#*black sails

[maxanor]

BLACK SAILS | 1.01

#mine* #black sails #blacksailsedit #bsedit #james flint #billy bones #hal gates #perioddramaedit #weloveperioddrama #perioddramasource #onlyperioddramas #tvedit #televisiongifs #cinemapix #cinematv #dailyflicks #userbbelcher #userstream #chewieblog #userkitkat #userkraina #tuserhan #userben #kallypsos #userrin #userelio #tuserju #tuserbia #underbetelgeuse #just rewatched this ep truly a scene of all time

[geekysprinkler]

happy black sails on netflix to all who celebrate

#made this months ago as a palette cleanser during work video making #black sails #my post #james flint

[bisexualdeans]

deleting my dating apps because i want to meet someone the old fashioned way (i am brutally beating a man to death to maintain my extremely fragile status as captain of my pirate ship and you're my new lying ass fake cook with his silly little fake name witnessing the scene like you're both scared and horny)

#black sails #james flint #john silver #silverflint #crack tag #merry bs renaissance besties

[brightbluedot]

goddddd black sails is still so good. the very last line of the first episode: we see max leave eleanor's bed, walk up to jack, and crawl into his lap. anne interprets this as a come-on and gets angry, and then max tells him: "i think i have something you might want to buy."

and like, coming from max, that could still be a come-on. when she's at work, sex is a viable business proposition -- the expected one, from her and her coworkers. jack's perception of the moment very well might not have changed yet.

but we as the viewers instantly know that she's referring to the page. we the viewers are also privileged in our knowledge that she just left eleanor's bed -- which was not strictly for work. she's just "the whore" to those around her, but look, her business proposition is all high-handed crew politics, and the last person she slept with she had personal motives for pursuing. there's a woman on your lap in a brothel offering to sell you something, and everything you think you know about her and sex and business is wrong in this moment. and she is still very much a sex worker, which we will see her suffer for and excel at and leverage to her own ends in a thousand different ways as the story goes on. it's not a simple rug pull, but a single layered, cohesive, portrait.

it's such a cool little microcosm of the way the show plays with expectations to add the depth and color that it does to those the empire flattens and sweeps to the side. nobody is ever just one thing, the reduction of themselves. and nobody is ever seen by those around them the way they are by us, who see all. and so much of the action stems from them being all too aware of the importance of that perception and the assumptions it carries. it's so refreshing to be invited to look so deeply and see more everywhere your eye could possibly land.

#my two cents #black sails #WHAT IF I GOT A SECOND BLACK SAILS TATTOO. #LIKE I WONT BUT. WHAT IF I DID.

[breakbreadwithme]

even the infamous pirate captain james flint isn't immune to the gay urge to shave your head when having a psychological crisis

#feel free to ignore #black sails #james flint

[werewolfetone]

Actually the reveal that flint might be catholic is a wilder reveal than the reveal that flint doesn’t seem to actually be his real name was to me as an 18th century history enthusiast. the implications of a filthy papift like that being high up in the british military in seventeen-oh-something? hello?

#entire character recontextualised. anyway 1 thing about me is that I will talk about 18thc religious wars #jory.txt #black sails

[steveyockey]

it’s awesome how james flint is literally evil but no one can do anything about it since he’s the best to ever do it

#like every time he kills without remorse like yay 💗 #Ziz watches black sails #black sails

[piratepolls]

*Note: this poll is NOT about the overall quality of the shows, it is specifically about how the shows address queer characters and stories

#black sails #ofmd #our flag means death

[gnaomignome]

mmm black sails brainrot got me

#black sails fanart #black sails #james flint #captain flint #max black sails #anne bonny #john silver

[vampiremotif]

they mean the world to me

#🦇 #currently watching #black sails rewatch lb #black sails #jack rackham #anne bonny #till they put us in the fucking ground #VI #id in alt text

[beemovieerotica]

jack rackham most autistic man on nassau walks in on lesbian sex and pulls up a chair to sit down and tell them about his financial business plan i cant fucking deal with this rn

#black sails

[pineapple-split]

Ok ALSO (and then I promise I’ll shut up and dive in to the celebratory rewatch): EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE that Black Sails only has queer subtext (and let me make it clear, it absolutely is not true) that still doesn’t invalidate it as a piece of media?? The queer characters aren’t the only reason we love this show. We love this show because it’s beautiful.

It’s heart-wrenching. It dares to ask the questions “what if your civilized society isn’t all that civilized? Who does it leave behind? Whose blood is it built on? What lengths will people go to and what will they sacrifice for even the tiniest bit of agency and freedom in a world that is actively trying to kill them? Are they justified? Can you even make that judgment call?”

It’s a story about storytelling. It has narratives within narratives and foils and tragic flaws and parallels and overarching themes that begin in the very first moments in episode one and last all the way to the end. It’s a Greek tragedy put to the screen. It’s still so hopeful somehow, even when so many things fall apart. It’s the epitome of “the love may not have been enough but it’s important that it was there.” The writing is wonderful (mostly, I have a few hangups but that’s not important here), the cinematography and score is almost reverent. People who worked on this show still gush 10 years later about how it was their masterpiece.

Those headlines of “the best show nobody watched”? There’s a reason for that. Those of us who love Black Sails love it passionately, and the complex and wonderful queerness of it is only one of the reasons.

#Black Sails #phew ok I’m done #only positivity from here on out

[blacksailsgf]

— anne carson

#black sails #blacksailsedit #bea.pdf #click for better quality!

[dalek-ulv-stranden]

one of my favourite silly little details in black sails s1 is when richard guthrie is doing his snooping and finds the portrait of the hamiltons but they clearly hadn't cast rpj yet... so there's this lovely painted portrait of louise barnes as miranda next to the most generic looking painted man you've ever seen

#can you tell im doing my annual rewatch #i was doing the math today and i watched black sails for the first time when i was 23... like the formative impact it had on my twenties... #black sails

[hartigays]

s3 silverflint + billy

#just thinking thoughts #black sails #sarah speaks

[lagaans]

ok well before i go to bed . who gave flint his little gay earring. did he decide he wanted that for fun. or for serious. or maybe was he drunk one night with his first crew or something? i would like to know

#however if it is mentioned in the show then don't tell me i want to find out organically #black sails