Tag: firmly agreed

Waddup I have had a super tiring week and things should be better now but since you’re a reliable source of Dat Good Content I thought I’d ask if you have any happy Flinthamilton headcanons to share by way of starting the new week off right? Please and thank you and know that I really dig your opinions + unpop opinions fridays. Xoxo

jamesflintmcgrawhamilton:

  • imagine. the first time thomas traces james’ dimples 
  • thomas claims that his favourite of james’ freckles are the ones on his upper lip. he always insists that he kisses them first, before he kisses james properly 
  • the first time thomas saw james wearing one of his shirts, he walked into a wall 
  • when james scratches thomas’ hair just right, thomas turns into a boneless puddle of happiness, not unlike a cat 

Do you think Flint pushed Billy or not?

bisexualpirateheart:

I honestly don’t think he did. We see the impulsive urge when he kills Gates, the desperation in that act, and we see the regret afterwards. We don’t see that regret for Billy, and I think it’s because while Flint does regret his loss, he didn’t intend Billy to die.

I do think the awareness of if Billy was simply gone, it would make things easier in some respects is there in Flint’s mind, but basically I think it was an accident that temporarily worked out in his favor and then came back to bite him in the ass, because whether or not Billy actually believes he did or he didn’t, Billy also doesn’t care at that point. He’s never going to trust Flint again regardless. 

sidewaystime:

captainqueer-oflesbos
replied to your post “Miranda for the character meme :)”

PLEASE WRITE AN ESSAY ON SLYTHERIN!MIRANDA

Hah. Okay. So, I basically view Miranda in a lot of the same ways I view Narcissa Malfoy (with less racism and a touch more idealism and philosophy) in that the most important thing to Miranda is her people. Not all people, not a larger community – her people. And she is breathtakingly, fiercely, destructively loyal to those people, she would burn down the whole world for those people, she’d face down the devil himself for those people, etc. But that circle of people is small and curated carefully and there is very little she’d put above them (apparently including herself? like, i don’t think she’s normally the self sacrificing sort, but if it comes down to protecting thomas or james, she will choose them over her own happiness/wellbeing every time though she will do her level best to convince them NOT to do the stupid thing). 

And like, we know she’s smart, we know she’s manipulative, we know that she is ruthless and that her fury when her people are harmed despite her best efforts is monumental. She’s ambitious (i mean, her ambition is to be happy, but goddamn she’s willing to go really far for it) and she doesn’t super care about societal rules. Her inner moral compass is less about right or wrong and more about safe/not safe or happy/not happy. And she absolutely falls apart when the people she sustains herself with are gone or taken or in whatever way absent. 

Now, I do think her secondary is Hufflepuff in that after her primary people are taken care of, she will happily turn her attention to a larger community of people and work from there – and I think that she values kindness and hard work and loyalty to a higher ideal/community/whatever – but I think she is first and foremost a people person and her concepts of what the right thing to do are driven primarily by that. Not what is the philosophical ideal or the pure idea (which is where I think she differs from Thomas) but what is actually, practically best for the people involved.

drivingsideways33:

sidewaystime:

thing i think about sometimes: 

the way miranda’s reputation was used as the believable cover story for the destruction of her life such that the story lasted ten years and was heard as far away as Nassau/Boston/Philadelphia (depending on where Richard Guthrie heard it).

ah, slightly tangential, but  all of the feelings about the women in the show and their attitude toward ‘legacy’ in contrast with the men. I was just watching the episode last night where Max tells Anne how “…in another place, another time, I would have been called a queen….[instead they will call me]..the whore who lost everything”.

 It’s the same episode where Eleanor calls Nassau her ‘birthright’ and Jack talks about building up Nassau as *his * legacy. Flash forward to Marion Guthrie, and her wistfulness about not being able to pass on her experience and wisdom – her business- to Eleanor. Of course, all of this is a complex interaction of race and social class along with gender, but ugh, sometimes I hate how the women in this show can only wield their power in the shadows. How difficult it is for the world to accomodate their dreams-and rage. 

The only exceptions that come to mind are Eleanor, Madi, and Anne, and of those three, Anne doesn’t particularly care about legacy or how people think of her; and Eleanor eventually finds that she has to retreat behind Woodes Rogers – to literally subsume her identity, publicly, to “wife”- if she is to get what she wants. 

#what i want is an entire show#where miranda and eleanor and madi and max and anne#are the protagonists#is what i’m saying#yes i know that’s what fanfic is for#but sometimes i don’t want to have to work triple hard#to center women in the stories i love via @drivingsideways33

complaininginthedark:

(why do the people that love Flint get his motives so wrong????? like… he wasn’t just functioning on rage in s1 and 2, he had a plan and he was gonna do it. in s3 he was a grieving wreck sure and partly in s4 he was too but he was also determined and strong and so ready to take on the injustices of the world)

((((i get mad. people don’t get that flint was so much more than an angry monster, he wasn’t a 1 trick monkey. he had plans and vision, he wasn’t fighting for the sake of fighting by the time the show starts, and by the end he wasn’t just a rage monster. damn it he was more than that)))))

buildarocketboys:

I’ve read a few fics where Thomas is very well behaved at the plantation and sometimes talks to Oglethorpe about books and stuff. And while I’ve enjoyed those fics, I don’t see it that way.
I see Thomas, once he’s been removed from Bedlam and taken to the plantation and had some time to sort of semi-recover (in a place where, while he’s doing backbreaking work every day, he’s not locked in a cell and being tortured frequently in the name of therapy) being really, FURIOUSLY angry.
Thomas not being polite and pacifying, not holding his tongue about the injustice he and his fellow inmates are facing, because what good did that do him before? He TRIED playing politics and changing the world in a way that society deemed acceptable, and his own father locked him up in Bedlam for it.
So Thomas takes every chance he can to make things harder for his captors, to piss them off, make their work harder, complain and rile the other prisoners up with his words like only Thomas can. Because even if he can’t escape this place, even if he thinks he has nothing to escape to, thinks James and Miranda are dead – he’s not going down without a fucking fight.
Thomas Hamilton as angry and bitter and ready to fight as Flint is, but with less outlet for his searing rage.
Thomas Hamilton who, when James is brought in, in chains, after the initial blissful reunion, is as ready as James is, if not more so, to burn that fucking place to the ground.

#thomas hamilton#flinthamilton#I love my sunshine son#my feisty sunshine son#honestly Thomas is in no way docile or a pushover#and I understand the idea some people have that Bedlam might have broken him – in spirit and mind#but while Bedlam is obviously gonna be a trauma he carries for the rest of his life#I just see Thomas getting fiercely fucking angry about it more than anything#also he may not have James’s fighting skills but he is RIPPED from working those fields all day#between his words and James’s tactics#I’d say it takes them…a week at most to turn that plantation to ash#good fucking riddance

via @buildarocketboys

bean-about-townn:

Madi and Flint acknowledging how their past motivates them + not understanding why Silver would betray them 

#john silver critical#yeah im basically just interested in how madi and flint just. don’t understand how silver could betray them – their cause#and then i realised: him being a straight white man probably had something to do with that#yeah – silver just deciding for a black woman and a gay man that the cost of fighting the people who have been oppressing them#and people like them#is too high#isn’t something i can support#or forgive really#black sails#madi scott#james flint via @bean-about-townn