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happy birthday @djarin!

Blackbeard + Leather

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This took a while lol but I added color-coordinated captions to Samba's BTS Cat Improv video! Enjoy! 😸

#perfect! #video

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Ed still worried it was all a dream, some nights.

Sometimes, he woke up in the middle of the night, fingers reaching out automatically and landing on empty, cold bedsheets. Sometimes he'd blink his eyes open to see nothing but the darkness of their bedroom.

And he knew he was okay. That Stede had just gotten up to use the bathroom or get a glass of water. Logically, he knew he wasn't alone, but that didn't stop the kick of his heartbeat getting faster in his chest.

His voice always came out as a soft, scared little click in his throat. "Stede?"

And Stede was fast with coming back, usually, whispering apologies as he climbed back into bed. He kissed Ed's forehead, let him rest his head on his chest, and he held him close.

"Alright?" Stede whispered, quiet in the shared darkness.

"Yeah," Ed mumbled back, slinging a leg over Stede's thigh so they could be as close together as possible. "Tell me a story?"

Stede laughed, soft and quiet, a rumble in his chest, and he started to make something up. A silly story about knights and princesses, or deep-sea divers and sea monsters. Happy. Goofy. Safe.

Ed closed his eyes, and he listened to the beat of Stede's heart beneath his ear.

"Ed?" Stede asked after a while, running his fingers through Ed's hair. "Have you gone back to sleep? Are you even listening?"

"I'm listening," Ed insisted, and as Stede started to talk again, he felt the peaceful smile spread across his face as he listened to Stede's heartbeat. Familiar, and steady, and it alway sounded like -

I'm here. You're safe. I'll never leave you again.

#:) #fic

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OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH (2022 - ) I 2.07

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Taika Waititi as Edward Teach | Blackbeard in OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH

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I'm here, you're safe

#myart #our flag means death #ofmd fanart #gentlebeard

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REBLOG IF THIS RELATES TO YOU:

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#same ed #sp

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I watch the beach reunion twice a day on average, thanks for asking <3

#cuute #art

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Hopefully how we find them a few years down the line 💖

#:) #💖💖💖 #art

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tea when the weather's fine

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OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH 2.03 • The Innkeeper

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#i love back

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#if hyping up your loser boyfriend was a sport they'd both win gold

↳ Our Flag Means Death 2.05 | 2.08 [6/?]

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Samba's OFMD BTS Cat Improv video with transcript

Scene begins in the middle of an ongoing discussion of Zheng's fighting skills being similar to that of a cat

Stede: ...cat

Ed: Just a cat. She looked just like a cat.

Stede: Feline.

Ed: But not a lazy cat. (dramatic pause)

Stede: An attacker cat.

Ed (says sagely): A motivated cat.

Stede (repeats himself because he likes how it sounds): An attacker cat!

Ed (eager to spin the story to incorporate Stede's idea): Uh, eh, it was...it was a cat attack!

Stede: Ooh yeah! And we were there, too.

Ed (adamantly agreeing): And we saw it.

Stede: We were part of it.

Ed: I was part of it. We were-

Stede: We were like...

Ed: -we were also like cats!

Stede (whispers in awe imagining them as cats): Yeah!

Ed: It was like three stealthy cats.

Stede (nods in agreement with his smart bf): That's right!

Ed (loving his bf's hype): Like three humans who had skinned some cats.

Ed (ADHD mode activated): You know there are many ways to skin a cat. You can start at the head and you just peel from the nose all the way down. Or start at the ass and (gestures as if he were skinning a cat) whip it back like that!

Spanish Jackie/Leslie: Jesus wept.

Ed: It was like three cats had been skinned and we just leapt into their bodies, zipped it up...(train of thought switching tracks)...uhhhm-

Stede (trying to figure out what track they're on): It was cat skins.

Ed: -It was actually the other way around. It was like three cats killed some humans and then-

Stede (loyally agreeing with his bf): That's true. It was the opposite.

Ed: -skinned them. So like three cats had sk...caught some humans, skinned them, and then wore their skins-

Stede (quietly pushing his imagination to the limits): Yeah.

Ed: -as little suits.

Stede (proudly agreeing with his bf): Take that humans! Cats are back!

Ed (needing to emphasize the size of said cats): But they're in the big cats!

Stede (happily reiterating Ed's added detail): Yeah, big cats are back!

Ed (switching tracks again into unknown territory): Or it was like a bunch of...it was way bigger than a normal cat. It was like all of us and we are full...are filled with cats! (abruptly ends his brainstorm and silently rests his hand on his hip)

Stede (proudly standing by his bf, nodding, though he's not sure how he feels about being filled with cats): *buffering silence*

*random meow*

Swede (unsure if he's in the gravy basket because of all the poison he drank): Are you sure I'm not dead?

Spanish Jackie (tired): Yeah. Yeah.

#ty for transcript 💚 #video

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also if that's how ed talks sober imagine what happens after getting some wine in him. tipsy stede giving tipsy ed physically impossible heart eyes while ed talks for 2 hours straight.

#txt

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OK, but ignoring the whole weird Stizzy thing for a minute, let’s discuss that little arc with the training montage.

Because of course we see Izzy failing utterly at training Stede, and we see confirmation that Stede is not good at that kind of physical action: we see him unable to throw a punch, unable to hit a target, unable to swing on a rope. There’s no buildup cuts where he gets gradually better at it (as there usually is in training montages) and we never see anything that implies that Izzy helped him get better (not least because there’s no point later on where we SEE him being better). But we do hear Stede say that “his body takes over” when he gets into the midst of action, and he points out that he did indeed defeat Izzy in a duel.

Later, we see Stede defend himself—he punches the guy who attacks him from the wardrobe before Izzy can even get his sword out. He turns and fires the gun in the air before any of the more experienced pirates can move to defend him. He does, in fact, respond quickly and effectively in the heat of battle. Which he has always done—he draws a knife on Izzy the first time they meet. Doug grabs his shoulder and he moves to defend himself.

At no point do we see that Stede’s technical skills have particularly improved—he tries the same moves with Zheng that he did in the first duel with Izzy and he loses to her. He gets his sword stuck in a guy’s stomach. But what we do see, and have seen, consistently through both seasons, is Stede’s ability to survive. He’s not predictable, he’s not technically skilled, and he NEVER learns those skills with any degree of proficiency. But he is very adept at survival. He uses his unpredictability to his advantage and he makes it out alive. Not only that, his intuition and inventiveness help OTHER people to survive.

Stede didn’t win the duel with Izzy on a technicality; he won according to the rules while at the same time ignoring all the rules of dueling (he doesn’t know them!). He doesn’t survive in spite of his lack of technical skills; he survives because of that. And there’s no such thing as surviving on a technicality—you’re either alive or you’re dead, and Stede’s alive.

Which is exactly what Ed says to him when they first meet: “Most of the pirates I know? They’re dead. So you’re doing a lot better than them.”

#txt #meta

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