Eleanor Guthrie Memorial Week » day three: favourite relationship
Tell me we’re not crazy, you and I, to put ourselves through all of this when the outcome’s so uncertain.
tags from who i reblog :
#I love how similar they are in terms of having a vision that no one else believes in,and making it come about through sheer force of will
Tag: black sails
-to the tune of Eleanor Rigby– :
Ahhhhhhhhh look at aaaall the pretty dressesssss
And here I sit at the head of an army of men, each of whom, present company included, has probably at some point considered killing the man he now fights alongside, each of whom, present company included, has certainly considered killing me.
And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.
X → XIII
incorrect black sails number idk out of who the fuck knows
— Compromise where you can. Where you can’t, don’t.
John Silver in every episode:
XX.
The men, I understand.
Flint had them exactly where he needed them…
Angry, resentful, afraid.
I understand why they would rather do battle with that storm
than even consider surrendering to Hornigold.
But he had me there too. He had me there.
And that is not supposed to happen.
O Captain, my Captain →
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The empire survives in part because we believe its survival to be inevitable. But it isn’t. And they know that. That’s why they’re so terrified of you and I.
I like Silver/Madi as much as the next person, but I frickin’ LOVE Flint & Madi!
The show revolves so much around the idea of everyone needing a partner, and who all tried and in various ways failed at being Flint’s partner (poor Thomas – even with their reunion, so much has happened they’re in a way meeting for the first time and have to build their bond anew – poor Miranda, poor Mr. Gates, poor Silver too). And while Madi and Silver love each other, their worldviews and what they want from life and what kind of world they consider acceptable, are fundamentally incompatible (no, I don’t think they reconcile post-canon, not for very long or at all).
Madi was the only one who was Flint’s equal, whom he recognized as an equal, whom he respected without any quibbling or wobbling from their first meeting all the way through the end, who was the same kind of single-minded as he, and who could keep him in check when necessary.
He could never bully her or pull the wool over her eyes, nor was she a weak spot for him, even when she was captured and needed rescuing.She didn’t always trust him, but once she started to that bond was unbreakable, even as every other important bond in their two lives crumbled. She was his truest partner, and he hers. (And this is why Silver betraying them both to save them hurts so good.)
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