This place is just sand

Hannah New as Eleanor Guthrie in Black Sails 104

I have been the subject of enough ridicule and innuendo to know the difference between a little danger and mortal danger. LOUISE BARNES AS MIRANDA BARLOW/HAMILTON BLACK SAILS (2014-2017)

ZETHU DLOMO-MPHAHLELE as MADI BLACK SAILS SEASON 3

When Captain Flint first arrived on this island, he gained influence faster than any man I'd seen before or since. I heard men say it was the violence. I heard them say it was his charm. But it was clear to me the reason why he was so good at bending men towards his will was he knew the power of a story, and how to harness it to his own ends. That man there, I would argue, may very well be his equal.

I hear other voices. A chorus of voices. Multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women and children who’d lost their lives to men like you. Men and women and children forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them. And this war, their war, Flint’s war, my war…it will not be bargained away to avoid a fight, to save John Silver’s life, or his men’s…or mine.

He didn’t.

black sails characters in season 4 + colors

Queen of Thieves Eleanor Guthrie for my girl @poptartsanddarkarts

“If the mere whiff of the Navy is too much for you, then God bless and get the fuck out.”

“ Thousands of men in Nassau are living in fear of my return because I decreed it. Hundreds of dead Redcoats in a forest far from here because I made it so. I’m the reason grown men lie awake at night. I am a new beginning for Nassau. ”

Long John Silver

Here’s to the final season, and to the Pirate King ! ☠ 

I was so close to saying yes….

There were good reasons to say yes and I heard it in my mind, tried to speak it over and over again.

A very wise woman recently told me that one should not allow their personal feelings to cloud the reality of the situation, which in both that case and this… is that Billy has influence that is best not ignored.