#bsflint

[jackandmaxanne]

— H OF H PLAYBOOK, anne carson (insp.)

[ianmalcom]

[But] the closer we got to Savannah, his resistance began to diminish. I couldn't say why. I wasn't expecting it. Perhaps he'd finally reached the limits of his physical ability to fight. Or perhaps as the promise of seeing Thomas got closer… he grew more comfortable letting go of this man he created in response to his loss. The man whose mind I had come to know so well… whose mind I'd in some ways incorporated into my own. It was a strange experience to see something from it… so unexpected. I choose to believe it… because it wasn't the man I had come to know at all… but one who existed beforehand… waking from a long… and terrible nightmare. Reorienting to the daylight… and the world as it existed before he first closed his eyes… letting the memory of the nightmare fade away.

#BLACKSAILSWEEK25 day five → favourite quote

[anationofthieves]

- "Tell me something, Mr. Guthrie. Do you have gossip here?" - "Gossip?" - "I've often wondered if it can survive in so remote a location. You see, gossip is what holds civilization together: it reinforces shame, and without shame... well, the world is a very dangerous place."

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- " That man Hume, the captain of the Scarborough, told you as much. When a king brands us pirates, he doesn't mean to make us adversaries; he doesn't mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. For that's the only way his God-fearing, taxpaying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. When I say there's a war coming, I don't mean with the Scarborough; I don't mean with King George or England. Civilization is coming and it means to exterminate us."

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- "So this is the lesson... the pirates of New Providence Island are incorrigible, dedicated to mayhem: to attempt to address this subject is doomed to defeat from the outset." - "It's not him I wanted you to see; it's them [the crowd]." Civilization needs its monsters." - "You think Whitehall wants piracy to flourish in the Bahamas?" - "No, I don't think they want it, but I think they're aware of the cost associated with trying to fight it. And I think that that sound travels. You're an educated man, my Lord, but I think it worth reminding you that in most cases a man trying to change the world fails for one simple and unavoidable reason... everyone else."

[tvarchive]

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[dhomochevski]

And I think– once again, I don't think the rage was what was so scary. He said he recognized the rage in himself and he saw– which is when he talks about the rage. He saw it there and I think the deflation– he had that. He was like, I want to see the world burn, and then after it, the moment Madi is back, it’s like, oh, that was– god– I mean, he got a glimpse and even if he doesn't still see Flint is completely that, he got a window into it that he wouldn't have otherwise, and I think what– for me, it wasn't that he thought it was rage at the end, which is why this needed to be stopped. The scariest thing for him was that Flint forgave him. That he was that– just that he was that stubborn. That he was that immovable, and whether it's about rage or not, once again, I think that clarity– that Flint's clarity of like “it's fine, we’ll put it back together”. (Luke Arnold)

[cinemapix]

Toby Stephens as James Flint BLACK SAILS (2014 - 2017) Season 1, Episode 1

When a king brands us pirates, he doesn't mean to make us adversaries. He doesn't mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. For that's the only way his God-fearing, taxpaying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. When I say there's a war coming, I don't mean with the Scarborough. I don't mean with King George or England. Civilization is coming and it means to exterminate us.

[perioddramasource]

TOBY STEPHENS as JAMES FLINT in BLACK SAILS (2014 - 2017) Season 1, Episode 1

There's a war coming, Billy. One ship isn't a war. One ship isn't what's coming. That man Hume, the captain of the Scarborough told you as much. When a king brands us pirates, he doesn't mean to make us adversaries. He doesn't mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. For that's the only way his God-fearing, taxpaying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. When I say there's a war coming, I don't mean with the Scarborough. I don't mean with King George or England. Civilization is coming and it means to exterminate us.

[cannellaeluce]

so I was trying to nap and, as one does, i got hit by the realisation of how acutely terrifying it must have been for Silver, mister I-repress-my-feelings-and-erase-my-past, to sit by the softest light surrounded by darkness and listen to this man to whom he feels irresistibly attracted - an attraction he no longer likens to the mystic pull of a demonic force but still explains to himself as purely purely intellectual - listen to this man as he finally tells Silver that he is a man who loves other men and who loved intensely once and that he lost that love and never talks about him with anyone but he will talk about him with Silver and Silver alone - because doesn’t this redefine it all? Doesn’t it change it all? Doesn’t it feel like existing in the dark and having a chance to say out loud that there are no dragons in the dark there is freedom in the dark and he almost says it, he almost says it out loud and then - he doesn’t.