idontwikeit:
Black Sails quotes + rage
You are right. Many men have played a role in Nassau’s story, but none have been able to break the cycle of brutality and failure. Your granddaughter came as close as anyone before or since. But at the end of the day and despite her best intentions, there was one truth even she was unable to see. That at some point, progress cannot begin…and suffering will not end… until someone has the courage to go out into the woods and drown the damned cat.
pirateslesbian:
You say you fight for the sake of Nassau, for the sake of your men, for the sake of Thomas and his memory. But the truth of the matter is, it isn’t for any of those things. What the fuck do you think I am fighting for?
oscarspoe:
BLACK SAILS XVII.
The earl was no friend of yours, and yet he grants you gifts from his own home, why would he do that? All these years it never sat right with me how Alfred was able to turn the navy against James. He was far too admired by his superiors for his career to be dashed based solely on hearsay. Alfred would have known that. He wouldn’t have gone to them armed only with unfounded suspicions. He would have needed a witness. Someone who knew Thomas and James well enough to give the accusation credibility. Alfred came to you, didn’t he? Asked you to betray Thomas in exchange for which he’d… see you made a king in the New World.
leiaorgona:
“I sent that letter to show you that you’re wrong. There is a life in Boston. There is joy there and music and peace. The door is open. I’ve opened it for you.”
sunlighttwood:
What he shared with you… it was entirely something else
cleaverkatja:
There is a life in Boston. There is joy there and music and peace. The door is open. I’ve opened it for you. And it requires no war and no blood and no sacrifice. It requires an intolerable sacrifice. To accept a pardon? To apologize. Apologize? Who will you be apologizing to? To England!
