#john silver

[robbieonthereg]

i love black sails because it really asked how many canonically romantic relationships can we mirror silver and flint’s relationship to in honestly the last couple seasons alone and the answer was all of them

BLACK SAILS 1.02 “II.” 4.10 “XXXVIII.”

[erodingsinner]

It's sooner than later that I'm six feet under.

[tiofrean]

Silver in Gold.

Because of reasons.

[iunmadehim]

and i opened my arms wide to the dark

[finallyinthemoment]

And this is juxtaposed with Flint, who is also very aware he's a fictional character, but he created himself with a purpose, to destroy England and English civilization and then revert to his former self. Silver created an indispensable sidekick survivor who becomes a figurehead for survival of this little counter culture utopia they've created. Whereas, Flint created a charismatic wartime leader of destruction who threatens to destroy the very things he is trying to protect with said destruction. And when people start trying to unmake him before he accomplishes his goal, he fights back and tries to destroy them.

And the upshot of it all is that Jack and Max essentially succeed where both Flint and Silver failed. Jack and Max both created new characters for themselves, but they created them to be permanent rather than temporary. Jack wants to be known and remembered as a pirate with the notoriety that Flint only wanted to have temporarily. And Max succeeds in being the silent partner with true power over the continuation of Nassau which Silver only wanted temporarily to become passively rich and disappear into obscurity.

a lot of people say "Silver *knows* he's in a story" as in he knows he's a fictional character in the show Black Sails. imo what he really does is actively turn himself into a fictional character that he inserts into other people's stories, and that's so much more fucked up, like John Silver only exists bc John Silver made him up

....until other people start to put him into their stories on their own

[holychopshopgalaxy]

crazymaking development in black sails: just as silver loses the ability to direct his own story as long john silver he comes to wield total power over captain flint's story solely because flint cedes that power by falling in love with him

[sabertoothwalrus]

"You give up a few things chasing a dream." ✨

[thepunintended]

[thevoicefromanotherworld]

FRIENDS DON'T LOOK AT EACH OTHER LIKE THAT ☝😩

[kuzuyamii]

happy anniversary to whatever is going on in this show

[fablestar]

Black Sails // Dinosaur by Richard Siken

Hashed this out while sick as hell with Covid this week. I think you can tell I was feverish and half-possessed by the spirit of old man yaoi but that's art babey.

[grabyourpillow]

I have a feeling they're not gonna explain further and I couldn't find fault with that?

Like we know all we need to know. He's someone who dreams of freedom from everything, and who has a developed skill in 1. Understanding human nature and 2. surviving

Gotta love how at the beginning of Black Sails season 2 we still have no idea who the fuck John Silver is

[al-norton]

You believe me like a god

I betray you like a man

[blacksailsblr]

BLACK SAILS 4.10 “XXXVIII.”

[frenchublog]

💎🪐treasure planet