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it just got to a completely different scale bc beside the actress of the psychopath woman in house md and literal lucifer from spn THERE'S MR SCOTT FROM BLACK SAILS AND HE PLAYS IN MY FAVORITE EPISODE (6×12)
has everyone ever in the us played in criminal minds or what. i just found out bobby from supernatural plays the texas sheriff in 3x7
[video description: Black Sails fan edit set to "Bells In Santa Fe" by Halsey. The video's visuals and audio are selected to emphasize Silver's initial belief and later desire that he would not need to be a pirate forever, particularly his ongoing, articulated desire to leave the situations he ends up in. There is emphasis on how his character/outlook changes over the course of the show, and on how he gets sucked in specifically by and because of Flint. Using the song's repeating phrases of "all of this is temporary" and "don't wait for me" the video also attempts to highlight how unhappy Silver is and how very, very stuck and enmeshed with Flint he is. /end description]
the actor of flint is really putting his entire cunt into reflecting the tense duality of total emotional unavailability and “looks gutted everytime someone talks to him sincerely”
flint (a prisoner of hierarchy and also its source) and silver (lives beyond hierarchy to avoid anything that ties him to a certain social circle) are so painfully equal and so not used to it that they try to destroy that but they'll never be able to
so i went from black sails brainrot to further watching house md bc i found out where i stopped last time and. and there it is again. you sound exactly like him? more like you're sleeping with me
that moment when silver points out that every person who'd gotten somewhat closer to flint than usual eventually ended up dead just as well reminds us of the presence of the narrative and how characters feel it too. we look at those events and figure it's scripted, while the characters, we think, will just take it as something happening in the present without noticing any particular connections. they just tend to have a different perspective.
after miranda's death i had a firm idea about this connection being out there but then silver just. literally said it. and on one hand it was nothing – he's far from dumb, so of course he noticed it – but then it just felt so surreal and almost appropriating the audience's space. you just don't expect it.
a similar thought came over my mind in the scene where silver tells billy that flint's emotions created the storm. he literally just found a connection which was supposed to be a metaphor for us, the audience, and we were supposed to take the storm in as the very fitting background for such a dramatic scene but silver just took the metaphor literally, also because it was not meant for him.
this is a genius show
guys i know. i know wikipedia is not to be trusted. but what if billy took the long john silver joke (which it was already because luke arnold is like 175 cm tall) a little further. What If
she's a witch. she's a nice puritan woman. she makes a home – she symbolizes it. she's a wife. a lover. a mother. she playfully critiques the whole english society and rejects shame. she misses joy, and life, and music and i love her So Much
hanya yanagihara, a little life; violet trefusis to vita sackville-west, c. 1910; edna st. vincent millay to arthur davison ficke, 1922; marina tsvetaeva, from earthly signs: moscow diaries, 1917-1922; “excerpts from the book earthly signs;” richard siken, crush and war of the foxes; scenes from black sails (2014 — 2017)
TREASURE ISLAND: A Black Sails Horror Sequel
Flint’s dead! I saw him die. A terrible death it was.
If ever a man’s ghost walked, his would.
black sails 4.9 "XXXVII." / interview with the vampire 1.3 "is my very nature that of the devil” / black sails 4.10 "XXXVIII." / interview with the vampire 1.7 "the thing lay still"
This list was created consulting Year in Reviews, Fanlore articles, user feedback, vintage pinterest posts, and my own knowledge. Don't worry about not seeing the shows in their entirety, vote based on your judgement. Enjoy!