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captain flint + hadestown
(for @built-on-sand)
getting warmed up for the zine :)
know no shame
[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]
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.
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
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.
#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
the children yearn for black sails
HOW DID I NEVER NOTICE THERES A FUCKING PARROT IN THE BACKGROUND OF THE SCENE WHERE JACK IS GIVING NOTES ON THE FLAG DESIGN TO CHARLOTTE.
james flint's most endearing trait is that he understands women to be inherently three-dimensional, complex and deserving of respect (especially for the positions of authority they occupy). in contrast, he is barely convinced that most men have brains.
So it annoy me a bit when Max's choice of aligning herself with the British colonizer is taken as motivated by pure self-interest and desire to be in the "privileged" room, because while there are shades of it, for sure, this analysis doesn't take into account the more in-depht reason for which Max would make this choice or value such things as ambitions over others.
The reason, deep down, is fear.
Fear of being powerless, fear of what will happen to her will she align herself with a side that might lose, fear of not having anymore the means or status to protect herself.
If you think about it, Max was victimized by BOTH the brutality of the system (she was born inside it! She was born in slavery and as a result of rape!) ANd by people who were opposed to this system, living outside of it, and are now fighting against it. Lots of the pirates, for all their talk of freedom against the British Empire, proved to Max to not being different than the men in it, by choosing to rape and mistreat her when she was powerless, and none of these people (except Anne and arguably Eleanor when in Max’s hearth was too late) who are now fighting for freedom did anything to save or rescue or protect her when she needed it!
She has clear in mind that she have to protect herself (and the woman she loves, because she wasn't protected enough by who was supposed to love her and she is trying, and sometimes failing, to not make the same mistake) and that the only way to do so is to have enough power and money to not be in a situation where she is powerless to stop her victimization again.
She isn't aligning herself with Rogers and the power because she is blind to the cruelty and brutality of British civilization; she is doing so because she knows exactly what the risks are and how to avoid them by being part of it and by using her gold and the status she has gained. She doesn't trust those men in power at all, she trust herself to move between them and theirs rules in a way that will not get herself crushed and destroyed.
She doesn't trust any pirate to protect her from those things she fear could happen if she will ally herself with them (openly or not) and they will lose!
Also, all the pirate leaders Max knows are white men (remember- she doesn't personally know Madi or even the existence of the Maroon Queen, or any other black woman in a position of leadership and authority rather than herself) and she knows she will risk more than them if she will align herself with them and they'll lose. It is not a justification from a moral point of view for aligning oneself with an oppressive power, maybe, and working for it, but still- Max knows that what Flint or Jack or Vane or Silver will risk is dying in battles or being hanged, but they won't risk being sold (back) in slavery or living with fear of being raped. Again.
Some of those pirates didn't even help her when she was being raped by THEIR OWN men, theirs own brothers, and no pirate except Anne even cared. So why Max should believe they have her best interest at hearth? Why, in her mind, from her prespective, should she not do anything to guarantue her own safety, because she knows no one else will do?
Is it such a wonder, given what happen in the first season, that Max only trusts herself, and that she thinks gold, money and status would be the only things that can protect her, and that she will align herself with who she thinks is most likely to win and have the power to either strip her off or let her keep those things?
I am not saying it is not a selfish choice, but it is a type of selfishness dictated by a depth fear of becoming powerless again, rather than just pure ambition or desire of comforming and hunger for power for the sake of it.
When I first watched 1x08 a few months ago and Gates turned away to face the door and Flint got that look in his eyes (I mean we all knew what was coming at that point) I just accepted it and went. Well. Sympathies, Hal, but you are in the way. NEEDS MUST. I was obviously sad about the neck snapping and all. But Nassau, baby. Jimmy has a vision. It's disjointed and immature but at least he's trying. Truly did not strike me that there were people out there who did not become ferociously attached to Flint's gore-covered self right from the get-go. You mean to tell me that you saw his shameless theatrical lying, you saw his desperate monomania, you saw him beat a guy to death with his bare hands (and a cannonball) for an audience. And you didn't like him? You saw his utter disdain for every man in sight and then you saw him turn right back around and very sincerely say "They're not animals, Mr. Scott. They're men starved of hope" and you didn't like him? You saw him fall to his knees at Miranda's door. And saw his whole being collapse with relief when she spoke. And you STILL didn't like him? Such is the curious variety of this great and beautiful world
I was scrolling through old drawings. Found this one from 2019. Not that bad, actually.
fruit, fruit.
me, showing up to the function a decade late with something no one wanted: here you go.
BLACK SAILS | 1.06 - VI.
maxanne goes crazy style for a number of reasons chief among which is that between them, hardened killer butch pirate anne bonny is the soft hearted, blinded-by-love one and max, the pretty femme never seen without a full face of makeup on, is the brutal pragmatist who knows all too well that love is not enough
I THOUGHT YOU WERE RATHER AN HONEST, STRAIGHTFORWARD PERSON. I THOUGHT IT WAS YOUR SECRET PRIDE.
black sails (2014-2017) / the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald