PARALLELS!!! THE PARALLELS JSKFKV

In my head James and Thomas spent like, another year or two at that retirement home, and then they escaped together and you know I'm right

Roommate: are you crying?

Me* having just watched one of the best hours of television ever, the black sails finale where they unburied some gays and everything ends so in character*: oh no, just dust.

honestly mad respect to black sails for making me (a maritime history nerd) actually squirm during a keelhauling scene

this show has it all btw

black sails 🤝 spartacus 

“bOY I SURE HOPE THE RAGTAG UNDERDOGS WIN AGAINST THIS HISTORICAL EMPIRE THAT VERY MUCH DID NOT END HERE 😥”

I’m sorry but flint and Thomas not having a lot of screen time and not explicitly fucking is so far from what we should focus on as far as black sails criticisms go. What we hear of him in season one, and the poignant flashback scenes in season 2 give us all we need for his impact to be felt. we see his importance in both flint and Miranda’s lives even 10 years after his “passing”, his sexuality is made very clear and his relationship with flint is the basis for not only the entire plot but flints characterization.

Like let’s talk about the fact that Zethu Dlomo’s name is never once credited in the opening sequence, no matter how significant her role became or the amazing performance she was giving as Madi. We don’t even get a name for the maroon queen, and Julius’ story is minimized to hell while we are forced to watch soooo many Eleanor & woodes rogers scenes that could’ve been cut or shortened without compromising their narrative arcs.

There’s lots that black sails could’ve done better or deserves to be criticized for, but white colonizer anal isn’t on the list.

And if you need specifically your queer men to kiss and fuck on screen for you to consider it representation, while at the same time bitch about the fact that men can fetishize the queer women characters without seeing how ironic that is? You’re crazy to me

Hannah New as Lady Tilley Arnold in stills from Bridgerton season 3.

Going into Black Sails knowing nothing but a) it's about fucked up pirates and b) some of these men are gay has been an incredible experience because I've never gone into a show knowing people were queer and so Rapidly devolved into "nonono none of these men should kiss, that will cause immense harm to everyone around them." I'm halfway through s1 and the fact Flint will eventually be with anyone, regardless of gender, is haunting me.

In the interest of not spoiling anything I will say nothing except that I am cackling over this. You're so correct. This is the mood of the entire show. Every time someone kisses on Black Sails I hold my hands over my eyes not in secondhand embarrassment but in dread. They should've listened to Billy and foregone the fuck tent, just like... as a whole. 😔

black sails understands the entertainment that comes from having every single character be insane and just letting them loose

having thoughts about hal gates saying plain and simple 'i love this town' versus the way literally every other character talks about nassau

watched muppet treasure island to emotionally recover from the black sails finale but instead it also made me sad about muppet treasure island somehow

[re flint talking to the maroon queen in 3.5] ok it fucking sucks but this is how solidarity works a lot of the time. white man proposes widespread slave revolts for his own tactical reasons, and then afterward grows to give a care while in the process of working toward his own ends. it doesn't make the caring not genuine, but wow that is clearly the trajectory.