#captain flint

[hsm2]

Toby Stephens as James Flint | Black Sails VII.

[resetme]

This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery. There is... possibility. There is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it. And who has been so close to doing it as we are right now?

BLACK SAILS 🏴‍☠️ January 25, 2014 - April 2, 2017.

[tedchaough]

"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 the noose around your neck, and I want to pull the fucking lever with my own two hands!"

BLACK SAILS 2.08 XVI 2.09 XVII

[santners]

BLACK SAILS | 1.06 - VI.

[seaemberthesecond]

I find it very hard to sympathise when characters in black sails are like "Flint is CRAZY!!!! You can't trust him, he'll beat you to DEATH if you get in his way!!!" because like. he's right. he's literally always right. And if you just listened to him, he wouldn't have to beat you to death now, would he? godddd 🙄

[finngualart]

getting warmed up for the zine :)

[fisharray]

Reading treasure island and I am hit with the horrible realization that the black sails writers saw how Flint was presented and thought "Let's create a man whose worst fear is exactly this. Let's create a man who rails against the idea of his story being simplified to 'monster in the dark; children's scary story' and is ultimately utterly powerless to prevent exactly that."

They saw a man who haunted the narrative and thought, "But what if he didn't want to?"

[montedeto]

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