Since yall ATE UP the last one

watching anne's face when she realizes that max and jack are hatefucking each other while they both fuck her is wild

Because I’m getting back into Black Sails at the SAME TIME that Dracula Daily is going strong, I was looking at all the canon and heavily implied polycules in Black Sails and thinking “fuck, they could win against Dracula.”

It’s now a right of passage for all polycules to fight a vampire.

Heyy so I just finished Black Sails and you are one of the few blogs I go to for this stuff. Just wondering if you can recommend other blogs that are your favorites who make good Black Sails posts? Thanks and have a nice day xx

oh my god anon. there's SO MANY incredible people in this fandom so listing them all is an impossibility (and tbh lots of great blogs are also archives cause the show aired a While ago ksajdhfk). plus i am kind of new to the show (one year compared to some people who've been here since 2014). however, i am kind of honored that you came to me for this, so i'll try my best to give you an overview of some of the people i follow here :)

i also do recommend scrolling through #black sails cause a lot of creators use it <3

list under the cut!! i sincerely apologize to any mutual/blog i might have missed jhfdjf and also i hope i'm not bothering anyone cause i dared to tag some non-mutuals as well sjsjskjs <3 (also pls keep in mind that this list is by no means comprehensive cause tumblr won't let me tag more than a specific number of people :/)

in no particular order <3

@john-silvers @freedom-in-the-dark @dykebonny @etoilesombre @blacksailsgf @piratecaptainraven @captainflinttheparrot @noknowshame @myblacksailstales @blacksailssource @mrhamilton @fagflint @longlukearnolds @jackannemax @queer-crusader @girlkakashi @ladiesofnassau @taeminheavens @twopointsinspace @cptjackrackham @misterflint @toddhewitt @captainjamesmcgraw @demisilver @scopophil @lukearnold @scififantasies @silverflintdaily @vampiremotif @naufragium @somfte @browneyeslouis @cptflintdyke @monsieurmcgraw @ponytailflint @capblacksails @cptnrackham @nauticallygay @bsmaxedits @an-inexplicable-delight @saintflint @preacherboyd @flints-black-spot @antigorite @muslim-flint @skeletonislandtheme @startreklesbian @bsladiesonly

jackannemax

also every time i close my eyes i see the jackannemax threesome.

hi, i saw your answer to the anne bonny post and i found it really interesting, so i hope it's okay if i ask: why is anne considered to be gay instead of bisexual? i've seen this being said multiple times in the fandom so kinda feel like i've watched the show the wrong way, or self-projected too much.

hey anon! don't worry, there is no wrong way to watch a show and i personally project onto characters frequently. don't feel bad about that :) i think when it comes to interpreting of a piece of media, there are "bad" interpretations that are based on weak arguments or little evidence and "good" interpretations that make sense, though.

i'm not an expert nor an authority, but i guess a lot of lesbians identify a lot with anne bc her story touches on a lot of lesbian-typical subjects. obviously, anne is fairly butch compared to the other female characters. there's finding love/carving out an identity seperate from men. (and "i can't be your wife" specifically just rings true to some situations me and lesbian friends have been in where you like the person, you really do, you want them in your life, but you just can't fuck him.)

that said, i don't think you can make the case for canon lesbian anne. i think the bi anne/jackannemax polycule camp actually has better arguments just bc bisexuality is more of a thing in black sails than homosexuality and love triangles are everywhere anyway. and i think that's good! more poly and bi representation! adding to that, none of the "lesbian" experiences above are exclusive to lesbians. (and i think jack and anne kiss at least once after the whole wife thing.)

(maybe in addition to that, max and anne have relationship drama until the end while jackanne drama mellows out towards s3. so some people might assume that they're just solid friends. but again, no clear evidence.)

tldr: i can't say. personally, as a lesbian, i just relate to her a lot, but i'm aware that the evidence is not at all conclusive ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

james flint for the character opinion bingo?? 🏴‍☠️

My most beloved mutual and writer of all time I owe you such a life debt for asking about black sails

The thing is I think I'm one of the rare black sails enjoyers that is normal about flint aldjdjfjb he's obviously a very very cool character but he simply doesn't make me wanna throw up the way silver and vane and jackannemax do!! he is however a broken fucked up little man so fun to play with

IT'S ABOUT THE SEMI-NONSEXUAL LESBIAN CENTRIC POLYCULES! 💅

my three favorite lesbians!....and vane. i guess he can stay. 

sometimes you just gotta write your feelings out

(the feelings are wholesome)

(the feelings are Trans Mentor Blanky and Baby Tran Goodsir and Excellent Best Friend Silna)

Max, Anne Bonny, and Jack Rackham from Black Sails are Polyamorous

Not heard the Fathoms Deep interview with Luke Arnold and I’m not sure I’m going to (mainly because I have a very difficult time listening to the ladies because I’m hypersensitive to high laughters on radio and so I tend to miss half of what they’re saying) but I’m genuinly confused about the supposed hate Luke Arnold is supposed to have received from people in the fandom. I mean, come on: if you’re sending hate of any kind to an actor/creator/writer/musician/und so weiter, you’re obviously not a part of the fandom. You’re a person with severe issues, hurting innocent people because you don’t realise celebrities are human beings. That’s not being a fan, that’s being an asshole. End of fucking story. Then, when it comes to the silverflint and madisilver matter. I didn’t even know what the term shipping meant before I stumbled across this fandom about a year ago so I, as some people might know, had no clue about things like shipping wars and what terms like “otp” meant. I still have to look up a third of fandom slang and I feel old. I didn’t ship silverflint, because I simply didn’t see what silverflint shippers saw. Which is a whole other thing than being 100% sure it’s not there. I was genuinly interesting in seeing what they saw, but failed. But when the show was over, I was sitting in my couch, teary-eyed over all my sweet, murderous pirates and couldn’t stop thinking about Silver’s expression. That face when he spoke to Madi about his actions, didn’t leave me. And then I read what the creators said, that there were more beneath the surface of Silver’s and Flint’s relationship. To me, it’s important to separate fanfiction and shipping from the original work, and not read in stuff that is clearly not presented by the creators. But as soon as Steinberg and Levine spoke more about the silverflint relationship, I could make sense of the silverflint shipping I’d earlier failed to see.  Silvermadi was, for obvious reasons, far easier to ship because the ship was sailing on screen for all to see, but the last scene we have of them, their relationship as it is, is breaking apart. Yes, they will still remain together, so they somehow manage to fix it, but as the creators also said: their relationship aint gonna be a very happy one. That’s their peak high of emotional closeness and in a way no less destructive than Eleanor’s and Vane’s relationship. Silver and Madi love each other, yes. But they are not close, they will never be, and they don’t come first for each other. Madi has her people and Silver, even if he’s no aware of it, has Flint. Remember, this is a show where relationships are deep, complex and definately not always are about two persons. The pirate society was known for polyamory, gay and bi and interracial relationships, so what’s the big deal here? Silver loving Madi, doesn’t rule out him being in love with Flint too. Flint loving Thomas didn’t rule out him loving Miranda or falling in love with Silver. Madi loving Silver, doesn’t mean she loves her people more. Anne loving Jack, didn’t stop her from falling for Max - or Jack from accepting that.  Elenor loving Vane, her father and Max, didn’t stop her from putting her own feelings aside and both end up hurting and getting hurt all the way until her end. And Billy loving the crew that was all his world, his family, after being taken from his parents as a kid, and then being torn between the relationships with Flint, Gates, his brothers and Silver, are all reasons why he ended up on a dark path in the end.   All these fluid relationships, sexual or platonic, is the heart of Black Sails. They are the beating pulse here and I think that since polyamory still is something very weird and threatening to a lot of people, the idea of a heart not fully beloning to ONE person, is the idea of a love that’s not true. Which couldn’t be more false. We are presented with two threepart relationships in the show, Flint/Miranda/Thomas and Jack/Anne/Max. None of them could be accused of being uncomplicated and they certainly not remind of each other. I’m certain that Silver, in his heart, loves Flint but isn’t aware of it, just as I think Flint could’ve loved Silver if he’d allowed himself. I think what Silver feels, is something utterly new to him and that the love he has for Madi is way easier for him to get a grip on, but in the end, Silver is ultimately alone. What he has with Madi isn’t bad, but it’s missing something. They both miss something and reckognizing that isn’t the same as saying madisilver isn’t for real. Of course it is, but silverflint is real too and so is thomasflint, mirandaflint and mirandathomas.  Black Sails’s relationships are basically all a bunch of shipwrecks, trying to make at least a part of themselves to safe shores. And none of those who make it to safe land, are whole and unscattered. Well, except from Idelle and Featherstone, of course. Those two are fucking unsinkable and should they ever end up in a storm, Idelle’s glorious tits will keep them both floating, and Featherstone’s tit curtain will be the sail to take them home. 

goodnight to my WIFE

the second half of the s2 finale is just PEAK!! vane-flint alliance, blowing charlestown to dust, all very sexie, silver fully realizing and accepting hes In It with this crew, the men rallying to him, billy being a leader, its all so very Good!

Jack Rackham: There is a master key and a spare key for the brothel. Max has them both. When I asked, "What if you die, Max? How will we get into the office?" She said, "If I'm dead, you guys have been dead for weeks."

Black Sails/The Office