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Mobility assistance

#Roll Mobility #Signal Boost

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SAY IT LOUDER!

Izzy represents traditional piracy and all of the bullshit toxicity that that kind of violent, aggressive, emotionally stunted life entails. He dies because traditional piracy is dead. He dies because, for Ed to be entirely free, the man who loved and encouraged the monstrousness of Blackbeard has to go.

Half-baked thoughts about Izzy and toxic masculinity that I'm never going to bother turning into real posts part two (part one here for the curious, but it's not that good or organized).

Some folks think that season one Izzy was only being mean because he was worried about the crew's survival. I'd argue that they legitimately misread this character's purpose.

(Because yeah, secondary characters in well-written stories typically serve some kind of narrative purpose (which doesn't mean that they're not characters!). In OFMD, Izzy is the face of the specific kind of toxic masculinity that has controlled Ed and told him who and what he can be throughout his life.)

Izzy is mean because he's a miserable, power-hungry man who doesn't have the talent and charisma to attain the status that he wants. He hates it when men are soft and expressive and -- god forbid -- openly gay because that is not how he thinks men should be, and Stede and the entire crew of the Revenge are, in his eyes, idiotic subversives. Izzy is particularly cruel to Lucius because he's homophobic, not because Lucius is lazy (and Lucius isn't lazy, he just knows what his job is and who he takes orders from).

And Izzy dies at the end because this is the Dismantling and Destroying Toxic Masculinity Show. Yes, Izzy improves over the course of season two after he loses the job that is his personality and grudgingly accepts the compassion that the crew shows him, and that's great! It's hopeful! That tells us that it's possible to alter harmful, damaging patterns of behavior that have no space in a society where masculinity doesn't have to be controlling, violent, homophobic, and anti-feminine.

But even though Izzy can improve, he can never fully change. He was Ed's primary antagonist for years and will always be too tied up in everything that our main characters are trying to leave behind to be entirely free himself.

Izzy represents traditional piracy and all of the bullshit toxicity that that kind of violent, aggressive, emotionally stunted life entails. He dies because traditional piracy is dead. He dies because, for Ed to be entirely free, the man who loved and encouraged the monstrousness of Blackbeard has to go.

You can't divorce Izzy from the theme of toxic masculinity without making the show incoherent, and I think that some of the hate for season two comes from this. A lot of people want Izzy to be more than what he is in canon, and truly believing that he is more distorts the entire story.

#this #I've been trying to say this but didn't have the words #The Izcourse #OFMD

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Source smoothdunk on twitter

#LOLz #Tesla

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date outfits

#Stede Bonnet #Blackbeard #Edward Teach #Blackbonnet #Fanart #Art #OFMD

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We must beat the Americans

#Europe #Poll

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A collection of babygirl 💖

For digital drawing practice and Ed's face drawing practice. (And for the joy that is drawing him)

#Blackbeard #Edward Teach #Fanart #Art #OFMD

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hope Edward teach is sound asleep on Stede's soft tits rn 🥹

#Blackbonnet #OFMD

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For the 3d day of @gbweddingweek - Anniversary/Fireworks/“You’re so beautiful”.

«- You’re so beautiful, Ed 💜»

#Stede Bonnet #Blackbeard #Edward Teach #Blackbonnet #Fanart #Art #OFMD

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#holy shit #AO3 #Fanfiction

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🖤 (reblogs appreciated but please do not repost)

#Gods I love him so #Blackbeard #Edward Teach #OFMD

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Ao3 is actually massively culturally important and very very good at being what it is. I’m so serious when I say that ao3 needs to be protected as the anti censorship, by fans for fans, nonprofit, volunteer run, expertly designed archival site that it is. You don’t have to read or like fanfiction to understand that on principle, ao3 is a site that should be defended.

#AO3 #Fanfiction #PSA

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#ha!

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secretly watching a cute neighbor across

#stunning #Stede Bonnet #Blackbeard #Edward Teach #Blackbonnet #Fanart #Art #OFMD

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I know for a fact that there are loads more fics where this is the case...

#add an “immediately” and it's just pure gold #favourite state for Ed to be in #so good *happy sigh* #Blackbonnet #Fanfiction #OFMD

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reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

#hell yeah! #doesn’t help that every time I pick up an interesting sounding book it's straight cis people #fucking boring... #Fanfiction

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Schreibt gerne dazu, wo ihr her kommt.

#Straßenbahn #German Poll #Poll

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Umgekehrte Tropes (but make them german)

“Darf ich dir das Sie anbieten?“ – Nix mit duzen, mit der Intimität kommt nun mehr Abstand

Es gibt zwei Betten, aber nur eine Bettdecke. Make them fight for it

„Ich esse meine Pommes am liebsten mit Nutella :)“

Der Zug ist pünktlich, Charakter A und Charakter B haben beide eine angenehme Reise nach Sylt

Alle schnulzig-kitschigen Kosenamen sind akzeptiert, "Schatz" hingegen verpönt

Anti Bäckerei AU: Anstatt zum Bäcker zu gehen macht Charakter A für Charakter B Aufbackbrötchen im Ofen warm

„Oh, du mähst morgens um sechs an einem Sonntag den Rasen? Wie… attraktiv…“

#LOLz #Fanfiction