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Black Sails sideblog | Rita | 24 | they/she | queer | RainbowSnek on ao3

[prigorie]

I heard y'all like pirates

[rotato-potato]

the odyssey this the odyssey that you guys odda see black sails one of these days

[greatviolenceonthatthang]

nothing has ever been funnier than this. miranda girl your face. she said james what is that #getyourfuckingdog

[commodoresays]

In a show made of favorite moments, this one still always stand out to me. I can watch it over and over. I love you, Miranda. I love you, every actor on Black Sails who tells entire stories with your eyes.

[diotimas]

zero stars for nolan because odysseus, on his journey home to ithaca, was NOT visited by a ghost that tells him that once he reaches his home, once he slays all his enemies and sets his house in order he must do one last thing before he can rest. the ghost does NOT tell him to pick up an oar, walk inland, keep walking, until somebody mistakes that oar for a shovel. for that would be the place that no man has ever been troubled by the sea. and that's where he'd find peace.

[sparvverius]

what's so awesome about miranda hamilton is that she knows full well that revenge brings nothing good and that it will probably make her and her loved ones and many innocent uninvolved people more miserable and that it would not be what the person she lost wanted and she has no illusions about any of it. but when push comes to shove even if the end she's been fighting for for two seasons is in sight she simply cannot let the bastard get away with it

[aquatransmissaest]

He is so very happy his plan is working he can barely play at being chagrined before Dufresne. CONTROL YOURSELF you smug little crew-killer

[hillhouseeleanor]

I know the “Vane called Flint gay for living in a house” thing is funny but I think in all seriousness Vane was calling Flint a class traitor for living in a house which is in some ways much funnier

[fuck-you-jack]

i love these tags so much

[sparvverius]

and casting about in the dark for some proof that you mattered and finding none, you'll know... that you gave it away in this moment...... on this island............ this Treasure Island

[awed-frog]

anyway

[joe-spookyy]

black sails operates under this assumption

[organisedbirds]

anne bonny black sails tragic character of all time. she loves two people and only them. she is miserable if she is without either one of them. if she has them both she compromises her own happiness. she doesn't know what would make her happy because only the two people she loves do that. she wants to leave the sea but jack can't so she stays. she wants to leave that fucking island but max can't so she stays. loyalty to her lovers over loyalty to what she wants. because she wants them.

[zetzhao]

Imagine Luke Arnold as Long John Silver in Treasure Island

(With reference to the 1952 film adaptation of Treasure Island.)

I love that moment: "Give me a hand up!"

[goldeneko]

characters can have a tragic backstory so long it requires days of scrolling on their wiki to read and they still won't come close to long john silver's single line, "you know of me all i can bear to be known."

[theartofangirling]

season 3 maxanne makes me craaaazyyyy. from basically married cohabitation making future plans together "you're saying this ain't real" to amicable divorce "I trust you" to full on betrayal, not because they love each other any less but because they're both doing what they believe they have to to survive. also max terrified of Anne either dying or losing jack "not sure which is worse" and sleeping with an Eleanor lookalike to distract herself. they don't even know they don't even knowwww that there is nothing important that does not include you!!! they don't know that it feels like it's broken and it's going to hurt but they're going to be okay!!!!

[passivetimber]

I appreciate that black sails shows parts of being on a ship that are often not depicted in other shows or movies. I loved seeing the careening and how they measure their speed in knots. really cool attention to detail.

[sparvverius]

there's something really fun about how like. according to all Sources i have found many sailors abandoned the royal navy for piracy because the navy was so hierarchical and the officers were given so much power and piracy was the more egalitarian and democratic option. but flint comes from the navy as someone who managed to work his way up to officer and as someone who seems to prefer to function inside those rigid structures, or at least to be most at home there. so even as he is ostensibly fighting for the greater egalitarianism of the pirate world and of progressive values in general it's just not something that he personally is able to value. he doesn't have a democratic bone in his body. he went to the pirate republic talking about kings and wanting to quite literally run it like the navy and tried to fight for that pirate republic while acting like his word was law and every democratic proceeding was an annoying hinderance to his dictatorial rule. it's so good. i like him

[gooseontheinternet]

these two always in situations

[thatbitchwhowritesstuff]

swag gap relationship <3