Let's start with a frivolous observation: I haven't read the Percy Jackson books, nor have I watched the two movies (though I osmosed the book fandom hated them, by and large), but I do follow the tv daption currently being shown at Disney +, and last week's episode - which belatedly also told me two of the producers were the Black Sails PTB (i.e. ( Read more... )

I had watched the first season of Wheel of Time and had liked it fine without being swept away (or induced to read the books); the second season, however, I find more and more compelling. Perhaps because it feels more unique and less generic in terms of epic quest fantasy? Also like now that the main characters are established, the narrative can ( Read more... )

Dear Letter writer,

this is the first time I'll participate in this exchange, and I am very much looking forward to reading your story - and grateful. All the prompts are just suggestions; if you have very different ideas, go for them.

General DNW: I'm okay with characters who canonically loathe other characters expressing that opinion as a part ( Read more... )

News of the World: essentially: a Western/odd couple road movie directed by Paul Greengrass starring Tom Hanks as a Civil War veteran Captain Kidd who accidentally during his travels through post war Texas comes across Johanna (played by Helene Zengel, an excellent young actress who made her film debut in Systemsprenger), daughter of German ( Read more... )

So, remember when I posted about the 18th Century Age of the Enlightenment equivalent to "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" being "Six Degrees of Francesco Algarotti", i.e. the ability to link everyone to Algarotti in six steps or less? (And to someone who either had sex with Algarotti, wanted to have sex with Algarotti, or wrote about other people ( Read more... )

Quickly, a Black Sails fanfiction rec: Gossamer, which is a beautiful, poetic Max pov, set in early s3, and bringing out her complex feelings about her own (new) place in life, and Eleanor ( Read more... )

While it's been now two years since I've (re)watched an episode - must remedy that - , my Black Sails love remains as strong as ever, so when
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Black Sails:

each sad lost wave: Miranda at two very different points in her life, and with two very different men. Captures her relationships with Thomas and James beautifully.

your hair was long when we first met: Flint between seasons 2 and 3, pondering Miranda - and becoming aware of Silver.

Star Trek: Discovery

High Tide Or Low Tide: ( Read more... )

„We’re all stories, in the end“, says not just River Song on Doctor Who but Captain Jack Rackham in Black Sails‘ final episode. Black Sails works on so many levels; one of them is a very meta meditation on storytelling and storytellers.

The show’s cast of characters is a mixture of characters derived from a literary classic, Treasure Island, ( Read more... )

Impossible to start my argument without spoilers, so I shan't even try.

( Spoilers are a character stuck in the wrong story falling victim to fanservice )