oh, yes
“So I actually have to fight him?”
I could spend the rest of my life happily watching 2.01 and 2.02 (and 3.03 and 4.09). Showed 2.01 and 2.02 to my son, we both had a great time (I really must have done something right there …)
For chrissake Silver, would you take this seriously? Stop molesting the pieces!
Don’t spoil my fun, Captain! Check and–oh, I believe that’s mate!
for @olga-eulalia, who wants more canon verse SilverFlint chess (and so do I– someone pls write this!)
I second that ….
“You freaked me out, I don’t wanna like anyone. So you’ve been just totally fucking inconvenient.”
Heartbreakingly beautiful and complicated. Love it so much.
current status datasheet
Tag 10 people after you answer the questions.
Tagged by @mr-frog-man, thanks!
1: relationship status: super taken and very happy about it ❤
2: favorite color: green. I really like Hooker’s Green for people who know what that is. Alizarin crimson and prussian blue are also faves.
3: something you just remembered: EDIT: to add something under this entry, lmao, this is so meta.
4: last song you listened to: According to Spotify, Rain in Soho by The Mountain Goats
5: last movie I watched: The Departed. Thanks @tartpants
6: top 3 bands: In no order, Patrick Wolf, The Mountain Goats, Jethro Tull
7: top 3 TV shows: True Detective, Hannibal, Avatar: The Last Airbender
8: books I’m currently reading: Hidden Figures, House of Leaves (aaaayyy book club!)
Tagging: @hootenannie, @shit-lizard, @ave-ari, @tartpants, @stephantom, @anintelligentoctopus, @mcicioni-blog, @brothuania, @tintenfischie, @elfbert
1. Fairly happily single
2. teal
5. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
7. Black Sails, Call the Midwife, Vera
8. Gehen, ging, gegangen by Jenny Erpenbeck. Great book. English transl. Go, Went, Gone. Please read it if you are at all interested in refugee issues.
Tagging: @timberwolfoz,@BloodylocksBathory,
for you when you watch the show, what is the point where flint and silver start to fall for each other? is it the same point for both of them?
i can’t believe you’re asking me to essentially unravel the threads that slowly bind them like this–short answer is: i don’t know! i’m not sure they know either. i think it happens over time and very incrementally. i don’t think anyone can really pinpoint where and when they fell in love (or started to fall in love) with someone irl either. i think steinberg said something like “it’s difficult to perform a post-mortem on these kinds of complicated relationships” which is something i think about a lot wrt silverflint.
that being said there are some milestones: i think flint resists feeling anything towards him really for a very very very long time; but silver stubbornly sticks around so by the end of s2 flint is kind of open and vulnerable to silver against his better judgement. but when silver lies to him again in 210 he shuts down completely and doesn’t open up until the shark date (which obviously is made 1000000x worse by the fact that he loses the only person he’s certain loves him, miranda). imo after 303 he pretty much full speed descends into the relatable mood of “fuck i’d die for and kill for john silver wow”
silver’s brain on the other hand is a bag of cats, man. idk exactly where he starts caring about flint to the extent we see them in the flashbacks, but he’s definitely desperate to be seen and respected by flint almost from the get go. then flint “betrays” him by sidelining the mission for the gold; then silver panics about being used and left behind; then he lashes out and betrays flint, too, because that’s how he knows how to protect himself; then he loses the leg and lies to flint’s face because he can’t handle someone caring about him or showing him sympathy. and then we get an entire season of silver banging on flint’s mental door and begging to be let in??? so like. where exactly does silver fall for him? whom knows?? i don’t even think he knows.
that being said the period of time between s3 and 4 is pretty significant i think not just for silver and madi but also for flint and silver. i like to think they both Realize Some Things during that time, but honestly given how repressed they both are they might not know anything right up until the end of s4. i feel like flint knows, though. in 409 he knows he can’t lose silver, which has to come at the heels of some kind of vague “fuck i love him” revelation. i don’t think silver knows until he pulls the gun and realizes he can’t actually shoot flint.
tl;dr; IDK MAN IM SO SAD
As long as one is willing to build it for themselves. Now, though, I am beginning to understand there are limits to what one can build alone.
For A Few Dollars More → Douglas Mortimer & “Manco”
Let’s drink to this partnership.
Me, being emotional: please turn around and change your mind
Me, being rational: This the typical narrative strategy of most Italian westerns: instead of killing off or marrying off one half of the partnership (as happens with most male pair-bonds in most American Westerns), they end the partnership in friendly closure. But the partnership has to end. It can’t possibly be allowed to continue, otherwise it may turn into Something Else.
James Flint Appreciation Week: Wednesday – Favourite Relationship
I think we’ve known, certainly since at some point in Season 1, that this was a story about Flint and Silver.
That it was a story about them going from a giant and the smallest man he ever knew to those two becoming allies to becoming friends to becoming singular to each other.
And maybe the person who they had the closest and most personal relationship with.
And that there was just this one point between them that would turn it into a tragedy.
And that the aftermath of that tragedy was Treasure Island.
Jonathan Steinberg
mici's campfire 