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everyone's got that one homie who zealously adheres to his inflexible code of honor even though it has long since become a burden to him

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black sails created an 18th century legendary pirate captain who is canonically queer, ginger, depressed, repressed, polyamorous, murderous, morally gray, downright insane, thoughtful, contradictive, manipulative, funny, strong, idealistic, proto-feminist, utopian, kind, proto-anarchist, anti-colonization, controlling, obsessive, stoic, strategic, intelligent, quiet, delusional, traumatized, filled with uncontrollable rage, consumed by grief and shame, a literary nerd obsessed with greek mythology and classics, a proto-romantic in the philosophical sense - whose whole story is the prequel story of a character from a classic novel who was dead from the very beginning of said novel - and they expected us to be normal about all this and to get over all this and move on from all this?????????

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i’ll say it i think when flint first got to nassau he and vane fucked and for flint it was very emotional and meaningful because it was the first time he has sex with another man since thomas and for charles it was just guys being dudes. cuz like. sometimes ur at sea for months with no women so u gotta have sex with the homies ya know? and also owning cups is gay.

and i think this drove a wedge between them that escalated to the absolute “hating each others guts and getting into constant screaming fistfights” energy we see in the pilot, because of course charles “fucks men but doesn’t consider himself gay” vane would drive james “queer liberation” flint up a fucking wall.

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seeing people talk about the 410 scene where silver meets the ship's cook like it's him confronting his past self in the cook... no! HE represents past him! he can run and fall in love and grow a beard and get his leg chopped off but he can't acknowledge & move past his past. and therefore he can't transcend his past. the cook is not past john silver because if he was then john silver would have to confront past john silver! and that is not how it works! how it works is he will always end up where he started; below deck, threatening a ship's cook. yes he is the one invading the ship now, instead of the one hiding from the invaders. he is more violent. he is more powerful. but he has ended up in the same place he started.

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I’m new to Black Sails so I’m sure this has been said, but it’s wrecking me. S4 spoilers.

I feel like the moment toward the end when Flint straight up panics about Silver possibly getting shot and then kills his own man and sabotages his own plan to save Silver was a full-stop, hold up, pause it right there, what the fuck moment that Silver would have absolutely been stunned by it if he weren’t too far gone in his own fucked up mental headspace and scheming plans.

One of the most insidious things Flint does is kill his closest friend and confidant (as close as he’ll allow someone to be to him as his Flint persona, anyway) because Gates was going to interfere with his plans. The plans came first. The plans always come first. Flint repeatedly has a one-track mind and the will of the Gods to see his plans through (ie creating the storm). Something like friendship can’t stand in the way. Nothing can.

Except—

In this moment near the finale, Flint makes the complete opposite decision. He chooses his friend over his plans. He chooses Silver over what he thinks is the way to succeed, over what’s necessary for the war. He chooses Silver over his plans. In a split second, entirely instinctual and emotional reaction, he chooses Silver.

And Silver was there when Flint killed Gates. He knows what Flint is capable of in moments like this one. He should’ve stopped everything right then and there and realized and been forced to accept how much Flint cared about him, but he didn’t. He couldn’t.

Flint could tell Silver his story and about Thomas, but Silver didn’t tell his own story. He couldn’t.

That is so fucking heartbreaking. This is the real reason he inevitably becomes the villain, not because of Billy’s propaganda or all of the posturing. It’s his mind, his outlook: Survival only. Survival first.

Silver has already shut Flint out when he first realized Flint might choose the war over Madi, even though so many times afterward and so sincerely does Flint promise that she’s a priority and that they’ll save her. Flint has pulled off the impossible before. Silver has believed him and only him capable of pulling off impossible things before. But Silver has already made up his mind and refuses to see or accept a reality where Flint actually cares for him, and by extension, Madi.

Silver is completely lost to his own insecurity? inability to connect and trust and love? once there are actually people in his life who love him that he has forced a story onto those around him that leaves himself out of an actual life with them.

It’s awful. agh it’s so good

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the face of a man who has just been casually read to absolute filth by a persistent pest of a stranger whose only commentary on it is 'lol sucks to be you' after years of carefully managing how he's perceived

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“we need to teach media literacy in schools” guys was i really the only person paying attention in english class bffr

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me seeing john get pinned down on the table by a bunch of men and the axe coming- "oh you're fine, there are two seasons left, i know you're not going to die."

me remembering him as a Character from Popular Book like a split second later- "THE LEG"

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me: oh man im starving but im not sure what i should make for dinner……

the spirit of a 12th century templar knight that died a horrific death due to torture that started haunting me after i found a sword in the middle of the woods: spaghetti once more, prithee?

me: henry you are brilliant. spaghetti it is

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fellatio is such an awesome word. sounds like a pasta. but be careful! wouldnt want to order that at a restaurant ... lest some nasty little creature get ahold of that thang

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Flint and Silver taking the Spanish warship is just one of those things that HAS TO BE WATCHED in video. Many excellent fandom gifsets have visited this scene, but you HAVE TO WATCH IT IN REAL TIME to understand just how fucking funny it is. The comedic buddy cop timing is FLAWLESS - the way Silver barely even waits for the Spanish soldier to start threatening them before he spills his guts, the JUST as rapid heel turn when he spins the audience expectation on a dime once again, Flint’s furious little chair hops as he tries to scoot his way over to Silver to…chew his throat out while tied to a chair, i guess!

Oh, and of course the KING LINE: “well WHATTHEFUCKDIDJATHINK WAS GONNA HAPPEN?!?!!?!?!!?”

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leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

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One thing I love about Obi-Wan is that he never just sits down.

He always has to strike a pose.

Look:

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u literally cannot have some sort of kneejerk panicked guiltspiral reaction to learning u hurt someone u cannot start playing out ur imaginary canceled callout metoo moment anytime a loved one thinks uve done something wrong 9/10 people are only communicating that to u bc they want 1) their hurt validated 2) a promise to at least try not to hurt them the same way again 3) a hug not some fucking malicious attempt to destroy ur life

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I'm the "voting is good" guy but I intend to direct basically all of my you-should-vote energy next year towards the reelection of the 18 progressives who've stuck their necks out to call for an Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire. They've dedicated themselves to a basic standard of human decency, and for it they will be punished with an immense tidal wave of financial and political resources seeking to get them kicked out of office, to say nothing of the threats against their lives. Biden's on his own.

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Obi Wan Kenobi 💙