#james flint

[idontwikeit]

No, no, no… you've got it all wrong… you can't act death. The fact of it is nothing to do with seeing it happen - it's not gasps and blood and falling about - that isn't what makes it death. It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all - now you see him, now you don't that's the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back - an exit, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death.

-Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

for @annevbonny

[cowbeing]

I kinda gave up on maintaining my cosplay blog, so I realized I never shared my black sails cosplay here!

This took me like....2 years to complete, but might be my favorite cosplay I've done

[billysboner]

the reveal of flint being gay adds so many layers and so much depth to everything leading up to it but it especially makes his reaction to eleanor and max’s breakup simultaneously hysterical and heartbreaking, mans is stuck in the eye of a category 5 dyke drama hurricane

[keivni]

i can't live one more day at the mercy

of my own dismay

[dragon-of-the-soutn]

So with Black Sails now on Netflix I just want to talk a little bit about my favourite monologue from the show….

Charles Vanes monologue to Flint when there in Miranda’s House.

Yes I know it’s the ‘is it gay to live in a house’ speech but as I’ve gotten older it’s come to mean a lot to me I guess.

Because it’s asking the question, what would we do, we the people who live in the safety and comfort of our homes, our communities, the safety provided to us by the state, do to keep that comfort? To keep ourselves in the familiar comfort of civilisation and what that comfort requires from us. For us to look past and ignore. A question I think is more important now than it was a decade ago.

“Give us your submission, and we will give you the comfort you need.”

I think it’s a monologue most comparable to Max’s speech to Anne at the beginning of season three when she speaks of what home means to her and in an way Madi’s voices speech to Rogers in season four. They know what was required to build that home, a question that I think is very important for those of us living in the West to ask ourselves, particularly with our counties histories of colonialism.

Idk but when I’m thinking about the big theme of civilisation in the show this is the speech, alongside Max’s that comes to mind. Because all these character have been hurt and rejected by civilisation in one way or another but I think out of all the characters, even Flint, Vane and Max get civilisation best of all in a way. Vane because he wholeheartedly rejects it and Max because she most of all understands what was required to build that room in the first place.

Just yeah. The ‘is it gay to live in a house’ speech always gets me because it’s the civilisation speech to me. It’s defiantly the one that’s made me sit down and think the most.

[owlch333]

James Flint, Billy Bones , John Silver

[tobys-walrus-crew]

Hey Black Sails family! There's a raffle on twitter! Why? because

BLACK SAILS IS BACK ON NETFLIX!!!

Head over to twitter to take part in it! Oh and watch Black Sails, of course!

[mushroomseb]

BLACK SAILS 1.07 "VII."

[samuelroukin]

TOBY STEPHENS as James Flint in BLACK SAILS (2014—2017) Chapter V

[mediacircuspod]

They really went to Toby Stephens and said, “We’re imagining the saddest man—completely regret ridden, absolutely terrified of his own passions, but also weirdly “dark nautical” in theme.

And Toby Stephens went, “That’s actually kind of my specialty.”

[kuzuyamii]

happy anniversary to whatever is going on in this show

[idontwikeit]

Ask a historian, “What was mankind’s greatest invention?” Fire? The wheel? The sword? I would argue it’s history itself. History isn’t fact. It’s narrative, one carefully curated and shaped. Under the pen strokes of the right scribe, a villain becomes a hero, a lie becomes the truth.

-Gaal Dornick, Foundation

[howlerbat]

Persuasion Check of all time

[aeirithgainsborough]

BLACK SAILS 210. XVIII

[amarantheia]

Today's a personal Black Sails Anniversary for me, so posting this drawing of my faves from my fave show as a tiny celebration

[john-silvers]