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Louise Barnes as Miranda Hamilton in Black Sails

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one time I looked up the ratings of each episode of black sails. I expected to see s2e5 near the top, but I wasn’t exactly surprised when it was actually at the bottom (free us from the clutches of homophobia man). I read some of the comments and they were saying that the reveal felt out of nowhere. Okay, so actually you just have no media literacy skills. For me, the revelation made so much sense that I experienced something akin to ascension. I felt I had unlocked all of the knowledge there was to unlock. My whole engagement with the show changed. That thing that had been bubbling under the whole time, in every interaction between Miranda and flint, in every mention of Thomas, in every display of rage from flint, in each one of his desperate schemes.

I just find it so hilarious that people thought it was out of nowhere? Louise Barnes and Toby Stephens were actually the only two cast members aware of the backstory from the beginning of the show, and you can see it so much in the way they act their characters. So much unspoken, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there. Season 1 ep 7 — that whole altercation they have where he refuses to apologise to England, the way she says ‘if he were here he’d agree with me’, the tension of it all. The note Thomas wrote in the front of their copy of meditations? It’s so obviously not out of the blue, it’s set up so brilliantly so as to evade perception but also to lodge itself in your brain before you even know what *it* is.

Tom Hopper (Billy) said it was the best episode of television he’s ever seen. Literally years later, in a promotional interview for the umbrella academy. I agree wholeheartedly.

saying that it was out of nowhere is just wrong. It’s either a) just a guise for your homophobia or b) a betrayal of your evidently terrible media literacy and critical analysis skills.

When I saw the episode so many things from season 1 finally clicked in to place inside my head. The enigma of Flint, for the first time, began to slightly unravel.

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Inspired by that one shot that was cut from season 4 of Black Sails, the one where Eleanor's ghost appears on Roger's ship (the Eurydice!!) in the background—I've made my own edits.

~Have fun looking for ghosts.~

(Image descriptions in alt do include what has been changed in each scene, if you can't see it. Some are more subtle than others~)

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I feel like John silver blacksails’s Ultimate Evil was in the end very mundane. he didn’t believe the world could be any better than it was so he focused instead on the perceived safety and well being of a few specific people. he selfishly just wanted his loved ones to be alive and with him. I kind of feel like he is no one and nobody and comes from nowhere because that is the choice most people would make. And do make. The show is saying there is no special explanation for who this guy is. That’s YOU 🫵

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When you were sinking to the bottom of the sea, who do you imagine it was who dragged you onto that beach?

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black sails is a show about many things, including queer rage, big ships, monstrosity, cool long coats, the nature of storytelling, peace vs. freedom, threesomes, home, destroying the british empire, lesbian drama, mythologizing, the surprisingly effective power of being a little shit, shame, forehead kisses, the hurdy-gurdy, civilization, being covered in blood, and most importantly, love

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Pirate show fanart🤺

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flint voice all i ever wanted was to walk away from the sea silver voice i never wanted to be a pirate flint voice i feared the man i was about to create. i feared that someone born of such dark things would consume me were i not careful. and i was determined only to wear him for a while and then dispose of him when his purpose was complete. and i thought of that story. billy voice i've watched her follow mad men. i've watched her follow rich men. i've watched her bow before tyrants. but now it's time she had a king. when we're ready, when he's ready, he'll step into the role we've created for him. flint voice when i say there's a war coming, i don't mean with the scarborough. i don't mean with king george or england. civilization is coming and it means to exterminate us. if we are to survive, we must unite behind our own king. billy voice we have no kings here. flint voice i am your king. billy voice but now it's time she had a king. when we're ready, when he's ready, he'll step into the role we've created for him. max voice until then, i remain long john silver. madi voice who is long john silver? silver voice well, that's a very good question. i assume he saw value in the tall tales told about me after that night in the tavern. saw mystery in it, perhaps. use my name upon which to build his story. flint voice one night he was alone on the late watch at anchor in the boston harbour when he sees this man climbing out of the water and onto his ship. a stranger. now, my grandfather thought about ringing the bell, but curiosity got the better of him. the stranger approaches my grandfather and asks him for a little rum. man said that he'd fled his fishing trawler. accused of killing another man. and when asked his name, the man simply replied mr. flint. billy voice when we're ready, when he's ready, he'll step into the role we've created for him. silver voice look, this deal, it's really a terrible idea. there are so many ways it could go wrong. me, i can't help myself. i see an opportunity, i take it. it's a sickness. truly. but you, you can still walk away.

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anyway, remember when max and silver were subjected to the terrors of life at a very tender age and went on to become the weirdest most traumatized siblings of the bahamas. remember when max would stand amongst the heat and the bugs and the filth on her toes to see inside and remember when the only meaning divined from silvers past was that the world is a place of unending horrors. im trying to say that when max was a kid she learned that peace was born from awful things and that meant home. and she decided then that shed do anything to be inside that home, even the awful things. and when silver was a kid there was no peace anywhere. not outside the room and not inside. there was only the horrors so there was never a reason for him to want to be inside. do you see. max drowning the damned cat and silver saying "theres always a way out" is their ethos. she hungers to be inside because she knows she deserves something good, something better. it was like, there's horribleness here and it is in my way, but i will climb on top of it. i will look back at it one day through the windows. silver needs to be outside because everything hes got was conned out of the world. he has no idea he can even have good things or how to want them. to him it was like, this horribleness looks something like me. i can wear it, this heat and the filth and the bugs, and hide in it. if there was ever a room, he was always running away from it

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Do you think Flint read to Silver in his early days of recovery when he was half conscious?

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“A myth's a powerful thing.”   “Pray you never know the weight of it.” — SNOWPIERCER, 1x04

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this diva

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They’re scheming

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those early black sails promo pics were so bad but literally so incredible i cannot even begin to express in words how much i love this photo

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was inspired by one of incorrectblacksailsquotes' posts

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