#anne bonny bs

[granturn]

[image description: a screenshot of Anne Bonny and Jack Rackham from Black Sails. Rackham is in the foreground and slightly out of focus. There is a text post by tumblr user nanoray that says, ""I can fix him" I can chase him with a knife to humble him".

/end description]

[v333nus-demilo]

i could fix her

[kuzuyamii]

happy anniversary to whatever is going on in this show

[theartofangirling]

black sails + narratives, characters, and tropes

part 1 | part 2

[mega-ringsandthings-world]

The thing is. The thing is about black sails is. What did they get in the end for all their pain and suffering and blood? Well, nothing. Absolutely nothing. In the end it all came down to nothing and it meant nothing and they were remembered in history as monsters and died as monsters. But yet it meant everything. They failed, every single one of them, but the fact that they failed meant they tried and that meant everything. They failed in the end, so what was the point of it all? Wouldn't it be better off if none of them had tried, if none of them had bled and struggled and fought or even met? But THAT is the point! The point was in the living, not in the dying, not in the failing! It was in the trying! The way they tried because of each other and for each other! The way they tried to beat against something that could not and would not ever move in their lifetimes! Flint tried for Thomas and Miranda tried for Flint and Miranda tried for Thomas and Silver tried for Flint and Mr. Gates tried for Flint and Max tried for Eleanor and Eleanor tried for Max and Charles Vane tried for Elaenor and Mr. Scott tried for Eleanor and Mr. Scott tried for Madi and Silver tried for his men and Billy tried tried tried and the Maroon Queen tried and Madi tried for freedom and Jack tried and Anne tried And Jack tried for Anne and Anne tried for Jack and Anne tried for Max and Max tried for Anne, and Eleanor's grandmother tried for her and Eleanor tried for Woodes Rogers and Woodes Rogers tried for her, and Woodes Rogers tried and Edward Teach tried for Charles Vane and Jack tried for Charles Vane and on Skull island, Silver may or may not have tried one last time and they all tried and it meant nothing and yet everything. Everything. Because the point was not the losing, but that they fought at all to win.

[howlerbat]

[helbrides]

the greater nassau polycule - black sails s1-4

[pirate-ghost]

- The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.

[loopnoid]

(visibly vibrating) i think i hauve covid.

[hybbat]

I think there's something there that the healthiest, strongest, and longest lasting partners in black sails is Jack and Anne, the ones who refuse to define their relationship by anything other than the nebulous, all encompassing 'partners.' Everyone else is preocupied defining their relationships with labels that box them in. Silver is Flint's friend, Eleanor is Roger's wife, Vane is Blackbeard's son. Billy can't find a label to put on anyone that sticks so he never finds someone, even while Ben parks himself in his shadow.

Jack and Anne, though, they spend the second season working through "what are we?" And the conclusion is whatever they need to be in the moment for one another. They never bothered to define their relationship since it started and Max made them painfully aware of this, and so they spent time apart figuring out themselves and what they were to each other. In the end they're the ones who come out of top because they're the ones who refuse to put themselves in a box with rules for what they should and shouldn't do. They're just 'partners' and that leaves them the room they need to let Max in as well (and maybe in the future Mark also). Their relationship with her ends just as undefined, and they all come out on top.

Flint, Thomas, and Miranda get so close to this as well, before the world tears them apart when the three refused to fit into the boxes they were placed in in the absence of putting themselves in one. Miranda's ghost describing all the things she was to Flint and Thomas I think is basically everything I mean. She could be anything they needed her to be at any point without limitations.

Basically Jack, Anne, and Max are their successors and they do in fact manage to succeed in their place, marked by their ability to avoid society and boxes to define them. They overcome the shame Flint couldn't.

[odysseusilver]

I can never stop myself from making these type of shitposts I’m so sorry (I’m not)

[granturn]

[image description: two images from Black Sails edited for the Barbie meme. Anne is wet and gripping both of her swords. One image says, "This Barbie is not adhering to your modern queer terminology". The other says, "This Barbie is choosing violence if you gatekeep her".

/end ID]

Do I think she's bi? Sort of.

Do I call her a lesbian? From time to time.

Does it matter? No, because it's the golden age of piracy, and these terms don't exist and if you asked her what she identified as, she'd look at you like you were stupid and say, "a fucking pirate".

[v333nus-demilo]

“i betrayed you and it sickens me” “im sorry for failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you” I AM GOING FERAL. max saying this to anne and then anne reaching for her hand. bro. b r o

[rackhamish]

Jack Rackham & Anne Bonny - Black Sails

> First appearance on screen together/Last appearance on screen together

[theartofangirling]

she's a lesbian. she has an emotional support malewife. she has a kill count in the hundreds. she wears a funny hat. she's ginger. she doesn't know how to talk about her feelings. she dresses in men's clothing. she threatened the love of her life with a knife right before they kissed. she's the strong and silent type. she had an emotional breakdown when her partner left for two days. she can't smile without it looking like a snarl. she murdered a bunch of rapists. she is the bravest and truest person. there is nothing important that does not include her. I am chewing glass why is everyone in the entire world not completely obsessed with her.

[kuzuyamii]

“I will move heaven and earth to have it done because I refuse to let you down.”