musesandtheirjottings:

jamesflintmcgrawhamilton:

TOO DAMN RIGHT 

also: “That is the single most dangerous weapon they possess, the one they tempt. “Give us your submission, and we will give you the comfort you need.” No, I can think of no measure of comfort worth that price.”  

I see the lack of slavery discourse in Black Sails fandom and I’m surprised. Mr Scott and the Maroon Queen are massive secondary characters and Madi is a major character in a relationship with one of the mains; however, their circumstances, the politics around it; its impact on interpersonal relationships – there is either really not much discussion on those lines (or I’m probably not looking properly.) Framed in that context, the second last frame of the show with Flint and Thomas as indentured labourers in a sugarcane plantation is disturbing, disquieting and frankly, disgusting. 

Why is the fandom so quick to absolve Silver and console themselves with “Silver knew James will escape?” I wouldn’t mind Silver’s act quite so much if the fandom had not rushed quickly to frame it as an act of “love” and had instead called out Silver’s act as that of a desperately scared man because that offers some space for justification. Characters are allowed to be flawed; not offered blanket forgiveness for cruelty. 

And much of fandom (and I suspect, even the creators) doesn’t understand why T.Ham fans show such open hostility to Silver. See, Silver can want to have Flint moved away from the centrepiece of war but Silver (Silver!) cannot claim redemption when he leaves Thomas in the plantation; when he doesn’t tell Flint about finding Thomas. Silver knows who Thomas is; there was that golden moment at the end of S3; so why leave this man to continue his morally and legally unlawful exile from civilization?