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Season 1 is actually so good? Flint’s character development in it is stellar? The first few episodes are a bit cryptic, they show us the vibes, the major players, the environment, the setting, they set the plot into motion and establish the first main goal, the Urca de Lima, as a step stone to the larger end goal of a safe and stable Nassau independent from England, but Episode 7 is when we really get going. Some extremely fundamental things happen for Flint which set him on a path to so many of his later decisions and to the central and extremely important Flint-Silver relationship.
There are three essential and amazing scenes happening in rapid succession:
1. Hal confronting Flint about Billy and the letter.
2. Flint confronting Miranda about the letter.
3. Eleanor finding Flint drinking in the tavern.
All these three scenes are in some way about Flint’s desperation throughout his entire journey to find someone who loves him not despite what he believes, not despite his ambitions to change the world by sheer willpower, but for them. Who shares them, who shares his obsession. To feel the rush of what he had with Thomas again. Because that was when he learned to love and be loved like that and that love is what has kept him alive so far and while he likes to pretend (probably also to himself) that his ambitions are just for the better of everyone, deep down he is also just scrambling to keep Thomas’ memory alive.
Now Hal breaks their partnership off by expressing disbelief that Flint is actually interested in the common good of the pirates. He twists his finger into the wound that Thomas’ plan and by extension Flint’s ideals never considered: Should they even be the arbiter of others’ fates, are the people he wishes to govern over so unable to choose their own path in a constructive way? Do they really know better? Hal realizes Flint has never truly seen him or the pirates of Nassau in general as his equals and the rush of being caught up in the captain’s grandeur (and I mean… attractiveness all around) just doesn’t outweigh the energy it takes to uphold the cognitive dissonance anymore.
“Is that what you are to us now. A sovereign. Levying a tax.”
Next is Miranda. She comes right for the underlying drive of grief, revenge and the desperate attempt to keep a memory alive by building a “safe, righteous, self-determined home” for the now fractured and incomplete Hamilton-McGraw triad, wrapped in it Flint’s identity as a queer man.
At this point Flint assumes that she is the one to understand this, to truly grasp what this means to Flint and share this (given the Maria Aleyne history it’s understandable that he has held onto this assumption). But she denies sharing the vision, expresses her frustration and loneliness and goes for the final punch by sharing how she remembers and interprets Thomas’ perspective on the situation.
“This path you’re on. It doesn’t lead to what you think it does. If he were here, he’d agree with me!”
At this point Flint, for the first time in the show, is shown actually doubting himself. The two people he has been closest to and trusted the most in his time in Nassau so far have drawn back their support, have attacked two core tenets of his ambition. The scene with Eleanor merely puts a band-aid on the situation. Her blessing, her understanding of his drive is important structurally, because she is a vital political partner, but I do not believe it means as much to him. There is a really interesting moment full of actual (sexual? romantic?) tension or rather potential there, but it ends with a forehead kiss. Flint appreciates the partnership and deeply respects her, but probably more from a parental perspective, she isn’t truly an equal, based on life experience and age alone. But things are already in motion, the show must go on, the band-aid will have to suffice.
“Perhaps a little doubt in me is called for.”
“What happened out there?”
“Tell me, we’re not crazy you and I?”
“Crazy?”
“To put ourselves through all of this when the outcome is so uncertain?”
“The outcome is only uncertain for those who disbelieve.”
The hole ripped in Episode 7 is essential for all further developments, it opens space for Silver to become an important person in his life, it opens space for him to reconsider trying a path involving pardons, as in season 2. It also foreshadows or mirrors or just resonates with how all these relationships around Flint ultimately end: Eleanor scraps her ambitions for love, Silver scraps Flint’s and Madi’s ambitions for love, even if he is reunited with Thomas in the end he is never truly reunited with the feeling he chased the entire time: Being loved for his ambition, by somebody who shares it, facing the world and shaking his fist at it, believing change is possible and yet not having to be alone.
What a lonely place to be in.
[image descriptions
image 1: Close-Up/Over the Shoulder Screenshot of Hal Gates in conversation with Flint. A bald pirate looking down with a somber and concerned expression.
image 2: Close-Up screenshot on Captain Flint, glinting eyes, in the midst of his desperate plea to Hal. He’s a red-haired & bearded man with a desperate, pleading expression.
image 3: Miranda Hamilton and Captain Flint in their house on Nassau, both are seen from behind, Flint is about to leave through the front door, Miranda is leaning towards him in the foreground, calling after him.
image 4: over the shoulder screenshot on Flint, looking at Eleanor Guthrie with a somber expression, pinched eyebrows, slightly opened mouth, almost considering.]
#flint#black sails#meta#bs#i might have to share my more detailed ramblings on each separate scenes at a later point...#arghhhhhhhh#eleanor#miranda#pirate media#hal gates#me
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I'm craving more pirate media! A few months ago i started watching the one piece anime, now I'm watching the live action and soon we'll be getting our flag means death s2
there's surprisingly little pirate media nowadays and it makes me sad
#pirate media#one piece#one piece live action#our flag means death#pirates#I NEED MORE PIRATES#ig this is my hyperfixation now
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Can we get a new pirate film/franchise please?
Because, even aside from how loathsome Johnny Depp is as a person, I've grown really tired of how pirate media, at least in film, is now COMPLETELY dominated by PotC for the last two+ decades (kind of like how dinosaur films is now basically just Jurassic Park/World).
TV has Black Sails and Our Flag Means Death, but sadly neither has the same pop culture clout.
And, I certainly have my issues with how piracy is whitewashed and romanticized in a lot of media, because a lot of pirates were flat-out r*pists and slavers and war criminals. But there are some really interesting and relevant stories to tell. And not just Carribean pirates, either (bless OFMD for giving Zheng Yi Sao some media attention, however ahistorical the portrayal).
I don't expect Hollywood to go for historical realism with pirates any time soon (though I do think such a film could work, see Master and Commander for a good, fairly realistic age of sail film). But fuck, I'd even take an AC: Black Flag movie. Or just anything that isn't Johnny Depp clowning around in Keith Richards cosplay.
#Pirates of the Caribbean#Pirates#Media#Film#TV#Black Sails#Assassins Creed Black Flag#Our Flag Means Death#Pirate Media#Historical Fiction#Fuck Johnny Depp
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#comment#comments#screenshot#youtube#youtube comments#piracy#pirate#pirate media#piracy is cool#itunes#music#song
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Oh…. Well, it’s over for Crunchyroll I guess
#Crunchyroll#piracy#funimation#money hungry ass streaming service#rambling#I’ve never paid for a streaming service in my life thank god#I appreciated using others accounts but I personally cannot see myself paying this much for a service if I had the funds 😭!#get back to pirating kings!!!#anime has always been one of the easiest forms of media to pirate anyway so y’all got this#CR is definitely not worth paying for though#CR is certainly not worth paying this much for even if it’s a yearly one time fee#capitalism#the fact that CR has always had pretty bad quality as a streaming service anyway#it buffers every time you pause or rewind anything
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People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.
For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.
The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.
So yes, I’m going to pirate and support piracy.
#ra speaks#piracy#media piracy#pirate to make hondo ohnaka proud#obligatory ‘don’t fucking pirate small authors/artists works wtf dude’ statement.#anyone who’s seen my media bitching before knows I’m a hype man for indie films this ain’t about them#this is about corporate streaming services killing physical media bc sales numbers are less impressive than number of streams#edit: USAmericans stop telling me to buy DVDs and blurays at Walmart. think outside your borders for a hot sec. fun thought exercise.#your experiences are not universal#edit: WHO GOT THIS TO 100k. I JUST WANT TO TALK (this post is my second to hit 100k woahg.)#in other news: fix your fucking posture. drink some fucking water. and go the fuck to bed if it’s late bc it’s for me rn. peace and light.
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Ok there was a post that just went around about pirating safely and I could've sworn I reblogged it but now I can't find it. Anyone have it handy?
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hey guys, maybe before you pirate LEARN SOME ETIQUETTE
why are these important? well, if you openly share the sites, they wil get shut down. corporations are willing to copyright strike anything. you are only going to make accessing these resources harder.
remember: LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS
if you want to share resources, don't post them on public forums like tumblr, twitter,instagram or any popular site. remember how zlibrary shut down? yall want that to happen to more sites? do you?
also like if they get shut down, people who can't access these otherwise because they don't have the means for it or its banned in their country are losing access.
Don't post links online. Only share in private conversations.
try and avoid linking the sites directly. a workaround is sharing the downloaded files via other file hosting sites similar to google drive and drop box
DON'T SHARE ON PUBLIC FORUMS. EVER. PLEASE
Use a VPN. i personally like proton vpn, it is a freemium model but the free version works fine.
These are just the basics, there are others but please keep these in mind.
#books#video games#movies#tv shows#download#book#literature#eat the rich#anti capitalism#piracy#pirating#media preservation#internet#yo ho ho
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#I'm literally pirating all my media#I don't even have a Spotify#I love the ghoul boys but I'm not getting any steaming service#Sorry#I shall miss them terribly though#watcher#watcher entertainment
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I've realised that the thing I love most about the new popular queer media (and for this I'll use as an example wwdits, good omens and ofmd), is the fact that the difficulties these characters are dealing with aren't connected to their sexuality. The problems don't stem from their queer sexuality. They are not being punished for being queer.
Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship isn't forbidden because they aren't a cishet couple. It's forbidden because they are both victims of an opressive and unjust system (heaven) who's afraid of their combined power which is a direct result of their love for one another.
Guillermo and Nandor's relationship is so nuanced and complicated. There's lots of things to unpack that have been piled up for more than a decade, but again their queer sexualities aren't the problem. Same goes for the rest of the vampires, who are also queer.
Sure, in Stede's case he has to deal with queer trauma, toxic masculinity and the realisation that he's gay, and therefore doesn't conform to the ideal archetype of the straight, masculine man with the heterosexual family. But after realising that and coming out to Mary, the show isn't really about ‘oh, look how difficult it is to be queer, poor guys'. Like Con O'Neil said in a panel, the obstacle here isn't that we have two men who are in love. The difficult thing is to let yourself be in love and become vulnerable.
Both Stede and Ed are dealing with their own trauma, which has affected how they see themselves and by extension their relationships with other people. They are dealing with self doubt, even self loathing, and the belief that they aren't good enough or that they don't deserve love. However, none of that is because they are queer. Being queer sure isn't easy (especially then) but it's not the source of their pain and I fucking love that.
I'm all about the exploration of sexuality, dealing with internalised homophobia and transphobia, coming out etc, and that's why we have series like Heartstopper. But it's still so fucking refreshing to see queerness not being depicted as a ‘big deal’, but rather one of the many aspects of one's self.
That being said, I love being queer and fucking love my insane little queer characters.
#just something I've been thinking about lately#god i fucking love being queer#it sure as hell isn't easy#but i wouldn't change it#queer media#our flag means death#ofmd#edward teach#blackbeard#stede bonnet#gentleman pirate#blackbonnet#gentlebeard#good omens#ineffable husbands#crowley#aziraphale#crowley x aziraphale#what we do in the shadows#wwdits#nandermo#guillermo de la cruz#nandor the relentless#nadja of antipaxos#laszlo cravensworth#colin robinson#taika waititi#rhys darby#david tennant#michael sheen
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I just know Crocodile brought on Mihawk because he thought he would be sensible, calm and collected, low maintenance. He thought it was going to be them against the idiocy that is buggy. And it is to a degree.
What he failed to calculate is that Mihawk is just as bad as buggy.
Worse even because at least Buggy can be bullied into doing paperwork. I just know everyday Crocodile is astonished by the absolute commitment Mihawk has to his aesthetic. Walks into his tent just to find that he has somehow converted this circus ass tent into a mid century gothic castle. Somehow carpeted the whole thing end to end is burning more that a 100 candles for “mood lighting”, has a fully open fire pit and a sewing machine in the corner.
Like Crocodiles essentially a mafioso he can appreciate the wanting nice things. Still won’t prepare him for the day Mihawk’s brings him a wine budget, a tailoring budget and an embroidery budget all painstakingly itemized.
Won’t prepare him for having to replace every single wine glass because buggy drank out of one and he can’t break up a set but refuses to use a cup that buggy’s put his mouth on.
He’s starting to think that the real reason the Warlords were disbanded was because they simply could not afford to pay for Mihawk’s upkeep anymore and decided they’d rather pay in cadet lives than see one more wine budget.
He is essentially being held hostage, in his own guild, by the whims of a bored middle aged vampire, and a fucking clown.
#Mihawk is a man of whims.#crocodile is crushing screaming pulling out his hair.#I know Mihawk’s government expenses half the reason Sengoku retired. he probably can’t even look at wine anymore#he really thought he was about to get a sensible business partner#and wound up with the most unhinged hedonistic petty man in the New World.#fully have you ever seen this man do paperwork in his life?#Crocodile is trying to run a business while his two partners steadily try to run it into the ground with every frivolous expense#atleast Mihawk brings muscle and the occasional good idea when he’s so inclined.#hawkeye mihawk#cross guild is geniunly the funniest thing to ever happen in the history of media#dracule mihawk#sir crocodile#buggy the clown#buggy pirates#cross guild#throwing thoughts to the void#one piece#op
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can someone pls recommend a pirate movie/series (that isn't the pirates of the Caribbean, our flag means death or the princess bride)
I've been listening to sea shanties for an hour now and I'm in the mood for some old ship pirate stories
#pirates#pirate media#pirate movie#movie recommendations#pls send some#i need movie recommendations#sea shanties
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Watching the percy jackson series is worth it for this line
#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo tv show#grover underwood#percy jackson#commentary on American Politics in media >>>#It's true tho...#(Also this was pirated bc boycotting Disney!!)
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here’s the thing.
if you’re one of the people celebrating our flag means death’s cancellation for whatever reason right now, i need you to realize that this is just a sign that whatever you love is next.
and i’m not saying that out of spite. having your favourite show cancelled is awful, i wouldn’t wish it on anyone. but if our little-gay-pirate-show-that-could can’t get its third and final season, the future of queer media is extremely grim.
ofmd was the definition of a sleeper hit. hbo max had no faith in it when the first season came out. it gained popularity purely through word-of-mouth. but it became one of max’s biggest shows, and it’s since been marketed as their flagship series.
it was the #1 most in-demand series in the world for 8 weeks (7 of those weeks consecutively). it’s currently in the 99.7th percentile of the comedy genre, meaning it’s in higher demand than 99.7% of all comedy series in the u.s. it has a 94% audience and critics score on rotten tomatoes. it’s the most in-demand hbo original series even above euphoria, succession, and the last of us.
it was nominated for 16 awards for the first season alone, including a GLAAD award and a peabody award. the second season was just nominated for an art directors guild award, which it was previously nominated for and won in the same category for season one.
besides awards, ofmd is critically-acclaimed and praised for its representation (including a cast of majority queer, bipoc, and disabled characters) and themes of anti-colonialism, challenging gender norms/toxic masculinity, and self-discovery/acceptance. it also has a diverse team of directors and writers consisting of several bipoc, women, and queer/trans/non-binary people.
on top of all of this, the plan for the show all along was only ever for three seasons. david jenkins only wanted three seasons for the full romcom structure to tell ed and stede’s story. that’s it. nothing more.
this isn’t an attempt to make you care about the show. but ofmd’s cancellation isn’t just a loss for the fanbase and the cast/crew. it’s a sign that it does not matter how successful or profitable shows highlighting lgbtq+ (or otherwise inclusive) narratives are or how many big names are involved. ofmd would not have been cancelled if it were a straight romcom. they would’ve magically found the budget. but corporate greed doesn’t care about us. they have no respect for queer people or queer media. and in the age of streaming, it’s only a matter of time until we lose all of it.
#also if you’re happy that ‘taika waititi’s pirate show got cancelled’ because of baseless accusations against him#1) it’s not taika’s show. it’s david jenkins’ show.#taika is just an actor/director/EP#2) even if you don’t like him celebrating the cancellation of a show because someone was falsely accused of zionism#especially when that person (like it or not) is a huge voice for minorities and is the reason so many of them get to tell their stories#is gross and makes you a gross person!#ofmd#our flag means death#ofmd season 3#save ofmd#renew as a crew#fuck david zaslav#queer media
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how to avoid piracy!!
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so I was today years old when I realised that to english-speaking people "kraken" exclusively refers to a mythological being.... meanwhile in my bilingual brain
#I went too many years not knowing this#always thought it was weird for movies to act like kraken don't exist when they just mean the big monster version#well#sometimes being bilingual is worse#gonna have to rethink a lot of pirate media now#german stuff#narrowly saved myself from embarrassment lol#imagine having a normal conversation w english speakers and going ''yeah but kraken are real'' 😭😭#id in alt
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