#it was my third time watching Black Sails and my first time *really* feeling SilverFlint hehe

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A few weeks ago I made two doodles that I messed up by trying to colour one of them. Could've just left it, seeing as they're just doodles and all, but I like them so here we are :3 Added the 3rd just because.

The original pen drawings below the cut:

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What are your top three favorite ships (relationships or friendships) at the moment?

At the moment! That’s a good question (thank you)....

Number one has definitely gotta be Jack/Parse, from Check Please. I can’t believe I’ve been obsessed with this ship for almost three years now! ... and I’ve got a discord where I talk about it more days than not. As to why, ugh, there’s an essay that I keep writing in my head about that... maybe tomorrow I’ll take a break from being almost done (any day) finishing my writing tools and actually write it instead. That’d be fun. Cause the thing about Failing At Life, you see....

Number two as of this week is Flint/Silver (though I believe the usual order is SilverFlint? but anyway) from Black Sails. Friendship? Relationship? Neither really applies to these two, exactly, but I’m very much a fan of something that in many ways resembles a relationship while keeping the shifting balance of power struggle and uncertainty of trust that they have in canon. Which is after all, what I find appealing. Everything from ‘in my head, you are not welcome’ to Flint shooting his own protection... jesus, it’s a lot. I love ships dancing on that thin line between enemies and everything else. (This is the other ship, btw, that I’ve been reading on ao3).

Third!... I don’t have a single good answer, so I’m going to cheat. (Don’t I always tend to do that? Ask me for three things, you’ll get seven. Or none. Cause I got overwhelmed by the seven. But, um, anyway.)

A couple of ships from things I’ve watched now/recently.

Third, cause I do spend more time thinking about it, cause I watched the series over a longer period of time (I do not like the current trend for binge tv... but that’s another post), and cause it has SONGS to listen to/watch forever, is Pearl/Rose from Steven Universe. (Rose/Pearl? idk.) “do it for her! that’s how you know you can win -“... I could quote every line of that song and write an essay just on it too but I will Not. (uh. maybe later. if anyone wants). Anyway - yeah - sure - the Pink Diamond reveal changed a lot of stuff - I really was into the original knight-and-lady dynamic, along with all the added great queerness/weirdness of how gems do things, and the complications of ‘I’ve got to be there for her son’ (also a wonderful! song!!! lol I love musicals). But I’m never gonna say no to adding fucked-up power dynamics in an angsty backstory. Who do you think I am.

And, fourth... Allison & Vanya (or possibly Allison/Vanya? I’m not definitively opposed) from The Umbrella Academy. ... The thing with the ordering here is that while I spend more time, I am sure, thinking about Rose/Pearl, I am more likely to read, and to read about, Vanya and Allison. So. ~shrug emoji~? And - the thing there - this is exactly what I said when liveblogging the show, I’m not sure I can be more specific - is “he made me his accomplice,” is “you left” - “I didn’t want to leave *you*”. I. just. okay. I did not grow up in an academy for superheroes, obviously, because those don’t real, but the way this show depicted a group of people dealing with their shared fucked-up childhood and family, was very extremely excessively #relateable to me, and Vanya and Allison most of all. That book! All those deliberate (and sometimes overly much) attempts at friendship! The near final confrontation and the actually final confrontation!!! I am making so much sense!!! ... but, anyway. When I first dug through the ao3 tags they were dire; I hope there may be something better now. And I want to do Something... I don’t know what... but Allison is not, I’d imagine, going to be sanguine about having her throat cut! for fucking ever. And Vanya’s not going to be quite as apologetic as she probably should. And I’m okay with incest - if someone else goes there - it’s not a hard no for me, generally, but since my feelings about this show are so very much, personally, about family... I don’t know if I’ll want to go there myself. Then again, the actresses are *damn* pretty, so maybe, lol.

(Honestly, I just? Don’t have the same ‘as long as it’s porn or angst or ideally both give it to me’ um, lack of standards at least at the start for f/f ships I love as for m/m. And I need material to fan the flames of fannishness. Hence, 1, 2, 3, 4... but I love these things, so I’d like to figure out how it can work for me.)

Anyway! I promised you seven, didn’t I? I can’t count. I meant six. Because, after, I love my old ships just as much, I think about them just as much, as newer ones. (No, not Glee. That’s just on my blog cause it’s still on my dash after all this time).

Fifth... I still think about my John Laurens (not anyone else’s, really, but mine), just about every fucking day. I left Hamilton fandom quite decisively, several years ago, for several reasons.. (oh, the ship is Hamilton/Laurens of course), but I can never shake that story I was gonna write and will never write. Apparently. - It goes like this.

John Laurens was trying to die in the war. For good reasons - his apparent utter inability to change anything in the world - (I know that’s not a good reason! don’t talk to me!) - and for worse ones (being gay, his lover married, feeling so guilty about the former that he wanted the latter, oh, John). He almost succeeded, at the very last minute - in history he did succeed. But in my AU, he wakes up - the war’s over - and he’s gotta figure out What To Do Next. “Dying is easy, living is harder,” yeah? One of the (many many many) things I loved about Hamilton is how it went in on that, only not for Laurens, of course, cause he died... and that’s the story that keeps singing in my brain; there are, fractally, lots of details, of course, but that’s the outline, the story of this ship.

Six! I need to finish this post. It is 1:24 am. So the fact that Roy/Ed from Fullmetal Alchemist (it is really a very great show - ships aside, when I rewatch, I just love it) is still enough of a favorite that I wanna count it will. Lol. Stand mostly on its own. I have been rereading rainjoys’ corpus of fic for them continually for a dozen years now. And just a few days ago I was talking irl about this great idea I had for a roleswap AU... even though it was inspired by shippynes, the AU itself isn’t shippy. It’ll, also, be a different post! And I love magic science and geniuses who disobey their commanders and it is 1:30 am goodnight <3.

[flinnybillymoonexplosion]

I know I told you I’m leaving... but I just found this interview and I had to post it...

Don’t realy know if they’re spoiling something or not (I don’t think so...), but anyway... I’m tagging it as spoiler.

The article talks about the final season and the relationship between Flint and Silver... as always... but if you ship Flint and Billy keep reading...

In this interview they ask Toby Stephens this:

Paste: Do you think Flint becomes more in touch with his humanity?    

Stephens: He’s true to himself. There’s a kind of purity that he is so unrelenting, you know what I mean? In this last season, where the wheels come off and it ends up coming to pieces, it’s really hard, I hope for our audiences, to watch that, to watch this person that they’ve followed all this time, that it comes to an end game. In the course of his relationship with Silver he cedes power to Silver willingly. He needs an accomplice. I think that’s something he learns about himself. He needs somebody to be partnered with and Silver becomes the ultimate person. He’s had Thomas, he’s had Mrs. Barlow, and then finally it’s Silver. In the end, that the sort of love of his life really.

Not in a romantic way, but he’s found his match.

He sort of ceded power to him, but once you cede that power you can’t get it back. It’s about the ascent of Silver and the descent of Flint.

So... I don’t want to bring all Silverflint fans down, but I do want to cheer my dear Blint shippers up saying: Silver is not Flint’s love interest, he’s just someone he needs and someone who he thinks is going to be there for him, not in a romantic way, but in a platonic one (If I understood this interview right) as his partner... We are going to see how this relationship switches and they end up in opposite sides.

Billy, in the other hand, in my opinion, at first is going to start being in the same side as Flint and Silver, but then he’ll leave Flint’s side cause he’s done with his plans (and because he’s the fucking leader of the resistance, yeah Billy!) so they’ll be in opposite sides in the middle of the season. He’ll try to pull Silver to the resistance and Flint’s going to try to pull Silver to his own reasons behind the war. Silver is going to be central, we know, and he’ll need to choose...

I’ve got the strange feeling that Silver, at some point in the season, is going to betray Flint and he's going to use the "shame" against him (Maybe Billy encourages him to do it, remember that little clip where Billy tells Silver “people have to know it” or something like that?)... Silver does not play fair ... and I think his relationship with Flint is so obvious that in the end it has to take a turn to break it, and so with Billy.

Flin’s relationship with Billy has always been in the background and it’s been Billy with whom Flint has had the most personal or tense moments, plus all the shit that Billy hates Flint... you know... everyone takes that for granted  in Billy, doing everything for his brothers, when in fact he does it for Flint, to protect him... and the way they have to approach Flint both Billy and Silver are very different. The reasons why Silver is close to Flint from the beginning of the show is evident. He does it because of interest and survival, then becomes a quartermaster and he identifies himself for the first time with the crew and with Flint, and eventually, this season, he will become the character of treasure island and captain of the Walrus. Billy, on the other hand, is in the Walrus from the beginning, is wanted and respected by his brothers and captain, but seems to have a strange relation with the latter. He gets nervous in his presence and does not seem to approach him in a very obvious way (as Silver would), but quite the opposite ... it is Flint who comes to him all the time in the first season. In the second Billy acts in another way, a more subtle way ... and in the third one, he starts to stop Flint and Flint’s plans, telling him what to do: like that time in 3x07: “ you can not go to recruit people to the Guthrie’s, Silver will go”, and Flint complies (wanna make here a little parallel with Eleanor and Rogers relationship, I can’t remember in which episode was, but there’s one scene where Rogers is with his men and Eleanor and he’s talking about going to Nassau himself to offer the pardons to the pirates. Eleanor tells him that he shouldn’t do that, and in return she says that Hornigold would do, just the same as Billy with Flint!! and both Rogers and Flint complie to Eleanor and Billy) .... or in 3x08 when he tells him to leave with the chest and that he’ll stay in Nassau to free Vane, and Flint again complies ... where does all this lead us?? That in this season Billy is not going to be manipulated by Flint, is going to leave things very clear to him and Flint is going to realize about the mighty man that is Billy ... and he won’t be able to approach him as before. You missed your chance Flint... until the day Billy comes back to help Flint in the final episodes! yeah!! That’s what I, at least, expect...

Billy coming back, as always!!

Thank you for reading my stupid thoughts!!

Hope that season 4 will give us  some love for Flint, or, as I always ask, a proper explanation of Flint and Billy’s relationship!!