#flintham

thomas would have only seen flint at his very worst when they were reunited. what would thomas think of the choices he made over the past decade? what would he think of this person he had to create because of his grief for thomas, and then later miranda?

[Image description: a collection of screenshots of text and scenes from Black Sails.

1: So kiss me under the light of a thousand stars Oh, who gives a shit about tomorrow? When you know how lucky we are.

2: You are living the life you wanted as if you'd known what that was but of course you didn't so you'd groped toward it feeling for what you couldn't imagine, what your hands couldn't tell you, for what that shape could be.

3: Thomas Hamilton and James McGraw are in Thomas' office. Thomas leans on his desk and looks at James, who is looking down at a pamphlet.

4: You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

5: Orpheus: How will you remember? Eurydice: That I love you? Orpheus: Yes. Eurydice: That's easy. I can't help it.

6: James sits at a table in Eleanor's tavern, looking straight ahead with a sad expression. In the background and out of focus is Miranda, looking at him with a similar expression.

7: If you can make a promise If it's one that you can keep I vow to come for you If you wait for me

8: What was unforeseen is now a bird orbiting this field. What wasn't a possibility is present in our arms. It shall be and it begins with you.

9: James and Thomas are embracing in a field. Thomas' back is to the camera, and James is clinging to him. End image description.]

J: “I think you have an admirer, beloved.”

T: “Which, the twink in last night’s club attire or the baby bear contemplating how many mimosas is too many for eleven am?”

J: “Both, you know all the would be sugar babies come here hoping you’ll turn up for brunch feeling generous, Tom.” 

T: “Well it is one kind of popularity isn’t it.” 

(aka if i saw them at brunch i’d probably end up making a goddamn fool of myself)

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tonights first test! Flint and Thomas from the modern au, everyone’s favorite old queers who come to the drag brunches twice a month and always tip excessively well and spend half their meal helping the various staff members and younger queers with networking. 

Takes place well after s4 of Black Sails and s2 of OFMD. (We’re going to assume James and Thomas have eloped from the plantation and settled in a nice little cottage somewhere obviously.)

So The Revenge crew are landbound for a little rest and resupply. (When the morale is low and the pockets full, a little shopping spree is in order -Stede) Everyone’s off doing their own thing, Jim testing out new hats, Olu checking out the jewelry, Roach bargaining over a set of butcher knives, heck even Lucius had the day off of scribing Stede’s every move. All was swell for the first time on a land trip. All except for one.

Edward stood in front of a street vendor glaring at books upon books all spread out with their fancy titles and pretty bindings. He’d been wandering around for hours trying to find something just right. Something for Stede that is. Giving gifts wasn’t his thing but the bizarre little man brought out strange behaviors in Ed. Thus he was trying and failing to find a book that Stede might like. Really anything would do, but it had to be perfect.

He’s interrupted from his grumbling when a man beside him compliments the book in his hand as being a good read. The stranger is tall as shit with short blonde hair. He’s carrying a stack of books already so Ed assumes the guy knows his shit.

They chat for awhile, Ed eventually learns the man’s name is Thomas and he helps sell books at this vendor for a larger bookstore in the city. He wraps Ed’s purchase in brown paper and kindly invites him (and the soon to be owner of the purchased book) to dinner at his house, noting that he has a much nicer collection of books at home.

Later after Ed’s awkwardly given Stede his gift (“For me?” “Yeah, whatever, fuck off.”) He broaches the idea of dinner with the promise of a fancy personal library tour from Thomas. Stede is delighted, of course.

The library lives up to the hype, at least for Stede, for Ed it’s really just another pile of books. Thomas and Stede are excitedly chatting over poems when the front door swings open and a sturdy man saunters in with a bewildered look upon his face. He glances between Thomas and his guests but has to do a double take when he sees Ed lounged back on an armchair with his feet kicked up. Ed knows immediately this man is dangerous and the look of recognition in his eyes when he glares at Ed is cause for trouble.

Thomas, oblivious, greets the man (James) and happily tells him how they all met and that they’d be staying for dinner.

James gives a heaving sigh and closes his eyes as he listens to Thomas. When Thomas is done he turns a much softer gaze on the man and says in a tired but kind voice, “Thomas, dear. You’ve invited Blackbeard and The Gentleman Pirate to our house for stories and soup is what you’ve done.”

Stede is standing aghast the whole time, though it’s only later after they’d left that he aggressively whacks Ed’s shoulder and proclaims how the foolish man had brought them to have dinner with Captain-freaking-Flint and apparently his lover! Honestly he’s a little starstruck. Best dinner date ever.

The End

Flint’s fucking face: