I'm no one, from nowhere, belonging to nothing.

The flashbacks in 4x09 are easily my favorite scenes in any show. I was ruined over them, like got teary while standing in my kitchen making toast one day just thinking about it.

Silver asks: "What are we looking at?" Flint replies: "Nassau, thereabouts. A few days over the horizon, just waiting for us. Can't you see it?"

Flint is really asking Silver: Do we share the same vision of the future? Is there no daylight between us? Can you see the way the world could be, in spite of the way that it is?

And in the end, Silver couldn't. He could only see the horror and the loss.

The sword fighting flashbacks that follow add an additional layer of heartbreak, because it's almost as if we aren't meant to witness them.

The dialogue and the looks between Flint and Silver are so intimate and vulnerable. “You know my story" vs "You know of me all I can bear to be known". The unspoken love between them and this looming insurmountable divide.

I watched Black Sails when it first aired and I am still haunted by these scenes to this day.

BLACK SAILS 4.10 “XXXVIII.”

I also think if you actively discouraged people from voting at any point in this election cycle you’re the last person who should be lecturing anyone today, full offense. And I’m not saying this to finger-point, but I mean…on an objective level, why should you care that Trump won if you said multiple times that he was the same or at least not meaningfully worse than his competition. Be consistent for once.

BLACK SAILS + horror

But I hear other voices. A chorus of voices. Multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women and children who’d lost their lives to men like you. Men and women and children forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them, and this war, their war, Flint’s war, my war… it will not be bargained to avoid a fight to save John Silver’s life or his men’s or mine.

BLACK SAILS 1.07 “VII.”

"Have you seen the captain?" "He's with Mr Silver, checking the cargo."

I had an idea. That's the idea. Enjoy the idea!

“You’re an educated man, my lord, but I thought it worth reminding you.”

Day 2: Discover

“They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true…in the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.”

Edit: very helpful image ID from @etoilesombre added as alt text!

Black Sails (2014-2017)

LOVE'S THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND

TOBY STEPHENS as James McGraw and RUPERT PENRY-JONES as Thomas Hamilton in Black Sails, Chapter XII.

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

BLACK SAILS 4.09 “XXXVII.”

The monster within the pages

(pageless version under the cut!)

BLACK SAILS › Chapter III