Y’all, I’ve just realized: Kyrsten Sinema is modern-day Eleanor Guthrie.
Remember the progression in Black Sails from season one’s “pirates like sex and money”, to season four’s “armed insurrection and queer love are equally powerful tools for reshaping our world"—?
The Locked Tomb started with book one’s "necromancers like bones and swords”, and from the writing on the wall (yes it’s in blood) I shan’t be surprised if the fourth and final volume brings us “terrorism and queer love are equally powerful tools for dismantling a ten-thousand-year imperial death cult”.
*drags fandoms together* NOW KITH
Can we talk about how Jack and Anne have a necromancer/cavalier dynamic?
miranda’s rage, every time flint made a speech, every time I went huh I am bi, jack, just jack every chance I got, silver’s hair, silver walking, no billy ‘cause meh, no rogers ‘cause ugh, max is the best of us, fight me
“Who were they?”
“Men wise enough to know that on this island three things are known to be true. Number two is Jack Rackham is a crew killer.”
What are the other two things? Wrong answers only.
“Did you not tell me that our darkest motives will conceal themselves from us? Cloak themselves in whatever they must in order to move us to action?” -me, telling myself I’m rewatching BS to analyze it when I’m actually rewatching because it’s the only thing that makes me feel anything anymore
Miranda, asking to come in: “Lieutenant, it's rather cold out here.”
Miranda: *comes in and immediately takes off her cloak*
Vane makes a joke about the guy he’s sparring with almost taking his fucking head off in the same episode he decapitates Ned Low. 😂
Season 4 of Black Sails is actually just two islands competing to see which can be most haunted for the most people.
Edit: It’s actually three islands because I forgot Maroon Island because I always forget the cliffs aren’t on a separate plane of existence.
I just want to say that James riding a Friesian - the most visually dramatic horse breed - is the equestrian equivalent of wearing black leather in the Caribbean.
Something I think about a lot is how the black sails in the myth of Theseus were a miscommunication that led to great tragedy and in Black Sails, miscommunication might be what leads to the greatest tragedies.
#black sails#black sails itis#theseus#look at Eleanor and Rogers#and James’ inability to share what he needs to with anyone at the right time#and even like way back in season 1 when Miranda couldn’t express how desperately she wanted to leave New Providence Island#idk those are just some examples I could think of off the top of my head
Be Prepared: Experts Warn That This Polyamorous Relationship Could Expand To Cover All Of Nassau By 1716
I like to think of the ensemble cast of Black Sails as a foilcule: a fictional polycule in which everyone is at least one other character’s foil. (Not to be confused with a follicle or a polyfoil, those are different.)
I don’t know much about Zheng Yi Sao AKA Ching Shih but my impression of her is that she’s what would happen if Max, Jack, and Anne’s talents were combined into one person.
charles vane is what nassau is, eleanor is what it "should" be, flint is what it could have been, and madi is what we want it to be
Fruit, fruit. Tits, tits. Plant, plant. Except they’re actually both masterpieces.
“This has often been the way with me: notions too mad for another to take seriously are the very notions I seize upon and enact, often in the most organized and sensible fashion. (I say this not out of pride, for it is a very stupid habit that has nearly gotten me killed more than once, but out of honesty. If you do not understand what my husband has called my deranged practicality, very little of my life will make the slightest bit of sense.)” -A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
“Trust is the thread that binds us… and the rope that hangs us.” -M.A. Carrick, The Liar’s Knot