#character: anne bonny

[john-silvers]

That fucking island. Makes you do shit you don't wanna do. How is it we haven't figured that out by now? ★ ANNE BONNY

[jackannemax]

8 men | VI. & XXVI.

[elfsroot]

"Edward...everyone's gone, aren't they?"

[kuzuyamii]

happy anniversary to whatever is going on in this show

[jennaflare]

long ago you summoned what was coming / it was creeping on a come up / now it's right up in your face / face it

(youtube)

[p00sy-d3stro7er]

I actually thought that my previous text post would be the last one but I found these in the depths of my gallery so. Enjoy your meal *throws them like chicken feed*

[gellavonhamster]

I am the sea and nobody owns me

[best-character-named-x-poll]

have you done your daily click

[sapphiccharacterstournament]

Canon Sapphic Characters Tournament Round 4/Semifinals (Bracket 3)

[miasmultifandomdump]

It's so funny to me when certain people think they're doing something so revolutionary by having female pirates. Like they invented the concept.

My guy, women were pirates. Zheng Yi Sao was one of the most successful pirates (or the most successful? can't remember) and she was a woman. Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Gráinne Ní Mháille, Sayyida al-Hurra, all women.

Going on and on about the gender of the pirates is annoying. You should actually flesh them out. Your female characters are still people and if all they can do is bring up their gender, it gets old after a while.

[john-silvers]

It ain’t fear to want to do a hard thing smart. ANNE BONNY, BLACK SAILS, SEASON 4

[eyes-of-nine]

posting these here too bc im redesigning ofmd!anne bonny for polyester boob window reasons and wanna hear other ppl's opinions

[ladyluscinia]

I have rewatched the mean lesbians episode in hopes I would like them more the second time, but I'm afraid I'm still not vibing with it. Credit that they tried to undercut the "lesbians who drop in to give our main couple therapy" with the whole reveal it was game and Mary's little rant about their relationship "losing the magic", but like... did they really? Do Anne and Mary not successfully tee up the really touching BlackBonnet airing of grievances and reconciliation? Laughing at them a bit for being dorky doesn't change that they really didn't do much sabotaging, overall, so it's not like they weren't pushing them back together.

I mean, even Mary's whole rant happens after Anne leaves the room. By the time they really start telling us how this couple has their own foundation cracks and issues (vs the veneer of just keeping it interesting) and aren't a longstanding example of a healthy relationship, Anne is literally offscreen making a grand romantic gesture that will solve Mary's discontent. I know they are fitting a miscommunication arc into half an episode instead of 2-3 seasons, but the end result just feels like speedrunning a knock off of BlackBonnet's issues.

And that along with the fact they function as BlackBonnet mirrors first and characters second, it all just feels very... underwhelming (?) to me.

Like why do I care about Anne and Mary? Is the face stealing gimmick supposed to have hooked me? They also, imo, really fucked up by ending on a hug - it just spotlights the fact that, for all the sex jokes, they don't really bother to sell physical intimacy between the two. They maybe bump shoulders at the shop, sit in separate chairs in every scene in the house... honestly the best they do is the offscreen knife flicking. Which funny metaphor but like. Why can't the lesbians be into each other without the metaphor? Or am I supposed to think that Anne "burn the whole house down the second her wife admits she doesn't like swamp life" Bonny didn't pick up that Mary was maybe unhappy when they entirely stopped touching each other and replaced it with murder attempts.

Even a repeat of the offscreen joke but this time imply they are hardcore making out as Stede and Edward slip away would have probably hit better? (I'm assuming for some reason kissing was off the table, otherwise even more wtf why not just kiss?)

(Can you tell I've been thinking about the sorry state of femslash?)

Also I'd be remiss not to tie my dissatisfaction with Anne and Mary to my dissatisfaction with OFMD's prevailing approach to female characters. Spanish Jackie's entire thing is being so awesome and desirable that she has 20 husbands that all work for her, which is super fun. Mary Bonnet became a widowed girlboss with a Doug, which was also fun. Then suddenly we're meeting Zheng Yi Sao who is a girlboss Pirate Queen better than any man, and her right-hand woman that seems like a more stable and competent Edward/Izzy parallel, and her crew of only hyper-competent women... do you see how this is getting a bit repetitive?

Now we add Anne and Mary speedrunning BlackBonnet parallels to teach them a grand gesture romantic lesson? So... doing Stede and Edward but Better™?

Zheng Yi Sao still has time to get more interiority that could offset the whole "girlboss" gimmick which would help, but until that happens the only real female character standout to me is Archie - a woman who has something deeply wrong with her but has so far just kind of slotted in as a equal crewmember instead of the Competent Woman Character.

[kuzuyamii]

DOCTORS HATE HER! LESBIANS LOVE HER INSANE PUSSY!!!!!

[video description: a Black Sails fan edit set to Sans contrefaçon by Mylène Farmer focusing on Max. /end description]

[bismuthburnsblue]

oh boy oh BOY

still very much a wip (see- All the fabric clips) but anne is finally somewhat wearable!!!!! (i mean shes not but enough to take these photos)

everything is beginning to look So Good im so happy with how this is all coming together

[queerstudiesnatural]

Happy Pride, lesbians !! 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️

feel free to use as icons! credit is appreciated but it's whatever

(also anne's sexuality can be whatever you resonate with i don't care these just happen to be lesbian anne icons, if you don't like them don't use them <3 love and light)

more black sails pride icons here