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Harriet Walter as Marion Guthrie in Black Sails | Season 4 "When Richard was a little boy, there was a tomcat that lived out in the woods behind the house. And it would scratch at the windows at all hours of the night. Richard, all of four years old, would go outside still in his nightshirt and feed it. My husband disapproved. He thought it a sign of weakness. Given that kindness is a condition rare in our family, I suppose it's unsurprising that it went misdiagnosed. So, Richard would feed the tomcat and Joseph would flog him for disobeying, kick the tomcat for instigating. But the next night, the tomcat would return, and on and on and on it went."

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one thing about black sails is it loves to add a third guy to all the intense romantic moments. miranda watching flint and thomas kiss jack watching anne and max fuck everything with silverflintmadi. this is a show that understands the narrative importance of the cuck chair

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and nothing's gonna save you before the curtain call

this is the death of you

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MAX IN BLACK SAILS, EPISODE II

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Aye

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BLACK SAILS (2014 - 2017)

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Black Sails XXVI. | XXXVIII.

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continuing with my Black Sails practice

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he is two acorns tall and sleeps in a teacup

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a couple of black sails studies I never got around to posting!

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THE OLD MAN + BLACK SAILS Created by Jonathan E. Steinberg & Robert Levine

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James Flint in BLACK SAILS Chapter XIII.

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BLACK SAILS + horror

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BLACK SAILS SPOILER WARNING!

I wanted to post this since I haven’t seen anyone else do so (and since I stumbled across it) but here’s the script for Vane’s execution with annotations from Robert Levine (Source: Mashable)

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MAX’S JOURNEY - part 1/3 for @ellelan ♡

Sand has its virtues. On sand, nothing is fixed, nothing is permanent. And fates change so quickly. Yesterday I was a whore of little consequence, easily dismissed, easily forgotten. Today I am a madam with an income and allies and a woman who has learned the most important of lessons: Never let anyone stand in between you and your ambitions. Thank you for teaching it to me.

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there's something meaningful in how childless black sails is, as a show. there are barely even child extras. there is no second generation, there is no continuation, no 'innocent' unbiased pair of eyes. and when you factor in Treasure Island, you suddenly see that no one exits that story alive except for silver, the pirate king. that world and those people exist solely within his conscience - and then his story is passed down to a young boy. 'there are no legacies in this life' yeah there aren't. 'we have no kings here' yeah and you have no heirs.