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Ed: okay so I want you to know that I am not judging you

Stede, visibly on the verge of tears: yeah

Ed: but I am curious about the situation that's currently happening in our living room right now

Stede: do you remember what you told me last night

Ed: can we do it again? Harder? I love you so much?

Stede: after all those things

Ed:

Ed: wait are you talking about -

Stede: when you were about to fall asleep and you told me you've always wanted to feel like a little baby bird in a nest, yeah

Ed:

Ed: so the massive bowl in our living room you've made out of pieces of scrap wood

Stede: supposed to be a nest, yeah

Ed: what's the weird plank for

Stede: that's so I can stand on the edge there and pretend to be a mama bird protecting you

Stede: you can say you hate it

Ed: I definitely do not hate it! Not at all! But I'm not sure if I want to actually get inside it

Stede: right

Ed: because of all the exposed nails and stuff. Yeah.

Stede: I can't believe I was trying to do one nice thing and I fucked it up this bad -

Ed: hey, babe, no! I love that you tried this, I love that you did that. But maybe we can just do this somewhere that's not in a giant bowl made of scrap wood with lots of exposed nails.

Stede: I was gonna put some blankets in there, you know. To protect you from the nails. But maybe -

Ed: yeah, maybe we can just do this in bed instead. Pretend that's our nest.

Stede: aww, does my little baby bird want to go to his nest?

Ed: your little baby bird would love that yeah

#ofmd minific #edward teach #stede bonnet #this is adorable and very silly and stede would

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i made a meme that was supposed to be funny but ended up making me feel really sad lol 🥲

#oh ed sweetie #ofmd s2e2 #edward teach #ofmd meme

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My most embarrassing moment on set: thinking Taika forgot to say his line because the silence was so long (he was waiting for the camera to be in the right spot, like a pro), and so to “save the shot” I said the line we were supposed to say AS A GROUP by myself🤦🏾‍♂️💀🏴‍☠️ #seasonwrap #ourflagmeansdeath #ofmdseason2

(thank you Samba)

The scene that keeps on giving 😂

#ofmd bts #samba schutte #taika waititi

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Taika Waititi in “State of The -Ation” (2013) by Samsung

+Bonus

#taika waititi

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the lgbtq fashion spectrum

#i'm closest to petyr by proclivity- if i didn't have to move furniture and jump around at work i could happily live in vestments #in practice what i wear is much closer to the normcore that stu wears

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I'd buy this assessment! I'm definitely less rigid when I'm (1) better slept and (2) have less on my plate that I'm worried about forgetting. Routine is part of how I manage having a less robust memory than I'd like.

Thank you to the wonderful @ofmd-ann and @harrylovesspaezle for tagging me on this toast quiz! What Toast Are You?

This was fun!

Some no pressure tags….

@jessystardust @thehappyfeminist-22 @insteading @agaywithcoffee @neverbelessthan @funforahermit @hang-on-lil-tomato @dolphinsapphire28 @edscuntyeyeshadow @bizarrelittlemew @gentlebeardsbarngrill @stedesparasol @apex-nadir

#also now i want rye toast with butter and maybe some tomato slices and cracked peppercorns

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The answer to “Will I remember everything?” was 😆😭💀

I got half a block and went back for my tea, because functioning is important.

First couple of days of a catsit are always rough, both because I haven't become enough of a zombie to sleep through the whatever o'clock zoomies, and because I haven't figured out the silliest stuff yet:

How do I get ice cubes out of this tray? Is there a way I can make the kitties less interested in my toothbrush? Yes, there's a shuttle bus; is it reliable before the standard morning rush hour or am I going to be better off walking? Will I remember all the things I need for the day before I have a system for where to put them in this apartment?

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Other questions: Is this dish soap or hand soap? Am I going to regret not figuring out how to transport my face wash for oily skin? Does Tumblr know I am taking care of the two poorest meow meows ever to meow?

First couple of days of a catsit are always rough, both because I haven't become enough of a zombie to sleep through the whatever o'clock zoomies, and because I haven't figured out the silliest stuff yet:

How do I get ice cubes out of this tray? Is there a way I can make the kitties less interested in my toothbrush? Yes, there's a shuttle bus; is it reliable before the standard morning rush hour or am I going to be better off walking? Will I remember all the things I need for the day before I have a system for where to put them in this apartment?

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First couple of days of a catsit are always rough, both because I haven't become enough of a zombie to sleep through the whatever o'clock zoomies, and because I haven't figured out the silliest stuff yet:

How do I get ice cubes out of this tray? Is there a way I can make the kitties less interested in my toothbrush? Yes, there's a shuttle bus; is it reliable before the standard morning rush hour or am I going to be better off walking? Will I remember all the things I need for the day before I have a system for where to put them in this apartment?

#personal #so tired

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"Season two ruined OFMD"

Season two was so beautiful with three of the most heart-wrenching episodes of television I've ever watched. If season one rewired my brain, season two rewired my entire body. Season two took both of my hands, looked into my eyes, and told me that it loved me.

#1.10 / 2.1-2.3 are why i recommend the show to people who work in bereavement care- or who are themselves grieving #ofmd is so smart about grief and what happens when people are forced to repress it #mr 'i should have let the english kill you' hands is the manager who thinks you should be over your sibling's death in 3 days #and he works for most of corporate america (including way too many nonprofits) #or he's the extended family member who looks at you grief spiraling after you've been ghosted by someone you care deeply about #and tells you that there are plenty of fish in the sea #as if people are interchangeable / or as if you wanted to date a fish #people who dislike s2's excavation of grief and its aftermath- who find emotions tedious? #like: so much of the world agrees with them. so much of the world is designed for them. they can let us have *this one thing* #if you have no patience for earnest and loving treatment of big emotions ffs watch something else!

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

#heritage post

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ofmd twitter crazy lol

#what- and i cannot state this clearly enough- the fuck? #i don't get it at all #stede loves ed while knowing things about ed no one else does #'i love everything about you' is unequivocal #*ed* might struggle to love all of himself but stede is clear on who ed is and INTO IT #ofmd #stede bonnet #edward teach

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Ed and Biscuit I sketched for a friend’s birthday today (from their t4t bakery au series!)

#ofmd fanart #edward teach #ed with kitty #ofmd fic #oooh i haven't read this series yet-- adding it to the queue

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No but seriously. If you find yourself consistently agreeing with Ed's worst self-loathing thoughts, you might want to consider if you'd just been feeling something "off" or finding Ed's actions worse than those of White characters and you really just wanted an excuse to feel justified in thinking the brown man is overly violent. Because it's very much the surface-level point that we're supposed to be listening to Ed say he's unlovable and talk about himself like he's a monster and disagree with him.

We don't get a lot of shows with characters like Ed. And I get that a lot of White fans aren't used to seeing a brown man with this level of complexity who has an arc like this where he learns he was never defined by the violence he was forced into and that he is very lovable and worthy of forgiveness. But I am absolutely begging some White fans to think for two seconds about why they're so eager to agree with antagonistic characters and Ed's own self-loathing here. Is the show actually saying these things, or is it just an easy excuse to take your ""gut feeling"" about the brown lead at face value and prioritize the feelings of White characters over his?

#if your reaction to ed thinking he's unlovable isn't “someone cuddle him til he feels better” #you're doing it wrong #prev <3 yep

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Not that @celluloidbroomcloset needs more to do, but I would eat up an image-inspired / gif-inspired fic in this universe.

Haven’t seen anyone link this…

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nothing will make me nope out of a fic quicker than a bad Ed characterization. if he's written as extremely angry or violent or mean etc I'm exploding you with my mind. leave him alone! he's a sincere and kind and friendly guy who feels things so deeply and sincerely and people have got to stop being so fucking racist in their characterization because who even is this guy that some of these people are writing. sure as hell isn't Ed!

#if your ed sounds like he was written by ned low i am noping out of your fic #ditto if your stede sounds like he was written by stede's dad #there's so much media out there that dislikes its gnc characters and/or its characters of color #maybe write fic about one of those instead of warping ofmd's main characters?? #fandom critical

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#when kiwibots- the berkeley equivalent of these- were tooling around blocking accessible paths #some investigative campus journalist determined they weren't actually autonomous #they were piloted by people in colombia being paid less than the local minimum wage #so the founders then had a fight on their hands that was about blocking sidewalks *and* wage law evasion #which i guarantee was more delicious than anything a kiwibot ever delivered #but yeah ai is trained on the assumption that all bodies are the same and i don't know what to say to anyone untroubled by that