Abandon All Hope

Black Sails cast - Men’s Health South Africa, October 2015

Finally feeling better and not so exhausted all the time, was able to bust out a Boy King illustration. 

I might make this into prints if enough people are interested. 

A story is true, a story is untrue…as time extends, it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe, those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born? Long John Silver’s story is a hard one to know. The men who believed most deeply in it were ultimately destroyed by it. And those who stood to benefit most from it were the most eager to leave it all behind. Until all that remains of any of it are stories bearing only a passing resemblance to the world the rest of us lived in, a world we survived, a world that is no more. -Black Sails, 2014-2017

e.e. cummings, from “who knows if the moon’s” (excerpt from & [And]), Complete Poems: 1904-1962

Nelly Sachs - Verzauberung | Black Sails XXIII | Kate Bush - Hounds of Love |  Lynne Ramsay - Small Deaths

BLACK SAILS XVII.

The earl was no friend of yours, and yet he grants you gifts from his own home, why would he do that? All these years it never sat right with me how Alfred was able to turn the navy against James. He was far too admired by his superiors for his career to be dashed based solely on hearsay. Alfred would have known that. He wouldn’t have gone to them armed only with unfounded suspicions. He would have needed a witness. Someone who knew Thomas and James well enough to give the accusation credibility. Alfred came to you, didn’t he? Asked you to betray Thomas in exchange for which he’d… see you made a king in the New World.

the love you want – sleep token