And the moral of the story? Everybody needs a partner.

BLACK SAILS II. What if today's the day? XIX. And when the day comes...

max and eleanor in season four send me a little feral like. I chose a future I no longer believe in over you but I still think about where we would have gone together. you betrayed me but I am still going to leave safety to look for you in the middle of an invasion. once you loved me and betrayed me and then I loved her and betrayed her.

BLACK SAILS | 1.02

“There was a time in which I could not conceive of how I could ever forgive you. And in this moment, I am you.”

the divorce of the CENTURY

Swing the hammer, the fragments, eh A skull exploded on you, on all you

Spring / Sun / Winter / Dread - by Everything Everything

[image decription: 5 graphics with stills from black sails, all layered over different edited shots of the sea in black and white

image 1: stills from season 1 episode 1, a close up of Max holding the schedule up for Silver to see, a close up of Silver looking shocked that she took it, a still of the cook lunging forward with the sword on the merchant vessel, a close up of Silver when he realizes the cook had something of value. text reads: “you are a thief and a murderer, too”

image 2: stills of Max and Eleanor from season 3 episode 7, during their conversation where Max tells Eleanor “and in this moment, I am you”. stills of Silver and Flint in season 4 episode 8 on the deck of the Walrus when they are trying to rescue Madi. text reads: “stole the face that you wear from a craven baboon”

image 3: stills from season 4 episode six, a close up of Anne while she is recovering from her injuries, turned away from the audience and Max, a close up of Max seeming hesitant and upset during the scene where Anne tells Max to “get the fuck out”. a close up of Billy laying on the ground after being beaten by the men, with a close up of Silver looking down at him during the scene where Billy tells Silver “you chose, live with it”. text reads: “‘cause you did it to her, and you did it to him”

image 4: stills of Dufresne and Silver from season 3 episode 7. Dufresne is laying on the ground after Silver knocked him over, Silver’s metal prosthesis right in front of him, Silver is grimacing in the shot of him, a bit of blood splatter on his face. stills of Flint and Madi from season 4 episode 10, Flint is looking distressed, there is blood on the side of his face and he is in the middle of speaking. Madi looks very upset, she is looking at Silver as he tells her what happened with Flint on Skeleton Island. text reads: “and you did it before and you’ll do it again”

image 5: stills from season 4 episode 4 of Max and Silver as they have their conversation about what Max had planned to do if she had apprehended Silver, during which she says she did not kill him because “I would have had to live with it”. text reads “I know it.”

end i.d.]

it is built on sand // all that we intend is scrawled in sand

just here thinking about the unexplored avenue of max and eleanor having a relapse and falling into bed together any time between seasons two and four. rotating it in my mind.

You know what the best ship dynamic is?

Two people who are absolutely insane about each other, but not only in a romantic way. Two people who want to be each other, or who are both vying for the same position, but who are desperately lonely. You’re my greatest enemy and my best friend type vibes.

When it’s all:

I hate you. I can’t end you without becoming you. You’re all I’ve ever wanted to be. You’re everything I’m afraid of becoming. You’re the only person in the world who can understand this burden I bear, but you’ll never understand me. You’ve hurt me more deeply than anyone I’ve ever known. I wouldn’t have become as strong as I am today without you. I hate the way everyone admires you. I want them to admire me. I want to be you. I want to kill you. I want to kiss you. Why won’t you love me? All I ever wanted was your love. Why am I never good enough?

I forgive you for all of it.

Canon Sapphic Characters Tournament Round Three (Bracket 2)

II. I want her to say it. I want her to say that she would sit there and watch as you beat the answer out of me to save this place.

XXXVI. I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things, for failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you.

BLACK SAILS 10th Anniversary Celebration Day Two: Favorite Dynamic: Max/Eleanor

II. • And then what? Then they blockade the island, choke off trade. A few crews will resist, but how long can they survive without my father's support? One by one their numbers will dwindle. The fort will be abandoned. Soldiers will storm the beach. By the time the smoke clears, my father will have arrived. First time he's set foot here in five years waving the royal commission that his bribes purchased and lording over the place. Round of applause, the new governor. Somewhere in London, some foul fuck will get news of all of this, light his pipe and say, "Finally, all is right again in Nassau." XIX. • You saying this ain't real? Of course it is. The fort will be repaired. If he says it, he'll do it. When you first opened that door and showed me the Urca gold, do you know what I saw? A solution. The mortar that would secure the sand beneath our feet. The thing I could offer to England or Spain or whomever arrived here and threatened to reorder things, and say, "Take this and leave me be." Everything is dependent upon that gold, and right now it is sitting in a fort with no guns and full of holes.

“In the mirror reflection, everything becomes transparent and hyper-visible, stripped of any illusion” - Basia Sliwinska

mirror - sylvia plath // black sails II and XIX gif from @brotherconstant // palindrome poetry shadowpoetry.com // black sails transcript xii // black sails xvx // palindrome poetry ethicalela.com // black sails viii gif from @saws2004

BLACK SAILS | 1.08 part 1 / part 2

personal top 5 ships

This hurts me because what are we DEFINING this by. Best ones?? Ones I read the most?? Most formative???

Dean/Cas. I've gone most of the summer without thinking about them much but im sure I'll relapse soon enough. You all know. This is the destiel website.

Silver/Flint (Black Sails) look. Look. Look look look. A story is true a story is untrue I will stand here with you for an hour a day a year he's my friend too I reached back into the past I don't know if this is a warning or a welcome you know all of me I can bear to be known you chose now live with it you gave it all up here in this moment I don't care. Okay???? Okay???????

Charles/Erik (X-Men). It's like. Love isn't everything and love isn't enough and yet. And yet!!!! You know that line from the Hamilton Mixtape when Angelica is like "what have we done with our lives, and what did it get us?" This is DOFP old!cherik and I'm fucked up over it. Love doesn't conquer all but it does keep you company in jail a couple times a month.

Spike/Buffy. I'm sorry, this was fucking formative for me. Toxic ship of my heart. How to hate yourself into a relationship that makes your life worse and you can't let go of and also can be good eventually if you let it. When I tell you that I love you it's not because I want you. I've seen the best and the worst of you. No you don't but thanks for saying it. Deceased.

Max/Anne (Black Sails). You ever decide the best solution to a woman wanting to kill you is to seduce her and then accidentally set off her gay crisis then immediately U-Haul while telling yourself she's going to leave you creating a self-fulfilling prophecy and planning for this eventuality while telling yourself that it's for the best anyway because you have career goals while never getting over her and then at the end of the day realizing half that shit doesn't matter??? Yeah me either these two are crazy. I love them.

Honorable mention: the version of Buck and Eddie that the 911 fanfic writers see. It's the BECAUSE, EVAN of it all.

Other honorable mention: the version of Clarke and Lexa in @entirelytookeen 's brain