#BlackSails

[stuckwiththephobia]

one thing I have loved about black sails since I first watched it is the fact that it doesn’t villainise anger. it doesn’t tell you that, without this devouring anger, a character would be thriving. It shows us anger being destructive, often through Anne, it shows us anger being infectious, like a fire that catches and cannot be put out, but most importantly it shows us anger as integral. It is at the centre of the struggle against empire, it is at the centre of Flint. He is not angry in spite of all his morality, he is angry because of it. He is angry because how else is he supposed to feel in the face of absolute injustice??

The show rejects the notion of anger as inherently immoral. I saw someone say that it shows us anger as the extension of love, rather than the antithesis of it. I think this is spot on. It shows us anger as born from the ashes of loss, and stoked in opposition to the forces that caused it. go anger!!!

Flint is angry because anger is the only emotion powerful enough to pull him up from his knees time and time again, and give him the tools to fight for what he believes in.

[astoryisqueer]

luke arnold woke up this morning with one thought and one thought only and that was the silverflint agenda happy fucking pride month

[rackhamish]

Black Sails - S03e10/S04e10

[will2150]

"he was my friend too..."

[matan4il]

On this Pride Month I would just like to say that Black Sails really made all of its four seasons and 38 episodes into an expression of gay rage against homophobic brutality and the unbearable loss of love, especially in that tragic context, and that’s still one of the most breathtaking things that any TV show has done, ever.

[john-silvers]

BLACK SAILS, XXXVI

[thesecretlifeofgabrielle]

“Have you ever been tortured? Suffered pain applied by men who saw you as less than a man? Saw you as an animal? Cause it isn’t the pain they’re inflicting that’s the most frightening part of it. It isn’t the fear of future pain. It’s the knowledge that even when the pain stops, even if they were to let you go, that they’ve changed you. That pain, that fear, that despair has made you someone else, someone you barely recognize, against your will.”

Black Sails

[bemodreamy]

Yo not a drill!

BLACK SAILS IS ON TUBI!!!!!!(at least in Canada)

I repeat, NOT A DRILL

[tomhoppersarms]

In all seriousness, during these extremely distressing times, we need to take a moment for self care. For those of you who are that way inclined, may I suggest:

[miloheilo]

Sketches :]

[justadearie]

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. — Marcus Aurelius

[stuckwiththephobia]

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.

[aonehattown]

Black Sails is a show that is deeply personal to me. I found it at a hard time in my life and felt so connected to Flint’s anger, his determination, and his spite.

I’m so thrilled I’m doing a podcast with one of my best friends who has never seen the show. I haven’t posted about Genders, Queers, & Buccaneers here much but with it being the new year it felt like a good time to post our review of Season 2 Episode 5. If you’re a Black Sails fan you know why I’m picking that one haha. I hope you’ll give it a listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/genders-queers-and-buccaneers/id1720783970?i=1000666229304

Genders, Queers, & Buccaneers is a passion project. I’m really proud of it and I hope consider joining us.

[rackhamish]

Toby Schmitz blessing us with some wonderful pictures !

[will2150]

 because it's the only state in which you can function...

[heliza24]

Knife wife 🤝 Knife wife

Looking sexy hanging off a ship