i saw some great fanart about the idea of abigail publishing diaries/writing a book of her own concerning her experiences and why that didn’t happen was something i never thought about before and at first i was like oh there’s so many possibilities like maybe the escalating events and the death of her father changed her! maybe she did, despite it all, but it wasn’t well-received! maybe she did but it conflicted with too many other narratives, those we see take hold in the finale! but really the thing behind all of those possibilities is the same, the fundamental reason why that isn’t part of the story imo, is because it would have been after james forced himself to act as the dark thing they fear in response to the impossible level of cruelty civilization shows him and miranda once more, unfortunately in that moment abigail’s story doesn’t matter because civilization’s story doesn’t matter… we’re past that, we’re all covered in blood and james gives up on being seen as himself or ever being seen and they burn it all down, ALL
and if i imagine being that angry for a moment i understand perfectly why when you’re burning yourself up you don’t pause to save the story of who you are (were) from the fire
me, watching black sails s4 for the hundredth time: tell him Thomas is alive, you shit
“My seamanship, my prospects for garnering plunder, my skill in a fight, the sound of my voice, the sound of another man’s eating. I suppose at the end of the day, they’re all functionally equivalent. A man casts his vote for the same reason he does anything in his life.”
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