lesbianwaves:

as i said before there’s a lot of dudes in black sails who constantly retell james flint to you, but none quite as much as silver, none with quite as much charm and poetry and self-attributed authority and self-manifested intimacy as silver, which i think makes him uniquely insidious in his thematic role within the show’s exploration of erasure and distortion of narratives

he’s not evil by any means he’s arguably not even malicious he’s just there and careless and deeply overconfident and that’s all it takes