#love you black sails

[mercutiotakethewheel]

ok but what is pirate media’s obsession with blackbeard??? dudes not cool or special. like at all. he had two ships. literally just two. he operated for two years. just two. why do movies/tv act like he was the uniquely badass and godlike??? he wasnt. i know its cuz of a general history of pyrates but yall come on.

[trashy-greyjoy]

really love dynamics that are like 'it honestly doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic, the point is that they love each other. the type of love is inconsequential, all that matters is that it's there'. gotta be one of my favorite genders.

[captmuldoon]

Black Sails really tapped into a very specific kind of ghost story where your ghost is not actually you but someone else's perception of you - the person they thought you were and should be. Imagine hating knitting and embrodiery, and you're no good at it, but you do it because you're a governor's wife and people expect you to be at his side, quiet with your head bowed over your needles. You buy a new wardrobe of dresses because your role necessitates it, but you keep your old clothes hidden in your rooms because you can't bear to let go of that part of you yet. And then you die and you come back as a haunting and you're faceless and voiceless, and you're wearing a dress that means nothing to you, and the only sound you can make is that of your knitting needles hitting each other again and again. And this is how the person you love brings you back: a voiceless, faceless thing in the corner.

[theartofangirling]

the world was truly not ready in 2014 for eleanor guthrie as representation for girlfail bisexuals. terrible taste in men, fumbles the most beautiful woman in the world, makes the worst possible decisions at every turn. #progressive

[maxanor]

QUEER CHARACTERS IN PERIOD DRAMA TELEVISION → pre-twentieth century [insp]

[dreaming-of-hope]

[...] I'm damned for what I do. My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they've set me on a path from which there is no escape. I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down there was no longer any ground beneath my feet. What is my sacrifice? I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else's future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice? E V E R Y T H I N G ! 

black sails (2014-2018) // andor (2022-2025)

[epiphainie]

just thought about this and started chewing on wires

[springcatalyst]

AND REAL QUICK the fact that the governor (rodgers??) seeing eleanor after she dies is classic 'my dead wife haunting me' shit and it IS filmed in a REALLY cool way but hes seeing her KNITTING????? something that she has never once done in the whole show we have no reason to believe she enjoys knitting or even CAN knit and in fact probably the opposite seeing as how she didnt enjoy embroidery the one time we see her try it. hes really mourning a woman that never existed

[keivni]

[THE SICKNESS]

[castiemrys]

Billy is actually so relatable bc to him Silver is like, your friend who has terrible taste in men and is gushing about this Asshole Guy you both know like "he's actually really nice sometimes :)" and "yes sometimes i think his relentless rage controls the weather" and "it's actually been a long time since he killed someone without reason :) <3"

[starbuck]

Flint’s whole “maybe you should have been a better father to him” thing is CRAZY, but it’s worse when you realize that putting your surrogate son in a dangerous situation and letting him fall is, in fact, how fatherhood was modeled for Flint by Admiral Hennessy.

[p00sy-d3stro7er]

I actually thought that my previous text post would be the last one but I found these in the depths of my gallery so. Enjoy your meal *throws them like chicken feed*

[fuck-you-jack]

you can see how annoyed vane is when his new quartermaster is like "yeah idk how defending miss guthrie would be beneficial to us". vane is like god i miss jack. he let me make decisions with my dick all the time

[tiofrean]

I was trying out some ink brushes. This absolute tease happened. I bet Flint had a hard time.

Heh.

[Part 2 here, because we know Flint was watching him]

[adastreia-12]

oh the moment I fell in love with captain james flint you say? glad you asked, black sails season 1 when he brutally murdered a man and stood up covered in his blood next question

[kairennart]

And the true power here… is a little more complicated than that.

For the Black Sails 10th anniversary week: Favorite story arc.