black sails – Page 13 – Meg's Mumbles

Gates: How much of what you’re saying do you believe right now?
Flint: 60%
Gates: I thought it was in the mid-80s. You pulled it off.
Flint: [shrugs] Experience

randomishnickname:

Flint’s voice is so fucking powerful, some things he said keep replaying on my mind likea melody that you can’t get out of your head

mrborsch:

Noon

iwt-v:

…There wasn’t any more to that thought, was there?

iwt-v:

:: James & Anne similarities ::

❝

I overheard the man
whisper
“I am a lover
not a fighter,”
and to myself
I thought
I,
am in fact,
both.

For is it love
at all
if it’s not worth
fighting
for?❞

queerpyratess:

black sails characters + original name spelling (3/5)

While the name possibly derives from a village in Leicester, the Hamilton family was established in Scotland.

newtkins:

this is one of the best scenes in the entire show

chrlesvane:

black sails rewatch – XXIII.

They pledged to follow me when they thought I was alive. They turned when they thought I was gone. So I will come back from the dead and lay claim to what I am owed. For every man in your camp, there are thousands somewhere in the West Indies living under the same yoke, chained in fields, pressed on ships, sold into indenture. When they see a sitting governor protected by His Majesty’s Navy, deposed by an alliance of pirates and slaves, how many consider joining that fight? How many thousands of men will flock to Nassau, join your ranks, and help you defend it? What does a colonial power do when the men whose toil powers it lay down their shovels, take up swords, and say, “No more”? Bring down Nassau, maybe you bring it all down.