This Too Shall Pass This Too Shall Pass This Too Shall Pass This Too Shall Pass This Too Shall Pass This

Today while listening to the news I just. Lost my mind a little about a recurring frustration.

I'm constantly frustrated by America and Europe going No, We Can't Have Immigrants From These Poor Countries! As if they didn't cause the fucking problems in those countries in the first place.

"They're fleeing CRIME and POVERTY and SICKNESS and they'll BRING IT HERE" Bitch the crime and sickness are a result of the poverty and the POVERTY is a result of first world countries abusing the hell out of them, like what the FUCK do you think has led to the severity of crises in places like Venezuela and Palestine and the Congo if not the systematic political and economic abuses of the people and natural resources. The problems they are fleeing were created by YOU. You're not allowed to get mad at refugees when you CAUSED THE PROBLEM IN THE FIRST PLACE.

"Oh, so many Haitian immigrants are coming here, why can't they stay in--" ASK FRANCE AND CITIBANK TO FUCKING PAY THEM BACK THE TRILLIONS* THEY DEMANDED FOR THE SLAVE REVOLUTION AND MAYBE THEY'D HAVE A CHANCE * Technically hundreds of billions when adjusted for inflation, interest, and what potential it would have reasonably had to grow in Haiti's economy, but it's hard to calculate. Also, when Haiti asks you to pay them back the 21 billion of the original debt adjusted for inflation, not even counting the interest, maybe don't fucking assassinate (allegedly) the lawfully-elected president who asked for that money!

Maybe when people come to the US from Guatemala, you can have fucking Chiquita pay for their housing!

In this case I'm looking at what the UK and Italy are doing with attempts to move undocumented migrants to Rwanda and Albania respectively and I want to SHAKE THEM.

The fucking United Kingdom does not get to complain about migration from war-torn or poverty stricken areas. You, of all countries, do not get to FUCKING COMPLAIN about people seeking refuge because something is wrong at home. Not after EVERYTHING.

The fact that the UK wasn't directly funding all Palestinian relief agencies out of pure shame for their role in causing this entire decades-long horror of a situation is maddening.

academic papers about black sails

Jones, Clint, "Black Sails as Philosophy: Pirates and Political Discourse"

Myrvang, Olav Kjetil, "Because I don’t want to be a pirate" - A Contextual Study of the Representation of Long John Silver in Treasure Island and Black Sails

Carcas, Leyres, “HETEROBAITING”: BLACK SAILS AND THE SUBVERSION OF QUEERBAITING TROPES

Schneider, Elisabeth, "RECLAIMING QUEERBAITING: A CALL TO ACTION"

Friedrich, Kathrin, "‘Evil Heroes’ in Black Sails – A Case Study: How Character Complexity and Nonverbal Actions Invite Positive Viewer Responses"

Razman, D. C. (2020) “Black Sails, Rainbow Flag: Examining Queer Representations in Film and Television” [click for pdf]

Srividhya Swaminathan, (2017) “The New Cinematic Piracy: Crossbones and Black Sails” (in ‘The Cinematic Eighteen Century: History, Culture, and Adaptation’ (2017, 1st ed.) edited by Srividhya Swaminathan and Steven W. Thomas)

Dirksen, S.J. (2019) “Constructing the Identity of the Popular Pirate: The Outlaw, Marginal Identities, and Utopia in Black Sails (2014-2017) and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (2013)”

Min-Chi Chen (2024) “Weaponizing Monstrosity: Starz’s Black Sails and the Power of Monstrous Narrative” (in Chapter 2 of ‘Monsters and Monstrosity in Media: Reflections on Vulnerability’, 23, 2024, edited by Yeojin Kim, Shane Carreon)

Jessica Walker “Civilization’s Monsters: The Doomed Queer Anti-Imperialism of Black Sails” (in ‘Pirates in History and Popular Culture’ (2018) edited by Antonio Sanna) [entire book in pdf]

“From Dogs to Kings” https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1332062/FULLTEXT01.pdf

twink era ↠ dilf era

(happy birthday @comicbookvillain 🎉)

fantasy story: but we grew complacent, indulgent, arrogant, spoiled by this era of prosperity and splendour, and in our short-sighted greed and vanity, we ended it. me at 15: I hate this stupid trope. People aren't going to just turn stupid and ruin everything just because things have been "too good" for "too long". Why does this author think that people are inherently stupid and evil? people on social media in 2024: I'm not going to vaccinate my dogs or my children because polio, measels and rabies are so rare they're not a real threat anyway uwu me at 30: Ah. I see.

run, Pete, run. for @kissporsche

VegasPete + text posts (pt. 27/28)

So I have this idea for a fix-it, right?

For whatever reason, Alpha-17 visits Coruscant towards the end of the war. Possibly after the Fives incident? Maybe that’s the reason he’s visiting in the first place, actually, because he heard about that. Anyway, he turns up in the Coruscant Guard base with zero warning and heads straight for Fox.

Fox has been trying so hard to keep it all together but one glimpse of his dad older brother’s face and he violently bursts into sobbing right then and there. There’s probably an audience.

Now Alpha-17. Big, legendary, terrifying Alpha-class clone Seventeen sees one of his babies burst into tears and that’s all he needs to know. Does not matter that Fox is a full grown adult Marshall Commander or that there are a bunch of other clones around, that is his baby and he is crying and so Seventeen picks him up and cradles him and lets Fox sob into his neck and between hushing Fox and cooing to him he quietly demands with his eyeballs to be directed to Fox’s quarters so they can have some privacy.

The entire Coruscant Guard would die for Seventeen without hesitation, now, and happily sends him to the Commanders’ bunkroom.

Seventeen manages to deduce which bunk is Fox’s and parks them both in it and then just holds Fox and lets him sob himself out. Fox is doing the kind of wailing-crying that is so intense he nearly makes himself throw up a few times. He just kind of rocks Fox back and forth and rubs his back and tells him it’s okay, Seventeen is here now, he’s gonna take care of everything, let it all out, etc.

Once Fox is spent, Seventeen borrows his comm and asks someone to send some food and water for Fox and then gets to work getting him in bed. He takes off his armor and tries to convince him to get into sleep clothes—you don’t have any pajamas? Alright, a fresh set of blacks, then.

Alpha-17 has already seen the grey hair and the dark circles and the facial scars and he Has Some Concerns. But the scars on Fox’s body, not to mention how thin he is…

Seventeen gets him to eat and drink as much as he can, and then tucks him in and cuddles him until he falls asleep. Then he comms the other Coruscant Guard Commanders and very calmly asks them who needs to die for this.

The Guard’s collective impulse control is soundly asleep and they have an enraged Alpha-class clone on their side. Palpatine will never even get the chance to see what hit him.

on shame and yearning (pt.2)

Saw this on iwtvtwt and started losing my mind

The eyes of a boy who knows no one in that room loves him (himself included).

WTF is an NTF? No matter how many times I’ve had it explained to me, it still makes no sense. The best I can figure that it’s a form of cryptocurrency with personalized artwork made on a really environmentally unfriendly material being sold for ridiculous prices just so suckers can get unique furry artz

Isn't being your 1000% platonic best buddy's loyal vassal just the least homoerotic thing you can ever do? Maedhros thinks so. He's never done anything homosexual in his life.