#Charles Vane imagine

[justanoasisimagines]

Love,

Day 3 of my heroes versus villians event. Today we're starting off with a love letter. Check in later to see who the hero is today! Have spooktactular day! Credit to cafekitsune for the banner and the divider!

I didn't expect to be away from you. Not this long anyway. The voyage has forced roughe seas and unpredicted threats. I hope you're well, and keeping busy. I know how restless you get wheneve I've been away for too long.

There is not much of an update I'm afraid love. I believe we are close to finding I can feel it. If I'm being hpnest something doesn't feel right. I worry somehting will go wrong. i'm anticipating a battle. The enemy will crep on us. I don't know how or why, but it will.

Regardless of the fact, I will retun home to you. They will have to kill me and dismember my body and even that I'd still fight to get to you.

All my love,

Charles x

[honeydewwboo]

I love one Charles Vane so much! I wish he had this on the show!! 😢

But that's why we have fantastic writers to make it happen!!! Loved this!!!

Congrats on a very well-deserved 5k! If you’re still taking requests, may I have Charles Vane, fluff (or smut) and 41?

Hi dear, thank you for the request. 41. “I’ve been falling in love with you since the first day we met” for Charles Vane. I went for fluff because that man needs some damn fluff in his life.

*gif not mine*

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The water crashed on the bow of the Ranger as it sailed through the seemingly endless blue sea before you. You let your hands rest on the rail as you stared out in wonder at the world laid before you.

“Do you remember the first time you were on the Ranger?”

You looked over at the captain of the Ranger, a man you had recently become quite attached to. You smiled fondly at him as you looked back ahead of you.

“How could I forget? You kidnapped me. You thought I was the daughter of some powerful person. How amusing it was when you realized that I’m just the daughter of a simple cloth merchant.”

Charles moved to stand beside you. Although he faced forward as you did, you knew better than to assume he wasn’t focused on you as well. When he was sober, his situational awareness was beyond reproach.

And he was always sober when he was on the Ranger. Usually.

“You’re more than just the daughter of a simple cloth merchant. Otherwise you wouldn’t have been invited back on my ship.”

You nodded to show that he had a point. The truth of it was that you had fallen in love with the sea during your brief tenure as captive. Once they realized that you weren’t who they thought you were, you’d been allowed freedoms on the ship. In that time, you learned everything you could from Anne Bonnie, Jack Rackham, and eventually, Charles Vane himself.

“Not nearly as good with a sword as you are,” you said with a grin as you knocked your shoulder against his.

When he didn’t return the comment or even roll his eyes, you turned to face him fully.

“What is it Charles?”

His intense gaze met yours. Even though you were in the middle of the open sea, you felt like you couldn’t catch your breath as you waited for what he would say.

“I’ve been falling in love with you since the first day we met. Even when you were in shackles in the hold, the truth is, I was the one captivated by you. By your spirit.”

Shock and pleasure roared in your veins. His gaze on you felt like a rope tied around your ribcage. It tugged you forward until you had nothing else to do but to let yourself press against him.

“Charles, I–” But he didn’t let you finish before he crashed his mouth against yours in a bruising kiss.

It didn’t matter. He knew you well enough by now to know that those feelings were returned completely.

[ambassadorquark]

black sails is on netflix now, here's some low effort propaganda for the more underrated yaoi it contains for the real tastemakers & connoisseurs

[the-wreck-of-1852]

gd i just watched black sails xiii…. i need to be taken out back like a dog. i can’t do this. feeling like a chew toy that’s been violently shaken and hurled against the wall.

THAT VOICE IN YOUR HEAD THAT TELLS YOU TO BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF FOR HAVING LOVED HIM….!!!!!!

[solinarimoon]

Arnas needs to play a pirate. This man screams swashbuckler and roguish scallawag to me. Especially with that goatee he’s sporting. 🥵

[kind-wolf]

Posting that while I'm at work?! That was torture!

Had to wait 5 hours to read it! 😭

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Hope wonders if he knows they’re not quite as charming as he thinks. 

Ha! 😂 Someone finally said it!

While I absolutely love Jack as a character, I can't imagine really finding him charming.

Anyway....

It was a perfectly written ending (beginning) to their story! Through all the chapters you managed to keep their characters/traits consistent. The pacing was impeccable!

A true delight!

I'm glad and grateful that you managed to finish this tale! And while it's sad that you don't have much time to write anymore, I hope life is good for you and you're contend.

Thank you! 💗

The Heart of Admiration - Conclusion

Coming in juuuuust under three years in the making, my epic OC collaboration with @acebreathesfire​ is finally complete and posted! it didn’t sit right, to leave this unfinished.

As my choice of photo may imply, this is an Explicit chapter. I am who I am, and my slow burns must culminate in all the details. Hope that doesn’t turn anyone off! There is more plot after the naughty bits, if you prefer to scroll to the end…

taglist: @kind-wolf​ @ladyhubris @summertimesadness101 @23orso @n3rdybird​ @bitchyikes​

Hope is fairly certain that Charles meant for her to follow. And the fire that his heavy look ignited in her core certainly is impelling her to rush after him, but she doesn’t let her feet move. If she enters that cabin with him now, after everything that’s been said, his touch still hot on her skin, there’s only one thing that can happen.

And that thing will be irreversible.

“Hope,” Jack calls across the table, interrupting her moment.

She turns to him, blinking, hoping any trace of moon-eyed girlishness has cleared before he can catch her throwing any more looks after their captain.

Read on

[calamaroo]

JOHN "CALICO JACK" RACKHAM AU BACKSTORY

CW : DEPICTIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF DEATH AND BLOOD‼️

(This is very self-indulgent and mostly because I thought it'd be cool)

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AU LORE :

At 36, Calico Jack was the captain of the REVENGE (formerly Charles Vanes's ship, which he mutinied and took over).

At 37, he was captured by the Royal British Navy and thrown in "pirate prison" (idk what it was called irl). On his first day, he was whipped/beaten by the guards, something they did to every pirate on their first day.

[I imagine this part like a scene in a movie] As he lays there in the dirt, he's nearly unconscious, but feels someone grab him. They drag him over to their cell and get someone to help her clean his new wounds. It hurts, hence the drawing, and it depicts that scene.

[She is one of the big bosses of the pirate prisoners, so holds authority with them]

The person who helped him was Anne Bonny, whom he fell in love with. They are together in the prison for a few months before escaping and spending the rest of that year pirating on the high seas.

At 38, he's again caught and this time sentenced to death instead of imprisonment. Anne Bonny is able to convince the court to pardon her because she was pregnant (Calico Jack's son/Kwazii's father). Anne Bonny leaves him for Mary Read, who was also pardoned. (Irl, there was no evidence of them being in a relationship ship, but in Octo-universe, they are now. Lesbian cats.)

He's able to escape his hanging and flees, where he hides for two more years (until 40 years old, and authorities wound his left eye), then a storm shipwrecks him and he ends up in the Amazon for another 15 years.

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I love my pirate pookie and making him suffer <3

[flyingdickolas]

Ned Low is such a fascinating villain and the way he's introduced in season 2 is so perfect because he's teased to be the big bad of the season. He appears before the credits, kills a bunch of sailors, and is like "I'm coming to Nassau." Any show usually makes it clear just how important the new threat of the series is. When I first started season two, I was convinced it was going to end in Flint and Vane having to join sides to defeat Ned Lowe and his crew as well as the loyalists he would gain.

And then he dies in episode three.

I think this is absolutely genius, and it's one of the reasons why season two is so amazing and some of the best subversive writing ever. On my last rewatch of IX-XI, I realized it's almost like Lowe represented season one. His crew is scared of him and doubts his leadership, just like Flint. He's hyper-violent and doesn't give a shit. He LITERALLY threatens to do to Eleanor what the crew of the Ranger did to Max.

Killing Ned Low, therefore, is not only an important moment for Charles Vane and the plot moving forward, since we find out the captive girl is Abigail only after he's dead, but for the tone of the show moving forward. If he is essentially the manifestation of the tone of season one, shifts the tone and changes the narrative to something new. It's no surprise after this episode, we finally get the answer to what happened with the Hamiltons and the show loses a lot of its good-pirate-vs-bad-pirate nature. The true enemy is revealed and now you are in for some of the craziest, most perfect moments of television ever concocted. I was right about Flint and Vane having to team up, but I never could've imagined the outcome.

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TL;DR// I believe that XI-XIII really marked the turning point where Black Sails truly became the greatest thing ever, and season two as a whole is absolutely genius for how much it subverts the expectations from season one. Not to say that the first season isn't worth watching and there's nothing good there because there definitely is, but man everything after is just so so so so much better

[nassaugirlie]

Exactly.

Charles Vane, you are so dear to me. Promises and oaths are so important to him that I can only imagine how difficult this moment must be for him. But his love for Nassau will always prevail and Flint knew that, he didn't even need to lie or edulcorate things, he just had to remember him to listen to himself.

Vane's dilemma about whether to stick with Blackbeard or fight alongside Flint… I also associate it with Eleanor. Despite Nassau turning against him in a heartbeat, he still intends to defend her with all his might. Just like he did for Eleanor so many times.

Eleanor is the one who has undoubtedly moved on, she's falling in love and she's too furious with Vane to even consider it but it makes me wonder if, under different circumstances, he would have come back to her side once again despite all.

[fornassau]

He didn’t know why Flint would assume the clothes were coming off, but he was damned glad he wasn’t resisting.

Before he could say anything in response, those thick fingers were deep in his mouth and he moaned deeply, slathering then with spit. Charles loved the feeling of having his mouth and arms filled at once. He’d called him a cockslut and it was true, but James was an ass man for sure with how much he enjoyed eating him out. His hand was ushered away, and he let out a sudden grunt as not one but two fingers were pushed in. He growled. “ Fuuuuuck.. “

Charles had set his hands on his shoulders initially. But now he was hugging onto him, ass out and presented as he fingered him. Breathing heavily, those words just egged him on. It was so hot. “ I want them to see, James.. “ Exhibitionism was one of his deepest kinks. He’d let Flint live out any he had so he was grateful for this. He rocked his ass back and forward on those deeply twisting digits. “ I want them to watch you put me on display.. “

The sudden twist made his back arch and he cried out a bit more. One person looked over but looked off and thankfully Flints back was to the crowd. He’d push those fingers more, and in his attempt he now had Charles gaping and it took the breath out of him. He could feel them wriggling deep and as soon as they brushed his prostate he was a loud cursing and moaning mess. “ Oh fuuuuuuck.. “ He groaned, already beginning to slip in that subspace. “ Its so fucking much Flint. “ He whined. “ My arse can’t take it, it won’t fit! “ Was he wanting to fist him now? Or was he merely loosening? It didn’t matter as it drive him wild, pushing and rubbing himself more to his fingers, sucking them in. “ Fuuuuuuck.. “ He growled. “ Put it in me.. I need your cock.. “

“Because it’s been a while since I’ve said this to you, Charles…” A brief pause. “Fuck you.” <3

This was exactly how they said that they loved each other. They’d hated each other so damn fiercely, it was the only appropriate thing to say now that they loved so fiercely. Charles smirked, yet still managed to smile and shook his head. “ Fuck you too, Flint. “

@avastyetwats

[etoilesombre]

I send you a message asking for fics about 2 weeks ago... i have since read them all and the blacksails brainrot has consumed me. Its not getting better. You were right... 'a month' is not long enough - it will be a decade of me thinking about black sails fulltime at the least.

I have read SO many good fics, honestly this fandom is blessed with great minds and great writers!! Your recommendations were excellent!! (Your fics too)

While going through the flintsilver tag I found a silverflinthamilton fic ('we can lose and call it living') and oh boy did that scratch an itch i didn't know i had!!

So now (after reading silverflint fics for like 2 weeks in all my spare time) I was wondering if you (or you followers!) know any flinthamilton fics. I don't know if that's your jam personally but I would love to read some fics about james and thomas (and possibly miranda) and how their relationship grew!! We see sooo little of it on screen!!

So if you have any recommendations once more, i would appreciate it!!

Hi! really sorry it took me so long to get to this, it has been a hectic week, I hope you see it!! Glad you enjoyed the recs, and I have rounded up some more.

I do read a lot less Flinthamilton(s), but a couple stick out in my mind, and I also crowdsourced some recommendations. I'm going to stick some other miscellaneous pairings on the end as well, in case you feel like further expanding your horizons.

Flintham recs: (most of them are postcanon rather than London era. I too would love more recs for London era.)

The Peaceable Kingdom by kvikindi (~45k words total) A Thomas-at-the-plantation novella length series that is truly beautifully written and engages with some hard, interesting ideas in meaningful ways.

The Sundering Sea by x_art (~140k words) I have not read this one but it comes highly recommended. One thing to note is that it is set post season two and was written in 2015, so BEFORE the ending had aired.

Rip Out All The Epilogues by Thatswherethelightgetsin (~60k words) An AU where both Hamiltons come to Nassau with Flint. This one has a side of Vane/Miranda which is interesting.

A Story Is True/A Story Is Untrue by FletcherHonorama (~210k words) This one is famous and well respected, it's a story told in parallel based on different possible endings, which is a really interesting concept.

Eye of the Beholder by Palebluedot (~2.6k words) Whew, some simple porn to balance out the many thoughtful novels people write for this pairing. They fuck in front of a mirror. It's hot.

5 Times Thomas and James Touched Foreheads Together by daylighthour (~12.5k words) Ok this is my favorite James/Thomas fic of all time, I think about it regularly - and it's rated g, imagine that. It's lovely, and supports my deeply held Autistic Flint headcanon.

NON-Flintham recs:

Ner Tamid by notfelix (~2.7k words) Ok this is technically Silver/Muldoon but it isn't really about that, it's a Jewish John Silver character study complete with cannibalism, oh my. It's great. For ACTUAL Silver/Muldoon I also encourage you to check out the same author's kinkmeme story Taking Care.

Marriage Is For Happy Men by QueerCrusader (~7.5k words) Flintgates, precanon. Flint has to perform a wedding, and has feelings about it. He and his quartermaster spend some quality time together after. This one is SO in character, really makes it work for me.

trust/caution by squidnapped (~5.4k) Also Flintgates. Disaster bottom Flint!! Love of my life!! Just. Just go read it. Trust me. This is one of my favorite fics of all time, also think about it regularly.

theives by ajaxthegreat (~3.7k words) Flintvane after Charles Town. This one is unfinished, but I really love how they talk to each other in it.

like real people do by thegreatblondebalrogslayer (~2k words) Vane is the one who shaves Flint's hair. No porn. You know it's good if I read it and there's no porn.

(If I may be so bold, I wrote Flintvane one time as well, here, try it you might like it)

your legs are the north star by Jaynovz (~3.6k) I can't usually do het at all but it works here. Flintmadi, taking comfort in each other when they're grieving Silver. Love the fealty dynamic, I'm weak for that.

[servenas-inner-fangirl]

Watching Black Sails 3x1

The further ahead I get, the more dread I feel when starting a new episode, or in this case, a new season. So many things that can yet go wrong...

Teach is somehow both exactly like I imagined him and not at all.

A part of me still wants to see the journey back to Nassau, with Flint and Vane trapped on the same ship. It has the potential to be absolutely hilarious.

Is that Flint? Can I already recognize that man in a turban and from behind? Yeah, those are his eyes alright.

Nooo, his lovely hair! I knew that moment was coming, but still...

Has Flint finally found an honest man in a position of power? Also interesting that he only goes after those executing capital punishment. So jail time for piracy would be fine?

Oh damn, S1 Flint would have never.

Silver also looks very different with a beard.

"He's fine." Hard disagree, Billy.

Oh, we finally get to see Vane actually running a ship! Is that the Fancy? - And somehow I don't think he has many kind thoughts for slavers. Did Jack plan all this?

Oh, Dutch, and sounds like decent Dutch, too! (At least to me.)

Ugh, the eyes, the blood spatters on his face... this is still a Charles Vane fanblog.

Good thing Vane isn't there to witness that mock trial of Eleanor. Although after the last time she betrayed him, he might not care.

Does the whorehouse look different than it used to? At least on the outside?

Oh-oh, Vane looks pissed. I'd rather not be in Jack's skin right now.

Hahaha, "your days of approaching unannounced are behind you". :D Also "they're so afraid of you, they're afraid of me!" God, I missed those two.

I thought we'd seen the last of the trio of Vane, Anne, and Jack in S1 but they are back and I'm SO HAPPY. <3 And also talking about trust and the things they would do for and wouldn't do to each other, ugh.

So either everyone on that ship is dead or this is a trap, right? Maybe both?

Goddammit, Flint, you took your sweet time on that ship! And don't you have a lookout??

Awww, Anne and Max seem so domestic here.

Oh, just now realized that Flint has the Walrus back. :D

"I will do great violence against that thing."

God, I always forget how much I love those ships until scenes like these.

Eleanooooor. So I assume she wrote down Flint's name? But then the scene cuts to Vane, soo...

And he really isn't happy about using the slaves to rebuild the fort. Note the "your slaves", not "ours". (Also what good does the gold do if you can't even purchase workers with it?)

I love this glimpse at the friendship between Jack and Vane, two people so unalike each other it's almost comical. We didn't get this much sincerity between them in S1. Also do they have to sit so close to each other??

Vane really has changed from S1. He would never have been able to admit his past and current fears so openly before (except maybe to Eleanor if she had asked).

Also, does "a visit from the taskmaste in the dead of night" imply what I think it does?

Ugh, I'm spoiled enough for what happens in S3 that I think I know what's being foreshadowed here, and I don't wannaaaa.

[avastyetwats]

🎃 From Vane

🎃- carving pumpkins @fornassau

"Go ahead and put them on the table. They need to be gutted before we can start carving." Flint said as they walked into the house, each one of them carrying a pumpkin. Well, except for Flint. Ivy insisted on carrying his - or rather theirs - to both be helpful and prove she was strong. A human child likely would've struggled, but given she was a werewolf, well, she had superhuman strength, even for a little girl.

"I'll clean my own!" Charlotte called out, insistent on doing everything herself. "My carving is going to the best out of them all!"

"And the messiest, too." Lorelei rolled her eyes, prompting her big sister to shoot her a glare.

Then there was little Ivy who just barely managed reaching the table to set the pumpkin on top. "Nu-uh! Our pumpkin is gonna be the best one! Right, Mr. Flint?" The little girl asked with a beaming smile, looking up at him. Goddamn, she was so fucking adorable. That little girl had Flint wrapped around her pinky. He'd do anything for her, for any one of them, really. He wanted to say yes just to keep that smile on her face, but given how artistic Charlotte was, he wasn't so sure...

Though Charlotte made sure to point that out. "Are you kidding? Remember when we asked him to draw a werewolf? It was so bad." She laughed and Flint huffed.

"Hey, that was my first time drawing a werewolf!" He reminded her, feigning offense.

"You couldn't even draw the moon." She added. "It had holes."

"Those were craters!" Both Charlotte and Lorelei laughed and he grinned. "Anyway, yes, Ivy, our pumpkin is going to be great." That seemed good enough for her because she was beaming even more now. She was so excited to be carving with Flint. Unfortunately she was still too young to be using such sharp and dangerous tools, so Flint offered to be her carving buddy, and it made her the happiest little girl.

Charlotte and Lorelei were both old enough. Well, Lorelei still a little young, but she was smart and careful, they weren't worried. And Charlotte? Well, she was certainly capable and she wouldn't have taken no for an answer, anyway.

"Charles, your oldest is being mean to me." Flint complained, looking to his boyfriend as he brought his pumpkin over.

That prompted Charlotte to stick her tongue out at him and Flint did the same in return, making her giggle.

Flint was so damn happy Charlotte liked him now. Loved him, even. They've all spent so much time together and, well, they were practically a family and Flint was just over the moon. They filled his life with so much love and joy and he couldn't imagine his life without them.

"Alright, girls, here." He set the several different pumpkin patterns books on the table. "Ivy, you choose ours while I clean out the pumpkin." He kissed the top of her head before walking to the island with the pumpkin and pulling out the large knives and the ice cream scoop. They were going to at least cut the top off of Charlotte's. The knife was big and Flint was uncomfortable letting her handle it. The scooping though? She could do. "Oh, and save the pumpkin seeds." He tells both Charles and Charlotte. He looks to the girls for a moment, making sure they were all distracted, before cupping Charles's face so he could turn and kiss him on the lips, smiling and humming happily.

[shinesurge]

do you guys remember when ofmd first came out and we were all sort of trying to recommend black sails knowing it wouldn't work, can you imagine if that had tho and we were getting charles vane discourse instead lmao

[littlecrabbs]

Thinking abt the fact that Luke Arnold initially auditioned for the role of Charles Vane. He looks like such a John Silver, I couldn’t imagine him any different.

[maremote]

Black Sails Monologuolympics BR4.1: SILVER'S MONOLOGUES: ROUND 1 🥈

9/12: 303 vs 409

Silver, to Billy, in 303: " That has been the problem all along. That's the thing gates never understood and a thing you never understood. You cannot decide to follow a man like that and then pick and choose when you deny him. If challenge him directly, he and will be at such extreme odds in front of the men, it will be the end of this crew one way or another, and can't allow that to happen. So, once again, he is able to conjure the reality he desires just as it was in Charlestown. And just as it was in that storm. There is no denying a man with that kind of power. He conjured us into it. And who's more powerful? The one who made the storm or the one who convinced us into battle to defeat it? A man of his capacities, his state of mind becomes reality. We are subject to it. And right now his state of mind's so dark, it threatens to kills us all. [...] I'm clearheaded, Billy. I see him. During that feud with Vane over the fort, I sat in his cabin and| watched him turn himself inside out over the idea that anyone in Nassau would see him as the villain in that story. Well, now he's the greatest villain in the new world. We all see it. We all follow him because of it. think it's torture for him, and think the only way he can imagine it stopping is when there are no more of us left to witness it."

Silver, to Madi, in 409: "Can't you see it? It isn't utility that's behind his investmernt in me.. nor necessity, nor dependency. I understand you fear a false motive. But this much is clear to me now... have earned his respect. And after all the tragedies that man has suffered... the loss of Thomas, the events of Charles Town... have earned his trust. have his true friendship... and so he's going to have mine. And as long as that is true, cannot imagine what is possible."

BRACKET FOUR ROUND ONE // BRACKET FOUR // ALL POLLS