#song: sailing

[cinemaocd]

Jack Rackham is my favorite character in Black Sails because Toby Schmitz is the only actor who realizes he is in a prequel for Muppet Treasure Island...

[dykealloy]

that damn clock

[somfte]

[video description: Black Sails fan edit set to "Bells In Santa Fe" by Halsey. The video's visuals and audio are selected to emphasize Silver's initial belief and later desire that he would not need to be a pirate forever, particularly his ongoing, articulated desire to leave the situations he ends up in. There is emphasis on how his character/outlook changes over the course of the show, and on how he gets sucked in specifically by and because of Flint. Using the song's repeating phrases of "all of this is temporary" and "don't wait for me" the video also attempts to highlight how unhappy Silver is and how very, very stuck and enmeshed with Flint he is. /end description]

[magicgirlboss]

john silver - i'm your man

[beneathsilverstars]

been thinking about the differences between SASASAP and ISAT lately. because looking just at ISAT and the two hats ending, you'd think loop went through the exact same house as our siffrin, but looking at SASASAP, it's different. it's mixed up. it's obviously a condensed prototype.

but. that doesn't have to mean it's a different universe entirely.

maybe that's just what happens after a thousand loops.

the house warped in act 5. siffrin lost their shit and the house got changed and corrupted, far past its baseline king uncanniness. so it wouldn't be too out-of-the-question for it to be able to warp in more subtle ways as well, due to a more subtle breakdown.

like a jpeg uploaded and downloaded a thousand times, siffrin changed, and the loops changed. over a thousand loops of efficiency, the house got more efficient. rooms combining. items moving. data compressing. and of course, run in a changed house, the script changed as well. it did so slowly, one bit at a time, over a thousand loops of zoned-out half-listening – and by the time siffrin would have noticed each difference, they were already used to it. (and in the moments that they did look at a room that was less familiar than it should be and realize that they had no idea where to find the key, well. that's just classic siffrin, isn't it.)

through sheer repetition, siffrin was corrupted, and the loops and the house along with them. all purpose lost, all signals distorted, until finally they couldn't recognize the meaning in any of it. it was all noise and despair.

so they made a wish. and the loop restarted. not just a reboot, but something more complete.

the data was backed up onto a star – a guide, a warning, a reference – and the loops were factory reset. and for the first time in a thousand loops, siffrin woke up to a clear mind and the crisp sound of birdsong.

[slayerscake]

Not a collab I ever saw coming

[skltart]

And he's lost faith he'd ever see again The soulmate he once thought of me then

[a-story-is-true]

and with one kiss you inspired a fire of devotion that lasts for twenty years

[lesbian-space-fish]

But I will love you more than Death

[SPOILER WARNING!!]

[video id: video edit set to More Than Death by Creeper focusing on both the characters' struggles and the different relationships (platonic and romantic) between characters. Video length is 4:37. end id.]

[the-golden-vanity]

My day job isn't usually terribly exciting, but sometimes I do get emails alerting me to the fact that someone has released a previously-thought-lost collection of erotic sea shanties. Enjoy, ye salty seamen!

[dykealloy]

Until then, I remain. Long John Silver.

[somfte]

[video description: a montage of shots of Flint from Black Sails being dramatic, intimidating, violent, or all of the above, set to “Bad Guy” by Billie Eilish.

/end description]

[weidli]

the good lord ain't bringing me home

[copia]

ghost covers ⛧ Here Comes the Sun — The Beatles — "Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting..." footage | title font

[puppyeared]

modern au ft @crow-cap's oc sailor <3

the wood markings on xins face were inspired by @zah-likes-tea's art of them hehe

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

“The stars are pointing my way

From quarter of the globe away

And yet, I feel so astray

How did I get so lost?”

Thank you SO MUCH to @monoshiki, you know I black out whenever “Ephemera” and “good song” are in the same sentence, so this was born because of you!!

also—here are lyrics within the image in case you can’t read my writing:

“I've always been taught to be brave and strong

To see the hope when all feels wrong

I've always been taught not be afraid

And look, the price, the price I paid

I'm barely afloat

My sails are set

I'm coming home”