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Found family loveless marriage . Found family child abuse

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how much kindness does it take to kill someone

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love when something is about something else

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In the thematic logic of the story, Silver’s position in the forest is not Flint post-Thomas (raging and weeping), and its not Flint post-Miranda (ruined) he’s something similar to but also quite different from McGraw in London. McGraw and Silver (+ some other characters, notably Max) have in common an obviously learned & persistent cynicism about the world, but it seems (or its implied, wrt Silver) that they didn’t arrive at that way of seeing in the same way. I think Flint has largely moved through and out of that cynicism by S4; he still wields it tactically against the Empire (its vital in that sense) but he does not (or at least tries not to, at Madi’s urging as well) direct it towards his allies. Silver is stuck in that cynicism. Whether permanently, by design, or owing in part to the timeline of the story (“Do you really imagine a few weeks of this will make much of a difference? Am I not what I am at this point?”). He can’t be talked out of it or loved out of it or seen through it. Really the forest scene is somewhat akin to McGraw pulling a gun on an amaglamation of Thomas and Miranda (Madi is off screen, but he is pulling a gun on her too. And himself). Hey isn’t it funny Silver accuses Flint of killing everyone he loves through his proximity to them. Imagine if Flint actually pulled a gun on them. Ridiculous show.

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but the great sea is terrible, tuor son of huor; and it hates the noldor, for it works the doom of the valar

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the social network x vampire empire by big thief, live on the late show

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that tweet thats like im not allowed to believe in the power of manifestation because i have OCD but best of luck to you all

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sometimes my cat will suddenly go very fast. But don't let this fool you. It does not reflect an urgent change in circumstances

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"But Morwen standing on her threshold heard the echo of that cry in the wooded hills, and she clutched the post of the door so that her fingers were torn."

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a woman who spoke the way she did, who had no fear of the world or the men who reigned over it. when i became her lover, i watched the decisions she made, and resolved to learn from them. when i became her rival, i watched the mistakes she made and resolved never to repeat them. but at the end, when i felt i had surpassed her in every way, it seemed as though there was something she was still trying to say to me.

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It’s so crazy that they had Silver be the one who came up with the “Logan & Charlotte were crazy in love and ran off to Providence together” story in s2 to cover up their deaths. Building on Max’s idea no less. Literally evil

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BLACK SAILS (2014-2017)

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hey bro can i ask you a question that will reveal a deep and fundamental gap in my knowledge of the world

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I'm obsessed with characters we only hear about second or third hand, especially when those accounts are conflicting. No, you don't get to see them, but here's a warped mirror of what other people thought they were. Enjoy your contemplation of how being known is an act of translation and communicates only aspects of the self.

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In The Odyssey, Odysseus is extraordinary for the flexibility with which he can inhabit many different names, or no name at all. It is this quality of being multinamed and nameless that enables him to survive. By contrast, almost all the warriors of The Iliad yearn to have a name and a story that lasts forever. Their many names and titles, as sons and brothers and comrades and fathers and rulers, are essential to their identities, their connections with one another, and their fame after death. They fear, above all, being humiliated (cursed with a negative name), or forgotten and nameless. The lists and catalogs of names are essential to the poem’s own work, of memorializing and mourning the dead. Once the bodies return to dust, these syllables are all that remain.

– Emily Wilson, Translator's note for The Iliad.

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Billy is more sympathetic when you connect the fact that Flint “took” his surrogate father from him, with Flint “taking” Silver from him (literally overnight), with Silver “taking” the rest of his brothers from him and essentially booting him from the house (even though Silver asks him to come back after the beating. Lol.). Abandoned bitch. His siblings said “This guy has bad vibes I think? Dadmombossking eldritch horror said so. He should go to hell.” And they were right in a way. He did have bad vibes. He is going to hell. But I guess this is what happens when one can’t figure out that gay people are real in time. And that leaving Silver alone with Flint for an hour let alone for months while imbuing Silver’s name with mythic ur-pirate powers just to provide a counterweight to Flint’s gay tyrant hegemony was a catastrophic mistake with no way back. Billy being one of the only prominent characters in the show without a romantic/sexual relationship also comes across as a choice in light of this (not saying it was.) Brotherbestie was being seduced from 303 onwards and Billy got no clue wotss going on. He can perceive Silver and Madi’s relationship just fine it seems but Flint is out of the question to him as someone Silver could possibly grow to love. In part because Flint is the father-killer as far as Billy is concerned. But Silver apparently loves father-killers when the father in question is Empire. Wow is that a type or something?