#hal hamilton

[mariocki]

Man in a Suitcase: The Revolutionaries (1.26, ITC, 1968)

"Well... all your clients cause this much trouble?"

"No, do yours?"

"Yeah. Usually."

[nonstopive]

In the Green Lantern backup stories in Flash 231 and 232 we learn that Aaron Burr has been alive and well in space this whole time.

[howlerbat]

a James Flint shipping chart

[meyerlansky]

timestamp roulette: BLACK SAILS EPISODE VI ↳ how many times must you have told yourself that you're special?

[everythingfeelslike-themovies]

black sails memes (3/?)

1, 2

[flints-silver]

Black Sails Ship Tourney - Round 1

[mintyspacecadet]

last in a long line of blue-coded loved ones with tragic ends

[oddlyenthusiast]

Black Sails (2014-2017) Happy 10th Anniversary!

caps courtesy of grande_caps/kissthemgoodbye

[heycarrots]

Happy Tuesday, Black Sails Nation!

As was requested by @billie-bones, I’ve listened back through 18 hours of interviews and compiled a list of every fic mentioned on the podcast.

This list is categorized by episode and includes ratings and summaries, as well as direct links to the fics, themselves. I’ll tag as many authors as I can, but I may not know the tumblr accounts for everyone. If you see someone who’s fics are referenced and you don’t see them tagged and happen to know their handle on here, you may want to send this on to them, that way they know which episode they’re mentioned in and can listen to hear the fic discussed if they so choose.

Some fics got multiple mentions across several episodes and so, to streamline, I’ve listed them only under the first episode in which they are mentioned, so there are no duplicate listings.

Edit: This will be a living document, updated with each new episode with any new fic recommendations. If you’re an upcoming guest and want to compile your top 5 and prefer to mention fics that haven’t been mentioned before, this list will be a valuable resource to cross-reference.

I want to thank my dear @tiofrean, partner in crime and all-around badass extraordinaire, for taking my bare bones list of titles, authors, and links, and filling them out with summaries and all the details you may want to know before committing to a fic. She also broke down every series referenced into its individual parts, since ratings and details will change throughout a particular series. She did this without me requesting it because she’s simply that awesome. Not only has she donated cover art commissions for several episodes, including the upcoming-coming Episode 13, but she helped with this project, which took several days, just for that part, out of the goodness of her heart. You sincerely fucking rock!

And without further ado, here is the Reading Between the Lines Podcast: Fic rec Masterlist!

@lupismaris @jaynovz @etoilesombre @tiofrean @b1uetrees @aisalynn @vowel-in-thug @jadedbirch @justadearie @lurkerdelima @r0b0tb0y @primal--scream @stele3 @twofrontteethstillcrooked @citrinekay @tahiri-veila @bisexualpirateheart @reluming @flintfag @mycapeisplaid @redwhale

Once again, if you don’t see your friend’s account tagged and they are on this list, please tag them or send this to them.

Sincerest thanks to all of our listeners! When you listen to the podcast, you’re supporting so so many people in this fandom!

Preview of Tora’s next episode art featuring Flint and Vane:

[greenlantern94to04]

Green Lantern #55 (September 1994)

Zero Hour is here, and so is Green Lantern! A different, much older Green Lantern, despite him looking about as young and buff as Kyle (we're in the '90s DCU, where even graphic designers and aging businesspeople have six packs). But first: the conclusion of Kyle Rayner's fight with Major Force, the nuclear-powered government agent who murdered Kyle's girlfriend Alex last issue. When we left them, Kyle's power ring had just flaked on the "power" part and the fight was going predictably poorly for him.

Before killing Kyle, though, Major Force asks him to clear something up: what the hell is that green rock his bosses found in the alley where Kyle got his ring in GL #50? Kyle, of course, has no clue -- but when his ring gets close to the rock, it causes it to morph into a sort of lantern. A green lantern. Suddenly, the ring has power again and Kyle quickly turns the tables on MF.

When MF makes it clear that no amount of green torture will make him rat out his bosses, Kyle is like "okay fine, I'll just kill you then." He seems willing to do it, too, but then some cops show up to arrest MF and they end up saving his life. Naturally, they also have some questions for Kyle about that body they found stuff in a nearby fridge, but Kyle wants to be alone right now and just flies away.

Poor Kyle doesn't even get a minute to mourn Alex before noticing that some dude in a green cape broke into his apartment and is just standing in his living room. Understandably, Kyle is no mood to deal with that nonsense right now.

Kyle produces a Cable-from-the-X-Men-sized gun and threatens the home invader. However, the guy turns out to have a power ring of his own and is much better at using it than Kyle, based on the fact that Kyle ends up pinned to the wall by a giant skeleton hand within like a second. Once Kyle has agreed to hear him out (not like he had much choice at the moment), the man introduces himself as Alan Scott and says he's also Green Lantern. Or was, anyway.

This whole "multiple Green Lanterns" thing is confusing to Kyle, so Alan tells him about the Green Lantern Corps, Hal Jordan, and how Hal Jordan went crazy and destroyed the Green Lantern Corps. He even projects some cool splash pages with his ring, maybe because he knows visual aids are appreciated when you have ADHD like Kyle.

(I like how Alan projected that image of himself tied up and looking like that, which I don't remember from that issue.)

Alan says he's here because he knows he'll eventually have to go up against Hal again (his first attempt wasn't too successful, as seen above) and he thinks Kyle, as the last of the Green Lantern Corps, should be there to help. Kyle was just saying he didn't even want to be GL anymore after he failed to prevent his girlfriend's death, but then he remembers how Alex was always trying to get him to be more responsible. After Alan has left and Kyle finally gets some time alone, he decides to continue Green Lanterning, as scared and out-of-his-depth as he is, because that's what Alex would want him to do now that he has that power ring. In other words: with great power rings there must come great responsibility (rings).

Just then, Kyle runs into his new pal Superman and a guy in a floating hi-tech chair, Metron, who say they need his help. Despite being so depressed, Kyle is still polite enough to compliment Metron's "cool chair." Anyway: IT'S ZERO HOUR TIME, BABY!

Plotline-Watch:

That "cool chair" scene continues in Zero Hour #4 (the first issue), in which we find out why Superman and Metron came to see Kyle: they need him to act as cameraman, basically, and project an image of Superman that Metron can redirect to "all of Earth's heroes" to ask for their help with the Crisis™ that's been causing all the time-related weirdness we've seen lately (like the futuristic city in last issue, the Nazi dinosaurs in Guy Gardner: Warrior, and all the Batmen in Superman: The Man of Steel #37). That green Superman projection would show up in several other DC titles from this month. So that was Kyle Rayner's first great contribution to the DC Universe: helping Superman butt into other comics.

Incidentally, Zero Hour's Dan Jurgens really nailed Kyle's crabface mask. Not all artists from this era did, as we'll see.

The cops who interrupt Kyle say they're from the Los Angeles Special Crimes Unit. I guess the one in Metropolis was so successful that they started franchising? We'd already seen Washington SCU in the Hawk & Dove series. I hope they're paying Maggie Sawyer some royalties.

Would Kyle have killed Major Force if the cops hadn't stopped him? We'll find out when there's a whole-ass crossover storyline devoted to answering that question ("Capital Punishment").

The reason why Alan Scott looks so spry for a World War II vet was revealed in Ron Marz' Green Lantern Corps Quarterly stories starring the character. Those stories also mentioned the title of "Sentinel," but Alan hasn't adopted that name yet, even though he says in this issue that he isn't currently calling himself Green Lantern either. So I guess he's just "Alan Scott" right now.

The DC Wiki claims that Alexander Luthor from Crisis on Infinite Earths appears in this issue, which doesn't sound that far-fetched since it's a Crisis-related crossover with cameos from like 50 characters (in Alan's flashback), but nope, he's not there. How did they get that impression? I think I know: it's Guy Gardner's fault (and his short-lived yellow armor's that kinda looks like Alex's).

So, to recap, in this issue Kyle: 1) defeats the guy who murdered his girlfriend hours earlier, 2) finds his GL battery and quickly learns how to use it, 3) learns about the GL Corps and the whole mess with Hal Jordan, 4) selflessly decides to continue being Green Lantern despite his original motivation (getting back together with Alex) no longer being applicable, and 5) immediately gets involved in a cosmic crisis. Pretty big day for Kyle! Let's hope he gets some time off after this.

NEXT: Kyle vs. Hal!

[asterofthevoid]

@illuminated-in-darkness and I did a thing.

[toseehowthestoryends]

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.

[queer-crusader]

Don't go giving opportunities like this on a silver platter because:

What do you think would've happened with Peter Ashe if Miranda would've recognised the clock earlier and Gates'd been alive?

ALAYA YOU ARE ASKING EVIL QUESTIONS

Also my brain is NOT at full capacity SO. This is HARD to answer. But I think. I'd LIKE to think. Miranda and Hal would've had a get-together. Chatting in low voice about the meaning of The Clock. The dread. The horror. The realisation. Hal would've realised the nebulousness of the path he originally chose. And then they would've inflicted carnage and fucked flint lovingly after as a treat

[howlerbat]

I’m ruined over you

[marcogiovenale]

hal foster: "fail better. reckoning with artists and critics"

Sandro Ricaldone HAL FOSTERFail BetterReckoning with Artists and CriticsThe MIT Press, 2025(forthcoming)“Serious art anticipates the future as much as it reflects the present,” Hal Foster remarked in a 2015 interview. “By the same token serious art history is driven by the present as much as it is informed by the past.” In Fail Better, Foster, an art critic and historian whose influential work…

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Hamilton, New Jersey