Tag: black sails

pirateshelly:

zenyattasperceptrons:

one thing i love about black sails is something that’s, like, i didn’t really notice it at first because it’s something that’s absent which i think is summed up pretty well by this post’s Black Sails is ruining every other show I watch by having characters treat the people they love as human beings

because. yeah? like, most presently on my mind is thomas kissing james for the first time and just like, that hesitation and yeah, making sure james is okay with it before he does anything and i’m just sitting here like. how fucking wild is it that that’s something to be commended

and just throughout the entire show despite it being sort of, on some level, a tale of blood and war and adventure, it still spends a whole lot of time like. sitting down and giving traumatic experiences the space they deserve? and acknowledging the emotional turmoil that the characters go through? LIKE JUST. FLINT. SITTING DOWN AND TALKING TO SILVER AND BEING LIKE. HEY, ARE YOU OKAY? how are your emotions? because you’re my friend and i care about you?? instead of just using injuries/deaths as shock value or plot points and moving on with them the writers actually RECOGNIZE the sort of shit that happens to the human psyche when someone goes through that and for the most part they handle it all really well

and just. the entire. flints entire CHARACTER being based on the ‘my lover died and now i’m going to get revenge’ trope except 1. it’s gay so it’s automatically better 2. i feel like most stories use that to make the main character just like…angry and closed off and don’t comment on it any more? it’s framed as like, ‘okay yeah this happened so now he has the motivation to do this thing’ whereas with flint it’s like… ‘okay yeah this happened so now he goes and does this thing because he’s a broken shell of a man and this is the only meaning he can find in his life’ and like, it’s bad and it hurts him and he does absolutely horrific things that he knows are horrific and just

CHARACTERS HAVING EMOTIONS!!!!

Yes! And the fact that somewhere mid season 3 and into season 4 Flint starts to become so much more functional and balanced. Why? Because he starts letting people into his life and opening up and having friends and allies he actually tells shit about himself. Like, being a brooding closed off loner isn’t cool, it makes you barely able to function and the show acknowledges that! Flint is completely lost when he doesn’t have partners (especially when he doesn’t have female partners), and that goes for basically every other character too, as Max says “there are limits to what one can build alone” 

kiwimidnight:

James Flint in every episode:
XXVII.  I wasn’t there, but, um, I’d hazard the guess that you learned of what had happened, told him how fucking stupid he was,
and in that moment, he gave you a look that amounted to something less than contrite.
And in that moment, you felt it. Darkness. Hate. Showing indifference to the authority
that you sacrificed so much to acquire, disdain for refusing to acknowledge that his actions, had you not intervened,
would have led to an outcome that he would have held you responsible for reversing.
Pride. Questioning what kind of man you are if you don’t seek retribution for the offense.
Maybe you went too far. Maybe you didn’t go far enough. Maybe you did it just right.
The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining him
would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason, and there was reason to it,
as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth.
But that’s what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action.
And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely
without you ever even knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together,
you must learn to know its presence well so that you may use it… Rather than it use you.

iwt-v:

Ok but how about a Flinthamilton modern au inspired by Tomb Raider (specifically the 2014 video game but whatever) where Thomas Hamilton is a wealthy lord and museum owner who likes going around the world to collect antiques and artifacts. 

He pays for a ship and crew to take him to a remote island where they’ve just unearthed and gathered new artifacts he wants to purchase for his museum. Miranda is an old friend and his personal physician who goes with him. Flint of course is captain of the ship, The Walrus, and also the ex-lover and now old friend of Miranda’s. Vane, Silver, and Billy are his primary crew.

Miranda and James found out he was gay while they were dating, but he’s still somewhat closeted about it (but not for long!). Thomas and James meet and James is instantly attracted to him so naturally he spends the voyage trying to avoid direct eye contact, touching him, etc. To the point where Thomas starts to notice.

Cut to a severe storm hitting them and knocking out their communications and eventually shipwrecking them on the island. In addition to trying to figure out how to repair The Walrus they also discover that the island has come under attack and is a disputed territory between warring countries (or something similar). 

So it’s up to Flint, also a skilled survivalist, to help Thomas and Miranda survive, etc. 

Silver is the galley chef and helps them find food on the island to eat. Vane and Billy track and kill things. (Maybe some silverbones or billy/vane on the side? Sure why not).

Miranda patches everyone up constantly, especially James (like she did on the show).

Anyways at some point during their adventure Thomas and James find themselves separated from the others. Thomas confronts him about his cold behavior and finally pulls him in for a kiss. At first James resists but then of course he gives in completely. I’m thinking cave sex at some point. 

Anyways just a story idea that will probably never see the light of day so I figured I’d share it on here. :p