what does it mean to be loved by death?

I think it’s interesting how romance and maybe romance leaning fic as a whole gets put on a weird pedestal of analysis where the most common critique is the lack of realism, essentially dismissing it as a genre. When even a literary fiction novel that wins awards is still literature that lacks realism, because life doesn’t have a narrative. No one is adhering to the hero’s journey in real life. But we still analyze those stories based on their literary devices using literary criticism, along with their research. So when we only judge romance based on what it lacks in realism, I get frustrated because you’re not even deeming romance as something worthy of literary analysis, but rather sitting there with a laundry list of things that need “correcting,” as if you yourself need to be the teacher in this instance.

Contemporary art haters will be like "i don't get it" and then not read the title or artist statement or the medium or the year or

i love charles vane because he is always getting kicked and looking stupid as fuck

it literally just occured to me right now that its implied he was like a pretty good pirate before the inciting events of the show knocked him flat on his patootie like i was just picturing him as a mostly buffoon who failed upwards into power by virtue of his pretty face and violent nature. but maybe that is not supposed to be the case

I am constantly seeing people trying to puzzle out what's "ruining books" and it makes me more and more tired. Read a different book. You have more choice in reading material than at any other point in all of history. No one thing can be ruining ALL of them.

Love it when Black Sails gets Extra Theatrical… Flint entering the main deck to face Singleton like he’s walking onstage… a hush falling over the assembled crew in response like they’re the audience as a play begins… the logbook and blank page utilized as props… Singleton, Gates, and Billy all becoming actors against their will… Flint donning blood like a costume of strength… performing a monologue which earns him cheers and applause… and Silver being the only audience member to IMMEDIATELY recognize the fictional nature of the whole performance and see everyone and everything for what they really are.

#and that’s in the first episode baby!!!#but no the theatrical element of bs is part of what makes it so good especially the monologues#jack rackham is a character who fully believes he is performing at every single moment - all the world is a stage literally and figuratively#he will give a monologue to a fucking mouse in a prison cell#in that way he is unknowable even as he is also arguably the most legible#the one giving asides to the audience - lord what fools these mortals be - makes sure you understand the story but in the way he presents#(a story is true a story is untrue etc.)#then you have so many moments that are just stagecraft#flint telling charles town he will be their monster#vane walking off the wagon into his death#the way max can make any position her throne - standing on the balcony or lying in the bathtub or sitting in that fucking chair#a personal favorite - flint and rogers meeting and rogers saying ‘thomas hamilton’ to shock and unsettle flint AND his unseen audience#we haven’t even gotten to literally everything silver does#every character is performing somehow. every single one. and they choose to accept or reject or transform the role thrust upon them#making their performance their own#i could keep going but i need to work#but the drama is the point and i love that about bs (tags @creepygnocchi)

I'm out of weed so I have to smoke thw one that makea me scared