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hey just reminding everyone again that tumblr user heritageposts is a know violent jew hater, and a couple months ago created a list of jewish tumblr blogs which is obviously meant for harassment (they have a very large follower base thanks to the original purpose of their blog before their new purpose became spreading antisemitic lies). they are not a reliable source on the war currently happening in israel and gaza. even if you don't agree with me on everything, and I know most of you don't, please, please, please do not listen to them. unfollow them. I've blocked them. I think you should also block them.

and always do your research before hitting reblog, please. even when I see posts saying things I agree with, I go hunting for a source because I don't want to reblog something about a topic that is incredibly important to me that is not true (and this is not limited to i/p, btw, please research everything).

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🔹 Saying that it's okay to write or read about dark and taboo topics but only when they're portrayed in a certain way is still censorship.

🔹 Wanting to ban or forbid media that you believe portrays a negative topic in a positive light, by glorifying, romanticizing, or fetishizing it is still censorship.

🔹 There is no objective metric to decide if a story is portraying a negative topic the 'right' way.

🔹 Just because a piece of fiction doesn't explicitly condemn or portray an evil action in a bad light in the text doesn't mean the author thinks its good or is trying to persuade the audience that it is good.

🔹 Survivors of trauma will not always write fiction about their trauma in a way that seems 'right' or 'normal' to you.

🔹 Banning fiction because it portrays dark, taboo topics in a way you consider gross or disgusting is still censorship.

#☝️☝️☝️ #💯💯💯 #we cannot allow censorship #but neither can we conflate censorship and criticism #both concepts are too important to not define properly #and fandom can't be truly open if marginalized people aren't truly welcome #and we can't be welcome in spaces where valid critique is dismissed as censorship

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(i Will go back to everlasting haitus if that GFM slows down too much btw, seeing it to its goal ASAP is my primary focus right now)

#palestine

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I think of this song basically every time I see a gif of him smiling 😍

Edward "Blackbeard" Teach + smiling (Season 2)

#ofmd #edward teach #our flag means death #smiling

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Reblog to give the person you reblogged from the ability to finish their WIPs

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Very "what if the world was pudding?" of them 😬

I've been encountering more Stizzy out there lately, and whatever, ships aren't moral indicators, don't like don't read, etc. And so I do not read!

But, like. What do Stizzy folks do with Ed?

Stede adores Ed and would never so much as consider someone else, especially not someone he has a mostly antagonistic relationship with. In-show-Izzy is so tied up with Ed that I don't even know what you'd do with him in an Ed-free environment. Do Stizzy writers kill Ed off? Make up whole new universes where Ed never existed (and in that case, why don't Stede and Izzy just hate each other forever without Ed to bring them together)?

I don't like any Izzy ships because I think everyone else on the show deserves better, but this is really the only one that makes absolutely no sense to me, not even as an enemies-to-lovers situation.

#ofmd meta #our flag means death #ofmd

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"I love your chin" has always been one of the swooniest lines in that whole scene for me tbh

Stede immediately saying that he likes the length of Ed’s beard, after one of their last conversations being about how Ed can’t be Blackbeard without a black beard…

Poor baby has internalized everything. He’s repeated everything he said wrong in his head for months. He’s rehearsed everything he wanted to say to Ed, to assure him of his love.

It’s such a great reminder that Stede never declared his love. He never gave Ed assurance of his feelings, and then he ran off and seemed to confirm that what he didn’t feel the same. And Stede’s so determined that Ed is gonna know how much he loves him.

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

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If your response to a show with healthy BIPOC representation is transplanting the BIPOC lead's personality onto the white antagonist to have meta and fanon discussion, allowing fanon that has the BIPOC lead turning to the slave trade and serial killing and constant irrational anger (while the white antagonist is turned much reasonable) to replace canon, not seeing any issue with in canon the white antagonist setting up the white romcom lead for execution and taking custody of the BIPOC romcom lead as reward, declaring that the white antagonist was just being "mean" when he said the BIPOC romcom lead was too openly gay and soft and needs to be more performatively violent to justify their continued existence, frantically agreeing with between-season-speculation that the white antagonist is going to have to "protect" all the characters from the BIPOC romcom lead's "rage", nodding along to takes that declare the BIPOC lead to be abusive instead of discussing what the show is actually trying to tell us, pushing takes that the BIPOC lead is definitely going to abuse (or worse) their white partner (and call them "the next victim") just after the season closes on the canon main couple's happy end scene, thinking that it just made sense for canon to break up the BIPOC lead's romance by handing their white partner to the white antagonist as a reward or to add the white antagonist to it, declaring that your ships with the white antagonist and the lead(s) are just as valid as the canon main couple in the romcom centered on the canon main couple and discussions on the ship don't need CWs in general chats, refusing to criticize this behavior in fandom (and thus tacitly enabling it) because the people saying it are on your "side", etc. is "Stop calling us/me racist! That makes us feel bad!" or "Ship and let ship" or "The showrunner/creator should've changed their story to accommodate our fanon because it means so much to so many!".... is the majority of the fandom "bullies" and making you feel "unsafe/uncomfortable/unwelcome" for getting tired of that and wanting distance from you?

#💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 #the truth #i could not be happier that #izzy hands #is fucking dead #the izcourse #izzy critical #fandom critical #fandom racism #ofmd #our flag means death #la fandom es dolor #being a fandom is suffering

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Fanfic Friday

Here's what I've been reading this week (3 OFMD fics and 1 GO):

This Sudden Burst of Sunlight by @piratecaptainscaptainpirates, which as of yesterday is complete! It's a modern AU that starts with Ed in a pretty dark place, but over the course of 15 chapters he he meets Stede and finds his community and reconnects with his art (he's a painter) and basically learns to love life. It's a wonderful journey of healing and so so sweet.

Invisible String by @dimplyowl, which is an older, illustrated (!) modern AU with a fun twist: Stede lives in the modern world, but Ed is the star of Stede's comfort novel series, a fictional version of Blackbeard. One day Stede notices the books have started changing from what he remembers, and Ed seems to be trying to communicate with him? It should be hard to pull off but they make it look easy.

Switzerland by @oatmilktruther, which is set after season 2 and explores disordered eating. What I like about this (besides everything there is to like about their fics) is that we get to see Stede do some healing and processing. It makes perfect sense why so many of the post-canon healing fics are Ed-centric, but one thing that season 2 could have accomplished with enough time is some of the growth Stede still has ahead of him. This scratches that itch while also being beautifully written.

A Lighthouse (Burning) by @books-and-omens, whose back catalog I'm working through after recommending them last week. It's another location-focused, canon-divergent story that puts Crowley and Aziraphale in a position where they're forced to acknowledge their feelings for each other, while also reflecting on time and memory and choice and desire. Wonderfully evocative as expected and stuffed to the gills with spooky atmospheric vibes. Highly, highly recommended.

#happy reading #fanfic friday #fic recs #fic rec #ofmd fic #ofmd #our flag means death #edward teach #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #ofmd s2 #good omens fic #good omens fic rec #good omens #crowley #aziraphale

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Ed is just. He’s so happy. He’s fucking THRILLED to be back together with his boyfriend. It’s got him saying nearly incoherent shit in a room full of people. He’s rambling about cats in a life or death situation. That man is delirious with happiness after a lifetime of suffering.

#and he DESERVES it #edward teach #stede bonnet

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Exactly. They'd have to fundamentally become different people right? Like beyond canon divergence and straight up into AU. From what I've seen of Stizzy set in the canon era, some people aren't even labeling their fics as canon divergent, much less AU.

I think there's also an element of there being a recent uptick (I think there was some kind of event) in general? I've also seen more than one person who's only ever written gentlebeard start writing Stizzy now, and not even of the hatefuck variety. So when you try and try presenting a non-AU Stizzy fic all of a sudden people are going to be thrown by that, because who on earth are the characters you're calling "Stede" and "Izzy" in those situations? Not the guys we saw on screen, that's for sure.

I've been encountering more Stizzy out there lately, and whatever, ships aren't moral indicators, don't like don't read, etc. And so I do not read!

But, like. What do Stizzy folks do with Ed?

Stede adores Ed and would never so much as consider someone else, especially not someone he has a mostly antagonistic relationship with. In-show-Izzy is so tied up with Ed that I don't even know what you'd do with him in an Ed-free environment. Do Stizzy writers kill Ed off? Make up whole new universes where Ed never existed (and in that case, why don't Stede and Izzy just hate each other forever without Ed to bring them together)?

I don't like any Izzy ships because I think everyone else on the show deserves better, but this is really the only one that makes absolutely no sense to me, not even as an enemies-to-lovers situation.

#ofmd meta #izzy hands #the izcourse

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Sorry but I just love the sexy red suit scene because Stede is there looking in the mirror, feeling himself and thinking “I’M SO FUCKING HOT RIGHT NOW… maybe I’ve always been this hot? Oh yeah, I’m a sexy bitch!” And Izzy is there right behind just like… a piece of furniture with a voice as far as Stede’s concerned.

Stede’s object permanence when it comes to Izzy is just like … “I don’t care if you’re here or not, I’m gonna check myself out all day, whatever. If my boyfriend was here we’d be smooching in front of the mirror so could see how hot I look when I do it.”

#and yet at least one fic out there turns that scene into a sexual moment between the two of them #it's truly baffling #anyway #all hail canon stede

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Maybe this is why I can't let it go when I see someone with a demonstrated understanding of Stede and Ed as characters start writing Stizzy beyond like, a one-sided version where Izzy is the one Getting Weird About Captain like he does. It makes no sense but more than that, it's a reminder of how fans of color can't rest on our laurels about anything. We have to remember that this stuff won't just be coming out of the canyon, because the "ship and let ship" philosophy is so endemic to fandom spaces in general. And that literally never used to be a problem for me, but OFMD is such a different kind of show that it's much harder to ignore the dynamics* that can show up with ships involving Izzy.

*Especially when a writer decides to lean into those dynamics in a questionable way like I saw in [redacted fic] earlier this week that still has me reeling a bit. I don't want to publicly name names but I'll warn you if you DM me because it's better to know before getting attached to an author, you know?

Here’s the thing (I didn’t want to keep ranting on that poor person’s post): I really don’t think that you can divorce OFMD’s canon dynamics, and want canon is explicitly saying about abuse and race and masculinity, from ships like Stizzy. Yes, there is an interpretation based on canon that can argue that Izzy is (consciously or not) grooming Stede to become a “New Blackbeard.” It’s a stretch to say that any of that is sexual (if you buy that interpretation), but I guess you can get there.

For that to be a positive thing that in some way upends or supersedes Stede’s feelings for Ed AND transfers them to Izzy, even in a scenario where Ed doesn’t come back, required taking the perspective that Izzy is the secret, real protagonist and that Stede is his reward.

And this is always the problem. What the show does will always bite you in the ass. You can’t remove issues of race and abuse and masculinity from those characters and have them remain the same characters, without falling into deeply problematic tropes that involve racism and rape culture (and queer characters are not somehow exempt from those things). Because there is actually a reason why this show is not about Izzy Hands and why it’s not Black Sails. There is a reason why Stede falls in love with Ed and not with Izzy. And it’s not solely “because we wanted him to.” It has more complex meaning than that.

This shit is absolutely racist and is absolutely reinforcing rape culture. Is it the most egregious sin that fandom has ever committed? No, but it is there. It is a thing. It’s really not a good idea to pretend that it isn’t.

#fanfic meta #fandom meta #racist fanfic #fandom critical #ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #edward teach #Izzy hands #izzy critical

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Do you think of me?

#these men are the ones y'all are shipping with izzy? #THESE two???? #who pine for each other THIS hard? #our flag means death #ofmd #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #edward teach #stede bonnet

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kitty cat

#stede bonnet #edward teach #ofmd art #gentlebeard #blackbonnet

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omg thank you for bringing this scoundrel to my attention!!! it's scary the kind of people they allow on this website.....

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I would believe that for certain shippers I guess, but I've also seen more of it coming from people who have written Ed alright before and that's really throwing me. Like you say in the tags that you're cool with people who like Stizzy but also like Ed, but I honestly find that the most baffling of all possibilities?

It makes sense that people who are obsessed with Izzy would center him and go for Stizzy or Steddyhands, but I literally can't wrap my brain around understanding and sympathizing with these characters' canon portrayals and deciding that anything beyond maybe like, one-sided Stizzy could be emotionally plausible. Earlier this week I saw that a writer I've spent a long time following and who has written some of the most emotionally resonant gentlebeard out there has started writing Stizzy, and I still don't know what to do with it.

Like OP said this isn't about morality, but in my decades in fandom I've never been as struck by the strangeness of a non-canonical ship the way I am by Steddyhands or especially Stizzy. I don't even give a shit when I see a fic that's like, Stede and Ed having a three way with any of the other characters even? It's just something about the characterization on this show makes sticking Izzy anywhere near the two of them seem so incredibly unlikely, so when it comes from someone who seems to like and understand Stede and Ed as individuals and a couple it's like???????

I've been encountering more Stizzy out there lately, and whatever, ships aren't moral indicators, don't like don't read, etc. And so I do not read!

But, like. What do Stizzy folks do with Ed?

Stede adores Ed and would never so much as consider someone else, especially not someone he has a mostly antagonistic relationship with. In-show-Izzy is so tied up with Ed that I don't even know what you'd do with him in an Ed-free environment. Do Stizzy writers kill Ed off? Make up whole new universes where Ed never existed (and in that case, why don't Stede and Izzy just hate each other forever without Ed to bring them together)?

I don't like any Izzy ships because I think everyone else on the show deserves better, but this is really the only one that makes absolutely no sense to me, not even as an enemies-to-lovers situation.

#i won't name names but it was such a fucking surprise when I got the ao3 email #that kind of thing makes me not want to subscribe to authors anymore #just gotta take it fic by fic I guess #fanfic meta #and to borrow tags from prev: #stede and ed's whole deal is they're each other's first love and they're meant for each other. like they're SO in love #so why take ed out?? #so often it just reads as removing the inconvenient brown guy and i do not care for that #<-prev #but yeah you can see why I'm so thrown #if you understand the show and what it's trying to do #what could possibly appeal to you about non-one-sided Stizzy #and do you expect your usual readers to not have questions? #it's such an about-face