do u ever think about how james must feel about silver’s betrayal, knowing that a failed revolution only strengthens england? only makes the myth of england’s inevitability that much stronger? only makes it that much harder for the next person to defy it?
silver didn’t just side with civilisation. he made james complicit in it – he ‘distorted’ james ‘to fit into their narrative’. he told the world that flint came to believe that england was right about them, and about him
I still do not get how anyone considers Silver’s “I will wait as long as it takes – a day, a month, a year,” to Madi, to be anything but creepy as shit. Dude – she told you no. She told you get out – and your answer is “I’ll wait until the answer is yes”? Excuse fucking me? How is that not stalker-tastic to anyone?
i can believe that some people genuinely thing that for james, it was a kindness to be able to cast aside the persona of ‘flint’ and walk away from his life. but what about thomas?
i can believe that some people can genuinely think james was compromised in his reasons for fighting the war. but what about madi and her mother?
i can believe that some people genuinely think that silver did ‘the right thing’. but in order to do so, they have to erase the agency of both a gay man, and two black women.
withholding information about a person’s loved one, when you KNOW and actually are the only one left who KNOWS what this loved one means to him, so you can use this information against him
ignoring what your partner, who has been robbed of voice and agency, wants for herself and for the people whom she cares for and were also robbed of voice and agency, because you think you know best
this after you’ve painted yourself as a victim of a person who has been painted as a monster for his love, because you’ve gotten close enough for him to possibly love you
and tried to paint him as a monster to the only person who eventually understood him, because he understood her
do u ever just. stop and remember that james singlehandedly turned the tide of the finale battle, enabling silver to rescue madi, and then literally saved jack rackham’s life, and all this after being hunted and attacked by six men with orders to kill him… and then they condemned him to a life of imprisonment and slavery?
enigmatic cishet white chaotic neutral with poor empathy and whose morals and politics are best described by an half-shrug just isn’t a good look when you’re right next to characters with fire in their bellies who fight for the world and with their chests wide open
as i said before there’s a lot of dudes in black sails who constantly retell james flint to you, but none quite as much as silver, none with quite as much charm and poetry and self-attributed authority and self-manifested intimacy as silver, which i think makes him uniquely insidious in his thematic role within the show’s exploration of erasure and distortion of narratives
he’s not evil by any means he’s arguably not even malicious he’s just there and careless and deeply overconfident and that’s all it takes
flint: i’m gay and because of it everything was taken from me and that isn’t fair and that’s why i became a pirate and that’s what i really fight for, also btw i never tell this to anyone bc i’m afraid this beautiful thing about me will again be misshapen and misconstrued and blended with the narrative where i am a monster
silver: instantly misshapes and misconstrues what he’s been told into a narrative where all the people flint loved are his victims
silver: tells all of this to someone else
silver: here’s your boyfriend back everything’s cool now right
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