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Anonymous asked:

(Diff anon) YOU'RE SO ARTICULATE AT EXPLAINING WHY YOU LOVE/DON'T LOVE A CERTAIN CHARACTER THAT READING YOU IS ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL!!!! And now can you please rave in a similar way about Flint ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

candlewinds answered:

anon…I can’t believe you just sent me a message that boils down to “talk about james flint ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)”

I FEEL SO MOCKED AND ATTACKED. I FEEL INVADED. HOW DID YOU GET THE KEY TO MY HEART AND WHY ARE YOU BETRAYING YOUR POWER IN THIS WAY. I’M MAD AT YOU BUT I TOTALLY RESPECT YOU FOR IT. WELL PLAYED >:(

but I fear you have asked too much of me in this moment. WHERE DOES ONE EVEN BEGIN?!? I could spend a week doing nothing but writing about james flint and still feel like I was only skimming the surface.

SO I AM GOING TO DO SOMETHING I HAVE NEVER SUCCEEDED IN DOING BEFORE. I am going to attempt…[sighs dramatically]…to be brief.

so here are JUST A FEW of my favorite things about james flint:

  • he is a gay/bi man whose narrative focuses much on refusing to apologize to the homophobic powers that destroyed his happiness. (a non-straight character who is allowed to be ANGRY, who is literally fighting a WAR in the name of love, fighting a war because he refuses to ever let those people think they were right, fighting a war because they stole so much from him already but they will not get their bloody hands on his identity. PRAISE BE.)
  • he does not embrace villainy. he does not enjoy being feared. he does not revel in the power of his name or his own mythological status. he hates it. he sees it as necessary. he fuels it. it tears him apart.
  • he is a MASTERMIND. do I even need to elaborate?!? for someone who is so prone to bursts of passion and impulsive behavior, he is a beyond brilliant tactician. and unlike silver, he doesn’t give himself a pat on the back every time he’s done something exceptional fjsdklfjsldfsf. he just does his genious planning and proceeds to get shit done: boom. when peter ashe disbelievingly asks, “you became the captain of a pirate crew…in four months?” and flint very nonchalantly responds, “I became captain of a pirate crew faster than that” like oh my god @ ASHE CAN I GET YOU A RAG TO MOP UP THAT SWEAT
  • he totally fucks with the perception of him that’s like, the Fiercely Individualistic and Strong-On-My-Own Captain Who Don’t Need Nobody. james flint is SO not that kind of leader, even though he may sometimes seem like it. HE DESPERATELY NEEDS PEOPLE. HE NEEDS PARTNERS. do you know what a james flint who feels alone in the world looks like?! he looks like the man who was telling miranda he was ready to join her in the afterlife. he literally never pretends to be like, “I am fine and strong on my own and don’t care what anyone thinks of me >:(” he isolates himself when he’s in a bad place but it kills him to do so. HE NEEDS HIS PEOPLE. HE NEEDS TO BE LOVED AND FEEL LOVED.
  • he pretended to like silver’s disgusting pig just so that muldoon wouldn’t rip silver’s pretty curly hair out. he wrote an apology in a book and left it on miranda’s doorstep. he was so excited to tell silver he was voted quartermaster that he couldn’t wait for the rest of the crew; he had to tell him himself right then immediately. he has faced death more times than I can count with all fingers but I’m not sure we’ve ever seen him as nervous as he was the night he introduced himself as “james mcgraw” to teenager abigail ashe. one of his biggest hopes and dreams is to be able to go home, take a nap, and read a book far away from the sea.
  • he has always had Captain Flint™ in him somewhere. he has always feared the power Captain Flint would have over him. he has always been petrified of what he might be forced to become. he knows that his are the hands that have pulled triggers and wielded swords, no matter how much he thinks he can separate himself from his flint self
  • and yet, after over a decade, he still believes in a future where he can once again simply be, forevermore, james mcgraw
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#James Flint#Black Sails#what a good
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I didn’t ask for my workday to be suddenly derailed by a surge of desperate, unsuppressable wonder at how Black Sails portrays queerness, yet here I am, drowning in my love for this uneblievable show

like I’ll probably ramble about this more fully later, but I have never encountered a piece of media that wasn’t explicitly queer-centric that made me feel as much like these experiences are important, that fans like me *matter*, as much as Black Sails does

this show has THREE main queer female characters, and three seasons in NONE of them has been killed off. in fact, the only queer character that *has* died has one of the most respectfully written deaths I’ve ever seen. Thomas doesn’t die for the straight audience to coo sadly at, or to motivate some great change of heart in a straight person. the villains don’t target him to torture the hero. he was murdered because of the political crusade he’d committed himself to, because he’d stood his ground against a corrupt civilization and expected it to show him a fraction of the decency and mercy he afforded it.

just!! Thomas’s actual death is *never even even shown*, because the tragedy and horror of it isn’t established by the gruesome display of his body, it’s made clear by every second of the show that follows. because Black Sails wouldn’t *happen* without Thomas. And not just because his tragedy is what birthed Captain Flint–the changes he wrought on Flint in life were *just as important* to setting the foundation of Flint’s motivations. his love and hope for Nassau drive the show–BOTH sides of the war we see begin during season three are inspired, in part, by his ideals!

the queer characters on this show aren’t ever reduced to just their queerness. their ambitions, their hopes, their foibles and flaws are all laid out for us. they direct their own fates, fight for their futures, sacrifice for their causes. but at the same time their queerness is still always important to who they are and what they prioritize!!! Black Sails manages what so few stories do, and allows queerness to be a fundamental part of its characters while still treating them like complex people

and that just means a lot to me

also, as an addendum: one of the reasons Black Sails has ended up meaning so much to me is because of how hard it course-corrected from its rocky start. like, it had a lot of potential, and there are plenty of things I adore about season one, but I hated how it handled Max’s assault– hated that it decided to tell that story at all. if I’d been watching it as it first aired (and not binging three seasons over as a many days), I probably wouldn’t have even stuck out the entire season because of how much it bothered me.

but then season two hit and the show found its feet, and a big part of that was that it actually started to treat Max’s character with respect. she became not just the director of not just her own story, but one of the key drivers of the show’s plot. the show went from focusing on how other people reacted to her trauma to focusing on how she was going to get what she wanted.

add in the revelation of Flint’s backstory and the unexpected payoff of Anne’s storyline, and this show literally took itself from okay-ish pirate drama to genuinely amazing television through the power of treating its queer characters with respect

#Black Sails#THIS IS BEAUTIFUL#also I'm so happy to see a lot of new faces#what happened#why is our fandom suddenly growing
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silversflint
A page from one of Dr. Howell’s manuals and your last chance at living to see the sun rise again. You have exactly five minutes to commit it to memory, after which you will reproduce this page to the best of your ability. If you can do so to Mr. De Groot’s satisfaction, then maybe… just maybe he can be convinced to keep your secret for the sake of the Urca haul.
#John Silver#Black Sails#wow the coloring here is just#amazing
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“You know, I’ve had my fill of hearing you go on about this crew being too weak to keep up with you. Some of them may be weaker than you, some of them may be less smart, but don’t you for a second believe I fit that description.” x

#John Silver#Black Sails
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