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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”

bogleech:

Cashier the other day: “have a nice night!”

Me failing to load one correct response from multiple possibilities: …….“YOUP!”

buckeed:

me, meeting someone for the first time: yes, i love to read!

also me, internally: jfc please don’t ask about any books i read lately, the only thing i can rec you are 100K AU slow burns

instagramofficial:

cop: can you describe the guy who stabbed you

me: yeah he was not very friendly

petermaximoff:

that dumb thot michael bay really ruined megan foxs career and i just let him 😦 what was I doing?? graduating 5th grade like some fool

birdbian:

if you’re not willing to run away with your husband’s lover to a tiny house in a remote island for ten years where children throw vegetables at you because they think you’re a witch in order to be a beard for your husband’s lover to ensure his safety then don’t even THINK of calling yourself a straight ally

zinnia-apologist:

Actually, Ratatouille is the dish’s name, you’re thinking of Ratatouille’s monster.

luminarai:

inkyland:

treasure island but everytime the notorious and supposedly dead captain flint is mentioned, there’s a cut to james flint mcgraw and his husband thomas hamilton living a happy gay life together and doing cute things.

“he was the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed”

– cut to flint finding his husband passed out on the sofa with a book and then carefully tucking him in w a blanket and a lil kiss to the temple –

“blackbeard was a child to flint”

– cut to flint repeatedly and incredibly gently removing a kitten as it crawls onto the kitchen counter to steal the fish he’s cooking –

“the spaniards were so prodigiously afraid of him that, i tell you, sir, i was sometimes proud that he was an englishman”

– cut to flint under a peach tree with his head in his husband’s lap, hand feeding him grapes in exchange for kisses –

rosietwiggs:

on my drive in to work this morning i just got stuck on how much flint actually LOVES to sail?

like. okay. yes, he is all about the righteous gay rage and darkness, and fighting to bring down england and restore nassau blah blah, but… there’s this JOY you see on his face whenever he’s focused on sailing? calling orders across the ship, hanging off of the ropes and looking out at the horizon, trusting his ship because he knows she’ll do right by him?

like, knowing the exact moment to raise those fucking t’gallants, and how to survive a ship killing storm, when to lay anchor, standing at the ship’s bow with the spray soaking his clothes, or at the wheel because he’s the one who can really get the walrus to sing when he needs her to

and you kind of see all his other burdens melt away in those moments, because at his core, james flint genuinely loves to sail, and he loved to sail before he loved… anything else really

he has always belonged to the sea, and the sea has belonged to him, and as long as he has a ship, as long as there’s sturdy wood beneath his feet, rocking with the motion of the waves, he’s free