hey so im too tired to get annoyed about this right now, but my friend @complaininginthedark wants to so i’m posting this so he can
Yeah so I’m going to answer this since I’m peeved at things today and have the energy to get involved. I don’t want to, I’d rather just get on and “live and let live” since that’s what I’ve been doing so far. But it’s hard when one ship advocates truth and trust and love and devotion as virtues and another showcases lying, manipulation, forced imprisonment at gunpoint, and systematic oppression being excused.
The narrative of Black Sails is on the side of the oppressed and maltreated. It is on the side of the imprisoned, the pressganged, the absued and enslaved. To ignore that and to ally with the character who ignores the wishes of friends and loved ones in those positions is hard to let go of. When S/lver put a gun to James’ head and said “I don’t care”, when he left Thomas imprisoned on the plantation, when be blatantly disregarded Madi’s efforts to free her people, he became a villain. He became a part of the problem. He may have done it out of love but it was for his own benefit, not the benefit of his loved ones.
THEN there are the fandom sides of things. The disregard of Thomas as a driving force behind Flint’s narrative, ranging from ideas that he would easily let James be with S/lver after that betrayal to Thomas beind dead or nonexistant, is insulting to anyone who has been marginalised for their sexuality. Tagging on fics that barely include Thomas mean someone uncomfortable with S/verflint have to scroll through and miss half the fandom content for one of only 3 lgbt pairings in the show. CANON pairings at that. Tagging and searching on Tumblr are different and both suck but content creators are allowed to say “don’t tag this as such and such” without being harassed for it. Fandom is awful anyway I don’t do much other than write what takes my fancy but respect goes two ways.
In short – It’s not about just getting on with things, it’s about realising the people who don’t like S/verflint have reasons beyond spite or malice.
Category: Uncategorized
With the Gold Dawn’s Breaking – Chapter 1 – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]
Chapters: 1/3
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 play out very differently.
With the Gold Dawn’s Breaking – Chapter 1 – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]
Some facts about capitalism:
- Artificial scarcity drives profits up
- It is not profitable for everyone to live comfortably
- The system demands unceasing growth and resource extraction for its own survival, in turn putting the survival of humanity and ecosystems in peril
- The growth that arises from capital accumulation makes a select few obscenely wealthy, while most of the world lives in poverty
- It can be transcended
just to make sure that you all know that black sails have taken over my life, here’s a tiny unfinished sketch of flint n thomas living their best life far away from the plantation of shame™
With the Gold Dawn’s Breaking – Chapter 1 – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]
Chapters: 1/3
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 play out very differently.
With the Gold Dawn’s Breaking – Chapter 1 – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]
the most telling thing about the political climate this year is that usually my dash is filled with 4th of July posts by now but there’s been absolutely nothing… like nobody can even find the strength to post ironic eagle memes are you guys alright over there
No
Too much sanity may be madness, and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be
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