing its' future, and she was wrong. eleanor didn't just betray vane or flint or her husband or the pirates. rogers didn't just betray eleanor. they all followed their own fears and delusions into submission, into forcing their loved ones into submission, all for a mirage of safety, and they didn't even end up safe. because you can't stay safe when your life depends on an empire's whim, and you willingly gave up your power to say no.

#black sails