It’s been a week, fam, and I’m still reeling and truly, breathtakingly, incandescently fucking furious, and I have to say, I’m starting to feel a little bit alone. If anybody else feels like they want to rend Silver down into his component parts, I’d love to hear from you – I never thought I’d sympathize with Billy again, but I do now as the fandom as a whole forgives Silver for what he’s done and I sit here going:
THANK YOU THIS A THOUSAND TIMES THIS! This is exactly what I’m saying in regards to Silver and his version of love that… emphatically is not love. Love does not try to control, it does not say to someone, “your life is more important than your spirit.” Silver has never had convictions or he would know that, and if he loved either of them he would not have done so many of the things he did. I mean – what kind of amoral fuck finds out that the love of his friend’s life is alive, knowing that that friend has been in agony for ten years, and then not only doesn’t free their friend’s lover or tell the friend they’re alive but marks down the prison they’re being kept in as a place to maybe send their friend as well? What kind of twisted asshole then tries to tell the BLACK WOMAN DESCENDED FROM SLAVES he hopes to marry that he’s sent that friend – a friend of hers as well – North in chains to stay at that prison as if it’s not engaging in a form of slavery and tries to pretend it’s ok because it was for their own good? That is not love – that is control, and it is toxic and gross and so, so not what either Madi or Flint deserved. I think I’ve made it pretty clear that I am absolutely not a fan of Silver’s at this point precisely because of this and I honestly don’t know how Madi is meant to forgive him for any of this. I find myself wishing that she and Vane had gotten together instead and that he had lived – he never would have done this to her.
okay but there’s one thing that keeps bugging me about the Black Sails finale and i’ve seen people mention it but i don’t think anyone’s analyzed it yet, and i think i just figured it out:
the cook.obviously that was a very clear callback to john at the beginning of the series, i think everyone figured that out. but like? when john called him a coward? that’s the key.
when we saw john in the beginning of the series, he was a drifter, beholden and loyal to no one. he was a coward who cared only for his own survival, and so, like a coward, he killed the real cook and assumed his identity to stow away on the Walrus. eventually there was blatant character development subsequent to this: silver became attached to the crew, he became loyal to them, to flint. he no longer only cared about himself. hell, he gave up his leg for them all…
and then the finale happened. despite everything he’d been through, all the bonds he’d developed–his bond with flint–he still turned around and threw it all away just to take the easy way out. he sent flint to that plantation like a coward because he was afraid. afraid of the rage, afraid of the impending change, afraid to lose madi.
in the end, despite everything, long john fucking silver was still that scared coward we met on that ship and everything that happened wound up being for naught. and by doing so, he screwed himself over worst of all. by doing what he did, he was the catalyst for the things he was attempting to prevent in the first place: he grew to resent flint with each passing day and in losing flint he lost madi. maybe not physically, but the bond they once had is irreperably damaged and their relationship will never be the same.
in the end, silver still lost everything that he was afraid to lose.
its amazing how flint helped silver rise from nothing and john just threw it all right back in his face to return to a life of mediocrity which he later grows to regret and resent
flintstille replied to your post “it didn’t come off to me like flint was being locked up there too? it…”
an apple in his mouth and his balls on a plate? No no no, put his fucking cut off balls in his mouth
I did consider it and then I realized that that’s just too much meat in one place. You have to balance these things – the apple enhances flavor.
I’m going to headcanon that’s what’s going on bc the alternative is just too awful to even contemplate and makes me want Silver’s head on a platter with an apple in his mouth and his balls on a tiny plate beside it. Just – the guy in charge had the key to James’ shackles and that does not bode well at all. Just no, no, no, no, and fuck Silver extra hard with something very hot if that’s what I’m meant to take out of this. I’m going to go with the shackles are there for everyone’s protection until he sees Thomas and then it’s safe to let them both go. Right? Right.
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