maybe the real treasure is the love we found along the way

i know lots of things about black sails were sort of worked out as it went along but it's awesome how much you can see everyone's entire character arcs in like the first few episodes. silver is introduced as a coward and a (literal) backstabber. flint can fight and scheme his way out of anything but collapses when he gets to his gay and bourgeois house. max wants the safety and stability she thinks money can give her but chooses to jeopardize it for love. eleanor is unable to stop fighting even when running is the only thing that could save her. they're so different from the people they are at the end of s4 but so entirely the same

the craziest part of black sails is silvers hair growth over what is supposed to be less than two years. it's also twice what we see because of the curls. nearly a foot of hair growth. whilst being deficient in every mineral and vitamin. what's his fucking secret.

he cries before sex, he cries after sex, but never during sex. during sex he has a fucking job to do

*flint voice* our golden age of piracy is collapsing

sorry, i mythologized your boyfriend. yeah i took him and a few other boyfriends and merged them together with local folklore and mystic elements into one legendary figure. he's going to be really hard to pin down historically. sorry about that. I can make you his consort in some stories if that helps.

people have talked about the relative non-presence of children in black sails but the ways in which they are present are also quite interesting... they represent the future for sure that's what children always represent but also from the "nothing left but the monsters in the stories they tell their children" thing to the little kids that gawk at flint when he's about to be executed to abigail to the kids reading the general history of the pyrates at the end they are very frequently in the position of passing down judgment. which is ever so slightly different from just like, the future will judge us, because it's not about what the children will do when they grow up to be adults. children are judges *in their capacity as children.* it's a war over the imagination of children. which of course makes perfect sense it's the prequel to a children's book.

big fan of when you peel back all layers of a character and at the bottom of it there's love

why are they doing this? because they loved someone so much it caused the plot to happen. Grief counts btw

ESPECIALLY a big fan of when this isn't enough to make them a good person

underrated ship dynamic is a touch-starved housewife who's exclusively into gay men and a lonely gay boy who has not a friend in the world

age of sail tracy chapman: you've got a fast ship

lestat having a musical written about his life by elton john which got negative critiques all across the board and only had a 2 month run on broadway before closing is the most lestat thing that could happen to him

something very comforting about learning the black sails showrunners responded to the theory that the show was named after the theseus myth like Wow that would have been incredibly clever of us if it had been on purpose