I Will Go On From Time To Time

it really is indicative of how fucked in the head dorothy dunnett was that she described lymond getting a good night's sleep and the discussion this caused in the group chat was on whether it meant that lymond was secretly drunk, secretly high, secretly ill, or on death's door

underrated bit in black sails is when silver undermines the entire concept of torture and hes like oh noo it wouldnt work. no not because im tough. i would say literally anything at all to get you to stop.

love when an absolute nightmare of a character is introduced and all you can think is "jesus christ buddy what the hell is your problem" and the narrative gives you a hot minute to stew before explaining Exactly what is Their Problem. and you just sorta sit back in your metaphorical rocking chair and think "huh. yeah okay fair. that would do this to a person, yes."

the idea that every summer will be as hot if not hotter than this for the rest of my life is unbearable i need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) murder an oil executive

I need my weird alone time or I will explode

The BEST trope is when a character tells another “let’s run away together, we can leave all of this behind and start a new life somewhere” and gets rejected. And then the rest of the tragedy unfolds

good thing they didnt have Grindr during the age of sail imagine coming into range of the enemy and in the tense quiet before the storm all your officers' phones go off

it's so important to post about black sails every single day because what if people forget