squid-inspiration:

Honey bee. Rainbow-looking child. One-legged friend. 

I love you dearly, but I need you to stop. And by that I mean your failure to take responsibility for the death and misery you yourself have caused out of entirely selfish reasons.

Bc that whole “look at all the terrible things I’ve done only for you!” stuff in 408 is some self-righteous nonsense. Let’s not argue about Flint here. Flint is deeply morally questionable and I’m not going to argue he isn’t a manipulative, cunning bastard – bc he is. 

I’m here to remind you that for the longest time, Flint wanted fuck-all to do with you and it was you that kept sidling up and playing sidekick in order to make bank. Remember when you left your crew mates to themselves, being slaughtered on the deck? When you killed the cook for a piece of paper whose nature you didn’t even know? When you watched a man get killed for supposedly stealing that paper? When you watched an innocent, black, homeless man being shot for supposedly being involved? And then watched another man being shot for the same? 

Remember when your first response to seeing Flint with Gates’ body was to cover it up and keep hunting the gold? Remember when Flint was ready to quit, multiple times even, and you were the one to push him onward? How Flint was pretty done with you after taking the fucking warship, and you’re the one that brought up how he’d need you to take back command, putting yourself back in an allied position at the nearest opportunity? And how you were intending to take off w the gold, leaving all the crew (aka your “brothers”) that had died and suffered for it to go empty-handed? Remember “how good it feels” to stomp your leg through the head of a prone man? Oh, and making the decision to have Billy murdered after he imbued you with the power you currently hold?

A vast amount of bodies accumulated thanks to you, yes, but not all of them can be blamed on Flint deviously manipulating you against your will. A whole lot are bc you’ve been selfish, ruthless and ice-cold.

This is not about absolving Flint of his responsibility for his actions, bc they’re his and he’s not clean. But neither are you, and I need you to stop acting like you are, after you’ve spent months power-tripping over your new pirate king persona. (Bc from your monologuing to various people it’s clear you’ve been buying into your own hype as long as you had Madi & Flint & Billy by your side.)

You’re both horrible ppl in your own way, and you’re also both wonderful – and so is the vast majority of the cast, and that’s what I love about this show.

So stop being self-righteous and pretending like all the terrible things you’ve ever done, all the manipulation and death and scheming you’ve tangled yourself in, are bc Flint kept pulling you in against your will. You kept pushing into his space and were eventually allowed in, but it didn’t start with Flint asking you to be his henchman, and it seems like you forgot.

Thankfully, I’ve got a long fucking memory to remind you.