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- The Torn-Up Road by Richard Siken

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it has been literal years since I last posted about this so. hey

tinyurl.com/BStracks

unofficial s2-4 music <3 if you’re into that.

pls don’t crosspost or share this link publicly anywhere else

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4/? BLACK SAILS ✘ EPIC THE MUSICAL

So tell me Would you fall in love with me again?

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“blanket amnesty for any man who will accept it. in exchange for his allegiance, his renunciation of violence, and his labor” is what thomas initially proposed to his dad to get rid of the pirate problem on nassau. and. depending on what you think about what happened in 4x10. that is also what silver used to get rid of his pirate problem

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happy pride month

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the fact that the very first line in Black Sails is “Sir, she’s still closing. We simply cannot outrun her,” is Interesting if you think of “her” not just as the Walrus but as The Narrative itself. You can’t outrun the Narrative, you cannot fight the Narrative, you are simply at its mercy. 

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Another bit of the wip! I’m on a roll with the rendering, just trying to keep up motivation…

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LUKE ARNOLD as JOHN SILVER BLACK SAILS 3.09 XXVII

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NATIONAL HOLIDAY

[ID: Two screencaps from Black Sails ep X showing John SIlver standing alone beneath a skylight in the ship's galley. Captions show him saying "An account of goings-on, volume the first on this 13th day in June". End ID]

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Just started Black Sails. why didn't anybody tell me the series everybody told me was good is good

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JACK RACKHAM, BLACK SAILS, EPISODE XXIX All of us have given some part of ourselves to reach this moment. Today, we reclaim what is ours, and we seek retribution for what was taken from us. Today, there will be vengeance for the death of Charles Vane.

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Black Sails really tapped into a very specific kind of ghost story where your ghost is not actually you but someone else's perception of you - the person they thought you were and should be. Imagine hating knitting and embrodiery, and you're no good at it, but you do it because you're a governor's wife and people expect you to be at his side, quiet with your head bowed over your needles. You buy a new wardrobe of dresses because your role necessitates it, but you keep your old clothes hidden in your rooms because you can't bear to let go of that part of you yet. And then you die and you come back as a haunting and you're faceless and voiceless, and you're wearing a dress that means nothing to you, and the only sound you can make is that of your knitting needles hitting each other again and again. And this is how the person you love brings you back: a voiceless, faceless thing in the corner.

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"Whatever's Left", June 4th, 2025 Watercolor

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BLACK SAILS 1.01 “I.” 2.07 “XV.”