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[...] the Tomb I will serve till the end of my days 

and then see me buried

in two hundred graves.

ig: d.ill.usion

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I love playing with jpegs :) @ofthesewntongue again if you wanna see the original photos they're on her blog

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Gideon protects!

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sounds about right

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BLACK SAILS ( 2014 - 2017 ) // WHISPER IN THE WIND by LUKE ARNOLD.

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I'm rewatching 2x09 of Black Sails and there is absolutely no way that Peter Ashe's plan would work: that Flint could tell his story to England and be met with sympathy and forgiveness

in the eyes of Whitehall, Flint would be justifying one sin (murdering Alfred Hamilton) with another (his affair with Thomas). they would see the relationship itself as the catalyst for his crimes, rather than the fact that it was taken from him

"Captain Flint will be unmasked, the monster slain." no! he will only be further villainized. Flint would be executed as a pirate and as a sodomite. they would make a spectacle of his suffering

I think Ashe knows that. he wants Flint to be a scapegoat- the epitome of sin and evil to be scorned. but Flint knows it too. he agrees to subject himself to that shame and punishment so he can become a martyr for his cause

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was gonna make a post about The Character but then i looked at my dash for 5 seconds and it would appear that everyone is also having the same experience so

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Claudia can’t not die because it’s the whole point of the story. She has to die because she was already dead. Because this is the way it goes. She was a little girl who never got to grow old and it brought her mother to edge of annihilation and instead of succumbing she wrote a story that would have everyone begging for her to live the same way she did in that hospital room all those years ago. It’s always been a story about the unthinkable grief of losing a child and how it destroys everything. And yet, the strength of a well-told tragedy is how you spend even the last moments leading up to it bargaining with the text. Maybe it’ll be different this time. Maybe she’ll escape.

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the thing that I love about James Fucking Flint is that I believe him

he starts giving a speech about how we’re going to destroy the entire british empire and end colonialism once and for all and we’re going to start a new self-governing society outside of the constraints of imperialism and I believe him

I have several centuries of hindsight on my side, but I still listen to this man in 1715 saying he’s going to end the british empire and I think yes you will! 

and of course, Flint’s ability to rouse and rally people to his cause, to talk them around to his side, recurs over and over throughout. to a point that elevates him near godhood. but you never think, oh that’s not realistic. you never think, why are they listening to him. you never think, yeah okay but if they just acted rationally then—

because you. sitting on your couch. in the 21st century. even with the full knowledge of history and also the plot of black sails because you’ve seen it before. 

you hear flint start talking. and you believe him too. you believe he can do it. you believe he’s going to do it. this time. this time, surely he must. 

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the thing that I love about James Fucking Flint is that I believe him

he starts giving a speech about how we’re going to destroy the entire british empire and end colonialism once and for all and we’re going to start a new self-governing society outside of the constraints of imperialism and I believe him

I have several centuries of hindsight on my side, but I still listen to this man in 1715 saying he’s going to end the british empire and I think yes you will! 

and of course, Flint’s ability to rouse and rally people to his cause, to talk them around to his side, recurs over and over throughout. to a point that elevates him near godhood. but you never think, oh that’s not realistic. you never think, why are they listening to him. you never think, yeah okay but if they just acted rationally then—

because you. sitting on your couch. in the 21st century. even with the full knowledge of history and also the plot of black sails because you’ve seen it before. 

you hear flint start talking. and you believe him too. you believe he can do it. you believe he’s going to do it. this time. this time, surely he must. 

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gay as fuck for there to be no daylight between you and another man

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Something something they managed to show nuance on having comforts and being blood thirsty pirate in Black Sails

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BLACK SAILS (2014-2017)

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estrogen could've saved her

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Being extremely normal about Black Sails this fine night👍

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matching couples shirts that say "<- THE ONE WHO WILL INEVITABLY DESTROY ME"

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Sinners (2025) // Interview With the Vampire Season 2 Episode 2 (2024)