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Jonathan E. Steinberg, writer/co-creator/executive producer of Black Sails (via silverflintdaily)

steinberg: no.

Jon Steinberg, on John Silver for Fathoms Deep (via annevbonny)

and they show that his friendship with silver becomes something close and intimate and vulnerable because they’re both a weak spot for the other and that’s why it’s eventually exploited!! by others and by themselves. billy uses it against them and they use it against each other!! and that’s why you can’t say it was nothing or meaningless or a lie! because they truly hurt each other and you can’t do that if it’s not real and don’t love each other!!!

John Silver Appreciation Week Day 3 >> Favourite Relationship

I think that relationship is meaningful to both of them. It is singular, for both of them. We’ve never seen Silver invest in someone, in this way. So for him, it’s very new. It’s the first one of these relationships that we are aware of. We’ve seen Flint invest in people before, but not in this way, where he has allowed himself to be both Flint and McGraw, openly, and found some measure of comfort in that state. So for him, it’s new, also. I would argue that it’s not a contest, as to which of them felt it more deeply, but I think it was definitely meaningful. Personally, there wasn’t ulterior motives in their affinity for each other. It is genuine and it is complicated, in the way that it’s always complicated when you love someone. You don’t always make the best decisions when that thing is threatened. — Jonathan Steinberg

We’ve come this far because when Flint and I are of the same mind, there’s no obstacle yet encountered that we cannot surmount. I don’t know why that is. He doesn’t know why it is. But it is. To elevate one of us over the other, even as a fiction, seems to me to be tempting fate in a most dangerous way …A lot has changed since then, but what has not changed is that when a man first needs you and thereafter calls you a friend, a little suspicion is a healthy thing. That’d make a lot more sense if I didn’t need him just as badly as he needs me.

“They’d grown so close, it was hard to know where one ended and the other began.”

“When you and I are of the same mind there is nothing we have not yet been able to do.”

“There is no daylight between you and I.“

Did you not fucking hear me? I said I do not want this.