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Gates: You're not answering the question.

Flint: I'm trying to answer the question.

Gates: So you're saying she's lying? That the letter is just a fiction?

Flint: I'm saying that my relationship with her is a complex one... that it's hard for me to understand at times. But what is clear is that she desperately wants to leave this place and will say anything in order to make me go with her.

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People took to the streets in celebration in India after its Supreme Court struck down a 157-year-old colonial-era law, “Section 377,” that criminalized all sexual activity apart from heterosexual sex as “against the order of nature.” Judges described the law as “arbitrary” and said that freedom could only be fulfilled where the LGBT community possesses equal rights.( Getty Images)

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god ye ever think about that first episode of Black Sails?

like, i know we talk a lot about how s1 is arguably the weakest, but that first episode man - specifically the first 15 or minutes of it.

it starts up with the merchant ship, showing us how scary the pirates are: the captain is almost begged to surrender so they won’t have to fight, the cook hides below decks and tells Silver exactly what pirates do to cowards (which he must’ve only heard through hearsay). That whole exchange between the cook and Silver tells us that you either die fighting the pirates, you die because you hid and they found you, or you join the pirates.

and then we’re shown the fighting, and they’re ruthless. the filming is so clever here, concealing the pirates with smoke and by not focusing on them, making them even more the mythical barbarians we’ve been told about and are anticipating. the crew of the merchant ship is shown being slaughtered, cowering and screaming in a way i don’t think a lot of fighting/battle scenes from film and tv really shows.

then of course is the MARVELLOUS unveiling (literally) of Flint, and we’re given the exact impression on how we’re meant to think of him. The Captain, obviously, since he can stop the crew without protests, and arguably the one to be most scared of. but also a more Educated and gentlemanly pirate (he’s iirc the first of the pirates to actually talk and not just shout and grunt) ((and now i’m thinking about that introduction shot and lawrence of arabia and western films i’ll stop myself before i’m completely off track))

and then. and THEN. after the blessing that is Bear McCreary’s hurdy gurdy, you get the LITERAL UNMASKING OF THE MYTHICAL PIRATES. gates who walks through the ship, considering their plunder in a stark contrast to the fight scene before. sweet Joshua who jumps out, Gates who then rolls his eyes at him and tells him to grow up while Joshua LAUGHS AND TAKES OUT HIS SCARY TEETH.

Dufresne and his accounting!! that whole scene was a fuckin EYE OPENER to me, and what really sold me on the show because look! you can’t just sail a ship around, rob another ship, and call that a day, that’s a pirate’s life for me! there’s COSTS, they share the profit EQUALLY, people are INJURED and DIED and apprently the priates have a system in place for that! they’re paid damage!

JUST. I LOVE THAT INTRODUCTION SO MUCH I LOVE THE WAY BLACK SAILS DECONSTRUCTS THE IDEA OF PIRATES AND THE OBVIOUS RED THREAD OF STORIES AND WHO THEY’RE TOLD BY AND HOW THAT SHAPES OUR WORLDVIEW I LOVE THIS SHOW SM YALL

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Cecilia Campironi (Italian, based Rome, Italy) - From Many Mani series, 2016 

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Protect my city.

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Hello, lovely person! I was wondering if you might know of a list of Granada Holmes episodes sorted by season? Specifically, now that autumn is coming, I feel like I'll want to snuggle up under a blanket and watch the boys dashing about the countryside with lots of gorgeous fall leaves in the background... Thank you for your fantastic blog! :)

That sounds like a lovely idea, I don’t know of any list like that so I made one for you :)

Spring 🌸🌱🌸🌱-A Scandal in Bohemia-The Dancing Men-The Naval Treaty-The Solitary Cyclist-The Speckled Band-The Copper Beeches-The Final Problem-The Empty House-The Abbey Grange-The Priory School-The Devil’s Foot-Shoscombe Old Place-The Last Vampyre-The Three Gables-The Golden Pince-Nez

Summer 🌞🍃🌞🍃-The Crooked Man-The Greek Interpreter-The Norwood Builder-The Red-Headed League-The Six Napoleons-The Man with the Twisted Lip-The Problem of Thor Bridge-The Resident Patient-The Boscombe Valley Mystery-The Illustrious Client-The Master Blackmailer-The Eligible Bachelor

Autum 🍂 🌧️🍂🌧️-The Musgrave Ritual-The Second Stain-The Sign of Four-Silver Blaze-Wisteria Lodge-The Bruce-Partington Plans-The Hound of the Baskervilles-The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax-The Creeping Man-The Dying Detective-The Red Circle-The Mazarin Stone

Winter ❄️✨❄️✨-The Blue Carbuncle-The Cardboard Box

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Attention Over the Garden Wall fans!  

TheMysteryShack.com has OTGW merch, and the above are coming soon!

https://themysteryshack.com/collections/over-the-garden-wall

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#i was so upset by the placement of the paper-dispenser that i didn't even register the piano [via]

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@margarita_karenko 

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You worked that task force in ‘99. How do you think that’s going to play for your career? I’ll be done; doesn’t matter. If I let this happen on my watch, I’m owning up to it.