#jack rackam

[tiodolma]

"I hope at last I may make you happy even if it is with my blood. But when one can be sacrificed for the many... why not two? or three? or ten? Little by little we will find reasons for sacrificing the many for the happiness of the many and we will think it was a bargain."

--Jules Michelet, French Revolution historian

-jack rackam (quote said by the Louis XVI character in the youtube video: The Pacifist who Killed 20,000 | The Lifes and Times of Robespierre)

[luminouslumity]

[mxflint-original]

So a black Sails thought just popped into my mind: basically, in season 3 when Woodes Rogers arrives in Nassau and he pardons all the pirates and Jack and Anne leave, Jack decides to come back because he wants to keep his name, he doesen't want to give it up and he still believes he can keep it. The thing that I remembered is that when they ask him his legal name he says 'John Rackam', a name we've never seen him being addressed by, he's always been 'Jack' for us, not John. And I think it's interesting because he goes back specifically for his name, and while it's his 'legal' name, this is the first time we hear it. It's ironic, isn't it? For someone who's so invested in legacies and in his name he doesen't seem like he cares at all what his 'real' name is.

[little-panem]

the absolute most joyous pride I feel whenever a I see Jack Rackam's flag???? unparalleled

[sailorsally]

Black Sails: A story is true. A story is untrue... Me, feeling my tear ducts opening:

[slidesman]

it’s the time of year to watch my fav bi pirates

[chaoticbutterflyrebel]

I’m so fucking pissed coz every time Flint tries to enact a plan I’m like “FUCK YES ITS GONNA WORK HES GOT THIS HE HAS TO” and then it’ll cut to Max being a genius with her own plans, (currently plans to make Flint fail) and I’ll be all “FUCK YES MAX YOU GOT THEMMMMM”

[gwydionmisha]

Black Sails XXXIV: War Against Civilization

Max: A war against civilization?

Jack: What?

Max: Civilization has been winning that war for 10,000 years against men richer, braver, stronger, and smarter than you. How can you be so blind not to see that?

Jack: What the fuck are you talking about?

Max: You mustered a force stronger than you had any right to hope for. You hit the governor when he was at his weakest. And at what result? Eleanor is dead, Anne is nearly dead, and the governor is sitting in Nassau in my fucking chair victorious! You cannot fight civilization from the outside in. And your plan now is to follow that man into more of the same?!

Jack: "What result?" That result was because of your goddamn betrayal! Just now, that man and several others wondered aloud whether the smartest thing to do wouldn't be killing you and throwing you in the sea rather than giving you another opportunity to fuck us! For reasons I can't begin to fathom, I argued against it. Bark at me again about braver, stronger, and smarter men, and I might decide to revisit the issue!

Max: If killing me seems like the smartest thing to do, then it is obvious to me none of you have any idea how to defeat Woodes Rogers.

Jack: And you do?!

Max: You're goddamn right, I do! Eleanor is dead, Anne is nearly dead, and I want him to pay for all of it dearly.