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Today is this blog’s 3rd birthday.

I had a very different message ready to go for today. I was fully prepared to leave this blog behind. But I’m not going to do that. I’m not going to let three years of really hard work go down the drain.

So today I am opting instead to lay my cards all on the table. I don’t care whose toes I step on, I’m tired of biting my tongue because I’m too anxious or too worried about causing a problem. I’ve finally realized I have to take care of myself too and have a right to my thoughts same as everyone else. Feel free to unfollow if this post bothers you, no hard feelings.

Under cut for fandom wank and mentions of: sexual assault, rape, abuse, csa, and for being (sort of) S*lver critical.

#psa;#other posts;#abuse tw #rape tw #csa tw #sexual assault tw #ableism tw #js critical #black sails wank #black sails negativity #bs wank

beanabouttown

so i made a survey

i wanna find out which of the many mentions of thomas hamilton’s name emotionally devastated us the most

if enough people take it then i’ll gif the top ten!

#signal boost;#text;#c; thomas hamilton #( relevant n.n )#( what if they all made you die though )

I know I still haven’t been posting a lot, but I’ve got a pretty big bone to pick about a post going around, namely with this sudden need to twist Thomas’ character around (and Flint’s). So I’m gonna, because my last fucks have flown away.

1. First of all... Thomas is a colonizer? What exactly was Thomas supposed to do? It's said "well he never advocated for giving the island back to the original people who lived there," but how on earth do you think he should have done that when it's not even "his island" to begin with (that would be his father as the one with the "title")? And all the actual colonizing took place long before? He didn't even have true political authority, it was all his father's. Working through the system with the little authority he had to improve things is not the same thing. That was even a theme throughout the show (is it better to work in the system how you can or fight the war)

2. Let's say he rebelled, did the Flint thing, and started a war to take the island back that way. Everyone would be tearing him down for being a murderer who wanted to fight an impossible war and try to discredit him, same as is being done to Flint lately.

3. He wanted to gentrify the island? So somehow, stepping in to say "hey let's not kill the pirates, let's try to help them and get them on their feet instead because they don't deserve to die" is somehow the same as wanting to just kill and hang them all? Supporting the locals who are already there and wanting to help them get on their feet is gentrifying?? Seriously?

4. I've seen it said "his plan was never to end slavery or bring down the empire." Pretty big assumption to be making, considering it was never said one way or another whether he wanted slavery ended or not. Bringing down the empire? See points 1 and 2.

5. Yes, Thomas was privileged, but he was also marginalized as a gay/bi man (you can be privileged in some ways and marginalized in others, they do not cancel each other out). And honestly? I find this new trend towards twisting things to make Flint and Thomas on the same level of intent as their oppressors really disturbing. I'm not talking about legitimate criticisms of their actions, I'm talking about this need to twist them around make them worse in the name of making other characters seem better. It doesn't matter if other characters have done bad things, or even worse things, that doesn't take away or change someone else having done bad things and doesn't make what they did any better.

6. And lastly, do not come at me with the whole "you're woobifying Thomas!!" because I have been fighting the war for three years for people to stop seeing Thomas as a saint and will gladly give examples. I don't even want to hear it.

#black sails #thomas hamilton #black sails wank #bs wank #fandom wank #fandom drama #( I'm TIRED )#( truthfully I have a hard time even logging onto tumblr anymore )#( yes work is still mostly responsible for my absence )#( but I'm finding it harder and harder to even want to carve any time out to come on here )

Hi there! I'm really sorry if my question has provoked this :/ I've asked for the "canon" interpretation of the Miranda's visions or at least for the most likable one. Of course exploring other interpretation is not a crime, no one is saying that! I apologise again:/

Awwww nonnie no! You didn’t do anything wrong at all, and I’m sorry if I made you feel like I was targeting you. I think this is a debate that has been going around on and off for awhile. *hugs* Please don’t worry <3 Like I said in my tags, I haven’t been around a lot, so I don’t even know the complete picture of what’s going on.

#replies;#anonymous;#mod aria;#Anonymous

So I’ve not been around for a lot but I need to say something about the current debate going around.

I have watched, for the past year and a half or so, as people have written fanfics that made use of Meditations (whether reading from it or James giving it to someone who is not a Hamilton, usually romantically, or someone finding it so someone could find out James loved a man), “know no shame,” and other themes that were used for flinthamilton/flinthamiltons. I have watched hundreds of posts and gifsets go by celebrating how other pairings were paralleling James/Thomas and thus was proving their ship to be romantic and for quite awhile, it felt like James/Thomas was only being used to prove other people’s ships. I’ve watched as people have talked about how other characters are James’ new “Thomas” or “Miranda.” And it felt horrible.

But I never said anything, because I knew that even though I didn’t like it, people had a right to do those things. And that the writers like using parallels a lot, and you can find parallels between most characters and ships, so it wasn’t like people were doing something wrong by pointing it out.

My point is this: stop shoving your interpretation of things down other people’s throats. If you feel very strongly that dream Miranda was talking about Silver when she said “you are not alone,” then good!~ Great! Go with you! But not everyone feels that way, and it is not 100% clear who or what she is talking about (even if to you it is). Even Toby felt it wasn’t about anyone in specific:

https://twitter.com/TobyStephensInV/status/844924259298230274

I get how shitty it feels when you feel like people are trying to (intentionally or not) overwrite something you really care about. But certain characters and ships and themes overlap in the show, and it is not a sin to explore other possibilities or meanings to things.

#black sails #mod aria;#text;#( I know I haven't been around a lot I'm sorry )#( I'm working on it promise )#( this is another busy time of year for work )

jadepgraphicart

This is totally what happened and you can’t convince me otherwise.

#fanart;#we were happy;#( hehehhhhhhh )

Just as a reminder, the flinthamilton/flinthamiltons and the wlw prompt memes are now live! Both of them need prompts and fills! Lots of great prompts already! <3

#black sails #flinthamilton #flinthamiltons #maxanor #maxanne

suchbluesky

heres a really messy painting because I haven’t stopped thinking about this reunion since I watched the finale

#fanart;#nassau husbands;#season; iv #episode; xxxviii #requeueing to the daylight;

kabaks

this is it. this is when thomas fell in love

#crack;#nassau husbands;#c; thomas hamilton #requeueing to the daylight;#( it's not crack if it's true )

likesolastalgia

pieces

more flint/hamilton stuff, im sorry

also on ao3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/11626539

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They don’t realize at first how difficult changing the world can be. James, for all his indifference, feels his hard-won place in society start to shift, feels the way the other officers start to stare at him, feels the whispers behind his back like a hand at his throat. Thomas, for all his idealism, spends entire nights locked in his study, looks up at James with circles dark like bruises under his eyes, files away letters from his father in a drawer to forget about later.

–

They don’t realize at first how painful it will be to watch each other across crowded rooms. Thomas smiling, brushing off thinly veiled insults, working his way into the hearts of a world that denounces everything he is with his charm and his brilliance. James looks stiff and uncomfortable, because when does he not, and out of place, because he is, and all Thomas can think about is taking his face into his hands and kissing away the frown lines around his mouth.

–

They don’t realize at first how perfect it all is. James wakes up some mornings to the rustle of pages. Thomas props a book up on his knees and reaches down, stroking long fingers through loose copper hair, and James presses his forehead against Thomas’ hip and revels in the warmth of him. Sometimes in the study, James laughs when Thomas plucks the hat off his head, spins it delicately around his fingers. Then he undoes the buttons on James’ waistcoat, dropping it to the floor, and pushes him back against the desk, hands at his waist, fumbling with his shirt. As Thomas trails kisses down his back, James wonders absently whether being fucked on is the best use their work for Nassau will ever have.

–

Sometimes, Thomas slips his arm into James’ and says “Take me away, Lieutenant.” And James tilts his head and blinks up at him with a glint in his eye, “Where would you like to go, my Lord?” Thomas waves a hand, “Anywhere but here.” And James knows that “here” does not mean the house, the study, or the bedroom. “Here” is a world that builds laws so hard that they cut like broken glass when he pushes against them. It is a world that tramples down men in their own homes and leaves only themselves to blame. “Here” is not a place but an idea that follows close on the heels of every step of their lives. But barring freedom, the garden is as good a place as any for their escape. They look up towards the stars through the haze of London and James puts his hand on the small of Thomas’ back, and they almost remember why it is they are fighting.

–

Sometimes, Thomas lounges like a cat in the sun. All long limbs and gentle curves, with his elbow on the pillow and his chin propped up in one hand. His eyes are sparkling, blue and beautiful and James swears, when he looks over the side of the Walrus, that he is still staring into them.

#fanfic;#nassau husbands;#requeueing to the daylight;

queerpyrate

Don’t think about Flint startling awake in the middle of the night from some nightmare. Don’t think about the way his breath steals away inside his chest, his eyes searching blindly in the darkness until he can make out the steady rise and fall of Thomas’ chest. Don’t think about the relief that washes over him in the moment. Don’t think about how, even then, he can’t settle back to sleep until those fingers intertwine with his own.

#headcanon;#nassau husbands;#requeueing to the daylight;

superdistress

#gifset;#nassau husbands;#season; ii #season; iv #episode; xiii #episode; xxxviii #requeueing to the daylight;

adamdalgliesh

Odysseus, on his journey home to Ithaca, was visited by a ghost. The ghost 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 tells him to pick up an oar and walk inland. And keep walking until somebody mistakes that oar for a shovel. For that would be the place that no man had ever been troubled by the sea. And that’s where he’d find peace.

In the end, that’s all I want. To walk away from the sea and find some peace.

#gifset;#nassau husbands;#season; ii #season; iv #episode; xiii #episode; xxxviii #requeueing to the daylight;