#chatting with silver!

[triforce-of-mischief]

…I somehow managed to completely misunderstand your previous post and thought you were talking about actual anglerfish 🤦‍♀️😅

the nefarious anglerfish:

[quimichi]

↳ ❝ [I LOVE YOU] ¡! ❞

↳ Chat: Pt.1, Pt.2, Pt.3

characters: Epel, Idia, Malleus, Lilia, Silver & Sebek x F!Reader

MY KO-FI

[cherbearsz]

happy smack him silly sunday

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

How many letters in "Claw Noir"? THAT'S RIGHT cause he ATE these outfits, brother

[beeissimping]

ok maybe this website is pretty nice

:D

[dinxie]

smile!

[myfriendthedictionary]

hsr text posts that came to me in a dream (pt. 2)

more: part 1

[jaynovz]

In discussions about the finale of Black Sails, one of the things I often see is folks hard-focusing on Flint's fate, in an either-or binary fashion, usually presented as "Which do you believe-- that Silver killed him? or sent him to the plantation?"

Now, for posterity's sake, gonna mention a few things-- first off, that's simply not thinking broadly enough. There are farrrr more than two options here and I've come up with my share of the reallyyyyy bad ones for sure. Whatever your mind chooses, none of those are happy endings anyway, there are bittersweet, bad, and worse endings all the way down. (They are paused, they are in a time loop, and also all endings and no endings are happening simultaneously)

But also, the more cogent point is that, it doesn't actually matter what happened *to Flint* The story is... not actually about him at that point. We have transitioned from Flint as protag to Silver as protag, setting up for (the fanfiction that Black Sails has ended up making of, ugh, king shit) Treasure Island.

And so, I just, don't find it to be of particular interest exploring what we think Flint is actually doing or if he's alive for real. What is EXTREMELY interesting to explore though is how Silver's speech at the end to Madi is sort of giving Thomas back to Flint as a pacifier/comfort object, but how... Silver is giving Flint that thing in his own mind as his own type of pacifier/comfort object.

That's the REALLY chewy bit. What actually happens to Flint is not the purpose of that scene for me, of Silver's recounting of events to Madi. It's more about... projection. It's about how Silver is dealing with whatever happened to Flint/whatever he did.

And I just feel like it's missing the point to focus so hard on if Flint is alive or not.

He is the ghost of the story regardless, that's what's important. He's going to haunt the narrative for the rest of everyone's lives. No one has been untouched or unscarred by coming into contact with Captain Flint; he has a forever legacy. I'm not the first to call him this, but he's Schrödinger's Flint and he's staying that way.

But this?

"No. I did not kill Captain Flint. I unmade him. The man you know could never let go of his war. For if he were to exclude it from himself, he would not be able to understand himself. So I had to return him to an earlier state of being. One in which he could function without the war. Without the violence. Without us. Captain Flint was born out of great tragedy. I found a way to reach into the past... and undo it. There is a place near Savannah... where men unjustly imprisoned in England are sent in secret. An internment far more humane, but no less secure. Men who enter these gates never leave them. To the rest of the world, they simply cease to be. He resisted... at first. But then I told him what else I had heard about this place. I was told prominent families amongst London society made use of it. I was told the governor in Carolina made use of it. So I sent a man to find out if they'd used it to hide away one particular prisoner. He returned with news. Thomas Hamilton was there. He disbelieved me. He continued to resist. And corralling him took great effort. But the closer we got to Savannah, his resistance began to diminish. I couldn't say why. I wasn't expecting it. Perhaps he'd finally reached the limits of his physical ability to fight. Or perhaps as the promise of seeing Thomas got closer... he grew more comfortable letting go of this man he created in response to his loss. The man whose mind I had come to know so well... whose mind I'd in some ways incorporated into my own. It was a strange experience to see something from it... so unexpected. I choose to believe it... because it wasn't the man I had come to know at all... but one who existed beforehand... waking from a long... and terrible nightmare. Reorienting to the daylight... and the world as it existed before he first closed his eyes... letting the memory of the nightmare fade away. You may think what you want of me. I will draw comfort in the knowledge that you're alive to think it. But I'm not the villain you fear I am. I'm not him."

This is the speech of a man who is self-soothing, who is spinning himself a tale, who is projecting, who is coping.

and THAT is just, way chewier, innit?

[mildeleaf]

Idk TEA posting again

[z-1-wolfe]

🫢 i think she might have liked it, not 100% sure ngl

(also i am so sorry,, the first time i posted it tumblr literally ate the post and it disappeared?? so i deleted it and started over)

5th times the charm and all that :')

[triforce-of-mischief]

...

WHEN WAS IT YOUR BIRTHDAY DID I SERIOUSLY MISS IT

yeah it was yesterday! im 20 now :D

[quimichi]

↳ ❝ [OPEN THE WINDOW] ¡! ❞

↳ Chat: Pt.1, Pt.2, Pt.3

characters: Epel, Idia, Malleus, Lilia, Silver & Sebek x F!Reader

MY KO-FI

[therealmalleusdraconia]

I am not playing games with you Lilia Vanrouge

JUST SLEEP OLD MAN! NO ONE IS LEAVING!

@sillyfatherof3

[credit goes to @_no_blank]

[ninadove]

[Slaps roof of Senticousins]

These bad boys can fit so many trope subversions in them

[crazyringo]

Source: Hsrchat.pages.dev

Read from left to right. Robifly date featuring the Stellaron Hunter family! Besides Robinhill, I also enjoy Robifly as well. Personally, I like the nickname Moonbug for Firefly. It sounds so cute and endearing, and fitting too since fireflies like to come out at night. If you guys have other endearing nicknames for Firefly, feel free to share :3

[whatthe-fart]

i’m so obsessed with andrew garfield i keep watching weird ass movies just cause he’s in them