Tag: Anonymous

Just kind of curious why that post about food culture in America irritates you?

It’s a pretty minor thing actually as relates to that post. There’s a common misconception that eating a lot is the cause of getting fat (pigging out until you get huge, as the post puts it), and there’s all kinds of science that refutes that idea. Unfortunately, the perception over here is that people who are fat just continually stuff our faces when the fact is that I could eat the exact same things as most of the thin people I know and I would gain weight where they would not due to genetics and our different metabolisms, not because they have some kind of vigorous gym routine (they don’t). The majority of the post is really good, and I do in fact agree that it’s tiresome to hear over and over again that American food is disgusting, our portions are horrible, etc. For what it’s worth, I’m a bit not myself this week, so please disregard me and my grumping.

Hi, there is a video in which Toby talk about the scenes cut from flashbacks in BS, it seems they were scenes of Thomas in bethlem, did you saw it ?

I haven’t seen the video, Anon, but I’ve seen people talking about it. Quite frankly, I’m happy that they made the decision to not capitalize on gay people’s pain – it was a good, responsible decision. With that said – oh gods, Thomas. My baby. I think somewhere deep down I’d kind of hoped they’d just shipped him off to the plantation right away instead of actually sticking him in Bethlem and just – ow. I’ll be over here, needing infinitely more fic where he gets to be safe and happy and start handling his trauma in a place where he’s not enslaved. And quite a few fics where he’s not traumatized that way at all.

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.

Have you read this? medium(.)com/@brenna(.)asplund/england- is- not- inevitable -f33b3fabcc12 What did you think about?

I agree quite completely, Anon. The author reads the show as a call to action, and I could not possibly agree more strongly with that analysis, or their understanding that in all of this, the enemy is the status quo and the inability to dream of something better. If you follow me, then you know what I think of Silver’s actions in the finale, and I think this is a large part of the reason why I feel as I do, because I’m tired – so very tired – of being told over and over again “the society that has tried to grind you down since the day you were born will always stand, there is nothing you can do, it is impossible to tear it down and start fresh.” Honestly, I think Black Sails has proven formative to me in that very way – I don’t know of any other show that has practically taken me by the shoulders, shaken me, and said, “it doesn’t have to be this way. You don’t have to roll over and allow things to stay this way.” I think we all need to hear that right now, as things in my country get worse in leaps and bounds and I find myself asking “what do I as someone who lives in this hellhole do to make this stop?” 

There’s a reason that the good, rousing speeches in Sails are given by people like Madi, and Flint, and Vane. There’s a reason that Flint is the protagonist of the show, and a reason that the at least presumptive heroes of the show are all people who have been marginalized, and betrayed, and treated abominably by people in power – explicitly so. Madi and her mother and father and their people have suffered because the people in power desire that they should. James and Thomas and Miranda suffered because they dared to say the poor and disadvantaged are people and deserving of life and decent treatment, and because of the way they loved. Charles died because he, a former child slave allowed to suffer under England’s laws, would not roll over and be England’s slave again and because he repeatedly called on crowds of people to stop giving power to those who didn’t deserve it. Black Sails is a challenge to the idea that change can’t or shouldn’t happen all at once, and a pretty clear indictment of those who cannot or will not envision something better and do everything in their power to prevent others from seeing it either. I love Max. I love Rackham. I even, at one point, liked Silver, but in the end – they’re wrong, their worldview is wrong, and I could do with infinitely less of the same attitude from real people who, like them, can’t or won’t bring themselves to envision a world that’s better and more just and then either help those of us who want it to change or get out of our damn way.

I really respect you as a very talented person but it upsets me so much when you just mindlessly repost blatant propaganda without checking anything. I realize that it’s your space and you can post whatever but honestly, so much about anti fascist stuff here aaand you couldn’t just stop for a second and think maybe before reposting that plainly antisemitic crap about Gaza.

Anon, I’ll confess – I’m not Jewish. I’m not Muslim, and as such, I try to stay open to criticism and learn from my mistakes. I’ve deleted the post in the general belief that when someone calls out a post as anti-semitic, I am not in a position to deny it. I would, however, say that while it is a complex issue with a lot of different sides to it and no one good answer, people are dying in Gaza, and they’re not doing it from old age, and whatever your take on the reason why, I’d hope that we’re on the same side in saying that it needs to stop, particularly when the people dying are, for example, the innocent families of students I have spoken to personally. 

your vibes are: intimidating/impressive. also idk why but i kinda imagine u as a brunette?

Aww – thank you! I’d like to reassure you that I do not, in fact, bite, despite being intimidating. If it helps, just remember that I am ridiculously fond of glitter and would happily sit and pet dogs, cats, rats, ferrets, and just about any other furry small mammal that would let me all day long. And you are right on the money – I am in fact brunette – see? 

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Have you ever thought about writing about Miranda becoming pregnant and James and Thomas becoming dad’s? That’s something I’d love to see

2/2 This is the anon again, I my question pertained to the Grace verse

Aww – I’ve thought about it, Anon, but baby fic is not particularly my thing, considering that I’ve always been awkward around kids. If they were to have children, though, I like to think that they’d turn out looking a great deal like their mother such that no one is certain if James or Thomas is the father, and that they’d be the best loved, best cared for children in Nassau, what with their extremely extended, doting family! (and yes, you may feel free to imagine Charles Vane getting roped into babysitting duty to everyone’s consternation and eventual amusement when he proves to be good at it, and Anne and Eleanor bonding over going “so. you’re a kid. how’s… how’s that, then?”)