the name of grim death

Side blog for media things I care about or enjoy. Primarily Black Sails which I do not tag. Likes and follows from somfte-on-main-and-mizzen. 🏴‍☠️ | [header image description: a farfarawaysite promotional photo of Flint from Black Sails. Reclining in a chair in a cabin on the Walrus, he looks at a feather held in his hand. /end description] [icon image description: a photo of a hand holding a lamp shaped like the moon. The lamp's light is bright white. The background appears black in contrast. /end description]

[somfte]

"About" pages don't really work in the app and I was tired of not being able to find my own posts because the tag search doesn't work right, so I'm making a pinned post for my own reference.

Videos

Black Sails

Temporary/Bells In Santa Fe

Silvercunt

Cuntmmodus

The Parting Glass

Blood in the Cut

Civil War

Bodak Nassau

Bad Guy

Their Rascal Carcasses

Bella Ciao

Carry You

I'm On A Boat

i loved you all along

Under The Water

SailWOLNATION

Sails! Compilation

Other

Arcane - Jayvik

X-Files - Mulder/Krycek

Gif sets

sent to an ao3 fanfic upstate

Life is too short and love is too long

Black Sails & How Nonviolence Protects the State

Labor power

Image sets

worry ain't a good look for a king

the rockrose and the thistle

i loved you all along

i'll stand here with you

Fetchricks || Silverflint

Text posts

Thoughts on image descriptions

[whatagrump]

black sails john silver just an incredible incredible incredible character, like it's been eight years since i first watched the show and every time i pause to think about him for more than five seconds i'm still stunned. like he gave up his share. he gave up his share. he gave up the thing he said he wanted most in the world so that he could live an incredibly dangerous, painful, labor-intensive life as part of a crew where he mattered. trading freedom and security for love and risk, never meaning anything he says because he doesn't know himself even a little bit.

like these are extremely basic john silver reflections, but sometimes we need to go back to the basics because what the fuuuuuuck

[raisinchallah]

when creative partnerships are more intimate than a marriage and the break up is worse than a divorce

[yellow-cat]

abandon shame. theres more interesting emotions to be felt

[yellow-cat]

unless its getting you off. in that case keep going

[ray-gurl]

[cesiousblue]

:3

[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]

[aquatransmissaest]

[romanceyourdemons]

i’m not going to call myself “the friend who’s too woke” or hedge around my opinion because this is my deeply considered belief: horror literature is the theater of disgust, and the disgust that drives the vast, vast majority of classic horror media from the 1890s-1940s—dracula, jekyll and hyde, king kong, nosferatu, the mummy, universal frankenstein, the wolf man, cthulhu, and more—is the exact disgust that drove the worldwide tide of violence in the 1930s and 40s, a tide that has never fully receded, and you have NO business adapting a piece of classic horror media if you aren’t willing to put in the work to identify what is portrayed as disgusting in that property and enter into some form of dialogue with it. if you don’t want your movie to be “about” race or class or gender or sexuality or ability, you’re free to choose a source material that isn’t already about that, but unluckily for you giant hypersexual apes do not exist in a vacuum

[tambourgi]

just finished Brian Attebery's Fantasy: How it Works and though he's talking about the same issue in fantasy lit rather than in horror I think it applies--

(p. 134, id in alt text)

(I don't necessarily agree with some of the other points in that essay/book but I think this is relevant to the broader point that the origins of a genre are inextricable from what is produced in that genre, and the elephant in the room is not really something you can pretend isn't there. he has some further recs on the topic and on the notion of 'taproot texts' but I haven't read anything on that (yet) so idk)

[noknowshame]

Hennessy has to know who Flint is, right? Like, besides probably having heard the “Mr. Flint” story before, it wouldn’t have just gone unnoticed that four months after disowning and ostracizing your son (basically) in a scandal involving pirates in Nassau, the most feared pirate in Nassau in a generation suddenly comes into existence. I certainly hope he knows. I hope every time news came from the West Indies it kept him up at night - hearing the words profane and loathsome, and realizing that he was right about the rage James could be capable of when driven to it.

[chamerionwrites]

#ohhhh i hope he knew#i hope he knew IMMEDIATELY#i hope he connected the dots#james was SO devoted to the plan to bring nassau back into the english fold and i hope hennessy knew how equal and opposite#flint’s devotion was. to keep nassau free from the influence of england because FUCK england thats why#i hope he knows how badly he fucked up. if he didnt realise how much of an asset james was before i hope he realised retroactively.#that he realised how much of a threat an angered james mcgraw was and realised that maybe it would have been better to keep such a#powerful and driven and unyeildingly loyal man on their side instead of actively turning him against them#i hope he mourned. for the man james had been and the man that hennessy helped turn him into.#i hope every time news came of another act by the pirate james flint that hennessy remembered a 10 year old boy - bright eyed and quick#on the uptake and smarter and more charismatic than two thirds of the ruling class. a boy with loyalty written into his very bones.#i hope he remembered a young james mcgraw every time he heard the name captain flint.#& i hope he knows that he’s a significant part of the reason that that loyal and bright little boy became the most feared man on the ocean.

[redstonedust]

big fan of when voice actors have the free will to just say whatever they want in character voice and use it frequently so the fanbase get all these inexplicable clips of their favorite characters quoting memes. more voice actors should do this forever and ever.

[shhhhimwatchingthis]

The most dangerous thing about being a queer hockey player in the Game Changer universe is NOT being outed to the homophobic NHL its the 100% chance of experiencing an Ilya Rozanov jump scare.

like you will end the interaction with good advice and your life improved. but also it's Ilya Rosanov. he was kind of a dick the whole time. and now you owe him a favour. it's excruciating.

[magicgirlboss]

black sails isnt even a tv show to me its like its something else its a its a memory it just appeared there in my mind someday and now i just need to walk through life like it isnt there but it is

[mariana-oconnor]

[orpheuslament]

im the person they keep adding gratuitous & unnecessary violence & sex in movies for. im running every studio executive ragged asking for even more cock & gore in cinema they simply cant keep up

[etoilesombre]

Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: The X-Files Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alex Krycek/Fox Mulder Characters: Alex Krycek, Fox Mulder Additional Tags: casefic, Slow Burn, Monsterfucking, Werewolf, Mentions of sex work, not our guys doing it - part of the case is set at a strip club, Masturbation, Anal Sex, Set in Between Sleepless and Duane Barry, Mulder POV, the case actually grew a plot, some sex tags don’t kick in until later, Mildly Dubious Consent, you know how Alex Krycek is always having the worst day?, Wolf Sex, Bestiality, (yeah i’m tagging it now there’s some human consciousness in there but it’s not necessarily driving), Sex Toys, Fox Mulder Discovers He’s a FREAK, References to Drug Use, Scent Kink, Come Inflation, Belly Bulge, Knotting, Sexual Tension That Somehow Stays Mostly Unresolved, Overstimulation Summary: With the X-Files officially closed, Agent Mulder is sent to a regional field office on a tedious assignment, and told to take his new partner Alex Krycek with him. On the way, they stop in a small town plagued by mysterious happenings around the full moon, and the disappearance of a local woman. Maintaining distance from the case quickly proves challenging. What’s worse, Mulder finds he’s having trouble maintaining distance from his partner as well.

OR

Fox Mulder: It’s a moral imperative that I fuck that cryptid  Everyone: Maybe you don’t actually have to… Fox Mulder: No, I’m gonna ______________________________

HEY FRIENDS. I finished a story! It’s… not my usual cup of tea, but I had so much fun. And if it is yours, I guarantee you don’t have to know anything about the characters/fandom to have a good time, it is all very clear from context and self-explanatory. Slightly nontraditional werewolf, not omegaverse dynamics.  

[erraticcat]

[lichfucker]

[image description: a meme of Flint from Black Sails, covered in blood and addressing the crew after killing Singleton. the meme's text says, "Don't ask me some 'are you ok' shit. Obviously not but we move." end id]