penflicks:

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jamesflintmcgrawhamilton:

okay now i’m ANGRY 

earlier this afternoon i read a really good black sails fic about james being trans. it was well-written and interesting and when i went back to leave a comment it had been deleted because the author (who is trans) was being harassed for writing silver as being transphobic. 

thomas at the end of your story. It is obvious that Silver didn’t need to be in your story at all, unless you wanted to be passive-aggressive… I’ll make this more personal for you…would you like a story where thomas is a transphobic or a class snob who hates poor people (and if you look at the number of rich white gay men who voted for Trump (or Bernie), I could actually argue for that being in character), and flint gets together with Silver at the end? No? then you understand why the reverse is not true.

I mean the least you could do is not tag this Silverflint and then you could have written Silver as a poorly written OOC bad guy *and* badly written flinthamilton which sums up most of the flinthamilton tag anyway 🙂

friends, i am DISGUSTED. were you guys so mad that this (trans) author had written him as transphobic that you failed to take into account that
a) the author is like. a real person and silver is fictional
b) the author was writing from personal exp. and thought silver fit the personality of the IRL transphobe
so like c) they cared more about an interpretation of a fictional character than the feelings of a real life trans person

??? seriously, what the fuck??? 

i can’t remember the author’s ao3 url, and i don’t know their tumblr so this is the only way i can think of to let them know – i thought your fic was brilliant, and i’m so so sorry that people were so horrible about it. i thought it was very in character and the flinthamilton at the end was lovely! 

i would love to read more of this au if you ever feel like writing it 

That is a disgusting comment to leave and honestly I want to know who left it. Because that’s not on, at all. 

So apparently the person left the comment anonymously because they’re a coward. Which basically means I’m assuming it was one of a group of Tumblr users on the black sails tag. Maybe it wasn’t them but they’re a group I know to enjoy bullying people, so if they want to clear their names they should stop going after people just for having a different opinion on Silver. I’m sick and tired of huge fans of Silver going on anon and bullying people. It’s not on. It’s not ok. And I hope people realise that those people are foul.