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With Mirth and With Sport – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Black Sails
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: James McGraw, Thomas Hamilton, Admiral Hennessey
Additional Tags: Wherein fun is had with snow, wherein James and Thomas are fiends, and Admiral Hennessey has wicked aim with a snowball, bitty James and Thomas, continuation of Good Fortune Attend, AU, Pre-Canon, Found family fic, Fluff Fic, Tooth-Rotting Fluff
Series: Part 2 of To Drive the Cold Winter Away
Summary:

Thomas had always loved the sound of snow falling off of something. He loved the gentle silence of it. He loved the sound it made when it landed on more of itself, but most of all –

Most of all he loved the sound it made when it hit the back of Admiral Hennessey’s unprotected neck.

With Mirth and With Sport – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

lesbianwaves:

lesbianwaves:

before black sails i don’t think i truly noticed how rage in media is portrayed, as amoral at best, as invalidating of social stances, as all equal and all equally indicative of a Bad irrational character, rage is for the villains or rage is something someone good succumbs to and then has to repent for, there is no such thing as rightful anger, doesn’t matter what systemic horrors you’ve suffered, if you shout you’ve already lost, if you shout you’re just as bad as your oppressors, and that is horrifying  

on rage still: i remember a post that essentially talked about how great it is that flint is allowed gay anger, and i was thinking about how there’s even more to that than being allowed to be angry, he isn’t degraded by it, defined by it, moved into a new box because of it, ideals are not invalidated by it, by which i mean all of this happens but not in the narrative of the show, it happens in the narrative various other characters within the show weave about james flint, around him, and you see them do it, and you see the threads and the craftsmanship in detail, and you see it affect flint himself, but it’s not the show’s, the show is the creation of it and not the narrative itself, the show is as usual the story of the story, the show tells you look, this is happening, this is how it happens, this is how in stories villains are queercoded, this is how in history gay people are invisible or monsters

shakespork:

regretrograde:

hate2breakittoya:

girls dont mature faster than boys, girls are punished from an early age for the same behaviour that boys are allowed to indulge in well into adulthood

i actually talked about this with a psych professor and she believes that women/young girls have been pushed into responsibility from young ages for so long that its actually triggered an evolutionary effect where young girls are literally developing mentally early in order to cope with the stress.

Local Girls Literally Evolve To Deal With Patriarchal Bullshit

outforhealth:

a-queer-seminarian:

i love experiencing how my classmates work to avoid misgendering me. for instance, today one classmate greeted the rest of our small group:
“All right ladies and gentlemen — and Avery”

another time a classmate went:
“Pardon me, ma’am — uh, sir, uh….esteemed one”

and, my absolute fave:
“Hey ladies! — and gentleThem”

i love these moments both because they’re humorous and because they show how hard these folks are trying! it’s not about getting it right every time at first, but consistently correcting yourself!

Let’s add “Esteemed one” and “GentleThem” to popular lexicon/ the dictionary this year.