#flint txt

[plantdewdrops]

can’t believe I almost went to bed without taking my Halloween t-shot

[helbrides]

james flint

[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

[kindalikerackham]

something i adore about Flint's character is his love for classic books. because like, when he's thinking of talking to his men, his frame of reference isn't the easy personable comradery that grows on people naturally (like Gates, Billy, Silver). he was an outcast in the navy! a poor upstart nerd! a whipsmart career man!

what he does know is the grandeur of the classics. he knows how to speak to Men, how to channel the rage of a collective moment. he knows the romantic swell of a great narrative. when he stands before then, he speaks as a part of that swell. when he stood with Thomas, they spoke in that swell together. Their romance was as much to themselves as to the inherent humanity of people they hadn't even met

And just as the Greatest of Men in the novels don't do things by halves, neither did James McGraw, neither does Flint.

but a man does things by halves. a man will chat and bend their morals and earn trust and friendship by the way they float through others' rules and orders. a man will sully himself and his own narrative and it will be messy

And Flint, James, doesn't think of himself as one of them

this is made all the clearer when Flint says something awkward, something stupid. Because he isn't talking like he's a person. he's talking like he's a Hero, a Villain. he's talking to prop up a greater narrative. and when a man or a woman he's interacting with doesn't see The Narrative he's driving, he can look utterly ridiculous

Flint is embroiled in A Grand, Classic, Romantic Narrative the common man doesn't see

and the writers of Black Sails carefully unfold it to us, the audience

(and to Silver)

[iowiymiw]

i do think it’s interesting re: silverflint every time one of them notices their dynamic shift in some way in season two they will go for the throat and try to cut the other one down at the very core of their being. like flint asking silver what the crew thinks of him when he regains captaincy, the first time he ever has really shown any respect or trust for silver’s judgment. silver’s first instinct is to mock him for being such a terrible person whose done so many bad things while simultaneously extremely sensitive about how people perceive him. meanwhile, when silver is trying to convince flint the gold’s missing and tells him he has second thoughts about their partnership and his place on the crew, flint’s first instinct is go for a similarly deep insult, telling him “where else would you wake up in the morning and matter?” yeowch! and both the things they comment on are things they find the most disturbing about the other: silver finds flint to be a hypocrite and liar but more importantly hates how he genuinely cares enough about morals to allow it to weaken him when he does wrong by his own standards. and flint finds silver’s “self-preservation” and obvious two-facedness as a coward’s excuse for having no real identity.

[flamingoinkart]

ouuuggghhh thinking abt my extremely fragmented OC story where Flint and Blaze (right) serve as foils for Bruno and Brutus (left) and Flint & Blaze exemplify the pain of not being able to make up/apologize for past actions. But because they were chosen to be revived from the dead for a second chance at life by pure luck (because they died young), they were able to mend their relationship as brothers but not their other family members or friends that they've wronged. And they would influence Bruno and Brutus to try to reconcile and mend their strained relationship.

[bisexualsdean]

litchrally no one cares but i just found out ive been working on a chapter for a fic thats apparently 2 chapters ahead of what i have actually published and now i have to go back and finish those two chapters why the fuck is my brain scrambled eggs

[intertexts]

ao3 notif from one ofmy favorite authors of all time (very infrequent) the world is sososooo beautiful................

[mermen]

no fucking way. they finally did it

[tulipterrance]

funny how corporate clash made me realize i am a gay man. Thank you corporate clash

[plantdewdrops]

I need to design a “I ❤️ Executing Babies” shirt that was so fucking funny

[w1ckedgal]

I just hmmmm. wanted to put these pictures next to each other.

Hannibal 3x13

Black sails 1x01

[mobydyke]

do u ever hear about an adaptation so far removed from the original that you're like just write your own book. what's the point

[emiliosandozsequence]

ugh black sails really was so good. the end had me sobbing so hard

[iowiymiw]

silverflint in a way is very thoroughbreds coded. sometimes you meet somebody who seems so wildly independent with so little regards to the consequences of their viewpoints vested in self-interest and you are fascinated by them just as much as they scare you and eventually you think you surpass them but really they just grew to care about about you on such a deep level they let themselves lose just to make you happy

[usertransducks]

I finally downloaded Corprate Clash but accidentally made my toon a different shade of green from my Toontown Rewritten toon because I forgot to check beforehand