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I've never rented a dirty movie from the back of a video store but I'm almost certain Ed would be a frequent guest behind the beaded curtain, looking for every cameo of his favourite pornstar's films - the one and only Stede Bonnet.
Lucky him he gets to live out his horny fantasies in person, and in full screaming colour 💜
Written by @ourflagmeansgayrights and art by me!
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here he is! king of having eyes!
This phrase has already entered my vocabulary re: media criticism where like. The viewer has a concrete view of what they expect a story to be based on the tropes and cliches they're used to seeing together, and when that doesn't happen, they judge it as a failed depiction of what they assumed it was going to be instead of judging it as what it actually is.
"This show is problematic because the hero didn't kill the villain at the end": When does he steal the bread?
"These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don't kiss at the end! What the fuck?": When does he steal the bread?
"This feels like it's missing a conclusion! Like, the protagonist does bad stuff and because of a critical decision he makes as a result of his major character flaws, meets tragedy in the end! Where's the part where he learns better and brings is love back from the dead and becomes a good guy and gets a happy ending?": When does he steal the fucking bread??
TAIKA WAITITI AS EDWARD TEACH/BLACKBEARD Our Flag Means Death | 1x10 - “Wherever You Go, There You Are”
so fucked up that the ofmd writers did a “character is replaced by an imposter but nobody notices bc they like the imposter more” storyline with izzy in s2. i thought this was supposed to be a kind show
resurrection/faked death theories are out, “s3 starts with the real izzy climbing out of a secret passage in the ship, turns out his imposter trapped him down there and nobody noticed” theory is in
here’s how steddyhands can still win
so fucked up that the ofmd writers did a “character is replaced by an imposter but nobody notices bc they like the imposter more” storyline with izzy in s2. i thought this was supposed to be a kind show
resurrection/faked death theories are out, “s3 starts with the real izzy climbing out of a secret passage in the ship, turns out his imposter trapped him down there and nobody noticed” theory is in
Izzy being ex-navy is a super popular hc but i can't buy it because if Izzy were in the navy i don't think he'd ever leave. i truly don't mean this as an insult to the character i don't mean like "Izzy is evil so he'd love being a colonizer" i'm just saying that dude craves order and hierarchy in a way that piracy is never going to satisfy but military life would be so perfect for him. Izzy would thrive in the military
the military ship he was on got attacked by blackbeard and the options were “join my crew” or “die” plus izzy had an instant boner for the evil villain macho swag thing ed had going on so he joined ed and sucked up to him until he got first mate but does really miss the rigid hierarchy of the navy. that’s why he’s in such a bad mood all the time
experimenting with some brushes
i'm sorry if you already talked about this and i missed it! but i wanted to know your thoughts on ed and stede/mary and stede parallel in s3. david said at the beginning of s3 ed and stede would be kind of like stede and mary (i assume in the sense of monotony) and stede still has the work to do. how do you imagine the monotony between ed and stede? what else is hiding under it? what work in your opinion ed and stede need to do to stay on course with their relationships? also it's not something we didn't know before since david was talking about ed and stede's relationships in s3 before the cancelation but i'm always up for your delicious meta and your thoughts!
ok, so first i want to say i know this gives some people anxiety - i remember some people on bluesky freaking out when the holiday special described stede lying awake at night like he did with mary - so let's start with remembering you can't push this analogy too far. stede's relationship with ed can't be just like his relationship with mary because there's already some key differences; for one thing there's no previous happy state that stede and mary decayed from, we saw the way their relationship started and it was miserable from the beginning.
but there's going to be some similarities for sure, and we can guess at it partly just by looking at the other evidence we have for what djenks is thinking about for s3. we have a fair bit of it now - there's the whole bsky special, and a list of songs, and he's gestured repeatedly at some key themes like "what if one of you grows while the other stops growing." but a big one, imo, was that he mentioned at BOF2 that a big theme in s3 would be learning to communicate, especially for stede.
some of us just don’t want to read problematic white authors so ao3 is our only option 🤷♀️
oh there is no saving youse
the famously unproblematic white authors of ao3
Dear Ida @bizarrelittlemew , I love your beautiful Hockey Boys gif so much that I Gentlebearded it for you
I wanted to finish this for your birthday, but I didn’t quite manage it in time, so please have this rough draft as a treat 😘
🥰 HAPPIEST OF DAYS, MY DEAREST! ❤️
a day may come when I don't think "man, he really does have big disney princess eyes, huh" every single time I rewatch OFMD, but it is not this day
