Black Sails Tales

Episode discussion, character discussion, overinterpretations and other nerdy stuff concerning Black Sails

[sword-wielding-sapphic]

Black Sails & text posts 14/?

[greatviolenceonthatthang]

he's about to do great violence on that thang. booyah

[lgbtcharactertournament]

ROUND 4 — Match 32 of 36

Yukio (Marvel)

Identity: WLW, explicit Notes: In a relationship with Negasonic (a woman). Propaganda: "she has this insanely likeable presence with barely any effort. she’s cheerful, confident, stylish, weirdly unbothered by everything around her, and somehow manages to be both adorable and genuinely cool at the same time. every time she’s on screen she makes the whole movie more fun. and obviously a huge part of why people latched onto her is her relationship with negasonic. they’re just allowed to be together, casually and openly, without the films treating it like some huge reveal or tragic issue, and that actually means a lot. they get to be cute, affectionate, and real in a franchise that could easily have treated that as a throwaway joke and didn’t. that alone gives her a lot of charm."

vs. James Flint (Black Sails)

Identity: Bi/Pansexual, explicit Notes: Shown to be involved with both Miranda (a woman) and Thomas (a man). Propaganda: "Declares war against England for murdering his lover. Flint is THEEE embodiment of queer rage."

Who should win?

Yukio

James Flint

Voting ended onMay 16

[chimaerakitten]

One thing that I like very very much about the way Black Sails handles Miranda is that like. She’s obviously dead from the beginning; she represents the hope of reconciliation, and there’s only one way for that to end.

But.

But, in any other show, they would have forced her to die innocent. Not of everything, perhaps. She could be allowed to know she was betrayed before she died; showing her shock and sorrow would heighten the tragedy. But still, it would have to have blindsided her. She wouldn’t have gotten a word in edgewise. Other characters would be able to use “this isn’t what she would have wanted” against Flint. This is all very classic for this type of plot beat.

Which is why it’s so great that the show doesn’t go that way. Miranda dies, yes. She dies quickly and brutally and at the hands of a person who didn’t give a fuck about her as a person. But she does get something; she gets to die enraged.

She is the one who sees the clock. She is the one who puts it together. She is the one who weighs the choice: go along with the reconciliation she pushed for and wanted, or take the violent path, with all the miseries of the last ten years and the risk of death?

And she chooses. She dies for it in the very next instant, but she chose.

Which is a hell of a lot more respectful of her as a character than dying still wanting England’s forgiveness would have been.

[sword-wielding-sapphic]

Black Sails & The Onion headlines (text post memes 12/?)

[normalmammal]

flint gives his mini speech about how people only need to realize that there can be a world without the british empire in order for them to stand up to it and madi quotes cervantes at him to obliquely compare him to don quixote and flint makes This Face because there's no way she can know that ten years ago flint knew another guy who was compared to don quixote for his idealism and who was deemed mad for it. you'll never get away from the sound of the english nobleman that loved you

[paulinamakes]

All Mr. De Groot does is suffer. Flint will be like here's what I need you to do with the ship. And De Groot is like dude that's literally against physics, I can't make the ship do it. And Flint is like do it anyways. And De Groot has to do it anyways

[fairweathermyth]

I don't believe he knows I acted for our good. - Judas's Death

[myblacksailstales]

This parallel has been on my mind, too.

[hsm2]

Toby Stephens as James Flint | Black Sails VII.

[honeyscomet]

"theyll hate you for this" "but theyll be alive" is THE juiciest thing to me

[honeyscomet]

i will ensure you stay alive above all else. even if what i do to make it happen is horrendous. even if it violates all your wishes or moral principles. even if you can never look at me the same way again, even if you hate me for it. because at least if you hate me it means youre alive

[muffledscreaming]

things have been too quiet around here. pick the best one :)

Our Flag Means Death

Black Sails

Voting ended onMar 2

[bisexualincarnate]

When i say I'm fine what i really mean is why couldn't we live in the timeline where Captain Flint destroyed New World Colonialism with bisexual piracy and freed the slaves and the gays irl

[magicgirlboss]

"nothing is inevitable here" girl ur literally in a tragedy your fate is written in a book from 1882 AND u have a muppets adaptation

[magicgirlboss]

girl you're a fast food restaurant chain

[dr-empty]

But first and before all... I was mother.

[zetzhao]

I want to teach you how to fight and not die.

[hypacias]

Louise Barnes as MIRANDA BARLOW BLACK SAILS 2.03 | XI

[sword-wielding-sapphic]

can I say something potentially controversial? I don't think any of jack rackham's outfits look good, but I love that about him

he's always wearing so many different fabrics and patterns that don't coordinate, it looks like he got dressed in the dark. but that's so perfectly in character

number one thing about jack is that he puts a ridiculous amount of thought into everything. number two thing about jack is that he's a fucking mess