Tag: black sails

stilljumpingback:

(via Theology and Black Sails | Vane and Pastor Lambrick)

When Lambrick visits Vane before his execution, his attempt to offer peace and repentance is rejected.

Lambrick enters and offers Vane bread, which coming from a clergyman seems pretty obviously to symbolize Communion.  But bread is only one half of the grace of Communion, just as the peace Lambrick is about to offer is not complete.  He wants Vane to feel fear for what is coming so that the mighty pirate will need a pastor’s solace.

Lambrick:  Men who’ve never experienced fear are said to know it for the first time.  But in this moment, there is quiet.  An opportunity to find some measure of peace.
Vane:  Get many takers, do you?  For the kind of peace you’re offering?
Lambrick:  It is a different experience to what you may imagine it being.  Surely a man like you has faced death before, but never so nakedly.

Lambrick’s pretense is revealed when Vane shows zero interest in accepting what he offers.

“I can help you do that.  To repent.”
“I have nothing to repent for with you.”

Tellingly, Vane does not say he has nothing to repent for.  He just doesn’t want to repent to Lambrick, later insisting that “whatever I have to say to God, I’ll tell him myself or not at all.”  We know that Vane has begun to see the wider ramifications of his kill-or-be-killed worldview.  When fighting the Spaniard in 305, Vane realized that everyone isn’t fighting for the glory of fighting.  Some fight simply so that their dead bodies will be evidence enough to provide their families with food.

But whatever sins Vane believes he has committed, he has no interest in sharing them with someone like Lambrick, who will use them as evidence to distance himself, a “good” man, from “monsters” like Vane.

“Don’t you?  I understand you believe your violence is justified in the name of a defiance of tyranny, but there are mothers who buried their sons because of you.  Wives widowed because of you.  Children awoken in their sleep to be told their father was never coming home because of you.  What kind of man can experience no remorse from this?”

“What kind of man” reveals that Lambrick shares civilization’s instinct to make pirates inhuman.  Vane clearly sees Lambrick as representative of the people he hates, those who would willingly enslave themselves to England, and an English worldview, for a bit of comfort and security.

Lambrick:  I am a shepherd sent to help you find a path to God’s forgiveness.
Vane:  A shepherd?  You are the sheep.

Sheep are consumed by fear, and a shepherd leads them into a new world of freedom and hope.  Vane sees Lambrick’s hypocrisy and therefore wants nothing from this man of God who is blind to his own failings.

Ironically, although Lambrick did not get what he wanted, Vane does leave their conversation with peace.  He has seen himself as a shepherd capable of leading people into freedom, and as such he delivers one hell of a last speech.  It probably wasn’t quite what Lambrick intended.

bean-about-townn:

do you ever just. stop and remember that james was literally told that thomas and miranda’s deaths were his fault? that he gets everyone that cares about him killed? 

and then, only a few weeks later, he renews his partnership with eleanor and she dies in his arms just days later? cos I Can’t Stop Thinking About It 

piankart:

Miss Guthrie.

Trying out more watercolor brushes in Photoshop. 🙂 This was supposed to have more details and also not just her face, but I painted that and the hair and just liked it that way and decided to leave it there. (Reference shot from 2×07)

Please do not repost my art or remove caption, thank you. 🙂

do you have any more autistic james headcanons?

buildarocketboys:

Ahhh nonnie when I saw this I was like ‘ahhh awesome’ and then I was like ‘wait, do I?’ but like. I so do, nonnie. I so do.

– special interest in cooking but things have to be done Right™️ otherwise he gets really frustrated (especially when he has to delegate to other people…I may or may not be writing an autistic chef James au)
– also re cooking – likes spicy food/not hypersensitive to spices but there are some textures he CANNOT ABIDE which means some of the food he makes he can’t eat (there may or may not also be a plot point in above fic where Thomas compliments him on one of his dishes and James is flattered and also anxious to know how he likes it, because it’s one James can’t eat himself)
– sensitive to places like restaurants, cafes, parties etc where there are lots of people talking and laughing and doing different things all at once. (oh God the Walrus must have been hell for him – no wonder he stays in his cabin/keeps away from the crew most of the time)
-BAD at taking hints/figuring out implied meaning unless the tone/words make it pretty obvious (examples of this are when he tells Thomas that he has grave doubts about the viability of this venture, after Thomas presses him despite obviously picking up James’s doubt, and Thomas is like ‘yes I gathered that’ and maybe that time when Gates tells him off for going off at Vane in like ep 1 or 2 or something.) People think he’s being stubborn and pig headed and singleminded, which tbf he is quite often, but often he also doesn’t really pick up on the fact that other people are annoyed/trying to hint at him to like, maybe, not.
– On a similar note, can’t understand how the rest of the world/crew/Nassau/whatever don’t see the world and what has to be done the same way as he does. He is (obviously) able to understand others’ points of view, when they explain them to him and persuade him of their viability (we see this with Thomas and Silver especially, I’d say) but that singlemindedness that I mentioned before comes from the fact that there is a Right thing and the Right thing has to be done the Right way and oh my god why can’t other people see that?

Um yeah, that’ll do for now I think, those were the ones I could think of off the top of my head nonnie! Thanks for asking!

#autistic James Mcgraw

princessprouvaire:

me, chill and happy:

my asshole brain outta nowhere: hey lol remember when eleanor guthrie died in flint’s arms? and he held her and stroked her face and lied to her in her last moments so that she could die in peace? flint, the only man who had ever acted like a father towards her in her life?

me, no longer chill or happy: f u ck