[queerofthedagger]

"i asked chatgpt" well i asked james flint and he said this is how they survive you must know this you're too smart not to know this they paint the world full of shadows and then tell their children to stay close to the light their light their reasons their judgments. because in the darkness there be dragons but it isn't true we can prove that it isn't true. in the dark there is discovery there is possibility there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it all this will be for nothing we will have been for nothing. defined by their histories distorted to fit into their narrative until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children

[jackiefour]

Okay, so according to this post, @staff says they're listening to us, so...

Sound off, Tumblr! How do you feel about the latest update to the reblog and notes?

Hate it. 👎

Like it. 👍

Voting ended onMar 19

No nuance. Go ahead and reblog the crap out of this.

[tumblr]

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

[changes]

It’s very clear that you all have strong feelings about Tumblr and about this change. We hear you. The passion people have for how Tumblr works is one of the things that makes this place special.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.

If you’d like to talk directly beyond the comments, leave a reply and we’ll follow up with as many of you as we can. We want to work with you to make Tumblr better.

[caulkblock]

horrible. atrocious.

[thekenobee]

Choose Your Fighter 💌

[kuzuyamii]

happy anniversary to whatever is going on in this show

[flurgburgler]

ending the year on a nostalgia high ❄️

[ship-to-starboard]

Loyalty & Duty behind the scenes

[nautiluscrash]

Every time I try to recommend Black Sails to a new person I feel like Thomas Hamilton trying to convince his British society friends that pardoning the Nassau pirates is a good idea

[chechula]

Cleaning last year's sketchbook: Stephen, Jack, and some weird creature ♥

[magneticrabbit]

from my jirving animatic

[archivistorage]

Leading the Blind

[leona-florianova]

--The Thirteen Gun Saulute

*Just the art from this post x

[keivni]

fem!vane

[sosooley]

The law of universal gravitation

i like them thicc af

nice scenery btw

роскошная капитанская корма

[theocoeuur]

odds and ends…

[nautiluscrash]

If you think about it Black Sails *is* and mlm and you SHOULD be recruiting as many people as possible

[max-nolastname]

James Flint does not care about Black people for the majority of the show, like that man fully does not consider Black people in his politics until season 3 when he washes up on Maroon Island. And his move to ally himself with Madi's people doesn't come from a genuine place of wanting Black liberation as an end in itself. Rather, he sees the maroons, and enslaved peoples in the colonies, as a means to an end–an additional force to bolster his ongoing campaign against imperial powers. Does he come to genuinely love and care for Madi and her cause? Of course, it's in the text. Does he realize that peaceful negotiation with England will not result in them giving up the wealth and power they've accumulated through violence? Does he realize that [he] is not free until all people, especially those on the margins, are free? Eventually. But like with many white activists, he centers his experience in his actions and does not consider things like intersectionality until later. All these things could be true at once.

But of course, this ginger man is not a real person. If we wanna get deeper about it and point fingers, Steinberg has gone on record to say that he and the writers were hesitant to tackle the issue of racism and slavery for fear of not doing it justice (2017, Fathoms Deep Podcast: #35). Which is a cop out, because in the Colonialism is Bad Show, Steinberg and them [checks notes] decide to center their show around white people. An extra season could have been dedicated to introducing and fleshing out Julius, Madi, and the unnamed Maroon queen. Mr Scott could have been a main POV character from the beginning to parallel Max. But alas, Black Sails poignant themes of anti-colonialism and revolution were examined through a predominantly white lens, which in itself is violence, because it sidelines stories of it's racialized characters to the dark; these stories exist in subtext, in the undercurrent of the show, when it should have been it's center.