Jodie Whittaker’s Appearance Fee

the operative romantic fantasy of black sails is obviously to get so close to the beloved that you usurp them and can stand where they once stood, thereby believing you've incorporated what you found so unreachably, untouchably beautiful about them into yourself until reality reminds you you're just a copy, flat as the image in a mirror, degraded by the mimetic process. the operative sexual fantasy of black sails is to convince a bunch of people who hate you to let you order them around

Every episode, Flint is like "Excuse me, I have to consult with my Emotional Support Opportunistic Pathological Liar" to someone before talking alone with Silver and it is SO funny

eleanor guthrie truly character of all time. she's awful. she's a pirate, she's not quite a pirate because it occasionally suits her to be an englishwoman instead. her daddy issues nearly destroyed nassau. she made one of the most feared pirates on the seas crawl at her feet but also did such a number on him that he killed her real father. she made another of the most feared pirates on the seas into the dad who stepped up but only after having some weird sexual tension with him. her lesbian situationship reverberated through the whole narrative so bad that the core relationship semi-quoted her breakup. she's dead. she comp hetted her way into her own doom. she's shiv roy for the high seas. jack rackham said she was mother. anne bonny called her a cunt. she was even bisexual.

I find it very hard to sympathise when characters in black sails are like "Flint is CRAZY!!!! You can't trust him, he'll beat you to DEATH if you get in his way!!!" because like. he's right. he's literally always right. And if you just listened to him, he wouldn't have to beat you to death now, would he? godddd 🙄

recommending black sails to heated rivalry fans because I don’t give a fuck anymore. ‘what do they even have in common ?’ nothing. nothing at all. i am trying to hurt you.

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!