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10 YEARS OF BLACK SAILS (2014–2017) – Created by Jonathan E. Steinberg & Robert Levine

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A quick little Charles Vane sketch for this evening

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i like how, during pretty much every major enactment of a plan in black sails, there are at least two contradicting subplans going on at the same time

#people in various stages of fucking each other over

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highly recommend listening to stories about maritime disasters during work hours, nothing kills my anxiety and ocd-fueled guilt quite like it...sorry i was 15 minutes late to a meeting, at least i didnt doom us to the far reaches of the north where we perished with naught in our bellies...

#TRULY #perspective is so important

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the mabel podcast, episode 31: the king speaks / black sails, xxxviii

#WELL THEN #fuck #ok #i'm fine

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and with one kiss you inspired a fire of devotion that lasts for twenty years

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Started this in January. Looked at it tonight, it’s better than i remember. Did a bit of tweaking. No refs. Procreate.

#incredible

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what a fantastic shot

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Hi, this is me, new to the Black Sails fandom but also completely insane about this show which is surely one of my favorite ones now. Like wow. It got me in such a way I can't put in words ;;

That said, I'm on season 3. Episode 7. And uh... I'm about to babble about the sapphics! So feel free to skip this infodump but! (Also, sidenote I watched half the episode because I had to sleep so Idk if they have more convos up till it ends)

I am thinking SO HARD about the convo Max had with Eleanor, about the weight of sitting on that chair and how she couldn't forgive her back when *gestures*, but now she is her and she understands the choices she had to make. How being in power like that means you will eventually destroy the people you love the most. And like, the parallel is so... Because Eleanor clearly loved Max back, but Max was more innocent in a way, she didn't put other things above her love, while Eleanor did. And now... Well, I'd say Anne is also kind of innocent in this way. She didn't wanna leave Max, she wanted to find a way for them to be together, it was Max who broke things off between them. And all of that clearly hurts Max so badly! It never feels as if she's being painted as a villain, every attitude she has to take that goes against her feelings for Anne are follow by PHENOMENAL acting from JPK. It's the way her eyes are just slightly teared, it's the way she frowns lightly. She acts SO MUCH with her eyes and it makes me so amazed, even as an actress myself. Like holy shit, girl. But back to Max. She once said "never let anyone stand in between you and your ambitions" and she is clearly following that lesson but how much does said lesson hurt her? How much does it take little pieces of her? How can you have love when you're in a position such as hers? Whiich... Is another parallel to Eleanor. Not only in Season 1 with Max herself, not only with Vane, but... Even rn with Woodes. Max gave her a whole warning about this. But how can any of these characters deny themselves love? Even if it's tainted, even if it costs something, even if it's ephemeral. (I really like how love is presented in Black Sails and perhaps I should make a post about that sometime.) Anyway, this was a lot of rambling but this show makes me insane and the girls specifically... Man. Just. MAN!! Some of the best female characters I've ever seen written in my life. And all of my faves are sapphics. It feels like winning the lottery.

#everyone is everyone #so much of this show is “love is there and it wasn't enough” #and the different choices characters make #and its beautiful because none of them are presented as RIGHT #they are just presented in a way that makes you understand #(also silvermax parallels all day hm theres something i need to find and reblog later)

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tell me why the black sail hangover is worse than my own breakups

#LITERALLY #Black Sails has caused me actually truly more anguish than divorce did

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“Because in the darkness there will be dragons.”

2h portrait study

#it is SO hard to look at his face in that scene #you're very brave OP #this is fantastic #fanart

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#i'm in this picture and i dont like it #just kidding #i do

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#painfully handsome

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Flint wants so badly for Silver to have a story. Partially for selfish reasons but partially because he can’t imagine how someone copes without one. Silver is so alien to Flint because not only does Silver not have a story He doesn’t even want one.

The only thing he knows about Silver is that he’s a liar that knows Flint the best and that he needs him.

Flint basically handed his heart over to an unknowable force of nature.

They are so diametrically opposed in this way.

A man who has a story and The man who tells them.

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My personal top 3 Most Insane Lines They Made John Silver Say:

3: “*STOMP STOMP*”

Ok ur right it’s not a line PER SE BUT his identity at that time was SO tied to stomp stomp ok he was the stomp stomp guy to the audience sure but even more so to the crew they would stomp along with him. And knowing his character already from treasure island. Well.

2: “I don’t want to be a pirate”

OKAY. SURE. Just make THEE most famous fictional pirate of all time say that and mean it and believe that it would all just be temporary. Sure. Normal about this one.

1: “Are you a fucking coward!?” “Please. I’m just the cook.”

OH MY GODDD??? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDINGG ME OHHHHH I AM BITING SCREAMING CRYING WTFFFF

#STOP it's too early for this

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black sails + tumblr text post I have on my phone (pt. 2/?)

#hahahahaha the last one im dying

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A Look.