We shake hands with the devils & we walk past them

On this Pride Month I would just like to say that Black Sails really made all of its four seasons and 38 episodes into an expression of gay rage against homophobic brutality and the unbearable loss of love, especially in that tragic context, and that’s still one of the most breathtaking things that any TV show has done, ever.

oh??? My fucking god???? WHAT A TIME TO BE A BI! 😭

anyway now that Nona's been out for 48 hours I feel comfortable sharing my personal favorite joke of the entire thing, which was Camilla valiantly trying to deflect Nona's curiosity and defend Palamedes' honor by insisting that he's a respectable nerd whose sexual interests center academic achievement only for Palamedes to out himself as having a nurse kink with 0 hesitation the second he got control of the body

Don’t include numbers in your writing. Don’t describe anyone’s clothes. Don’t make pop culture references. Don’t mention any specific details whatsoever. Don’t even use words. Don’t even try communicating an idea, just give the reader some vague grey smudges on the page to work with.