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1. A Still and Awful Red Macaw by notfelix

   Fandoms: Black Sails  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M, M/M
   • Complete Work

   16 Sep 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Madi/John Silver (Black Sails)
   • Captain Flint | James McGraw/John Silver
   • John Silver (Treasure Island)
   • Madi (Black Sails)
   • Captain Flint | James McGraw
   • Captain Flint the Parrot (Treasure Island)
   • Israel Hands
   • Post-Canon
   • Ghosts
   • Birds
   • Animal Death
   • Gore
   • weirdly sexual attitudes about viscera
   • there's no sex but there are entrails and that's basically the same thing
   • Canon Disabled Character
   • Judaism
   • Jewish John Silver (Treasure Island)
   • Poetry
   • Blank Verse
   • Iambic Pentameter
   • the both rapid and excruciatingly slow decline of John Silver's mental health
   • Gay Panic
   • like the literal legal definition
   • Hanukkah
   • Antisemitism
   • (discussed but not depicted)
   • Colonialism
   • Assimilation
   • making the transition from post-Black Sails to pre-Treasure Island

   Summary

   'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
   From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
   Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow
   I shot the albatross.

   //

   The spirit who bideth by himself
   In the land of mist and snow,
   He loved the bird that loved the man
   Who shot him with his bow.

   — The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

   (alternately titled How Long John Silver Came to Own a Parrot Named Captain Flint: a Poem in Three Parts.)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   21,016

   Chapters:

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