Full of Grace is a story that’s always in my mind. I think what captivates me is the setting of “seeing the light in the darkness” and that they’re so close and yet so far. Probably one of my favourite fanfics in all the Black Sails fandom.

Awww – thank you so much! I love that one too – I’ve got such clear imagery in my head for it, but most of all the images of Hennessey’s office with him and Miranda drinking together, the scene in his house when they first talk, and the snowy, dark street and the inside of Bethlem the night that all the action goes down. I can picture all of those perfectly – it’s really a mood piece for the depths of winter for me.

Monsters Don’t Say Meow – Sirenswhisper – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Black Sails
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton
Characters: Miranda Barlow, Max (Black Sails), Captain Flint (Black Sails), Thomas Hamilton
Additional Tags: Fluff, Family Bonding
Series: Part 14 of Graced
Summary:

“Max has a nightmare. Her new family comforts her.

Monsters Don’t Say Meow – Sirenswhisper – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

Hi, there is a video in which Toby talk about the scenes cut from flashbacks in BS, it seems they were scenes of Thomas in bethlem, did you saw it ?

I haven’t seen the video, Anon, but I’ve seen people talking about it. Quite frankly, I’m happy that they made the decision to not capitalize on gay people’s pain – it was a good, responsible decision. With that said – oh gods, Thomas. My baby. I think somewhere deep down I’d kind of hoped they’d just shipped him off to the plantation right away instead of actually sticking him in Bethlem and just – ow. I’ll be over here, needing infinitely more fic where he gets to be safe and happy and start handling his trauma in a place where he’s not enslaved. And quite a few fics where he’s not traumatized that way at all.

With the Gold Dawn’s Breaking – Chapter 2 – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

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Chapters: 2/3
Fandom: Black Sails
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Hal Gates/Admiral Hennessey
Characters: Hal Gates, Captain Flint (Black Sails), Miranda Barlow, Thomas Hamilton, Admiral Hennessey (Black Sails)
Additional Tags: In Which Hal Gates makes a bad decision that saves his life, in which James Flint McGraw needs a drink and several hugs, Angst with a Happy Ending, Everybody Lives, One of these days I’m going to write prequel fic about Gates and Hennessey
Summary:

There is a quality, Hal Gates thinks in the back of his mind, to an abandoned stretch of coast. It’s meant, for one, to be abandoned – devoid of people. Home to birds and the like – and not, he thinks, kicking once again at the pieces of his wrecked boat, bloody fucking useless idiot pirates too stupid to not go out in a ship-killer in a launch out of some stupid desire to avoid having a drink with the man who may have killed his son.

In which Gates lives, and the events of Season 1 and 2 play out very differently.

With the Gold Dawn’s Breaking – Chapter 2 – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

With the Gold Dawn’s Breaking – Chapter 2 – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 2/3
Fandom: Black Sails
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Hal Gates/Admiral Hennessey
Characters: Hal Gates, Captain Flint (Black Sails), Miranda Barlow, Thomas Hamilton, Admiral Hennessey (Black Sails)
Additional Tags: In Which Hal Gates makes a bad decision that saves his life, in which James Flint McGraw needs a drink and several hugs, Angst with a Happy Ending, Everybody Lives, One of these days I’m going to write prequel fic about Gates and Hennessey
Summary:

There is a quality, Hal Gates thinks in the back of his mind, to an abandoned stretch of coast. It’s meant, for one, to be abandoned – devoid of people. Home to birds and the like – and not, he thinks, kicking once again at the pieces of his wrecked boat, bloody fucking useless idiot pirates too stupid to not go out in a ship-killer in a launch out of some stupid desire to avoid having a drink with the man who may have killed his son.

In which Gates lives, and the events of Season 1 and 2 play out very differently.

With the Gold Dawn’s Breaking – Chapter 2 – DreamingPagan – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

One year ago today, I was just starting an episode of Black Sails that had me absolutely at the edge of my seat, and just about at this point in the episode, I remember messaging @jamesflintmcgrawhamilton and going “HE’S ALIVE, I’D BET YOU ANYTHING YOU LIKE AND BE SURE OF KEEPING IT.” I was talking, of course, about Thomas Hamilton, and I’ve never, ever been more relieved to be right about something in all my life. That’s the word for it – absolute, bone-melting relief, because the BS writers did something absolutely brilliant – they put us all in James McGraw’s shoes, thinking Thomas dead and gone, and then raised the idea that he could have survived, teasing and hinting until suggestion became reality just when we all thought it couldn’t happen. Happy Thomas Hamilton Resurrection Day, everyone!