#black sails shitposting

[tiofrean]

Would you like to talk about our lord and savior Jesus Christ?

[sailsblack]

john silver went from bouba to kiki in just four seasons

[tincan-man10]

(Personally I don't, but I'm just curious about others)

[wyn-n-tonic]

Me, two days ago: I don't like Jack Rackham. I don't like his lil rat face and I don't trust him. Me, now: I would risk it all for Jack Rackham. I am picking up on what Anne Bonny sees.

[tiofrean]

Is it Caturday yet? (I am so sorry but I had to it's purrrrfect)

Ship cat Tigress aloft von Barque Picton Castle

[st-just]

Handshake meme between "wild west' and 'golden age of piracy' with 'dozens of famous folkloric heroes and villains whose actual careers lasted like six months'

[winnerkirkwood]

on one level, black sails is about what happens before treasure island. on another level, it’s about solidarity and revolution. on a deeper level, it’s about the fucked up things people do because of love. but on the deepest level, it’s about shame

[lichfucker]

will never be over the visceral dissonance of seeing people refer to silver exclusively as "john"

esp if you're gonna call flint "flint" instead of "james"

flint is WAY more james than silver is john. silver is not john. he's barely even silver

[tiofrean]

...so the killing of those two crewmates was foreplay? I can roll with that

the silverflint shark fishing scene was a metaphor for gay sex

[tiofrean]

I'm being silly

[whynotcreamsoda]

tell me why the black sails hangover is worse than my own breakups

[saying-odd-shit]

is this yaoi historically accurate

[tiofrean]

A story is true, a story is untrue... a man is too much, a man is not enough... fruit fruit, tits tits...

Flint and Gender

Vane: “I can understand a woman’s desire for domesticity. But a man’s?” Vane outright questions Flint’s masculinity. But Flint does not respond at the level of gender identity. He turns the conversation into a discussion on what it means to build something vs. prioritizing freedom. (3x8)

Eleanor: “So many goddamn men. Too many goddamn men.” She lists the men who have incorporated her hard work into their own agenda: her father, Scott*, Vane, Flint. Flint doesn’t defend or explain himself. He simply asks her to extend her critique: “Woodes Rogers. He’s really so different from the rest of us?” (4x5)

One character suggests he’s not enough of a man. Another character suggests he’s too much of a man.

But Flint’s responses are not contained by the category of gender. He doesn’t seek to define gender. Instead, he expands the conversational framework so that we see how gender is intertwined with colonialism and other forces.

*Racialized as chattel property, Scott does not belong on this list of oppressive men. It made me furious that she included him. Another example of how you can’t think about gender apart from race, colonialism, etc.

[hadescavedish]

If Silver is a 21th century person he'd have called himself they/them instead :/

[etoilesombre]

"Fucking would fix them" "Fucking would make them worse"

Well them fucking would fix ME, anybody ever stop to think about that?

[etirabys]

watching black sails and shaking my head the whole time so the boyfriend I'm watching the show with knows I don't think it's good poly representation