#IZZY IS WRONG

[thetardigrape]

*banging pots and pans and shouting*

LUCIUS IS NOT LAZY OR AVERSE TO WORK HE JUST DOESN'T TAKE ORDERS TO DO MENIAL LABOR FROM SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T PAY HIM!!! HE DOESN'T "GO ABOVE AND BEYOND"!!! HE IS LITERALLY WHAT ALL YOU PEOPLE SAY WORKERS SHOULD BE LIKE!!! STOP LETTING IZZY'S WORLDVIEW CLOUD YOUR JUDGMENT!!!

#he literally!! does his job!!! all the time!!!! #he helps stede 'get ready for the big day' #he recites stede's intro at jackie's even tho he KNOWS it's so cringe it might get them killed #he records everything exactly the way stede tells him to #he tags along with stede on a treasure hunt with ed that he knows is bogus just because stede told him to #while all his friends went out doing something else #including his boyfriend #he doesn't even shirk manual labor! he helps haul stede up to the maintop for the lighthouse fuckery! #the only thing he doesn't do is what izzy tells him to #izzy who is NOT HIS BOSS #who has NO AUTHORITY OVER HIM #PLEASE STOP BELIEVING WHAT IZZY SAYS I'M BEGGING YOU #IZZY IS WRONG

[i-hate-everything-except-fandoms]

I cannot stop thinking about Izzy walking into the captain's quarters like, "Hey, we've docked, congrats on fucking btw"

#what is wrong with him??? (affectionate) #izzy hands #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers

[justonebitebaby]

"You think I wouldn't know the smell of my rotting former first mate?" is so insane. imagine knowing someone so intimately that you know the smell of their blood, their decay. imagine smelling rust and copper in their air and thinking that's him. he's still alive, still on board. imagine spending so many years together in such close quarters, seeing each other injured and patching each other up, that just the scent of blood in the air is enough for you to know.

#they make me insane #something deeply wrong with both of them #edizzy #ofmd #ofmd blackbeard #izzy hands #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death

[bizarrelittlemew]

Rhys Darby as Hamish (the night clerk at the Farhampton Inn) in How I Met Your Mother S9E7

#this is how stede will blame izzy's ghost for everything wrong with their inn whenever guests complain #his judgy face at the very end akdhjsk #rhys darby #video #how i met your mother #himym

[kyoukamybeloved]

they have 97 mental illnesses and are banned from most timelines

#there are many things wrong with them #bsd #skk #soukoku #izzie posts #bsd memes #bsd funny #bsd season 5 #dazai osamu #nakahara chuuya #bsd soukoku #bsd fifteen #bsd stormbringer #dazai chuuya age fifteen #dazai x chuuya #bsd season five #skk fluff

[megaawkwardhuman]

I'm handling the newest episodes soooo well

#I love peeping the horrors (watching everything go wrong for the characters you love) #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd spoilers #ofmd season 2 #ofmd season 2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #stede bonnet #edward teach #zheng yi sao #izzy hands #the crew of the revenge #brought to you by ms paint #sorry that some of the text is hard to read btw #I'd go back and edit it but I'm lazy™️

[jaskierx]

it’s not an issue that izzy didn’t get a sea burial!

historically pirates did get buried on land when they died on land or when they died near land. most historians think this indicates a preference for land burial. it was certainly much closer to what we think of as dignified death rites than a burial at sea, which is literally just chucking the guy overboard

burial at sea wasn’t just a ritualistic thing - it was practical. dead bodies don’t smell good and they attract bugs and let’s be honest they’re not great to look at. so you do not want one clogging up your ship for weeks before you find a port to bury them in, especially when that port might be owned by folks who are not very welcoming of the dead bodies of pirates or people of other nationalities or people who don’t follow their religion. burial at sea was necessary for the health and welfare of the living people on the ship

this doesn’t apply to izzy - not only is there suitable land nearby, it’s land with personal meaning, because it’s next to what is now ed and stede’s house

burying him on land was probably a nice touch rather than a disservice. his grave will be tended. he rests beside the home of people who knew him. he rests in a place which is known and immovable. there’s a physical location people can go to if they want to mourn him there

and ultimately it doesn’t matter because this is the show that has shown time and time again that it could not care less about historical accuracy

#just be sad that he’s died. it’s okay to be sad about the character dying without making it into a huge thing the writers did wrong #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #izzy hands #lyse.jpg #sorry i’m going to bed now i just remembered i meant to post about this hours ago

[furylad]

how is the ofmd fandom coping with the fact that Izzy Enjoyers were right about literally everything and the first three eps are just The Izzy Hands Show? I've peeked at Izzy hate blogs and have been amused that it seems like they're just pretending none of those scenes happened and are just latching onto the one Stede/Ed scene while ignoring. literally everything we just saw

#ofmd #our flag means death #izzy hands #I just can't help but notice the lack of the usual suspects whining about Izzy in the tags hmmmmmmmmmm curious #it's almost like none of you can say shit now #and you're just going to pretend the last year of fandom toxicity and people making shit up just didn't happen #a lot of you owe Izzy fandom an apology lol #especially the big names who have been dragging on this drama for years #and split the fandom in half over it #but apparently we're just going to act like none of this happened and not acknowledge we were wrong cool

[samioli]

as someone who's mostly outside of the ofmd fandom, i will say its really funny to just see that the guy everyone thought was a raging homophobe (including me) isn't actually homophobic at all, he just really fucking hates a specific gay guy with a passion. and honestly thats way funnier

#izzy this is for u baby ngl i respect it #ofmd #izzy hands #then again i haven't even finished season 1 so i could be wrong?? #but these were the vibes

[thym3y]

i ❤️ old man yaoi

#its what izzy deserves he's never done anything wrong in his life (lying) #ofmd #ofmd fanart #ofmd modern au #steddyhands #steddyhands fanart #steddy hands #steddy hands fanart #ed teach #stede fanart #izzy hands fanart #ed teach fanart #our flag means death #illustration #digital art #art

[charliebugz]

can we please talk about wee john for a second? he is knitting his own clothes! he is EXPRESSING HIMSELF!

and he’s not the only one! Lucius has his art, Roach is creating new recipes, and of course Izzy is wood carving. the crew is expressing themselves through the arts! just like they did at the start of season one when they were making flags

#they are finding hobbies!! #and ​thank god they are bc they are in desperate need of some healthy coping mechanisms #(not to imply that anything izzy does is healthy lmao) #ofmd spoilers #ofmd #our flag means death spoilers #our flag means death #i speak! #wee john feeney #i love his little pin cushion bracelet #even though i think those are the wrong kind of pins for knitting lol #also the crew all pitching in to make the leg for izzy fits into this too

[arsenicflame]

i could NOT get this out of my head (original)

#i put WAY too much effort into this for how silly it is hdkjsdkad #it bothered me that the speech indicators went the wrong way soooo i spent a stupid amount of time fixing it #idk if this is funny to anyone but me but. its them your honour #nyxtalks #ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #izzy hands #israel hands #edward teach #blackbeard #stizzy #edizzy #gentlebeard #steddyhands

[bookshelfdreams]

Saw a Take earlier today like "Ed stans have only 1 argument and it's accusing everyone who likes Izzy of being problematic" or something to that effect

and it made me think "Nah babe, you're not problematic. You're just wrong."

And then I thought. Huh. Why do I think that?

It's a perfectly respectable thing to read a text in a way it wasn't intended to be read. In fact, "reading against the grain", doing critical readings, shifting perspectives when engaging with a text - all of thee are important skills! You can, and should, do feminist, antiracist, postcolonial, queer, etc readings of texts that were never intended to be read that way. Hell, all fandom (often) is, is doing queer readings! Ask the text uncomfortable questions it doesn't want to answer!

However. It's pretty difficult to do a queer reading when the text already is a queer narrative. The questions you would ask the text if you did a queer reading, or a reading focused on gender roles, or similar things - those are questions the text is already actively exploring.

If you want to do a subversive reading of a text that is already quite subversive - what do you end up with?

"What's the story like from Izzy's perspective?" is a question ofmd deliberately doesn't focus too much on because Izzy's perspective is the default and ofmd wants to challenge that. There's a reason the angry white man is the antagonist in this show, and if you ask "Okay, but could he be right though?" you're missing the point.

Or rather, you're turning everything that's interesting about ofmd back around. You're asking "Okay, but why don't we focus on a white perspective that strictly adheres to oppressive power structures?" of a narrative who already asked itself this question and gave the answer "Because that's been done enough and there are other stories worth telling."

And I think people are aware of that, which is how we end up with completely bizarre takes like "Izzy has the only queer character arc". He hasn't, but he has the only arc that a queer reading can be done on - for everyone else it's text, plain and simple. Refusing to engage with that text in favour of centering Izzy is basically doing a heteronormative reading without being willing to admit it to yourself.

And no, interpreting Izzy as a queer man doesn't change that.

#its not about your headcanon its about the questions you ask the text!!! #'do the people who abuse and bully stede have a point?' #no says the text. NEVER. theres nothing wrong with being a gnc weirdo. #if you want to answer yes - okay why? why do you think the text is wrong in answering no? #'is ed changing how he acts and presents himself behaviour that needs to be corrected?' #no says the text. a lot what we are taught about being a man is wrong. #again. if your answer is yes. ask yourself why. #and so on. like im not saying youre committing a thought crime just. be honest about what your interpretation is actually asking yk #our flag means death #izzy hands #thoughts #the izcourse

[howlerbat]

in honor of the second season starting soon here’s an edit of Izzy Hands I did a while ago to remind you of his worst best moments

#I’m a black sails girlie but I love an exasperated first mate when I see one #ofmd #our flag means death #izzy hands #he has done nothing wrong in his life actually

[actual-changeling]

one single hot take from me before i go rewatch the reunion scene ten times and then go tf to bed.

we have a show full of queer people. every single person we encounter with the exception of the british probably is QUEER. ALL OF THEM. let that fucking sink in for a second.

and the queerness is so multi faceted and well done and reflects the realities of so many people watching it.

so if you sit down after this finale and type a post that in any shape or form calls izzy's death homophobic, "bury your gays", or anything in that direction? i need you to go outside for real. i need you to fucking log off and look at the news. maybe look at some nice queer media statistics from 2014-2016. maybe turn on the fucking tv and scroll through the programs and THEN you can come back and tell me how many queer people you saw. how many shows that are unashamedly about queerness.

yeah that's what i fucking thought you absolute twat.

if you are harassing creators over their writing choices when they are out there risking their careers to create queer media you are a vile person and i want nothing to do with you.

#alex yells at the void #ofmd2 #izzy hands #our flag means death #ofmd season 2 spoilers #good omens #ineffable husbands #yeah it applies to good omens too #i am so fucking tired oh my GOD what kind of braindead takes am i seeing #y'all wouldnt have survived episode 1 of got #or any show that aired before 2020 #character death happens get the fuck over it fucking hell you can be upset but dont go harassing people over it #what the hell is wrong with you

[kyoukamybeloved]

I want to study them under a microscope im so normal about them (lying)

[ID: a screenshot of an anon ask someone sent user @/asfna-deactivated20181228, and their response to the ask. Chuuya and Dazai from Bungou Stray Dogs are edited onto the post to make it look like they're the ones interacting. Anonymous, or Chuuya, asks: "If I were dating you I would kill you". asfna-deactivated20181228, or Dazai, responds: "oo that's my type". /End ID.]

thanks for the ID @that-was-anticlimactic

#bsd #soukoku #skk #dazai osamu #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #chuuya bungou stray dogs #chuuya nakahara #dazai bsd #dazai x chuuya #chuuya x dazai #dazai bungou stray dogs #chuuya bsd #port mafia #bsd fifteen #dazai chuuya age fifteen #bsd memes #bsd funny #there’s something wrong with them m #izzie posts #double black #bsd double black