This Pretty Flower has Thorns. I love Max. I mean, I love nearly every character on Black Sails… but Max has the best costumes and just seems so tough and pragmatic yet knows how to yield and when to push to get what she wants.
Doodled on my iPad with Procreate. I’m getting the hang of using this but it would be nice if I had more time to practice.
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Arrrrrrrrgh! Full disclosure, I have only watched the first three episodes of Black Sails. Did that stop me from looking up spoilers and chatting with the talented @medusinestories about the characters?
NO! It did not stop me!
There is a red-headed, polyamorous, bi-sexual pirate captain on this show! How could I stay away? His rage is a thing of terrible beauty. <3
This sketch is a gift for @medusinestories because she’s awesome for putting up with me for so long and also because she’s just posted another chapter of her post-series fanfic, Casting About in the Dark!
The story is Flint/Silver and it made me yell at my screen and then cry. Nothing with those two is ever easy, is it? (Honestly, I yell at the television a lot when I watch Black Sails, too. Ugh. Emotionally constipated back-stabbing pirates bring out the exasperated shouting in me!)
warsawmouse asked:
So many good ideas! I drew the first one that captured my imagination!
X marks the spot. I really liked the prompt for Flint strolling across a chart but because I’m lazy I drew him doing a stereotypical pirate map. I like to think he’s going through all of this effort to make a decoy map for idiots. It’s hard to tell but the paperweight is a rock with a fossil in it. It seemed like the sort of thing Flint might have hanging around.
I used a reference for his inkwell and quill!
I actually inherited an inkwell and a real feather quill! I simplified the inkwell for the sketch but thought you might like to see a photo of the one I used as reference.
Sea Slug AU. So, I was chatting with @medusinestories and this happened. If you’re not cool with sexy sea slug pirate adventures then you’re not cool with me. I sort of feel like this is what Black Sails would’ve been in the Spongebob Squarepants universe.
BONUS:
Gotcher Loot! I… I confess I seem to have a thing for drawing cute little octopus versions of characters but this one of a wee Octo!Silver is all @medusinestories‘ fault! At least, it’s dedicated to @medusinestories. XD
Made for the Black Sails Pride event on Twitter and Instagram. A Jolly Roger for us queer pirates in these trying times. Happy Pride, all united under the same flag! 🏳️🌈
I love how gritty the rainbow flag is!
This Black Sails shitpost was inspired by this amazing post.
I can’t believe I spent all evening drawing these two as goths. I also can’t believe I took the effort to put them in clashing blacks THEN HID THEIR PANTS so you can barely tell. XD (I was a terrible Goth back in the day, fyi. I was too contrary and belonged more in the punk scene.
My friends: Come out with us to the Goth Club!
Me: What should I wear?
My friends: You can wear anything you want, as long as it’s black.
Me: Sounds pretty conformist for non-conformists. *shows up in pale khakis, a red plaid shirt, and steel-toed boots*
Me: LET’S DANCE YOU SAD MOTHERFUCKERS!
My friends: Jfc. Next time we pick your outfit.
)
@medusinestories pointed out The Tropical Goths sounds like a band name so we have Silver on Synth and vocals and Flint on guitar and screaming with rage.
And you all probably thought I was bluffing!
Dwalin the goat-centaur looking all sexyfine. I mean, he probably doesn’t know he looks sexyfine. He’s just taking a break, watching Thorin take a bleating from his nephews. Ha!
Apparently, I still don’t know how to crop images properly in Procreate. I’ll figure it out eventually. Know how this image got here? I exported it as a jpg to my dropbox. I have a Zapier zap that looks for uploads to that specific dropbox folder then moves the file to my cloudinary account and tags it for this tumblr account. I have a second zap that looks for a certain tag in my cloudinary account then uses that image to draft a new post on tumblr! Then, when I have time to actually post, I just log into Tumblr and there’s a draft post with my image on it! Tadaaaa! Technology!
John Silver, a Youtube-famous medium, and James Flint, a renowned sceptic, have hated each other for years. But all of that could change when they’re forced to work together on the same supposedly haunted house.
Words in chapter: 9345
Rating: Teen and up
Characters: John Silver, James Flint, undisclosed other characters
Relationships: Silver/Flint
Selected Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Paranormal, Ghosts, Haunted Houses, Blood and Injury, Mystery, Minor Character Death
Nobody seemed to be able to make Flint angry like Silver could, which was maybe why they were always up against each other on paranormal convention panels and radio interviews. Silver didn’t mind. It was fun, good publicity, and he enjoyed that little spark in Flint’s eyes when their gazes met.
It’s Friday, so let’s dance. :)
Oh my goodness! The movements look so natural! This is wonderful!
I think the thing that makes me saddest about this is that... filler / quiet / character / bottle episodes that have nothing to do with plot used to be considered crucial structure in storytelling, particularly in a lot of drama storytelling.
It's been really lost with the rise of grimdark as a genre, and also with the way television has changed over the years. But 'the rise and the fall' or the 'inhale and exhale' within a genre (i.e. between intense and light moments, or emotional and silly moments) was actually fundamental in particular to television storytelling structure, and certainly in a lot of books too. You only need to look at Lord of the Rings to see that even J.R.R. Tolkien understood this inherently. It's good storytelling to know that in most stories, in most genres, even horror and thriller, it's good - powerful actually - to let your characters breathe and have a moment.
Anyway, ThatKodo is 100% on it, it's just that plot driven stories used to have so so so much more of this. Characterisation IS plot and it DRIVES plot. I am a 'character over plot' writer so I want to eat all of ThatKodo's words, I fully agree with them. It's just that for the most part the current divide between plot and character is one we didn't used to have in most genres to the severe degree we do now.
