I needed that emotion back

lesbianwaves:

lesbianwaves:

before black sails i don’t think i truly noticed how rage in media is portrayed, as amoral at best, as invalidating of social stances, as all equal and all equally indicative of a Bad irrational character, rage is for the villains or rage is something someone good succumbs to and then has to repent for, there is no such thing as rightful anger, doesn’t matter what systemic horrors you’ve suffered, if you shout you’ve already lost, if you shout you’re just as bad as your oppressors, and that is horrifying

on rage still: i remember a post that essentially talked about how great it is that flint is allowed gay anger, and i was thinking about how there’s even more to that than being allowed to be angry, he isn’t degraded by it, defined by it, moved into a new box because of it, ideals are not invalidated by it, by which i mean all of this happens but not in the narrative of the show, it happens in the narrative various other characters within the show weave about james flint, around him, and you see them do it, and you see the threads and the craftsmanship in detail, and you see it affect flint himself, but it’s not the show’s, the show is the creation of it and not the narrative itself, the show is as usual the story of the story, the show tells you look, this is happening, this is how it happens, this is how in stories villains are queercoded, this is how in history gay people are invisible or monsters