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girls when the media they're obsessed with is never going to be as good as they wish it could be

#damn right #want something done right do it yourself or smth #fan fiction #fandom #ao3

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i loveeeeeee nonlinear storytelling. show me where we are. now show me how we got here. the end before the beginning. show me how it was inevitable or how many chances we had to change things(nothing was ever going to change). let's meet in the middle as all the puzzle pieces slide into place hell yeah that's the good shit.

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stizzy on my mind

#stizzy #ofmd fanart #ofmd #our flag means death

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It's just occurred to me that I've never been in a dying fandom before while I was at the peak of hyperfixating on said fandom. And nothing has prepared me for that peculiar kind of grief it brings.

Because I still remember the height of OFMD two years ago. I remember all of the internet going crazy about it. There was a good 3-4 months when everyone who's even remotely chronically online in geek or queer spaces had heard of it. And the thing is, geek and queer spaces don't always intersect this much. Well they do to a degree, but I mean, I first heard about OFMD on Reddit. It's a lot more of a geek space than it is a queer one. The OFMD subreddit has a... pretty different vibe than OFMD fandom on Twitter or Tumblr or AO3. And yet, still, it seemed like for a few short, glorious months, OFMD has been The Thing on the internet, even on Reddit. Despite being so relatively tiny and niche and decidedly Not Mainstream™. I still remember that Comic Con with Con and Nathan in August 2022. I remember exactly where I was when I watched it. I'd blocked off time to watch it live. I'd actually bought a fucking ticket instead of just waiting for someone to upload it to YouTube, which is what I was used to doing with comic cons that featured David Tennant or some of my other favourite actors (well it did help that they let us by digital tickets for streamed panels this time, but still). I still remember how insanely excited I was, sitting down for that panel like it was this major Event. Like Eurovision or smth. And then several other comic cons. It was all so fresh. The fanbase was rabid (in the best way possible). And the cast was so in for it. The fan fiction had been flowing with abandon. The era of Hell or High Water. I'd never been part of an ongoing fic with such a massive readership, either. It was one of the cult fics in the fandom. The sheer excitement of getting a notification of a new chapter and making an event out of reading it, savoring it until the weekend, even. And then discussing it on Discord. That was what being part of a fandom was supposed to feel like.

And now it's dying. Slowly, but it is. It's never going to get a barrage of headlines again. It's never going to pull tens of thousands of Tumblr reblogs again. Sure, we're still getting bts (bless Samba Schute). There's still some engagement, more than most other fandoms would have retained by now, and that's incredible in its own right. But it's still a shadow of its former self. And it's never going to be the same again.

And it's fine. That's just how it is. Nothing lasts forever. People always move on, and it's not a bad thing. That's just life. I know I'm going to move on some day, too. Just not quite yet. I'm not ready yet. And it feels heartbreaking. Because the fandom's life was cut short. We should have had one more glorious cycle with S3. But we didn't. And that's the worst part. It wouldn't have been so hard to move on if we'd actually got closure. And now we never will. OFMD will never really have concluded, it will just slowly trickle out and fade away. A whimper, not a bang. And that's what's killing me.

#my eulogy to ofmd I guess #this probably won't even get any reactions but still #had to say it #felt therapeutic to admit it #ofmd #our flag means death

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If im reading a 800 page book I should be freed of all other responsibilities in my life. Like sorry I can’t do that right now because im reading this long ass book. Yeah you know how it is

#fr #books

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'I personally don't like this ship because I prefer this other ship' = a normal attitude to have/thing to say on your own blog/account/spaces

'I prefer this other ship so I must prove that it is MORALLY SUPERIOR to your ship and also the ONE CORRECT SHIP and you all are therefore WRONG and also STUPID for shipping that other thing, which I will now be reminding you of constantly. Also, as evidence for why I am right I will be slandering and mischaracterizing all of your favs <3' = please work on yourself

#fandom

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Can watch these two riff forever😅🐈🏴‍☠️ #OurFlagMeansDeath #ofmd #ofmdseason2

Source: Samba Schutte's IG

#❤️❤️❤️🥺🥺🥺😂 #ofmd #our flag means death

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#this ship just keeps on giving #bottomless trove of vibe variations #stizzy #ofmd #our flag means death

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😒🚫🧜‍♂️ 4 🥺🥪❔ relationship

#gentlebeard #ofmd #our flag means death

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Yeah so Our Flag Means Death is one of the best things I've watched in years. I finished it earlier in the week and I'm still fucking obsessed. It's just. I'm not sure how they manage to make it so vulnerable and meaningful and diverse without labouring it, without it being an afterthought or a "quota" (as the boomers say!) but everyone should be taking lessons in how to do it. It's so refreshing to see and so fucking good. Everything should be like this. The whole cast were brilliant (as I'm sure were the crew but obvs don't get to see all the great work they do!) and it was funny and touching and I'm obsessed with Ed and Stede and will be forever. Thank you goodnight.

#ofmd #our flag means death

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we're never gonna see their stupid fucking improv again i need to skin whoever ended this show with a melon spoon

#yeah #same energy here #😡😢💔 #ofmd #our flag means death

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One thing I have noticed about people who don't like Izzy, is that they clearly know that one of the main points of the show is that people can change, and that fucking up doesn't mean you're inherently bad.

But that doesn't seem to apply to Izzy.

Like, yeah. He did a lot of fucked up things. He forced Ed into a lot of things that were clearly hurting him, didn't respect his agency to choose for himself, and was openly homophobic towards the crew.

And Ed tortured his crew, shot Izzy's leg off for talking, pushed Lucius off the ship with the intent to kill him, and almost kills everyone. And the crew ended up actually fucking traumatized because of all of it.

Now, am I saying Ed is a bad person? No. But what he did was messed up and traumatizing and everyone was hurt. Yet he apologized. And actively tried to change.

And Izzy did too, in a way. He was in the middle of an arc in which he could finally start accepting himself and the crew enough to change.

I think it's a bit weird when people try to twist Izzy talking to Stede after the break up into him somehow trying to manipulate Stede or "groom him into being a new Blackbeard" because. Izzy was just trying to show support. Same with the walking in on Stede and Ed the morning after they have sex. He's trying to change, the same way Ed did.

Also I hate this narrative that Ed is somehow justified for everything he did because he was suicidal. I dunno, it rubs me the wrong way, but that may just be me.

#izzy hands #ofmd #our flag means death

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Izzy getting into baking and being instantly good at it - the first time he's actually been effortlessly great at something - and he literally can't understand why people find this so hard, I mean it's just following precise instructions?

#izzy hands #ofmd #our flag means death

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when it comes to stizzy theres nothing funnier than izzy thinking ed is insane for being so in love with stede throughout s1, like what does even fucking see in him. no one in their right mind would want stede fucking bonnet. and then s2 rolls around and god FUCKING damn it fine ok he gets it now

#stizzy #ofmd #our flag means death

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That's why Steddyhands is so subversive honestly imo. The fact that it's literally the second most popular ship after Gentlebeard is insane. A very substantial percent of the fandom really looked at the main canon couple the show revolves around and said "I think they would be better off as a throuple with their number one hater and saboteur. This would fix all three of them." And some of cast themselves were like 👍👍👍 and started reblogging Steddyhands on their social media.

What a time to be alive in fandom spaces.

'You can't just add izzy to existing ships!'

YES I CAN HE'S LIKE BACON BITS HE GOES ON AND IN EVERYTHING

#the ultimate ''if you can't beat them join them'' #izzy hands #steddyhands #ofmd #our flag means death

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Max posting about OFMD....

#😡😡 #ofmd #our flag means death

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!