complaininginthedark:

jamesflintmcgrawhamilton:

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.