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Also everyone keeps forgetting that after Stede got /kidnapped/ he was convinced that he‘s destroying everyone around him and that he deserves to die AND THEN the person who convinced him, the very twin brother of the guy he manslaughtered and had PTSD induced hallucinations over, whose entire life was /destroyed/ by his hunt for Stede, tripped while trying to execute Stede AND ACCIDENTALLY BLEW HIS OWN BRAINS OUT.

Like the sword was horrifying but the twin shot himself point blank in the face. We don’t see his body like we see his brother’s body. Like they don’t play a single second of that for laughs like they did in the first episode, Stede screams in such genuine mind breaking horror.

That happens in the middle of the night. He arrives home in the middle of his wife’s meeting, mid-morning/early-afternoon. He walked straight from the corpse to his wife’s home over /hours/.

Everyone assumes he either lied to Ed or made a conscious decision to go back to his family out of guilt, and I’m sure that thought ultimately kept him on that path, but he was most likely in literal actual medical shock when he decided to go home, probably even when he enters the house.

That makes a lot more sense than him assuming she’d be super chill about him coming back after leaving (especially since he frequently imagined how upset she’d be for his leaving the way he did) and also knowingly making his family a harborer of a murderous pirate fugitive who might be associated with another dead body.

Less “I’ll abandon Ed and go back to my family” and more like Big Bold “Go Back. Undo. Get Home. It’ll be fine.” On a loop.

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Iliad mini comix, books 1-8! yes i am going to do all 24 books! pray for me!

more iliad stuff

more ancient studies comics

part 2/part 3

#classical literature #brilliant

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thinking about how gentleness and kindness in men is not only acknowledged but celebrated in our flag means death…. I know Stede and Ed both have their own complexes surrounding masculinity and what it means to be a man (Stede always being told his softness makes him weak, Ed feeling like the only way to survive and to be loved is to be violent and “strong”) but at the same time as we get to see their struggle with what it means to be masculine, we as an audience are shown the goodness that comes from these men being kind and gentle. Stede’s softness is what makes him a good captain with an unwaveringly loyal crew… his gentleness helps them to become a family, to support each other through thick and thin, no matter how dire things seem. Ed allowing himself to be gentle and honest opens him up to experiencing genuine love with Stede for probably the first time ever. The emotional openness he learned from Stede (almost) allowed him to heal and accept himself in a world that told him the only thing he was allowed to do is hurt. ofmd shows the struggles of living up to an arbitrary standard of toxic masculinity in a violent and strict society, but states without a shadow of a doubt that gentleness and kindness are intrinsically, unquestionably good

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Today's weird old pirate book booty: PIRATE: RASCALS OF THE SPANISH MAIN by the entertainingly named A.B.C. Whipple*

Here's their Captain Bonnet - wearing quite the bonny bonnet and all

And their Blackbeard.

DO NOT read the text unless you want a spoiler about IRL Izzy Hands

*Ed and Calico Jack are like "Whipples! WHIPPLES!"

#our flag means death #ofmd #pirates #izzy hands #edward teach #blackbonnet #blackbeard #stede bonnet

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folks

FOLKS

LOOK at this 1934 novel I found about Stede Bonnet and Blackbeard.

2nd image is the first-edition cover and spine. Very swashbuckler.

3rd image is the Blackbonnet diptych.

On a scale of 1 to 1,000 sea creatures, how cheesy and/or offensive do we think this 1930s take probably is? Pro: era when they made CAPTAIN BLOOD. Con: ...everything else...

#ofmd #our flag means death #pirates #edward teach #blackbonnet #blackbeard #stede bonnet #old books #swashbuckler

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Songs for the Gentleman Pirate: An OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH Mock Musical

A “mock musical”: Some classic sounds of the Caribbean and environs, a touch of folk, and a few showtunes broadly evoking the storyline of the new show from David Jenkins.

LISTEN TO THE FULL PLAYLIST HERE on YouTube

Overture: No Polite Society, Only Pirate Society Shake the Chains, "Shake the Chains"

Stede Bonnet Is an Actual Completely Sincere Dastardly Badass Pirate Kevin Kline and cast, "Oh, Better Far to Live and Die" (from The Pirates of Penzance)

A Song for Oluwande: Because We Don't Have Any Other Choice Desmond Dekker, "Israelites"

Foreshadowing Blackbeard/Badminton Dies Gerald Price, "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" (from The Threepenny Opera)

Aboard the Revenge Moondog, "High on a Rocky Ledge"

Vacation(?) on the Deserted(?) Island Buena Vista Social Club, "Chan Chan"

Mr. Hands Wonders What the Deal Is with These Poncey Guys Jimmy Cliff, "The Harder They Come"

En Route to the Republic of Pirates (Although It's Become Quite Touristy) Varend Volk, "This Night We Spend Ashore"

"Booty for Sale" Does Not Mean What You Think It Means Red Plastic Bag, "Ragga Ragga"

Spanish Jackie'z Noze Jar Con Grazia, "Hernando's Hideaway" (from The Pajama Game)

He Can Suck Eggs in Hell Miles Anderson, "My Name" (from Oliver!)

Assault on the Spanish Ship The Skatalites feat. Stranger Cole, "Rough & Tough"

I've Heard All About You The Beach Boys, "Our Prayer"

Mary Flashback: Lighthouses and Graves Caetano Veloso, "The Empty Boat"

Stede's Auxiliary Wardrobe Delroy Wilson, "Better Must Come"

The Fog Christopher Gordon, "Into the Fog" (from Master and Commander)

We're a Lighthouse Klaus Badelt, "He's a Pirate" (from Pirates of the Caribbean) (of course)

Ed & Stede On Deck Steel Pulse, "Your House"

Fancy Party for Hoity-Toity People George Fenton, "The Madness of King George Front Titles"

Frenchy Invents the Pyramid Scheme The Gladiators, "Rich Man Poor Man"

Passive Aggression Vienna Mozart Ensemble, "Five Contredanses: 'Non più andrai'"

The Deep Down Question of Every Pirate “Who Will Love Me as I Am?” (from Side Show)

Aboard the Revenge Aswad, "I a Rebel Soul"

Wonderful Fuckery Storm Weather Shanty Choir, "Fish in the Sea"

I Was the Kraken Bob Marley, "Redemption Song"

Hands vs. Bonnet: Missed the Important Bits Lin-Manuel Miranda, "Ten Duel Commandments (Instrumental)" (from Hamilton)

Treasure Hunting for Oranges Jimmy Cliff, “Raggae Down Babylon”

My Favorite Color Is Teal Shakira, “Tú”

A Song for Lucius and Pete and Oluwande and Jim Junior Delgado, "Gimme Your Love"

Calico Jack, Bringer of Chaos The Skatalites, "Wood and Water"

Betrayed to Badminton Toots and the Maytals, "Pressure Drop"

A Truer Chain Fleetwood Mac, "The Chain"

Last-Minute Act of Grace The Pioneers, "Long Shot (Kick De Bucket)"

Signing the Contract Bailey's Nervous Kats, "Cobra"

Blackbeard Shaves Bob Marley, "Is This Love"

What Makes Ed Happy Peter Dinklage/The National, "Madly" (from Cyrano)

Izzy's Revenge: (ladies (derogatory)) Tao Seeger Band, "Sail Away Ladies"

Dawn, but No Stede Derina Harvey Band, "Nancy Spain"

A Song for The Widow Bonnet Marin Mazzie, "Back to Before" (from Ragtime)

Killed By a Falling Piano Thematic Pianos, "Hornblower Opening Theme" by John E. Keane

Blackbeard's Despair Yusuf (Cat Stevens), "Miles from Nowhere"

Marooned - Is There Hope? Desmond Dekker, "What Is Man"

The Man of Independent Mind Dougie MacLean, "For a' That" (poem by Robert Burns)

#music #playlist #our flag means death #ofmd #gentleman pirate #david jenkins #taika waititi #mock musical #pirates #pirate #love story #gay #lgbtq #queer #reggae #ska #soca #latin #showtunes #folk music #caribbean #sea shanties #musical theater #musical theatre #stedeward #blackbonnet #stede bonnet #blackbeard

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Anyone who thinks "pirate" isn't an emotion hasn't been watching Our Flag Means Death.

#ofmd #our flag means death #pirates #current mood #jim carrey #a series of unfortunate events #outtakes