#not black sails sorry

[howlerbat]

If you’re a fan of reanimator on tumblr dot com and you preface your posts with “haha I know it’s bad but it’s a guilty pleasure!” - no. Reanimator is not a bad film, I will fight you. Reanimator was made in 1985 with a budget of less than a million dollars, shot in 18 days with a crew most of whom never made a movie before in their lives, was released into theaters UNRATED and then slayed by getting a positive review from Pauline fucking Kael. Stuart Gordon didn’t have a near death experience by going blind after a 24 hour long shoot for you to disrespect his art. Be better.

[wellhalesbells]

Sometimes you watch a show and you're like: wow, they had a serious show bible for this. And you just know it's treated like the holy grail it is by everyone involved, that it's laminated, that it's got annotations, footnotes, color coordination, a section for foreshadowing, callbacks, foils and parallels, that an eye blink doesn't get blunk without it matching that character's arc for the season and the show overall.

And sometimes you watch a show and you know that show had a pamphlet, one with, say, the word TEEN written on the front, WOLF on the back and just [TBD] splatted inside, probably with (abs?) scrawled on the bottom somewhere. And someone put their gum in it around the start of the fourth season.

[tadpal]

The Terror (2018) S1 / Black sails (2014-2017) VIII

There are no legacies in this life, are there? No monuments. No history. Just the water. It pays us and then it claims us. Swallows us whole. As if we'd never been here at all.

[eveningalchemist]

Black Sails with SparkNotes tweets: I make myself laugh I make myself cry

[ladyhawke]

girlhood is a spectrum

[psilactis]

you watch black sails, it rewires your brain, and then what. what now. every queer analysis of media sounds superficial. I want - I need, sometimes - to compare movies and TV shows to black sails so I can make a point, but I can't, because like, five people have watched it. And now what. I try explaining the monster metaphor and how minorities shouldn't conform, but no one gets it. so I just sound like I'm being insane. Which I am, but it has a point and a rationale. And then some media comes out and everyone treats it like it's revolutionary in how it portrays queerness but you've seen it before and you've seen it done better, more carefully, more genuinely, but you can't say anything lest the fans of this new media accuse you of being a prejudiced asshole. And maybe you are. Maybe you're expecting too much of media that should just be allowed to exist as it is. But if that media is putting itself forward as some kind of metaphor for how queer people are treated in society, and it comes to a certain conclusion, and you're queer, aren't you allowed to disagree with that conclusion? Aren't you allowed to think it's shallow at best and homophobic at worse? So you just watch black sails and go insane. and let the cycle repeat over and over. and it's still just you and those five people.

[brotherconstant]

BLACK SAILS 10th Anniversary Celebration Day Two: Favorite Dynamic: Max/Eleanor

II. • And then what? Then they blockade the island, choke off trade. A few crews will resist, but how long can they survive without my father's support? One by one their numbers will dwindle. The fort will be abandoned. Soldiers will storm the beach. By the time the smoke clears, my father will have arrived. First time he's set foot here in five years waving the royal commission that his bribes purchased and lording over the place. Round of applause, the new governor. Somewhere in London, some foul fuck will get news of all of this, light his pipe and say, "Finally, all is right again in Nassau." XIX. • You saying this ain't real? Of course it is. The fort will be repaired. If he says it, he'll do it. When you first opened that door and showed me the Urca gold, do you know what I saw? A solution. The mortar that would secure the sand beneath our feet. The thing I could offer to England or Spain or whomever arrived here and threatened to reorder things, and say, "Take this and leave me be." Everything is dependent upon that gold, and right now it is sitting in a fort with no guns and full of holes.

[ambassadorquark]

black sails is on netflix now, here's some low effort propaganda for the more underrated yaoi it contains for the real tastemakers & connoisseurs

[winnerkirkwood]

on one level, black sails is about what happens before treasure island. on another level, it’s about solidarity and revolution. on a deeper level, it’s about the fucked up things people do because of love. but on the deepest level, it’s about shame

[sparrowsfallingfromthesky]

[posallys]

Also yelling bc in treasure island it says that flint drank himself to death in Savannah except the entire ending of black sails emphasizes stories and how you can never know what is true or what is untrue even if you were there to see it and so we as viewers only know what we are told--we never see silver kill flint, we never know if he retired, we dont know where he went, we learn about flint reuniting with thomas through a story silver tells, we learn that he drank himself to death because the words on a page tell us so and in the end you cant even find comfort in the ending treasure island gives flint because there is perhaps one man that knows the truth of it all except the truth has been warped and marred by time until it is completely unrecognizable even to himself and we're left with the ghosts of stories that are littered with truths but filled to the brim with lies and uncertainty and so maybe flint still haunts skeleton island or maybe flint haunts the sea or maybe flint haunts Savannah or maybe flint haunts silver or maybe the reality of it is that flint haunts everything because no matter which story you chose to believe and take as the truth they're all stories and in each and every one of them flint is a man that met his end by the hand of john silver

[howlerbat]

Persuasion Check of all time

[helbrides]

the greater nassau polycule - black sails s1-4

[piratecaptainraven]

(some* of the) love in Black Sails. For @illuminated-in-darkness

(by no means an exhaustive list, I just ran out of clips and my photoshop ran out of steam)

[geminipdf]

[sailorsallyart]

A commission for @layofcastiel who requested Castiel in Flint’s iconic coat from Black Sails 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈