Tag: black sails

For God’s Sake Hold Your Tongue, and Let Me Love – nu_breed – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

benditlikerackham:

Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Black Sails
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Thomas Hamilton/Original Character(s), Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint (mentioned)
Characters: James McGraw, Miranda Barlow, Thomas Hamilton, Lord Alfred Hamilton, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Period-Typical Homophobia, First Time, Character Study, Angst with a Happy Ending, Class Differences, Class Issues, Porn with Feelings
Summary:

A peer never begs or pleads, his father had once said, that would be vulgar. Thomas had realised that he was not, and never would be, his father. That he was vulgar, his base desires too shocking for a man like his father to consider. Thomas wanted men with their beards and their rough hands and their heat, and he might marry but he would always want to be with men.

Or, the story of Thomas Hamilton, and those he met from his first love to his last.

For God’s Sake Hold Your Tongue, and Let Me Love – nu_breed – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

lesbianwaves:

ofc there’s superficially a tits tits fruit fruit when it comes to james/thomas and silver/madi, which is totally part of why james kept believing in silver and believing he would go on the same path of understanding and enlightenment he did, but the most striking thing about it is how it showcases the stark difference between james and silver, james has a first protective instinct that involves silencing thomas’s ideas and ideals but thomas’s idealism and determination quickly become integral and organic to james falling in love with him, thomas isn’t just that but, just like madi, that is a beautiful and bright part of him, and james come to profoundly understand that, and so he doesn’t just fall in love he becomes a better happier larger person (which maybe is “just” falling in love) whose world suddenly has light and purpose and things that are worth fighting for, and thomas isn’t it, thomas shows him it, and they share it, “he becomes himself with thomas hamilton”, on the other hand silver remains fixed in that initial state of blind protectiveness, he ultimately did not understand, and therefore could not love, a part of madi that is integral to her, her ideals, her choices, to the point that he leaves me wondering who’s the madi he fell in love with, who’s the madi he thought he could take everything from (if i’m cynical i’d say the caretaker focused on him only)

mirandaabarlow:

Edward Teach Memorial Week:

↪ Day 5: Most Empowering Moment

It initially seems odd that Teach — who waxes poetic about everything from birds to wives to Nassau’s smell — is not afforded last words. Both Vane and Miranda got a chance for fiery speeches before their send-offs. But Teach’s refusal to die the way Rogers wants is more impactful than a speech would have been. So, too, are Jack and Anne’s silent expressions as they watch, their wordless interplay, and Rogers’s registration of Jack’s presence.

Most powerful of all is Teach’s snarling smile before the bag is placed over his head – the last time we see his face whole. From his heartbreaking expression when the Readcoats first surround him, we know how anguishing this is.  

― Lauren Sarner

iwt-v:

Edward Teach Memorial Week ⇛ Favorite relationship: Teach & Vane

I knew right away he was different than the others.
He was so like me when I was a younger man.
And that he and I somehow were fated to matter to one another.
I was consumed with the question of whether our similarities would be a blessing or a curse.

What is black sails about?

lesbianwaves:

off the top of my head:

  • the erasure/disfiguration of gay legacy both from an historical and fictional perspective both of which are represented by the narrative itself (which deconstructs itself for that purpose) and within the narrative (where characters fight to re-appropriate both)
  • a sophisticated and multifaceted discussion on revolution and changing the world for the better had by marginalized people
  • pirates (and that is secondary, but not actually inconsequential, because it’s not merely a cover, a trick of the light concealing the true essence of the show, the show could not ascend to the heights it reaches without the foundation of a setting historically saturated with outcasts whose true nature has been serially mistold)
  • the sacredness and inherent goodness of rightful gay anger
  • love refusing to be shed
  • a gay man who becomes a pirate to honor his boyfriend’s progressive ideals and because he’s had it with homophobia
  • the power of stories we create to fill the manufactured void of us crafted by those in power
  • identity and the delicate balances of it when institutionalized oppression gets in the way
  • gay and black men and women talking of what the world should be, teaming up to make dust of the systemic moulds their trauma came from and make the british empire and its shackles and its shame crumble
  • an overarching quest to get some gold which is nothing but a mean to all mentioned above