Three weeks is a long time. We might be friends by then @voilesnoir - Tumblr Blog

really love dynamics that are like 'it honestly doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic, the point is that they love each other. the type of love is inconsequential, all that matters is that it's there'. gotta be one of my favorite genders.

john-silvers

XXXIV. I could walk out there and tell them the sky is red and they’d believe me.

doubleca5t

What Your Favorite Black Sails Ship Says About You

Keep reading

im-the-punk-who

GOD okay listen I know we in fandom talk a lot about the representation that James McGraw gives to gay and bisexual men in media but like.

Honestly, the thing that gets me so choked up about this goddamn pirate in his goddamn pirate show is how few tells the show gives you that he is a man who fucks men. (As a note I DO headcanon James as bisexual but for this discourse I’m specifically talking about how he has sexual relationships with men so i’m gonna refer to that as him being ‘gay’. But like. We do not stan bi-erasure on this blog.)

You know he’s gay because the show gives him a lover, because he tells you, because his feelings for Thomas are very clearly romantic and sexual, but there is nothing in his dress or physicality or actions that gives it away. So often in media when there is a gay character - especially a main gay character - you clock them immediately based on a part of their look or movement or word choice. They’re always the soft characters, the weaker, smarter guys, or they have nice hair, or really care about their looks or are fragile, not the leading sort.

(This is just a screenshot of the first search page when i put in ‘gay characters in tv shows’, to try and explain the Look I’m talking about. It’s the hair style, the clothes, the actor’s face type even, that, if you watch enough gay media, you can clock who the gay character is by those choices.)

And then Black Sails came along and said ‘You know that character we’ve repeatedly shown to just go off the fucking rails, who doesn’t give a shit if people disagree with him, who is educated but also oh my god so terrible with people, who gets dirty and bloody and doesn’t complain about it, who we had beat a guy to death with his bare hands in the very first episode?

He is gay as shit.

And then they just…seamlessly integrated it with his character in the smallest, most poignant ways. Like it is a huge part of who Flint is but there’s not ‘before the viewers knew I was gay and after they knew I was gay’ moments - he is just always that. And they never take away anything else from the first season Flint, they never sacrifice his masculinity to achieve that.

The scratch on his cheek, the weird clothing lines! This is a man who only keeps his hair that long so he doesn’t have to brush it and routinely forgets to take his shoes off in the house.

They allow him to be dirty and bloody and scrappy and not always put together. They put him in the same kinds of clothes the others wear and in fact a lot of the times he is pointedly not the prettiest one on screen he looks just like everyone else and I just -

As a gay guy it can feel a lot like you need to perform your sexuality. Even in queer spaces the tendency to ‘act gay’ is so strong it has literally shaped the identities of gay men I know(myself included). And part of that is the desire to be visible, right, but I feel like it it’s also because there are so few characters in popular media like Flint who just. Are. Gay. No frills. No ‘here’s how you know.’ And if you never see the difference you think ‘god, is there something wrong with me that I like men but don’t look like that?’

To see a show just go ‘yeah this character is gay but we’re not gonna play it for laughs or shits or have the trope of gayness thrust upon him but just - he’s played like a real goddamn guy.

Black Sails really just saw every trope around masculinity and queerness and then went

this-is-a-mainblog

Flint:

byravenheart

captainflirt

First Rate HMS Victory decks (1765) from the book “Trafalgar, The Nelson Touch” by David Howarth. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trafalgar-Nelson-Touch-David-Howarth/dp/B00FK61A26

idontwikeit

Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy, and where he went, and who he met, the pain he suffered in the storms at sea, and how he worked to save his life and bring his men back home. He failed to keep them safe; poor fools, they ate the Sun God’s cattle, and the god kept them from home. Now goddess, child of Zeus, tell the old story for our modern times. Find the beginning. -The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson For @dimplesflint, thanks for the books and chocolate!

john-silvers

XVI. Let me see if I have this. Flint gives an order, but to get you men to follow it, I need to come down here, put on a show, and convince you it’s in your interests. But I give you a look and you’re willing to murder a man over it?

john-silvers

XVI. Let me see if I have this. Flint gives an order, but to get you men to follow it, I need to come down here, put on a show, and convince you it’s in your interests. But I give you a look and you’re willing to murder a man over it?

lukearnold

riisinaakka-draws

“Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go…”

Let’s imagine that there was a mirror in the captain’s cabin…

… and how one morning Flint wanted to get his hands on Silver’s hair…

… and braid it while singing sweet nothings into his ear…

– or how Silver only dreamt about it…

Please, do not repost elsewhere :)

silverflintdaily

#this made me think of Love Me Tender and oh boy…#I haven’t heard / listened to it for years and then did#and omg… imagine carefree and smitten Flint singing it softly#voice still rough from sleep but wanting to be caring and SOFT asdfghjk had to include the artist’s tags