im clear headed billy

BLACK SAILS 1.07 “VII.”

black sails meme: [1/5 characters] i was always told that you were the one without fear. was i misinformed? it ain’t fear to want to do a hard thing smart.

black sails anniversary appreciation week - day six: favourite minor character ↬ idelle

The governor…lovely man, dear friend, might be the hero given credit for the maroon truce, bringing peace to the West Indies, and finally, at long last, bringing law and order to Nassau. But let’s just say he had some help. And the true power here is a little more complicated than that.

- How good it feels.

they say the worst of it don’t last long - what the water does to you once it’s got you. it makes you cold, makes you scared. it shows you things - bad things. but then it warms ya, and it settles ya. it shows you the places you’ve been, the people you’ve loved. they’re all there waiting for ya. it doesn’t sound so bad.

You are not alone.

Anne Bonny in Black Sails Season 4, Episode 4

You know of me all I can bear to be known.

BLACK SAILS 4.09 “XXXVII.”

I could walk out there and tell them the sky is red and they’d believe me.

hey this ouroboros seer guy is so so fucked

For every man in your camp, there are thousands somewhere in the West Indies living under the same yoke, chained in fields, pressed on ships, sold into indenture. When they see a sitting governor protected by His Majesty’s Navy, deposed by an alliance of pirates and slaves, how many consider joining that fight? How many thousands of men will flock to Nassau, join your ranks, and help you defend it?

BLACK SAILS 3.05 “XXIII.”

black sails meme: [5/5 characters] i’m no one, from nowhere, belonging to nothing. i’m a wretch like you. and yet mountains of gold have changed hands because i chose it. thousands of men in nassau are living in fear of my return because i decreed it. hundreds of dead redcoats in a forest not far from here because i made it so. i’m the reason grown men lie awake at night.

IX. Sand has its virtues. On sand, nothing is fixed, nothing is permanent, and fates change so quickly. Yesterday, Captain Hornigold was immovable from that fort and Captain Vane was a beggar. Now look at them today. Yesterday, I was a whore of little consequence, easily dismissed, easily forgotten. Today I am a madam with an income and allies, and a woman who has learned the most important of lessons - never let anyone stand in between you and your ambitions. Thank you for teaching it to me.

flint hates himself too much to jerk off

I’m clearheaded, Billy, I see him