Rae

they/them | 20 | musician black sails, critical role & sapphics run around my brain { header by @/perplexingly }

[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]

[revvethasmythh]

she stole mythcarver. she stole the bard's lament. she had a catastrophic breakdown. she created a god. she fought a god. she was briefly evil. she's the champion of the goddess of redemption. she's a monstah. what can't she do

[organisedbirds]

ashley johnson characters with grief in their hearts, the weight of the world on their shoulders and a difficult relationship with a god my absolute beloveds

[organisedbirds]

me: yippee! vaelus cold open! my girl! also me, 15 minutes later, tears streaming down my face: FUCK.

[organisedbirds]

up to date with c4 which means. exu time :)

[sparvverius]

i like that black sails ends in an ambiguous way that says You can believe what you want :] and whether you say i believe this happened because i want it to have happened and it comforts me or i believe that happened because it disturbs me and makes for a good story you're proving all its points and themes

[gaytanic-panic]

[organisedbirds]

s4 theming being the inability to outrun time, grief and the fact that love requires letting go is so good but now i'm also crying

[organisedbirds]

OH MY GOD THE CRAZY BASTARDS FUCKING DID IT. ANIMATED LAUNDA. WHAT THE FUCK. IM LOSING MY ENTIRE MIND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[organisedbirds]

something about having both occtis and demodus repeatedly referred to as kids when they're both my age(ish? idk demodus' exact age) is deeply healing to me as someone who feels immense pressure to have Everything Figured Out Right Now.

[anthureums]

"Who would want to kill the thing that makes maps like this?"

Baru would. Because she would never share this world with Tain Hu. She would never point from a ship's mast and say, See that mountain? I've named it for you.

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x

i started reading book 3 of masquerade very recently but i'm still devastated about the monster baru cormorant. some notes about this piece under the cut!

[grem-lit]

drawing an excessive amount of hair is like doing a line of cocaine for me

[extrathicccarlwheezer]

BLACK SAILS CLIPS MASTERLIST

since i added more s1 clips a while back, i've finally gotten around to redoing the masterlist of all my black sails clips. they're also all linked together for easy scrolling. had to split into multiple reblogs bc it seems tumblr has a limit on how many links you can put in one post 🙄. also i'm putting ★ next to my favorite clips. to be clear, this is not intended as a replacement for watching the show, or even to fully make sense without the whole show. it's just a place where people (primarily myself lol) can rewatch favorite scenes more easily :)

s1:

so you’re a coward, then?

let me tell you the story of a spaniard named vasquez

i am your king

★ princes of the new world

★ odysseus and the oar

this place is just sand

we’re all just thieves awaiting a noose

★ i’d like a moment to confer with my colleage

you don’t know mrs barlow

things will get better here

the kareening sequence pt1

the kareening sequence pt2

the kareening sequence pt3

★ how can you just pretend to have no doubts

chasing the andromache

flint’s plan for the andromache

catching the andromache

★ dufresne’s first time over the side

it’s very fucking touching

what becomes of the sin?

what a day i missed

★ i’m gonna deliver them, hal

★ it requires an intolerable sacrifice

tell me we're not crazy, you and i

★ there are no legacies in this life

this is not what i wanted

had to be done

[extrathicccarlwheezer]

s2

are you the liason sent by the admiralty?

what is this exercise intended to prove, lieutenant?

★ well what the fuck did you think was gonna happen?

something lying in a place not even you can see

i remember what it was like my first time meeting him

everybody needs a partner

i understand that if he likes you well enough, he may even let you fuck his wife

an account of goings-on 1

an account of goings-on 2

the only thing that stands between us and a prosperous nassau is an ocean, 100 years of history, and human nature

propriety

★ it must be awful being you

you cannot just fuck him, you must seduce him

i intend to secure them pardons

when no one in the world – no one – could care less about what those men were doing to me on that beach, she did.

the crew's banner is a sacred thing

★ for having loved him

where else would you wake up and matter

★ some fuckin day

abigail's diary pt1

i recognize you

the power of the telling, that is clearly his

★ i give you a look, and you're willing to kill a man over it?

abigail's diary pt2

i cannot fathom how those people i knew turned into you

it is exactly as thomas proposed all those years ago in london

★ did i ever tell you where that name came from?

★ i want to see a noose around your neck

why did you betray those closest to you all those years ago?

i regret ever coming to this place with the assumption that reconciliation could be found

but you and i are gonna be partners til they put us in the fucking ground

know that you had a choice to see the truth and convinced yourself otherwise

gun crews at the ready

★ whatever's left

★ the more those men need you, the more you need them

would you like to see something shiny

[extrathicccarlwheezer]

s3

you are the magistrate here

i have no notes

★ in my head, you are not welcome

do you want to surrender to men who fear you?

flint dreams of the afterlife 1

he had me there too

★ we'll take care of you

★ the ship killer pt1

★ the ship killer pt2

★ the ship killer pt3

★ the ship killer pt4

if you're going to behave like children, then i will be your daddy

who's more powerful, the one who made the storm or the one who convinced us into battle to defeat it?

if you're not strong enough to do what needs to be done, then i'll do it for you

★ our roads are going to diverge.

flint dreams of the afterlife 2

★ you will account for me pt1

★ you will account for me pt2

flint dreams of the afterlife 3

while there is still time, cut the goddamn anchor cables

i don't know if i have any more lies left in me

flint dreams of the afterlife 4

★ they only truly ever have half the story, don't they

i do not imagine you came to decorate

a ship full of dead men. a town full of widows and orphans

the man who talked me into giving a shit about this crew, why he could talk those people out there into anything

★ bring down nassau, maybe you bring it all down

thank you for opening that door

i will endure this pt1

i will endure this pt2

i read your book

★ my name is john silver, and i have a long fucking memory pt1

★ my name is john silver, and i have a long fucking memory pt2

★ how good it feels

★ england has shown herself to me, gnarled and gray, and spiteful of anyone who would find happiness under her rule

★ today the crumbs, tomorrow the loaf

when i speak, my men listen

you people, incapable of accepting the world as it is pt1

★ you people, incapable of accepting the world as it is pt2

you people, incapable of accepting the world as it is pt3

you are an animal

you still see some credibility in the idea, don't you?

★ i can't tell if this is a warning or a welcome

does the condemned have anything to say?

★ before this war actually begins, will you tell me where it actually began?

★ you asked me where it began, and i felt you were entitled to an answer — to the truth

★ to be liked and feared all at once is an entirely different state of being

TELL YOUR GOVERNOR! YOU TELL HIM I'M COMING

★ long john silver

[extrathicccarlwheezer]

s4

if it makes you feel any better, i haven't considered killing you in months

one of us should probably say something

it looks like the barricade held

it bothers me that this does not bother you

★ he is my friend, too

pirates camped in miranda's house

there will be no pirate king here

silver's escape

the law pays for you

more lies

it could've been you

when you condemn a dozen men in as many hours, perhaps remorse is a lot to ask for

what the hell are we doing back here

i'm asking you… please… don't do this

★ dinner

★ if no one remembers a time before there was an england, then no one can imagine a time after it

give me the names

you fucking cowards

silver & madi are reunited

long john silver returns to nassau

violence in nassau

clock's ticking

i heard you were there

★ that wasn't really what i asked, was it

★ where would we have gone

★ would i be enough for you

so many goddamn men here

★ there is very little i wouldn't do to protect my wife

don't make me suffer the thinking

this isn’t right

woodes rogers will be returning

you were my sister

you chose. live with it

i tried to save her

rogers finds eleanor

a war against civilization?

★ it wasn't your fault

i'd like a moment alone

★ truth isn't nearly as interesting

drown the damned cat

what happens after this?

i demand your support

★ you killed a friend of mine

★ i betrayed you and it sickens me

approaching skeleton isle

★ i'll take my chances

★ i don't want you to know mine

★ without relevance

★ you sailed with avery?

get the fuck up and sail

★ a chorus of voices

there are no monsters in the dark

★ how are you going to explain it to her?

i cannot imagine what is possible

what's to be done with the unwanted ones

★ what the hell is this?

you think killing me means defeat for them?

the final battle pt1

the final battle pt2

the final battle pt3

★ in the darkness, there be dragons

i'd so love to help you write it

★ i unmade him pt1

★ i unmade him pt2

★ i unmade him pt3

★ a story is true

★ maybe let's just do this a while longer

[erandraws]

Put your clothes back on, we’re skipping all bases and we’re immediately going to connect our souls beyond the veil

[grimslayingnick]

what do we make of this one boys

[organisedbirds]

vaelus saying she trusts thaisha to look at the stone of nightsong is so deeply fascinating to me. their dynamic as a whole is

[ghostdexd]

I think this has been said to death already but goddamn Aabria is so locked in on the thematic resonance of this campaign it’s crazy, any time Brennan touches on something Thaisha is connected to, Aabria picks it up immediately and spins it into something beautiful,,, her druid magic and calling, the Circle of Ancients, the Lloy family, the Pariah Blades, the treatment of the orcs and their liberation, Thaisha’s feelings about the Shapers and the War,,, she uses it all to cut so incisively to the emotional core of these big themes

It’s such good character creation because Thaisha isn’t just connected to the history of Araman, its personal to her it’s all so personal to her,, Aabria hasn’t just written an interesting factual history, she’s seen some of the questions and conflicts at the core of this worldstate and made a character who has deeply held beliefs and strong emotions in answer to those questions and it lets her make character choices that both make sense for Thaisha as an individual and connect to the themes of the campaign at the same time and it’s so good it’s just so good Aabria Iyengar you’re very good at this we should be telling you this every day