jamesemcgraw:

silverflint meme – 7 scenes

2/7 ⟶

“You know, the strange thing is, I… I should be with Billy. Until most recently, I’m quite certain I would have been. Unbothered by the idea of trading your life for the rest of the crew’s. And yet, for some reason, right now I am bothered by it. But I understand it. I understand the allure of ensuring that no one will ever think you the villain you fear you are. What a waste it seems to me, knowing it doesn’t have to be this way. Knowing the man who talked me into giving a shit about this crew… why, he could talk those people out there into anything. If he wanted to.”

Source: solomonlittle

silversflint:

Are you alright?

This scene gave me days of ethical angst and almost made me quit Black Sails fandom, and fandom in general. I am grateful to the friend who put up with my wailing and encouraged me to keep watching, because I believe that a beginning of a (partial!!!) redemption can be seen in the final episode.

Source: silversflint

annevbonny:

jonathan steinberg pitching black sails: hey remember when you were a kid reading treasure island and half way through you realized that flint and silver were deeply in love?

starz executive taking a puff of his cigar: Yes. Go On

I have finished watching Black Sails. What is most wonderful about it is that its central theme is storytelling. Some stories are true, some are untrue, some are reshaped. As one of the few characters that survive reasonably happily ever after puts it, “The stories we want to believe, they are the ones that survive. Those are the stories that change history.”

unsurpassedtravesty:

flowerlygirls:

vastderp:

antisemitic:

Willem Arondeus was a Dutch resistance fighter who gave his life trying to protect his Jewish countrymen from the Nazis.

Born in Amsterdam in 1895, Willem was one of six children. From a young age, he was a talented artist and his parents encouraged his creativity, until he came out as homosexual at age 17.

In a time when nearly all gay people were in the closet, Willem’s parents could not accept his choice to live openly. Their rejection led Willem to run away from home.

On his own, Willem took odd jobs and eventually became a successful visual artist and writer. He was commissioned to paint a mural for Rotterdam’s town hall, in a style that combined modern abstract painting with a traditional Dutch motif. Willem was a well-respected author who published a popular biography of Dutch painter and political activist Matthijs Maris.

In 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. Willem immediately joined the resistance movement, and urged his fellow artists to fight against the Nazi occupation. WIllem published illegal anti-Nazi pamphlets calling for mass resistance against the Germans.

Willem was especially committed to saving Amsterdam’s Jewish community. Bringing in others to the cause, Willem arranged for Dutch Jews to be hidden in people’s homes. He used his artistic skills to create false identity papers.

In 1943, Willem hatched a brazen plan. Dressed as a German Army captain, and with 15 men behind him, Willem boldly marched into the Public Record Office, where lists identifying people as Jews were kept. Willem drugged the guards and planted a firebomb. The resulting blaze destroyed tens of thousands of documents, and delayed or prevented many Jews from being identified by the Nazis.

Unfortunately, Willem was captured by the Germans and sentenced to death. Willem’s last words before being executed in July, 1943 were, “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”

In 1986 Yad Vashem recognized Arondeus as Righteous Among the Nations.

Because of his sexual orientation, Willem’s story was omitted from Dutch history books. Only in the last 20 years has his courage become widely known.

i have never heard of this!

gay hero 💖💖💖

“Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”

Damn.  Just.

Damn.

Source: halabi