On this Pride Month I would just like to say that Black Sails really made all of its four seasons and 38 episodes into an expression of gay rage against homophobic brutality and the unbearable loss of love, especially in that tragic context, and that’s still one of the most breathtaking things that any TV show has done, ever.
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Okay, let's try to share an headcanon of mine.
Let's say 1776 (the musical movie yes) is in the same timeline than Hamilton the musical. Yeah i know, not the same actor, yadda, yadda, but we talked about the same characters, here is Thomas Jefferson.
Particulary his costumes.
Funny thing is, in the Hamilton workshop, Daveed Diggs!Jefferson share the same costume than Ken Howard!Jefferson.
But in final, the Daveed Diggs!Jefferson we know have his popular magenta/purple costume.
So how to explain his change of costumes? (other that Lin wanted Jefferson to looks more like a rockstar, so he looked after Prince's costume...)
You know, I love a change in clothes to signify a character development.
Stay with me on this one :
In the 1776 musical movie : there are two characters with orange color and they are virginians too.
Richard Henry Lee and Thomas Jefferson.
And we know the movie wants to represent each state of the congress.
So, let's say orange is for "Virginia".
WHAT IF, when Thomas Jefferson was only governor of Virginia, he was wearing his orange outfit.
Okay, but what about the purple costume?
Do you know which character from 1776 wore purple?
Benjamin Franklin
AND DO YOU KNOW WHO WAS BENJAMIN FUCKING FRANKLIN?
Ambassador to France.
And who succeeded him? Thomas Jefferson, yup.
So in this logic, it makes perfect sense that Daveed Diggs!Jefferson came back in a magenta-purple costume.
And later, he became secretary of state where he wore his more brownish-purple suit, who could be a reminiscence of his old brown orange costume from Virginia.
Look, I even made a stupid chronology of it! (sorry for the second picture)
Of course, it’s just a silly headcanon of mine, dont take it too seriously.
But I kind of like it.
And I had fun to make a color chart about it.
Sooooo... Thanks for coming to my TED talk ?
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Chapters: 13/?
Fandom: Black Sails
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Captain Flint | James McGraw/Thomas Hamilton, Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint | James McGraw/Thomas Hamilton, Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint | James McGraw, Eleanor Guthrie/Charles Vane, Miranda Barlow/Thomas Hamilton, Captain Flint | James McGraw & Hal Gates
Characters: Captain Flint | James McGraw, Hal Gates, Billy Bones, "Calico" Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny, Charles Vane, Eleanor Guthrie, Max (Black Sails), Peter Ashe, Thomas Hamilton, Miranda Barlow, Dr. Howell (Black Sails)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Found Family, Pirate Republic, Angst, Aftermath of Torture, Eventual reunion, Eventual Happy Ending, Pirate War, Hal Gates Lives, Miranda Barlow Lives, Thomas Hamilton Lives, Past Rape/Non-con, Hal Gates mentoring broken young men (yet again), Hurt Captain Flint | James McGraw, 18th century Royal Navy leadership training is awful, Fix-It
Series: Part 1 of In the Darkness, There Be Dragons
Summary:
Chapter XIII: “Know No Shame.”
This chapter:
In another world, Miranda Barlow gets word of Alfred Hamilton’s sailing, and she and James Flint concoct a plan. Flint is prepared. Ready. And he does what needs to be done. His actions do unknowingly allow for Thomas’s move from Bethlem to another, supposedly kinder prison in Savannah, but he won’t know that for a decade or more. What he does find out, far too late, is that his actions—sacrificing his crew to get his own revenge—fracture their trust in him. Does he ever really get it back?
In this world, James Flint is not prepared to run afoul of the earl. Yet that darkness inside him still takes over; he still rages and kills. But here Gates knows more. Here, Gates has his back. And when his crew asks questions, Gates pushes him to answer...which will have long-reaching consequences.
And as for the Hamiltons? Miranda not being in Nassau has its first big impact: here, she’s in England when Alfred dies, she knows Thomas is alive, and she is there and ready to free him. Even if Peter Ashe isn’t as helpful as he should have been...
Read here.
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