The long braids of her hair, dark and tight and filled with the sweet scent of oil, and the curves of her hips and breasts followed Charles into his dreams – he saw her cross the deck of the Ranger in his mind, turning to him with dark eyes so bright he felt himself almost become a pane of glass, all his flaws and failures laid bare before her, only to be dismissed as she touched his cheek with her hand…
He woke with sweat on his forehead, his chest heavy as the woman at his side sighed heavily in her sleep, the knowledge of payment and safety letting her sleep deeply by the side of one of the most feared men in the Bahamas.
Charles took a lock of his own hair in hand and toyed with it, twirling it around his finger and picturing the princess’ face in his mind as he closed his eyes again; her eyes seemed to swim into his thoughts again, this time warm and welcoming as she opened her arms to him and beckoned him back to sleep.
Tag: fanfic
With the Gold Dawn’s Breaking – Chapter 3 – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]
Chapters: ¾
Fandom: Black Sails
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Hal Gates/Admiral Hennessey
Characters: Hal Gates, Captain Flint (Black Sails), Miranda Barlow, Thomas Hamilton, Admiral Hennessey (Black Sails)
Additional Tags: In Which Hal Gates makes a bad decision that saves his life, in which James Flint McGraw needs a drink and several hugs, Angst with a Happy Ending, Everybody Lives, One of these days I’m going to write prequel fic about Gates and Hennessey
Summary:There is a quality, Hal Gates thinks in the back of his mind, to an abandoned stretch of coast. It’s meant, for one, to be abandoned – devoid of people. Home to birds and the like – and not, he thinks, kicking once again at the pieces of his wrecked boat, bloody fucking useless idiot pirates too stupid to not go out in a ship-killer in a launch out of some stupid desire to avoid having a drink with the man who may have killed his son.
In which Gates lives, and the events of Season 1 and 2 play out very differently.
With the Gold Dawn’s Breaking – Chapter 3 – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]
Why we’re terrified of fanfiction
Stands up on soapbox, holds up this article like it’s the opening of the Lion King.
Y’all should read this because it is FIRE, but also because a post from the Time Lady Project was linked in this!
Historically, whenever young women are interested in a form of media,
we like to tell them it is bad for them and that they are bad for
liking it — unless the media goes mainstream, in which case it becomes
no longer feminine and hence okay. Novels are dangerous and cause
insanity, until they become classics worthy of being studied in college.
Beatlemania is the province of “the dull, the idle, the failures,“ until the Beatles become a band that everyone loves.Young women are so attacked for loving the media they love that it is
a radical act for a young woman to love something unashamedly. And
transformative fandom is the most radical act of all, because it
reverses that “lady thing to respectable thing” process.Emphasis added. It’s so good- go read the whole thing.
Emphasis fully warranted. This is something that I still have a lot of trouble with, because society spends an awful lot of time teaching young women that if we’re interested in something, we should shut up about it, because no one is going to want to listen to our ramblings. Every time I post something, some part of me cringes because I’m not being quiet enough. It doesn’t matter how many reviews I get telling me that something I wrote was important to someone. It still feels like a rebellion of a kind, and that feels dangerous.
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