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black sails (2014 — 2017) / obi-wan kenobi (2022) / star wars – episode iii: revenge of the sith (2005)

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08 – 15 – 21

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if i had a nickel for every time a tv show about 18th century pirates turned out to be a gay love story, i'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

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He was your friend. He trusted you. And you killed him. –

cain, josé saramago & miscellaneous quote, both referenced here / inscriptions cain read in abel’s eyes, silvina ocampo, tr. jason weiss / cain slays abel, gustave doré / corpus christi, terrence mcnally / etching of cain and abel, alexandre falguière / the last days of judas iscariot, stephen adly guirgis / black sails xxxviii

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black sails (xxxviii) | kurt vonnegut

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say what you want about the film as a whole, but when roxanne finally told cyrano, “i loved you,” and he answered, “and i loved my pride more,” with his dying breath, i was obliterated

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pressing them against a wall & messily making out with them is not enough i need to be nestled beneath their rib cage cradling their fluttering heart in the palms of my hands

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here’s a thought. at some point during s2, stede and the crew need to visit spanish jackie’s tavern again for some reason or another but the difference this time is that she DOES have a restaurant now cause, honestly, her most recent dead husband might’ve had a point about the extra profits and single’s nights and what have you and they all turn to see her new cook (who happens to be remarkably good by the way) and it’s luke arnold. glazing a pig.

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black sails | the blue octavo notebooks, franz kafka

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this is just me explaining black sails

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i hoard posts i love like a crow picking up odd ends and trinkets so if i suddenly leave a hundred likes in your notes it means i just find your blog especially shiny and enjoyable

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black sails | adonis, from transformations of the lover: v (tr. by Samuel Hazo)

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i’ve withheld from severely interacting with the whole black sails vs our flag means death in terms of lgbt representation debate but i was discussing this all with a friend last night so now i’m fired up and i have points to make and i’ll try to be as nice as possible.

first of all, the utter thoughtlessness in the one tweet who said, “ofmd is doing what black sails never had the balls to do.” are you all really that shortsighted? i’ve said this before and i’ll say it now, it fucking sucks that the majority of today’s consumers have legitimately begun to separate gay media created for gay audiences into categories of, “well, this one is the GOOD one, the REAL one cause it has ____” and, “that’s the BAD one though cause they wouldn’t or didn’t ____.” get the idea of baiting vs not baiting out of your minds and please just admit that you’ve lost the ability to invest in multiple, different gay stories with varying levels of intimacy and nuance outside of “fandom” and “shippable-ness.”

secondly, i’m going to get into black sails itself as it has been, and always will be, a pioneering work of lgbt media and representation. i won’t deny its faults and shortcomings in its narrative, i myself have pointed them out more than once and will continue to. but quite frankly, ofmd would not exist without black sails paving the way. it wouldn’t. and even if it did or could and you want to argue that, you can’t argue that the creators of black sails created it for the purpose of showing real, authentic, complex lgbt relationships not as a joke, or a side piece, but in a pivotal and impactful historical and narrative context. the creators wrote captain flint as a gay man. toby stephens (who played him) has spoken proudly of this fact. silver and flint didn’t kiss or have sex onscreen but neither steinberg (the show runner), nor luke arnold (silver), nor stephens denied the love those two characters shared. you also have to understand, especially if you haven’t watched black sails, that the story itself was written to be a tragedy, not a romance. their love wouldn’t and couldn’t be fully reciprocated solely due to both of their complex histories and fated separation tied to their future and source material, “treasure island.” and regardless of silver and flint’s relationship, are you really going to overlook the other just as crucial lgbt characters and relationships? black sails still gave us eleanor and max, max and anne, max and anne and jack. for fuck’s sake, flint’s entire war stems from the tragedy of being separated from his first love, thomas. so please don’t be ridiculous and tell me black sails didn’t represent our community when it did more than just represent, it lead with us.

and doesn’t all of that, make the existence of ofmd all the more sweeter (for gay audiences and gay audiences who specifically love gay pirates)? in the words of my friend ailith (@aseaofhoney), who really co-wrote this entire post, “black sails is a tragedy in which everything comes from love, our flag is a romance in defiance of all calls towards tragedy.” so stop pitting two masterworks against each other, please and thanks. they’re best friends. they told me themselves.

and please stop ignoring and being blatantly obtuse to both of these wonderful stories, and any other works of gay media, that were made for us by cast and creators who care.

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black sails (xxxvii) | troy (2004)

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our flag means death (2022–) — 1.01 pilot, david jenkins | the tale of despereaux, kate dicamillo | i. | ii.

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Judas’ Kiss (1832-1833) — Gustave Doré