Here we go, friends! My first entry into this fandom in years! I had so much fun with this, it's the first longfic I've written in this fandom. It's all done so it'll be updated every Thurs or Fri.
I've also been going through my WIP folder for Black Sails so hopefully I will be posting stuff from there as I decide which ones to finish.
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BLACK SAILS (2014-2017) Season one Episode six ‣ VI
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
3.17 | Enemies
Lazy cat
You expressed your concern to me that to truly partner with your captain, you would need to join him down a dark path, and that you fear it - it might lead you to a place you would not be able to return from.
BLACK SAILS XIX. • XXV.
Right here, Like This ♡
Congrats, it's porn! lol, I just really wanted to write a fic where they have morning sex in the cabin and it's all soft and bantery and they're cute. I started this years ago, in Nov 2017, months after S4 first aired. It's canon verse, set during that vague time between S3 and 4.
Now that I think of it, it reminds me of a similar fic that you wrote. Yours is one of my faves, too. Hopefully I'll finish mine someday.
In the meantime, porn snippet under the read more :)
Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.
Thanks to @etoilesombre for tagging me :)
Here's some of my Black Sails WIPs. I say "some" because several were like 7 yrs ago and I'm not likely to pick them up again since I forgot where I was going with them lol. Some are ones I have picked up again, though, and some are new.
There's also just a lot of them lol.
Tagging @jaynovz @asterofthevoid @lupismaris No pressure! :) Sorry if you've already done it, I don't have a lot of people I can think of to tag since I was away from tumblr for a while lol.
The Cutest Fox
Markers on sketchbook paper. I'm working through shit. These two help.
You’re not concerned about this? Concerned? Well, you say you’ll be teaching me to fight, but if every man fights differently… seems to me what you’ll really be teaching me is how to defeat you. I’ll take my chances.
[Caption: Gifs from Black Sails of Silver and Flint practicing swordfighting.]
[ID in plain text: Gifs from Black Sails of Silver and Flint practicing swordfighting.]
[plain text: You’re not concerned about this? Concerned? Well, you say you’ll be teaching me to fight, but if every man fights differently… seems to me what you’ll really be teaching me is how to defeat you. I’ll take my chances. end plain text]
I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it
I always reblog this one when I see it on my dash. When someone posts their own art, writing, or music here they are really hoping you will share it.
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
(Epilepsy warning: flickering lights from 01:17 through 01:22 (if your display shows countdown timestamps, then 02:18 through 02:13))
[video description: a Black Sails fan video. Music is "Leaving the Old World" by Bytheway-May. Voiceover excerpts from the Treasure Island audiobook read by Michael Page.
The video fades in on Jack Rackham waiting in the Guthrie mansion in Philadelphia. A girl comes down the stairs and they converse: Girl: Is it true? Jack: I'm sorry? Girl: Uh, is it true… that you've come from Nassau? It's true isn't it? You're one of them. You're a pirate.
Instrumental orchestral music begins and the scene cuts to a view of the Walrus as it sails into the Skeleton Island bay. A voiceover asks, "Have you heard the story?"
Flint thumbs the edge of the missing page from the Urca schedule and his voice asks, "So you think that they see me as the villain in this particular story?"
Drawings of exaggerated pirate stereotypes blend with ghostly images of Flint in his more piratical moments. The voiceover asks, "What were these villains after but money?"
Flint asks Silver, "Why would you do that?" Silver responds, "You mean aside from the share of gold I'd get out of it?"
Miranda explains, "To show you a way out of all this, to free you." Flint demands, "A way out? Have you no memory of how we got here? What they took from us?"
Hornigold says, "I promised my men that if they stayed with me, they'd be soldiers again, that they'd be part of a rebel navy fighting a war to restore a rightful king."
Eleanor says to Vane, "…no more fighting, no more leads, no more chasing our fucking meals."
Silver continues, "…one big prize. And with it freedom."
Flint says to Anne, "We're all in this for our own reasons. You want your partner back. He wants victory. I want to set my home aright."
The music begins to swell. Billy tells Silver, "One more thing. No one gets any special treatment from you of any kind. No extra rations, no preferences in cuts of meat. Not for me, not for the quartermaster, not for the captain. Here, every man is equal."
Flint says to the maroon queen, over images of Julius, Billy, Vane, and white men in chains hauling lumber, "For every man in your camp, there are thousands somewhere in the West Indies living under the same yoke, chained in fields, pressed on ships, sold into indenture."
Max pleads with Eleanor, "We can have a life together. And it can start this very minute. All you have to do is say yes."
The music softens. The maroons are gathered happily around a large cooking fire, smiling and talking, and then we see Madi's face. She says, "But I hear other voices. A chorus of voices. Multitudes."
The video fades to black and the voiceover asks, "What did they care for but money?"
The music returns in earnest with dramatic drums and violins. Anne crawls across broken glass in the hold of a ship. Scott chokes a guard with the chains binding his wrists. Flint says, "Defined by their histories…" Vane stands at the gallows. Silver argues loudly with Flint, "I let you try it your way! I did trust you. But I am through wagering with her life now." A hooded Teach is dragged across the deck of a ship by a rope around his ankles. Flint continues, "…distorted to fit into their narrative." Flint drives a sword into the belly of Peter Ashe. Eleanor desperately picks up a pistol and fires it at the Spanish soldier attacking her. Flint rises to his feet in the forest on Skeleton Island, continuing, "…until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children."
The music climaxes and fades to gentle piano. The video fades to black for a moment, then shows an old pirate leaning against a railing on a ship. The voiceover asks again, "Have you heard the story?" It returns to Jack and the girl in the Guthrie mansion. Girl: I heard… Jack: Hmm? Girl: He sometimes butchered his enemies for amusement, made stew of their flesh. Flint stands over a cowering Alfred Hamilton. Vane, covered in grave dirt, rises over the corpse of his childhood tormentor. Girl: He was truly an animal. Silver cries out in pain and anger as he crushes the skull of Dufresne with his iron foot. Jack: Stew? Girl: Mh-hmm. Jack: I'm… I beg your pardon, but you believe this? Girl: I read it in a newspaper. Jack: Oh. Girl: Mm.
Silver stands in the forest on Skeleton Island, tears in his eyes, jaw clenched. The voiceover asks, "For what would they risk their rascal carcasses but money?" The music fades away. Distantly, Israel Hands, Ben Gunn, and two other pirates turn toward a sound in the distance on the island.
/end description]
Yeah. You're scary.
