for having loved him

[aquatransmissaest]

Look at him sitting there with his raised little eyebrows like he isn't planning on committing double homicide in the next twenty seconds. He's so great

[thurs-days]

[sydneysageivashkov]

eleanor guthrie did not go from wearing cravats and vests to corsets and gowns just for people to say she always dressed like a femme. don't worry ms guthrie I saw you cut away pieces of yourself to achieve acceptability in rogers' eyes and be accepted back into the english upperclass and then die anyway the same way your mother did before you.

[aquatransmissaest]

[gracelessgrayson]

“James, who is that seafaring man with one leg?”

[thatbitchwhowritesstuff]

hey it’s time to wake tf up and appreciate her more

[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”—

[normalfixation]

the fact that silver doesnt try to fuck flint is more bisexual of him than actual gay sex would have been. hes literally a charming liar broadly known for being really good at manipulating people and using their weaknesses to reach his purposes. the guy he means to betray tells him "btw im gay and thats like a really touchy subject for me" and he instantly becomes the joker

[normalfixation]

it never even crosses his mind because repression runs in his veins instead of blood. if he was normaler his reasoning really would be "cant fuck him because i love him" at that point in the story. but in reality hes not even capable of having these thoughts about flint. his brain is a minefield and even if he gets through unscathed by bisexuality what lies at the other side is just more horrors. pointing and laughing like lol you cant even deprive yourself of desire because youre too crazy to even have intent

[fagflint]

me when im watching black sails and they start talking about lists of names:

[kabaks]

"Clever." "Thank you."

BLACK SAILS | I, III, V, X, XI, XXII, XXV, XXXII

[kabaks]

Luke arnold does a really good job honestly of playing Silver not as charming but feigning charm all the time, like he rarely ever genuinely looks happy enough to be charming (I think). It’s funny because it’s such a thin line to walk like he’s either gotta be the perfect level of not that great an actor and hit that shit naturally all the time or be quite excellent such that he can play the gap between “Well he looks happy go lucky” and “Hm he’s got dead eyes.” Of course then Flint asks for his opinion one time and Silver can’t keep himself from skipping down the road like lalala heheheee 🥰 Anyway. Freak. I love him bad

[kabaks]

me when I'm literally over the MOON about to PREEN and STRUT. step aside everyone! (no one. this is private.) I'm about to SHOW OFFF

[normalfixation]

the looming spectre of yaoi is enough but lesbian sex has to literally happen onscreen. Just another thing black sails got perfectly right

[normalfixation]

ill be honest my post was half a joke about how i like seeing lesbians sex on tv because im a lesbian and half a genuine jab at how most shows cower at the prospect of having to portray adult queer womens sexualities beyond the pg 13 wlw girlkisser yearning bullshit that so many people love. but also Suppose i believe in the argument that some shows and movies have evil lesbian sex scenes made for men and thus should be rejected. should we wait until the day men are unable to fetishize lesbians to be allowed to see grown women being sexual in movies and shows? that will unfortunately literally never happen. Then i also did literally mention black sails and to me the lesbian relationships in black sails are so far from what a man with a lesbian sex fetish would fantasize about that i cant even imagine how someone would justify thinking that their sex scenes are for the male viewer. but if this is a genuine question i will try to answer it

[normalfixation]

Strictly talking about the canon the queer women from black sails are living completely different lives than the queer men and these differences explain why the narrative supports them and not flint and thomas to be fucking onscreen. Max starts out as a sex worker and for the majority of the show continues working at the brothel (later even sleeping with one of the girls which despite the brevity is also narratively a critical moment for obvious reasons). eleanor not only is romantically involved with max while shes a sex worker but also wrt optics gets benefits out of publicly being sexual the way a man would as the resident Boss (see her explicit jokes, the way she flaunts calling max up etc). anne we already meet as a pirate. Jack has her loyalty and jacks is all she has to lose. her gender & sexuality are being untangled simultaneously through the contrast and juxtaposition of her relationships with jack and with max. The unambiguity of all of their intimate scenes is suitable for the characters contexts and the respective narrative operations they serve are improved by it. the exact opposite is true for flint and thomas. The major tragedy in their relationship was precisely that they had to hide it and how dangerous being found out was for the lives they were living. Shame is clearly, textually, a key component of flints character and the unfulfilling quality of his sexual life in the present reflects that. thomas' "death" causes a suspension in his directive that flint knows no shame, and the pain caused by it culminates in the suppression of his sexuality which is why hes either not having any sex or having dysfunctional sex. basically what i mean is if straight male viewers enjoyed how that all turned out who gaf... its exactly how it has to be

[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

[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"

[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"

[erodingsinner]

the sheer audacity of "mr gates' heart has given out" will always be so fucking funny

[fagflint]

can james flint just tell me what to do im so tired

[fagflint]

wow thank you James Flint from Black Dails 🙏🙏🙏🙏🔫🙏🙏🙏🙏