I have a question about the BS finale, I hope you can help me understand. Julius was so worried about the alliance with the pirates and then he accepted the treaty by trusting a pirate’s word(Rackham) that the treaty would be honored by the new governor. What would have happened if mrs Gutrie had refused? I thought everything was uncertain, am I wrong? thanks

Honestly, Anon, this is one aspect of the finale that I can’t help but feel was poorly fleshed out. I get why it was – they only had so much time, but the fact is that Julius appears, is an awesome character for the – maybe five whole minutes of screen time he actually has, and then we never see him again. We don’t see him talk with anyone about the treaty. We don’t find out what would lead him to suddenly trust, let’s be honest, two WHITE MEN about that treaty. We don’t get to hear the Maroons debate the treaty at all, in fact, and I’m not sure that that’s not deliberate as well, because what choice were Madi and her people left with but to accept the terms of the treaty and hope the new governor would in fact honor it? That’s what rankles, more than any of the rest of it – they weren’t given a choice, and I’m not sure that it would have made a difference if Julius DID object to the treaty in any way for that reason. Silver and Rackham both pretty much gambled and outright sacrificed a lot of people’s futures on a big maybe – especially given they’d just captured Woodes Rogers, so they pretty well had to have a new governor willing to go along with their plan because if you think Rogers would honor that treaty after having been bested and captured, yeah no. It really is all up in the air there for a bit in a very alarming way.

With the Gold Dawn’s Breaking – Chapter 2 – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

flintsredhair:

Chapters: 2/3
Fandom: Black Sails
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Hal Gates/Admiral Hennessey
Characters: Hal Gates, Captain Flint (Black Sails), Miranda Barlow, Thomas Hamilton, Admiral Hennessey (Black Sails)
Additional Tags: In Which Hal Gates makes a bad decision that saves his life, in which James Flint McGraw needs a drink and several hugs, Angst with a Happy Ending, Everybody Lives, One of these days I’m going to write prequel fic about Gates and Hennessey
Summary:

There is a quality, Hal Gates thinks in the back of his mind, to an abandoned stretch of coast. It’s meant, for one, to be abandoned – devoid of people. Home to birds and the like – and not, he thinks, kicking once again at the pieces of his wrecked boat, bloody fucking useless idiot pirates too stupid to not go out in a ship-killer in a launch out of some stupid desire to avoid having a drink with the man who may have killed his son.

In which Gates lives, and the events of Season 1 and 2 play out very differently.

With the Gold Dawn’s Breaking – Chapter 2 – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

marvel-is-gay-and-so-am-i:

This is the scene from Black Sails that I wont shut up about. 27 seconds on Jack Rackham validating Anne Bonny’s sexuality and preferences healed my soul and made me cry

Context: Anne is the red head and she’s Jack’s partner in pretty much everything. Anne snuck out of bed with Jack to be with Max and Jack came in and immediately started discussing plans to get a crew and ship because priorities ya know. Then there’s this scene and he leaves and everything is good and I love love and pirates who love love and Fuck why are there only 4 seasons

tyrannosaurus-rex:

mineyoung-churyuu:

hubriscomplex:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

8ddict:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

captainlordauditor:

some iconic dialogue that sounds like its from the great canon of literature but are actually from memes

  1. I will face God and walk backwards into Hell
  2. “I’ll do whatever you want” “then perish”
  3. I have been through hell and come out singing

feel free to add more!

  • There are no gods here
  • Do I look like the kind of man who dies
  • God’s dead and soon we will be too
  • I thought there were no heroes left in this world 

• you kneel before my throne unaware that it was built on lies

  • Impudent of you to assume I will meet a mortal end
  • This is hell’s territory and I am beholden to no gods
  • Bury me shallow, I’ll be back

– take this gift, for the gods surely won’t

  • God wishes he were me
  • One day, you will be face to face with whatever saw fit to let you exist in the universe, and you will have to justify the space you’ve filled

Violence for Violence is the Rule of Beasts

With the Gold Dawn’s Breaking – Chapter 2 – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

flintsredhair:

Chapters: 2/3
Fandom: Black Sails
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Hal Gates/Admiral Hennessey
Characters: Hal Gates, Captain Flint (Black Sails), Miranda Barlow, Thomas Hamilton, Admiral Hennessey (Black Sails)
Additional Tags: In Which Hal Gates makes a bad decision that saves his life, in which James Flint McGraw needs a drink and several hugs, Angst with a Happy Ending, Everybody Lives, One of these days I’m going to write prequel fic about Gates and Hennessey
Summary:

There is a quality, Hal Gates thinks in the back of his mind, to an abandoned stretch of coast. It’s meant, for one, to be abandoned – devoid of people. Home to birds and the like – and not, he thinks, kicking once again at the pieces of his wrecked boat, bloody fucking useless idiot pirates too stupid to not go out in a ship-killer in a launch out of some stupid desire to avoid having a drink with the man who may have killed his son.

In which Gates lives, and the events of Season 1 and 2 play out very differently.

With the Gold Dawn’s Breaking – Chapter 2 – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

sanerontheinside:

tehnakki:

ravenel:

I saw this post by @astropixie about how it’d be nice to review fics on AO3 as you read. A little while back, because I was so in awe of the Clexa fic writers, I made this userscript (can install on Firefox by using Greasemonkey and on Chrome by using Tampermonkey) so that I could do just that. It doesn’t have the wattpad or soundcloud functionality, it’s just a little thing added on to a page, not something supported by the site itself, but it’s better than nothing. 

The userscript is available here: http://pastebin.com/vYBCYWu4

Holy fuck, this is game changing. I’m so excite! This is gonna up my comment game like WOAH!

So THIS THING has been extremely helpful for me in leaving comments on works which I do not beta. Problem is, I start off reading and want to comment on All The Things but by the time I get to the chapter my brain is fighting me with ‘uuuh i dunno general impression FANTASTIC’ but ‘I wanna be more specific than that :-////’ 

So. If you, too, have a weirdass brain that only thinks of life in terms of All or Nothing, has no concept of things like Progress and Good Enough, or were raised by a Perfectionist, Here Is A Thing, I Hope It Helps YOu

Holy crap, that’s awesome! Guys, look at the thing!

FUCK. YES! *points at the thing* comments are so important and look at all the shiny features this comes with!

With the Gold Dawn’s Breaking – Chapter 2 – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 2/3
Fandom: Black Sails
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Hal Gates/Admiral Hennessey
Characters: Hal Gates, Captain Flint (Black Sails), Miranda Barlow, Thomas Hamilton, Admiral Hennessey (Black Sails)
Additional Tags: In Which Hal Gates makes a bad decision that saves his life, in which James Flint McGraw needs a drink and several hugs, Angst with a Happy Ending, Everybody Lives, One of these days I’m going to write prequel fic about Gates and Hennessey
Summary:

There is a quality, Hal Gates thinks in the back of his mind, to an abandoned stretch of coast. It’s meant, for one, to be abandoned – devoid of people. Home to birds and the like – and not, he thinks, kicking once again at the pieces of his wrecked boat, bloody fucking useless idiot pirates too stupid to not go out in a ship-killer in a launch out of some stupid desire to avoid having a drink with the man who may have killed his son.

In which Gates lives, and the events of Season 1 and 2 play out very differently.

With the Gold Dawn’s Breaking – Chapter 2 – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]