Crossposted to AO3 | My 4th Flinthamilton fic | 1785 words
Thanks so much to @flintsredhair for her great beta and advice; and to @thomas-hamilton for the feedback and encouragement.
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Morning birds chirping, breeze through the window, soft linen against his skin, strong warm muscles under his body, heart beating steadily under his ear. The stillness. The peace. James is never going to get used to this. Every morning feels like this isn’t real. Maybe when winter comes, things will be different, but for now it still feels surreal.
He certainly doesn’t miss the rocking of the ship, the uncomfortable bunk, the fights to stay alive, the uncertainty of their future… the loneliness. The only thing he misses is Miranda but that is never going to change and he’s long accepted that.
He always knows the moment Thomas wakes up. The change in his breathing, big hands running slowly up and down his back, finding his shoulders, his ass, his neck, his hair. Blue eyes finding his if he looks up. Then his voice, hoarse from sleep. Unmistakable. Beautiful.
“Do you remember the first time we kissed?”
That’s not the first thing he expected to hear that morning, that’s for sure. But then again, Thomas has the innate ability to surprise him more often than not, so it’s not like he’s shocked or anything… it’s more that his brain still needs to wake up completely.
“Why would you even ask me that?” James frowns, looking up at Thomas. Does he really think he could forget that?
“Well, it’s been ten years. Maybe to you, it feels like it happened in another lifetime… I don’t know.”
earlier this afternoon i read a really good black sailsfic about james being trans. it was well-written and interesting and when i went back to leave a comment it had been deleted because the author (who is trans) was being harassed for writing silver as being transphobic.
thomas at the end of your story. It is obvious that Silver didn’t need to be in your story at all, unless you wanted to be passive-aggressive… I’ll make this more personal for you…would you like a story where thomas is a transphobic or a class snob who hates poor people (and if you look at the number of rich white gay men who voted for Trump (or Bernie), I could actually argue for that being in character), and flint gets together with Silver at the end? No? then you understand why the reverse is not true.
I mean the least you could do is not tag this Silverflint and then you could have written Silver as a poorly written OOC bad guy *and* badly written flinthamilton which sums up most of the flinthamilton tag anyway 🙂
friends, i am DISGUSTED. were you guys so mad that this (trans) author had written him as transphobic that you failed to take into account that a) the author is like. a real person and silver is fictional b) the author was writing from personal exp. and thought silver fit the personality of the IRL transphobe so like c) they cared more about an interpretation of a fictional character than the feelings of a real life trans person
??? seriously, what the fuck???
i can’t remember the author’s ao3 url, and i don’t know their tumblr so this is the only way i can think of to let them know – i thought your fic was brilliant, and i’m so so sorry that people were so horrible about it. i thought it was very in character and the flinthamilton at the end was lovely!
i would love to read more of this au if you ever feel like writing it
That is a disgusting comment to leave and honestly I want to know who left it. Because that’s not on, at all.
So apparently the person left the comment anonymously because they’re a coward. Which basically means I’m assuming it was one of a group of Tumblr users on the black sails tag. Maybe it wasn’t them but they’re a group I know to enjoy bullying people, so if they want to clear their names they should stop going after people just for having a different opinion on Silver. I’m sick and tired of huge fans of Silver going on anon and bullying people. It’s not on. It’s not ok. And I hope people realise that those people are foul.
anyway can you believe eleanor guthrie put her respectability – that thing she had worked all of her life to just get – as so low a priority when it came to max, like she didn’t care what the pirates will say about her rule of nassau if it meant max was safe
and when that wasn’t working she just went ‘no anne one isn’t enough we kill them all’ like
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