#dobbs black sails

[sameteeth]

the flint coming out/silvers worst possible reaction convo is one of the few times we actually see flint like. uncomfortable? or nervous i guess? when silver says he doesn't think the pattern of flint's closest person/partner dying will apply to him because of recent events, flint's response ("it is .. natural for men new to power to assume that it has no limits. trust me - it does.") seems strange. he doesn't argue against seeking out his own tragedies as he did before, or deny the pattern, or tell silver to stop blaming him for the deaths of his partners. he tells silver he isn't as powerful as he might feel at that moment. he's defensive, thrown off-balance by the vulnerability of sharing his most guarded heart and secret, only for silver to throw it back in his face. this conversation is significant for a number of reasons, but one of which is that it highlights flint's devotion to silver (he tells silver he is Entitled to the truth) and silver's reticence to genuine connection with flint. he tells flint he's sorry, but then ruthlessly points out a pattern he sees as a potential danger to him. silver is STILL acting in his own self interest here, almost defensively, whereas flint has given himself entirely over to silver. what happens makes me think of this post - flint has such personal authenticity, he KNOWS what he stands for, he has cast his lot, his narrative is fixed, that he is able to give his truth to silver. whereas silver is still playing at both sides. his identity has coagulated into silver, but he's not Long John Silver yet. he doubts this war, he doubts flint and madi's motivations. why expose a weakness when there's no need? all he sees of flint's confession is a potential threat to him. and then there's flint's response in the face of silver coolly explaining why he will survive flint's self-inflicted tragedy, a weak attempt at silver's feelings of strength, a defensive response to what flint perceives to be an attack from silver.. which silver IMMEDIATELY overturns with his stunt with dobbs, using the men as pawns in his dance with flint, proving to flint that silver is strong, that silver will survive flint. that silver will hurt flint. and all flint has to offer is an uncertain but (to me) very genuine attempt at comfort in the face of silver's ironclad defense of his own strength. that even if they agree silver has such powerful influence over the men, flint can still stand with him, against him if they have to.

[hauntingblue]

Flint laughing saying they trust silver to not steal the cache akdhaksjakak

[blacksailspolls]

🏴‍☠️🦜🔱 BLACK SAILS EPISODE BRACKET : FINALE

🦜 THIS IS IT! THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED <3 SUMMARIES UNDER THE CUT:

[LEFT] XXVIII. (3.10) — As Flint buries the treasure, he is questioned by Silver about his true reasons for the war against the British and the tactics for the upcoming battle on the island. On the day of the attack, the British and Hornigold manage to take the beach with superior firepower, forcing Flint and his men to retreat. Meanwhile, Rackham and Anne unite with Blackbeard's fleet, who seeks revenge for the death of Charles Vane. In Nassau, Eleanor is confronted by an anonymous message, which demands the remains of Charles Vane as well as the gibbet be removed from the market square. Rogers recovers and reassures Eleanor of his support in overcoming her enemies. Silver sends Dobbs to the beach to kill Hornigold. In a later battle, Hornigold shoots Dobbs. Hornigold is eventually killed by Flint. In Nassau, a pardoned pirate captain is murdered by Billy, as there was no reaction to the message with the black spot. With the help of Anne and Rackham, Blackbeard's fleet manages to force the British fleet to retreat. In Nassau, Billy uses the name "Long John Silver" to create a claim of responsibility for the murder.

[RIGHT] XXXVIII. (4.10) — Jack and his crew arrive at Skeleton Island and attempt to rescue any survivors in the aftermath of Rogers' ambush of Flint and Silver's crew. Jack, Flint, and Silver sail behind Rogers and the Eurydice to engage them in one final battle. The Eurydice has been seized and Flint and Silver go back to Skeleton Island to retrieve the treasure. Jack returns to Philadelphia to talk to Marion Guthrie about her buying out Rogers' debts. Flint chooses to go to Savannah. Order, at least on the surface, is restored in Nassau.

[batboyblog]

2023 elections, a pretty damn good night.

Hello, if you're an American maybe you know there were some elections last night, here are some highlights

Rhode Island Special Election:

Gabe Amo was elected to Congress from Rhode Island's First Congressional district. The son of African immigrants (father from Ghana, mother from Liberia) Amo is the first black person to represent Rhode Island in Congress. His election brings the Congressional Black Caucus to a historic 60 members, an all time high.

Ohio Ballot measures:

In an overwhelming vote Ohio voters approved a ballot measure that puts the right to an abortion into the state constitution. This overturns the extremely restrictive abortion ban passed by the Republican state legislature in 2019 which was allowed to go into effect after the Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling.

A similarly overwhelming vote for a ballot measure legalizing marijuana in the state also passed last night. Both measures got about 57% of the vote in a state that voted for Trump 53-45% in 2020. It's being taken as a good sign for Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown's re-election campaign next year

Kentucky gubernatorial election:

Incumbent Democratic Governor Andy Beshear sailed to victory over rising Republican State state Attorney General Daniel Cameron. Cameron had been vetted for the Supreme Court by Trump, was hand picked for the AG race and Governor's race by Mitch McConnell who its rumored wanted Cameron to replace him in the Senate one day. So this defeat is the end of the political life of what many Republicans hoped would be a star. Cameron and the KYGOP attacked Beshear for his support of trans rights, his veto of a trans care for minors ban, as well as his support for abortion and ran ads tying him to President Biden. Beshear won 53-47% in a state Trump won 62-36% in 2020.

Virginia Legislative elections:

Virginia's Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin hoped to take control of the Virginia State Senate from the Democrats who had a one seat majority in the upper house. If Youngkin could have done it he planned on passing abortion restrictions and anti-trans laws and use it to prove his future Presidential ambitions. Virginia Democrats not only held onto the Senate Senate they expanded their control by picking up 22 seats. Also special, Danica Roem the first openly trans person elected to a state legislature back in 2017 when she was elected to the Virginia state House won her race to become Virginia's first trans state senator. Not only did Democrats hold onto the State Senate, they took control of the State House as well, going from 48 seats to 51. A strong rebuke to Youngkin's Republican agenda and boxing him in for the last two years of his Governorship

Pennsylvania Supreme Court election:

In Pennsylvania Democrat Daniel McCaffery beat out Republican Carolyn Carluccio for a seat on the state Supreme Court. This secures a Democratic majority on the court ahead of year of challenges to abortion rights and ahead of the 2024 elections where Republicans will surely try to challenge the state's election results in court.

New Jersey Legislative elections:

Democrats already controlled the NJ State House and Senate but last night they managed to pick up more seats in both. Including flipping what was generally considered the deepest red district in the state. The 30th District went to Republicans 72% in the last election. However this time a Jewish Democrat Rabbi Avi Schnall won one of the district's two seats beating a Republican incumbent by 10 points.

I'm sure lots of other cool things happened last night in local elections and ballot measures across the country but those were the one's I noticed.

[six-improbable-things]

Just watched this episode again, and good god does foreshadow things for season 4 SO FUCKING WELL. Silver's growing confidence and awareness of his abilities. ("To be liked and feared, that is a class all of it's own. A one in which I believe I stand alone.") Flint smiling away the possibility of Silver ever killing him. Flint and Silver standing on opposite sides of the river while Flint talks about the potential of them becoming enemies. Max of all people being the one to read the Long John Silver letter. Who is shown when Billy speaks his reasons for not using Flint as the face of the revolution (Teach on "madmen", Jack on "rich men", Flint on "tyrants", Silver on "king", Madi when he talked about winning an unwinnable war.)

And the way they play with time, holy fuck. Going back and forth between the night the chest was buried and the day of the battle, doing it just right to create the perfect narrative tension surrounding Dobbs's decisions.

I've always believed that rereading or rewatching media is worth it, in part because of the appreciation for foreshadowing you didn't noticed on the first go, but holy fuck does Black Sails take it to another level.

And yet, as I mentioned above, it's done just so so that even someone who hasn't seen the show before can pick up on parts of it. The sense of impending doom, the wrongness of it all. And although I didn't realize it at the time, the things I mentioned here are part of that. First-time viewers might not have the knowledge or understanding to pick out exactly why some of those things are so haunting and bothersome, but the cinematography, the music, the pacing, all of it makes that sense come across even without the advance knowledge of the characters' eventual fates.

(Also, side note, the moment where Anne orders the Orion to fire on the flagship, and Jack just kind of laughs and then composes himself after a look from Teach... That's his partner!!!!! I love him and his interactions with Teach and Anne in this episode so fucking much.)

Black Sails is a masterpiece for dozens of reasons, but one of them is definitely the way that even though season 3 ends on a victory (albeit a bittersweet/costly one), you can just feel the impending doom looming over the characters. The narrative is whispering to you "This is a tragedy." despite the plot and character high notes that the season ends on.

[pian-ran]

Black Sails Anniversary Appreciation Week:

Day 2: Favorite Quote  ➡ Charles Vane, XXVI

You have no instinct towards earning for yourself a life more comfortable? 

I don't. And had I that instinct, I would resist it with every inch of will I could muster.

[maremote]

Black Sails Monologuolympics 7.1: FLINT: ROUND 1 🩸

12/16: 102 vs 310

Flint, to Eleanor & Scott, in 102: “Odysseus, on his journey home to Ithaca, was visited by a ghost. The ghost tells him that once he reaches his home, once he slays all his enemies and sets his house in order, he must do one last thing before he can rest. The ghost tells him to pick up an oar and walk inland. And keep walking until somebody mistakes that oar for a shovel. For that would be the place that no man had ever been troubled by the sea. And that's where he'd find peace. In the end, that's all I want. To walk away from the sea and find some peace.”

Flint, to Silver, in 310: “Let us say there is some merit to your argument. Let us say that Mr. Dobbs will do as you ask of him. I would have to admit in that case that the world has shifted beneath our feet in a most startling way. But in terms of our future and the danger that you believe you may pose to me, bear this in mind. I have survived starvation, a tempest, pirate hunters, jealous captains, mutinous crews, angry lords, a queen, a king, and the gddmn British navy. So to whatever extent you may be concerned that some day we will clash, worried that though today we be friends, some day you will have no choice but to be my end, I wouldn't worry too much.”

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[iwt-v]

💀 Black Sails meme ↬ 3 locations (1/3)

             Doldrums / Sargasso Sea

[itsmariemccurdy]

It’s been 87 years, and I’m still rewatching Black Sails and parsing out S4, primarily the break down of the Flint-Silver-Billy triad. Primarily because this season could have used a few more episodes to both set up and flesh out this conflict as it came to its head. I love this show, the writing is close to perfect, but S4 was rushed.

Billy hates Flint re: possibly letting him fall overboard, Gates, and chronic lying often at the expense of what he views as the crew’s welfare.

Flint likes Billy and Silver insofar as they are going along with the program and, in Silver’s case, insofar as Silver can talk him through whatever the issue is.

Billy gets x amount of time on the island as more or less a captain with a crew 10x the size of any Flint ever led. Billy has more than a taste of being the one in control and can no longer abide standing by as Flint goes on about his business.

Silver is in love with both Flint and Madi, however Silver is and always has been Not a True Believer. 

Madi falls in line with Flint’s thinking that it is somehow possible to overthrow the entire English Empire (?!?!?!) to create a new world order.

Silver still ultimately wants to support Flint (bc ya know, he does love the guy) while also protecting Madi from what he views (thanks in large part to Billy’s insistence on the topic) as Madi’s inevitable downfall due to her closeness with Flint. He sees no outcome for this scenario in which either Flint or Madi get what they want, so throughout S4 he continues to back Flint’s play while working out a play of his own where he can save at least one of them from certain destruction.

This puts him at odds with both Billy and himself, as Billy wants the only feasible solution (aside from Max’s, which, I mean, none of them are that smart so it’s the only feasible solution *to them*), which is to turn Nassau into a glorified maroon camp. Since Silver recognizes the folly in Flint and Madi’s plan, I have to assume that some part of him must agree with Billy on this topic. But Billy had already shot himself in the foot where Silver was concerned.

Billy fucks up with the Underhill Plantation. Big time. Not only does he shatter any trust the slaves might have had with the pirates, but he also makes a direct attempt on Flint’s life and, intentionally or unintentionally, put Madi’s life in danger. Short of crawling to Silver on his hands and knees begging for forgiveness and promising to never do it again (which Silver more or less asks him to do shortly before the Spanish attacked) there was nothing Billy could have done at this point to garner Silver’s agreement. If Billy told him the sky was blue, Silver would have argued it was red just to make a point. Once he endangered both Madi and Flint at once, Silver was never going to let him back into the fold.

Seasons 3 and 4 deal heavily in the idea that everyone is just going along with Flint’s war on civilization just because they’d already invested too much to turn back. Silver grapples the hardest with this internal conflict, compounded by his affection for Flint. Unfortunately, even Flint seems to sort of what an excuse out.

Billy forces Silver to pick between him and Flint, and this is the part where Silver fucks up (though his fuck up is sort of shunted aside and then later resolved by the Maroon queen). We got some foreshadowing about what would have been the right choice to make in S3 when Silver handled the Mr. Dobbs situation like a master. When Mr. Dobbs fucked up royally with a Maroon, Silver handled it himself. More accurately, Madi facilitated this, so it might ultimately be Madi’s fuck up, too, for telling Silver he needed to hand Billy over. Because Madi didn’t turn Dobbs over to her own men to mete out their justice, she forced Silver to handle it in house. When Silver handled it in house, he not only corrected the situation, but he, with one order, turned Dobbs into a loyal follower. When Billy fucked up royally, on a much larger scale, Silver did exactly what he did the first time with Dobbs: he handed him right over to those he’d offended, only there wasn’t a Madi present among Julius’ men to remind Silver there was a much better way and Madi herself had pushed for it. By handing Billy over, Silver fucks up the alliance with Julius, who takes it as confirmation that pirates can’t be trusted. Why, they not only hand their own people over, they hand over people they call their friends.

At this point the triad is completely fractured, only Flint doesn’t know it because he doesn’t know that Silver has been quietly working out an alternative solution, actively working to take him off the board in the name of saving Madi from herself. The irony here, again, is that Silver and Billy want basically the same thing: Flint out of the picture so Silver can move on and Billy can take control of Nassau. But Billy’s actions at the Underhill Plantation rendered him incapable of earning any sort of agreement from Silver.

The real tipping point at which Silver chose Madi over Flint was Madi’s hostage situation. I think up to that point, the ideas Silver’d been working out to remove Flint had been just that: ideas. When Flint dragged his feet on rescuing her, it was all over for him. He knows then that he must choose one or the other, he cannot have it both ways. Remember, Silver’s choices are a big sticking point this season (”Fuck Flint, don’t fuck Flint. Fuck Billy, don’t fuck Billy, but fucking choose.” “You chose, live with it.”). He chooses to fuck over Billy in the name of protecting Flint and Madi, supporting their war. Then he chooses to fuck over Flint and Madi, in the name of saving Madi, knowing Flint will never make that same choice, even as Flint says the right words.

ANYWAY, that’s my long-winded breakdown of why Julius was right, you can’t trust none of these sheisty hoes.

[illuminated-in-darkness]

Black Sails XXIV

Then you showed him incorrectly.

It's a fucking lashing. I know how to tie it.

If he tied it wrong, then you instructed him wrong.

[sameteeth]

actually. wrt to my last post. the theme of s3e10 is underestimation. flint underestimates silver, hornigold underestimates flint, chamberlain underestimates teach, teach underestimates jack. flint underestimates silvers power over the men and silvers ability to See, and silver shows flint how wrong he is

[queer-crusader]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Black Sails Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Captain Flint | James McGraw/John Silver Characters: John Silver, Captain Flint | James McGraw, Muldoon (Black Sails), Billy Bones, Joshua (Black Sails), Dooley (Black Sails), Dobbs (Black Sails) Additional Tags: Fluff, Christmas, Christmas Fluff, First Kiss, Trans John Silver

Summary: John Silver decides to organise some Christmas celebrations aboard the Walrus.

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i uhh wrote a christmas fic 👀👀

[vowel-in-thug]

first line meme

Rules: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favourite opening line. Then tag 10 of your favourite authors!

tagged by @runawaymarbles - thank you! this was interesting lol

skipping over anthologies:

1. "Martin still smells the sea on his skin." - sense of home, The Magnus Archives

2. "The thing about comedy is — it’s about timing." - first love / late spring, IT ch2

3. "They don’t ever actually fuck, is the thing." - afternoon delight, Good Omens

4. "The knock on his door is a firm, confident two tap — quick, sharp, but demanding to be answered." - almost (sweet music), The Magicians

5. "Flint steps out onto the back deck of the boat, squinting at the pink sky." - ya filthy animals, Black Sails

6. "Flint remembers the first lie Silver ever told him." - trouble is my business, Black Sails

7. "Steve has never seen Wakanda in the rain." - tezeta (nostalgia), MCU

8. "Three days after they first meet, Silver rolls out from under him and asks, “Hey, don’t you want me to make you any liquor at some point?”" - pick up on noon-street, Black Sails

9. "Flint lights a cigarette." - farewell, my lovely, Black Sails

10. "Silver had only been running the Three Swallows Inn for a fortnight before he was able to corral Flint and Thomas into working their nights as unpaid labor." - like a river flows, Black Sails

11. "Silver doesn’t get the luxury of avoiding the cargo hold." - the play's the thing, Black Sails

12. "Silver wakes up remembering everything that had happened to him, but for some reason, it’s the excruciating pain in his arms he feels first." - god wrote that, too, Black Sails

13. "Flint understands the Maroon Queen." - you can have half, Black Sails

14. "It begins with a letter." - ladies and gentleman we're floating in space, Black Sails

15. "Dobbs is the first to take the vow of silence, after Silver had publicly beat him within an inch of his life." - them, Black Sails

16. "Flint stands knee-deep in the water, sharp, broken shells digging into his bare feet, but his eyes are just on the warship on the horizon." - being worshipped is a breeze, Black Sails

17. "A couple months after Charles Town, Flint walks into his cabin to find Silver staring out the window." - i, Black Sails

18. "Silver is dragged back to consciousness by a persistent murmur around him." - no one actually gets smallpox, Black Sails

19. "“See? I told you I didn’t kill him.”" - running home to you, Black Sails

20. "The first day, Silver isn’t able to get more than a few strikes against Flint’s blade before steel taps his shoulder." - two dead boys stood up to fight, Black Sails

patterns I noticed: I keep it brief, which is ironic considering the eventual length of my shit. i generally start with character over setting.

favorite opening line: i'm partial to the start of "them." i'm really proud of how i adapted that storyline to the mute!silver au

tagging: @iron--spider, @jadedbirch, @reluming, @marsza, @lennythepope, @hotniatheron, @storiesabouthestars @ anyone who is also not doing work like yours truly

[blacksailspolls]

🏴‍☠️💀 BLACK SAILS EPISODE BRACKET

ROUND 4 - SEMI FINALS!

THE END IS NEAR !! SUMMARIES UNDER THE CUT.

[LEFT] XVIII. (2.10) — In Charles Town, the day of Captain Flint's trial comes. Lord Ashe offers him a chance to avoid humiliation, but Flint declines, still bitter at Ashe for Mrs. Barlow's death. However, help for Flint arrives in the unlikeliest form: Charles Vane. Vane's men launch their attack on the city, and Flint and Vane fight their way out, with Flint murdering Ashe en route. They reach the ship to find Flint's crew have regained leadership, but Flint orders Vane's crew be released - realizing pirates have to unite against the rest of the world. Silver, after being tortured, is forced to have his leg amputated. When he finally awakens, he reveals that the spy they hired to watch the Spanish soldiers sold the location to Jack, but he leaves out his own part in the exchange. The ending scene shows Max celebrating Jack's success at bringing the treasure back to Nassau.

[RIGHT] XXVIII. (3.10) — As Flint buries the treasure, he is questioned by Silver about his true reasons for the war against the British and the tactics for the upcoming battle on the island. On the day of the attack, the British and Hornigold manage to take the beach with superior firepower, forcing Flint and his men to retreat. Meanwhile, Rackham and Anne unite with Blackbeard's fleet, who seeks revenge for the death of Charles Vane. In Nassau, Eleanor is confronted by an anonymous message, which demands the remains of Charles Vane as well as the gibbet be removed from the market square. Rogers recovers and reassures Eleanor of his support in overcoming her enemies. Silver sends Dobbs to the beach to kill Hornigold. In a later battle, Hornigold shoots Dobbs. Hornigold is eventually killed by Flint. In Nassau, a pardoned pirate captain is murdered by Billy, as there was no reaction to the message with the black spot. With the help of Anne and Rackham, Blackbeard's fleet manages to force the British fleet to retreat. In Nassau, Billy uses the name "Long John Silver" to create a claim of responsibility for the murder.

[dailyjamesflint]

Let us say there is some merit to your argument. Let us say that Mr. Dobbs will do as you ask of him. I would have to admit in that case that the world has shifted beneath our feet in a most startling way. But in terms of our future and the danger that you believe you may pose to me, bear this in mind. I have survived starvation, a tempest, pirate hunters, jealous captains, mutinous crews, angry lords, a queen, a king, and the goddamn British navy. So to whatever extent you may be concerned that some day we will clash, worried that though today we be friends, some day you will have no choice but to be my end, I wouldn't worry too much.

Flint,Black Sails 310.