comtessedebussy:

This is absolutely a “me being salty” post but

I saw a post today about how “omg think about how Flint and Silver used to be ENEMIES and then Flint TRUSTED him enough to tell him his BIGGEST SECRET about being gay and this is the 18th CENTURY where that’s like HUGE and also so private and personal and just the TRUST”

and I’m like

Yeah, and then

a. Silver used that information against Flint to get what he wanted and betrayed him 

b. in the same scene, Silver pretty much told Flint it was his fault what happened to Thomas and Miranda 

c. historically, pirates gave a lot less of a shit about being gay than the rest of the British Empire but that’s not really mentioned much in canon