#silvermadiflint

[brotherconstant]

BLACK SAILS • XXXII.

The Art of Nonverbal Communication

[swinginmandarin]

Rewatching black sails for the first time in its entirety and being two episodes away from the end, knowing what's coming

It's the way silver loves madi and flint too much to continue their war. But his love is selfish, he is putting his love for them above their own wants. And it feels as though he's saying i dont love you enough to wage your war, i love you too much to wage your war. how do you choose one irreplaceable thing over another. how do you choose one irreplaceable person over another. why MUST i choose.

The worst part is that silver doesn't even recognize his love for flint, or flint's love for him. He's able to reconcile his feelings for madi because they make sense to him its comfortable, and he doesn't realize he holds love for flint as well

Despite telling them both that he'll wait for them for however long they need and quite literally creating parallels of his relationships to them, he doesn't realize this.

[john-silvers]

I don’t know what I’m trying to say. Perhaps just that...he is my friend too.

[paintingcranes]

love longs to breathe

Story Summary:

I miss him, Madi almost says to her husband, countless times, over years. I wish we could go back in time, back to the three of us.

But she doesn’t. Because then Silver would have to lie.

And with every lie he tells, the distance between them grows.

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Story Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58078039

[zara2148]

Because I’m getting back into Black Sails at the SAME TIME that Dracula Daily is going strong, I was looking at all the canon and heavily implied polycules in Black Sails and thinking “fuck, they could win against Dracula.”

It’s now a right of passage for all polycules to fight a vampire.

[jaynovz]

Brinn @brinnanza made me a Madi to complete my pirate poly trio so here's some kissing.

They're in love 🥰💜🥰💜

[odysseusilver]

Ok I’m working on the SilverMadiFlint edit again, it’s on the shorter side so it shouldn’t take as long as the first edit I made hopefully! I really want to make a terror edit after this one I just can decide what song to use, my current ideas are ‘New Discovery’ by the crane wives or ‘fear of the water’ by SYML. Decisions decisions….

[deanmarywinchester]

re prev post i just think silvermadiflint has many fun possibilities other than the “canon girlfriend tells her man that he’s allowed to sleep with his homoerotic foil” thing. especially ripe for possibilities because of the period where flint is obsessed with madi and she doesn’t like him. and because whooo knows how silvermadi ever managed to get together when madi was pretty sheltered (in a particular way of course but like as the queen’s daughter I don’t see her doing a lot of casual dating) and silver was Like That

[whereyoudontseeme]

But I'm not the villain you fear I am. I'm not him.

(alternatively) You said this could’ve been the best thing that ever happened to you, so you decided not to do it. 

[brotherconstant]

 Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test. Do you love me stripped of everything that might be lost, for only the things I will have for ever? — Alain de Botton, Essays in Love

[trappper-johnathan]

John Silver may not have two feet but he sure as hell has two hands

[nastasyafilippovnas]

That Silverflintmadi modern/politics AU we talked about?

*rubs hands together excitedly* thank you! These are pretty general but I hope you like them!

Madi’s family immigrated from the Caribbean to the US when she was a little girl. Her mom runs a NGO focused on immigrant rights and her father worked most of his life as Senator Guthrie’s Chief of Staff. She always considered it her destiny and her duty to fight for the rights of her people. She goes to Harvard Law School and graduates top of her class, obviously.

Senator Flint comes to a talk about LGBT Rights at her law shool on her 3L year. She sees the passion she feels reflected on his every word and she applies for a internship in his office the very next day.

Eleanor shows her around town once she moves to DC and tries to convince her to come work with her everytime she can, but Madi doesn’t want that corporate life, no matter how much good Eleanor thinks they are doing.

She doesn’t meet Silver until her second month working for Senator Flint, when a highly controversial environmental bill is being voted. He and Flint have a lot of meetings alone that week and someone in the office tells her that Silver is a lobbyist. 

They meet by chance one day at the nearest Starbucks and end up having coffee together. She says she doesn’t trust lobbyist like him. He laughs and tells her her information is outdated. These days he only does he does what needs to be done to protect Flint and their interests. She gets him another cup of coffee.  

She doesn’t know when Senator Flint goes from being a man she admires to being one she wants in her life. When he goes from Senator to James. Except they seem to spend more and more time alone in his office after everyone has left and their discussions have long changed from politics and prejudice to books and love.

SEND ME AN AU AND I’LL GIVE YOU 5+ HEADCANONS ABOUT IT

[this-is-a-mainblog]

As much as I love Silverflint, the real power couple of the revolution is Flint + Madi. John Silver would’ve just been the trophy husband for both of them, let’s be honest here

[illgiveyouallofme]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Black Sails Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Captain Flint | James McGraw/John Silver, Madi/John Silver, Captain Flint | James McGraw/Madi/John Silver Characters: Captain Flint | James McGraw, John Silver, Madi (Black Sails) Additional Tags: Threesome - F/M/M, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Pining, Love Confessions, Two Idiots Being Idiots, And Madi being Done, (If I ever write a fic where Flint isn't giving someone a blowjob it will be a miracle), bi!James Flint, bi!John Silver, Miranda Barlow - mentioned - Freeform, Canon Era, Season/Series 04 Summary:

Since Silver returned from the dead, Madi has watched him and Flint dance around each other. She decides to take matters into her own hands.

And then everyone takes some things into their own hands.

[hotniatheron]

39 silcvrmadiflint

 send me an autumn prompt!

39. homecoming -This is probably referencing school homecoming but i hate school AUs so YEAH, we’re going with a more literal sense

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The house they come to a stop to in front of isn’t what Flint is expecting. It’s neat and tidy, window boxes overflowing with flowers, and neatly painted shutters. Silver looks enormously proud when he goes up to the door, looking over his shoulder at Flint as he pulls the key from his pocket.

“Madi’s recently gotten very into gardening,” Silver says when he notices Flint looking, nodding at the flowers. “The back plot is for the inn’s kitchen garden, so I put those in just for her.”

“It’s lovely,” Flint says, going over to look at them. “But these boxes are going to fall off when autumn comes and it starts raining more. Whoever put them in-”

“Me,” Silver says and Flint blanches, which makes Silver laugh.

“I’m an innkeeper, not a carpenter,” he says, motioning for Flint to follow him. “Come on, you can criticize my woodworking later.”

Flint smirks at that and Silver rolls his eyes with a sigh.

“Honestly, not even home five min-”

There’s a pattering of footsteps and then Flint’s arms are full of Madi, who wraps her arms so tightly around his neck he’s forced to hold her up against him.

“I’ve never been greeted like that,” Silver pouts and Flint can hear Madi huff against his neck.

“He’s lying, I came all the way down to the docks last time he took a trip,” Madi says, but she doesn’t move away. 

Flint holds her tight too, resting his cheek on her head. Takes a deep breath and feels his throat tighten at the familiar smell of her hair oil.

“I told you I didn’t kill him,” Silver says, nudging her and Madi reaches out to lightly swat his arm.

“I missed you too,” Flint says to her and Madi rests her chin on his chest to look up at him. She looks the same, save a few gentle wrinkles a the corner of her eyes. Like ten years was no time at all.

“Still handsome,” she says after a moment. “Don’t you think John?”

“Quite,” Silver says, though his cheeks turn a deep shade of pink to let them know the extent of what he thinks.

He reaches out to stroke the curve of Madi’s cheek with his knuckle and she hums, leaning into the touch. Grins when he reaches up and does the same to Flint.

“He only shouted for half the trip too,” Silver says and Madi turns to give him a surprised look.

“Only half? I yelled at you for five years.”

They both laugh, but Flint knows it was rough. He’d had his own roughness learning to fit together with Thomas again.

“And he says he’s going to fix the window boxes.”

Madi turns back to Flint and raises her eyebrows.

“Is that so? We’ll have to keep you around for a while. Will Thomas mind?”

“As soon as he’s satisfied his new students are up to his standard, he’ll make his way here,” Flint says. “Though we might have to send him a letter to remind him.”

“A schoolmaster’s spouse,” Madi says, tsking. “And I’m an inkeeper’s wife. You and I should have run off James. You could be king by now.”

Flint can’t help but laugh, even as Silver groans.

“This was a bad idea.”

“Nonsense,” says Madi, finally pulling away from Flint to put her hands on her hips. “It’s about time you brought him home. Maybe I’ll finally get my kitchen table fixed too!”

“I told you I could hire someone-”

He and Madi start to bicker and Flint can feel the last bit piece of himself settle back into place, finally home after ten years.

[riisinaakka-draws]

With the last piece of wood I made “a book”.

At first I had considered doing another wall thingy, but when I was holding the wooden piece in my hand, it was quite like the size of a book (and I already had so many things on the wall) so I thought... could there be another discreet way to hide some Black Sails surprises somewhere...

The first piece is one of Madi’s S3 shirt details, the 2nd piece is Silver’s thirsty neckline, the 3rd is one of Flint's books and the 4th is an old key (from a flea market and no idea where it fits). A bit obscure references but they were the pieces I still had left and thought were subtle and fun and about the right size for the book spine :)

(for decorative reasons, on the right is a Redbubble print of my “Teeth in the Dark”)