I'm a Walking Juxtaposition.

there's something really fun about how like. according to all Sources i have found many sailors abandoned the royal navy for piracy because the navy was so hierarchical and the officers were given so much power and piracy was the more egalitarian and democratic option. but flint comes from the navy as someone who managed to work his way up to officer and as someone who seems to prefer to function inside those rigid structures, or at least to be most at home there. so even as he is ostensibly fighting for the greater egalitarianism of the pirate world and of progressive values in general it's just not something that he personally is able to value. he doesn't have a democratic bone in his body. he went to the pirate republic talking about kings and wanting to quite literally run it like the navy and tried to fight for that pirate republic while acting like his word was law and every democratic proceeding was an annoying hinderance to his dictatorial rule. it's so good. i like him

driving me insane that the inscription in marcus aurelius is to "my truest love" like "my dearest love" would have been sad enough but TRUEST... the whole show is about the illusions and the falsehoods that prop up power and flint is so good at using them. but he was once someone's truest love. the least false. in this world that runs on lies and stories and theater there was once something true. and it was destroyed. i get why flint is like that now i'd go fucking crazy too

every once in awhile people will say "[my name], you have good taste in screen-based narrative stuff, what would you say is your favourite tv show" and i'll go "well first of all i don't have one of those because it's all dependent on what one is feeling like at a given time, but i sense that you're really asking what i like that's really really good" and they will say "yes you're right about that i would like advice on something to watch that's really really good" and i'll say "have you ever heard of the show black sails?" and they'll answer "oh isn't that the show about macho pirates that's like game of thrones i think i watched the first episode of that or something" and i will nod patiently and then reply that "it's actually possibly one of the most rewarding pieces of tv i've ever seen, it simply asks you to trust it and i know that's difficult in the climate of everything either goes on forever without a plan or else gets cancelled after two seasons but this one does neither of those, it's incredibly beautiful, and it's very politically cognisant as well" and i will get a blink and a "oh, well, im glad you like it" and i will wonder why i was being asked for recommendations in the first place

similarly to how you should never trust gamers with a nonbinary character i feel like you can also never trust a fandom with an aroace character. whether it's explicitly canon or implied it just ends up the same

every time an allo person wants to ship an aroace spec coded character they should write an essay with MLA format citations on how this serves the themes of the story and is necessary for the character and how their ship is any different than the relationships said character already has and they should also send $500 dollars minimum to at least one aroace person in their fandom

"but people can do whatever they want!!!" i don't caaaaaare go examine your biases and cry about it or i'm blowing both of us up

never related to authors being like "childhood is such a blessed innocent time", catch me with that jane eyre shit like "such dread as children only can feel" and "I then sat with my doll on my knee til the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room"

#This is the representation I’ve been looking for

never let the fact that you were born a girl stop you from being the gayest man alive

it must’ve been so embarrassing for everyone on game of thrones when they fumbled the ending so bad after black sails managed to achieve everything they were trying for two years earlier with a much smaller budget. like well lit fight scenes, intricate politics, morally gray characters with shifting alliances, sea battles, epic stories told on a focused character level, waxing poetic on the nature of stories and storytelling and the way they shape reality… like damn y’all really are just out there reheating jonathan steinberg and robert levine’s nachos