comtessedebussy:

jamesmcgrew
a réagi à votre billet “Surely old stuff but I’ve enjoyed tumblr late so… I don’t understand…”

I agree with the anon, and I think those who complain about the finale are just those few tumblrs, set up with a personal hate against the most complex and fascinating character of the show, perhaps because they do not understand him.

the most complex and fascinating character on Black Sails is James Flint, sorry I dont make the rules

You know what – I tried to sit quietly about this. I really did. I tried to find it in me to not say anything, but you know what? I’m saying it, because it bears saying.

You’re damned fucking right that my anger at S*lver is personal, but it’s not because I don’t understand him. It’s because I understand all too well, as do most of the people I’ve talked to who are also angry at his actions during season 4. You want to know why we’re angry? It’s because we know people who are just. like. him. We grew up around them. We’ve had relationships with them. We’ve loved them at some point, and you know what all of us have in common? What every single one of those interpersonal relationships have in common? They were fucking abusive. What I would venture to call a large majority of us understand one thing very, very clearly, and that is that people who act like S*lver, whatever their reasons, are not good people to be around. They might be abuse victims themselves. I weep for them for that, and I sympathize with the fact that in a lot of cases, they’re replicating behavior that was inflicted on them or that they developed because they were being abused, but that doesn’t give them the right to inflict it on other people or a pass on their behavior when they do. That doesn’t give them the right to invalidate the choices of others, or to blame those people for the misfortunes that have befallen them at the hands of others, or to attempt to plant suspicions about previously trusted individuals in other people’s heads so as to isolate them and endear them to their abusers, to name just a few things that S*lver has done in the course of the series to Flint and later to Madi. 

You know why we don’t like him? Because he triggers some of us, and because he sold someone into slavery, WHICH IS FUCKING WRONG. I don’t know how to be more goddamn clear about this – what he did was wrong, wrong, WRONG, and no, you don’t get to tell me or anyone else not to be angry at him, because in some part our anger at him is our anger at the people who dared to hurt us, who told us we were alone but for them, who left us to twist in the breeze when we needed them most, who made us feel like we were less than the dirt on their shoes when they should have been building us up. My anger at him is the product of anger at other people, and let me tell you, I have worked fucking hard to respect myself enough to understand that no one has the right to treat me like shit and that I get to be angry at them when they do. My anger at S*lver is the result of learning to recognize abuse when I see it so that I can avoid it in future and it’s a healthy, functional defense mechanism. 

So frankly, take your “oh it’s personal and that somehow invalidates what you feel” and stuff it.