#black sails set

[theredontbedragons]

Black Sails Sets: The Walrus Half Ship & Full Merchant Ships

Source: Ross Jenkin

[ladyhawke]

There’s nothing in Nassau but horror. You said it was just a transition. That something better lay beyond it, something meaningful. But what if that isn’t so? What if the result of this war isn’t beyond the horror? What if it is the horror itself? Have you given this any thought at all? If we are to truly reach a moment where we might be finished with England… cleared away to make room for something else… there most certainly lies a dark moment between here and there. A moment of terror where everything appears to be without hope.

BLACK SAILS 4.08 “XXXVI.”

[helena-thessa]

I thought it was a little silly and superfluous to rewatch Black Sails— like haha, whatever, this will be fun in my spare time— but now I realize rewatching is a downright necessity. As in, holy fucking shit, did you see that?? Do you see this??

I didn’t appreciate the betrayal by Miranda in season one as much the first time around without the context we learn later. But the loss of Gates’ support and the maneuvering by Miranda behind his back both happen at the end of the first season. Gates planning to tell the crew, Miranda thinking James would accept a pardon— both have revealed that they don’t understand the sheer magnitude of what Flint feels compelled to do and the lengths that he will go to achieve it. His closest companions fundamentally do not support or understand him.

Then, literally right after, in swoops John fucking Silver— rescuing his state of mind (“there’s always a way”), rescuing his plans (lighting the canon), and of course quite literally rescuing him from drowning and tending to his gunshot wound.

The stage is so perfectly set for Silver to fill the vacuum of this loss. To become the only person who actually understands him and will go to the finish line with him.

“Brace yourself, but I’m the only person within a hundred miles of here who doesn’t want to see you dead” was always an epic speech, but dear god, it gets even better with that full understanding.

[mintyspacecadet]

in honor of me finally noticing the little braids in Silvers hair in the later seasons

[idontwikeit]

Being that far away, you see things differently. Helped me see what we are. Maybe what we ain't. You saved me from something awful, Jack. And I owe you my life for it. Maybe there's some part of that you just can't owe.

But you can owe it to Max?

I don't feel that way with her.

[micamicster]

I say, I saw that this situation of mine was the precise situation of every mortal that breathes; only, in most cases, he, one way or other, has this Siamese connexion with a plurality of other mortals.

Moby Dick by Herman Melville (chapter 73, The Monkey-Rope)

Silver's version /

[groove-mp3]

BLACK SAILS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY WEEK ↪ day two : favourite dynamic [ long john silver / captain james flint. ]

"you heard him."

[keepitdreamin]

Black Sails tarot part 5 (1, 2, 3, 4)

the star, moon, and sun as max, anne, and jack came to me in a holy vision and i'm still so pleased that i found images of them all sitting and oriented the same way. trio of all time

and that's it! i only did the major arcana bcs any more would've killed me lol. i think i finished the final versions in november, so it's been almost a full year and, despite the flaws i still see, i still really love this project!

[flintsilvers]

you're telling me the pirates believe that flint, who they consider too soft and educated and well read and well mannered and whose closest business partner is an openly queer woman everyone hates just lets the newest recruit who is The Cook and also happens to be a prettyboy with sky blue eyes sit in on important meetings with the captains and quartermasters??? and nobody thinks they fucked???

[odysseusilver]

There’s no way to watch black sails and have it NOT consume your soul tbh

[hadescavedish]

There's a very clear fact that Madi said she would sacrifice anything for her wishes to fight for the torment and suffering her people had endured doesn't mean she loves Silver less, it means she would sacrifice that much for freedom. Same goes for Flint didn't jump into water to save Silver. It didn't mean they love him less. But it won't be translated into the same context for Silver, as he asked previously: "Am I enough for you?".

He didn't take it as that he wanted to compete himself with their cause, he meant he couldn't even think anyone would want him at all.

[hybbat]

I love that Black Sails has all these deep, complex, flawed but motivated characters that could each get entire essays written about them, make it impossible to fully root for them or against them, who interact in all sorts of complicated ways that can flip on a dime because of one change in circumstances...

And then they're just like, "Here, have a lost puppy with big sad wet eyes that shakes like a leaf in the wind. He doesn't do anything except be confused and scared. No one on any side even thinks to hurt a hair on his little head. He's Ben Gunn btw."

[ladyhawke]

BLACK SAILS + Who We Are by Hozier (insp.)

[patrice-bergerons]

I keep thinking about just how much love and affection there is from Admiral Hennessy's side in that final confrontation with James, and how it makes the whole thing all the more devastating.

Had Hennessy responded to the news of James and Thomas' affair with revulsion and anger, it would have been easy, far easier, to cast him aside as a "villain" — both for us as the audience, and also I think, for James.

But earlier in the episode we hear that James considers him to be a father figure and here, right before they walk into that office with Alfred Hamilton waiting for them in it, knowing full well what James has done, he still calls James son:

Good God. You perceive the danger about this to be imagined. I told you when this began to be careful of those people. To be aware of just how sharp and unexpected the knife would be if you discounted that danger. I'd thought you'd heard me, son.

There is no reason for him to do that, not to someone he is about to permanently cast out of his life. Once they walk inside too, Hennesy's lips utter that terrible pronouncement but his expression, his voice is so gentle as he does it. Alfred Hamilton is in the room with them and what James has done is so outside cultural norms, it severely limits what Hennessy can say or do. Without uttering the words, this scene is yet another entry in the show's collection of "this is not what I wanted"s.

In fact, while AH would like to avoid the scandal of his son having a homosexual relationship, I have no doubt there were ways to hang James that would be equally if not more amenable to him that would not cause such scandal, and yet they give him a way out of London without any charges to his person, quite likely because it was the best Hennessy could manage to salvage under the circumstances. And yet still, Hennesy's words:

I would like to defend you. I would like to remind myself that every man has his flaws, his weaknesses that torment him. I would like to help you recover from yours. But not this. It is too profane; it is too loathsome to be dismissed. This is your end.

I keep thinking about what James tells Miranda in s1 re the pardon to go to Boston: "They took everything from us, and then they called me a monster." But who called him a monster? Given how quickly he and Miranda have to leave London after that confrontation in Hennessy's office, not to mention the way the actual affair with Thomas is swept under the rug, I highly doubt he had any more conversations about it except what transpired in Hennesy's office.

It is so much more devastating I think when someone says I love you but what you are is too vile, too profane for me to ever accept. Says I love you but I cannot accept you, and perhaps that is why what James hears Hennesy tell him is that he is a monster.

[zazrichor]

a gift commission of Eleanor Guthrie for @elenorgthrie 🌻

[idontwikeit]

Ever wondered what it's like to drown? Story of opposites. There's peace in water. Like it's holding you, whispering in low tones to let it in. And every problem in the world will fade away. But then, there's this thing…in your head, and it's raging. Lighting every nerve with madness. To fight. To survive. - Arcane