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nothing brings me more joy than seeing some innocent soul experience ofmd for the first time, not knowing that the trajectory of their whole life is about to be changed. i see people watching before 1x09 and being like “am i crazy or is there mad chemistry between the two leads? 🤔” oh my love. my dear sweet angel pie. your nuts are about to be huffed clean off

#wait there are still people getting into ofmd who don’t already know it’s the ‘gay pirates show’?

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the Salem storyline in Sabrina the teenage witch is so so good bc like the wizard supreme court or whatever is like 'this man is the most dangerous war criminal in history. he has tried to commit genocide and become a dictator in many different dimensions. we can't give him the death penalty bc he used dark ancient magic to make himself immortal so we've trapped him in the body of a feline for eternal torture. it is the Spellman's duty to hold him prisoner for us'. and then the Spellman's are just like kitty,,,...........we're gonna get him a special pillow to sit on and buy him funny little outfits and cuddle with him while we sleep. he's the glue holding this family together we love him so much

#wasn’t gonna reblog but that last bit did it

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Being in your late 30s is so wild because you’ll be talking to someone in their late 20s about general adulting admin and you’ll be like ‘ah yes, this person is a similar age to me and has about the same life experiences’ and then they’ll come out with something like ‘I was in kindergarten when 9/11 happened’ and you’re like

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I still remember after the 2016 election finding out that the percentage of people who didn’t vote was slightly over 50%. I’d always assumed it was around 5%. Like, 50%?! If they all decided to vote they could literally decide the election.

Something about the idea that voting for president only matters if you live in a swing state, and that all the people in blue states or red states can indulge themselves in principled nonparticipation because the outcomes are preordained, strikes me as akin to playing with fire.

Is it really coherent to say "both sides are awful, write in Mickey Mouse or burn your ballot or just stay home and get drunk, unless you live in Pennsylvania, in which case maybe consider taking one for the team and compromising yourself by voting for the lesser evil?" Is that really the message that will lead to a preferable outcome?

What it sounds like to me is a sign that 1) you take your local electorate for granted, and 2) you see avoiding the worst case scenario as somebody else's problem.

I remember when Florida was a swing state. I also remember when Pennsylvania wasn't.

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Klaus: *in Vietnam* Gay sex wont fix this situation, honestly it’d probably make it worse but I think we should give it a shot anyway

Dave: Im down

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I've seen discussions sometimes about how fanfiction-based fandom culture is heavily influenced and dominated by people who are not cis men.

One thing I haven't seen discussed as much though is how much of fandom in general is shaped by neurodivergent people.

I mean, you have autistic and ADHD people with special interests or hyperfixations collecting information and writing detailed meta, connecting very strongly with characters and fandoms. I would not be surprised if the percentage of autistics in fandom communities was significantly higher than in the general public.

And that's not even getting into other types of neurodivergencies and how they influence fandom culture.

I sometimes see people try to divorce fandom culture from the idea of being a "geek", and I understand that this is sometimes because of the association with the sexist geek stereotype, but I also know that there is a connection between the two concepts, and it's probably us neurodivergent people.

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the amount of people who think that the folks who think the show textually gave us ed abusing izzy are just insane immoral dickheads is truly distressing. like. no, ed was not izzy’s abuser in season one. not like, clearly and obviously onscreen in my opinion anyway. and yes, izzy was verbally abusive and triggering to ed in season one.

but saying that in season two the show quite literally frames ed as izzy’s abuser does not cancel out those other statements.

it doesn’t mean that anyone thinks ed should be depicted as a violent man. it doesn’t mean that izzy didn’t do anything wrong.

like, you people understand there doesn’t need to be just one bad guy, right? that ed and izzy can both have done significant wrong?

you people do understand that people who think the show depicted ed as abusive are mad that the show did that and then didn’t resolve it properly because we think it was a disservice to ed’s character, right? you understand the reason we feel this way is because the way it was depicted was triggering to a lot of us because the scenario shown onscreen is deliberately evocative of abuse, right? ed did a bad thing. izzy did a bad thing. they both did bad stuff.

i hate the way the side of the fandom that thinks it’s wrong to suggest canon had ed be abusive towards izzy just seem to all believe that abuse is something that’s earned and deserved. or that if they "deserve" it, it's not abuse.

you can tell me about ed’s motivations of suicidality if you want but his intent doesn’t counteract the effect of his actions, much like izzy who didn’t intend to turn ed into the kraken, but still wasn’t right for his actions no matter his intentions and the excuses he made in his head.

you know what? i’m going to say it. just because ed didn’t deserve the way izzy treated him doesn’t mean izzy DID deserve the way ed treated him after.

we couldn't even get a story about a character with a canonically abusive dad doing something as simple as breaking the cycle of violence, huh. i just don't respect the writing or the narrative of season two.

#for real #nobody here is hating on Ed #there’s this thing called being critical of the writing decisions #they chose to go that dark with Ed and then do absolutely nothing with it #and they didn’t have to do that #also literally no one was compelling the writers to make a DV joke about Ed head butting Stede #nobody was even compelling them to have Ed head butting Stede at all #that is a genuine criticism and has nothing to do with hating Ed

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watched amok time yesterday and I’m still reeling over how spirk invented “this is gay sex” when they rolled around wrestling in the dirt and then suddenly spock didn’t need to have sex anymore

like they invented fuck or die but there was no fucking and no dying but if there had to be fucking for no dying the wrestling must have been fucking so spirk fucked on Vulcan in 1967

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If you were in OFMD who do you all think you'd be. No main characters, I'm talking the background characters. I'd be the guy at Spanish Jackie'z in s1e3 who after Stede says "the drinks are on us" and someone throws their drink on Lucius shouts "the drinks be on ye now!"

#I think I’d be… #was his name Geoffrey? #Stede’s old school chum who wishes he’d been brave enough to do what Stede did

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Was this something that Rhys just did and Taika picked up on or was this something they discussed about the dynamic between their characters?

I think I can make the case that, aside from just being a loserly attempt at a classic hot girl move, the hair flip is cause Ed knows Stede’s got a thing about his hair.

#like the way their friendship bleeds into the characters it could’ve all been subliminal #like Taika just knows Rhys is into hair #so when he’s getting into ‘Rhys’ love interest’ mode he just flips his hair #because Taika knows that’s what an ideal Rhys love interest would do #or it could’ve been planned out and discussed #maybe even coordinated by the director or intimacy coordinator #we just don’t know #ps I have no idea if Rhys is into hair or if it’s just a Stede thing

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✨ZADDY✨ has been living rent-free in my brain since Samba dropped the bomb and I knew I had to do something about it.

#this is amazing

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I’m almost convinced now that if we’d gotten a season 3 Stede would’ve actually called Ed ‘Kitten’ in the actual show

#ofmd #our flag means death #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #ed x stede

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i wish mary bonnet knew blackbeard was out here calling her ex-husband zaddy

#Mary never meeting Ed is one of the biggest tragedies of the cancellation

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Ed would say Zaddy to a man who says "anyhoo"

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