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[john-silvers]

BLACK SAILS, XII

[daeneryssansa]

“And He formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed life into his nostrils and man became a living soul. And He beheld all He had created, and He said it was very good. But the Lord beheld the man made in his likeness and He beheld his solitude and He said, ‘It is not good that he is alone.’” And the moral of the story? Everybody needs a partner.

[gaylecleven]

[bismoaking]

[naufragium]

~ Louise Glück

[daeneryssansa]

But the closer we got to Savannah, his resistance began to diminish. I couldn’t say why. I wasn’t expecting it. Perhaps he’d finally reached the limits of his physical ability to fight, or perhaps as the promise of seeing Thomas got closer, he grew more comfortable letting go of this man he created in response to his loss, the man whose mind I had come to know so well, whose mind I”d in some ways incorporated into my own. It was a strange experience to see something from it so unexpected. I choose to believe it was because it wasn’t the man I had come to know at all, but the one who existed beforehand waking from a long and terrible nightmare, reorienting to the daylight and the world as it existed before he first closed his eyes, letting the memory of the nightmare fade away.

[daeneryssansa]

But the closer we got to Savannah, his resistance began to diminish. I couldn’t say why. I wasn’t expecting it. Perhaps he’d finally reached the limits of his physical ability to fight, or perhaps as the promise of seeing Thomas got closer, he grew more comfortable letting go of this man he created in response to his loss, the man whose mind I had come to know so well, whose mind I’d in some ways incorporated into my own. It was a strange experience to see something from it so unexpected. I choose to believe it was because it wasn’t the man I had come to know at all, but the one who existed beforehand waking from a long and terrible nightmare, reorienting to the daylight and the world as it existed before he first closed his eyes, letting the memory of the nightmare fade away.

[daeneryssansa]

Black Sails rewatch - Episode XXXVIII A story is true, a story is untrue...as time extends, it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe, those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born?

[daeneryssansa]

People can say what they like about you, but you’re a good man. More people should say that, and someone should be willing to defend it.

[daeneryssansa]

Black Sails rewatch - Episode XI Put a man on an island, give him power over other men, and it won’t be long before he realizes that the limits of that power are nowhere to be seen. And no man given that kind of influence will remain honest for very long.

[daeneryssansa]

Black Sails rewatch - Episode XIII I understand why you need that fort. I understand why you need that gold. I understand why you need this island. I understand it all because I was there the day our lives ended and all of this began. But I have been devoted to you since that day. I have been loyal and protective and fucking committed to you since that day. And I am asking you to come with me so that I can save your life.

[daeneryssansa]

Black Sails rewatch - Episode XII Her judgement about Captain Vane has never been right, but because she is compromised, it does not necessarily follow that she is wrong. To force men to take sides against each other at a time when our very survival demands the very opposite...I fear that if we go down that road, by the time Spain or England arrive, they will find their job done for them. They will find Nassau has destroyed herself. The world changes - it is inevitable, perhaps the only thing that is inevitable.

[bismoaking]

(insp.)

[bismoaking]

…That is all.