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Favourite piece of fanart this year.

Some love too little, some too long, 

Some sell, and others buy; 

Some do the deed with many tears, 

And some without a sigh: 

For each man kills the thing he loves, 

Yet each man does not die. 

 He does not die a death of shame. 

On a day of dark disgrace, 

Nor have a noose about his neck, 

Nor a cloth upon his face, 

Nor drop feet foremost through the floor,

 Into an empty place.

——The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898);Oscar Wilde

Team Captain Gingerbeard! 💪❤

Me: *sees fav char*

Me: that me

Me: also my husband

Me: my son

Me: my everythi

James, my truest love, know no shame. T.H.

Thomas was my husband, I loved him and he loved me.  But what he shared with you… it was entirely something else.  It’s time you allowed yourself to accept that.

*nailed it*

James Flint: *thinking* I’m straight. Thomas Hamilton: Hi. James Flint: *thinking* So it turns out I’m not straight.

THIS HUGE CRUSH

I have on Captain Flint.. on Toby Stephens too.

TRUTH IS

that I loved Flint since the moment he appeared on the screen.. I mean, I didn't change my mind in season 2 or at the end of season 1. I always justified him, always found something reasonable into his actions.. I never hated him, not even in his darkest moments. This actually means being in love with a character. Love it, though it all.

REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHY ON EARTH THEY CUT FLINT'S PORN PIGTAIL

They actually will..

Party like you’re gonna die tomorrow..

And that's why I love Flint.. :3

[x]

Best.

Neither do I. Fuck Benjamin Hornigold, his king, and their pardons. This war isn’t nearly over.

Obv. :3

Why is Billy not acting on his feelings?

I liked your post, I came up with some other ideas:

Billy thinks the ship is the last place to be making a move/having a relationship. It’s too small to have any kind of privacy and everyone would know everyone’s business.

Billy thinks he isn’t worthy of Flint. Flint is an intelligent, educated, well read man, perhaps Billy doesn’t feel like his equal in that regard. Or lower class/etc.

There’s limited water on the ship and hygiene would be poor. Maybe Billy wants to make himself presentable before trying to do the deed.

Maybe Billy is a complete novice when it comes to romance and has no clue how to show that he is interested or make the first move.

Or say Billy isn’t a novice, and has been with men before when he was a cute teen. Before the modern era,  the pretty boys, the ‘fey dandies’ etc, were highly prized. Maybe Billy thinks Flint would want a slim pretty boy to dominate rather than the hulking ‘brute’ Billy is now. Just coz two guys are into men doesn’t mean they are compatible types in the sack. 

Billy is in love with Flint but is completely happy with how things are and doesn’t want them to change. The crew is his family, Flint the father figure and Billy there to take care of them all. If his relationship with Flint were to change, then maybe everything else would too. Billy might not want that.

Billy has feelings for Flint but won’t act on them because of religion. Yes, pirates can still think of themselves that way. Or religion makes him feel too guilty/ashamed to act on his feelings.

Billy doesn’t want to act on his feelings because of body issues. Imagine you’re a big burly man and everyone you’re intimate with is expecting you to be hung like a horse….and you’re not. That would make the most confident person shy about sex. 

Or perhaps it’s the reverse. Billy is hung like a horse and thinks its impossible for anyone to have sex with him because he’s so big. So he is content to have platonic relationships instead. XD

OH YEAH

Forget me, forget Teach, forget loyalty, compacts, honor, debts, all of it. The only question that matters is this - Who are you?

When things were better..

remember when eleanor and flint were the best of bros and all was right in the world…

haha..hahaha…HA

THESE TWO.

What wonder is this man... <3 . <3

I’m dead bye

Toby Stephens in Black Sails or How to ride a horse stylishly

oh my god the pain and love for his son competing for dominance in Poseidon's eyes is absolutely killing me. the way he reaches out for him to hold his face, his baby boy, knowing that he can't get involved for further. that he needs to go back. that he can't tell him how much he loves him because it'll probably fall flat (even if he surrendered to Zeus to save him). I'm passing away

Toby Stephens photographed by Bjorn Iooss for Vanity Fair (2014)