rackhamrogue:

Take the courses. Brace the main and mizzen aback. Haul in the guns. Close all the gun ports. You’re letting up? With the damage done to the rig, I can’t maneuver our broadside around fast enough to be of any effect. The sloops are too nimble. But hauling in the guns? They’ll board us easily.

silversflint:

We’ve become this far because when Flint and I are of the same mind, there’s no obstacle yet encountered that we cannot surmount. I don’t know why that is, he doesn’t know why that is, but it is. To elevate one of us over the other, even as a fiction, seems to me to be tempting fate in a most dangerous way. And… And it upsets you because you believe he is your friend?

captain-flint:

The energy it must take to maintain it all. And for what?

#D E L E T E  T H I S#I’m about to impale myself on that broken teacup is what I’m about to do#ughhhhfdsaklfjdlflsdf#I keep on thinking of flint saying ‘they took my /home/. I can’t walk away from that’#and how as he continues this war he just keeps losing more and more of that home#bit by shattered bit #he has so little left to hold onto#god please just let him rest #I AM DISCONSOLATE #james flint#black sails #bs spoilers #black sails spoilers via @candlewinds