#the walrus crew

[summeryseaserpent]

I can finally post my piece for the @anachronism-ahitzine !!!! I couldn't decide which character to draw so I said ALL.

[jaynovz]

[image id: a meme of a poster that reads "Have you seen him? Now you have :)" with a picture of John Silver from season 1 of Black Sails. /end id]

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This is about the speed I'm at tonight

[jaybee2000]

You know, now that I think about it, Black Sails from Joji’s perspective is just basically Shogun backwards

You are on an island far from home and you have a katana

You don’t speak the language but your skills are valuable to a small crew

You are in the middle of a power struggle between a bunch of guys who hate each other for reasons unknown to you but you stick around because, hey, it’s not like you’re able to get home

You get involved in a war between a splinter group and an empire and god do you look cool doing it.

Did I mention you have a katana?

Joji is out here living his backwards John Blackthorne life and no one is considering the comedic potential of his internal dialogue

That makes Flint Toranaga and you know, I buy it.

[max-nolastname]

no walrus crew member can beat all of the following allegations

sodomy

dental veneers

unemployed

bbl

dui

first degree murder

high treason

expired visa

osha violations

fake tan

[bookishjules]

you ask the crew of the argo ii which they would be less surprised to see--a walrus or a fairy--and the only person who says fairy is frank. bc everyone else would just assume the walrus was him. percy, prince of the sea and helper of marine animals in need, has a special bonus reason for saying walrus tho.

[botanicallyinclinednerd]

Thinking about Black Sails again and am once again overwhelmed with the tragedy of it all

[ask-the-ahit-squad]

how’s the walrus captain and seel crew doing?

the usual, yknow

[naivety]

when i finish my jewish silver doldrums religious imagery god/prophet dichotomy silverflint sickfic it's so over

[somfte]

can't wait to find out in the notes what key quote i completely forgot about 😤

[normalbrothers]

honestly did flint suffer some kind of uwu beanification in the fandom after the gay reveal. he was still kind of awful all things considered

[radioprune]

JOHN SILVER PIRATE KING THAT YOU ARE

[hotniatheron]

i just think it's crazy that as Miranda is dying, Long John Silver is being born. Flint unable to survive on his own because he needs someone who can do the groundwork for him. To be his quartermaster.

[whitestnoise]

#four seasons that essentially boil down to 'do the ends justify the means?'#and the answer is 'you'll have to decide that for yourself and hope you can live with your decision' (@ via old-long-john)

«that isn’t a war. that is a fucking nightmare.»

3.10 || 4.10

[cosmicwhoreo]

Captain Walrus Cookie

AYE! Make way for the guard dog of Choco Mud Town, Captain Walrus Cookie! He kept the peace in the town for 2 decades, chasing off dangerous characters for the often neglected edge of the republic with his motley crew for no more than a few free drinks at the pub. Even so, he rarely ever got physically violent with troublemakers. More relied on careful wording and dominating size to intimidate those causing problems. Always believing words carry more weight than a punch.

[zialinart]

My submission for the fan book for Black sails tenth yeah anniversary

Thank you so much @tobys-walrus-crew for organising this ! Can't wait to see the book !! Also thank you @myfavoritespotonthecitadel for doing the text

[sleevebuscemii]

the thing about silver and stories and silver’s story is that before s3 before he loses his leg before he becomes quartermaster before he becomes long john silver. well. i think the reason silver’s story works against him in the end and by his own hand and his own self is that it’s not really his. the choices he makes in the end are born out of a belief in a reality that doesn’t exist, that what he wants is a quiet life with madi, that madi wants that, that flint is a threat, that flint doesn’t care for madi, that flint doesn’t care for him, and it comes almost from a belief of his own lie. of the fabricated version of himself after the events of the s2 finale, the version of himself that is long john silver and that is a pirate and is a walrus crewman and a revolutionary, which was all a narrative that was bred for him by circumstances, not out of his own choosing. i think a lot about the look he gives flint when flint tells him the crew named him quartermaster. the hate and the disdain and the doom because he knows he wasnt chosen as quartermaster because of his own scheming but because of the circumstances of what happened. not because the crew didn’t actually care and want him to be quartermaster but he didn’t win them over with the charm and wit of his manipulation it’s largely because of the sacrifice they believe he’s made for them. and that wasn’t a sacrifice he chose to make. his new role isn’t a victory he’s carved for himself it’s a position he’s caged into, just like billy’s creation of long john silver. silver assumes the role but gets lost in it because it’s not of his own making and that undoes him in the end. for someone who’s identity is created spontaneously based on the situation at hand, i think the one grasp on identity that silver ever had was that at least whatever identity he would create it was His creation. which isn’t the same thing as Having an identity but he loses his identity definitively when he loses that small power. and so much of it is the disability. in the same way that flint’s conflict with identity is between who he is and who people think he is based on his queerness, based on his ‘monstrosity’, silver’s identity narrows when he loses his leg, and narrows his power of being able to become anyone from anywhere doing anything, so he adopts the identities he’s assigned because he has to, because the options for identities he’d chose for himself are limited anyway, would probably be along these lines anyway. and in the end. in the end there’s nothing anyone could do about it because there’s no real silver. flint and madi couldn’t realize or recognize or argue that this version of silver isn’t real because neither one of them knows who the real silver is! madi certainly doesn’t because she doesn’t even know who silver was before s3 and flint doesn’t because silver never tells him. it’s so much of the painful resignation that comes up in their final confrontation and why silver’s backstory, specifically lack of, comes into priority at the 11th hour. flint can’t convince silver that this isn’t what he wants because there’s nothing to reference, he has nothing to bargain with, not the cause not madi not even their friendship. in the same way that miranda worried she’d be unable to recognize who she is now and flint tells her he recognizes her. in the same way that miranda tells him she recognizes him. there’s no one to recognize silver and there is no silver to recognize.