#and then so did flint

[posallys]

#i did another one! #they're so fun lol #black sails #reductress #black sails meme #most of them are about flint <3 I just think abt him all of the time

[frau-kali]

"But being a pirate on this crew for a little while longer, it offers me an opportunity I don't believe I can find anywhere else on Earth. One big prize."

for @isaaccastlevania

#black sails #john silver #captain flint #silverflint #my stuff #i saw the request and figured i would do the thing #cos i do love this speech #it is so damn relatable #also the “from you” bit is fun too #what did you mean there john? #HMM? #love flint's lil snort and smirk too

[max-nolastname]

types of story that different black sails characters think they're in:

jack: typical underdog overcoming unbeatable odds story; he is the main character and the show is 100% about him and his joseph campbell hero's journey. he is like achilles seeking eternal glory. he is also like gilgamesh, seeking immortality because he's afraid of death

flint: one of those fairytale retelling stories from the villain's pov; he is the fire-breathing dragon/big bad wolf/wicked witch that his village has ostracized, chased out of his home with pitchforks and torches because they feared him and what he is and what he stands for. he knows that in another show, a more popular show, the story would be told from the pov of the villagers about the dangers that lie beyond the village walls and into the forest...but this is HIS show and in HIS show HE is the one that survived the villagers not the other way around and HE is the one that has been wronged and he WILL see them pay for it

miranda: at first she thinks she is the witty and cunning heroine of a regency period romance novel. she is critical of high society and it's archaic and sexist traditions, turns her nose up at the institution of marriage and yet against all odds finds a true partner in thomas. she thinks herself happier and smarter than her peers, for finding a way to explore her sexuality freely and still keep her high status. she is caught in a whirlwind romance with a handsome naval officer and well....then her story turns into a tragedy and a decade caught in lifeless loveless joyless limbo where she is sidelined into the background of someone else's story

max: overly aware that she is in A Story and that she is Not The Main Character; the spotlight is never on her, she will never take centre stage. in fact, she is in the wings, or perhaps watching the show from the back of the theatre as the stage manager, setting the scene and directing others to pull ropes, shine lights, open and close the curtains so that other actors can strut and fret their way around the stage

billy: revenge quest story! thinks he is the good guy, there to protect his friends and get revenge on the tyrant who killed his father. gains some genre awareness and realizes that he is not, in fact, the main character, but rather a side character caught in a romance between his captain and quartermaster and if he really wants to survive he's really gotta break them up

madi: a story of hope told around a campfire, passed on from generation to generation so people don't forget about the time that an island of maroons stood up to a seemingly eternal and unbeatable empire. some days, it's a cautionary tale, on how volatile solidarity can be with divisions like class, race and gender .... or how revolution necessitates violence that people who are comfortable in their oppression rather not pay... but no empire lasts forever and nothing is inevitable. the story sticks in the hearts and minds of future revolutionaries and someday someone somewhere will pick up the torch and continue the fight

season 1 walrus crew: workplace comedy

silver: [redacted]

#black sails #black sails meta #rare black sails meta text posts where i look back on it like....yeah my takes could be wrong here #i was like “huh i wonder what genre of show the black sails characters think they're in” and then blacked out #but the inherent tragedy of characters in a story IS that they dont know what genre of story theyre in #so realistically i dont think any of them would actually think this stuff through except maybe jack max and flint #anyways if it helps i did take a media literacy class in university <- things that are embarassing to admit when my takes end up being wron #charles and anne: you guys live in a story? well we live in the moment so

[eveningalchemist]

Silver the squeezable stress toy of S1&2

[ID: A gif from Black Sails of Flint rushing and grabbing Silver to pin him against a rock face. Overlaid is a Tumblr post by user paleiido that says, "Get you a guy that is so grabbable. Get you a guy that is a stress toy" End ID]

#black sails #john silver #james flint #captain flint #silverflint #black sails crack #my stuff #my gifs #i have learned a whole new program to make better quality gifs than i did 5+ years ago #lookit i even adjusted the light and colour so we can see them better :]

[strawglicks]

A chat about Metallicog

#toontown #toontown corporate clash #ttcc #flint bonpyre #firestarter #graham payser #graham ness payser #pacesetter #firesetter #strawglicks art gallery #hi this is the animatic that took 18 years #but i think it was worth it ! i like how it turned out #this was pretty experimental i kinda went all out #tried harder to convey movement and added backgrounds #i was worried during the whole process tbh but i trusted it and im glad #now im more confident in longer animatics and bgs and movement #ANYWAY i was thinking of this audio at some point but i couldnt find it #i felt like they mentioned metallica in the og audio but i couldnt remember.. #then i found it and it turns out they did . #so i applied it to these 2 since they are metallica (metallicog?) fans #its not a super funny silly animatic but its just like. nice. slice of life-y? #which is what i wanted to capture #just 2 gays bickering abt their fav music #also! the song theyre talking abt reminds me of flint so theres a plus

[heycarrots]

FYI…

Toby Stephens is English. He’s not American putting on an accent. He’s not Australian. He’s English. The accent is British and a softened version of his natural accent, which is much more posh.

You’re welcome.

#toby stephens #black sails #captain flint #james flint #james mcgraw #captain james flint #lost in space #john robinson #Percy Jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo series #English and Australian are very different accents #Literally all they did wasn’t not force him to have a fake American accent #Also he’s the son of Dame Maggie Smith so take whatever time you need to process THAT information.

[ickysmelly]

hlvrai but make it mlp 5/5

VERY big ty to @no0t2 for the idea of vampire bat Bubby

#art #ickyarts #hlvrai #hlvrai fanart #hlvrai bubby #mlp #sorry this took so long #as a sorry tho #i did doodle some extras that i do plan on finishing #and then some valentines stuff #which im excited about #ngl #MINI NOTES THO #i think its silly to think bubby's #prototypes are mixes of #too much bat or too much horse #and his hooves #theyre like flint n steel :D #it works as a fire starter #which is why his hooves are chipped #after doing that too much #they stopped giving him new lab coats after the first 5 times #5 times too much #also pink stripes #cause i like to think his hair was pink/red #before it went white

[finngualart]

the fact that i never finished this painting i started in 2018 kept haunting me (much like Black Sails itself), and now i can finally put it to rest

it goes with @old-long-john's beautiful fic, which you can read here

#black sails #silverflint #james flint #john silver #i feel i havent done an elaborate digital painting in so long #the fact is that ive become a bit lazy #and hesitant to draw things from imagination #afraid that whatever i paint will fall short #my standards are very high #so i told myself to stop being such a baby #like what if you just fucking did it anyway and maybe whatever you will draw will be good enough saskia #you know just a regular saturday night debate with the gremlin in my brain #:^D

[starfall-isle]

I’m just a ten cent copy

Of people far more advanced than me

#Stej #spark the electric jester #spark the electric jester spoilers #float #Clarity #flint #spark #art tag #Float is so so much 2 think about. Even before she died there was still this acknowledgement of like. #She does not know who she was before she just knows she was discarded and literally buried alive and everything just gets worse for her :( #character who deserves some kind of resolution the most I think/ #I can’t fully wrap my mind around how Clarity’s replica works (ignoring what was said about her and Astra #solely being extensions of clarity bc I think that kind of sucks and doesn't fully make sense 2 me anyway) #like she is not the original ofc and float was already dead before assimilation but she is still clearly enough of a copy #that she has her feelings and (assumedly) resembles her formie body from before she was experimented on #Something even she didn’t remember‚ & I'm just curious how exactly clarity made her so faithfully 2 float and how much she has that #same kind of cognition and emotional independence that Astra did‚ even if she is only trying to achieve clarity’s goals. #I know WHY float was used 2 trick spark into reaching the Fark force the point was that shes just. Still so real and it’s so sad #The original float is gone but she is still here and she still remembers her life and feelings it’s soo fucked up #The only autonomy she has ever had over herself was when she and flint met each other. She just has been used so much even after death!! #I don’t want to make assumptions about something that isn’t out but like. If floats just gone now after doing so much to reintroduce her as #an agent of clarity I think it would be such a disservice 2 her Character like how interesting could it be to have float but she is not the #same as float she has this girls face and memories but she has been so fractured and manipulated that like. Who could she be now #that clarity isn't in control and she no longer has a purpose. if she ever got to reunite with flint would he be willing to trust her? #Would she want to reconnect with these emotions and memories that she knows she’s been programmed from? How would it feel to know #that everyone else has this idea of you and a history that for you technically isn’t real but it still FEELS real. AUGH #Anyway. segmented like a bug get it #ask to tag #Taphophobia #Blood

[elisedonut]

Another ship chart thing I decided to do yesterday but only just sat down to do

i was tempted to just do flintley or perciver but ended up convincing myself to just do both on one sheet

but anyway it was fun even though thinking is so hard lol

this chart was made by junnieevee

i think stuff like this is fun if anyone else decides to do a Percy based one id love to see it and compare!

#oliver wood #flintley #marcus flint #percy weasley #perciver #so if you were curious if i understand characters at all the answer is no #i did my best though

[oddlyenthusiast]

What if it's not a death? What if life just...begins again?

- Our Flag Means Death, Wherever You Go, There You Are

- Black Sails, XXXVIII

#black sails #blacksailsedit #flinthamilton #ofmd #our flag means death #james flint #thomas hamilton #mine #i've wanted to make this for so long #finally did it

[frau-kali]

"Sorry, are you asking my opinion?"

#black sails #silverflint #blacksailsedit #silverflintedit #long post #my stuff #did some mixing and matching with this one #idk it's still a lot of gifs #but LISTEN #john is so goddamn obvious in this scene #he's just so delighted that he gets to talk to flint like this #and then he uses it to find that one gap in flint's armour #and learn one of the most important things about him #of course it's hilarious later when flint turns it around and does the same thing to him #and silver is like wait no stop you cant do that #i love them so much #i cannot

[kuzuyamii]

so i did this chart

#whatever that means #also did this late so i probably forget some dynamics #yes miranda and vane are bestie #yes madi and vane are bestie #bs #black sails #picsart #chart #edit #pirate #madi scott #madi bs #silvermadi #john silver #long john silver #silverflint #james flint #jame mcgraw #miranda barlow #miranda x flint #mirandaflint #eleanor guthrie #maxeleanor #max bs #maxanne #anne bonny #jack rackham #charles vane #flintvane #jackvane

[rustedleopard]

So you guys remember how after Hinawa was announced as dead, Flint was immediately tossed into jail after he (very understandably) lashes out in his grief. And then by the time he breaks out of jail (not released by a fellow Tazmillian, breaks out with a nail file), the service is already over and she's buried six feet under the dirt with no proper goodbye from her husband or even a glimpse at her or anything???

That was fucked up

#mother 3 #sorry but the Tazmillians there did a massive massive blunder. like seriously wtf??? #flint didn't even get to see her. the last memory he has of her is from however many days before when she went to visit her father #they should've let him see her one last time! that was stupidly unfair. no matter what your opinion on flint is you should at least be #able to acknowledge that that was completely messed up #even if they were worried about him lashing out again they had the whole village there in case something happened. he should've been #allowed to see her. even if she was so horribly mangled from the drago that people felt it would be best to spare him the sight #that's not their decision to make. that's his WIFE. canonically acknowledged as the love of his life. he should've been allowed to see her #and make the decision to look for himself. #i know i know these people aren't used to dealing with grief etc etc but ignorance is an explanation not an excuse #playing that part in the beginning of the game the first time immediately made me go 'oh. i don't like these people' #(yes i know retrospect changes your interpretation of this section but still)

[strawglicks]

"aww itty bitty flint bby innocent pure bby we need to protecc him" i will break your legs

#toontown #toontown corporate clash #ttcc #flint bonpyre #toontown firestarter #HATE INFANTALIZATION OF ADULT CHARACTERS HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT RAHHHHHHHHHH #in ttcc specifically #misty flint and cathal get infantalized the most #but WOW there is smth abt flint infantalization that is specifically annoying. #maybe its the fact it erases his whole character? #the whole point is he wants to be more confident and stop being belittled and walked all over #one of his dislikes is “belittling” #then fandom proceeds to belittle and infantalize him #theyre not a child?????? #that is a full grown tax paying adult . #yk what else is annoying. #when ppl talk abt cosmo and flint #they treat flint like an innocent bby who did nothing wrong who cosmo yells at for no reason at all #untrue . flint talks shit and disrespects the satellite investors so yeah cosmo doesnt like them! #flint gets yelled at yeah bc talk shit get hit! #he cant handle what he dishes out and everyone ignores that aspect of his character even tho its SO GOOD. i love it #ppl generally ignore his flaws to infantalize him and make him out to be a pure innocent bby #call me holly grayelle the way i be gatekeeping flint from these mfers. #i am especially heated just bc i have been belittled at work for the past fucking week by management and customers. LMAO #then i go to blorbos for comfort only to see THEM being belittled and infantalized by fandom. yall are so annoying

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

Horses go blindly to the sacrifice; but the gods give knowledge to men. When the King was dedicated, he knew his moira. In three years, or seven, or nine, or whenever the custom was, his term would end and the god would call him. And he went consenting, or else he was no king, and power would not fall on him to lead the people. When they came to choose among the Royal Kin, this was his sign: that he chose short life with glory, and to walk with the god, rather than live long, unknown like the stall-fed ox.

-the king must die, mary renault

#i know for a FACT that jon steinberg has read the king must die because he said it was on the required reading list for the writers room of #the show on fathoms deep so this is correct #black sails #charles vane #this quote would also work for flint i think too but not as perfectly #he's (charles vane) LITERALLY sacrificed here to appease a mimetic crisis or whatever 😭😭 #(sorry mr girard i did not finish your book) #mine