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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Black Sails Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Captain Flint | James McGraw/John Silver Characters: Captain Flint | James McGraw, John Silver (Treasure Island) Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Prostitution, Sex Work, Face-Fucking, Light Dom/sub, Premature Ejaculation, Coming In Pants, Flirting, Mildly Dubious Consent, it’s all consensual but there’s an iffy moment, everyone’s into it tho, taking liberties with silver’s past, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, there’s a teeny bit of plot, Dom John Silver (Treasure Island), Sub Captain Flint | James McGraw Summary:

In retrospect, there were a number of avenues Silver could have taken to secure a future, clever lad that he was. But at the time, he knew only that he was pretty and had a way with his mouth. So he took himself to a house of civil reception, and became a whore.

[Pre-canon. Silver works at a brothel, and James McGraw buys some of his time.]

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Her word will be the last word for this place

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Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced I am yours, I will be it. / Progress cannot begin and suffering will not end until someone has the courage to go out into the woods and drown the damn cat.

Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen / Black Sails (2014-2017)

[image id: a series of 19 images from Black Sails, with the lyrics of Darkness on the Edge of Town by Bruce Springsteen superimposed on them.

"Well, everybody's got a secret, son," over Anne looking at Max's naked form through a door at the brothel.

[image id: a series of 12 images from black sails with lyrics from Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska superimposed over them in red.

"From the town of Lincoln, Nebraska," over a crowd of people at the docks in Nassau.

"with a sawed-off .410 on my lap" over Flint's hand holding a smoking gun.

"Through the badlands of Wyoming." over dark blue water.

"I killed everything in my path," over Flint shooting a gun. He is aiming straight out of the screen and his face is obscured by sparks.

"I can't say that I'm sorry for the things that we done," over Flint's face in profile in the scene where he says to Miranda (not pictured) that this ends when he grants England his forgiveness.

"At least for a little while me and her we had us some fun," over Silver's face during his descent into the darkness conversation with Flint.

"They declared me unfit to live," over Flint and Vane on trial in Charleston. They are viewed from behind sitting side by side.

"said: into that great void," over ghost Miranda screaming.

"my soul'd be hurled," over the preacher practicing his sermon in the cornfield.

"They wanted to know why I did what I done," over Flint and Silver's sword-fighting practice. Flint is holding a sword out to Silver by its hilt.

"Well, sir," over Silver's and Flint in the jungle on Skeleton island. Silver's face is in focus in the foreground and Flint is visible blurred over his shoulder. Silver's face is partially cut-off by the edge of the frame.

"I guess there's just a meanness in this world," over Max talking to Grandma Guthrie (not pictured) about needing to drown the damn cat.

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It actually is so sad the religious politics of the era don’t come up as much as they ought in black sails. rip charles vane I know you would have loved calling flint and jack esoteric early 18thc sectarian slurs if the writers had let u

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yes i'm normal about him. i need to gnaw on him like a no. 2 pencil

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Black Sails - XXVIII.

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the way rogers visualised eleanor after her death will always blow my mind.

she was sat in a corner, obediently, quietly, knitting away.

to our knowledge, as a viewer, eleanor didn't knit. sure, there are lots of moments in black sails that happen off screen and are only referred to later on, but the one time we see eleanor taking up a 'wife-ly' duty is when all the women and children were in the fort and she was trying (and failing) at embroidery.

other than that, she also didn't exactly have time to sit there and knit or do anything else like that.

so it's astounding that is the way rogers remembers her or at least how he thinks of what she would be like if her ghost was there etc.

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BLACK SAILS — 1x4 | 2x7

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pov: gay couple hit your parked car and they're gaslighting you into paying for the repairs

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sorry to lockedtombpost but i think a lot of people online are missing the point of john gaius. everyone walked into nona like ‘i hate the guy irredeemably’ and walked out like ‘i hate the guy irredeemably’ and that does a disservice to his character and to his arc and to the end of the world. john’s apocalypse was not an orchestrated, preplanned, malicious endeavour: it was a series of downward trips and falls that just kept happening until finally he went tumbling all the way down the stairs and hit the ground with a nuclear blast.

john is a commentary on incremental evil– we all like to think we could never end the world, but we could certainly all raise a stink to our bosses if they tried to cancel our global salvation project. And when they didn’t listen, we could all turn to our friends and their friends in our desperation, and try and try and try to struggle against the immovable object of capitalist greed. And when that failed, of course we would get desperate– when we realized we’d made this terrifying breakthrough, developed this incredible power, of course we’d look for some way we could use it to change things. when the world tried to stop us, of course we’d cut ourselves off from them, do whatever we had to to buy more time to try and change things, fix things. and from that point of desperation and immediate personal threat, the cows don’t look like such a horrific act after all. and from there, is it really such a leap to be willing to leverage that amount of fear and power to try and save the world? and from there, isn’t taking a bomb as a bargaining piece– never intending to use it– laughing about it, almost– isn’t that the next reasonable step, if we’re talking about leverage?

john wanted to save the world. and that isn’t relevant because it redeems him in any way– it’s relevant because all of us want to save the world. all of us. it is easy to look at him starting a nuclear war and declaring himself the King Undying and go ‘lmao what the fuck I would never do that’, but the whole point of him is the steps in between, the fact that he didn’t jump straight from well-meaning scientist to planet-killer. coming out of nona with no empathy for john is dangerously conceited. would you simply do better, if you woke up able to raise the dead with the end of the world looming? why? at what point would you stop? at what step in his descent would you have declared ‘no further?’ are you immune to the sunk-cost fallacy? would you see a way out from that cave of meat and bone?

john ended the world and remade it in his image at the end of a very long walk. all of us would have begun that walk by his side. the question nona poses is– would you stop where he hadn’t?

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MOST UNHINGED CHARACTER INTRODUCTIONS EVER, in one corner you’ve got John Silver unnamed man literally crashing into the narrative and kicking it all off, in the other our enigmatic Captain Flint with his first words “it’s done”, summarizing the end before we’ve even begun. I’m going insane 🙂

(silver’s first line of dialogue is “sorry”, btw. If you even care)

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inspired by this post

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stagnation, 2022.

( cropped. full painting here. )

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J. Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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Low-key obsessed with Flint's thick middle in S4, please do not @ me I know I have a problem

[id: image of Flint and Silver entering Nassau to begin the battle for Nassau Town in season four of Black Sails. They are both armed and look intimidating. Flint's stomach is visibly rounder and more filled out than in previous seasons. end id.] Thank you @etoilesombre for the image description.

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I don't want this!

So I had that blood-bathed Flint... I needed Silver as well. Markers on sketchbook paper. I cut off the shitty black background in photoshop (it never comes out well in photos).