hm yes i like this character. now shoot him 5 times in a parking lot.

FIRST step to enjoying any media is getting attached to the character whose suicidal tendencies are the most obvious

Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

The best tragedies will have you thinking "I wish it could've gone any other way" and "this is the only way it could've ended" at the same time

Soooo obvious to me in retrospect but. The reason why 4.10 finale penal colony Thomas is so quick to accept James’s return and to express his joy at that sudden swerve of fate in his favor is that…he’s actually a pretty fucking great Stoic. Fortune’s wheel spins on! Of course he’s so well adjusted, the Emperor basically told him all of this would happen!

“it’s not canon” TO YOU. they’re fucking nasty in my google docs right now

there are characters for whom “poor little meow meow” doesn’t quite cut it. To me he’s like a traumatized pit bull mix with a bite history and I’m the white girl with a savior complex trying to stop them from putting him down

honestly think that showing us mark read in the ending is just. the stroke of pure genius. they're there to pull us back into reality. they're a memento mori. they show us that for all the fantasies jack's spinning, he will hang so very soon. and then at the ship jack and anne talk about flint's treasure and so silver's fantasy is broken open as well. we spend the last scenes of the show being spoonfed that hope, that "happy" ending that they got by bargaining with the empire and stopping the revolution, and then mark read tears through it with a solemn certainty of a greek tragedy. we are reminded that the only hope they had was given away. in that moment. on that island. along with that chest.