To the upper air + 7&10? thank you and please! <3

7. Who was your favorite character to write in [title]?

Ooh. That’d have to be James. Honestly, that first scene in the first chapter is still my favorite for him and I’ve loved writing him throughout the rest of the fic as well because he’s so out of his element and yet right in his element at the same time. It’s really, really rare for me to be able to write him being actually joyful, and I got to do that with this fic. Fun fact – when James McGraw is happy, he’s fully as hard to control as a character as Thomas, because he kind of goes tearing around all but dancing. It’s awesome!

10. What are some facts readers may not know about [title]?

Silver wasn’t originally supposed to show up at all. In fact, the entire back half of the fic wasn’t originally going to be there. I started out wanting to write a fic about James somehow ending up further back in his own timeline, knowing what was going to happen to him and Thomas and Miranda and trying to prevent it but having trouble with one key element – not swearing a blue streak in front of people he needs to help him, such as Admiral Hennessey. It was supposed to be a crackfic – I’m not quite sure what happened, really. Emotions, probably.

I kinda think John Silver is not Silver’s name. He introduces himself as a cook and the ship’s journals probably had the crew’s names written down like: “John Silver, cook”. So Silver took the guy’s name. Of course, it’s possible that he never claimed that he worked on that ship as a cook, but merely that he has cooking skills that nobody knew about and John Silver is his real name.

Honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit, Anon, if the original John Silver died in scene 1 of episode 1 and the guy we followed through season 4 was named, oh, idk – Solomon Little, at a guess. I’d be willing to lay good money that whatever that man’s name is, it’s not John Silver. I mean – he’s in the galley when they find him. There’s only one good reason for anyone to be down there when pirates attack, and a merchant ship isn’t going to carry more than one cook at a time. We’re not talking about a ship that would have a lot of men to feed. That means, by necessity, Silver claiming to be the cook kind of knocks the other guy out of his actual function, and since the ship’s log would in fact list “John Silver, cook”… yeah. RIP John Silver, we never actually knew ye. 

For the 10 questions thing – no.2 and Reclamation :)

Hmm. That’s a tough question, Anon, because I’ve got several, and I’m not even done writing the fic yet! 

So – let’s start with number one. I loved writing the scene where Charles returns to the Maroons’ Island and talks with Jack. It just sets the mood for that half of the fic entirely. It’s Charles thinking “ok, I’m home, thank fuck,” and then finding out that not only is he not home, everything – and I mean everything – is completely wrong in his world. And it also tells us a lot about Jack and where he’s coming from – I realized a few things about him while I was writing that scene.

Number two though – number two absolutely has to be the scene where Madi talks with Hennessey, because again, it tells us a lot about where everyone’s coming from and they’re so very different, but in this they are alike – they miss James, they care about him, and they’re grieving, and they come together in that grief as – not partners yet, exactly, but just as two people who have lost the same person and need answers. It’s really important to me because together Madi, Hennessey, and Charles are all facets of the same stone, and then they get to come together with one singular purpose that’s based around simple human emotion. Also, Madi and Hennessey play off each other well and that dynamic was fun to write.

And finally, last for now but certainly not least, was this: 

“I spoke with Silver,” she confirms. “He is alive.” She does not hear Hennessey breathe a sigh of relief, but she sees his fists unclench and his back straighten, as if a weight had been lifted. Vane, on the other hand, looks more tense if anything. His brows are drawing together – his mouth becomes a line composed out of purest concern and anger, and she sees small lines form at the corners of his eyes as they narrow.  Focused, directed anger, and when he speaks, his quiet growl is almost soothing to the part of Madi that wishes to rip, wishes to tear, wishes to cause mayhem to match the howling in her soul.

“Where is he?” he asks, his tone menacing, and she meets his gaze head-on without flinching, speaking to him directly.

“There is a plantation,” she tells him. She needs say no more – Vane freezes, and Madi holds his gaze, and feels a piece of herself slot back into place at the look in his green eyes.

“A plantation,” he repeats. It is not a question. It is the rumble of thunder that comes before the storm, and she nods, agreeing more with both his statement and the sentiment behind it than with anything else she has heard in the past three months.

“North of Spanish Florida,” she says. “Where they farm sugar cane.” She can see Vane’s eyes widen – can hear the way he stops breathing for a second and then starts again, his hands clenching into fists at his sides.

I love that scene, Anon, because it’s the scene where Madi and Charles really understand each other completely for the very first time. This is a hint of what’s to come – it’s his anger answering hers, and his concern mirroring hers, and the two of them understanding without words what the other is thinking. This is where people are meant to think – you know, that could work, if they haven’t thought it already, because in this moment right here, they’re of one mind. I love their other scenes as well and I loved writing them, but this one really stands out.

If you have a problem about how people read the show, what do you think about this gem that I found on a forum,on 4×10:”if civilisations ought to be judged on “what becomes of they unwanted ones”, Flint is judging civilisation on the fact he believes they killed Thomas. Since they didn’t kill Thomas but he’s alive in a relatively humane place, the monster that is civilisation that Flint’s fighting against simply never existed; he was wrong from the start”(1)

(2)I could not believe what I was reading -_-

You or me either, Anon. I just – I’m fairly certain you can see the logical fallacy that is “because this one gay man was not outright murdered but instead sent to be enslaved, that somehow invalidates the fact that a. SLAVERY IS WRONG AND BAD AND HE DID NOT DESERVE THAT and b. There were other people who were, in fact, hanged for the crime of being gay AS HENNESSEY MENTIONS TO JAMES IN THE SHOW and therefore yes, in fact, that civilization that James is fighting very much existed and, in large measure, still exists today. It needed to be fought, it still does – 

*throws hands in the air* James Flint was right and people can fight me.

1/2 Re TI saying Flint died in Savannah… I actually think it proves that they got out? TI says a few members of his former crew were with him when he died. They were witnesses. How would anyone know Flint is in Savannah is he is locked up for decades? How would they see him dying if he is behind those walls?

2/2 Perhaps after Thomas dies of old age, Flint goes to tavern to drown himself in rum (it would take some time) and mentions that he used to be Flint (not as bragging, but because he doesn’t give a fuck anymore). Or maybe someone who knows him happens to be there and recognises him. And the word goes out and his crew hears it and feels nostalgic (like they do in TI) and some of them go there.

It’s a point, Anon. It could very well be read that they escaped and that James simply came back to Savannah or that they stayed in Savannah all that time after they escaped, but I have a hard time imagining Thomas particularly being ok with that. He’s been enslaved for ten years, and I can’t imagine him actually feeling all that safe staying in one place considering that he was stolen from his own home at the start of that imprisonment. It just seems like the kind of experience that would make one want or even need to travel, and of course James would come with him.

stopdisrespectingculture:

800-dick-pics:

800-dick-pics:

can someone caption this? I cant read all of them

1) “Levi’s uses abrasive blasting, killing workers" 

2) “New Look uses sweatshops”

 3) “River Island pays its workers half the minimum wage" 

4) “H&M uses slave labour" 

5) “H&M uses sweatshops”

6) “Asos uses sweatshops”

7) “Bershka – owned by Inditex – uses child labour”

8) “Stradivarius- owned by Inditex – uses child labour" 

9) “Mango – 1135 dead in the Savar building collapse”

A lot of people in the notes are getting real defensive while missing the point of the post. For one thing, no where on this post does it tell you not to shop at these places or that youre a bad person if you do. The post is about showing the hypocrisy of these brands emptily co-opting social justice movements for profit, something extremely rampant right now. Its an information post. Its an attack on the corporations, not the individual.