they’ll say it was inevitable

ellis. they/them. follow from @ithiliien.

[sailsblack]

captain flint + hadestown

(for @built-on-sand)

[generalhuggies]

[sparvverius]

silver in season 1 is like oh don't torture me it won't work i'll say anything to make the pain stop teehee #useless #silly and in season 2 he is tortured for information and says nothing

[sparvverius]

there's something really fun about how like. according to all Sources i have found many sailors abandoned the royal navy for piracy because the navy was so hierarchical and the officers were given so much power and piracy was the more egalitarian and democratic option. but flint comes from the navy as someone who managed to work his way up to officer and as someone who seems to prefer to function inside those rigid structures, or at least to be most at home there. so even as he is ostensibly fighting for the greater egalitarianism of the pirate world and of progressive values in general it's just not something that he personally is able to value. he doesn't have a democratic bone in his body. he went to the pirate republic talking about kings and wanting to quite literally run it like the navy and tried to fight for that pirate republic while acting like his word was law and every democratic proceeding was an annoying hinderance to his dictatorial rule. it's so good. i like him

[sparvverius]

#yessss. i have written a few mini essays about this in the tags of posts but#this is one of my favorite things about flint. and it's so interesting to see toby stephens reference coriolanus#where being a great commander does not make you a great politician. and that is exactly flint's deal#he has that whole speech in s1 about how the crew needs certainty. and with the way he runs his crew he's absolutely right#he is such a brilliant commander and that let him rise thru the ranks despite not being a lord#and now he's stuck in nassau and he's making a lot of calls that are correct but now he needs consensus to do things#and you can see it drive him mad. bc he's really fucking smart. he knows what to do he just needs the crew#to listen to him instead of needing to lead them to the right decision. this is why flint always needs a partner#he needs someone to bridge the gap between him and the crew. to get them to listen to him so he can do his thing#his frustration with everyone being so many steps behind him brings so much friction to s1 and 2 especially. and it slaps

@thotifypremium 's tags. so trueeee

[omar-little]

black sails fancast – trevante rhodes as the charles vane we deserved

I know too well the pain of the yoke on my shoulders. I know the freedom of having cast it off. So I am resolved: I will be no slave again. And as I am free, I hereby claim the same for Nassau. She is free today, and so long as I draw breath, she shall remain free.

[omar-little]

you ever minding your own business and suddenly furiously think about how black sails could have made charles vane a black man who flies in the face of respectability politics and is committed to anti-imperialist violence and the s2 finale could have been Flint A Gay Man and Vane A Black Man raining holy hell down on the system that demonized them and sought to strip them of their personhood…… reboot when

[frontmansdog]

to be completely honest *starts lying

[happydivorce]

in a way black sails and the terror are the same bc they're both shows abt gay ppl on boats w a sprinkle of historical rpf but wait that's not the post I wanted to make no what I mean is that u can tell how many rewatch cycles someone has gone through by the amount of random crew members with minimal speaking lines they can spot and name in the background of any given scene

[grimslayingnick]

what do we make of this one boys

[jadeandquartzes]

[ID: Two screenshots from Black Sails. The first one shows Anne, her hat pulled down low and shadowing her face, and the second shows Miranda, standing in her library and wearing a green formal dress. Both screenshots are subtitled with the same line said by each character: “Don’t treat me like I’m someone else.” End ID.]

[johnsilverdaily]

“That is the counterpoint between Flint and Silver — where Flint is so thoroughly defined by a backstory, he was going to be attracted to and be undone by someone who comes from the opposite place.”

— Jon Steinberg

[patroclusdefencesquad]

do people understand how good an episode of a tv show has to be in order for it to be watched several times and Still have severe emotional impact?? black sails 2x05

[finngualart]

getting warmed up for the zine :)

[luluxa]

know no shame 

[somfte]

[image description: fanart of James Flint from Black Sails, on a black background. He is holding a flagpole, on which is raised a rainbow pride flag with the crossed sabers and skull of a “jolly roger” pirate flag. He has season 2 style short hair and beard. His shirt is black with the sleeves rolled up to mid-forearm. His belt is black with a blue cloth underneath, and his trousers are also black.

/end description]

[cesiousblue]

:3

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

One of my favorite things in stories is a character who is like. Known by so many people, they are a story that is told, whether it’s a story making them into an infalliable hero or a irredeamable monster. And none of it is true, or it’s been twisted to push a narrative (for good or evil). And the character is just a person. And they have to deal with how it’s all beyond them, beyond their control. And they have to live with that.

[fagflint]

he doesnt even let us hear him scream. we barely even see him, just other people reacting to it. im going to be violently ill

[fagflint]

its crucial for the rest of the story that we know it Happened. but we dont get to see it. we dont get to hear it. we only get to see other peoples' reactions to it. we dont see any of the healing time we get cut to 2 weeks later and then Multiple Months later. guys guys guys remember john silver. i wish i could stop.

[fagflint]

#and when I SAY that silver's privacy (adjacent to his shame) is the driving force behind what the camera chooses to elide #we watch the other characters live through atrocities. we hear them get raped tortured murdered #we even watch flint have bad sex #but when silver approaches any of those things we cut away #I know other people conceptualize the show as being About Flint for the first half before shifting to be About Silver #but silver has this level of meta-control over the editing of black sails itself even in the PILOT #we watch flint kill a lot of people in the pilot. we don't watch silver kill the cook #we watch max and eleanor have sex in the pilot. we don't watch silver have an orgy #when silver says 'you know all of me I can bear to be known' the you is plural and he is talking to the audience @lichfucker

exactly. idek what else there is to say

[garashir]

the children yearn for black sails