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it’s me and my silver(flint)ham agenda against the world england

As was requested by @billie-bones, I’ve listened back through 18 hours of interviews and compiled a list of every fic mentioned on the podcast.

This list is categorized by episode and includes ratings and summaries, as well as direct links to the fics, themselves. I’ll tag as many authors as I can, but I may not know the tumblr accounts for everyone. If you see someone who’s fics are referenced and you don’t see them tagged and happen to know their handle on here, you may want to send this on to them, that way they know which episode they’re mentioned in and can listen to hear the fic discussed if they so choose.

Some fics got multiple mentions across several episodes and so, to streamline, I’ve listed them only under the first episode in which they are mentioned, so there are no duplicate listings.

Edit: This will be a living document, updated with each new episode with any new fic recommendations. If you’re an upcoming guest and want to compile your top 5 and prefer to mention fics that haven’t been mentioned before, this list will be a valuable resource to cross-reference.

I want to thank my dear @tiofrean, partner in crime and all-around badass extraordinaire, for taking my bare bones list of titles, authors, and links, and filling them out with summaries and all the details you may want to know before committing to a fic. She also broke down every series referenced into its individual parts, since ratings and details will change throughout a particular series. She did this without me requesting it because she’s simply that awesome. Not only has she donated cover art commissions for several episodes, including the upcoming-coming Episode 13, but she helped with this project, which took several days, just for that part, out of the goodness of her heart. You sincerely fucking rock!

And without further ado, here is the Reading Between the Lines Podcast: Fic rec Masterlist!

@lupismaris @jaynovz @etoilesombre @tiofrean @b1uetrees @aisalynn @vowel-in-thug @jadedbirch @justadearie @lurkerdelima @r0b0tb0y @primal--scream @stele3 @twofrontteethstillcrooked @citrinekay @tahiri-veila @bisexualpirateheart @reluming @flintfag @mycapeisplaid @redwhale

Once again, if you don’t see your friend’s account tagged and they are on this list, please tag them or send this to them.

Sincerest thanks to all of our listeners! When you listen to the podcast, you’re supporting so so many people in this fandom!

Preview of Tora’s next episode art featuring Flint and Vane:

Bland?

The man who, in 18th century England, used his privilege to introduce pardons for pirates (!) and had a relationship with a man(!) that his wife knew about (!) being aware that he might lose everything because of it? Who was put into a mental asylum because of both of these things, and later in a penal colony? Who then, if we accept his reunion with Flint as real, has to reckon with the person he once loved killing his father and becoming a legend-inspiring bloodthirsty pirate who started a war in his name, not to mention the fact that one of his closest friends betrayed him and killed his wife?

Like, excuse me if I find all of that intriguing and worth exploring.

I get it, he is not as developed as Silver and Flint, but that is part of the appeal: the bones are there for you to build your own story, and they are damn good bones.

You want poems about Ulysses. I ask: What about Penelope?

Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Black Sails Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Captain Flint | James McGraw/John Silver, Captain Flint | James McGraw/Thomas Hamilton, Captain Flint | James McGraw/Thomas Hamilton/John Silver, Captain Flint | James McGraw/Hal Gates, Muldoon/John Silver (Black Sails) Characters: Captain Flint | James McGraw, John Silver, Thomas Hamilton, Hal Gates, Max (Black Sails), Anne Bonny, "Calico" Jack Rackham, Charles Vane, Billy Bones, Eleanor Guthrie, Idelle (Black Sails), Augustus Featherstone, Muldoon (Black Sails), Joji (Black Sails), Joshua (Black Sails), Charlotte (Black Sails), Logan (Black Sails), De Groot (Black Sails), Woodes Rogers, Miranda Barlow, Madi (Black Sails) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Polyamory, Background Relationships, Everyone is Queer, canon violence is mentioned, look to chapter notes for any relevant content warnings, Lots of Background Ships, Light Dom/sub, Light BDSM, using those for now im not sure the levels of kinkiness yet they wont tell me

  Summary:          

It was not, if he was being honest, his best laid plan.

But then as Rackham was incredibly fond of saying, common sense was tragically uncommon, and Silver was occasionally known to fall into the demographic of uncommonly idiotic individuals when he was desperate.

The most sensible thing to do was trust the Rangers, and what his own eyes showed him- trust that Flint was retired. He should trust that The Walrus was nothing more than a cozy, dive by choice, queer bar where the locals could drink away their money and the rest of them could keep their heads down.

And yet...

Since you asked so nicely, dear anon, of course!

It's really the classic 'a few years go by and Silver eventually turns up on Flint's doorstep', but I wanted to write my own version of it.

A little snippet for you:

"It would be easier if I could hate him. Then I could just banish him from my life now. Five years since I last saw him. Yet it feels like no time at all has passed."

"Well. It's been ten years since we've seen each other and our love for each other was still there."

"That's something completely different. Before we were separated, you were everything to me." James pauses and something pained flashes across his face. "Silver. He was... We were... Nothing."