[lumisails]

let me in the wall you've built around we can light a match and burn it down let me hold your hand and dance around and 'round the flame in front of us dust to dust [video description: a fanvideo set to the song Dust To Dust by The Civil wars, it contains various scenes from Max and Anne from the show Black Sails and quotes from both of them]

[spidermanifested]

there is no good reason why every black sails shipping fanfiction isnt anne/max. i get it flint and silver have their maddening greek tragedy thing going on, but you Need to understand that a man flirted with john silver once and then immediately died in his arms. the series of contrived circumstances that would be necessary to make him confront his own bisexuality is beyond the physical ability of 99% of ao3 users. and that last 1% should still be writing abo ut anne and max instead, because

[theartofangirling]

I don't know how to express to you how unwell they make me

[organisedbirds]

One of the things that I never stop thinking about is the lack of any “happy” endings in Black Sails (putting aside Schrodinger’s Flint and Silver’s role in that. It’s been done). Madi is the most obvious one to me: time and time again she demonstrates how willing she is to sacrifice everything for the cause and the war including her own life - a decision that is taken from her by Silver’s actions instead replaced of the treaty which she explicitly rejects multiple times and is in complete opposition to what she’s tried to achieve. She’s also entirely alone in her opposition to the treaty, putting her in a position where she either becomes Silver’s wife in Treasure Island, leaving her entire life behind to run an inn or (if you make Max Silver’s wife in TI) being the sole person still trying to achieve the same goal that previously had money and ships and fighters backing it. 

Anne and Jack are slightly less obvious. Jack’s obsession with being remembered and having an important legacy is brought crashing back to reality in the Gurthrie’s parlour with the realisation that people are far more interested in lies that paint his friends as monsters than any resemblance of the truth - Flint’s vision of the future coming true before he even speaks it. The flag that everyone associates with piracy - his main legacy - is “fine” and the future of piracy in Nassau essentially has to remain a secret (when I can only imagine he wants to yell from the rooftops that he fucking won). Anne!! The amount of times she expresses the desire to leave piracy behind with Jack and have something away from that life and the amount of times Jack promises her that once he accepts the pardon so he can keep his name and then once they defeat the governor, then that’s it. And instead - they carry on. Because if Jack does of course she will follow! And because Black Sails is a show that follows the vague contours of history, pretty soon Jack is hung, Mary has died and Anne is imprisoned for thirteen years (depending on how you view the historical debate around her fate, that’s just my personal view).

And of course, this leaves Max (with her ending being the best on the surface) with the people closer to her having disappeared. Her existence is still very much built on sand and looking to history England returns to Nassau, and all she’s built will be gone. Ultimately, Vane is right, the empire survives on the idea of trading submission for comfort - but even that isn’t true! That traded comfort doesn't last for a meaningful amount of time and she's back to the same place she started.

[thememedaddy]

[antigorite]

Am I doing this meme correctly

[davineclaire]

gif request meme ♦ @veronica-lodge asked: black sails + favorite female character

[devonghabi]

JESSICA PARKER KENNEDY as Max in Black Sails, Chapter XXVII.

[definitely-not-iorveth]

the tragedy of max/eleanor is that eleanor was not a person that could have loved max enough

the tragedy of vane/eleanor is that if eleanor was a person that could have loved vane enough he would not have fallen for her in the first place

[devonghabi]

JESSICA PARKER KENNEDY as Max in Black Sails (2014-2017)

[ohnoballoons]

been too long since I last drew my babes <3 I just really love boss lady!max & punk!anne uwu

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[animentality]

[theauspolchronicles]

OK but I do genuinely believe we need to push for something like this before it's too late - and not just in digital spaces. We should have the right to peace and quiet from advertising. There should be more limits on how much and where we get advertising because otherwise it'll just become a creep of more and more until every fucking public space is lit with several billboards blasting us with ads, and the walls between spaces lined with ads, and our commutes filled with ads, and local parks sponsored by corporations to offset the cost of local councils, and so on and on and on and on. No. I need quiet. I need spaces where ads cannot touch me.

[solar-sunnyside-up]

There are places working on it! Here's some:

Grenoble, France, in 2014 banned any new billboards and took down the city owned ones in a step towards de-advertizing public spaces. They swapped out the billboards with trees btw!

The city of Nantes in western France has recently banned most electronic billboards, dismantling 110 in one night. The municipality is also cutting digital advertising in shop windows and on the public transport system. It’s also banned all advertising near schools. Which is apart of Frances over all goal to reduce visual noise and light.

In 2009, Chennai, India prohibiting billboards, digital banners and placards in public spaces.

São Paulo Brazil created a law "Lei Cidade Limpa" (Portuguese for clean city law) in 2006

Several states, namely Maine, Vermont, Hawaii, and Alaska have banned Billboards and have been working on other electronic ad bans.

This article goes over what some other locations might look like without such advertising

So just know these kinda policies are possible! Whether your in Europe where the UN is working on anti-Ad legislation, in the US, or South America!

[dhomochevski]

me when im a liar who has lied several times already and is currently lying about being sorry for lying and will continue to lie going forward

[dhomochevski]

precisely what a liar would say

[dhomochevski]

you would not believe who this guy is

[killbilled]

If you’re concerned that by removing her from this place she could get violent with you, there are men we can talk to about making sure she can’t hurt you. I don’t want to hear that again. Not from you, not from the other girls, ever. When no one in the world… no one… no one… could care less about what those men were doing to me on the beach, she did. That means something to me. So for as long as she desires, this place will be a safe place for her.

[anatsaja]

max’s outfits in season 3 of black sails

[laudogen]

BLACK SAILS - XI

“You can believe me when I tell you that within his chorus of torments… none of them look or sound like me.”

[bowlifecomics]

It makes me happy when they listen

[cheap-pink-mints]

[bowlifecomics]

YES. YES YES YES THANK YOU

[vaspider]

The way people's eyes light up when they talk about things they love. You agree.

[rosesonkittens]

I love listening to people talk about their favorite things!

[dragonsinthedarkness]

People like that are so hard to find, really. So many are good at speaking but very few are actually good at listening.

I think it's important to interact too, ask questions and show interest while someone talks about things they love, even if it's not your favourite kind of things, because you may find new interests you never thought about first of all, and then because it's a form of respect. If I'm interested in you as a person, I should be also interested in what you say, whatever that may be.

Just my thought about it.