That Doesn’t Matter!!!! Just Do It Because You Want To And If People Like It That’s Just A Bonus

If one of my bookmarked fics updates in the next 24 hours I will kiss the author on the mouth, very passionately.

This is not a threat, but a promise.

James once told Regulus to face his fears. Of course, he said it a bit more lavishly, he was still posh after all.

He said, “Look into the eyes of your demons with nothing but courage, and determination; and if the case calls for it, look on with fury.”

Well, Regulus must be doing something right.

Because here he lays at the water’s edge, looking into the faces of watery demons, each representing something different - The Dark Lord, Father, Mother, Sirius, James, the life that was stolen from him - with nothing but courage, determination, and a whole lot of fury.

Songs I think scream Regulus Black (I will add more over time)

I can’t handle change - Roar

Burning pile - Mother Mother (specifically in Choices)

Coraline - Måneskin

Can you feel my heart - Bring me the horizon

The winner takes it all - Abba (jegulus)

Do me a favour - Arctic Monkeys

Work song - Hozier

Sign of the times - Harry Styles (some of the lines are actually arguments they had had and “stop crying baby it’s the sign of the times” is actually something Sirius would say to Regulus when they were little it’s a whole thing)

My eyes adored you - Frankie Valli (I just think he would’ve really liked this song)

No lights on the horizon - Metric (jegulus)

Another sad love song - Khalid (also specifically Choices)

Do I wanna know - Arctic Monkeys (Jegulus)

Planets of the universe (demo) - Stevie Nicks (listen to it once and tell me you don’t hear Regulus singing it)

Fake you out - Twenty one pilots (yes I was a stan what about it)

Lust to love - The Go-Go’s (James’ pov of Regulus in Carpe Noctem)

Aircatcher - Twenty-one pilots (specifically chapter 33 of carpe noctem)

You’re gonna go far, kid - the offspring

When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars (Reg’s feelings towards Jily)

Losing my religion - REM

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

Hear me out, I know people hc James being tall, but Sirius and him give off such short king vibes together.

Like, people don’t really think of him as short because he’s BUILT, but the moment him and Sirius are together (which is always), it’s like he loses a couple inches.

He’s still taller than Lily and Regulus (cus I’m a slut for Jegulus and Jegulily🤪) , which makes them angry because it’s only like half an inch and James constantly reminds them of it.

Idk if people do this anymore but I need help finding a fic that I read like a month ago. It’s a jegulus fic where Regulus doesn’t have a car so Sirius has James drive him to work. James says he’s straight but him and Reg have this flirty lil relationship. One night James comes to Reg drunk and they canoodle but James is gone in the morning I think?? I’m a lil fuzzy on that detail. After that Reg starts dating Kingsley because he’s not gonna fuck with a straight boy again. Then Kingsley moves away and they break up and then Reg and James get together. Also Sirius and Remus fell in love doing porn together and that’s their little side story

The fic was like three chapters but the word count was probably around 10,000-40,000, I can’t imagine it being longer than that.

I loved it and it was fun but now I can’t find it so SOMEBODY ANYBODY HELP ME PLEASE

James tends to forget. It’s not hard to when Sirius rarely talks about him, and when he does it’s hardly good.

Sirius is a trickster. A rebel. A Gryffindor. An untamable spirit. An amazing friend. A son to James’ parents. A lover to Remus. A soulmate to James.

Sirius is many things, but before everything; before all of this, he was a brother.

Honestly, like I ship jegulus but I couldn’t care less if you don’t so I’m not gonna talk about that. But atyd is like canon to some people. Sirius and Remus obviously have a lot of trauma and that’s makes it hard for them to let people in, but they were best friends for a long time before they got together, and to the both of them, their friends meant everything. Their friends are quite literally the only thing they have. I feel like that just doesn’t show in atyd. Neither of them learn how to trust or communicate even tho that’s what they’ve been trying to do since they first met. All four of them are supposed to have this unbreakable bond, even if they fight, they will always be connected, so why does it feel like all s+r do is fight and like Peter was just waiting to become a death eater??

no cause why is marauders tiktok so defensive about atyd and jegulus like- sorry not everyone likes James being shipped with a fascist and a fic thats main couple appears toxic 💀

That will not get you a kiss nor a slap.

That will get you a verbal affirmation that you are very good looking and I appreciate you in my life😘

If one of my bookmarked fics updates in the next 24 hours I will kiss the author on the mouth, very passionately.

This is not a threat, but a promise.

One morning last summer I was out on my back deck and I found this lovely creature just chilling. I hope you feel as calm and satisfied with your work as this frog looks. Because you deserve that.

Sending you my most luxurious vibes 💝💖💗❤️😘😍🥰🤪😎🤠

guys im trying my best to finish ch25 by tomorrow (it's not because i feel pressured by anyone, im just really inspired today and finally i have some time in my hands)

so please send good vibes my way, i definitely need them