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the fact people ever criticised jessica parker kennedy's performance as max is fucking insane. we need to kill all redditors

#just finished watching 4ep7 #black sails

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the photography arc rlly is the rosetta stone for me to louis' whole character. but whatever.

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ppl love to be like ‘louis is a business major in a world full of theatre kids’ and its like well. most vampires in this world end up making art (i think bc anne rice likely had a sort of universalizing view that any being that lives long enough will eventually become an artist) and louis has clearly always been passionate about the arts!! He’s been deeply moved by it since he was a human (see: Iolanthe incident) He has opinions about it (he’s literally a prolific art collector, he gets degraded in a racialized way by Santiago for being ‘pretentious’ about art, he reads or sleeps through TdV’s work not bc he hates all theatre but bc he thinks their work is tawdry and bizarre.)

it makes sense that louis tries his hand at being an artist, and that attempt a symbol of profound hope! but he also happened to pick the artform most prohibitive to him as a vampire (photography requires light and patience, whereas he’s always outrunning the sun.) and he takes photos of humans that he cannot get emotionally close to (the photo he takes of armand is notably the only one an art dealer gets a lil frisson off of.) he completely stacks the deck against himself, putting himself in a position to reaffirm his prior belief that vampirism is a curse and a limitation.

when he realizes his art isn’t great he quits. but if he had waited for cameras to improve, or taken photos of fellow vampires, (and fwiw i think there was a post floating around about how if louis just ate more, things might be easier lolol) or just been content to suck at it for a while, there’s no reason why he couldn’t have continued (lord knows other vampires are out there being bad and weird at whatever they’re making, in part bc they’re v much out of step with the culture they’re attempting to contribute to. and louis actually seems a great deal more clued in to the zeitgeist based on what he says to claudia about the parisian modern art scene, and even up to 2022 where he knows what essencefest is like my girl still knows whats what more or less.)

i think louis stops not only bc its painful and frustrating to not be able to practice this artform the way he wants to, but bc he cannot deal with the idea that he isn’t Creating Value or contributing, he would just be enjoying himself.

And and and the most chilling thing to me has always been the stein-photo-replacement moment and subsequent crashout. (obv that story beat is abt armand being manipulative and undermining louis’ account of events, but) the way louis is so upset and so vehement abt insisting that he was merely adequate as a photographer, how important it is for louis that the readers know that is like Thee character detail of the whole season for me. louis is so ruled by self loathing that it feels central to his personal integrity and the integrity of the story he’s telling that he not say anything too nice about himself or his creative output. and its so fucking racialized bc truly louis still lives in fear of being called arrogant and haughty and uppity and pretentious by white people who do not want him to like himself !! like lets all kill ourselves fr

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i really like how the walrus getting its shit completely wrecked by the spanish man o' war is done bc it does not have you saying "flint you really fucked up this time" it has you saying "ohhh my god 🙄 if these people would just FOLLOW FLINT'S ORDERS and FIRE WHEN HE SAYS FIRE then we wouldn't fucking be here. this is what comes of defying him" it really puts you in flint's headspace.

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there's something really fun about how like. according to all Sources i have found many sailors abandoned the royal navy for piracy because the navy was so hierarchical and the officers were given so much power and piracy was the more egalitarian and democratic option. but flint comes from the navy as someone who managed to work his way up to officer and as someone who seems to prefer to function inside those rigid structures, or at least to be most at home there. so even as he is ostensibly fighting for the greater egalitarianism of the pirate world and of progressive values in general it's just not something that he personally is able to value. he doesn't have a democratic bone in his body. he went to the pirate republic talking about kings and wanting to quite literally run it like the navy and tried to fight for that pirate republic while acting like his word was law and every democratic proceeding was an annoying hinderance to his dictatorial rule. it's so good. i like him

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#yessss. i have written a few mini essays about this in the tags of posts but#this is one of my favorite things about flint. and it's so interesting to see toby stephens reference coriolanus#where being a great commander does not make you a great politician. and that is exactly flint's deal#he has that whole speech in s1 about how the crew needs certainty. and with the way he runs his crew he's absolutely right#he is such a brilliant commander and that let him rise thru the ranks despite not being a lord#and now he's stuck in nassau and he's making a lot of calls that are correct but now he needs consensus to do things#and you can see it drive him mad. bc he's really fucking smart. he knows what to do he just needs the crew#to listen to him instead of needing to lead them to the right decision. this is why flint always needs a partner#he needs someone to bridge the gap between him and the crew. to get them to listen to him so he can do his thing#his frustration with everyone being so many steps behind him brings so much friction to s1 and 2 especially. and it slaps

@thotifypremium 's tags. so trueeee

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black sails lovessss the Very Significant hard cut that connects two ideas together but the best by far is the one at the beginning of s2 where the chorus of "aye" votes from the stranded pirates turns to the chorus of "aye" votes from (5 mins of googling) english parliament 10 years ago. of all the concepts to link.... wonderful

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thomas hamilton got his greatest love to give a shit about his life philosophy book when he otherwise would’ve thought it was whack by reading it to him while he was high on post-sex oxytocin and then sealed the deal by incorporating it into their dating time and finally writing the most glowing and personally-relevant romantic inscription on it so he’ll have no choice but to care about it for the rest of his life. Dark woke icon of all time possibly ever maybe

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when i was on the verge of the worst mental health crisis of my life i brought this leather bound notebook with an ominous sepia photograph of my university library on the front. it's the kind of picture you'd find on the cover of a penguin 20th century classics edition of a novella that ends with the narrators suicide. it looks like a fucking ghost is going to materialise in it when you're not looking. it has rancid energy and its not even aesthetically pleasing. so naturally i decided to use as a diary.

#i found it on my bookshelf today and i couldnt stop laughing #was i even trying to be happy??

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Is it acceptable that I do shave my legs only because it’s easier to put lotion on my legs when they aren’t too hairy and I do like the feeling of smooth skin when I finish up with it.

I also only really do it once or twice a month so sometimes I do go out in public with hairy legs.

come on man i'm on my lunch break can't you wait???

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Assad Zaman as Armand

#prev: devestating day for the 10 vague larry enjoyers on this earth #iwtv

i accidentally renewed my annual shudder subscription this year for NINETY POUNDS bcs i thought id cancelled it so i need to subsist on a diet of straight to shudder slop for a year

#there are like 30 films on there i want to see but fml #time to watch vhs 15 or whatever

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#iwtv #if im not claudia posting its bcs it hurts too much but remember that is my princess

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reblog this and tell me your favorite album written and performed by a woman?

#impossible question but its probs is this desire?

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