Can’t you see it? It isn’t utility that’s behind his investment in me. Nor necessity, nor dependency.
Are you a reunite with your lost lover 10 years later in a corn field kind of gay or a fall in love with your soul mate while starving in the ocean kind of gay
Are you a take your crush on a date to see an execution kind of gay or a take your date to kill a shark so you don’t starve kind of gay
“I can’t tell if this was a warning, or a welcome.”
John Silver – Season 3
If carpenters worked like writers you’d see people staring silently at a mass of clay for 50 minutes before getting up, shifting a piece of wood, and nodding a scholarly nod at the ground.
“Yes, I think it looks better now.”
“Think so?”
“You don’t?”
“I liked it better the way it was.”
“The wood?”
“Yeah.”
“What about that brick over there?”
“That one on the right?”
“Yeah, does it fit well?”
“Dunno, man. I mean, it does, it’s nice and all, but do we need it?”
“No, perhaps not. But it’s a nice brick, isn’t it? I mean, it’s not the best of bricks, but I’m… fond of it, you know.”
“Yeah. Tell you what, mate: that piece of wood you shifted just now?”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah, put it back where it was.”
“Yeah, I was thinking the same.”
“I think we need a drink now.”
“You pay.”
“Alright. Hey, I was thinking…”
“Yeah?”
“What if we turned the house around and built it upside down, wouldn’t that work better?”
“We could try…”
unhealthy obsession with male bonding: John Silver & James Flint
ohh yes. Yes please. Unhealthy be damned.
Interviewer: There was an intense friendship—in a way, love—between Silver and Flint, too, no?
Steinberg: It was a complicated relationship with a lot going on under the surface. Starz gave us the freedom to allow some of these relationships to exist without specific labels and to embrace that people don’t always say what they’re feeling and exist in the space that people don’t even know about themselves.
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Black Sails Haiku #2 (during S2.01)
Ha. Some volunteer. / Yet he’s brave and resourceful. / And not bad-looking.