—You had to figure it out on your own, i was lucky enough to have a great teacher.
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“The Urca’s gold is secure. A full complement of soldiers, reinforced batteries… 18-pounders, all of them… and men who know how to use them. There’s no way of approaching that beach from the land.And even if it weren’t for the soldiers, even if it weren’t for the guns, there’s a fucking warship watching over every inch of the bay… a fucking warship that has already killed half your number, a fucking warship that would prevent any approach to that beach via the sea. There’s simply no way of stealing that gold. But there might be something else you can steal-the fucking warship.‘”
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Flint, Black Sails 201.
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okay in relation to this post - especially the line "that minor unimportant line is kind of about being gay, right" - I’ve been thinking a bit about flint’s conversation with silver about ‘darkness'
“You have some experience with this, I imagine, living in fear of such a thing within you?“
"Yeah, I do”
just. think about the way flint says it. and then there’s the whole there is “freedom in the darkness” once you understand it/“once someone has illuminated it”
in conclusion: the dark is gay, and isn’t something to be afraid of, and the light is knowing no shame
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I’ve been ready to return Flint to the sea for a long time.
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All this will be for nothing. We will have been for nothing. Defined by their histories, distorted to fit into their narrative until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children.
#im literally crying#i was not prepared#captain flint#black sails#black sails quotes#godddddddd#one of the most beautiful speeches in a show of the most beautiful speeches#speeches? monologues? people being beautiful via words and stories and just#ain't no better#blood cw#society#shadows#light#discovery#possibility#freedom#im sobbing#monsters#stories#history#not true#this acting#unbelievable
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Flint’s war could only have one result. A life of loss and misery and fruitless sacrifice. I had to stop it. And I’m not sorry for it.
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Odysseus, on his journey home to Ithaca, is visited by a ghost. The ghost tells him that once he reaches his home — once he slays his enemies and sets his house in order — he must do one last thing before he can rest. The ghost tells him to pick up an oar and walk inland, and keep walking until someone mistakes that oar for a shovel. For that would be a place where no man has ever been troubled by the sea, and that’s where he’d find peace.
Source: cathly
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Sapphic women of Black Sails + Sappho
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Lieutenant James McGraw | Captain James Flint
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gaygingerpirates-deactivated202
what am I going to do though
there is literally no other show like this on tv
to start with a bisexual woman controls the business of some of the most dangerous pirates alive and has a relationship with one of them - who happens to be a former slave - before escaping execution for her crimes
she also has a relationship with the biracial, lesbian, slave-born prostitute/madam who then forms a poly relationship with a bisexual pirate woman and her boyfriend, oh and she also basically becomes queen
meanwhile a gay navy officer becomes a pirate after losing the man he loves and plans his revenge and redemption with the woman the two of them were also in a poly relationship with
he then teams up with a disabled conman and an island of escaped slaves - led by a current slave, his queen and their daughter - to fight a war against england
and on top of this, the characters are fully formed and motivated, the action scenes are incredible and the dialogue is perfect
so yeah
what am I going to do
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Black Sails Favorite Quotes - Part Two
Source: candlewinds
#IM SOBBING#STUNNING#god this show#black sails quotes#gifsets#this is perfect#candlewinds how u do#weapons cw#guns cw#hanging cw#burden#self care#re art#jack rackham#madi scott#captain flint#still#silver and madi#stories#pirates#change#inevitable#mr scott#abigail ashe#truth#monsters#jdsgkflcamsfjbdk#godddddd#adore#when am i going 2 rewatch hmm
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Dear child. I see your eyes. You already know the truth.
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Three months. Feels like twice as long.
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When do I not see you?
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The Time of the Doctor (2013) // Last Christmas (2014)
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But I can remember, Clara. You don’t understand. I can remember it all. Every time. And you’ll still be gone.