silverflintdaily:

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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oh yes yes yes, rejection of labels, acceptance of fluid borders, awareness of of things unsaid and unacknowledged

One time I saw a girl so pretty I asked her if she was getting paid overtime for the extra work she was doing bc I’m just that bad at flirting 💀💀

jamesvflint:

incredible. you did so great. i’m so proud of you 

“once i saw a girl so pretty i____” fill in the blank ask game 

One time I saw a girl so pretty I kept going into her tiny travel office to ask silly questions about hiring scooters, even though this was a Greek island full of hairpin bends and I wouldn’t have driven around in a scooter under any circumstances whatsoever 

have you considered that most people read fics to read stories not masturbate to fetishy fanworks?

leproblematique:

forest-of-stories:

lordhellebore:

Do you have statistics to prove this? 🙂 And even if that is so, what of it? Like, what are you trying to say? That everyone should read fanfic for the same reasons? That there is only one right reason and one right way to consume fanfic? That what a majority does is right and what a minority does is wrong? Please do enlighten me.

There are a lot of reasons why people read fanfics.  I have probably considered most of them.

Also, what @lordhellebore said.

I’ll say this until I die – this place has started to propagate the exact same fucked-up ideas that messed me up so badly as a teen raised in a highly conservative Christian environment. If, when I ran screaming from that environment, someone had told me that I’d find the same knee-jerky nonsense in ‘progressive’ spaces, I wouldn’t have believed them for a second!

And yet here we are, with people like this anon taking a moralistic stand in regard to (gasp!) masturbation and (gaaaasp!) fetishes. Absolutely unbelievable.

I am going to make this very clear:

  • there is absolutely nothing wrong with doing shit purely for masturbatory purposes;
  • there is, in direct contrast to what the most head-up-own-arse portions of this miserable site keep pushing, nothing wrong with having fetish(es) either, so long as you aren’t tricking or coercing living, breathing, non-consenting humans into satisfying them for you;
  • there is nothing wrong with pleasure purely for pleasure’s sake;
  • there is nothing wrong with smutty fanfic whose only purpose is to satisfy someone’s obscure kink – if it’s not to your taste or it squicks you out, tags and the ‘Back’ button are right there.

Some people read fic to see ‘what if’ scenarios. Some people read fic for cute, slice-of-life AUs. Some people read fic because they want sprawling, 300K word behemoths. Some people read fic because they want to see their favorite ship falling in love in a thousand different ways. Some people read fic for the sexual gratification. A lot of people read fic for more than one of these reasons and all are equally valid.

Isn’t it interesting, that the primarily-smut-readers aren’t stamping their feet like brats and whinging about there being ‘too much fic with no smut’ or whatever else, whereas anon feels entitled to impose their tastes onto everyone else? Because that’s exceedingly telling, from where I’m standing.

whatagrump:

the fucking….number of parallels between established romantic relationships in black sails and the relationship btwn flint and silver are staggering. like, i didn’t even notice until rewatching that madi uses the same phrase on silver (“where are you?”) that silver used on flint when they were being held captive by the maroons. there is no heterosexual explanation for that.