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Here are the Boys! I’m spending way too much time on these! It’s the black sails curse baby (forever stuck in your brain like a bullet)!

I’ve sadly learnt that there’s a 10 images limit on tumblr mobile. Expect more pictures soon.

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You’ll fight a war, so we can make a life? You don’t get one without the other, my sweet.

It is some kind of hell to be forced to choose one irreplaceable thing over another.

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BLACK SAILS | 1.07 ○ VII

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It always bugged me that Flint and Billy never got to talk about what happened to Gates. Their relationship in s1 is vastly different from the rest of the show because at any given moment Flint has Billy’s loyalty but not his trust, and if he tries, however half-heartedly, to gain that trust in s1, later he never attempts to repair that breach again.

I always make fun of that one conversation between Flint and Gates where he sounds like a raving lunatic even though he is normally very good at convincing people. But his underlying guilt makes him so defensive and incoherent that he just lashes out. He knew how close Billy and Gates were (he demonstratively took Billy’s sword during the funeral to show he gives a shit), and if he felt guilty over not saving Billy, he sure as hell felt guilty over murdering Gates.

So after Billy comes back the space between them becomes too loaded with the absence of someone they can’t mention without shattering the fragile truce they forged to keep the crew together. Except Billy does mention him twice in 2x7:

Both times they are conveniently interrupted before Flint’s silence goes on for too long. But Billy isn’t just saying this to tease him, he’s looking for confirmation. It’s unclear how much he knows about what happened but it’s safe to assume the summary he gets from Silver is all he ever gets. And considering what he says to Rogers in s4 (that Flint killed Gates over money) that thought was festering there for some time with no charitable assumptions. He phrases it so differently both times like he wants Flint to react, to admit it, to deny it, to say something. He comes onto him honestly, and expects the same honesty in return. But the most honest reply Flint can give him is not lying.

Flint doesn’t try to dispel Billy’s obvious resentment because on some level he thinks he deserves it. Meanwhile in Billy’s head Flint shuts him off not because he feels guilty, but because he doesn’t.

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In the dark, there is discovery

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BLACK SAILS | 1.07 ○ VII

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something something randall's leg was trapped under the weight of the walrus and silver's leg was trapped under the weight of the walrus' crew something something something

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JAMES FLINT ▸ Black Sails, 1.3

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JAMES FLINT ▸ Black Sails, 1.3

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Black Sails - XXVIII.

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JAMES FLINT ▸ Black Sails, 1.5

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JAMES FLINT ▸ Black Sails, 1.5

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SILVER & FLINT ▸ Black Sails, 3.1

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SILVER & FLINT ▸ Black Sails, 3.9