#lichfucker

[laufire]

🌹 :)

Rescued from an old "Silver & Max Russian Doll AU but it's in season 1 of the show" concept :P

Max saw a connection between her appreciation for the mechanics of the puzzles and that of the cadence of a poem; it was natural for the human mind to seek such patterns, such rhyme and rhythm and reason in everything around them, and not even the pirate paradise she found herself chained to ignored the allure of such art –if the songs drunken sailors uttered, or screamed, tended to lack in sophistication.

[jaynovz]

copying my reply verbatim to do the thing Properly:

hello public use silver 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

I decided to answer the first one and just tag the others who asked heheh 😂 @hms-tardimpala @etoilesombre

So a very long time ago, in 2021, I was sort of batting ideas around with various folks about ship's whore of the Walrus John Silver instead of ship's cook. As in, to make up for stealing the page he would be thrown into the fuck tent because he can't cook anyway and he can't sail so what good is he ahem, except for certain things? And historically sailors were all very gay about getting needs met while at sea ESPECIALLY using pretty little boys like John Silver bc uh. Look at him?

Around that same time then I read a hazing fic by @asterofthevoid which was particularly inspiring and I wrote a lot of notes down in my concept doc but then went on to other projects for a while.

And so anyway I was starting to think about it again recently and about how no one even made any crass remarks about fucking him and that's not very historically accurate, is it? Like even if they didn't actually go through with it, sailors are pretty vulgar and need to blow off steam by making ribald jokes which is a thing they do all the time in other representations of this period and they would ABSOLUTELY make mention of how pretty Silver was it's frankly NOTICEABLY ODD how Black Sails avoids it.

Anyway all that to say I started drafting a Silver messes up with the pig during careening ep somewhat alt canon where they don't immediately go after the Andromache and the crew are Done with his shit and want a piece of his ass to soothe their tempers. And so instead of having it forced he sets it up all snakey scheming but still very dub con.

All of this is of course a setup to make Flint very possessive and have weird feelings about it and then a funneled into a borderline fetish hurt/comfort with its own FASCINATING powerplay/power imbalance sort of scenario after the actual public use Silver part comes in with the entire Walrus crew.

Some prelim dialogue notes for your viewing pleasure --

(Silver gathering the crew in the galley, addressing them very 2.2 style, dramatic, flourish-y, sultry, showman) "I humbly apologize for joining under false pretenses. And I wish to make it up to you. All of you. By offering myself as a gift as apology for leaving you unsatisfied in your suppers. But I will improve and in the meantime I guarantee full satisfaction for every man in this ahem, particular endeavor." -- (Flint reaction during the act, hissing at Gates) "You have to stop this, it cannot be allowed to continue." (Gates eyeing Silver and the crew publicly fucking him, all cheering etc, with calculating expression, then makes a face, shrug) "Nah, the lad is right, Captain. It would have happened one way or another. Pretty little thing like that on this ship? He's a good lad, good that he knows it. Look at him, it's like he was made to take it." "If I were a few years younger I'd give him a go myself." (ironic chuckle, completely unfazed by this) "It'll keep the crew happy, even more so that he's doing it willingly. Unless you're keeping him all to yourself, might as well let it play out." (Flint turns to Billy with wordless rage/frustration but he agrees) (Billy distasteful expression but resigned) "Hate to admit it Captain, but they've been restless since the disastrous careening. It'll stay another mutiny attempt."

Anyway!! this will probably get written in a fugue state one weekend (because I'm finding it very hard to write things during the week when I'm working.) But I have basically the whole thing outlined so it'll just burst out of me like a flood of... Well. 👀

Thanks all three of you for asking!!

[artemissoteira]

4, 7, 31, 42, 65 for ithren

there were a lot more questions that I really liked and wanted to ask but I could not fathom their being applicable

also g-d just the idea of doing an ask game for ithren is so gjsnfhhd wild

listen I love to think about my g*rl and I love to make that everyone's problem, thank you for enabling me

4. if they could learn one spell that isn’t available to them at present, which spell would it be?

They have everything they need.

However. They would love a teleport spell that can't be blocked by some fucking bullshit lmao.

7. which party member do they understand the least?

Saube, the divine. I'm thinking about the conversation we had in damavand, about ithren's certainty and davidaiah's guidance and how to decide whether to do what has been set before you. Nothing has ever baffled ithren more lmao, the concept of not immediately knowing. As if there's a choice involved. As if it is separate from your self.

They were perhaps equally baffled by Saube asking them for advice, or at least sharing her feelings and questions and waiting for them to respond?? Implying that this was a concept that could also relate to them somehow? For all Whitlock and Ingot explicitly teach ithren about how to relate to people, Saube did it first 1:1 and ithren was. Unsettled by it lmao. Calling her the divine is both true and a useful way to create distance from themselves. Sorry Eli I love you.

31. they’re given a blank piece of paper–what do they do with it?

I mean, Whitlock my friend Whitlock did this very recently. In general though they probably give it to the spider to put in their bags to maybe dissolve later for an experiment.

Or they eat it. A lot of things people give them turn out to be for eating. Eventually they're going to start guessing.

42 - what are three words they would use to describe themselves?

What is needed.

Or, assuming they felt like understanding the assignment... Focused, effective, righteous necessary.

65 - what is holding them back?

Oh that's fun. [redacted] mainly. Which is to say - the celestial's resistance to conjuration. But they don't feel hindered by it, it's just the next step of the problem to solve.

They might have said Whitlock's hope that they humor the marid's notion of control -- they did not like that, even as they implicitly acceded to doing it -- but Whitlock pitching it as a thing to learn really resolved that conflict for them lmao. Now it's a side project they're doing on purpose, like an experiment. If they're doing it on purpose, it's not an obstacle to what is needed. It could be useful. Right?

[fatcowboys]

"no one warned me I'd finish b4b and be insane about these characters" excuse me. I did

NO THATS TRUE YOU DID i think i meant no one warned me that Also season two WHEN

[levithestripper]

1) glad im not the only one who researches odd things for their bs fics (tag credits @lichfucker and @etoilesombre)

2) im obsessed with fishing fics for some reason !!!! i don't even fish but i just love writing it i guess :) i love the idea of silverflint just sitting by the docks fishing together and i can't get it out of my skull so here we are

someone explain to me why im researching nassau/bahama native fish just for a silverflint fishing fic im working on it is not that serious

[lichfucker]

apparently people are moving to cohost so I'm over there @ fate-touched

[simothys]

a note for anyone potentially seeing this: my messaging is broken, along with my replies. i cant reply to any posts (including my own). ive heard some people say they cant see my interactions either, and idk if im showing up on the dashboard!

ive sent staff a support ticket but like. supposedly it takes a while for them to get back to people

[sydneysageivashkov]

the oleander sword

[image description: three stills from Black Sails, with white text overlaid in the center of each still.

1: Silver holding Madi and looking up, when she's been rescued from Rogers' ship. text: "hate me"

2: Madi, after Silver's betrayal, glaring at him. text: "hate me and live"

3: Madi and Silver at the end of the finale, standing far apart on the cliff and staring at each other. text: "I can love enough for the both of us"

end id] id via @lichfucker

[ice-knife]

it’s been a while since I’ve partaken in a wip whenever/show something sunday, but today feels like a good day for it!! spiritually tagged by @lilas and @narrativefoiltrope

i’ve been chipping away at this sketch of Fyfa for a little bit! now the main thing to figure out is her vallaslin and tattoos

[ID: a sketch of Fyfa (they/she), an elf with long curly hair in a high ponytail, high cheekbones, angular features, and wearing a button-up shirt with the top several buttons undone and the sleeves rolled up past their elbows. They are holding their hand up to their face with two fingers making a V, and sticking their tongue between those two fingers while looking suggestively offscreen. /end ID]

tagging @grapecaseschoices @sleepysak @simothys @lichfucker and anybody else who’d like to show off a wip!

[laufire]

ooh can you tell me about beneath the foam 👀

gladly!

it's an original idea I started around... four years ago, I think? it's meant to be a novella, not reaching novel length, set in al-andalus (the time in history when the iberian peninsula was under muslim rule). the story focuses on Maryam and her two younger sisters, Yaminah and Rima. it's both about sea monsters (sirens) and the oppressive nature of their household, and how each sister navigates both.

I can't say more rn because this is one of the wips that's set for a remodel sooner or later. some things just aren't clicking for me anymore? I know some elements (those listed above) will be kept, but I'm moving a lot of pieces around.

I'll leave you an old excerpt, Because:

When she was a child, Maryam started daydreamed that their parents made her and her sisters the way a sculptor creates statues out of clay. As the eldest Maryam had been the unlucky first –a rushed, dangerously imperfect job. Their inexperienced hands left her with brittle bones, a slow tongue and a fickle mind, sorely lacking in virtues. She imagined them warned and determined to rectify their mistakes in their next attempts, pouring everything they had into it. Filling Yaminah with innate wisdom; steadfast kindness; quite strength. Getting then creative with Rima by gifting her with quick wit, an incomprehensible charm, and talented fingers perpetually stained with ink, capable of the most beautiful creations themselves. Maryam had been a tentative attempt at shaping a human being by two people with little idea or even the real will to do so. Her sisters, in their later arrival to the world, benefited from her misery and two seemingly, completely different sculptors.

ask me about my wips!

[jaynovz]

theo sat shotgun during the road trip in ofitf which everyone knows is the dj seat. do you think he'd play music or would he put on those like four-hour white noise compilations of like running water and bird sounds

Definitely the white noise or something like this lo-fi and chill nature sounds edition. 😌😌

[abyssaldyke]

Tagged by sex but in a kiwi accent @dicaeopolis

Last song: oh god I was just blasting my brain with asmr for like 2 hours but before that. Watermelon from Dinner in America a movie I have not seen. Fuck em all but us etc etc

Favorite color: geen

Currently watching: ollie play Zelda. And game changer. We'll get back on the prestige TV eventually.

Last movie: I think also the birdcage? Great fuckin movie.

Sweet/savory/spicy: savory always. If there are only sweets at the function I'm leaving

Current obsessions: honestly just reading really good books and like. My own writing. Surprise surprise.

Last thing googled: "term meaning without atmosphere" (for a description of seeing a planet from space). I think I gave up and went with skyless which the jury is out on.

Tagging @briannysey @dykegerard @akajustmerry @grime-scribe @lichfucker @puckgoodfaggot and all the other beautiful mutuals

[keplercryptids]

red alert red alert, @lichfucker and i are gonna watch the musical episode of buffy tonight, no this is not a drill

[boasamishipper]

nine people i want to get to know better

tagged by @randomnon911stuff and @onekisstotakewithme <33

Last song? "Grace Kelly" by Mika

Favorite color? 💙💙💙

Currently watching? Rewatching some of 9-1-1 for fic inspiration; up next on my list is The Terror (very excited to meet @hacash's frozen blorbos)

Last movie? Wicked Little Letters. I could have watched Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman curse each other out for six hours.

Sweet, spicy, or savory? Sweet all the way.

Relationship status? Currently single.

Current obsessions? 9-1-1, Night Court, and all things John Larroquette, Harry Anderson, Tom Cruise, and Peter Krause.

Last thing you Googled? The origins of the 'prodigal son' phrase, again for Fic Reasons. Always thought that referred to Jesus but apparently not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

tagging @footnoteinhistory @floppydiskorigami @auntieclimactic @konzaprairieunofficial @grasslandgirl @lichfucker @fandomobscura @beanwood and @theodegas

[bisexualshakespeare]

FAVORITE FILMS

tagged by @lowkeyed1

rules: without naming them, post a gif of each of your ten favourite films, then tag ten people.

that's a lot. we'll see. tagging @captainragtag @couchtaro @soullistrations @withoutmystir @coachbeards @lichfucker @not-wrong-just-different uhhh and the girl reading this

[coffinbutch]

Tagged by @houndxtooth to post the first 10 songs that come up on shuffle:

Tagging @abyssaldyke @puckgoodfaggot @lichfucker @brightbluedot @dicaeopolis @scooplery and anyone who sees this and feels like it