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

[prigorie]

I heard y'all like pirates

[girldumas]

one thing about james flint is that he is the most suicidal character with the most unwillingness to die you've ever met.

[keivni]

happy pride month

[artemideaddams]

Flint is so funny because he's an example of anti-system leader who want the best for his fellow man.

But doesn't LIKE his fellow man. Or woman. He tries, but he really just can't help but feel annoyed by most of the people he is trying to lead against the system (or liberate from it) and feels slightly superior to most of them.

He settle on wanting to free his fellow man or woman from an evil Empire because he likes and respects England even less than he likes and respects his fellow man.

Which is valid btw but it's fun how he genuinely only likes and respects a max of five people in the whole show, and yet he still says things like "I can't believe we are so poorly made as that."

Yes you believe that in your daily life, that's why you can't open up with anyone and you can’t stop treating them as your politically, morally and intellectually inferiors!

I think it's fascinating that in abstract he believes in the inherent goodness of humanity and the idea that in a more equal and less corrupted society, people would not oppress each others for fun and history would be a journey though progress; in concrete he thinks that every person he interact with is dumber than him and need to be manipulated and convinced to do exactly what he thinks is the right thing to do, with very fews exception of two or three people he considers as smart and morally righteous as himself.

What a funny character.

The contraddiction of his character between his political/ideological optimism about humanity as a whole and his deep distrust and dislike of almost any individual he meets on a personal and intellectual level is so entrateining and very realistic.

[dilfdyke]

just saw a tiktok (sorry) saying its gonna be pirate romance summer over clips of will/elizabeth and some other straight couple and then. eleanor/vane. with the caption "watch black sails". and like whatever gets ppl watching but i cant help and imagine whatever straight girlies turning on black sails expecting to see vane be some hopeless romantic to eleanors self insert and instead seeing them immediately punch each other followed by max/eleanor extended lesbian sex scene. pirate romance summer indeed

[kabaks]

Vane IS a hopeless romantic. But his idea of romance is (and he would take offence at this) a house cat being like "Here's a decapitated head. I've been protecting the perimeter." and also "Do you wanna wrestle"

[kabaks]

you simply had to be there (at the reign of censorship and fear)

[flyingkoalaandsloths]

x

[thatbitchwhowritesstuff]

do you think Anne and Charles ever saw the scars on each other’s back. do you think they were ever aware that they shared shackles. do you think they realized their violence was born of the same yoke. do you think they considered the way the other was used for the sake of men who saw them as tools for pleasure and wealth. do you think they they knew that their freedom would always be tainted by the past and that its pursuit stemmed from fear. do you think they recognized the pain in those marks. do you think they ever talked about it. do you think they thought their bodies would never truly be theirs because of it. do you think—

[greatviolenceonthatthang]

james flint's most endearing trait is that he understands women to be inherently three-dimensional, complex and deserving of respect (especially for the positions of authority they occupy). in contrast, he is barely convinced that most men have brains.

[greatviolenceonthatthang]

james flint is a queer man. that being said: pry flintmiranda out of my violent, waiting fists #mycommonlawwife

[lyuricheva]

any conversation about who could play odysseus well (as opposed to the obvious terrible choice matt damon) is inane, in my view, because it’s already been done and served by toby stephens of maggie smith’s son fame in an acclaimed yet underwatched show black sails under the name james “flint”—

[greatviolenceonthatthang]

james flint's most endearing trait is that he understands women to be inherently three-dimensional, complex and deserving of respect (especially for the positions of authority they occupy). in contrast, he is barely convinced that most men have brains.

[parrotflint]

the thing is. i could not tell you a single thing about john silver's personality. due to it being hidden under 500 fake personalities and 7000 layers of repression

[erraticcat]

[fuck-you-jack]

imagine being the tattoo artist on nassau. perfect job. you get to hang out with all the hot people without having to join a pirate crew or work at the brothel. you get bonny and vane breathing down your neck while you put a kind of fuckass dog on rackham's ribs. you give flint a little moon and he doesn't say a single word the whole time. you think he's secretly gay and you're right

[tragedyprotagonist]

I'm forcing my sister to watch black sails and she hates flint (gates pushed her over the edge) so much lmfao. She says she doesn't give a fuck what his motivations are there's no way they could be good enough for her unless. and I quote. "he's doing it all for the gays or something"