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[brotherconstant]

BLACK SAILS XI. ● XXXVII.

[fagflint]

dastaan - e - om shanti om / flintmiranda

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[mr-culper]

I'm going to express an unpopular opinion, but I don't like fluff very much. Sometimes it's nice to read something warm and fuzzy, without any pain or fear, but in such beautiful yet inevitably brutal worlds as Red Dead is (or Black Sails, or The Walking Dead), — worlds of hardship, violence and savageness, — it looks like some kind of laudanum-induced illusion. I mean, fluffy Red Dead's characters are like faceless ghosts, erased personalities. And it's certainly not what I'm looking for.

Fluff is enjoyable, but it can exist where relevant only, in stories where there is space for it, but RDR2 is not one of those. RDR2 is about blood, death and redemption. Not about fluff, no matter how much characters deserve it, no matter how much we love or want it ourselves.

I'm not saying that there can't be some tender things in the Red Dead's world (or in the Black Sails' one, or The Walking Dead's, for that matter). On the contrary, there can be a lot of ones, we saw it in the game itself. It's just that all this tenderness — care, comfort, love — will always be something harsh and hard, something like clenched jaws and dry, red-rimmed eyes from which tears will never seep, something sharp and piercing, like a gunshot wound, like tuberculosis.

[orpheusilver]

little soldiers by the crane wives / flint + miranda

[magicgirlboss]

her word will be the last word for this place

[toseehowthestoryends]

Spiteful of Any Who Might Find Happiness (And One Time They Did)

Sneak Peek

James McGraw and Lady Miranda Hamilton arrive on New Providence Island on a Tuesday in March of 1706. Somehow, their voyage has been free of pirates, sickness, or any of the many disasters that can trouble a ship at sea; James had half expected something to go wrong aboard the merchant ship Blue Concord, whose captain seemed half-drunk and his crew only a touch better. His decision to go to Nassau solidifies with every nautical mile they sail, for if this is what it is like to sail aboard a merchant ship, he has no taste for it.

He still misses the navy like an amputated limb, misses the routine and the discipline, the feeling of belonging and the idea that he—the grandson of a fisherman and the son of a carpenter’s mate with no blood or name to speak of—might make something of himself.

But that life is gone.

He and Miranda cling to one another, to their love, weeping and raging in turn over what has happened to Thomas. One particularly bad day, he breaks two chairs in their cabin, flinging them into a wall as Miranda shouts at him that they made the right choice; trying to break into Bethlem would only get him killed or worse. When he settles a little, James repairs the chairs. His father learned his skills at his own father’s knee, and James first rated in the navy as a carpenter’s mate…and he does not want to waste what funds Miranda could steal from her father-in-law by paying Blue Concord’s weasel of a captain for their repair.

An hour after they arrive in Nassau, they see two women kissing in the street. No one comments. A little while later, he sees two men together, pirates—he assumes—and again, no one comments. There are others, even groups of three in various combinations, going on about their lives happily and together…freely. By the end of the first day, the crushing realization hits: in this place, in the place they fought to come to, he could have been together with Thomas and Miranda openly.

Something breaks in him that day. Something irrevocable.

[darthbloodorange]

He thought her dead… He's proved (gladly) wrong when she comes to free him and Thomas from their imprisonment in Savannah and to burn the plantation down.

For the: ✦ @ julybreakbingoevent - I Thought You Were Dead [ALT 6] 6x6 Card

Word Count: N/a - Moodboard Title: Returned from the Grave to Avenge Rating: Teens Universe: Black Sails Pairings: Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint | James McGraw, Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint | James McGraw/Thomas Hamilton Characters: Miranda Barlow, Captain Flint | James McGraw Warnings: Canon-Typical Violence, Weapons, Guns, Fire Major Tags: Canon Divergence AU, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Hurt/Comfort, Revenge, Polyamory, Miranda Barlow Lives, Pirate Miranda Barlow, Thomas Hamilton Lives, Captain Flint Needs a Hug, Bisexual Captain Flint, Queer Captain Flint, Post-Season/Series 04 Finale, Post-Canon Fix-It, Savannah Plantation ~ Summery: He thought her dead… He's proved (gladly) wrong when she comes to free him and Thomas from their imprisonment in Savannah and to burn the plantation down.

[ineedsomecyanide]

black sails (2014-2017) // le pleiadi - vinicio capossela (translated)