Nothing flinched.

30 | they/them | london, uk | icon by @ladyhawke

[whichastheykiss-consume]

These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss, consume. -Friar Laurence, Romeo and Juliet, Act II Scene 6 or Kaz and Jesper are rival mob bosses, Wylan and Nina are their seconds, Matthias is a cop, and Inej is in the middle of it all. a modern, polycrows mob boss AU

read it on ao3

[lchendriks]

A whole two years later but @artemisthefirst and I have finally finished this fic and have started posting it!!

Featuring:

Kaz and Jesper trying to kill each other

a good ol' dash of torture and murder

secret identities

Kaz Brekker's emotional constipation vs his desires

and so much more

[tipsymaple-blog]

I may not be a perfect person but at least I have never yelled at an employee in a store

[funstyle]

having audio processing issues is so humiliating like yeah i heard you and yeah i was actively listening but the problem is i dont know what the fuck you sayed

[jacobtheloofah]

i was paying attention, i was listening, but you see the problem is....it didnt work

[natur-bursche]

This has been said before and I don't think it was really the creators' intention when producing the show, but the fact that sooo many characters and storylines in black sails start out so clichéd and then, over the course of the show, get more and more complex and REAL, certainly fits unbelievably well into black sails' theme of the power of stories and how we create characters. like Max. Vane. Anne. Flint of course. the list goes on.

it feels conspiratorial to say that this was the creators' plan all along, to BAIT people with a typical GOT-adjacent story and characters and then PURPOSEFULLY slowly developed them and unmade one cliché after another. but whyever it happened, it DID happen and it's a big reason why I can't really dislike s1 and all the strange characterizations and scenes it includes, because it fits SOOOO well into the show's themes it drives me insane.

like if one were to watch the last episode of black sails. and then turn around and watch the promotional material for season 1 of black sails. I think one might go a little crazy over that.

[calamitys-child]

Fascinating thing in black sails re The Narrative is how frequently characters are making references that they have no way to possibly know are references. Quoting media they don't know the other person is Also Quoting. Sentences that mirror sentences said by a characters they've never met from six episodes ago and they Know the Audience will get it even though they have no way to know it'll hit The Characters. From a doylist perspective this is just good and intentional writing from a watsonian perspective it's completely insane like some kind of gift of prophecy or perhaps curse

[changelingcoded]

how are we feeling today

[michameinmicha]

Stumbled upon this random ship (in a fandom im not active in myself) that has like 150 works on ao3 which are all from just two people gifting each other fics about this pairing back and forth and theyve been doing it for 3 years... i think thats true love probably

[wistfulwatcher]

REWATCH ROULETTE ORPHAN BLACK | 1.10 Endless Forms Most Beautiful

[macrolit]

How many of these have you read?

[gougeddoll]

jennifer cantwell, 2011

[seriial]

“the recording is of a blackbird in my garden in the north of scotland. the idea of the piece is that it's a letter home from a migrated bird, telling the family of its new life and making the connection between the migrant and the homeland.” - jennifer cantwell

[op-la]

"Who are you, Louis?"

For @ldpdlweek2026 day 4 - guilt | reconciliation and forgiveness

You can get this as a print here

[the-bar-sinister]

"The idea made me horny" is a good enough reason to write anything.

[tetitasdelimon]

top 5 horror movies

-having a job

-not having a job

-applying for jobs

-the job market

-the concept of working my whole life

[ghostisredacted]

just saw someone say "a fandom is small, so like only 1-3 fics posted per day" . you wouldnt survive a day in the place where im from

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[tomhoppusdelonge]

can I add spiralling on tumblr.com to my resume yet

[elbiotipo]

Also, regardless of your feelings on human nature or anything, I think that a world where children can go to school without fearing being bombed from an ocean away is a world worth aspiring to and worth fighting for. Okay we might never abolish war because the inherent human nature or whatever mighty idealism you have. We could at least try to stop these wars, though?

[elbiotipo]

Again. Everybody get more anti war right now.