he’d tried everything else

lesbianwaves:

one of the things black sails is about is revolution and you have a full spectrum of takes on it from marginalized characters, the most validated of all seems to be flint’s final position merely because he went through every other one, you saw him go through every other one, from julius’s ‘the world can’t be rushed’ prospective to eleanor’s preservation to max’s infiltration of the system, he was someone shrugging and addressing only the surface problems, then someone in power trying to change things from within, then someone nurturing an isolated micro society outside of civilization, then someone diplomatically seeking resolution with civilization, then someone murdering everything that moves and misuses power, and then, finally, someone ready to fight to bring down an unfair system and remake it anew