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[flintsjohn]

black sails anniversary appreciation week - day seven: free choice ↬ quotes i still think about every day (pt.2)

[iwt-v]

☠️  Black Sails Anniversary Appreciation Week ➤ favorite quote  

[pian-ran]

Black Sails Anniversary Appreciation Week:

Day 3: Favorite Setting or Location  ➡ Skeleton Island

The story, as it was recounted to me, is that Avery was the first Englishman to find the island. The Spanish had been using it to conduct illicit transactions for decades. Avery plans to lie in wait for them. He and his crew of 44 arrive and sail inland. But as they move up the inlet, they see something most unexpected. She was Spanish, but not one of the ships they'd been hunting. This ship had been there far longer than that. Captain's log identifies her having set sail from Havana in 1636. 31 souls aboard. Avery finds the remains of all 31. Slaughtered. Brutally so [...] Avery claimed to have seen the log. It said that the crew had refused to go inland to forage for food or for fresh water. That the first men in had returned, reporting sounds coming from the forest. The men said it sounded to them like the voice of God warning them to stay away.

[grayingskies]

Black Sails Anniversary Appreciation Week: Favorite Episode | 2x10 XVIII

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

[liviladoodles]

Black Sails Anniversary Appreciation : Favourite artwork of my own.

My first 2 Flint pieces from 2016. Produced within a month of each other, after a long time not drawing. These are my favourite because I was relearning how to draw, how to make mistakes and how to keep going. This led to much, much more drawing and my more accomplished pieces. But without these two the rest would not have happened.

[pineapple-split]

When I watched Black Sails for the first time, I felt like it was answering a question I didn’t even know I had asked. I’d stayed away for a while because of the Michael Bay association, and because I’ve generally not liked historical fiction shows (there’s always something that bugs me so much it turns me off the whole show). When I was watching those first episodes I thought “alright... this seems to be a pretty cut and dry pirate story, but who is this man and what does he want?” Regarding Flint, of course. The characters elevated this for me, even through the disaster of Max’s S1 storyline where I almost stopped watching altogether. But each episode kept getting better and better, the story kept going deeper and it became clear to me that there was something meaningful being told here - not the mindless month’s worth of entertainment I’d originally anticipated. 

Frankly put, this is one of the best stories I’ve seen told in fiction. James Flint/McGraw and Max are two of my favorite characters in fiction. By the last episode, I don’t think there were many character beats I hadn’t scooped up hook, line and sinker. The importance of the show’s themes - the representation, the story from the perspective of societal outcasts - has been said before. As a queer person I was overjoyed to see complex relationships depicted - some with happy endings even! As a woman I loved watching all the female characters exert their agency and kick ass and take names in each of their ways. And as a general lover of good stories, I was amazed to see how much respect the creators showed toward this one. It’s one thing to go the route most shows go and show a horrible society with the characters going to extremes to survive in it. It’s quite another to show a horrible society that is the foundation for our current Western society and have the characters actively try to tear it down. 

I feel like everyone brought their A game: the writers, the directors, the actors, the costume department, everything from sound mixing to props  to cinematography, to the performances of the most minor of characters. Just everyone. It’s so refreshing to see that the actors and creators are genuine fans of the show itself, not just talking it up as part of their PR duties. You can see the love and pride with which this was made, and I think that’s amazing in the television landscape where there are so many ways things often go wrong. 

It’s just the best show I’ve ever seen. I’ve resonated more with these characters than most others I’ve come across. It struck a deep emotional note in me that nothing else quite has. 

[omar-little]

BLACK SAILS ANNIVERSARY APPRECIATION WEEK  ▶︎ favorite relationship

[whitestnoise]

BLACK SAILS ANNIVERSARY APPRECIATION WEEK: Monday

“Flashbacks are only drama if it’s impacting what’s happening in the present. In Season 2 all that stuff we were learning landed in the middle of the story and started impacting it then and there. Having Abigail be that living link pulled Miranda into the story and sent Flint to Charleston.” - Robert Levine  (x)