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I would pay unreasonable amounts of money for everything left on the cutting room floor.

#ofmd #our flag means death

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izzy punched stede twice, stabbed him with intent to kill, and stood by while he was about to be executed by firing squad, in favor of it happening (since he caused it to happen), and i'd really just love for the people who think ed is abusive for a mere headbutt and that stede should have ended up with izzy to explain how exactly izzy is any better/less abusive by their 'standards'

#ofmd

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100% legit totally real facts about the historical stede bonnet

no the title is not a lie these are really REAL bc believe it or not, somehow the show made our stede MORE competent than the real one

sources: Real Pirates podcast (ep1, ep2, ep3, ep4, ep5), Dirty Sexy History podcast (with jeremy moss, bonnet's biographer, who LOVES the show, and said it changed his perspective on bonnet's and blackbeard's relationship PLUS he has the stedesrevenge handle on twt)

the library on the revenge was a real thing. the man really did that.

running away from his family to be a pirate

paying a salary to his crew

SHOWING UP IN NASSAU IN FRILLY GENTLEMANLY CLOTHES AND A POWDERED WIG

before bonnet's capture, he ran his ship aground and that's how the english caught up with him BUT the two english ships also ran aground (😭), so they fought each other with their flintlock pistols from behind their ships (until the tides turned and dislodged the english ships first. rip)

adopted an alias when he started pirating so people wouldn't know it was him but he raided ships near Barbados (where he's from), so that didnt turn out well. his solution? burning every ship from Barbados

he only succeeded in his early days bc merchant ships knew they would get off easier if they surrendered

ATTACKED A WARSHIP that whooped his ass so bad he almost died. the remaining crew steered the ship to Nassau where he met blackbeard

blackbeard stole the revenge from him but "allowed" him to stay on BB's ship (either as a guest or as a prisoner, it's not clear, but he def wasn't a crew member bc he didn't have any chores)

he was seen on deck running around in his gowns 😭😭

BB eventually reinstated him as the captain of the revenge and they sailed together for a while

"there is a 4 month period where stede and blackbeard kind of disappeared and no one really knows what they were doing" 👀

BB allowed bonnet to raid on his own which lead to him getting his ass beat by the Protestant Caesar. BB then proceeded to HUNT DOWN THE PROTESTANT CAESAR while flying the RED FLAG (which meant no mercy to anyone on board)

bonnet would raid ships and take what provisions he needed and give the other ship what he didn't need (essentially the library raiding scene lmaoo)

BB betrayed bonnet by raiding his ship and marooning his crew while bonnet was off getting a pardon

SO BONNET SWORE REVENGE AGAINST BB who was at the time, the most feared pirate

this led to him adopting another alias - "he also changes his name, at the time he goes by captain edward's. which is really interesting, I don't know if that's an homage to, you know, edward teach, but.. captain edward's with an "s", that's as if he's.. a possession of captain edward" ONCE AGAIN 👀👀👀👀

HE ESCAPED PRISON BY DRESSING AS A WOMAN

after escaping, he was promised a sloop by some rando. when the rando didnt deliver, bonnet "WROTE HIM A STRONGLY WORDED LETTER REPRIMANDING THE MAN"

that letter led to him being recaptured 😭😭

he was hanged while holding a bouquet of wilted flowers

#stede bonnet #our flag means death

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Ed’s expression and nod when Izzy says that is so fucking devastating. Ed just accepts that he’s not even worth enough to be put down like a pet.

The thing that HAUNTS me watching the scene where Ed shoots Izzy is that no one else there knows what Izzy said to Ed (and I think notably, neither Jim nor Archie were there for Izzy bringing the English to the Revenge), and so you can see what it looks like to everyone else, but every time I watch it I think yeah I would have shot him.

#ofmd #ofmd s2

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Kicked off the Revenge

Complementary dinghy

Banishment sandwich

#got high wrote haiku #ofmd #our flag means death

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Months later and I’m still fucking pissed that Jim said “he was our dick” like he isn’t the entire reason Jim’s crew was ripped apart.

#ofmd #our flag means death #renew as a crew #saveofmd

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Taika on Stephen Colbert

#eyes that could convince me to do absolutely anything

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Someone tell my fucking adhd to let me write the fic that won’t leave my fixated brain.

Please.

Advice really fucking welcome.

#ofmd #our flag means death #renew as a crew #saveofmd #save our flag means death #save

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The way they fucking look up at each other is so fucking precious.

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #edward teach

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me when OFMD doesn't get all the accolades it deserves:

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As a queer indigenous language keeper I find this scene says so fucking much for so many communities.

Our stories and our languages belong in our hands to share with our people.

Mm thinking about how the scene where Ed finds the lovely letter Stede wrote him is intentionally about taking back queer narratives!

At the start of the scene, we see English soldiers reading it and laughing about it. "Some guy's all hot and bothered," the one reading it says. They act like it's a joke, like it's something to be laughed at. "Dear Ed, I long for you," he reads in this dramatic voice that sounds like he's barely able to hold back laughs.

And that's so often what queer love and desire is made into - just a joke.

And then it's not subtle at all - Ed fuckin' wastes those guys. He cares so little about them and their mockery of the love letter Stede wrote for him that he barely even looks at them.

The scene starts with these homophobic characters reading the letter like it's a joke, but then Ed takes it back and we get to hear that letter in both his and Stede's voices, with all the love and gravitas and sweetness it deserves. Their love, and this tangible representation of it, means so much to both of them, and we get to see that. And I love that, because yeah, these jerks talk about the letter like it's something to mock, but the show doesn't let them have a lot of space to do that before Ed takes it back and we get to see the letter for what it really is - heartfelt, and impactful, and a beautiful expression of queer love and desire.

It's a lovely scene.

#hands off colonizers! #ofmd #our flag means death #renew as a crew

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jewellery on men has the same effect on me as laser pointers do on cats

#ed teach #ofmd

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Seabird

#fucki no gorgeous #ofmd #ed teach #blackbeard #our flag means death #edward teach

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girl get up!

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Too many other things going, I will not get pulled into thoughts about Viago and Anton...

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“Fucking hell, Edward, really?”

just remembered Izzy was in the room for that scene where Stede asks if he can call Ed his boyfriend and it's sooo funny to think of him having a very belated realization that everything he did in season one happened in response to a guy Ed hadn't even defined the relationship with yet

#how it sounds in my head