#black sails vibes

[etirabys]

watched an episode of black sails containing a sex scene so desultory that as a pervert I was disgusted. where is the care. the sensuality. the actress took a perfectly good repressed priest type character who was YEARNIMG FOR HER, body slammed him against a wall, and started rotating on his dick. escalating from clothed to piv in literally like 15 seconds, with all the eroticism of a bottom quartile thoughtfulness teenage boy. this is anti sex propaganda. this is why the zoomers won't fuck

[toadlessgirl]

when you guys said Interview with the Vampire was good I thought you meant like 'horny campy melodrama' good, not 'prestige television 2x5 may be the single best tv episode i've ever seen everyone involved in this deserves an Emmy HOLY SHIT' good

[curioussubjects]

truly inspired of datv that psychoanalyzing solas based on what you see in his house isn't flavor but actual part of the gameplay, and you get to have a little roundtable with your found family about what is wrong with him lmao

i am once again chewing furniture about our resident coward who keeps running away from all his fuck ups being stuck in a fade prison. i think it's time to call the inquisition's inner circle and have rook stage an intervention.

[creacherclown]

that poll (you know the one) got me to finally watch Black Sails and i just wanna know who gave them the right to make such a banger for the theme song? this show fucking SLAPS i’m mad i waited this long to finally start it.

[cuddlytogas]

maybe it's just the Radical Rediker talking, but there's something pointed in the way that, say, popular pirate media like Pirates of the Caribbean dilutes the pirate's freedom to "bring me that horizon" as opposed to, say, "plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power" (Bartholomew Roberts).

broadly speaking, most pirates chose the life in order to escape and revenge the hard labour, corporal punishment, overworking, and unequal pay of merchant/navy/privateer ships; or the privations of their sudden unemployment once a war was over, ignored as soon as their ability to die for the state was unneeded. yes, many were thugs, but, consciously political or not, they were responding to a particular, material reality.

the pirate's desired freedom was from the effects of exploitative modes of statehood and capital production. but popular media usually shifts this into a general desire for freedom: freedom to roam, freedom to love (usually merely a cross-class white, heterosexual union), or freedom from the personal pressures of social norms. it's a vague, ahistorical, post-Enlightenment, libertarian ideal rather than a response to a real social and economic situation.

to be clear, this only really applies to specifically the late golden age of piracy, in the first quarter of the 18th century. earlier generations of pirates/buccaneers often displayed nationalist/religious motives, and were lauded, tolerated, or even encouraged by the French and English states for aiding their fights against the Spanish and Portuguese. only the last gasp of age of sail pirates had a truly anti-national energy, and both figured themselves, and were figured by the imperial powers, as the enemies of all nations.

but if we are to valourise the late golden age pirate, at his best, his ideals were for true democracy, and the abolition of nation, hierarchy, and labour exploitation; not "the horizon". he was striking out in response to specific political, social, and economic oppressions, rather than a general individual restlessness, and that reality - and its similarities to our own - are important.

I dunno, I just... have a lot of thoughts about the defanging of piracy in modern media. obviously there were a lot of things bad about them, too, and the level of egalitarianism varied between individual people and ships. but again, if we're going to be valourising them anyway... there were idealists. and they weren't subtle about they wanted.

"I shan't own myself guilty of any murder", said William Fly in 1726. "Our captain and his mate used us barbarously. We poor men can't have justice done us. There is nothing said to our commanders, let them never so much abuse us, and use us like dogs. But the poor sailors --"

[gellavonhamster]

I am the sea and nobody owns me

[cannibalistic-vampirefag]

webweaving inspired by my sacrificial lamb oil painting

oil painting by me | post by @indiestarlight | Abstract (Psychopomp) by Hozier | The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis | detail of the oil painting | Sacrificial Lamb by Frustrated Poet| detail of the oil paiting | post by @phantasyhalation | post by @lotusmusings | post by @rollercoasterwords | (couldn't figure out where it's from, sorry)

[tiffanylamps]

i know what you are

[july-19th-club]

seven or eight times now ive watched the episodes in which they take the andromache and this is the first time ive realized that during the initial battle, after they board, every time the camera is from dufresne's perspective it's blurrier than otherwise because. he took his glasses off for the fight

[howlerbat]

the series in a nutshell tbh

[etirabys]

so I see on AO3 that flint/silver is the biggest ship for Black Sails, which I (1 episode into season 2) frankly don't understand

silver: desperately wants to appease middle management in a context where that doesn't much exist

flint: not middle management

something's not connecting for me I gotta say

[lagaans]

2.07 silverflint arguement is so juicy tasty delicious succulent and delectable "i need your help" crazy. "you'll address them then?" "yeah" insane! "don't you want to discuss" "i know what i'm doing" well i've been found dead on the floor

[thepictorialist]

A Beautiful Day in Elliott Bay—Seattle, WA 2004

[benjhawkins]

Man Smoking a Pipe, ca. 1800-1825

[thatlittlesentientfox]

I know this is basically (part of) the plot of Black Sails but I wanna see you lot defend why your winner is the winner

I’m hoping for some nice meta arguments, HAVE FUN

[nicollekidman]

oh no.....