that the biggest high seas bastard got a happy ending in this tragedy + all that is baked into that contradiction. the unreal/real nature of it truly matters less and less than the fact that, as narrator in that moment that we the audience sees it, silver gives flint his happy ending. real/unreal. that IS real. silver says it, and it is so - we get to watch the catharsis and relief and reunion. it’s not about if it happened it’s about silver needing that to be the final image for flint: a happy ending to a tragedy.
!! crucial !! piece of hilson lore confirmed - they're fucking LOSERS
honestly? so affirming to me. this isn't news i know but to get this explicit piece of interaction about being a lonely child and now being weird adults who don't know how to make friends or have "normal" conversations or connections like this is the shit i eat for breakfast, especially accompanied with the complete and utter sense of surrender to this fact that wilson displays. there's absolutely no reason whatsoever for him to defend himself or act as if what house is saying isn't true bc it is and they both know it and knows the other knows it even if they've never actually talked about this once which is very likely but they know cause they're the same and they only have each other and and and
This scene in Rifles made me LAUGH out loud because Vivar has been trying SO hard to convince this priest about Sharpe and then Sharpe is casually about to blow it all to kingdom come in his usual manner. This was all I could picture Vivar doing internally
But honestly this is Vivar to Sharpe 75% of this book LMAO
for the longest time i was a loss as to what to bring to the potluck because i thought i should bring something good and of high quality but then i realized that i was supposed to be having fun and that the whole point of the event is to have fun. so here i am, smiling at you, handing you a doodle of Guys From My AU because, let's face it, if i were to make a full illustration for any of them i'd only be able to participate in Potluck 2027. look at the itty bitty bastards :)
(the lineup is missing the team's AI but he was too darn itty bitty to draw next to the already ittybitty-fied Big Dudes)
You ever just make an OC for a fun little small idea and now suddenly she rules your braincell? The 20 minute screentime man ever become a blorbo that demands you write 15k words for him? I'm going to start BITING
the more we discover about dion's father and anabella the more i'm happy dion impaled the shit out of that motherfucker and the more frustrated i become anabella got an easy death by killing herself. not that i expected clive or joshua to do anything because i don't think they're those types of people but it would have been satisfying to me