Disability Black Sails

[frandroid]

So I'm out here making fun of Straight Black Sails but I'm not super picking up stuff when it comes to disability. This Twitter thread here admires the show for Long John Silver's journey:

silver as a disabled man is allowed complexity that is so often denied to disabled folks in media. he is traumatised and insecure. he is wrong in the decisions he makes. he is a fully fleshed out human being whose choices are affected by his trauma but not defined by it.

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Unrelated Dreamwidth tip:

"Casual HTML automatically formats line breaks and @user mentions"

!!! (I used the raw-code tag to show an un-interpreted @ mention, otherwise it's just showing it as user, as intended!!)

Comments

[sabotabby]

haha thanks - I sometimes feel like a bit of a buzzkill since everyone in the Black Sails fandom seems to be having so much fun and I'm like, "this show is an exploration of why revolutions fail and hierarchies endure." But, well. There's a reason my nickname in high school was "Daria," after all.

LOL. I started watching it because FUN PIRATE SWASHBUCKLING SHOW YAY and then I realized it was about anarchism and anti-imperialism and increased my love of the thing.

You seem cool! Access granted. :)