fix your hearts or die

10 screencaps from black sails with accompanying text, in order:

1— screencap from s01e02, max telling eleanor: "eleanor, this place is just sand. it cannot love you back. you know this. you must know this."

2— screencap from s01e02, max leaving the brother wrapped in a shawl. poem over the image reads:

no one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark / you only run for the border / when you see the whole city running as well // (...) // you only leave home / when home won’t let you stay — w. shire

3— screencap from s01e07, miranda tells flint: "because there is no life here! there is no joy here, there is no love here."

4— screencap from s02e05, miranda rides a cart, a woman walks up the road with a dead child in arms. poem over image reads: "

are there some places / where love simply / doesn’t grow as fast / as it decays? — m. harvey

5— screencap from s04e02, anne tells jack: "that fucking island. makes you do shit you don't wanna do. how is it we haven't figured that out by now?"

6— screencap from s04e02, wide shot of the wrecks at dawn. poem overlaids reads:

It wants our bodies, / the landscape does, and everyone runs / the risk of being swallowed up. — r. siken

7— screencap from s04e04, eleanor tells max: "i had put so much of myself into this place, in that moment, i honestly didn't know where i ended and it began."

8— screencap from s04e03, berringer's hand hang limply, holding a personal token as he bleeds out. poem overlaid reads:

You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore. / This city will always pursue you. / You’ll walk the same streets, grow old / in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses. / You’ll always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere: / there’s no ship for you, there’s no road. / Now that you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner, / you’ve destroyed it everywhere in the world. — c.p. cavafy

9— screencap from s04e04, eleanor tells mrs. hudson: "amazing, this place. somehow leaves no options other than to hurt the ones you love."

10— screencap from s04e06, flint holds a dying eleanor in his arms. poem overlaid reads: