yet another of devotion's casualties

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

What happens when somebody tells a story that has real people in it? What happens to the story; what happens to the teller; what happens to the people?

- Devil House, John Darnielle

[image description: 10 edited stills from black sails in muted colors.

image 1: still from season four episode four of Flint and Madi giving each other significant looks while Silver faces away from the audience and towards them. text reads: “What happens when somebody tells a story that has real people in it?”

image 2: still from season four episode three of Madi and Flint walking outdoors along a path together, Madi is on the left and Flint on the right. they are looking at each other while talking

image 3: still from from the same scene of Flint beginning to walk away from Madi but looking back at her, Madi looking in profile so Flint can see her face

image 4: still from season four episode ten of Silver on skeleton island, pointing a gun at Flint, looking conflicted. caption reads: “What happens”

image 5: still of the same scene focused on Flint, he looks clearly upset and resigned, there is an injury on the right side of his face. caption reads: “to the story;”

image 6: still from season four episode ten of Silver after he tells Madi what happened to Flint, as he is leaving, slightly looking back towards her. caption reads: “what happens”

image 7: still from the same episode of Silver when Madi comes to find him sitting on the sandy hill above the ocean afterwards. he is beginning to stand, using his crutch for support. caption reads: “to the teller;”

image 8: still from the same episode of Silver as he gets to the end of telling Madi what happened to Flint, Madi is out of focus and Silver stands behind her. caption reads: “what happens”

image 9: still from the same scene and angle as previous picture, this time Madi is in focus and Silver isn’t, reduced to a figure standing in shadow behind her. Madi looks upset. caption reads: “to the people?”

image 10: still of Madi and Silver on the sandy hill over looking the ocean. Madi is standing on a path and Silver is beginning to walk towards her

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Pinned Post black sails james flint john silver black sails edit mine silverflintmadi silvermadi silverflint this has been going around my head nonstop and i had to get rid of it *takes a quote out of context and uses it for my own b*stard nefarious purposes* madisilverflint madi bs
frittteclerk
katakaluptastrophy

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Sadly, I my artistic abilities don't run to doing a mawkish technicolour Jod painting with flying skull cherubs and J J Abrams lens flares, which is probably the actual aesthetic of Nine Houses devotional art...

But here's a cheaply-printed flimsy holy card from a mail order apostolate on the Eighth that you can use to mark where you are in the Tome/leave in spaceport bathrooms on shepherd worlds.

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madnessandsmiles
chaumas-deactivated20240115

I think part of the problem with current feminism discourse is people are like, well, the full benefits of The Patriarchy are bestowed only upon a semi-mythological class of rich able-bodied thin handsome cishet white Elite Men; therefore it cannot bestow limited or situational benefits to anyone else and therefore is not worth even talking about.

chaumas-deactivated20240115

never mind post cancelled

the problem continues to be that if you even suggest there may be limited or situational benefits to the patriarchy accessible to anyone other than John Chauvinism, people tell you to try meeting nice men, don’t you know that men can be nice, you just not know that men can be nice, you must not realize that there are nice men because you’re so crazy and rancid