you know what its actually really cool to surrender to your rage and to have your heart fill with savage power. Violent revenge is really the answer

2.05 / 1.08 / 4.10

one thing about flint that i find under-explored, but very endearing, is how awkward he is with people. the aggressive, off-putting persona he shows other pirates comes from many different reasons, but i feel a lot of people buy into the idea that it is completely born out of arrogance and superiority. when to me it makes most sense that a lot of times he just...does not know how to act with them. i am sure being a navy officer partly made him accustomed to hierarchy and a sense of necessary distance from subordinates. and yet even in a navy career there is a lot of use for some level of comradery. but due to his social status the few scenes we see of his past environment place him as a bit of an outcast in that setting. before meeting the hamiltons he seems like a very lonely person in general. showing extreme competence and pulling rank are probably the only ways he knows to gain favour. i don't think it ever occurs to him that he could be liked by people if he put his mind to it. and he reacts to this feeling by making himself as scary as possible and telling everyone that actually, i am the one that does not like you. it's hilarious and such a bad strategy. and the fact that almost no one clocks that fundamentally he is kind of shy really delights me. in a better universe we have silver teaching him how to go out for a beer at some point.

I love that Flint has absolutely perfect posture when he’s standing/fighting/walking around, but as soon as he sits down he’s like;

Yup.

#Flint is a ginger tomcat once again confirmed (via)

i am once AGAIN thinking about the scene in black sails where flint has just been forced by miranda to confront his overwhelming grief over losing thomas, which has been fueling his unholy rage for the past two seasons. flint is sitting there, having a flashback, drowning in the tragedy and injustice of his gay lover’s death… then vane bursts into the room like a roided-up kool-aid man and immediately tries to kill him. 10/10, flawless tonal whiplash, one of the funniest moments in the entire show.

I've been so hurt for so long

loose haired bloodied flint my beloved

me when im a liar who has lied several times already and is currently lying about being sorry for lying and will continue to lie going forward

precisely what a liar would say

you would not believe who this guy is

Flint's modus operandi consists of 'I will do what I want, when I want, how I want, because any possible consequences to my actions will be minor problems at most that I will be able to easily handle' [they certainly won't be]

Eleanor's modus operandi consists of 'I will do what I want, when I want, how I want, because it doesn't even cross my mind that consequences are A Thing That Exists when it comes to me' [they definitely are]

The worst part is that their goals are the exact same for half the show so they have the most toxic cycle of mutual enablement. It's terrible. I love it.

I think about Captain Flint daily. This man SPECIFICALLY haunts my waking thoughts

they are Cancelling me for dealing with my grief as best i can . also for the vicious war Crimes

CAPTAIN HELL

Black Sails I. (2014)

TOBY STEPHENS as James Flint in BLACK SAILS (2014—2017) Chapter V

I supported flint even back when I thought he murdered everyone on the maria aleyne unprovoked