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know no shame 

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this speech goes crazyyyy they talk about flint like he's a god and silver his prophet

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BLACK SAILS WEEK 2025 March 21 - Day 7: Free choice -> Flint's daggers.

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black sails really can just be summed up with "what would you give up for the person you love most" vs. "what would you give up the person you love most for"

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the insanest thing ever said about silverflint in black sails was billy -- out of his sane mind -- going "they'd grown so close, it was hard to know where one ended and the other began. i worried that the act of separating them might destroy them both..." and it did destroy them and we're not talking about this nearly enough

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Black sails Reddit is so wild “Flint didn’t deserve a peaceful end he was a manipulative liar who indiscriminately killed anyone in his path” ok and. He’s literally a pirate and England was being homophobic what else was he supposed to do. In fact he could’ve been worse and I still would’ve cheered

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black sails, 1x03 / 1x06 / 3x04 / 3x08 / 4x02 / 4x03 / 4x08 / treasure island, robert louis stevenson

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and nothing's gonna save you before the curtain call

this is the death of you

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Starting s2: wow Flint sure got himself into a lot of trouble by being an unhinged bastard last season. Let’s see how he gets himself out of this mess!

Flint: fuck you, fuck your men, I wish you’d kill me so I never have to look at your stupid fucking faces again. I’m gonna steal a fucking warship for you and you’d better be fucking grateful

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What flows forth from this house, starting tonight, is a new story for Nassau. I’ve watched her follow mad men. I’ve watched her follow rich men. I’ve watched her bow before tyrants. But now it’s time she had a king. When we’re ready, when he’s ready, he’ll step into the role we’ve created for him… and lead an impossible army into an unwinnable war… and win it.

BLACK SAILS XXVII.

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seems like a true love's kiss type situation

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BLACK SAILS 3.03 “XXI.”

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they tell you to watch black sails but they never tell you that afterwards flint will sit in the shadows of your room and Remind you

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It doesn’t feel like living anymore.

I love Miranda. And this is maybe the moment I find her the most arresting and beautiful. It’s such a raw, desperate moment. Asking to be seen. I love her contradictions. How she is both selfish and self-sacrificing. She is incredibly strong in so many regards, and yet struggling to find her own agency. She is honest and yet underhanded. She is kind and petty, smug and patient. As an avowed hedonist, she comes to endure even when she’s past her endurance. An in the end she becomes a martyr, when I think all she ever wanted was to be her own person.

That complexity is reflected in her relationship with James I think. There are many different takes on it, all of them valid, obviously, so this is just my own…

I find their relationship fascinating. It’s obvious that they love each other. It’s also obvious that this love is different than the one they had for Thomas, although that shared love for him certainly plays an important role in their relationship. But I think that Miranda maybe doesn’t love like James and Thomas at all, not in this all consuming way. The way I see her, she’s also completely aromantic, but that doesn’t make her love something lesser.

Miranda loves Thomas as someone who shares her interests and temperament, an intellectually stimulating partner, a great man. They were a harmonious couple, their relationship seemingly effortless. Her relationship with James on the other hand is a constant struggle, and not just because of the circumstances they find themselves in, I think. They are both too alike and too different. The one that fit with them was always Thomas.

Miranda and James’ love for each other is mostly built on loyalty. On knowing that whatever may come, the other will stand with them to the bitter end. And because of that loyalty they both try to be more for the other, to fill the void Thomas left, and failing miserably at it.

James tries to give Miranda things that connect her with her old life: books, a spinet, delicate tea cups. Even sex. But it’s a poor substitute, and the thing she most longs for —companionship— is unbearable for him to provide, because being with her reminds him of what he lost. Miranda wants to remember Thomas and talk about him, but James can’t.

James tries to keep Thomas close by striving to bring his vision to life, finish what they started, and prove England wrong in the process. And Miranda tries to be a partner in this. She helps him plot and patches him up and harbours prisoners, but she hates it just as much. They both hate the things the other needs from them. And yet they stubbornly hold on to each other, and try to keep each other safe. It’s not a passionate love. At times it’s almost resentful. But it’s deep and true.

How hard it must be for Miranda to love James. Love him in Thomas stead, knowing that she falls short by miles. How hard it must be to see him try to love her better, and failing because he, too, isn’t Thomas. Loving each other with such loyal devotion across the divide, the hole that Thomas left. Loving each other even though it is hard, and it hurts, that’s what makes it beautiful to me. 

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[THE SICKNESS]