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I hope you can help me, maybe my memory is bad and english is not my language, but when exactly Thomas said he would forgive only the white pirates. I always thought that when Thomas was talking about changing things and correcting the old world mistakes he was referring to much more things.What do you think about?

*puts my historian hat on* I think that Thomas Hamilton was doing the absolute best he could have done given the shitty situation he’d had handed to him. It was not within his power to just hand the island back to the native peoples there, so he was attempting to help the people there the only way he could – to pardon every last one of them, and given that they were a conglomeration of all different ethnicities, religions, and creeds, I’d say that all of them definitely did not refer to just white pirates. His eventual goal may have been proving that the people of Nassau could self-govern. In trying to push through the pardons, Thomas was trying to change the way that England viewed the poor – he was trying to get the nobility to see that granted a chance, the people of Nassau would prove to want to be productive, law-abiding citizens of the Empire, not criminals, thus disproving the idea that the nobles had that the poor were born criminals by nature. it was kind of a thing at the time – strict social stratification of the sort that’s become ingrained in English society over the past several centuries had begun to exist, and England had also adopted a really rigid criminal code where the punishment for a lot of things was death. If you want a good book on the subject, I can recommend The Thieves’ Opera by Lucy Moore.  

Anyway – long story short – no, I do not think Thomas was talking about just pardoning white pirates. I think, as James noted at least twice, Thomas wanted an end of British rule in the West Indies, or at least an end of tyranny. I think he would have supported the notion of the people of Nassau ruling themselves – James specifically said in s4 that the victory he felt was impending in Nassau was one that Thomas had given his life for, meaning that they shared that goal.

I saw on your “get to know me better” ask/answer thing that your dream job/education was museum curator. do you mind saying what you currently do? do you work in a similar discipline or are you still undergoing education? sorry if it’s too personal, I was just curious, it sounds like it would be very rewarding!

Sadly, at present I am… not exactly working in my field although I suppose you could consider it related at a stretch. I work in a college registrar’s office, which is to say I take care of old records but I also create new ones, among other duties. It’s heavy on the customer service and not related to education except in the sense that I spend a lot of time going “this is where you find this form, this is how you address an envelope, this is college policy on THIS issue.” The explanation for that is the usual one – jobs that were hiring in my field were offering shit wages at the time I was interviewing while the job I’m doing now came with health insurance and a living wage, so… *shrugs.* One day I’d like to actually work in the field I trained for, but I needed to start getting my college loans paid and get a solid work history that I could put on a resume, so here I am.

*prev anon* Before anyone says that I’m woobifying Flint… What I meant was even if we’ll assume that Flint fought out of rage, it’s not like the months he spend on the Maroon island did not have effect on him. It’s not a stretch to think that after having Thomas back and looking for a less violent way to get out, they would approach Oglethorpe and work their magic on him. Giving him the idea to turn the camp into something better, to ban slavery, etc.

I can fully imagine James getting Thomas back and being loathe to put him in danger through trying to break out. I can also fully imagine Thomas dredging up some bit of himself that’s been beaten half to death to persuade one last person one last time that he should listen to Thomas and things proceeding from there. I can’t imagine Thomas not boiling with anger the entire time, though, that he has to beg and plead and argue for his freedom – that he has to play the reasonable man that he once was in order to be allowed to do anything so radical as be free again. I mean – put yourself in Thomas’ shoes. He’s been taken from his family. He’s been tortured, imprisoned, abused in every possible way, enslaved – and now he must be patient? I can imagine him finding it in him, but I can also imagine him getting James back and finding the bit of himself that’s been burning with rage this entire time, much the way Miranda was. 

I’ve been reading Oglethorpe’s wiki. He seems to be very different from what they showed on BS. No word on labor camps. Seems like the unjustly imprisoned people he brought from England weren’t imprisoned, but made into a proper settlers. And he banned slavery in Georgia. Is it bad that I’m gonna take credit from him and fantasize that he did all that after having discussions with James and Thomas? That just fits their characters so well.

It’s not bad at all. I’ve seen the bio of the real James Oglethorpe and he seems to have been a decent man – in fact, historically, when Georgia was founded slavery was banned in the state, mostly due to Oglethorpe’s strong anti-slavery beliefs. I simply can’t support interpreting James Oglethorpe as being the same person that we see in the show, because it’s made quite clear by Silver and Max both that the men Oglethorpe is using to till his fields are not there of their own free will, and that, to me, is slavery. I’m kind of sad that they took the name of a good man and applied it to someone who is so completely antithetical to what James Oglethorpe actually believed in – I can’t help but feel that the historical Oglethorpe would be disgusted at the idea of being associated with the self-aggrandizing, hypocritical, frankly delusional, slaving piece of shit we see in the show. They’ve got their history right in that it’s a sugar plantation, but other than that, they’ve quite missed the point of Georgia as a colony and what it was actually founded on. 

Hey you mentioned you trained to do curatorial museum work, what does that entail? (Asking as someone still trying to figure out their life)

It means that you handle designing the exhibits in a museum. You decide which artifacts go in them, how, and where, and also how the exhibit itself is set up – does foot traffic go left to right or right to left? What text goes next to each case of artifacts? You also spend time making certain that all artifacts are properly cataloged and stored where they belong in appropriate containers that will help to preserve them. You make sure that artifacts in exhibit cases are displayed in such a way that you don’t put stress on the artifact. If you’re trained in archival work like I was, you also handle old documents and make sure they’re stored so they don’t stick to each other, and don’t have staples in them that rust away and damage the document, etc. Same thing applies to fabrics, even buildings and graveyards sometimes. 

you know what? I am white heterosexual and white, I love and I identify with james flint and I do it because the things for and I do it because the things for which he fought are universal For me he is an admirable and inspiring character because despite the injustices he suffered he never lost faith in humanity, that the world can be a better world. and I am so angry that people such as these are misunderstood and crushed, but characters like him make me believe that maybe there is still hope

2/2 same anon, long post is long sorry james flint is so inspirational because he makes me hope that I might be a better person than I probably are

Honestly, I’m fairly certain that’s half the point of James Flint existing as a character. That’s why the character is so revolutionary, or at least part of it – he’s queer, he’s here, and he’s a character who’s absolutely relatable and sympathetic to huge swaths of people, which means that when they see him being mistreated because of who he is, they get the point that queer people deserve better than to be abused like that. I’m glad you find him an inspiration, and I think he’d be glad to hear that too – gods know the man spent enough time trying to get people to see what he wanted for the world and for people like him. Now – go do something for your local LGBTQ+ support organizations and make him proud.

Ok but if you’re writing fics not to free your imagination but because you don’t like how the things went for silver and madi, it means that you’re sure that they’ll end up together, am I wrong? Excuse me but I haven’t seen this certainty in the finale episode so please tell me why things needs to be “fixed”?

Anon, you know you can just come out and say that you’re not fond of my take on the finale and wish I’d shut up, right? Because that’s what this is starting to sound like. I write fic not because I think Madi and Silver end up together post finale. In fact, I’m fairly certain that the Madi I grew to know and love in the series has a great deal more respect for herself than to allow him back into her life that way after what he did. I write fic because the way canon leaves things, James Flint McGraw and Thomas Hamilton either remain enslaved together or wind up breaking out of the plantation and going on the run with no friends, no allies, completely on their own, and Madi stays on her island, heartbroken and never to see the man she came to so admire ever again. Quite frankly, I find that ending to be more than a little bit heartbreaking. Also, I write fic because I can, and I want to, and I find your questioning of why I need to as if my writing has to exist inside the spectrum of what you personally find necessary to be more than a bit insulting. Art is meant to ask questions, and to unsettle at times, and to make people think, and clearly my fics have done that, because here we are, so I’d say it was necessary.