#Black sails

[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.

[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

[blacksailsgf]

— anne carson

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

[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

[keivni]

happy lesbian visibility week!

#anne bonny #max black sails #black sails #maxanne

[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

[sailorsallyart]

Heard Black Sails is finally on Netflix! To celebrate here is the menace man himself 🌊 🏴‍☠️⚔️

Crayola pastels on card stock [tap for HQ] (Oh and happy belated birthday to Toby! 💖)

#James flint #Toby stephens #capitain flint #black sails #black sails art #Black sails fanart #Traditional art #oil pastel #traditional painting #artist on tumblr

[jessaerys]

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can't watch five minutes of black sails without coming across a scene that might as well be playing clown car music in the background

#black sails

[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

[captainflintsboyfriend]

i made something

#black sails #black sails meme #captain flint #james flint #james mcgraw

[posallys]

you were NOT kidding about black sails i'm so hooked. this is insane.

IT IS SO GENUINELY THE BEST SHOW OF ALL TIME I DON'T THINK I HAVE THE WORDS TALK ABT IT ACTUALLY!!!!!!! like it's SO good and it only gets BETTER with each episode. everything is so thoughtful and intentional and just fucking insane overall and the themes all come full circle and there are so many motifs and the scoring is amazing and the story telling is amazing and the cinematography and intentional scene parallels are amazing and i literally cannot express enough how good this show is i need everyone to watch it immediately black sails only show EVER to ME

#AND THEY DID THIS IN 2024-2017!!!!!!!!!!!!! VOMITING #taylor answers #ask tag #anon #black sails

[books-apples-socks]

john silver has the worst job on the planet because if i had to argue with a man having a category 5 cunt event every three seconds when he's shoulders tits and thighs like that i'd simply throw myself overboard

#rip to him but i'm built different #(worse i'm built worse) #black sails

[itsmoonpeaches]

I can't see I'm sobbingewhay the what the hell was that

What a plot twist that killed me

I means I knew it was gay but not like this

Not like this

#peaches watches black sails #black sails #season 2 ep 5 changed me #fundamentally #i think im going insane

[beemovieerotica]

every time flint enters a room to start manipulating and gaslighting and lying i legit start giggling and twirling my hair around my finger

#black sails

[hartigays]

s3 silverflint + billy

#just thinking thoughts #black sails #sarah speaks

[iunmadehim]

and they called me a monster.

#black sails #blacksailsedit #james flint #roryedit.