The Eye sees more than the Heart knows.

[gebo4482]

Ragdoll - Title Sequence

[captain-flint]

The energy it must take to maintain it all. And for what?

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“They paint the world full of shadows, and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments."

[daeneryssansa]

What do I want? I want to see this whole goddamn city, this city that you purchased with our misery, burn. I want to see you hanged on the very gallows you’ve used to hang men for crimes far slighter than this. I want to see that noose around your neck, and I want to pull the fucking lever with my own two hands! Miranda Hamilton, Black Sails (Season 2)

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Black Sails + framing

[alsk00]

The Handmaiden (2016) dir.Park Chan-wook

[lukearnold]

[madisilverflint]

John Silver + Past

Who you were. I have no idea who you w e r e.

No one’s past is that unremarkable. Not unremarkable, just without relevance.

I’ve come to peace with the knowledge that there is no storyteller imposing any coherence, nor sense, nor grace upon those events. Therefore, there’s no duty on my part to search for it.

for @averygoodcook <3

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[morepeople-deactivated20230420]

Candyman (2021)

Directed by Nia DaCosta

A sequel to the horror film Candyman (1992) that returns to the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began.

[james-flint]

Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours, I will be it.

Toby Stephens as James Flint in BLACK SAILS: SEASON TWO

[septembriseur-deactivated202502]

People in academia and woke discourse often talk about colonial knowledge practices, but I feel like this is a topic that is often discussed in a sort of higher-level abstract way that doesn’t get to the real, severe, and immediate impact that these practices have on people’s lives. Like, often academics are interested in how colonial knowledge practices have led to internalized attitudes that are damaging, and that’s undoubtedly important, but also: 

Every day right now I’m dealing with cases where Afghan people are getting screwed over because, for instance, only a birth year (and not a birth date) is available and marked on an identity document for someone, or children do not have the same surname as their parents, or someone does not understand how a widow and her children would be considered the dependents of her brother-in-law, or no evidence of support and dependency can be provided because all bills have always been paid in cash because no one involved has a bank account. This is not even getting into differing transliterations of names or even instances where someone is listed by their first and second names only on some documents but by first, second, and third name on others— or cases that others I know have handled where a man simply cannot have more than one wife and her children dependent on him.

The West has created a global system of bureaucracy that works to regulate what is and isn’t “real,” “valid,” and “legitimate.” This is important: it is something that happens totally independent of what any person or group of people feels about any cultural/social behavior; no one is sitting out there feeling a certain way about cultural practices, but stacks and stacks of paper or digital forms are acting to cull people’s lives through various mechanisms, until people learn that they at least have to perform Western expectations. This is why it’s so important to champion critical race theory and its postcolonial (and disability) siblings— because in so many ways there is still massive ignorance of the fact that when we talk about systemic oppression, we are talking about this.

[beanabouttown]

Thomas + James’ sense of humour 

[septembriseur-deactivated202502]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Black Panther (2018), Captain America (Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes & Helmut Zemo, T'Challa & Helmut Zemo, James “Bucky” Barnes/Helmut Zemo Characters: Helmut Zemo, James “Bucky” Barnes, T'Challa (Marvel), Sam Wilson (Marvel), John Walker (Marvel), Ayo (Marvel) Additional Tags: War Crimes, Discussion of sexual assault, Child Death, discussion of suicide Summary:

Marvel: “So, like, Sokovia is basically Serbia, but also it’s definitely not Serbia, but also it is sort of Serbia. It’s Serbia-adjacent. Serbia-esque.”

Me: “Fine, but I’m going to hold you to that.”

The entire fic, whatever it is, is now complete on AO3.

[alightabovethearbys]

If we are to truly reach a moment where we might be finished with England cleared away to make room for something else there most certainly lies a dark moment between here and there. A moment of terror where everything appears to be without hope. I know this.

James Flint Appreciation Week Day 2 >> Most Memorable/Favourite Quote

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Memories of Murder (2003), dir. Bong Joon-Ho.