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there are no legacies in this life, are there? no monuments, no history - just the water. it pays us, and then it claims us. swallows us whole, as if we’d never been here at all.

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Timestamp Roulette  ↳ Black Sails | 1.01

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you hate her, i hate her, they all hate her, and look what good it’s done us. no captain on this island has ever known that kind of power - power that doesn’t care how many votes you can tally. who loves you, who hates you, who fears you. power that just is. truth is, none of us have any right to hate her for it - she’s strong, and we’re weak. that’s the reality of things here.

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…waking from a long and terrible nightmare,                                             reorienting to the daylight

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BLACK SAILS • IX. | XXXVI.

2.01 "So this is the lesson… the pirates of New Providence Island are incorrigible, dedicated to mayhem. To attempt to address this subject is doomed to defeat from the outset." "It's not him I wanted you to see. [No mercy! Go all the way to hell!] It's them." 4.08 "Those are the pirates. They've inhabited the east bank, across from Springett Island for years. The governor promises this is the year he'll chase them off, but there they are. Seven major shipping concerns in the city here. In less than 10 years, more goods will move through here than any English-speaking port outside London."

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“I thought you said this       place       was just      sand.”

“Sand has its                       virtues:                       on sand,

nothing is fixed,                               nothing is permanent,

and fates                       change                   so quickly. […]

Yesterday I was a  w h o r e  of      little     consequence,

easily dismissed,                                      easily forgotten;

today I am a  m a d a m e, with an income and allies…”

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I once thought that to lead men in this world, to be liked was just as good as feared, and that may very well be true. But to be liked and feared all at once is an entirely different state of being, in which, I believe, at this moment, I exist alone. The men need to know they’re in good favor with me. They need it, and there is nothing they won’t do to make sure they have it.

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“Men in these waters            they don’t fear ships                             they don’t fear g u n s                       they don’t fear s w o r d s …”

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after the night when I wake up

I’ll see what tomorrow brings. [x]

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I intend to assume command here, pursue the governor, and capture his ship whole. Is that so? We’ll need to take her without the use of our great guns. It will be technically beyond your capacities.

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is there nothing but rust and ashes in you?

         yes. no. i had love, once.

what happened to it

         it died when it fell into my arms.

  – resin, amrita c.

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IM RUINED OVER YOU.

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"Absorb the blow, as it were... like a rocky promontory."