#sail people

[connected-the-dots]

I drew Mogens as a sail person a bit ago (all tomorrow's go brr)

[vandeeartist]

The Sail People were masters of the sea, but the hard surface of their archipelago world was not easy for them. On the small islands, no kind of animal that could be ridden could have formed. However, the invention of automobiles became a real salvation for this species of posthumans.

[penisbutterjellytime]

[al-norton]

You believe me like a god

I betray you like a man

[thatpunnyperson]

According to NBC here in the US, the missing titanic sub has been found. As debris. Off the bow of the Titanic wreckage.

And it looks like the sub suffered what we all suspected, and what was undoubtedly the more merciful of the two options: a catastrophic implosion from the pressure.

Also, more info has come to light about the fishing trawler with the hundreds of migrants that sank cataclysmically off the coast of Greece, indicating that the greek coast guard knew about the vessel AND how much trouble the vessel was in, and were towing it at a speed that made it capsize, at which point they unhooked the tow line and watched the trawler sink without helping the passengers to safety. Despite a bunch of other ships trying to help as well throughout the whole ordeal.

So a lot of people are dead, all because of regulations (and the lack thereof) regarding sea-faring vessels and rescue protocols. People shouldnt be allowed to make a business charging a ton of money for a ride on an uncertified, unsafe, un-seaworthy ship going deep into the ocean with no distress beacon or tether to the mothership. People also shouldnt be allowed to enact laws that criminalize the ferrying of refugees, which then force the refugees to hitch rides on fishing trawlers, and which also prevent people from helping those fishing trawlers full of refugees due to fear of legal consequences.

Hopefully BOTH of these events spark changes on an international scale in terms of what is legally allowed to be sailed, who is legally allowed to be the passengers, and what the rescue protocols are in the event of disaster for any seafaring vessel, illegal or not. It shouldnt be just the global 1% who get 24/7 search parties and remote-operated submersibles helping rescue them.

[mithryl-draws]

i'm starting to see what everyone gets out of this dynamic.

[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)

[paper-mario-wiki]

my roommate wants to move in with her boyfriend but i think i have feelings for her. i don't want her to leave at least. any advice?

i would invest in a VR headset since you'll have an empty room in your house soon, so you'll have plenty of floor space to play VR games.

[ladyhawke]

Spin the wheel for a Black Sails character!

reblog and tag which character you got and which option you voted for and justify yourself

(fully inspired by this post)

[39raccoons]

learnt that one piece used the sets from the black sails and just couldn’t help myself

[possessedpasm]

"Skies of blue, good sailing for you..."

[Sketch for @plaiesancier!]

[zombiesun]

I think there needs to be more stories about friends who are almost lovers. who are closer then anything in the world. who can read each others minds. who appreciate how beautiful and impressive the other is. and then have them absolutely destroyed by their own personal events and have that bond twist around like a broken electric cable until it snaps under the pressure of incompatible lives. and then that love turns to hate and then to a haunting.

[bitchmael]

i think a lot about flint saying "i cannot believe that that is all there is. i cannot believe we are so poorly made as that - incapable of surviving in the state to which we were born, grown so used to the yoke that there can be no progress without it" and the response of most of the people around him being "well it is and we are. die."

[jaynovz]

Listen. A lot of John Silver meta posts are like 75% there. And the part that gets on my nerves is the *intent*

Assertations that this character is constantly purely calculating and self-aware and consciously scheming and in control are the things that really rub me the wrong way. It discards the strength of the performance and editing and script and the things that that performance indicates as far as expressing vulnerability or lowering the mask.

Does he still keep like five different layers up even while trying to lower two of them? Yeah, of course, we see that on screen.

But for me where a lot of these Silver takes fall short is failing to acknowledge that the character himself doesn't even realize that he's lying half the time because he's the best at lying to himself. And that it's self-defense mechanism and survival instinct and that it's just like breathing. It's a default state.

For many of these interactions, especially with Madi and Flint in s3 and s4, he often thinks he's being truthful.

Anyway, it would be good for people to keep in mind that John Silver is not actually a malicious super villain and is in fact a deeply traumatized and tragic figure.

[stuckinapril]

It really is so true that you never know what someone’s going through behind closed doors. I’ve made being gentle and kind my default bc I’ve had super put together friends disclose the most harrowing time of their lives to me and it’s like oh?? You were going through that???? I would’ve never guessed

[jvneeyres]

TOBY STEPHENS as James McGraw and RUPERT PENRY-JONES as Thomas Hamilton in Black Sails, Chapter IX.