#@jaynovz

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

If no one knows, everyone wins.

Don't play games with me.

I'm quite serious. Who loses? Absent their worst instincts, their pride, their greed, their suspicion, in the light of pure reason, who says no to this? They'll be rich men in a safe place rather than dead thieves on a long rope.

#black sails #james flint #john silver #bs madi #jack rackham #anne bonny #billy bones #woodes rogers #this post is meant to and should be interpreted in many different ways #the ropes all around anne and jack (mostly jack) is especially cursed #quote originally between flint and gates #something something about the loss of agency in all of them #mine #big thanks you jaynovz for input!!!

[hms-tardimpala]

Did the twin flame bruise paint you blue

I felt like posting pictures of an older bind I made (I think ultimately I'll put up all my works in my ficbinding tag). This isn't my first ficbinding, but if I remember correctly it's the story that inspired me to start bookbinding. I trained a little before I did this one.

Here's Did the twin flame bruise paint you blue by the amazing @jaynovz

The fic: Black Sails, silverflint, rated E, 138k This is a modern AU (often called Break Up AU) following James Flint and John Silver as they meet in New York city and embark on an extremely complicated relationship. I don't want to say too much, because I loved reading it month to month and experiencing it without spoilers. The fic is structured around two timelines a year apart, showing how we got where we got, and what's happening now. I'm explaining it very badly, but it's a treasure of writing and I can't believe Jay managed to wrangle the two timelines writing month to month. As always with Jay, the character studies and smut are off the charts good. That fic is a jewel, it's full of meaning and impressively crafted.

I don't usually read modern AUs and I read very little Black Sails fanfic, but I think this is a must-read in the fandom.

The bind: This was supposed to be A5 in format, but I cut the covers smaller by accident, so it's a little smaller. I had to trim the book and as you can see from my bandaged finger, I learned a valuable lesson about that. This was my first time using bookcloth, this one is sort of varnished, that's why it shines. I chose purple for the cover and headbands because it's Jay's color (and one of my favorites). I'm very happy with how well it creased near the spine, it's well-defined. And the book corners are the most modern I could find (I mean most of the ones I have are flowery and it didn't fit the mood of the fic).

Overall, I'm very happy with this one!

Materials:

Bookcloth, schmedt

Book corners, amazon

Headbands, APG reliure

Ribbon, APG reliure

Clairefontaine A4 paper, ivory color, 80g/m², bought in store

Gray cardboard, 2mm thick, bought in store

Man, this is such a beautiful color, I love it.

#ficbinding #bookbinding #black sails #jaynovz #fanbinding #black sails fic rec

[somfte]

For Wip game-- sick bitch?? 👀

Thank you for the ask! This one is kind of a joke, but honestly I might go through with it eventually.

This post has come across my dash multiple times over the past year or two, and it slaps, and the most recent time I saw it I was like, "Wait a minute, I can just...nab that audio and use it..."

What would I use it for? Staring at Flint some more, of course.

Here's all I've got so far (it's a draft, not all the timing is Tidy):

[video description: quick cuts of James Flint from Black Sails either indulging in violence or Being Weird™ at Silver, set to a fast rhythmic electronic dance song.

/end description]

If you're curious, I did end up hunting for the full length song and this is the closest mix I could find on spotify

#ask game #jaynovz #there's an actually secret WIP related to this song and video but shhhhhh

[heycarrots]

Who’s up for some super soft SilverFlint? @jaynovz and Reading Between the Lines Podcast has you covered.

Come for the soft altered state feels, stay for the super in-depth author interview!

Jay fucking rocks!

Once again, cover art by the incredibly talented Kelsey, aka @magicbubblepipe

#black sails #captain flint #john silver #james flint #reading between the lines podcast #jaynovz #headshaving #altered states #SilverFlint #fanfic #black sails fanart #magicbubblepipe is fucking brilliant #Spotify

[focsle]

Doing a little bookclub of your comic with some friends where we read a chapter a week and chat about it. we're having a BLAST. Thanks for creating such a fascinating tale 💜

I’m always so honored when folks choose my work for book clubs. 💛I’m so glad you’re enjoying the comic! Alas, you’re all gonna catch up to me soon on that schedule haha!

#asks #jaynovz #gtw kindnesses

[lurkerdelima]

FFWF: Hi I haven't yet read the fic you just posted but it's in my marked for later. Tell me about it? 🥺 What inspired you to write it, what research did you do etc 💜

Hi! I’d love to!

So, my most recent fic (the darkness hummed by WeeBeastie on AO3, go check it out if you’re reading this and haven’t read it yet!) I’ve been working on for more than two years, on and off. I love spooky stuff in general so that’s part of where the idea came from, but I’m pretty sure what originally specifically inspired me was when The Sims came out with a paranormal game pack. I made a Sim of Flint, made him learn the séance skill, and then made a Sim of Silver to go with him and the rest was history.

Research - lots of googling! So much googling. I read about werewolf myths, about the barghest, about spiritualism in the 18th century…so many fun things. I also got my lovely partner’s help with the tarot readings in the fic, because they can do readings and I can’t, so I asked them what cards would be good/interesting ones for Flint to draw.

A lot of the séance stuff I kinda…made up myself. It was important to me not to appropriate anyone’s actual specific practice, so I researched the kinds of things people do and used that as inspiration rather than directly copying anyone. Flint is mostly self-taught (with help from Miranda) so I thought that made sense.

Thank you! 🖤

#ffwf #fanfic writer ask game #jaynovz #ask a lurker why not #ask game

[antigorite]

Helloooo, 54 for Spotify wrapped? 💜

Excellent, that's a folky maritime-themed German one, Auf in den Wind by Versengold:

It's about a dude who becomes a 'ghost of the sea' (quote from the lyrics) and mourns the loss of his life and love back on land. Most of this band's lyrics is in a very lyrical and quite old-fashioned language with convoluted sentences spanning multiple lines and it all rhymes so there's absolutey no doing it justice when translating it but here's two easily translated lines:

'Lang ist es her dass das durstige Meer mich verdarb/ als es mich trank, von dir nahm und mich nie wieder gab' (It has been long since the thirsty sea corrupted me/ when it drank me, took me from you and never gave me back)

and

'Die See, oh sie schmeckt mir nach Tränen, seit ich von dir schied' (The sea, oh it tastes of tears since I parted from you)

Thank you! 💚

Send me a number from 1-100 and I’ll reply with my fave lyrics from the corresponding song on my wrapped playlist

#asks #spotify wrapped #jaynovz

[humble-althemist]

okay i'm doing it i'm watching who's afraid of virginia woolf. mostly what i've learned so far is that luke arnold wants to sit on toby stephens ass on a bed while slapping him on the back, and y'know what who can fuckin blame him

#jaynovz #i blame you for this (complimentary) #but like okay the amount of domesticity with these two is making me insane a little bit #simply because of how much i personally want flint and silver to just get to be happily/unhappily married and how much #apparently #this means luke wants that too

[somfte-on-main-and-mizzen]

-dressed as a pirate- arrrr, trick or treat, gimme some booty 👀🏴‍☠️🦜

Oh wow, so fearsome! Better give the gentleman of fortune what he asks for...

[image description: a gif of Michael Hutchence from INXS: Never Tear Us Apart closing the door of a yellow automobile as he hurriedly pulls up his underwear and jeans. A glimpse of a bare butt is visible. /end description]

I hope this is enough booty for you...

#ask game #halloween #jaynovz

[illuminated-in-darkness]

46 for Spotify wrapped 💜

eyyyy in honour of our beloved pirates:

Arsonist's Lullabye by Hozier (my #4 top artist)

favourite lyric:

Don’t you ever tame your demons But always keep them on a leash

https://open.spotify.com/track/1UWhx0pFZccP4jdCIZsj7U?si=ff57645f649348fb

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spotify wrapped is here! send me a number between 1 and 100 and  i’ll tell you the corresponding song on my wrapped + my favorite lyric  from that song :)

#thank you <33 #hozier #jaynovz #ask game #ask #mine

[saintvainglorious]

10 Best Black Sails Fics I Read in 2023

In honor of Black Sails' 10th anniversary, here's a list of my top 10 favorite Black Sails fics I read in 2023, in order from shortest to longest. Most Black Sails fic rec posts I've seen are now around 2 or 3 years old (though not all, bless @jaynovz and your #jay's esoteric rec lists tag) so nearly half of the recs in this list spotlight newer fics. It's amazing to see fantastic fics still being written and updated years after the show ended - y'all are keeping this fandom alive!

I didn't read that much Black Sails fic this year, comparatively speaking, so I'm sure there's plenty of newer gems that I missed. All the fics in this rec list are Silverflint unless otherwise stated.

1 - Gone To Port Royal by Apetslife (G, 3k) - a delightful oneshot from Gates' POV where they all go to a pirate afterlife. every scene is perfect. endlessly re-readable and never fails to make me smile.

Definition of Valhalla 1: the great hall in Norse mythology where heroes slain in battle are received 2 : a place of honor, glory, or happiness: heaven

2 - i’ll be seeing you by youatemytailor/@annevbonny (NR, 19k) - this is THEE post-canon Silverflint reunion fic. the anguish, the rage, the quiet jokes, the tenderness, it's all devastatingly in-character. particularly the chapter 5 climactic unspooling leaves me in awe upon every reread.

Silver is out of his chair and across the room before he knows it. He has a grip on the barkeep’s shirt before he knows it, and he’s pulling him up, hauling him eye-level, only to head-butt him to the ground again. The barkeep’s mouth is thrown open in a wail, but there’s no sound, Silver thinks, no sound at all, save for the blood rushing in his ears as he looks at the other man on the ground, watches him roll to his side with a groan. Flint, Silver thinks, and nothing else. It beats around the knife in his gut like a drum. Flint. And then Flint is looking at him.

3 - The Dark Lord Proprietor by Amiril/@runawaymarbles (M, 19k, Silverflintham) - a fuckin hysterical supervillain AU. Thomas has amnesia, Flint is pining, Silver tries to get them back together. what could go wrong? could not stop cackling.

A year ago, James Flint was in a stable relationship and was within spitting distance of taking over London. Now he’s single, with a dubiously loyal henchman, a lairmate determined to learn his every weakness, and a Secret Past with the new supervillain on the scene. And thanks to a new government program, it’s all a race to the bottom.

4 - the cross dimensional nassau bar of getting izzy hands laid by FortinbrasFTW/@fortinbrasftw (E, 19k ~WIP~, Flint/OFMD Izzy Hands) - a Black Sails OFMD Flint/Izzy Hands crossover. the very best kind of smut-as-character study. funny, gripping, and endlessly re-readable.

The first thing Izzy realizes is he looks absolutely fucking furious — which yeah, alright, fair enough. He’s got shorter ginger hair. A beard like Izzy’s but kept neater. Earrings like Izzy’s but worn simpler. Bleeding like Izzy but, well, maybe a bit less. And he’s handsome. Izzy realizes it suddenly and slowly somehow all at once. Bit like a bloody painting even. The kind you saw up on walls in rich folk’s houses. Only, well, no painting had eyes like that, did it? You’d have to be mad to keep a painting with eyes like that in your home. They were bright and clear and looked — honest-to-fucking-Christ — ready to set the whole damned world on fire. Izzy's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad night takes an interesting turn thanks to a completely different sort of pirate captain.

5 - frail and fragile bars by Ajaxthegreat/@francisthegreat (E, 21k) - Silver realizes, post-shark date, that he's in love with Flint. an instant, iconic fave fic. SO many delicious scenes and quotes that live rent free in my head. just read it, you won't regret it.

“I think you fuck,” Silver says. By which he means, with great intent: I think you are human. I know you are human. I see you.

6 - the whole estate of mortal man by Amiril/@runawaymarbles (T, 43k) - Creature Silver AU where he'll grant wishes in exchange for souls. first read this fic in 2020 and cried. reread it this year and cried again. the nature of the AU intersects so cleverly with Black Sails' themes, and the end result is devastating.

Silver has a limited memory, an unlimited lifespan, and a need for human souls. He spends months trying to buy Flint’s.

7 - our feast is but beginning by x_etoile_x/@etoilesombre (E, 55k) - Flint teaches season 1 Silver how to cook. they're definitely not dating. no, really. this writer writes dialogue so in-character that it cuts like a knife. features sensual cooking, Flint being a queer mentor for Silver, fun genderfuckery, and Them Being Real Tender.

Flint should walk away. Silver can figure out how to feed the men, it isn’t his problem. But roasting a pig is so easy, and when was the last time he had a hand in creating something rather than destroying it? Anyway, what else is he doing, with Billy taking the crew in hand with such annoying competency? He absolutely does not think about why he is reluctant for this interaction with Silver to end. “Go get another pig,” he says before he can reconsider. “Do exactly as I say.”

8 - With Strange Aeons by Amiril/@runawaymarbles (M, 60k, Silverflint + Flinthamilton + Jackanne) - Came for the Silverflint, stayed for the Silverflint but also for holy fuck Jack and Anne are sent to Savannah and break out of there with Thomas to battle literal Cthulhu. How can you NOT read this. I don't typically read Flinthamilton, but by god Thomas is amazing in this.

After the disappearance and presumed death of Captain Flint and Long John Silver, Max smuggles Jack and Anne to Oglethorpe’s plantation. Thomas learns that not only do the three of them have a friend in common, but he is not the only one whose dreams are haunted by a strange city and a terrifying name. Meanwhile, Flint and Silver try to escape an island trapped in time, impossibly built and impossibly old. Along the way they’re forced question reality, each other, and themselves. And in his house in R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.

9 - The Salt and the Sea by x_etoile_x/@etoilesombre (E, 60k) - a between season 2 and 3 recovery fic. i still remembered months after reading that chapter 4 in particular left me undone. a harrowing journey into the ruins of post-leg loss Silver's mind, plus exquisite hurt/comfort.

John Silver was always able to make the best of a situation. If this particular situation had started to feel complicated, well, a vast fortune ought to prove clarifying. Whatever he might have imagined he’d seen in Flint, the reality was they had used each other. And he had been set to walk away on top. Except now he couldn’t. Now he was trapped.

10 - the straight walk home by vowelinthug/@vowel-in-thug (E, 73k, Silverflint + Jackanne + Maxanne + Billy/Vane) - A western AU and one of the best long fics in the fandom. Excellent comedy, amazing AU twists on our favorite characters, found family vibes, nail-biting action, and a fucking fantastic climax. Also, I can't believe this fic got me invested in Billy/Vane.

Let me tell you a story, about a vaquero named Vasquez...

#black sails #black sails fic recs #silverflint #fanfiction #fic recs #bsanniversary #10yearsblacksails #10bsfest

[hms-tardimpala]

Top 5 candies? 🍬

Hey, it's funny you ask that, that's what I asked Minnie 😂

Ooooh, candies, let's see...

5. Glötzer (the eyes I mentioned on the server)

4. Haribo cherries (and many other gellified candies)

3. Haribo starmint

2. Mint candy canes

Menthise (I don't know how well-known they are, so have a picture:)

They're sort of solid little cubes but the outside melts quickly and the inside is creamy. Lots of sensations!

A lot of mint in that top five, probably because I'm addicted to chewing gum and want to taste my saliva as rarely as possible, and mint makes me feel clean like that. You made me want to go on a candy shopping spree, Jay!

Thank you for playing with me, this was fun <3

#ask game #I'm definitely buying candy tomorrow after work #jaynovz

[blacksailskmeme]

Prompts and Fills Are Open~~ EARLY~~

Hello piratefam!

I'm excited to announce that we've already gathered enough early prompts and there is so much enthusiasm for the event that I'm going to go ahead and start posting prompts!!

And also, the 2024 Black Sails Kink Meme AO3 Collection that will be used to post fills is open and ready!! (heh heh) 😀😀

Information regarding posting to AO3 collections can be found here. The expanded guidelines and rules for fills can be found here.

A reminder that there is NO CLAIMING PROCESS NECESSARY! If you see a prompt that strikes your fancy, you are IMMEDIATLEY encouraged and free to fill it, there is NO LIMIT ON FILLS for each prompt!

Both prompt submissions and fills will be open simultaneously through the entire span of the event.

As more prompts come in, I will continue to assign them numbers and post them using the tag #2024BSKMemePrompts. As they come in, fills will be reblogged under their prompt using the tag #2024BSKMemeFills. (If you submit your fill and do not see it immediately, please remember it's just me handling the organization and I might be asleep. But rest assured just as SOON as I get the notification on the collection I will publish it on Tumblr.)

If you are unsure of something, tags, anything at all, please do not hesitate to reach out to me either through the event blog or my main @jaynovz. I will respond to questions as soon as I'm able :DD

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE, HAVE FUN IN THE SPLASH ZONE OF SMUT AND KINK~~ 🎉🎉

#2024bskmeme #announcements #black sails #black sails event #about #i'm posting the first 20 ish prompts tonight #the rest will go out in q tomorrow #feel free to keep submitting

[etoilesombre]

Fic Master List

I got tired of having to decide which fic post to keep pinned, so I made this. Proper summaries, tags and warnings all on AO3.

Black Sails

Another Way - Silverflint, E, 29,399 words, complete. Dubcon! But in a very old-school fanfic trope fuck or die way. It diverges from the scene where they get captured taking the warship. They do work through everything in the aftermath, and the end is very sweet actually.

By Faith of my Body - Silverflintmadi in various combinations, but emphasis on the flintmadi relationship. E, Chapter 1/4 posted. Flint and Madi bond over books, the weight of leadership, and being in love with John Silver. FealtySub!Flint, shameless use of literature for my own nefarious purposes, and so much pining.

Another Troy to Burn - Series. Silverflint longfic series, my special precious baby and literally the first thing I ever wrote. It's canon where they're fucking the whole time but it doesn't change anything. There is a moodboard (thanks @jaynovz) and also a playlist.

A Composite Unity - E, 20,366 words, complete. The first two seasons, Flint pov. He is not having a great time.

The Salt and the Sea - E, 60,495 words, complete. Set during the season 2-3 break, how Silver decided to stay and what happened with the gold. He is also not having a great time.

It Only Made Me Real- E, chapters 4/? posted. Silver adjusting to his role as quartermaster, Flint being Flint during the raids. I swear upon everything holy that I WILL finish this series if its the last thing I do, but, it has been on hiatus for a while.

If It Was You - Silverflint, E, 17,430 words, complete. Free use gangbang porn that got out of control and also grew a lot of feelings. The boys spend the night in port on a mission. There is only one bed. Flint freaks out and makes questionable choices, Silver walks in on the whole thing, they have to work through it. Cathartic happy ending. The very Most dirty talk.

I'll Carry You Home Tonight - Silverflint, E, 6,604 words, complete. This one is just porn. Season 3-4 break, the guys are newly in a relationship, they get Pirate Date Night. It's working title was 'impact play and 5 phases of ass stuff'.

long as amber of ember glows - Silverflint, E, 7,933 words, complete. If 3.10 ended the way it should have. There are love confessions, and they fuck on the gold. No literally, on it. It's very sweet honestly.

Our Feast is But Beginning - Series. Silverflint Cookingverse! Flint teaches Silver to cook.

Spit-Roasted - M, 5,821 words, complete. The one where Flint shows Silver how to roast a pig. It's canon! Flint is very weird about sex.

Gentille Alouette - E, 11,618 words, complete. Late night cooking dates on the Walrus, continuing intense sexual tension, Flint is basically edging himself. He sure is a way.

Princes of the New World - E, 38,145 words, complete. This one got a little out of hand, it has many things in it, including lots of hurt comfort and caretaking, the guys finally getting together and also not hiding their relationship, some intense gender vibes (Silver gets to be a pampered pretty princess) and yes, even some cooking.

Our Shadows That Are Bold - Silverflint, E, 4,912 words, complete. Dom Silver. The first little iteration of fealty sub Flint, he sure has some feelings about Silver coming into his own as king.

So We Begin - Silverflint, E, 4,038 words, complete. 3.7 missing scene fic that is exactly what you would expect after stomp stomp and the "how good it feels" conversation.

The Soft Animal of Your Body - Silverflint, E, 3,398 words, complete. The watersports one. Yep sure is, omorashi style, with a good side of hurt comfort stuff and also Flint telling a weird dirty story. Set during warship recovery time. This is basically an outtake of longfic because it doesn't quite work there but wouldn't leave my brain.

the sound that you found for me - T, background silverflintmadi, but its really about Silver and Betsy the cat. Yep. 5,699 words, complete. Kittenfic!! Written for the Beach Blanket Black Sails Ficfest, the prompt was 'Betsy has kittens and Silver wants to keep them on Maroon Island.' It's really about Silver and trauma and there are sad parts but nothing bad happens to any cats and there is a happy ending.

stitched with its color - G, silverflintmadi sort of, 1,344 words, complete. The conversation where Madi tells Flint that Silver is alive.

Such Terrible Hungers - E, Flintvane, 3,357 words, complete. Instead of fuck buddies, they're fuck enemies. Fight sex and Flint angst, that's basically the fic.

to pull me from myself again - E, Silverflint, 7,419 words, complete. Written in response to a Tumblr prompt asking for s1 dynamics softe silverflint, Silver's first time with a man. That is indeed it, that's the fic

What Lies Beneath - E, Silverflint, 3 chapters, complete. 11,031 words. Demon Flint AU! Basically make the demon in Flint literal. Silver is fascinated of course.

The Fetch Phillips Archives (aka Luke Arnold's books, go read them!)

announcing your place in the family of things - E, Fetch/Satyr, 6,865 words, complete. The first creature Fetch meets when he leaves the human city is that unnamed Satyr, and that feels like a conscious choice to me. Coulda said 'faun' and we wouldn't be here Luke. Anyway monsterfucking, but in a lovely way.

The Exorcist (tv)

The Smoke of Their Torment - M, Marcus/Tomas, 572 words, complete. A snippet of Marcus angst and pining and also jerking off in a shared hotel room there may be more someday.

#for a long time i kept whatever was most recent or relevant pinned #but now i realized how much there is #so #here's the masterlist #fanfic #my writing #silverflint #black sails #fetch phillip archives #sunderverse #the exorcist tv

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

A long time ago, you asked me to leave Nassau with you to avoid ruin. I had put so much of myself into this place, in that moment, I honestly didn't know where I ended and it began. There may be ways of severing oneself in that way... sacrificing one part to save the other. But... in that moment... I honestly couldn't find something sharp enough to make the cut.

What would have been enough?

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this was the lovely @jaynovz idea so go yell at them some too 💜💜

#black sails #black sails parallels #john silver #james flint #was originally a maxanor quote if u even care #black sails is a show about divorce actually #tw death #mine

[jaynovz]

Silverflint “In Peril” Fic Rec List

Hi guys! I got an anon a few weeks ago requesting Silverflint recs with the prompt: “one of them being in danger/peril/kidnapped (or anything akin to that) and the other going just above and beyond to save him. something with the vibe, if you hurt him i'll kill you.” 

There were hmmm not as many as I thought with the EXACT getting rescued parameter but I compiled some similar ones as well. Enjoy.

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Affinity by Magnetism_bind

Summary: Silver spends his time while captured by Hands thinking of Flint and ignoring his feelings for the man.

It's a little harder to do so after Flint rescues him.

Notes: Oneshot, 4.6k, definitely the best and most faithful example of the prompt as submitted. Silver is held hostage and brutalized by Israel Hands and Flint rescues him.

Another Way by x_etoile_x

Summary: Silver doesn’t get the chance to turn back and attack the Spanish soldiers when he and Flint are captured on the warship, so he needs to come up with a different plan. Things get out of control. A retelling of their time on the warship at the beginning of S2, in the aftermath of this.

Notes: Long fic, 29k. Fantastic story on many levels. For the list, first chapter has a direct fulfillment of the prompt--Flint is in danger, Silver goes above and beyond to save him.

Fifteen Men in September by ballantine

Summary: Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

A Black Sails origin story for the song.

Notes: Long fic, 34k, just a fantastic read. There is a pivotal scene where Silver kills a man on Flint’s behalf and then further scenes of both of them in peril, Silver gravely ill. Very much the “going above and beyond” and “if you him I’ll kill you” vibe.

we were never meant to survive (but what if we did) by explosiontimothy, inwardphae

Summary: Since you still haven’t told me your name, I shall call you Jonah. You are so obsessed with sea and water that you’d make a home out of the belly of a whale if only it meant not to touch foot on solid land ever again. What if you get stuck there? I’d be forced to make my way to you and drag you out, cut the whale’s skin with my knife like a shark with its teeth and carve my shape out of it. And yours. There are two fighters, on opposite sides of the time war. They have never met but they know each other's names. But names are powerful, untamed things when they are spoken out loud. So they don’t call each other by their names, ever. Until, one day, they do. The Silverflint Time-Travel AU no one asked for, but you're all getting anyway.

Notes: Long fic, 46k, big concept sweeping crossover with the book This is How You Lose the Time War. Without spoiling, this story very much embodies “going above and beyond to save him.” Top tier.

darkness in his fingertips, eyes just the same by Jaynovz

Summary: A desperate fear is welling up in Silver. Flint, injured? How grievous a wound must it be to keep Flint from a battle? To prevent him from heading up the rescue party? Flint, who Silver had seen take a warship with a shot shoulder, Flint, who shrugged off injuries from raids with an annoyed grimace as if they were minor inconveniences. Silver’s heartbeat is too fast and too slow at the same time, ice creeps around him from all sides at the stark reminder that Flint is mortal. The man who would sneer at God, who would sail straight into a tempest, who seemed to control reality with his demons… Silver has seen Captain Flint bleed, yes, but it’s never mattered like this, never truly hampered him.

And on the heels of this fear is something far less enfeebling, something Silver embraces: a dark vortex of rage.

Notes: Oneshot, 4.3k. A reaction to in peril. An alt canon take of early s4 where Billy injures Flint at the Underhill Plantation. After Silver returns, he murders Billy for the insult. “If you hurt him, I’ll kill you” exactly.

frail and fragile bars by Ajaxthegreat

Summary: “I think you fuck,” Silver says. By which he means, with great intent: I think you are human. I know you are human. I see you.

Notes: Long fic, 21k. A very excellent story overall, and for this list specifically, it features Flint taking a sword to protect Silver in battle and Silver murdering the man responsible.

how we could be brought here by love by mapped

Summary: A 4x03 AU where Flint receives a minor injury in the battle of Nassau Town and Silver is very shaken by it.

Notes: Oneshot, 3.7k. Not a rescue so much as Silver’s intense reaction to Flint being hurt. I think it fits the vibe.

in over our heads by Jaynovz

Summary: Set at the end of 2.1.

The remaining Walrus crew want Silver flogged.

The experience creates some altogether unexpected outcomes.

Notes: Mid-size fic, 13k. Silver is flogged, Flint is very affected by that, takes care of him after, and they both learn a lot about each other ahem. “If you hurt him I’ll kill you” vibes definitely feature.

please do not let me go by natlet

Summary: Vulnerability, it turns out, is a blade that cuts both ways.

Notes: Series, 5 stories, 39k words total. An overall excellent series of Silverflint fics, however the one I’m thinking of for this list is the fourth, all pale and panting, where Flint is gravely ill and Silver goes above and beyond to take care of him. 

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As always, let me know if you have a suggestion for an inclusion and I’ll give it a look. Thanks.

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