sorry i was thinking about idelle pulling out a machete again and i got a little lightheaded
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BLACK SAILS • XXXV.
“And I swear to God, I'm not making this up, "Voluntary contribution to the Society of Friends:" two shillings. "Non-negotiable." This is... this is truly marveIous.”
“And we're the thieves.”
“Not very good ones, apparently.”
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Hope for the Future
Black Sails Musical Parallels | XXXVI.
I spent a year rewatching Black Sails and tracking all the bits of music that repeated at any point during the show, and my findings are reinforcing that Bear McCreary is a genius and this show should have been called 'parallels that will kill you over and over again'* (tag | chronological)
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Idelle has basically a one track mind, but she has mastery over that one track. (Also, no show has dialogue like this. Just, NONE.)
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Sketchtember2023/Black Sails
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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 🫡🫡🫡
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i'm generally not a huge fan of romantic subplots on account of the aroaceness but i'm weirdly charmed by featherstone and idelle's relationship. like max assigns idelle to seduce him into agreeing to partner with jack, but then while everyone else is having these complex interpersonal relationships the two of them just kind of undramatically stick together as a couple through the whole rest of the series, to the point that idelle starts gathering information from max to pass to the featherstone and the other pirates instead of the other way around. good for them honestly
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Black Sails Monologuolympics BR1.3: Minor Characters: SEMI FINALS
1/2: Idelle vs. Oglethorpe
ldelle, to Anne, 408: "You killed a friend of mine. Her name was Charlotte... and you did it for reasons that had nothing to do with her. There were men knew that would've killed you for me. I wanted to ask them. Had the money. But Max refused. I couldn't tell then if it was... because she was afraid of you. Wouldn't have blamed her. I was. Or if it was something else. But I respected her wishes. Obeyed when she said we'd protect you despite what you'd done. Do you know why? Because despite the world reminding her every day of her life that she's undeserving of being given anything by it, that she was unworthy of what little she'd managed to take from it... despite all of that, she never believeda word of it. That woman has been fighting the whole goddamn world since the day she was born. She's a breath away from winning that fight. For whatever reason, she wants to share the spoils with you. And you'd walk away. You killed my friend. I wanted you to know that."
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Oglethorpe, in 410: "What's to be done with the unwanted ones? The men who do not fit, whom civilization must prune from the vine to protect its sense of itself. Every culture since earliest antiquity has survived this way, defining itself by the things it excludes. So long as there is progress, there will always be human debris in its wake, on the outside looking in. And sooner or later, one must answer the question... what becomes of them? In London, the solution is to call them criminals. To throw them in a deep, dark hole and hope it never runs over. I would argue that justice demands we do better than that. That a civilization is judged not by who it excludes, but by how it treats the excluded."
Bracket 1.3 Polls / Monologuolympics
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