Remember when James McGraw was having a drink with Admiral Hennessey and the latter left him alone for like five fucking minutes and when he came back James had instigated a full-on barroom brawl and was bashing another officer’s face in for insulting the Hamiltons?
Yeah, Flint’s totally gone for good, guys.
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Thomas breaking down in tears and burying his face in James’s shoulder though.
Like we know what James went through during their time apart but Thomas was trapped, probably desperate to hear news about Miranda and James and to see them again but finally sadly accepting the two might have just put him aside after failing to find him and moved on.
And then he turns around and James is standing right there and with a pang he realises what that must mean but he still can’t believe it’s James at all and then he gets to hold James in his arms and with a jolt he realises that ten years have passed and while James could have moved on… he didn’t, he loved him all that time and now Thomas can start crying because he may have given in and believed James forgot him, but he should have known better.
What he and James had was entirely something else.
I’m suddenly having horrible parallel feelings about that scene between Flint and Silver on the island, and the scene in season one when Flint killed Gates.
“This is not what i wanted.”
Season one, the captain kills his quartermaster to keep his fight alive. Season four, the quartermaster ‘kills’ his captain, to bring it to an end.
“What did you do?”
“What was necessary.”
Silver paid a heavy price for his betrayals,but with that he purchased these happy endings for all of them-from Flint to Max to Jack and Anne to Maroons and the rest of pirates.He stopped the war and there was an only way to do so-he had to stop Flint.At the beginning of 410 Flint told him and Jack about the unstoppable war he is planning.There was no other way.Silver could have him killed,he could easily arrange it but he chose to ‘retire’ him and reunite with Thomas.End his decade of hell and that nightmare he lived in,drag him in chains to Savannah…but alive and slowly regaining sanity.What Silver did was indeed mercy and I couldn’t agree more with you if I tried.He did that out of love,for both Flint and Madi.War is glorious and his motives were selfish,but choosing life over death of loved ones is not wrong.
‘War is glorious and his motives were selfish,but choosing life over death of loved ones is not wrong.’
So much this. I feel desperately sorry for Madi, and I doubt Silver or I will ever truly understand the scale of the things she was willing to die fighting for, but he did what he did out of love. Whether or not it was his right to make that choice, and whether or not it was selfish or selfless or some tangled mix of the two, his motivations stemmed from a place of goodness. He isn’t a monster. He’s a man who has endured such deep torments and pains that he couldn’t bear to speak of them to his best friend in the entire world. I can’t stand to see him demonised for trying to spare the people he loves painful and tormented ends, even if the cost was great.
#yehehehehes #defend my curly son#I am so conflicted and angry and frustrated and saddened and happy and hopeful about this ending all at once#but this is the reason#despite all my anger for the fact that Flint was cast away to suffer under the same yoke he’d despised for years#that I could not cancel my sea poodle #I understood his motives #but#a guilded cage is still a cage #and James flint still deserved better#if John truly wanted to retire Flint#he could have just purchased Thomas’s freedom#but perhaps he couldn’t trust a ‘free Flint’#which is silly because he said himself the man changed once they got closer to Savannah#and a free McGraw should have been just fine #I’m rambling#anyway yes I defend my trash son but do not forgive him his betrayal#he could have walked away#instead he made decisions for everyone effectively becoming the very thing he hated#a tyrant #is it too early to start drinking? #long John fucking Silver#black sails meta via @crucifythenburn
O n c e s o m e o n e h a s i l l u m i n a t e d i t.
Sea lord
Leaving aside for a moment the pretzel the finale left of my emotions and my heart, can we talk about that fucking ocean battle for a hot minute?
Rogers was set up as a match for Flint. He predicted the fire ships Vane and Teach sent and got ships moving to prevent more damage. He defeated Teach. He’s clearly a master tactician and understands the sea and using ships in battle in a way few other captains on the show have done. He uses unconventional tactics–scuttled ships in a harbor, ramming, surprise and positioning–to disarm and confuse.
And Flint FUCKED HIM UP. He took in at one glance how the ships were tied together and the best way to use the current to push his own frozen ship into an advantage. He climbed the rigging and cut the tangled forestay that was locking them in place and boom. He wasn’t disarmed, he wasn’t confused. He moved himself into the winning position without hesitation, and then reaped the victory.
Not once, over the whole of this show, has a single person been shown as a better military mind than James Flint. His understanding of battle tactics, land and sea, is flawless. He knows the men and their capabilities and how to drive them to win. He, most importantly, understands his enemy. He can move on any field with the freedom of someone who sees in four dimensions and can calculate all outcomes and can point his side down the best path to victory. That’s insane, and awesome, and holy fucking shit, England was at WAR and they threw away a goddamn TREASURE.
He trusted you. He was your friend. And you killed him.
You didn’t just betray my trust. You have planned to betray it all that time.
I had to stop it. You had to stop it?
you make my stiff heart know
that I am yours
You know, thinking about it… If Charles had lived, what would he have done after John and Jack agreed to end the war and make James “disappear” ? I think he’d have agreed with Madi and not let the war end… But if it were only him standing against EVERYONE else… Would he have fought against his friends, against Jack? Or would he have followed Jack and continue piracy in a “legitimate” way or… Just retire? I think it would have broken his heart either way….
Yeah either way, it would hurt him. Charles was such a fighter and believed in Nassau so much I doubt he would just turn the other cheek. If he had lived to that point I think someone would have to kill him then to stop him. Can you imagine the rage he would have felt finding out that Woodes Rogers killed Blackbeard the way he did? He wouldn’t stop until he had Rogers head in his hands like he did with Ned Low.
Charles was a good man, as Jack said, but he was extremely persistent and the only way to stop him was to kill him. He got the ball rolling, so to say, by basically sacrificing himself for the pirates of Nassau. He wanted that war. His death wasn’t in vain, in my opinion and two of the people directly responsible for his death suffered greatly in the end.
I can go on all night but my point is that he would have sided with Flint and Madi because that’s what he died for in the first place – a rebellion in Nassau.
THEY UNBURIED THE GAYS !! AT LAST JAMES MCGRAW AND THOMAS HAMILTON CAN BE HAPPY !
I re-worked the sketch I posted yesterday, and I wayyy prefer that version.
There are new lines on his face. Crinkles and crows-feet around his eyes from squinting in the sun, deeper lines around his mouth from drowning or laughing (James hopes its laughing dear God he hopes it’s laughing). His skin is a shade darker, his arms and legs thicker, his muscles more defined from long days of hard labour. Thomas is stronger than he was, more steadfast and firmer in his words but no less kind of loving.
The beard scratches at James’ thighs as Thomas bathes him in kisses. The grey in it is a reminder of the time they have lost but the breathless laugh is the same as he leans up to kiss and suck at James’ chest.
“You’re bigger,” Thomas hums as he runs his hands over James’ newly reborn body. “I like it…” he fiddles with the earring and kisses the scar on James’ cheek. Thomas’ hands are eager as they explore the thick muscle of James’ belly and thighs, lightly scratching his nails over pale freckled skin and making James gasp as sensations he had almost forgotten threaten to overwhelm him.
Thomas kisses him hard, the rasp of their beards loud in the dark room even over the sound of their moans chorusing together as their bodies meet again for the first time in over a decade.
James is crying, he knows he is, but so is Thomas and it’s alright. They can cry now. They can kiss, make love, share happiness until the end of time now.
Silver unmade Flint, returned him to a state in which he could be remade. Thomas remakes him. Thomas forms him again from shards of himself with kisses and touches, words of love and forever spilling like life giving water from his lips. As he opens James with careful fingers, he brings James’ heart back together. As he pushes in, slow and almost painfully after so long, he makes James see the world anew. As they rock together, moaning and weeping and laughing with the sheer elation of the act of love, James knows who he is.
They are both different, almost strangers to the men they once were. But, wrapped in one another’s arms with legs entwined and hands clasped together, they are transparent to one another.
James Flint is dead. James McGraw is reborn. He sets down his oar and finds home at last in the arms of the man who was always waiting for him.
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