#an Black Sails Post

[trashy-greyjoy]

sometimes, it's not so much about the romance as it is about the devotion. the adoration.

[maremote]

ib: crepuscularqueens

[flashhwing]

I just started black sails bc you put it on my dash enough and also Toby Stephens, and it’s exceLLENT (watched a season in a day) bUT is this a “gay” pirate show (the men yearn but never actually touch) or a GAY pirate show (certified fresh, homegrown, free range faggotry)

Thank u for yr time

I will happily answer this question for you but first you have to answer why the explicitly lesbian and bisexual women featured in the first season that you watched aren’t gay enough for you to classify this show as gay

[geekysprinkler]

happy black sails on netflix to all who celebrate

[theartofangirling]

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

[mouthpoisons]

:) come closer I’m just a normal pretty-good raunchy pirate adventure macguffin caper show I’m just a regular little “prequel to treasure island” Im not a thesis about the very nature of fiction itself or one of the most devastating brain rewiring existential things you’ll ever watch or anything that’s ridiculous. come on pspspsps you can trust me

[peixe-art]

Man of all time

[jessaerys]

also the vane/flint/eleanor dynamics are so funny because flint is like what. 10-13 years older than charles who is like 5 years older than eleanor who has a bit of a daddy issues crush on flint whom sees her solely as a much younger protegee whose ambition he admires and in whom he sees a bird of a feather. completely out of his romantic or sexual radar (sidebar which is SOO embarrassing when eleanor goes to miranda trying to be like idk what you hag have on him but i'm the younger bouncier cool girl in his life. and miranda is like (: ) anyway flint is fighting gay demons the 18th century millenials have never even heard of while there's this punk metaphorically driving by in his loud ass motorcycle going you think you can steal my girl huh ???? and flint is like get off my lawn i'm having war flashbacks from the old country

[idontwikeit]

No, no, no… you've got it all wrong… you can't act death. The fact of it is nothing to do with seeing it happen - it's not gasps and blood and falling about - that isn't what makes it death. It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all - now you see him, now you don't that's the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back - an exit, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death.

-Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

for @annevbonny

[valtsv]

stories that are a matryoshka of unreliable narrators. you can't trust the person telling you the story. but then you realise that they don't even have much of a choice in the matter; the information they're operating on was told to them by an unreliable narrator. and when you interrogate their story, you realise that the lies go back even further. the tunnel goes deeper. how far are you willing to go to uncover the truth? how far will you actually get before you lose sight of what you came for in the first place?

[magicgirlboss]

hello i hate this show so much you have no idea i need to kill someone to calm down i am hyperventilating i dont even give a fuck anymore actually jesus christ i need john silver dead i need him alive forever i need to puke

[mobydyke]

why does a story have to be true? is it not enough for it to give me indescribable power and authority over my peers

[muppetjackrackham]

black sails characters + iconic quotes

[mr-culper]

The beautiful person who edited this had to cut the video in half for twitter, but you can enjoy it in its entirety here.

[maraslesbian]

sometimes i think about the fact that black sails took one of the most famous pirate figures in fiction and decided to make the reason he became a pirate that he was gay, and that the man he loved was killed for it. and that this loss fueled a pure and complete hatred of england and its empire, which then developed into actual revolutionary reflections and an understanding of the violence of colonization that then lead him to organize alongside former slaves and local populations to fight for the liberation of the american colonies from british rule. and it's like. what the fuck man. truly the show of all time

[psilactis]

you watch black sails, it rewires your brain, and then what. what now. every queer analysis of media sounds superficial. I want - I need, sometimes - to compare movies and TV shows to black sails so I can make a point, but I can't, because like, five people have watched it. And now what. I try explaining the monster metaphor and how minorities shouldn't conform, but no one gets it. so I just sound like I'm being insane. Which I am, but it has a point and a rationale. And then some media comes out and everyone treats it like it's revolutionary in how it portrays queerness but you've seen it before and you've seen it done better, more carefully, more genuinely, but you can't say anything lest the fans of this new media accuse you of being a prejudiced asshole. And maybe you are. Maybe you're expecting too much of media that should just be allowed to exist as it is. But if that media is putting itself forward as some kind of metaphor for how queer people are treated in society, and it comes to a certain conclusion, and you're queer, aren't you allowed to disagree with that conclusion? Aren't you allowed to think it's shallow at best and homophobic at worse? So you just watch black sails and go insane. and let the cycle repeat over and over. and it's still just you and those five people.