Tag: bs spoilers

captain-flint:

You will. Someday, you will.

#silverflint#black sails#blacksailsedit#captain flint#john silver#my stuff#disney’s ‘evermore’ came on right as i finished this and now im crying and laughing#john: I WAS THE MASTER OF MY FATE. I NEVER NEEDED ANYBODY IN MY LIFE. I LEARNED THE TRUTH TOO LATE#NOW I KNOW HE’LL NEEEEEEVER LEAVE MEEE EVEN AS HE RUUUNS AWAAAAY HE WILL STILL TORMENT ME CALM ME HURT ME MOVE ME COME WHAT MAY#WASTING ON MY LONELY ISLAAAND WAITING ON THE SAAAND DUUUNES#I’LL FOOL MYSELF HE’LL WALK RIGHT BACK AND AS THE LONG LONG NIGHTS BEGIN I’LL THINK OF ALL THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN#WAITING HERE FOR-EEEEVER-MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE#lmao im so sad#no but all this aside can we talk about the fact that silver will one day find himself (if he hasn’t already)#hurting and missing just as he did when he lost madi#he will find he’s missing one last vital piece of his soul that holds him together.. one that stood right next to madi#of course flint was right OF COURSE he knew john better than anyone and even when he’s gone he still dictates silver’s future#silver’s life won’t be enough and he’ll dive right back into the past to search for meaning#because he won’t be able to stand it being for nothing#he won’t be able to stand flint’s memory being for nothing. he will never be at peace knowing flint is buried and gone#so he’ll go on one last foolish adventure to reunite with the ghosts of his past and maybe this time he’ll win

via @captain-flint

captain-flint:

As long as you and she stand for it nothing can stop it from beginning now.

As long as you and she stand for it nothing can stop it from beginning now.

#john silver #madi scott #blacksailsedit #“you sound exactly like him”#oh god #he is never going to escape this past as he’d once escaped his old ‘irrelevant’ past #he’s convinced himself now that this one is no less relevant than the old. absolved himself from the obligation of keeping it#of being defined by it #“i don’t care” … “you will. someday you will” #his past wearing flint’s face and carrying flint’s voice has latched onto her and now it’s going to haunt him #he will see him in her rage after having lost her chance to change the world #he will hear him in her wisdom and intelligence #he will feel him in her stubborness and conviction #he will find him in her books #his shadow will linger in every nook and cranny of silver’s life until it forces him out of it #until
the slow suffocating in the stale comfort surrounded by her presence
that has long ago lost her image makes him want to run #run right back to his old life so he could /drown/ in the overwhelming familiarity #run in search of the storyteller.. the first who ever managed to impart meaning to his life #run in search of proof that he once mattered #and he will find none #what the fuck #WHTA THE FUCK #my stuff via @captain-flint

2 notes

I don’t know if it was you who suggested this idea, but I very much want a fic where Silver doesn’t betray everyone, Flint hears about Thomas, but in the end he and Madi still go through with the war and burn shit (with flint at first of course, being the strategist he is), but after that when there’s only the occasional ship to fight off, and nassau is getting itself together, he retires and goes to live in a small house with Thomas. No one bothers them because they’re terrified of Flint after.

I wasn’t the one to suggest it, but gods just imagine a world where Silver didn’t fuck up. Imagine him doing the right, decent thing and telling Flint about Thomas and then agreeing to go North with him and hit that plantation fast and hard in a drive to recruit some of the men that work there (since I can’t imagine they’re too enthralled with the civilization that stuck them there). Imagine it. Imagine James Flint McGraw growing his hair back out and standing, a small grin on his face, as Britain gives into his demands and at the very least outlaws slavery in the New World, with Thomas at his side, and Silver on the other side with Madi, both of them ready to walk away and start a new life.

thomasbarlow:

When people say that Flint didn’t deserve a happy ending and that they hope that the reunion is fake, I hope they realise that they’re also saying that this cinnamon roll that never did anything wrong in his entire life deserved to be taken away from his loved ones, get locked up at Bedlam and commit suicide/be sold to a labor camp and never reunited with his loved ones again. 

Gif of Thomas Hamilton

jamesvflint:

aviiavatar:

What decisions have you made about what our tomorrows will be?

I made arrangements to ensure that when we leave here, it is with compromises in place that would defuse any threat of widespread rebellion.

All this will be for nothing.

#obviously i think that flint’s wrath is about what happens to thomas and miranda and himself#but i think a large part of it is this right here#that he (and miranda) were cast into the roles of villains in the tragedy of thomas hamilton#that they were blamed for his overwhelming grief and the rumors of his death#that alfred hamilton could take something that was about love and throwing off the yoke of shame#and make it into something profane#something ‘too loathsome’ to be dismissed#flint keeps coming back to this#that people are defined by the stories that are told about them#and the story that anyone remembers about james mcgraw and miranda hamilton and thomas hamilton#is that james and miranda had an affair that resulted in the madness and death of her husband#the story that people tell about flint#that he is a villain and a monster#that he can’t be trusted that he doesn’t care#that he is the end of the people who are close to him#‘this is your end’ his all-but-father tells him#james and miranda and thomas lose their lives to a story#a distortion of something that was good and all that is left behind is the monsters#and here is silver telling him that this doesn’t matter#two of the defining moments in his life#places where he’d reached a peace between the chorus of tragedies in his head#and they are both taken out of his hands in favor of a story someone else wants to tell (via @sidewaystime )

The plantation reputation

maiguruvazaza:

You know what we haven’t talked about; the plantation owner also has a tale to spin; that he can keep your black sheep fenced in and dead to the world, never to leave, and never to be heard from again. That story is his bread and butter.

But would a reform minded man continue the cycle of exploitation and misery, however better the people are treated, and however much he is paid? Nah. Thomas had nowhere else to go. He has no titles or money, but earns his keep honestly in the fields. And maybe he uses this place as penance for roping Miranda and James into his plan, and losing them. Maybe there was still a threat from Alfred Hamilton’s sycophants. Maybe, maybe, maybe…

All I know is that the reputations in Black Sails are often a mask of what truly happens.  So the way I see it; when the people who sequestered you there are gone, and your existence is no longer inconvenient; the plantation owner would have no reason to keep you, save that you have no other means to live. If the Americas are the new world, perhaps he uses the plantation as a way in for those abandoned by their families too; work a while, but once the threat is gone, start a new life in the new world? And if the Governor of Carolina was the one who sent Thomas there, then his death was less than a year previous, and Thomas would have had only that much time to figure out what to do.

I think Thomas and James walked out free men. When? I don’t know. They didn’t go far if James dies in Savanna many years later, and it always helps to have allies close if the plantation owner is amenable to helping them now and then.

The plantation is a gateway of sorts; the underworld if you will. Lord Thomas Hamilton and Captain Flint enter, but will never leave that place, that much is true; but Thomas and James McGraw do.