BLACK SAILS, XXXVIII

OP tags: #out of the corner of your eye you see them#jonathan steinberg and robert levine with a steel chair

you don't finish black sails, black sails finishes YOU

shoutout to idelle who could have easily remained a random background sex worker with great boobs but instead became a revolutionary informant sex worker with great boobs, thank you for your service ma’am 🫡🫡🫡

odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”

I have been the subject of enough ridicule and innuendo to know the difference between a little danger and mortal danger. LOUISE BARNES AS MIRANDA BARLOW/HAMILTON BLACK SAILS (2014-2017)

The funny thing is I actually started watching Black Sails the day before it started streaming on Netflix, without even having heard it was coming to Netflix. I don't know what to make of that, but I have to admit, I would've liked to have gotten in on the fandom earlier so I could be one of those "At last, this thing I love that has been slept on is now Popular!"

Though real talk, how the hell did Black Sails get slept on? Like, it's a hella-expensive show that ran for four seasons, so it was obviously successful at the time, but then why did I never hear about it on my dashboard/FB feed, and only occasionally on other places?

Celebrating the 10th anniversary!

Being a member of Flint’s crew must be exhausting. Twice a week you’re put in an impossible, desperate situation then the captain does something unhinged and saves the day in a way no one understands but everyone has come to expect anyway. He tells you to do something, you do it; two hours later, he tells you to do the exact opposite and you do it too (he makes a compelling argument). The crew voted him off six times already and somehow he’s still captain; no one has anything to say about it. There’s no way he’ll wriggle out of this one, you tell yourself for the eighth time this month. No one wants to die for him. You’ll all do whatever he wants you to do. He can control the weather.

If we were able to take Nassau, if we are able to expose the illusion that England is not inevitable, if we are able to incite a revolt that spreads across the New World…then yeah, I imagine people are gonna notice.

This was the post that first spurred my interest in Black Sails, and I'm reblogging it again to commemorate the fact that I've finally watched this scene.

But what's not in this post, because the whole scene isn't there, because this kind of collage post works in snippets and that's fine--is that after Flint's speech, Madi quotes Don Quixote to him: "Too much sanity may be madness, and the maddest of all: to see life as it is and not as it should be."

hope is a weapon

hope in the dark (rebecca solnit), hadestown (anaïs mitchell), black sails (levine & steinberg), acceptance speech for distinguished contribution to american letters (ursula k. le guin), we shall not be moved (mavis staples), cloud atlas (wachowski, wachowski, tykwer & mitchell)

unavoidable that you will be the villain in someone else's story. You will be painted in an unfavorable light. You will be the irredeemable one. and all of this will happen despite how nice you might usually be or how kind or how respectful or how warm. and you will just have to move on.

BLACK SAILS 1.07 "VII."

Little jockey

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