fandom sideblog. mostly: justified, black sails, ted lasso. also: wheel of time, leverage, the old guard, etc. // on AO3 as praycambrian, on Discord as praycambrian#7205 // she/her
“I watched them bury a box I thought had your ashes in it,” Ava said. “Tell me why, Raylan Givens.”
After each learns the other didn’t die in 1992, Raylan needs twenty hours, a good deal more than twenty ounces of booze, and a lot of help to make a decision Boyd makes in twenty minutes.
Let me be happy (T, 6471)
Boyd couldn’t read his face, squinting into the sunshine as he was. For a moment everything glittered in the air, too immense and close for words.
Five pictures Boyd didn’t take and one he did.
A killing thing (M, 33418)
It was weird, having the cowboy around. Raylan. Rachel was careful not to call him cowboy to his face. For an act of God he could be pretty damn petty.
Rachel wasn’t expecting to love her new partner, exactly, but she was hoping for better than getting dragged all over Harlan as his secrets blew up in his face one after the other.
Let the moth in (TBD)
Ava flings the door open with every ounce of vinegar in her and that’s how she realizes Boyd Crowder is sitting on her back stoop, because the door slams into his thigh and bounces right back at her.
Twenty years of doorways. Or: Ava loves Boyd for a little while before Raylan dies, and a little while after.
Wheel of love (TBD)
When his sixteen months were up, Boyd stepped out of Tramble Federal Penitentiary into an August day flat and hard as an iron. Raylan was waiting for him.
There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death. Conjuring spirits from the past and the future.
Special note: “Kill someone” means kill someone in the story. Please do not kill random real life passers by every time you hit a block. My lawyer says misunderstanding writing advice is not an acceptable defense. See you all in 25 to 50 years.
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Justified
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Willa Givens, Zachariah Crowder
Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Road Trips, Strangers, Post-Canon, Justified Bingo Boards 2022
Summary:
“Shut up, Dad,” she said aloud, and stopped a moment to watch the mourning doves she’d startled go thumping up out of the brush, dark and fluttering like ash in the breeze.
Willa Givens’ car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, California.
The Lays of the Hearthfire books by Victoria Goddard completely consumed my last couple weeks in the best way and my artblock relented enough for me to actually paint something 🥹
another black sails fantheory ive seen around a lot is that silver is jewish, usually specifically sephardic, but despite its prevalence i havent been able to find anybodys actual thesis statements about it. so if there are Essays out there (especially by somebody with more historical-slash-judaism knowledge than i with my meager wiki-crawls) i would love Links
however once again ive pondered a bunch of the stuff ive noticed personally, about mr john "if thats even your real name" silver. and honestly at this point id be kind of surprised if it Wasnt the actual context the writers shaped his character around. everything just seems to come together really neatly
hes impressively literate for his circumstances/time period, and really good at quickly memorizing large amounts of text. a solid religious education could very well explain this
specifically– and this is one of the things that feels like a huge bit of intentional subtext to me– the scene where hes hiding with the lepers and memorizing the urca schedule REALLY seems to evoke someone reading scripture under a prayer shawl
not only does he not know how to cook pork, but does not even seem to know what pork looks like when finished cooking
the pretext flint used to get his crew to hunt down the hamiltons' ship was that it was carrying sephardic riches. this is a completely throwaway detail we learn secondhand, in a story where there are very, very few completely throwaway details
silver speaks at least some spanish. this comes up Once and goes totally unquestioned by everyone around him, likely because they think he just picked it up as a sailor. he almost certainly has not been at sea long enough for this to be the case. speaking ladino as a first language on the other hand would give him a huge leg up (so to speak.) in that department
further point. around the time period of the show, the biggest sephardic community in the world lived in thessaloniki in modern-day greece. it was:
a) one of the most major seaports in the ottoman empire
b) a famous center for learning, which boasted 100% literacy of its jewish population
and c) despite its long and prosperous history under ottoman rule, beginning to decline along with the rest of the empire, for many interconnected reasons, including but not limited to: Problems With the Governments Handling of the Textile Industry (where have we heard that before)
lotta unrest. religious schisms and doomsday prophecies. reactionary groups of overempowered soldiers attacking civilians for stress relief (again. where have we heard that before). people, unsurprisingly, started leaving
so if you did want, against john silvers express wishes. to theorize a backstory for a surprisingly educated stowaway of Mystery Origin, who has Mystery Trauma and doesnt want anybody to know who he is or where he comes from, and which would give a new level of relevance to all the greek stuff that permeates the show (down to the actual name of the thing!), along with containing parallels to several other backstories and events in the show proper,
