Stuff and Nonsense

Whatever takes my fancy. Mostly, but not limited to: Black Sails Nonsense, Interview With The Vampire Nonsense, Bulbasaurs, Star Wars, Shiny Things, Cephalopods, Plus Size Positivity, Gothic Weirdness.

[oddarette]

Strawberry candy bulbasaur 🍓

[aquatransmissaest]

When I first watched 1x08 a few months ago and Gates turned away to face the door and Flint got that look in his eyes (I mean we all knew what was coming at that point) I just accepted it and went. Well. Sympathies, Hal, but you are in the way. NEEDS MUST. I was obviously sad about the neck snapping and all. But Nassau, baby. Jimmy has a vision. It's disjointed and immature but at least he's trying. Truly did not strike me that there were people out there who did not become ferociously attached to Flint's gore-covered self right from the get-go. You mean to tell me that you saw his shameless theatrical lying, you saw his desperate monomania, you saw him beat a guy to death with his bare hands (and a cannonball) for an audience. And you didn't like him? You saw his utter disdain for every man in sight and then you saw him turn right back around and very sincerely say "They're not animals, Mr. Scott. They're men starved of hope" and you didn't like him? You saw him fall to his knees at Miranda's door. And saw his whole being collapse with relief when she spoke. And you STILL didn't like him? Such is the curious variety of this great and beautiful world

[aquatransmissaest]

You don't like him? And his little permit?

[greatviolenceonthatthang]

I will expand on this later. probably. but I think we often dance around the fact that one of the (many, numerous) reasons why silver makes the flint-related choices he does at the end of the series is because of... drumroll for the thesis statement of the show... his shame. he makes those choices, not just because he is unlike flint (and by extension madi, with their revolutionary motivations), but also because he is unlike thomas, miranda, vane, teach, etc. in that 'john silver' is built entirely from shame.

silver doesn't have NO past. that's not the problem. the problem is that his past is something he is ASHAMED of. to the point he is incapable of speaking about it. he doesn't appear to feel shame for the things that he did to survive that past (re. 'guilt is natural, it goes away if you let it'), but shame at what that past did to him. what it reduced him to. he is ashamed because that past made him into something that doesn't matter.

of course, for a while, he could pretend that NOTHING mattered. so no biggie. but then... and he's trying to be long john silver, now. and long john silver matters. not just to all the pirates, but to a few very specific people. wink wonk, if you will.

except he's not long john silver. and he cannot 'know no shame'. because you would have to be a real person to do that. and well. #myvoid #myshame

[kipine]

Shiny Bulbasaur! 🍃 I finally got one as a starter in LeafGreen!

[knights-of-the-glittery-table]

💀 Fuck it, not again… Ready the cannons

[ray-gurl]

[IMAGE ID

A series of screenshots from Black Sails and Muppet Treasure Island.

First is of s3/s4 John Silver on board a ship. Looking through a spyglass. He says, “What the fuck?” Second is Captain Flint looking in Silver’s direction, concerned. Third image is Flint staring through the spyglass. The fourth image is viewed through the spyglass lens - we see the Muppet crew on board their boat heading to Treasure Island. It’s a chaotic jam-packed scene. Final image is of Flint (having lowered the spyglass) looking bemused and exasperated.

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[driahades]

I must scream into the void because everything is just...happening too much.

[driahades]

[thebaffledcaptain]

good morning age of sail tumblr and happy

APRIL 1805

NAPOLEON IS MASTER OF EUROPE

ONLY THE BRITISH FLEET STANDS BEFORE HIM

OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

[bulbasaur-propaganda]

The precious

Artist: @kinakomocheeni

[bratboymolloy]

iwtv + black sails (ft. my art)

[12doomed]

rebirth at the altar

[iam-just-a-hole-for-jacoblouis]

I seriously need people to recognise that Louis de Pointe du Lac is a freak and was a freak even as a human. Whenever people talk about vampire human companions being freaky it's always about Daniel or Madeleine, Louis is always forgotten. That man saw Lestat do weird shit like talk to him without moving his lips and said yeah I want that. He let a man fly him butt naked and didn't blink an eye. He kissed Lestat when Lestat had Louis' priest's blood on his lips. Put some respect on Louis de monsterfucker du Lac. Louis is freaky as a vampire but he was freaky even before he got turned. He is the embodiment of that stereotype that catholic girls are freaky.

[goryhorroor]

do you have a favorite movie of all time?

yes

no

definitely not only one

Voting ended onFeb 4

ONLY PUT ONE MOVIE IN THE TAGS (sorry for the caps but i wanna make a new letterboxd list updated with one movie of everyone’s favorite) (does not have to be a horror movie) (purpose of picking one movie is just for my letterboxd; i get everyone might have multiple just for this list)

and here’s the link to the list (x)

[oddarette]

All of my light bulbasaurs in one place :)

[khazadspoon]

One of my very few criticisms of Black Sails - not enough accents.

Where are my West Country accents. None of these men are from Bristol or Cornwall.

[willpressleverfordopamine]

I love that the reason Silver is named Long John Silver in the show is so dramatic and bloody when they absolutely could have had him wear long johns. That would be a different show though. I'd still watch it.

[bearfromthere]

What though the field be lost?

All is not lost—the unconquerable will,

And study of revenge, immortal hate,

And courage never to submit or yield:

And what is else not to be overcome?

That glory never shall his wrath or might

Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace

With suppliant knee, and deify his power

Paradise Lost

*******************

Flint: It requires an intolerable sacrifice.

Miranda: To accept a pardon?

Flint: To apologize.

Miranda: Apologize? Who will you be apologizing to?

Flint: To England! They took everything from us. And then they called me a monster. The moment I sign that pardon, the moment I ask for one, I proclaim to the world that they were right. This ends when I grant them my forgiveness... not the other way around.

Black Sails, VII