#black sails 4x09

[laufire]

“so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. till then my windows ache.” — Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets. Halloween Treat for @hopeinthewater

#blacksailsedit #blacksailssource #perioddramaedit #perioddramasource #dailytvwomen #userthing #filmtv #black sails 4x10 #black sails 4x09 #silvermadi #john silver #bsmadi #gifts #bssilver #my stuff #my edits #my gifs #id in alt text #captioned

[garashir]

“If I die, at least I will die by your hand”

Hannibal Mizumono / Interview with the Vampire The Thing Lay Still / Black Sails XXXVII / Miss Sherlock The Dock / The Untamed Episode 27 / Supernatural Goodbye Stranger

#updated version of my old post #hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannigram #hannibal 2x13 #hannibal mizumono #iwtv #amc iwtv #interview with the vampire #loustat #iwtv 1x07 #black sails #black sails xxxvii #black sails 4x09 #silverflint #miss sherlock #miss sherlock the dock #miss sherlock 1x08 #the untamed #cql #the untamed 1x27 #cql 27 #wangxian #supernatural #spn #spn 8x17 #destiel #deancas #my posts

[hrtgallant]

#sorry for the pixels. God the quality is atrocious #black sails #4x09 #john silver #long john silver #james flint

[bobbedrake]

#silverflint #blacksailsedit #black sails #bsedit #gifsi #below 100 #4x09 #my mans said ''dont''

[fairweathermyth]

THEMES! 🤪

#and wow i just rewatched all of the 4x09 flashbacks and i feel ill about it #i still can't believe this episode! i'm losing my mind all over again #rote reading updates! #black sails #realm of the elderlings #robin hobb #assassin's fate #also this rote passage showing how effortlessly fitz has started using he/she interchangeably for the fool :')

[johnsilvers]

speaking of absolutely stellar minor character monologue moments

#this scene DOES something to me. #the cadence of the line deliveries of this guy. the ACTING. the MUSIC. god. #and we never even got his name lmao #jack rackham #black sails #4x09 #sails.txt

[a-man-for-hire-and-his-archives]

“Silver has always come from nowhere, he's the only character in the entire cast for which we have no backstory.” - Jon Steinberg, showrunner of Black Sails.

#black sails #luke arnold #james flint #john silver #toby stephens #jon steinberg #4x09 #inside the world #behind the scenes #black sails behind the scenes

[winnie-the-monster]

#black sails #s4 #4x09 #rewatch #madi #you tell him Madi it was all on him

[starbuck]

God. Okay. Not to still be making Jesus Christ Superstar/Black Sails posts but there’s SUCH a parallel to be drawn between Pilate and Rogers in the way they’re both desperate not to be seen as villains, not because they object to committing horrific crimes against humanity which make them inherently villainous, but because they’re afraid for their reputations and how they’ll be remembered by history.

And they both mistakenly believe that they, as leaders of imperial occupying forces, should be able to control how they’re perceived within their narratives. But they CAN’T and this infuriates them.

this vs. Rogers and Madi’s convo in 4x09. Truly nothing like telling a man who is used to there being no limit to his power “you cannot control the outcome of this situation” (or, in Madi’s case “I’m not going to let you”).

#they’re both like ‘can’t believe i’m being FORCED to be the villain by the mean people i’m oppressing :/‘ and it’s like #dude. YOU entered into this situation!!!!!!!! YOU chose the role of ‘villain’! #you just didn’t think you were gonna get caught bc you thought all your atrocities would get passed of as ‘justified’ #but NOPE hahaha fuck you! #people give JCS!Pilate a lot of shit for having a prophetic dream that killing Jesus would damn him for eternity and then doing it anyway #but that’s the whole POINT!!!!!!!! #it’s not that he doesn’t realize - it’s that he knows EXACTLY what he’s doing as he utterly destroys his reputation for all eternity #and it is SO satisfying #because that’s the whole reason he’s trying so hard to avoid crucifying Jesus - not because he’s a good or merciful person but because #he’s afraid for his good name #which is SO reminiscent of Rogers insisting on offering Madi the treaty again in 4x09 #he frames it as an act of mercy inspired by Eleanor but i don’t buy that for a second #it would just be a lot more convenient for him if he could get both a signed treaty AND the cache out of this situation #because then his debts are paid AND he can frame himself as the ‘hero’ who stopped a war that could have ended civilization #whereas if he just kills them all - he doesn’t get that glory and risks not getting the cache either #AND - as it turns out - it also leads to him being defeated and having his reputation destroyed in the historical record #i am Once Again Saying that a JCS-esque AU where Flint and Silver know the ending from the start (to varying degrees) would be SO good #and it DEFINITELY involves Rogers having a prophetic dream about his defeat and humiliation and being even MORE terrified of that happening #Billy somewhat plays Judas to both Flint and Silver but so does Silver to Flint #and i don’t feel like anybody else fits in specific boxes - it’s really just Black Sails But With Selective Narrative Awareness #and it is VERY sexy and i think about it every day of my life #anybody who wants to talk more about this MESSAGE ME - i’m about to go to bed but my brain is EXPLODING #black sails

[threadbareturnbacks]

"clock's ticking"

"time's up"

(clicking clock is the end credits)

I could swallow this show whole I swear to god

#black sails #black sails rewatch #4x04 is a banger #i know the big action scenes and 4x09 and 4x10 are good but honestly the writing doesn't get better than 4x04 #The closer we get to the end of this journey #the more contradictions we’ll accumulate #thats how we know we are finally getting somewhere interesting #i could not find a knife sharp enough to make the cut #'what consequences could you not bare?' 'that i would have to live with it' #'if we dont change our approach we'll all die here' #'it is an awful thing to ask someone to chose between one irreplaceable thing and another' #every line goes so hard #every.single.line.is.foreshadowing #how do they do it!?

[annefraid]

not a fucking flashback, stop it right now

#i can’t DO this #black sails liveblog #4x09

[ofthetelling]

tbh when I saw the two swords in the sand in a random gifset in 2017 I assumed that two pirates had abandoned their hardened lifestyle to go have gay sex on a beach

#in my mind that’s still what happens #4x09 #black sails lb

[frau-kali]

 “And this war. Their war. Flint’s war. My war. It will not be bargained away to avoid a fight, to save John Silver’s life, or his men’s, or mine.”

Black Sails Anniversary Week

Day 1 - Favourite Quote: Madi to Woodes Rogers, 4x09

#black sails #madi #bsmadi #blacksailsedit #bsanniversary #madiedit #i love her speech here so much #and i love her too #lbr there are a ton of good quotes on this show #but if i made edits for em all i wouldn't have time to do the other days lmao

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

So at some point in season 3 or 4 of Black Sails, Silver basically replaces Flint as protagonist, right? I don't think there's actually a definitive place in the narrative where that shift happens, but in my mind, it's the cliffs scene in 4x09 — not when we see it in the show but when it takes place in-universe, sometime in late season 3 before they return to Nassau from the Maroon camp.

This is explicitly a scene about the construction of narratives: Flint argues that you can only truly understand someone if you know their past — in essence, that the present is the result of a progression of linear events. This idea matches how Flint's own story is presented to the audience as well as how he presents it to Silver: we're shown what happened to Thomas and later what happens to Miranda, and how those events motivate him to fight against British rule. While we learn this information about him gradually and there are some parts — for instance, whether he pushed Billy overboard — that are left ambiguous, Flint's actions are presented as part of a linear narrative in which information is sometimes concealed from the other characters but rarely from the audience.

And then on the other hand you have Silver, who rejects the idea that constructing a narrative out of the past is logical or useful. Where Flint tells true stories about his past to explain the present, Silver's stories are invented or lifted from other crew members and serve a tactical purpose (reintegrating into the crew in early season 2, preparing them for Charlestown). I don't think Flint is really won over to this philosophy, but more importantly, he doesn't win Silver over to his philosophy, and neither he nor the audience learn anything about Silver's past — and I think that's when the narrative changes hands.

When Silver becomes the main protagonist, it's not just a shift in focus but in narrative structure. His actions are often concealed both from the audience and the other characters: we don't see him send Thomas Morgan to Savannah or the conclusion to his and Flint's confrontation on the island when they happen — in fact, we don't know for sure that either one did happen — but rather hear of them as a story that Silver is telling. Similarly, the cliffs scene itself and Silver's relationship with Madi are initially hidden from the audience and then revealed later on to frame other events in the narrative, mirroring way that Silver tells stories to the crew.

#black sails #john silver #james flint

[cantaloupe]

of the friend || “Thus Spoke Zarathustra,” Friedrich Nietzsche + Black Sails 4x09 + Mikey and Nicky (1976) + The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) + “Thus Spoke Zarathustra,” Friedrich Nietzsche + The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) + “Sula,” Toni Morrison

#this upset me actually.... #my edits #black sails #mikey and nicky #the banshees of inisherin #nietzsche

[snowyhobbit]

The thing that struck me when I watched Percy Jackson 1x08 was that the exec producers, Dan Shotz and Jon Steinberg, wisely borrowed from their own playbook when writing the episode.

Basing the episode around a previous training interaction between Luke and Percy, before the latter left camp on his quest, is the same narrative device Shotz and Steinberg used in Black Sails 4x09 (arguably one of the best written episodes in any show I've seen) in which the events of the episode are based around a conversation between Flint and Silver that occurred as they trianed together prior to the assault on Nassau.

In these episodes, both pairs of characters sharing a moment of instruction and understanding before one/both of them depart on a mission which will result in their relationship being irrevocably changed.

You know what they say - if it ain't broke...

#any excuse to talk about black sails #crafty writers #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #black sails #dan shotz #jon steinberg