The Opening Act of Spring - Lupismaris - Black Sails [Archive of Our Own] ]

Chapters: 4/?
Fandom: Black Sails
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Captain Flint | James McGraw/John Silver, Captain Flint | James McGraw/Thomas Hamilton, Captain Flint | James McGraw/Thomas Hamilton/John Silver, Captain Flint | James McGraw/Hal Gates
Characters: Captain Flint | James McGraw, John Silver, Thomas Hamilton, Hal Gates, Max (Black Sails), Anne Bonny, “Calico” Jack Rackham, Charles Vane, Billy Bones, Eleanor Guthrie, Idelle (Black Sails), Augustus Featherstone, Muldoon (Black Sails), Joji (Black Sails), Joshua (Black Sails), Charlotte (Black Sails), Logan (Black Sails), De Groot (Black Sails), Woodes Rogers, Miranda Barlow, Madi (Black Sails)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Polyamory, Background Relationships, Everyone is Queer, canon violence is mentioned, look to chapter notes for any relevant content warnings, Lots of Background Ships
Summary:

Five years and some change after their lives together ended, Silver finds himself sitting across the table from an old friend, with the sneaking suspicion he’s walked headlong into a trap, without any hope of walking back out again.

my Black Sails Modern au (the one with the queer bar) is now on AO3. a few people had previously asked and now that theres more than one chapter I feel less awkward about putting it up there. 😊 All three chapters that have been posted here on tumblr have been uploaded there as well.

finalpam8000:

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Besties new gender just dropped. Katharine Hepburn in drag for “Sylvia Scarlett.”

itsdappleagain:

Alright fuckers which one


pizza

chicago style

detroit style

new york style

Chicago


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Detroit


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New York


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Reblog to assess who is a friend and who is an enemy

There is no secret fourth. If you like all of them, pick one. If you like none of them, pick one. If you dont know what pizza is look at the pictures. No none of the above. Fight. Kill

probablymoons:

thegaymertrainer:

I am in love with Clara 😭

Transcript:

Clara trusts me enough to show me different parts of her body like her belly. show me her mouth and allow me to touch all of those teeth. —right? can you turn and show them all of your teeth? good job!— So we work really hard on being able to look over their entire bodies, and progress those behaviors to things like voluntary blood draws, ultrasounds, teeth brushing, and radiographing. —right? yeah!— But the biggest thing is we find what they find reenforcing and they show us that. and that includes hugs. —right?— And Clara has shown us that she really seems to enjoy tactile, so I give her this hand signal and she will show me what part of her body she wants rubbed. So, right now she wants a big noogie —right? good.— and sometimes what I will do is I’ll make her head a little pancake. or then I’ll rub her side and then she snuggles right in. —huh? huh! good girl thats very nice, good.— And then like I said, she would climb right on my lap and allow me to continue giving her tactile.

Not for the first time my therapist said the very thing I was too afraid to say out loud and it was painful and it was ugly and it was freeing in many many ways and I’m grateful to him because I don’t think I’d be able to move forward without it. I know we joke about our therapists a lot but as someone who spent years fighting them and years with the wrong ones, having one who is 100% in my corner, knows when I’m bullshiting him and when I’m legitimately trying, and sees the work I’m putting in and when it’s being wasted, is really precious in the process of recovery.

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stephaniedolen:

textures / marion bay, tasmania

secondbeatsongs:

somehow instead of saying “as a treat”, I’ve started using the phrase “for morale”, as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.

and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.

I’m not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me

manny-jacinto:

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LEE PACE for Interview Magazine (2023)

“(About Short Kings) “Absolutely! I don’t know. [Thumbs up]”

billy-crudup:

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BRETT GOLDSTEIN and PHIL DUNSTER
for Apple Original Story Time with the Cast of Ted Lasso

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sadfishkid:

coldplay - us against the world.mp3 

at last got around to draw my favourite characters from black sails, which, hands down, has the most emotionally fulfilling finale EVER. anyone else is still shook three weeks later? there’s not a day when i don’t think about it, if you ask me

(on twitter)

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somfte:

[image description: ten screenshots of Flint from Black Sails with subtitles that include “[sighs]” in the text to indicate that he is currently sighing.

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trashyayo:

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Ella Fitzgerald signing autographs at the concert series Jazz at the Philharmonic in Vienna in February 1954.

fiddlepickdouglas:

orzamara:

orzamara:

i need a movie where daniel craig and cillian murphy play a lesbian couple

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do you see the vision

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I clearly don’t but I still get it

everythingeverywhereallatonce:

Interview with Michelle Hurd (SAG LA Vice President):

All your favorite things that you’ve been watching for years, and you know those actors that you go, “Oh, there’s that guy on that show.” You may not necessarily know their names—you may see me on a show, you may not know my name, but you’ve seen me on a lot of things. Those actors, those actors are working-class actors. We’re literally working paycheck-to-paycheck.

It takes $26,000 to qualify for your health insurance for SAG-AFTRA. A guest star on a show, producers will do top-of-show—this is a verbiage that they created, it’s not in our contracts, it’s what they created—so they’re not gonna budge above whatever their top-of-show is. Top-of-show, generally, could be anywhere from $5,000 to $7 or $8,000 an episode. Maybe that sounds great. So say I cobble together 2 or 3 guest stars during a year. People, our audiences, sees me on 3 or 4 different shows, and they’re like, “Wow, that actress is working, she’s doing all this stuff.” I still, by doing that with top-of-show, I have still not qualified for my health insurance. We literally are going paycheck to paycheck.

Back in the day, we used to have quotes. That once you’ve been working for a certain amount of time, you’re working really hard to get your quote up, to get your salary up. They decided to get rid of that, so they no longer acknowledge or respect that. This industry is one of the few industries that seniority, that being in this industry for a long time, that gathering up an amazing resume, doesn’t mean anything to them.

Yes, there is some very wealthy actors. Absolutely. There’s 160,000 members in our union. 160,000. 1% are the top grossers. 1%. And of that, maybe 2% are the ones that literally support and uplift our union, and keep the insurance going. Everybody else is below the line.

People don’t realize that SAG-AFTRA is not just actors. We’re broadcasters, we’re stunt coordinators, stunt workers. We’re dancers and singers and voiceover artists. There’s a huge umbrella that we encompass, and 98% of those people are below the line? Are struggling to make a living? In an industry that we all know is making billions?

I think about this all the time, we talk about this in our caucuses. Back in the day, we used to talk about millions, everybody wanted to make millions, and oh wouldn’t that be amazing. These people are making billions, and yet they don’t have money to give us just a scooch more? To contribute to our pension and health? To allow us to qualify for our health insurance?

We have actors that you all will recognize. You will know us from that guy on that show that have lost their insurance, no longer qualify, and are hustling just to get a day on a job to just pay their rent. Not even their insurance, their rent.

This is a serious, crucial moment. This sounds hyperbolic or whatever, but it is a life-or-death situation. Because we’re talking about, you know, taking care of our families. Taking care of our loved ones, you know, our parents, if they’re getting older. You always, as a child, you want to be able to contribute. Should I be at this age, still asking my parents for money? No. I should be taking care of my parents. It’s painful.