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inspiteallthedanger · 2 years

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Hi! Are you planning on ever writing a time travel AU? I love those as well. Also I finished reading Going Nowhere and dang it was great. Thank you so much for putting in the time and effort to write it, I’m so happy you did :)

Hello! And thank you!! I'm glad to know you enjoyed GN. To be honest, it just seemed to pour out of me all at once. It felt very cathartic.

I do have plans for one, yes! I thought it would be really fun to do a sort of double time travel so we get a John/Paul from 1968/9 going back to say, 1958. But they're just swapping places with their earlier self? So we can follow both a very confused younger and older version of themselves in the wrong time-period. Because I don't tend to see much of a younger version of them experiencing the future and just being WHAT THE EVER LOVING FUCK IS THIS NONSENSE?

I'd make it so that both are extremely reluctant to go back to their own time, by the end. But, I'd need to figure out the dynamics and how to plot it. I just can't work out if I want John or Paul to do the travelling?

I think John would be interesting because he's so self-reflective and I can see him trying to change things. But, like, I'm not sure how much John would be able to impact Paul's decisions? But a Paul that's just getting dumped and coming to learn some hard lessons??? Maybe. So, I dunno. Also, I know a couple of people are writing amazing Tim-travel fics. So I don't want to do anything that would step on that. Plus, I've got these three others to clear first.

Then a five conversations John and Paul had with each others' partners mini-fic.

#ugh #so much writing to do #so little time #but I really like this idea #so I hope I can get around to it #I did also promise someone very important #that I'd write some #ofmd fic #and I have black sails fic #that I should return to #so #who even knows

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kairenn-n · 9 months

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i wish merlin had killed even more people in canon. he deserved it. that scene where he kills agravaine and his men? the best thing in the show ever. he needed a scene where he killed someone with his bare hands 0 magic used. and a scene where he brought down a whole army like its nothing AS HIMSELF. and a scene where he cut someone's throat with a knife. and a scene where. sorry im getting carried away. im right tho

#the show needed more blood #(me about any show ever)#CAN U TELL REWATCHING BLACK SAILS IS DOING THINGS TO MY BRAIN #i didnt remember the scenes where flint killed the spanish sailors with a knife through their throats and a hand on their mouths.....#I WANT THAT FOR MY BOY #okay i need to write more fics where he kills people without magic. for . reasons #merlin #omfg WAIT STOP. imagine servant of two masters but he tries to kill arthur with his hands. im having thoughts (<- hannibal brainrot)#ok to reblog but only if you want merlin to kill more people

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awesome-shoes-with-wings · 2 months

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I was reading Sea of Monsters (again) when I got to the part where the guinea pigs were turned back into men when suddenly I had an original thought!

There were lots of guinea pig pirates, you know.

And uh... Toby Stephens was a pirate, the great and dearly beloved Captain Flint.

So what I'm throwing around is... AU where Captain Flint got cursed to be a guinea pig with his crew or something like that?? Would be hilarious as a crack fic!

Furthermore:

Percy: Dad??? Captain Flint: I beg your pardon? Percy: ... Percy: ... oh wait nevermind-

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jaynovz · 10 months

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Silverflint Bathing Fic Rec List

So I realized I had most of this rec list already compiled because I really like reading about the Pirate Lads getting squeaky clean. So here ya go!

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All Our Yesterdays by trill_gutterbug:

Summary: “It might do you good to stop wallowing in your own filth,” Flint replies. “Although just as likely you’d dissolve completely.”

Silver shakes his head. “If you haven’t, I certainly won’t.”

Flint opens his hand invitingly. “Come find out.”

Silver regards him thoughtfully for a long moment. “We won’t fit.”

Flint adjusts himself, sitting up straighter. He lifts one dripping leg onto the edge of the rim, opening a vee of space in the water. “There’s room.”

Bathed by twofronteethstillcrooked:

Summary: An itch had caused him to reach back to scratch. His fingers came away red as the pain shot like cannon fire across his shoulder.

Silver went pale as he rushed nearer. “You told me you weren’t injured.”

Flint shrugged. “I didn’t think I was.”

Silver seemed to be clenching his teeth hard enough to crack rock. His nostrils flared. “We should see to it before you head much further inland.” He sounded like someone Flint did not want to test on the matter.

what the water gave me by youatemytailor:

Summary: "Captain," Silver says, firmly, like this is the most important discussion they have ever had, "Come here now and let me smell your goddamned hair."

Aftermath by Thiebes:

Summary: It had only been days without Silver in front of him, but Flint couldn't take his eyes away.

Flint gives Silver a bath after being captured by Israel Hands.

I wish for once we could stay gold by jaynovz:

Summary: Madi has discovered that pirates truly are a grimy bunch, but her two have managed to keep fairly clean the last few months when they had access to fresh water.

The governor’s mansion is filled with bustle, men scurrying about, seeking answers from both Captain Flint and their new King, but there is time enough to steal them away. Time enough this evening for some respite, to cleanse the grief and violence from the last few days alongside the dirt.

the only way out is the way back in by samedifference61:

Summary: And Silver obviously means to further agitate Flint’s state when he says, “Do you know what she said to me this morning? She said, ‘I cannot understand why the two of you have not been intimate yet.’”

a shared bath, a conversation about death, and a promise

A State of Undress by mycapeisplaid:

Summary: It's not everyday you get to undress your Captain.

Note: Specifically chapter four for the bathing, but the whole series is great :))

from whence we came and to where we shall go by princesskay:

Summary: Only a starving man could be this hungry -- this recklessly wanton.

Our Longed-For Bed by mapped:

Summary: Flint wishes for something he may call home again. Perhaps Silver is that something.

Surety by Magnetism_bind:

Summary: After Silver's finally returned from the sea Flint has to deal with his feelings.

Here there is liberation by frau_kali:

Summary: The water was cool against his skin, making him shiver, probably visibly. He touched the sponge against the area around his stump, doing his best not to wince. The water always helped, always lessened the pain.

“I'd be careful not to waste a single drop of that, if I were you,” Flint spoke up from his desk, making notes in his log. He hadn't looked at Silver since his quartermaster had removed his clothing. Probably too distracting, Silver thought, with a twist of newfound pride. - In which Silver teases Flint, is teased in return, and begins to discover a thing he didn't know he wanted. Oh, and also hair washing and pulling :)

Princes of the New World by x_etoile_x:

Summary: “This is your plan?” Flint sneers, looking at Silver like he’d expected no better. “Hiding below decks like a rat?”

“Now Captain, that’s unkind,” Silver pouts, trying to hide his hurt behind teasing reproach. All day he has tried to match Flint, to fight alongside him though he is ill-suited to it, and it has earned him nothing but disdain. Now it’s time to do things his way for a while. “Like a stowaway, at least.” --- After they have taken the warship and been cast out of the crew, Flint and Silver are forced to contend with each other and the nature of their relationship.

Note: Bathing specifically in chapter 4, but the whole series this belongs to, our feast is but beginning, is top tier, highly recommend.

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As always, hit me up if there is a fic you think I’ve missed! <3 <3

#black sails #silverflint #john silver #james flint #jay's esoteric rec lists #fic recs #black sails fic recs #silverflint fic recs #I was compiling some fluff for a friend the other day and so here yall can have this too

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weidli · 5 months

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now each of us is a witness stand - elke (weidli) - Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

When James follows the Admiral into his study, when Hennessey turns back to him and steps aside to reveal Alfred Hamilton sitting in the room’s best chair, eyes narrowed like an old eagle’s, when the grinding clockwork of the world as James thought he knew it seems to shudder to a halt around him – James can think, for a moment, of nothing but the last time he saw the earl of Ashbourne, and what happened after. How very carefully Thomas had approached him. The warmth of his hands. (Or: Alfred Hamilton offers James McGraw a deal in exchange for Thomas and Miranda's safety. Then they have to live with it.)

#hello it's me again. back with 11k of Upsetting on Purpose #it's not a proper black sails au until someone's said this is not what i wanted <3 #thinking about this fic has consumed my mind for the last week i hope to god it will stop now and i don't have to write a fucking sequel. i #have HOMEWORK!!#black sails #captain flint and friends

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runawaymarbles · 11 months

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So I just finished Black Sails and I feel like something has come untethered in me. This is... a good thing? I think? Anyway, do you have any fic recs? I don't have any particular ships in mind, but I am curious about what fandom did post canon.

OH BOY DO I

Two of my favorite post-finale fics are The Tether Series by @stele3 and smallpox by @vowel-in-thug. I remember really liking The Far Waste of the Waters as well but I don't really remember what happens in it which clearly means it's time to read it again.

I have a bunch of stuff on my black sails fic rec list, which probably mostly overlaps with what's in my bookmarks but not completely because I didn't really start using my bookmarks until well after I'd made a dozen rec lists.

Anyone else have other suggestions?

#black sails #fic rec #I have a bunch of black sails fics I made covers for #and most of them are not good covers so I should really redo those #projects to think about #asks #anons #op

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thecreaturecalledriza · 1 year

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Izzy, screaming in frustration as the Swede incorrectly ties a line for the 1285993th time even after detailed instructions: fucks sake my youngest is better at this than you, and he’s fucking eleven! Why aren’t you getting this!?

The entire crew, including Ed, Fang, and Ivan: youngest? You have a kid? You have more than one kid? Since when?????

Izzy: Yes? One generally has children when they’re married?

everyone: maRRIED????????

cut to Sam, watching as his five children Esther, Elijah, Jordan, Michael, and little John King go about their day doing chores on the ship: hm… my ears are burning.

#bellhands #izzy hands #sam bellamy #black sam bellamy #I have decided the babies from my end notes on my a/b/o fic are just their children in every iteration #Plus little Johnny king #it’s babies ever after for those two #Sam isn’t actively pirating anymore he just can’t quite give up sailing #Someone has to teach the children while Izzy is still off working

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beemovieerotica · 9 months

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The Tisha B'av chapter of James Flint Becomes Jewish is up! (and I posted it on time!!!)

Rating: Explicit No Archive Warnings Apply Summary: Welcome to the microscopic intersection of my very particular interests. Key features: Billy Bones, Mr. Gates, and Randall are still happily serving on the Walrus. Miranda is still gardening. Flint is bald. James Flint converts to Judaism because he thinks it will make him a better pirate. John Silver is also Jewish but has told no one, and has to gently correct all of Flint's enthusiastic misinterpretations of Jewish tradition without giving the game away. It's very much "He's a little confused, but he's got the spirit" energy from our favorite gaslighting captain.

#it's shorter than i wanted and i'm having weird feelings about my writing atm but!!! it's done #black sails #black sails fic #jumblr #silverflint

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leonardcohenofficial · 10 months

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the vanerackham fic really has turned into my longest active fic project with perhaps the lowest word count but it’s truly just because they and their dynamic make me feel crazed

#i have 3.5k words on a fic that i have been legitimately working on for multiple years now but it's at least moving #i would share what i have with a few select mutuals but you then get to see the messy bizarro way i draft lmfao #black sails #vanerackham

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lupismaris · 10 months

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Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Black Sails Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Captain Flint | James McGraw/John Silver, Captain Flint | James McGraw/Thomas Hamilton, Captain Flint | James McGraw/Thomas Hamilton/John Silver, Captain Flint | James McGraw/Hal Gates, Muldoon/John Silver (Black Sails) Characters: Captain Flint | James McGraw, John Silver, Thomas Hamilton, Hal Gates, Max (Black Sails), Anne Bonny, "Calico" Jack Rackham, Charles Vane, Billy Bones, Eleanor Guthrie, Idelle (Black Sails), Augustus Featherstone, Muldoon (Black Sails), Joji (Black Sails), Joshua (Black Sails), Charlotte (Black Sails), Logan (Black Sails), De Groot (Black Sails), Woodes Rogers, Miranda Barlow, Madi (Black Sails) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Polyamory, Background Relationships, Everyone is Queer, canon violence is mentioned, look to chapter notes for any relevant content warnings, Lots of Background Ships, Light Dom/sub, Light BDSM, using those for now im not sure the levels of kinkiness yet they wont tell me

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It was not, if he was being honest, his best laid plan.

But then as Rackham was incredibly fond of saying, common sense was tragically uncommon, and Silver was occasionally known to fall into the demographic of uncommonly idiotic individuals when he was desperate.

The most sensible thing to do was trust the Rangers, and what his own eyes showed him- trust that Flint was retired. He should trust that The Walrus was nothing more than a cozy, dive by choice, queer bar where the locals could drink away their money and the rest of them could keep their heads down.

And yet...

_____________ Chapter 4 is now posted on ao3! In which Silver gets manhandled more than once but not at all by who you think lmao

#my fic #opening act of spring bs mdau #silverflint #silverflinthamilton #black sails #black sails fic #jamie's fic prompt fills #james flint #john silver #i am so tired holy shit but its done!#i really hope you guys like it i wanted more to happen this chapter but its better to have it divided into two

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littlecrabbs · 7 months

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I read @saltybenchday 's Black Sails Outlander crossover fic Hope in the Shadows and have been obsessed with it ever since, especially with the idea of William Ransom and John Silver becoming best buds. Those two are always up to shenanigans sooo of course I had to draw them getting drunk together.

Holly really combined two of my favorite things into one fic and it has altered my brain chemistry forever. I am so in love with this fic😍 thank you Holly Mack for writing Hope in the Shadows♥✨

#fic fanart #fanfiction fanart #outlander #black sails #William Ransom #William Fraser #John Silver #long John silver #putting these two things together make me so happy you have no idea #you should totally go read it btw #I endorse it #littlecrabbs #saltybenchday

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jaynovz · 1 year

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Luke Arnold did not put his entire psyche and pussy into John Silver to the detriment of his own health for yall to say Silver is a mastermind liar and not a fucking repressed bisexual MESS

#have you SEEN him?#fucking LOOK AT HIM??#watch the actor act his performance is EXTREMELY layered of Man Desperately Trying to Suppress Weird and Big Emotions about Flint #especially in s2 check my woof woof tag the body language is VERY READABLE #but it doesn't GO AWAY in later seasons it just Shifts #black sails #john silver #he's trying to hide it but it peeks through a LOT #lemme find a post #listen just this Idea I've been seeing over and over that Silver is Always Performing and like... there's no genuine expression #or that he somehow has complete mastery of himself LMAO it just utterly discounts the Actual Text of the show #and the actor's performance #which is... SLOPPY BITCH TRYING REAL HARD TO PERFORM BUT IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE... A LOT #treating Silver like a narrative device can be fun and great but uhhh yall have bought into the legend you got tricked #he's literally just a fucking ptsd ridden mess 30 traumas/snakes in a trenchcoat #My Opinion About This Has Been Well Documented in Fic #but I guess I just lost my mind in the tags blaming this one on Etoile

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etoilesombre · 1 year

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Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: Black Sails Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Captain Flint | James McGraw/John Silver Characters: John Silver, Captain Flint | James McGraw Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Light Angst, light for Black Sails i mean, Fluff, also only by Black Sails standards, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Slow Burn, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Episode Related, s02e01, fuck Dufresne Flint will never not be captain, the intimacy of sharing food and space, wound care, Medicinal Drug Use, Watersports, but only in the context of hurt/comfort, John Silver: I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me..., they're having the weirdest sleepover and trying not to kiss, that's the fic Series: Part 3 of our feast is but beginning Summary:

“This is your plan?” Flint sneers, looking at Silver like he’d expected no better. “Hiding below decks like a rat?”

“Now Captain, that’s unkind,” Silver pouts, trying to hide his hurt behind teasing reproach. All day he has tried to match Flint, to fight alongside him though he is ill-suited to it, and it has earned him nothing but disdain. Now it’s time to do things his way for a while. “Like a stowaway, at least.”

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After they have taken the warship and been cast out of the crew, Flint and Silver are forced to contend with each other and the nature of their relationship.

#cooking fic part three!!#disclaimer its more hiding than cooking this chapter #but they'll get back to it #when you've had a really awkward encounter with the cute guy at work #and you just want to avoid him forever #but then you have to steal a warship together #oops and then camp out in said warship #things can happen y'know #the payoff is coming i PROMISE #next chapter #silverflint #john silver #james flint #black sails #fanfic #my writing

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mendedserpent · 10 months

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kindness, I suppose

A dead man walks into a bar. It sounds like the start of a joke, but really it's the end of an old story and, if they're lucky, the beginning of a new one.

(baby's first silverflint fic — read it below or on ao3 <3)

A dead man walks into a bar and orders a whiskey neat. It’s not a joke, it’s the start of the story — or rather, a start of a story.

The bartender falls silent in the middle of telling another man at the bar a long and convoluted tale about why he doesn’t go to such-and-such town anymore, on account of the judge banning him. The bartender is known for these stories. The people who live in this backwater town have to be coming for the stories, because they sure as shit aren’t coming for the liquor. The bartender turns to look at the dead man and falls still and silent, like an automaton losing power. This is because he is the only one in the bar who knows that the dead man is dead. Still, the rest of the patrons fall silent as well — hands not yet on their guns, but night is young their minds are moving in that direction. They respect the bartender. If a man makes him fall silent, then they should go silent too.

“You’re dead,” says the bartender.

“Evidently.” A pause. “Are dead men not allowed to drink, or is there some other reason you’re refusing me service?”

The bartender stares at him for a long time, like he’s trying to read a very old sign that’s very far away. “You’re dead” he says again, quietly this time, so quiet that the rest of the men in the saloon can’t hear the crack in his voice. The bartender feels as though he is cracking — old, sun-bleached wood that's spent too long out in the desert.

The dead man gives him a long, sad look. At this, the bartender's eyes flicker around his face, examining the expression from all sides. The dead man should not be sad. The dead man should have shot him by now. But there is still only one dead man in this bar.

At the bartender’s confusion, the dead man gives a weary sigh. “Let’s talk.” His eyes dart to the rest of the crowd at the bar and to the barback who’s forgotten to pretend to be working. “Somewhere private.”

He puts his money on the counter. The bartender blinks, just once, before turning to holler at the barback, who immediately turns his focus on a stain visible only to him, telling him to watch the place. The saloon settles back into an animated, if slightly uneasy, chatter. When the bartender goes to grab the money, the dead man’s gaze lingers a fraction of a second too long on his hands. The dead man has seen those hands kill more people than he can count. He’s unsettled by the sight of them without a revolver, without blood. The scars, though — the scars remain. The scars remain.

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Captain Flint, terror of the west, sliding through the frontier at night like a knife between ribs, bloody and quick, vanished 10 years ago. His horse wandered back into town without him one day and he was never seen again. They say he died in a duel gone wrong, they say he died at the bottom of a lake, they say he sold his soul to the devil and one day the hellhounds finally came to collect. The truth is that Captain Flint vanished into the air like water on a hot summer day. The truth is somewhere between the lines, the notes, the hoofprints in the ground. The truth is dust, blown away by a western wind.

#ari.txt #THEE fastest I have ever written/posted something... mental illness RESIGNED!!!#title from van zandt's pancho and lefty #black sails #ari's fic tag

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theartthatleavesthemark · 1 month

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Black Sails, Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Max & John Silver (Black Sails) Characters: John Silver (Treasure Island), John Silver's Wife (Treasure Island), Max (Black Sails) Additional Tags: max is silver's wife in treasure island, post black sails season 04, rewriting treasure island in the black sails canon verse, a story is true a story is untrue!, and baby this story contains multitudes, tagged for gen because they are married but it is not a romantic relationship, max contends with the ghosts of the past, silver lies, reliving your own history, remember when flint said you will feel the pull of this fight again?, and silver said no i won't?, joke's on you john Series: Part 2 of buried treasure Summary:

John had returned from the public house pale and withdrawn going on a fortnight ago now.

or, John Silver's wife discovers which ghosts he intends to raise from the dead.

ohohohohohoho we are BACK people!!!

#black sails #treasure island #yes i have the hubris to try and do a black sails canon compliant treasure island rewrite what of it #john silver #writing #my fic #fic recs

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kvetchinglyneurotic · 2 months

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Tagged by the lovely @jamietarttsnorthernattitude to post the first lines of ten stories:

Here’s a secret: it was Jamie’s fault his dad came back. The Hedgehog's Dilemma

2. It said something about him, probably, that Roy stayed on the bike through Jamie’s awful, gut-wrenching story, through his own grit-toothed confession that he’d irreparably fucked it with the woman he thought, once upon a time, that he’d spend the rest of his life with, only to lose it on the straight. Tell Me Something True

3. They're up at Burnley and it's snowing; lightly at first, a dusting of white over grass through the second half that had them shivering in their kits as they slid mud-spattered across the pitch. Ephemera

4. Jamie's got one boot on when Cartrick storms into the dressing room, red in the face and shouting that the fucking bitch has fired him and good fucking riddance; gone and pissed away whatever chance they had at avoiding relegation, she has, just they wait. All I Have (And a Little More)

5. Keeley spent half the night after Richmond won against Watford in her office. Flightless Birds

6. I will wait here for an hour, a day, a year, he says, but in the end they stand facing each other under the speckled green of the forest canopy a mere quarter hour before Israel Hands stumbles awake, and perhaps it is luck or perhaps it is grief that Flint, formidable fighter though he is, loses first his sword and then his footing. Requiem for a Monster (Black Sails)

7. There’s a line at the edge of the village where you were born (not your village, not for a long time, maybe never) that marks the start of the law. Dragonslayers (original fic)

8. The very first time, when he is truly thirteen, he wakes to starlight and an ache in his muscles. The Eternal Recurrence of the Same (original fic)

9. This is how it starts: with a stream of stars past the window and the echo of a tinny newsfeed from two rooms over. Emmetropia (original fic)

10. Two days past the end of the tresset, the air still held an electric buzz as the angry roiling purple of the clouds faded to a hazy pink before slowly clearing to blue. What's Past is Prologue (original fic)

Tagging @thirteenemeraldcats, @jamiesfootball, and @asteria-argo if you want to play!

#tag games #thank you!#luckily i do actually have 10 fics although just barely #the black sails one isn't posted and also is only like two sentences which is why it doesn't have a hyperlink

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