Tag: Meg answers

Identity ask: 3, 15, 25

3.
list your fandoms and one character from each that you identify with. 

Tolkien – As mentioned in a different ask for someone, Eowyn is my girl. She spends most of her younger life caring for her people, tending to her duty. She’s a fighter, and she gets to be at peace with someone who loves her for who she is at the end of her character arc.

Black Sails – Miranda, so much. She likes books. So do I. She loves music. Same. And, like her, I feel like I’ve spent too much of my life stuck in one place, coming behind someone willful and stubborn, picking up the pieces when they get into trouble and giving advice they don’t always listen to even when they possibly should.

15.
five most influential books over your lifetime. – oooh, a tough one!

1. Lord of the Rings. I know, I know, but it really was incredibly important to me growing up, movies and books both.

2. Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint. Have I mentioned that I love fairy tales – the old ones, I mean, that were terrifying and fascinating by equal measure? This book has all of that.

3. Harry Potter: every one of them except for 5 and 7, because honestly I just wasn’t fond of those two. Special mentions go to three and four, though. Some of those characters got me through a really rough patch in my life and I’m grateful for that even if I wish I hadn’t had to learn what they taught me.

4. A Haunting in Williamsburg. Ok, look, I know this is dumb, but I’m reasonably certain this book got tiny me into history and colonial American history in particular, and two history degrees later, I’d say it was probably fairly important.

5. The Odyssey. I have no idea why I loved it so much as a kid but it’s the reason I did a minor in classical studies in college and given that it’s one of the few Greek epics that has a semi-happy ending, I suppose I’m really not surprised at myself. 

25.
could you live as a hermit?

That absolutely depends on in what respect. In the respect of never seeing people in person and having probably a great deal of silence? Oh hon, that’s my life now when I get a choice. Also, it would depend on how long I’d be expected to do it, because while I may be the introvertest introvert ever, even I need contact sometimes.

for the identity ask: 1, 8, 12, 18 and 19

1. Answered here: http://flintsredhair.tumblr.com/post/162841758592/147

8.
what musical artists have you most felt connected to over your lifetime? I spent a lot of my childhood listening to Loreena McKennitt and Gordon Lightfoot. Myths and legends and rambler’s songs and bits of poetry from history – not exactly surprising I turned into a historian, is it?

12.
dog person or cat person? – Both! I love animals (or at least most animals. big scaly things can fuck right off).

18.
what’s your patronus? – According to Pottermore, a grey squirrel. Which, I mean – ok? I like squirrels, I guess – we have a crazy one I call Weird Larry that licks the paint off my porch and another where I work called Splat because that’s what’s going to happen to him if he doesn’t stop playing in the road. If I had to choose, though – I really love crows and other large birds a lot, so probably something rather more airborne.

19.
which Harry Potter house would you be in? or are you a muggle? Again, Pottermore claims I’d be a Ravenclaw and on a good day I guess that’s true but try me on a bad and I’m more of a Slytherin. 

1,4,7?

1.
if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to? This is going to be a fairly long list, I think. If you really want to understand me, try watching The Hobbit – not the newer live action movies, the old Rankin Bass ones. There’s a line in there – “To go and see the great mountains, and hear the the pine trees and waterfalls – to wear a sword instead of a walking stick – just once.” I remember hearing that line when I was in eighth grade and I haven’t spent a spring or autumn since without getting the overwhelming urge to just get up and go. I still love that version of the dwarves’ song best. Try watching Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, too. One of Eowyn’s lines says everything when she’s asked what she fears: “A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them, and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire.” I won’t get into it much but suffice to say the older I get the more I understand her. Also watch the intro song/narration from The Sword in the Stone and Beauty and the Beast, as those were both favorites of mine. As for reading material, the Harry Potter books with particular emphasis on the third one, which I loved so much I literally wore the color off of the cover of my first copy. Also the Belgariad – go read that. To listen to: honestly, I love music so very much that we’d be here forever if I told you every song I’ve ever cried about/put on repeat over and over again, but go listen to Heather Dale’s music, Loreena McKennitt, and Seanan McGuire for starters.

4.
do you like your name?  is there another name you think would fit you better? Honestly, I’ve never been terribly fond of my name, if only because the full version perpetually sounds like it belongs to a little girl and I really don’t know many adult women with the same name who don’t shorten it to Meg for that reason. That, and it seemed like every third girl was named the same thing all through school.

7.
do you care about your ethnicity? Only insofar as I understand that it grants me a lot of privilege that I need to be aware of.

For the three characters: Admiral Hennessey (or A dot Henn as I just referred to him in my head even going his first name probably doesn’t start with A), Thomas Hamilton, and Miranda Hamilton :)

I’m totally good with his first name being Admiral (As in “his name is Agent), but I actually did give him a first name that starts with A in my fics! Also, if my legacy to this fandom is redeemed Admiral Hennessey, I’m pleased with it.

The more I think on the finale and the more meta I read, the more I believe Madi would tell Silver she’s going to Savannah to get Flint and Hamilton and that he’d better be gone by the time they come back or else. I just can’t believe she wouldn’t do everything in her power to free Flint (he and Thomas come as a package deal now, so) or that she could look at Silver again without feeling disgust, betrayal, and rage.

I have to agree, Anon. Whatever Silver’s reasons for doing what he did, I cannot imagine Madi forgiving what he’s done or leaving Flint to the fate that Silver designed for him. For there to be forgiveness, the perpetrator must first be sorry and unless and until Silver recognizes what he did and why it was wrong, I can’t see Madi or especially Thomas feeling anything but anger and disgust toward him. 

Pass the happy along! When you get this, reply with 5 things that make you happy and then send it to the last 10 people in your activity.

Aww, thank you friend!

1. Sunny days. I adore sunshine, even better when I can get out in it and not have anyone expecting anything out of me for a bit.

2. Cats, particularly my two who are just affectionate fuzzes.

3. Owls hooting outside my window on quiet nights. I wish I knew what they were saying, but I’m just happy that they’ve decided my neighborhood is home.

4. This is utterly shameless, but comments on my fics. I’m a writer and I live on that sweet, sweet validation.

5. That feeling when you tuck yourself into bed and realize that you don’t have to set your alarm, which is second only to waking up the next morning actually well-rested and comfortable.

What are your 3 favorite things regarding Flint in season 4? For me it’s: 1) Reunion, 2) Flint/Madi, 3) “Freedom in the dark”.

Hmmm – that’s a tough one! I think my favorite things about him in season 4 are of course the reunion, his friendship with and respect for Madi, and the sheer amount of progress he’s made since season 3. There are so many moments when you think back to season 3 and realize that if season 3 Flint were standing there, things would go so differently, whereas season 4 Flint is so much more McGraw – and I do say McGraw, not Flint, because McGraw would order survivors carried to the ship and try to help his shipmates when they’re getting shot at and refuse to kill civilians, not Flint. 

I love your Black Sails fics and I’ve read all of them! I was wondering if you could do some Black Sails fic recs of your favorites to read?

ooh, happily! These are some of my favorites:

Courtesy of Thomas Hamilton by Char7 – this one was done for me on a prompt and I still love it to little bitty pieces. It’s a take on “what if James had been sent to Bedlam instead of Thomas”

Wars Without Weapons by Shirogiku – In which Thomas saves himself from Bedlam

Never a Smooth Sailing by Shirogiku – In which James falls off the Walrus instead of Billy during Season 1 and reunions ensue

The Wind in His Sails by linndechir – this is a post-canon fic that I loved because it handles Thomas’ lingering issues from being imprisoned for ten years realistically and has him work through them a bit or start to and it’s fluffy and sweet at the same time

Revenant by Beth Winter – I LOVED EVERY WORD OF THIS FIC it is so perfect given that it’s got badass angry Thomas taking Abigail in as his ward and the two of them with James ready to burn England to cinders. I’m hoping the author does the sequel they were tossing around doing pre-finale.

a sweet light in the dark by Gedsparrowhawk – This one made me cry but it’s so, so good, and Bri, don’t think I’ve forgotten that you mentioned a sequel that would destroy me!

The New World by ESebastian – I fucking love this thing more than I have ever loved any fic that has James Flint paired with anyone other than Thomas and Miranda. It’s amazing, I adore the OCs, all of them, but especially Ezra Wake.

That should get you started, Nonny! I’m sure I can rec others, but these are all on my favorites list.