#john silver

[mintyspacecadet]

silver and flint when they were little

[sabertoothwalrus]

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

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

[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.

[al-norton]

You believe me like a god

I betray you like a man

[frenchublog]

💎🪐treasure planet

[hrtgallant]

there's something meaningful in how childless black sails is, as a show. there are barely even child extras. there is no second generation, there is no continuation, no 'innocent' unbiased pair of eyes. and when you factor in Treasure Island, you suddenly see that no one exits that story alive except for silver, the pirate king. that world and those people exist solely within his conscience - and then his story is passed down to a young boy. 'there are no legacies in this life' yeah there aren't. 'we have no kings here' yeah and you have no heirs.

[spidermanifested]

another black sails fantheory ive seen around a lot is that silver is jewish, usually specifically sephardic, but despite its prevalence i havent been able to find anybodys actual thesis statements about it. so if there are Essays out there (especially by somebody with more historical-slash-judaism knowledge than i with my meager wiki-crawls) i would love Links

however once again ive pondered a bunch of the stuff ive noticed personally, about mr john "if thats even your real name" silver. and honestly at this point id be kind of surprised if it Wasnt the actual context the writers shaped his character around. everything just seems to come together really neatly

hes impressively literate for his circumstances/time period, and really good at quickly memorizing large amounts of text. a solid religious education could very well explain this

specifically– and this is one of the things that feels like a huge bit of intentional subtext to me– the scene where hes hiding with the lepers and memorizing the urca schedule REALLY seems to evoke someone reading scripture under a prayer shawl

not only does he not know how to cook pork, but does not even seem to know what pork looks like when finished cooking

the pretext flint used to get his crew to hunt down the hamiltons' ship was that it was carrying sephardic riches. this is a completely throwaway detail we learn secondhand, in a story where there are very, very few completely throwaway details

silver speaks at least some spanish. this comes up Once and goes totally unquestioned by everyone around him, likely because they think he just picked it up as a sailor. he almost certainly has not been at sea long enough for this to be the case. speaking ladino as a first language on the other hand would give him a huge leg up (so to speak.) in that department

further point. around the time period of the show, the biggest sephardic community in the world lived in thessaloniki in modern-day greece. it was:

a) one of the most major seaports in the ottoman empire

b) a famous center for learning, which boasted 100% literacy of its jewish population

and c) despite its long and prosperous history under ottoman rule, beginning to decline along with the rest of the empire, for many interconnected reasons, including but not limited to: Problems With the Governments Handling of the Textile Industry (where have we heard that before)

lotta unrest. religious schisms and doomsday prophecies. reactionary groups of overempowered soldiers attacking civilians for stress relief (again. where have we heard that before). people, unsurprisingly, started leaving

so if you did want, against john silvers express wishes. to theorize a backstory for a surprisingly educated stowaway of Mystery Origin, who has Mystery Trauma and doesnt want anybody to know who he is or where he comes from, and which would give a new level of relevance to all the greek stuff that permeates the show (down to the actual name of the thing!), along with containing parallels to several other backstories and events in the show proper,

Well this one make sense i think 👍

[lejay-the-impossible]

Ok I hate it but I promised you guys so there you have it

Silver's not dead btw I was trying to show that the memory of his teachings lead Jim to- nevermind you got it

[amarantheia]

Today's a personal Black Sails Anniversary for me, so posting this drawing of my faves from my fave show as a tiny celebration

[pzychojinx]

deleting my dating apps because i want to meet someone the old fashioned way (i am brutally beating a man to death to maintain my extremely fragile status as captain of my pirate ship and you're my new lying ass fake cook with his silly little fake name witnessing the scene like you're both scared and horny)

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BLACK SAILS 4.10 “XXXVIII.”

[rustic-space-fiddle]

Treasure Planet feelin’ 22 this year ✨

l'm a day late because we were traveling for thanksgiving yesterday, but HAPPY 22ND BIRTHDAY TREASURE PLANET!!!

I know nothing about Taylor Swift except that 22 is the anthem for 22nd birthdays and I wanted to do something fun and memey for the birthday since I missed last year and burned myself out the two years before. And im pleased w the result

[brotherconstant]

BLACK SAILS 4.09 INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.08