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@tormvnd
my preferred form of fandom engagement these days is to sit alone and think my thoughts. and then when i have sufficient thoughts. i come and present my thoughts to the wise council. and you appraise my thoughts and tell me if i shall live or die. roman gladiator style. and i bow and say thank you. and return to my cave
crowley 😍
semi annual “all is well, still alive, just doing offline shit” post. miss y’all though
best ship dynamic: these two only make sense if they either have never not even once fucked but think about it alllll the time OR they are fucking all the time and emphatically not thinking about it, no in between
:3 [x]
"well you say you'll be teaching me how to fight. but if every man fights differently, seems to me what you'll really be teaching me is how to defeat you." is a good line without context and in its proper context it has the bite force quotient of a tasmanian devil
4.06 jackmax reunion we’re so BACK
Thinking about how Max and Jack are like. Opposite ends of the same spectrum when it comes to narrativisation. On the one hand you have Jack who's obsessed with his legacy, obsessed with his story, with his name. Mr. "great art has felled Empires", Mr. " put that down and read a book". The man who sees victory in the form of who gets to write whose story. He does everything so that he can shape the future of Nassau in a way that recognises him and his name, and yet, he can't see it! He can't actually see the story he's in. He doesn't know his name is remembered, as both a real person and someone whose story has been retold countless times. He never got to the end of Woodes Rogers' book. He looks at the Jolly Roger, the flag that will symbolise piracy in two hundred years' time and he says "it's fine". He doesn't even know his own name! He is driven by the impact that the downfall of the calico industry had on his father and he doesn't even know that his name is Calico Jack. He is obsessed with writing the future and so is blind to how that future will actually remember him. He doesn't know the joke is on him.
And then you have Max who is powerfully invested in being as unremembered as possible. Ms. "power is most effective when it is least perceived". Ms. "this is all built upon sand". She is neof the few main characters who is neither a Treasure Island character nor a historical figure, and the only main character who doesn't have a last name. She uses that namelessness as a defence against being cast aside by the narrative, because she sees it! She sees the walls of the narrative, and knows that any story written about her will not be kind to her. "They will call me The Whore Who Lost Everything". Because of her gender, her race, her profession, her sexuality. She hides between the cracks of the narrative because she knows on some instinctive level that if she plays by the narrative's rules then she will always end up outside of the story, looking in on it. So she is able to shape the future of Nassau more than anyone else. She doesn't try to tell her story, but we still see it. "In another time, another place, they would have called me a Queen". She is talking to us. We are in that other time and place. She is pointing out the glass walls of the story and through them pointing directly at us as we watch her win.
It's like. In this show, the better a storyteller you are the more power you have to shape reality to your image. The more obsessed you are with telling the story the higher chance that the story will catch you in its grip and dash you helplessly against the rocks. Good luck.
How many crushes have you had in your life? (On real people, no celebrities or fictional characters)
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Long John Silver + 🕳
Holes are ontologically parasitic: they are always in something else and cannot exist in isolation.
Black Sails Ep. II • XXVIII • The Dislocated Room by Richard Siken • St. Sebastian by Peter Paul Rubens • XXX • Turing Test_Boundaries by Franny Choi • XXVII • Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson • XXXVIII
show thesis or something
[image description: two stills from Black Sails. Billy asks, "Is that the truth?" Flint gives him a knowing smirk. end id]
black sails 3.05 reblog if you agree
#parallels BLACK SAILS (2014—2017) Chapter XI
Saw a post about the sesamarot and wanted to share my favorite reading
The guy asked, the cards gave the most direct answer possible.
My name is [...] no-one, from nowhere, belonging to nothing [...] an invention, about one story that bled into others [...]
John Silver + the Wikipedia page for "John Doe"
[ID: A photoset of screenshots overlaid with snippets from a Wikipedia article about "John Doe".
"John Doe" – Silver with his back to the viewer, face barely visible in profile; "is a multiple-use placeholder name that is used" – Silver with his hands raised in surrender when first found by Gates; "when the true name of a person is unknown / or is being intentionally concealed" – Silver retreating from sparring practice with Flint; "Use of "John Doe" in the sense of an unidentified man (anonymous), includes:" – a close-up of Silver holding the schedule, his face blurred in the background; "Use of John Doe" in the sense of a placeholder, includes:" – Silver as the cook mixing a bowl of glaze; "Use of "John Doe in the sense of an everyman, includes:" – SIlver rallying the crew with a one-two stomp; "Though the rationale behind the choices" – SIlver holding Flint at gunpoint; "is unknown" – a stark profile of Silver telling Madi about the unmaking of Flint; "there are many suggested folk etymologies." – Eleanor's hands holding the Black Spot missive; "such names are often used to refer / to a corpse whose identity is unknown / or cannot be confirmed" – a profile of Silver waiting at the cliffside at the end of the series; "a decapitated and unidentifiable character," – a close-up of a book titled "A General History of the Pyrates".
In all the images, Silver's eyes are either concealed by shadows, or the snippets of the Wikipedia article. Subtle blur and smudging have tampered with the integrity of the images. END ID.]
Top 5 blink-and-you-miss-it background tomgreg moments that are so small they make me want to change my name and move to a different country so no one will ever know I cared enough to notice them
1. Them dancing at the end of no one is ever missing, which is hidden in amongst the shock, but hello? Greg? What the fuck are you Doing. This is why they’re made for each other. Moron4moron representation
2. This bit in celebration, where you can only ever see half of Tom’s face (is that Tom? am I crazy? Probably), which I think based on careful attention to where everyone is in the scene, is actually their first conversation and we will never get to hear it…
3. This little half-second reassuring pat before Tom goes up to testify. Uh oh it’s genuinely kind of sweet
4. The energy of the sand mites thing is off the charts in general but this bit in particular… I can’t tell if this is Tom inspecting the bites or looking at the medicine or what. Either way, tomgreg bubble followed ten seconds later by “just stop!” “I’m just uncomfortable in my skin right now!” “just stop, will you?”… They
5. Greg chowing down in the background of Tom’s chicken power move. You see, if we accept that food is a subtextual metaphor for sex,
