finngualart:

well, fuck :(

john-silvers:

BLACK SAILS, XXVIII

john-silvers:

BLACK SAILS, XXI

kimberlywexlr:

BLACK SAILS | XXX

And just after he joined my crew… I spent two weeks careening on this shit island with no name. I knew right away he was different than the others. He was so like me when I was a younger man. And that he and I somehow were fated to matter to one another. I was consumed with the question of whether our similarities would be a blessing or a curse. So, whilst the others were careening, a number of us were inland by a spring. The sun climbs up over the top of the trees in just a way that it shines off the pool… lighting up all around us. In that moment, a bird lands on the water… Massive, snow-white beast, big as a boar. To this day, I’ve never seen anything like it. Between the sun and the size of it, it just felt… meaningful. The answer to a question I did not yet know how to ask. I told him that there were men in the east who would have seen in that bird the darkest of all omens, bringer of death. But then, there are other men near Clifton… my… my mother’s home… Who would’ve called it a sign of great fortune, an indication from the heavens that someone up there favored our endeavor together.

idontwikeit:

— Odysseus Elytis, from The Collected Poems; “The Kore the Northwind Brought,”

pirate-ghost:

The realization of betrayal