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And the door swung open, resting fully ajar.

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Emma, 30ish, MD, working as a doctor in the Netherlands. This is a (very gay) multifandom blog. Eternal loves: Orphan Black, Outlander, The Shannara Chronicles, Carmilla, Clexa, and Person of Interest.
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June Jordan, Kissing God Goodbye

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Rainer Maria Rilke, Journal of My Other Self

Maggie Nelson, Bluets

Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

Zarina Situmorang, Faith

Richard Siken, Scheherazade

e. e. cummings, #38 from 73 poems

Homero Aridjis (attrib.)

Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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WEEK OF CHRISTMAS 2023 (4/7) —🎅🎄🎁🦌— Letters. You don't really write many these days, do you? But I bet there's one you never forget. Send it off to a certain plump guy in a red suit and, provided you've kept your act together more or less, he'd drop off a toy or two. And yet, no one seems to wonder how the whole thing got started in the first place. Klaus (2019) dir. Sergio Pablos

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top five reasons people should be watching black sails

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1. It is a four season story arc that ended when the writers thought it should end, and didn't get dragged out or cut off though season 4 should have been longer.

2. It sticks to its fucking themes all the way through so that when it circles back to them in finale it feels like a concluding paragraph and not a last minute grab for meaning.

3. The character arcs are beautifully consistent and all the main characters get a complete story, regardless of where that story ends: they're also informed but not exclusively characterized by their demographics in a way I appreciate-- no one is there to be The Gay or The Black Guy or The Woman, and no one "just happens to be X": their experiences of being gay and/or Black and/or women impact how they see and interact with the world in ways that are unique to each character's personal experiences.

4. The women have varied and complex relationships with each other as friends and lovers and rivals and mentors (supportive) and mentors (derogatory) and enemies and allies, and those relationships are key to huge swaths of the plot. Even the character archetypes that are traditionally Smurfetted (the #girlboss, the One Of The Guys) are just. Surrounded by other women. It's great. Especially since Treasure Island has no women on purpose.

5. They show boobs but they also show dicks and that's equality.

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[image description: seven Black Sails image edits.

First image: a screenshot of an article headline from The Onion that says, "Things To Never Say To Someone Who Just Came Out" and that has been edited to say, "Published June 24, 1716".

Second image: A quote that says "They hang men for this." above a photo of Miranda.

Third image: A quote that says "Take him. And get the fuck off my beach." above a photo of Teach.

Fourth image: A quote that says "I don't give a shit what goes on in there. fuck Flint. Don't fuck Flint. fuck Billy. Don't fuck Billy." above a photo of Israel Hands.

Fifth image: A quote that says "Come to bed when you're through." above a photo of Jack Rackham.

Sixth image: A quote that says "Had I that instinct, I would resist it with every inch of will I could muster." above a photo of Vane.

Seventh image: A quote that says "You can see how this might be of particular and immediate concern for me." above a photo of Silver.

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