Tag: it’s perfect

Rags of Time: III – xpityx – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

xpityx:

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Black Sails
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Anne Bonny & “Calico” Jack Rackham & Charles Vane
Characters: Captain Flint (Black Sails), Thomas Hamilton, Charles Vane, Anne Bonny, “Calico” Jack Rackham
Additional Tags: POV Multiple
Series: Part 3 of The Rags of Time
Summary:

They had come upon the village at the end of the ninth day. After some debate Hamilton had been sent with Anne and a purse full of gold to secure their dwellings. As such they had two tiny timber cottages and a small plot of overgrown jungle to call their own. Jack was certain that there was more wildlife in the goddamn house than there was outside of it: there’d been a fucking rattlesnake in the bedroom.

Rags of Time: III – xpityx – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

…the descent to the Underworld is easy. / night and day the gates of shadowy Death stand open wide, / but to retrace your steps, to climb back to the upper air— / there the struggle, there the labor lies….

virgil, the aeneid, 6.149-52, translated by robert fagles (via gynmopedie)