to the world we dream about

For all its faults supernatural has Castiel. None of these prestige tv shows have Castiel. None of these books have Castiel. No matter what media I consume i keep coming back to supernatural because it has Castiel.

being a black sails fan means that your brain will randomly supply BUT IT ISN’T TRUE!!!!!! WE CAN PROVE THAT IT ISN’T TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in any number of comparable and incomparable situations

hate when people say something along the lines of "we must get along so well because you are/i am [some astrological sign]" to me. what are you fucking talking about. we get along because im fucking nice. a decision which i regret when you say shit like that

this post is a good rent lowering gunshot. in case anyone needs one of those

im nonbinary in a way that doesnt really matter

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.

that's sooo interesting because there's something to be said then about the difference re children shown in nassau, given that they are shown either a. working or b. dead. who is the audience. who is valuable. who is disposable. whose imaginations are allowed to flourish, to be captured, and whose are suppressed. even as children.

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

it's pretty interesting to me actually that people seem to sometimes interpret woodes rogers as the real villain of black sails bc i can't really think of anything rogers does that the protagonists don't also do. the writers go to great pains to show that he is kind of Exactly the same as flint except his circumstances (straight, upper-class) allow him to stay on the side of empire. down to changing the name of his dead brother so you can't possibly miss it. he says it, out loud! he even has the same speech that flint does about acknowledging and accepting that to his audience he is in the role of villain. what makes this role real in one instance and fake in another? why, in black sails, would villainy ever be real and not a matter of perspective? the only difference between rogers and flint is that rogers is on the wrong side, and the writers are very careful to show that that is a matter of circumstance and not of character.

hey hey hey come closer *whispers* you should rewatch black sails