#my beloved flinthamiltons

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going crazy about hozier and pirates again, y'all. but this one was just so immediately flinthamiltons to me, and then finding out more about the inspiration and context behind Francesca - both from Dante's Inferno and the actual historical people - just. gggggggghhhhhh the feeeeelings and the themes and. i want this song injected into my veins. but for now i'll just try to drag some of you into my pain :))

And thank you friends who watched the earlier drafts of this and helped me figure out how to make it better! ❤️❤️

#black sails #hozier #fanvid #my beloved flinthamiltons #james flint #miranda barlow #thomas hamilton #james mcgraw #miranda hamilton #sabsmade #mine #flinthamiltons

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Thomas is freed from the plantation and ends up on a pirate ship with a very cocky quartermaster who seems to bear a personal grudge against him.

#black sails #black sails fanfic #flinthamilton #silverflint #my writing #season 4 canon divergence my beloved

[greensaplinggrace]

Black sails or sab for the ask game? Otherwise whatever you've been most into lately 😁

favorite male character: John Silver! But god I love them all so so much it's so hard to choose

favorite female character: Max!!! and Madi 💕💖💕

least favorite character: Governor Rogers. Fuck that guy. Even so, though. He's such a great character ugh.

prettiest character: Max and Anne and Miranda alksjdflksdjfdkflj... everyone

funniest character: Jack Rackham

favorite season: SECOND!! Hallelujah. It is.. so good

favorite episode: Second season finale 💕 my beloved

favorite romantic ship: Flintsilver. Maxanne. Flinthamiltons. Madiflintsilver. Literally all ships and poly possibilities. It is endless.

favorite family ship: Walrus Crew & John Silver lol

favorite friend ship: Max & John!!! Brotp

worst ship: Eleanor x Rogers. Ugh.

leave a tv show or movie in my ask box (x)

#can you tell this murdered me alksjdfsl #black sails #myramblings #asks and answers #ask games #greenglassmountain #<3

[im-the-punk-who]

#still on my faith motif bullshit #james flint #black sails #james mcgraw #thomas hamilton #flinthamilton #IS THE GHOST THOMAS #IS IT JAMES MCGRAW #INTERPRETATION IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER #EITHER WAY JAMES IS REAL SAD ABOUT IT #by milo #something about the dark yadda yadda something about ghosts and faith and how flint cant let go of thise because its all he has #something yadda defining yourself by your history blah blah refusing to allow your beloveds life and your life to be meaningless #in the face of trauma and death and bigotry blah blah

[blacksailszine]

🏴‍☠️  CREW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT:  izlesu  🏴‍☠️

Izlesu is contributing page art to Freedom in the Dark!  

She started drawing digitally in August 2021, still very much learning the ropes. Flinthamiltons my beloved <3

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Welcome aboard, pirate!

[ID: White writing on a black background with red brush strokes reading ‘Black Sails Zine Crew Member: izlesu’ and the above mentioned social media handles, as well as a sample of her artwork and an icon. End ID]

#zine spotlight

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

(stcrmhond) miranda our beloved for the ask game, if u feel like doing another one!!

send me a character and i’ll tell you…

a song that reminds me of them

hmm I've never really thought of a song for Miranda but I'll go with 'Stay Down' by boygenius

what they smell like

ooh I'm not sure what exactly but I'm sure it's amazing

an otp

flinthamiltons babyyyy

a notp

hmm her and peter ashe (also that pastor dude)

favorite platonic/familial relationships

flinthamiltons and I love seeing her and Abigail (I'm gonna bite someone thinking about her thomas and james raising abigail now thanks)

a headcanon that is popular in the fandom but that i disagree with

hmm I'm not sure there are a ton of headcanons about Miranda directly but I do think James loved her romantically

the position they sleep in

Miranda sleeps all sprawled out on the bed

a crossover au i’d love to see them in

um anything haha, but I'm gonna go with princess bride

my favorite outfit they’ve ever worn

oooh I adore the green dress from the flashbacks but I think I'm going to go with the blue one???

#ask game #thank you!! #miranda hamilton #i love her so much help

[luminarai]

truly released the world's happiest shout when i saw your flinthamilton art featuring a cat! fettuccine al-kaysani di genova was already a beloved addition to their marriage (and also my life), and now this baby for the mcgraw hamilton fam. MORE CATS FOR HAPPY MARRIAGES!

i hadn’t even thought about it but clearly i have a modus operandi!

fun fact: in the nordic countries (where i’m from) a common wedding gift used to be kittens and so cats would be a symbol of happy marriages! which may, at least subconsciously, be related to me inevitably gently weeping at the thought of my favourite characters in comfortable and domestic settings with a happy cat purring on their lap

#asks #me: wHAT IF THEY WERE WARM AND HAPPY? OH MY GOD #danielederossi

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So my incredible @starshimmer87 tagged me in this and I'm pretty sure this is my first tag on this blog ^^ Thank you so much!

[rules: answer the questions and tag 9 people you want to get to know better/catch up with!]

Three ships: Flinthamilton/-s (Black Sails) who occupy my brain 24/7, Jupiter/Neptune/Venus (We Know The Devil) my beloved lesbians from hell, and Catradora (She-ra) making a grand return because I've recently spent a LOT of time with them

Last song: Don't Light My Fire by Dreamcatcher

Last Movie: The Interpreters: A Historical Perspective, which is literally a document about the UN translators,, tell me you're not having a good time without telling me you're not having a good time :))

Currently watching: The Queen's Gambit

Currently reading: my grammar textbook pls send help "Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another" by Matt Taibbi (only started and it's going slowly because college keeps throwing British law texts at me)

Currently craving: more like constantly craving to hold my girlfriend because I am yEARNING

I'm tagging @alonteri @2sweethoneybuns @the-one-with-a-tea-mug @myblacksailstales @jade-dragon226-fan @k-zupa @vesswastaken @waitingforprincesscharming @projectdelphinus

[redwhale]

The following was sparked off by the sentiment ‘Thomas would think Flint a monster and would hate him for the things he’s done’ (briefly mentioned here). I didn’t want to attach the following as a reblog to poor @my-truest-flinthamilton directly because the rambling below is waaay too much of a tangent, but I find the topic really interesting, and I have Feelings on the subject.

Spoiler: I think it would be complicated, but still nah.

I do think Thomas' reaction to what Flint has done depends, among other things, on what kind of hell Thomas himself has been through. We have no concrete answers outside the fact that Thomas was taken to Oglethorpe's plantation. Unless someone bribes Thomas related answers out of Steinberg and Levine (can we do a fandom Kickstarter?), it's ultimately up to the viewer's discretion. From the events of Black Sails, there is a tenuous timeline that can be established, but it’s still up to the viewer’s discretion. I actually have an unfinished post about this, and I wish I’d finished it before this post!

Some of the TL;DR re: the timeline:

The real world maps used as props on the show demonstrate Georgia and Savannah exist within Black Sails’ world in 1715. (Thank you to the incredible sagestreet!) In the case of the latter map, it was in wide enough circulation to the point that a copy of it is displayed in Governor Raja’s office in Havana. It’s fair to say that Savannah may have been established for awhile, and if Oglethorpe plays a similar role within the world of Black Sails to his real world counterpart, he may have been in the Americas for a decade or so. My assumption in turn is that the plantation may have been around for a few years. Georgia and Savannah weren’t established until 1733 in our world, but Black Sails exists in its own ball of wibby-wobbly timey-wimey. With some extra wibby and wimey.

In regards to what Thomas himself has been through, we have a lot of variables. How long was Thomas in Bethlem for? Was he ever in Bethlem? How long has he been at the plantation? What is the treatment of those at Oglethorpe’s plantation like? For all of Oglethorpe’s pontificating, the reality of what we see on screen is no more than a small sugar cane plantation. My hope is that the treatment of those imprisoned there is still better than other plantations, but there are dangerous realities inherent to sugar cane plantations regardless. Even if Oglethorpe’s plantation was the Nicest Sugar Cane Plantation Ever—now there’s an ironic statement—it’s still a one way trip for those imprisoned there. (Slightly off-topic, but I had a very different image of what the place was going to be like from Max’s dialogue in 4x04. ‘Cared for, tended to...’ Yeah, they’re certainly tending to something.)

When it comes to Thomas’ emotional state over the lost decade, along with whatever transpired at the plantation and the possibility of being held in Bethlem, there’s also the conundrum of what Thomas was told about James and Miranda from Peter Ashe. Did Thomas think they were dead? Did he think they were alive, still out there somewhere?

The amount of hell that Thomas himself has been through would certainly contribute to how Thomas feels about his father, Peter Ashe, England, Nassau... and all that James has done as Flint. Thomas in London was already a stubborn, passionate man with a temper and very strong ideas about the world. Would he be broken after a decade ? Would that fire be even more inflamed?

The Thomas we knew in London was in an extremely privileged position, and he wanted to pardon the pirates of Nassau for both financial and social benefit. That was before Bethlem or Oglethorpe’s plantation. (Lord Thomas ‘I Want To Pardon The Pirates’ Hamilton. P.S. ‘Yes, All of the Pirates’. P.P.S. ‘Did I Fucking Stutter?’) 

Judging by Hands’ talk to James in 4x04, it seems like Blackbeard was already established in prominence when Lieutenant McGraw came to Nassau. From Hands’ dialogue, it seems like Hands himself may have been one of the men that murdered Governor Thompson’s family. Thomas wanted to pardon the pirates back in London whilst Blackbeard and co. were at large, and was still willing to do so even after James brought back the news of all that had transpired there. It was a decision that ended quite badly, mind, but with James’ encouragement, Thomas decided to continue on regardless. If Thomas was willing to pardon these pirates, some of which had also done some pretty horrific things, I think it’s a fair assumption he wouldn’t be washing his hands of James and ‘Captain Flint’ so easily. Thomas was very much in love with James back in London (see the Meditations inscription, among other things), and Thomas still seemed very much in love with him from the reunion in the finale.

[Tangent: how the hell did Hands hear that Flint used to be a Navy man, and that McGraw was there when they took back Nassau from the English?! Only Miranda would have 100% known the specifics.]

In regards to how Thomas views people and humanity in general, we can also only look to the episodes themselves. As Miranda says in 1x06, he was Mr. Devil's Advocate back in London: Thomas would have played that game with you from dusk until dawn. And everything you hold sacred, he'd leave in tatters. Not from malice or hate, but from love. From a desire to see the yoke of shame lifted from your shoulders.

Considering what we know of how Thomas reacts when he’s dragged off to Bethlem, and how loyal and protective he is over Miranda and James, I can’t imagine that he would be all that aggrieved by Flint killing Alfred Hamilton or Peter Ashe. (Miranda, 2x05: Before they took him away, he made me promise him that no matter what happened next, that you and I would take care of each other). Again, pardoning the murderous pirates of Nassau wasn’t really an issue for Thomas in London. Alfred Hamilton and Peter Ashe destroyed the lives of Thomas, Miranda, and James—and ten years later, Miranda is now dead because of it.

Speaking of darling Miranda, I think it’s also important to look to Miranda as a counterpoint to Thomas, in regards to her feelings on James, and James as Flint. Thomas and Miranda absolutely are not the same in personality or actions (the latter is more sensible and realistic than the former, among many other things!), but they have a similar character trajectory. We don’t know anything about Miranda’s backstory, but considering she married the son of an Earl, she must have come from at least decent social standing. Thomas and Miranda are both outcasts from society in different ways: Miranda, as a brilliant, forward thinking woman who society wants to keep in place, and Thomas, the radical Lord who is whispered to be mad by half of Whitehall and who’s sexuality is punishable by death. In London, both Thomas and Miranda fall head over heels in love with James McGraw. After Ashe’s betrayal, they are separated from each other, and both go from London high society to a terrible and horrifying fall.

Throughout all of James’ years as Flint, Miranda never stopped loving James. Miranda didn’t think of James as a monster, and never treated him as such. Miranda was the only character in the 1715 timeline of Black Sails that looked upon James wholly without fear. She was afraid for him, but never of him. In the killing Alfred Hamilton, James and Miranda were partners, with James wielding the blade. We see that Miranda didn’t approve of all of James’ choices, but we know how much she loved James regardless. ETA: I had completely forgotten about Miranda’s 4x08 dialogue re: Flint, until Bean’s gif set reminded me: You can defend that man. There are good arguments in defense of him. 

And, god, my poor beloved Miranda, who finally got to express her own fury at the world after the horrifying realization of how deeply her little trio had been betrayed, had it all cut short by a bullet to the head.

(not. over. her.)

Regardless of how you read the specifics of the relationship between Thomas and Miranda, I also think it’s important to consider the love between them in regards to how Thomas would react to some of Flint's actions. We see how deeply Thomas and Miranda cared for each other, both from Miranda's present day dialogue and through their interactions in the London flashbacks. So how does Thomas react when he finds out what happened to Miranda? (I’m still so bitter that we didn’t get to see.) How does he react to what James did in the aftermath of Miranda’s loss, and of Peter’s part in it all? In both London and in Charlestown, we saw Miranda’s enraged fury over the loss of Thomas and the revelation of how they all were betrayed. Miranda wanted to see Charlestown burn. I have no idea if Thomas would want destruction on such a scale, but it seems wrong to dismiss that Thomas wouldn’t have his own grief and fury about Miranda’s loss, especially considering how much her cared for her.

Miranda and James went through horrific emotional trauma over the decade since London. Trauma that shaped their actions, their emotions—specifically, their rage. Thomas, at the very least, would have gone through a lot of emotional trauma, with the possibility of some horrifying physical trauma as well. I don’t think it’s a reach to say he would have his own heartbreak and rage at the world in turn.

I also have to link to @sidewaystime‘s wonderful Thomas meta that expands on what we can infer of his character from the text of Black Sails itself. In the case of this post, I’m linking to it with special emphasis on Thomas as a character (the man isn’t exactly innocently Mr. Soft and Fluffy), alongside his dynamic with Miranda and James. Also, just go through sidewaystime’s tags anyway to read all of her godly Miranda meta and meta in general ohmygosh. ohmygosh

All of this to say: from what Black Sails itself shows us, I don't think Thomas would hate James, nor think of him as a monster. That’s not even bringing into the equation of what Thomas may have been through himself, as he hasn’t exactly been sitting around picking daisies for the last decade. I think it's fair to say some elements of Captain Flint Thomas would support, and some of it he would not.

..but Thomas hating James and thinking of him purely as a monster? 

Miranda didn’t. I can’t see that Thomas would, either. 

#black sails meta #flinthamiltons #flinthamilton #flintbarlow #thomas hamilton #miranda barlow #captain flint #black sails #redwhale black sails meta #this is more rambly and less eloquent than I'd like #quite tired #do wish this was more eloquent! #but eyyyy #i reread this a billion times and still missed that i wrote '1933' #thanks brain #black sails character meta

[bisexualpirateheart]

40 I made this for you - flinthamilton

                                                    *  *  *

All evening James has been fidgety and inattentive, throughdinner, through the salon afterward, until finally Thomas has convinced himselfthat something dreadful has happened and James just didn’t want to bring it to hisattention.

What can it be? Has he been reassigned? Has the admiraltyremoved him from his post? Is this their last night together with James’sposting as a convenient excuse? His heart sinks at the thought. But even ifthat were the case, James would still come to him. Thomas knows this. Nothinghas changed between them, he’s certain of that. No, whatever it is troublingJames, it is an outside force. Perhaps he’s having some sort of issue withanother crew member and doesn’t think Thomas will want to trouble himself withsuch a small problem. Thomas is determined to make certain that James knows hewill always listen, no matter how trivial James thinks a topic will be to him.

He ends the salon earlier than the usual hour, biddingeveryone a swift goodnight. Usually he lets them linger in ones or twos, butnot tonight.

Miranda gives him a look as she murmurs. “There is no needto rush our guests out the door quite so quickly, Thomas.”

“There’s something I need to discuss with James.” He murmursback. “It’s important.”

Miranda nods in understanding, “Go to him.” She takes careof the few stragglers, escorting them to the door as Thomas makes his excusesand goes to look for James.

…who is nowhere to be found.

Thomas goes upstairs, but James is not waiting for him inthe bedroom. He goes back downstairs, worried that James has left withoutspeaking to him. Finally he sees the study door slightly ajar.

Thomas pushes it open and finds James standing by the globe,spinning it slowly with his fingertips. He looks up at the sound of Thomas’sfootstep, his expression distracted.

“Have they all gone?”

“Yes.” Thomas goes to him. “Whatever it is, I want to help.”

“What?” James looks mildly surprised at this pronouncement. “Why?What’s happened? Did someone say something to you?”

“No. I thought something was amiss with you.”

“What, me?” James’s brow wrinkles in bewilderment. “No,there’s nothing wrong with me.” He moves over to stand beside Thomas’s desk,tapping his fingers on the wood aimlessly.

“Then why have you been acting like a schoolboy calledbefore the headmaster all evening?” Thomas’s tone is slightly frustrated at James’sstatement. He’s been concerned all evening and now James is telling him there’snothing wrong, for god’s sake. How can that even be true?

James flushes at that. “Ah, well, hm.”

“There issomething!” Thomas exclaims. Not that he wants to be right on this topic, buthe knew it. “Please tell me. I will do my best to help with whatever it is. Ican-”

“Thomas.” James breaks through his attempts to help. “It’snot like that.”

Thomas subsides, waiting for James to tell him.

James sighs. “When I say it’s nothing, I mean it. It’s just…”

Right as Thomas practically wants to throttle him for hisslowness to speak of whatever it is, James finally reaches into his pocket andtakes out a small object. He places it on the desk between them.

It’s a small, exquisitely carved wooden ship, complete withsails and a trim tiny figure on the prow.

Thomas stares at it in wordless wonder.

“I made it.” James clears his throat. “For you.”

Thomas still can’t speak.

“It’s not much, obviously.” James says awkwardly, “Just asmall token, of my…you know.” He swallows and continues. “So that you won’tforget me while I’m away.”

At that Thomas is finally stirred to speech. “Forget you?”

“We’re sailing with tomorrow’s tide. And I wanted to giveyou something.” James hesitates. “If you care to accept it. It’s no matter,truly.” He reaches out to pick up the ship, but Thomas’s hand closes over itfirst.

“I’ll treasure it.” he says quietly. “Thank you.”

James’s cheeks redden. “Think nothing of it.”

“Oh, but I do.” Thomas moves around the desk towards him. “Ithink very highly of you giving me a token of…what was it…”

James swallows. “My affections.”

Thomas smiles. “Thank you.” He repeats as he leans down tokiss James’s waiting mouth.

                                                       *  *  *

In the morning when James has made his farewells in time tomeet the tide, Thomas lingers in bed a while longer. The small ship stands on thenight stand where he can see it, bringing a smile to his lips.

                                                       *  *  *

When Thomas examined the ship more closely later in bed,he had noticed something.

“This figurehead has no breasts.”

“Very observant of you.” James yawns sleepily from thepillow beside him. “That’s because it’s not a lady, or a mermaid or a siren forthat matter.”

“Who is it then?” Thomas gazes at it curiously.

James reaches a hand up to curl his finger through Thomas’shair, pulling him down for a kiss. “It’s Odysseus, returning home to hisbeloved. Now, kiss me and go to sleep.”

#flinthamilton #black sails fic #flinthomas #thomas hamilton #james mcgraw #fic prompts #thanks <3 #the others will have to wait till tomorrow as I have an early morning tomorrow but I wanted to get this one up tonight

[illuminated-in-darkness]

@starbuck - Kathie thank you so much for this lovely tag to shuffle my music to come up with my rom com soundtrack!! :))

1. His Kiss, The Riot - Hadestown (Original Broadway Cast Recording, Patrick Page)

2. I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Death Cab for Cutie

3. Happiness Will Ruin This Place - San Fermin

4. I’m Not That Girl - Wicked (Idina Menzel)

5. Delicate - Taylor Swift

Listen I know I already make everything about Black Sails, and this is definitely not a rom com but...

His Kiss, The Riot is the flinthamilton kiss that sets everything in motion against civilisation/system/etc.

I Will Follow You Into The Dark can be James following Thomas and Miranda and/or Silver following Flint

Happiness Will Ruin This Place could be about the flinthamiltons’ happiness - as Miranda says in VI, “a happy life can often be a very dangerous thing. Something that other people simply cannot abide.” || It also has the lyric “said all that I ever want / to be two places at once / either way you lose” and could be Silver about Flint and Madi??? or more generally about wanting to support Flint and Madi but also having the instinct for the survival of himself and those he loves?

I’m Not That Girl is Flint about silvermadi leading him to give himself up as collateral to Eleanor in XXXII and/or Silver about flinthamilton leading him to take Flint to Savannah

Delicate is all of the post-canon healing and reunions and eventual madisilverflintham OT4 my beloved

tagging: @starkblazer @bundibird @thegreatblondebalrogslayer @amy-oswin-lovegood @purple-blue-dinosaur @asterofthevoid @jaynovz

^no pressure to anyone who doesn’t want to, and also tagging anyone who does want to!

#tag game #mine #thank you so much Kathie this turned out really cool for me haha #idk whether to tag this as b lack s ails #maybe ill wait til @purple-blue-dinosaur sees it so it doesn't get blacklisted for her #and then ill go back and tag it lol