#ofmd

[jaskierx]

before you vote, spin the wheel and get an ofmd character 🏴‍☠️

insp: one, two

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd poll #lyse.jpg #fmk

[odetokeons]

i'm collecting heart-shaped posters of my favourite ships from my favourite queer media like infinity stones

#good omens #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley #our flag means death #ofmd #gentlebeard #stede bonnet #edward teach #venom #venom the last dance #venom 3 #symbrock #eddie brock #venom symbiote #HAPPY PRIDE MONTH TO ME

[temporal-discounting]

This is quite possibly my favourite Stede face journey in all of OFMD. The little blink of disbelief as Ed says his own words back at him.

The little grin as the meaning of those words settles in.

The way he can't hold Ed's gaze any longer and just has to look away.

It's so fucking sweet, and shy, and young. They both know they're on the same page now, but there's still nervousness there; there's still butterflies flapping away in their tummies.

It's just so utterly endearing.

#I will never be over Fine Things 2.0 #I think I ascended to a higher plane of existence that day #and I have never returned #you wear fine things well #stede bonnet #edward teach #gentlebeard #ofmd #our flag means death

[loosethreadsofyoursoul]

to celebrate this pride month, i am in full denial about the ofmd c*ncellation. as far as i know, the cast is gathered in taika’s backyard and season 3 is being filmed on samba and vico’s iphones. can’t wait for the bts tiktoks guys

#happy pride month #hbo? never heard of her #ofmd #our flag means death #blackbonnet #taika waititi #rhys darby #vico ortiz #samba schutte

[smudgeandfrank]

4 of our favorite OFMD pirates are going to be at Galaxycon San Jose and Columbus, and so am I with this con exclusive sticker to celebrate them!! 🖤🏴‍☠️✨️

I'll post my table locations as soon as I know them so you can stop by the artist alley and grab one for yourself! 🖤🏴‍☠️✨️

#our flag means death #ofmd #izzy hands #jim jimenez #lucius spriggs #wee john #galaxycon #galaxycon san jose #galaxycon columbus

[piratecaptainscaptainpirates]

I have not been able to stop thinking about this picture since we got the promo stills drop a little while back.

Look at Stede's face. The profound grief, the longing - I think about how Rhys said in one of his interviews that while filming this scene everything looked so real he was able to get into the mindset of how he would feel if he found Taika's body like that, and I think that adds such a genuine angle to his portrayal of this immense pain.

Stede has, before this, only been able to see Ed's body from the top of the stairs. He has been denied the chance to spend time with his body and mourn. He has to take a moment to steel himself before he can remove the shroud from Ed's face, and the absolute pain of that little exhale he makes when he sees his poor bruised and bloody face makes me tear up every time. The last time he saw Ed, he was happy and smiling and excited to start a new life together, and now he looks like this.

This image, I think, is such a good representation of Stede's side of this whole scene. He thinks the love of his life is dead - not just dead, but spent his last moments in such terrible pain that he did everything he could to force some of their friends to kill him. He thinks he has found the love of his life brutally beaten to death, with bruises on his face and blood in his beard and his usually carefully-styled hair in his face.

It makes me think about what Stede must have been thinking, for that long little while before Ed's hand moved. He'd been stalling. He hadn't gotten there in time. Does he think that it's all his fault Ed is laying there like that? Is he blaming himself for not getting to him sooner? He's made it through this whole awful day, taking back his ship and saving the crew and making it down here to be with Ed for what he thinks might very well be the last time, and it hurts so fucking bad!

#ofmd #our flag means death

[ofmdee]

💔

#mine #ofmdedit #ofmd #our flag means death #edward teach #ed #mopey baby :((((((((((

[sugashook]

#ofmd #our flag means death #edward teach #blackbeard #rolls eyes #u dont even get it

[bizarrelittlemew]

stiddies for @gentlebeard 💗 HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELLA!

thank you for blessing us with your amazing self and incredible (and often devastating) video edits 💖 you're so sweet and kind and talented and deserve all the best in the world 🥰

#gentlebeard #ofmd #ofmd gifs #our flag means death #ida.stuff #stede bonnet #stiddies fanclub #and of course stiddies are some of the best the world has to offer godbless 😌

[celluloidbroomcloset]

I deeply enjoy how Izzy’s like “this isn’t over, Mr. Bonnet” and I’m like, “yeah, Izzy, he’s gonna seduce your boss and ruin your life and it’s gonna be so funny, fuck you.”

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #izzy hands #gif

[sherlockig]

Happy birthday my beloved Ella @gentlebeard 💗💗💗 I wish you the best birthday every and that you are as celebrated as you deserve to be. I want everything nice and happy for you. You know i love you very very much. I can not imagine this fandom without you. 💗You are such an important part of my corner of tumblr but also of my life and heart. 💗 I hope you enjoy your gifts (online and live) and that you will let me buy you a late birthday drink in a couple of weeks when we yet again will sit together in the sun talking for hours and hours. The foot touch is the most beautiful thing i can think of so that is what you are getting. Love you and see you soon 💗💗💗

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #rhys darby #ed teach #edward teach #taika waititi #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #birthday #<33333

[our-flag-means-love]

no chicken option. if you don't go here sorry you just gotta wait for the results

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd polls #ofmd season 2 #ofmd season 3 #save ofmd #long live ofmd

[canonizzyhours]

I'm a professional screenwriter. I know nobody reading this has any reason to believe that, and I work pretty hard to keep my fandom activity separate from my professional identity, so I'm not going to offer any proof that would doxx me here, believe me or don't. But it's true and I don't just mean I'm trying to get hired as a screenwriter, I mean I am pretty well established in the industry and I've worked on some stuff big enough you've probably heard of it. I've also been active in OFMD fandom for about two years now, since nearly the beginning.

The canyon really freaks me out because seeing it up close makes me worried I've drastically underestimated audiences' empathy gap around characters of color and tendency to sympathize with and excuse the actions of white characters. I've always tried to be conscious about that sort of thing in my work but now that I'm seeing the whole process up close it's so much worse than I always thought.

I think a lot about what I would have done during season 1 of OFMD, if I were in the writers' room and I'd wanted to make sure it would be clear to the audience that Izzy was Ed's abuser and wasn't acting out of secretly sympathetic motives and we're supposed to be genuinely horrified by his actions. I'm in writers' rooms workshopping issues like this all the time. I know the kinds of suggestions I'd make.

Like, if we were worried that the audience would think Izzy's hostility toward Stede was about class instead of homophobia, I might have suggested we make sure Izzy's dialogue never has any reference to Stede's class at all, and that we might do a subplot in one episode where Izzy is equally hostile toward Lucius, since Lucius clearly isn't rich but is extremely gay. But that already happened, and it didn't help.

If I wanted to make sure the audience understood that Izzy is bossing the crew around and screaming at everyone to work harder because he's a petty little bully on a power trip and not because the work actually needs to get done, I might have suggested a scene where Izzy deliberately makes a mess on purpose just so he can order the crew to clean it up. But that already happened, and it didn't help.

If I wanted to make it clear that Izzy has always been awful toward everyone around him -- especially his colleagues of color -- since long before the show started, I might have suggested we repeatedly emphasize throughout the season that while Fang is willing to work with him, he doesn't like or respect Izzy and this is because Izzy has always treated Fang very badly. Have him pull on Fang's beard for no reason and have Fang explicitly say he hates that but knows it wouldn't help to complain. Have Fang tell strangers jokes about times Izzy humiliated himself in public. Have a scene where everybody unanimously VOTES TO MURDER IZZY and someone explicitly stops to ask Fang if he's cool with this and Fang explicitly says yes this is absolutely fine with me and then he actively participates in the murder plan while smiling. But all of that happened and I still see the canyon insisting that Izzy was a much nicer person before the events of s2 when he wasn't under so much stress and has always been liked and respected by the PoC around him, including specifically Fang!

If I were worried that the audience might take seriously the idea that Izzy is motivated by "loyalty to your captain" -- well, honestly I don't think it ever would have occurred to me to worry about that, since he says that in a scene where he's in the middle betraying his captain and I'd probably assume people are capable of picking that up and understanding that when someone says they're abusing you for your own good you should not believe them. But if someone else insisted we address the concern, suggestions I'd make would include: make sure some of the first interactions we see between Ed and Izzy involve Izzy complaining about how he doesn't want to do the job Ed just gave him, then half-assing the mission and lying to Ed's face about it. Show Izzy deliberately undermining Ed to the crew by telling them he's half-insane, then insist to Ed that he's the only one keeping the crew loyal when they're worried about his judgment. But they did that stuff and we still have people thinking Izzy's central motivation throughout season 1 is selfless devotion to Ed.

The show did every single thing I would have suggested, and none of it worked. So what does it say about all the stuff I've already worked on, whenever I've written a scene where a white guy was being a dick to characters of color? Have I just been embarrassingly naive this whole time? Have I undermined my own work by not getting this?

You can't control audience reactions, I know that, that's part of what's great about art, you have to let go and accept that people will interpret things in ways you never intended, I get it. But if it's THIS impossible to choose words that will create the kind of feelings you meant to, what's the point? Is it even possible to write about the kind of abusive relationship Ed and Izzy have, where the white guy thinks he's entitled to control a brown man's life "for his own good" and that the brown guy is obligated to be grateful and reciprocate his "love" and not have a huge group of people creating elaborate justifications for the white guy? What else could they have done? What else can I do, when I'm writing about characters of color? I'm seriously asking. If anybody reading this has advice I want to hear it. What could I do?

#408.

#ofmd #izzy hands #edward teach #fang #lucius spriggs #fandom critical #canonizzyhours

[temporal-discounting]

I genuinely feel as angry about the shortened runtime of s2 as I do about the cancellation. Not only did they give the crew 2 fewer episodes, but the episodes were around 2-3 mins shorter, on average.

This all adds up to a staggering 80 minutes across the season. 80. MINUTES!

Just imagine what the writers could have done with that extra time. All the little plot points they could have included. The space for silly, goofy gags that don't directly serve The Plot. Space for shots to linger, and for scenes to breathe more.

And of course more soft little gentlebeard moments. There could have been more kisses! And cuddles! And pet names!

Don't get me wrong - I love s2. I just get sad and angry (sangry? Is that a thing?) when I think about how much more we could have had.

#ofmd #our flag means death

[fuzzylogic-27]

They're the same picture.

#ofmd #our flag means death #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #ofmd memes #ofmd meme #blackbeard ofmd #ofmd fanart #ofmd season 2 #they're the same picture #ed babygirl teach

[smudgeandfrank]

HI, YES, SO, I NEARLY CRIED IN PUBLIC UPON SEEING THIS IN MY DMS YESTERDAY AND I'M STILL NOT OKAY A DAY LATER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA💖😭💖😭💖😭💖😭💖😭💖😭💖😭💖

#con o'neill #izzy hands #I'm still in shock #he's so kind #our flag means death #ofmd