#and then it wasn't

[ghostbustermelanieking]

i think our flag means death is going to end in a historically accurate way, but in its own version of historical accuracy -- i.e., ed and stede faking their deaths in order to retire. here are the reasons why.

retirement has been foreshadowed consistently from ed's first full episode on the show (1x04). 1x09 hinges on the idea of retirement (the failed plan to run away). the idea of ed (and stede by association, in 2x07) leaving piracy behind has been heavily embedded throughout season 2. inevitably this seems like it would be where the show is ultimately headed in the season 3 i really hope we get

building off that last point... the idea of faking one's death as a way of escape has also been present throughout the show, particularly in season 1. specifically, ed's plan in 1x04 is to fake his death and assume stede's identity, in order to retire. for sort-of different reasons, stede fakes his death in 1x09, and although that doesn't seem to be something he's trying to keep consistent this season, the faking of his death was still an important plot point. it doesn't seem out of the question that they'd revisit this plot point again as a way for two infamous pirates to leave things behind

while ofmd is mostly not historically accurate at all, it does keep a lot of things true to history (real people like mary bonnet, spanish jackie, calico jack, anne bonny and mary read, etc.; specific things being true such as blackbeard marooning stede bonnet's crew, izzy hands getting shot in the leg, stede bonnet making people walk the plank, etc. etc....). with all this attention spent on these nods to history, it seems to me that they'd keep it consistent with the historical exits of blackbeard and stede bonnet.

i grew up in north carolina, where the historical blackbeard died, and the stories i grew up hearing sounds soooo much like a fuckery to me, if put in the context of ofmd. shit like "it took multiple attempts to kill him, rasputin style" "when his headless body was thrown overboard, it swam around the ship multiple times" (x) screams either of an elaborate fuckery, or of stories of said fuckery being exaggerated through multiple retellings. if this happens, i really hope the writers do something with these batshit crazy legends, that could legitimately be fun

this premise, depending on how it would be approached, has some seriously angst potential. (i am specifically talking about this post. that is what i want)

i love the fact that the show doesn't insist on being grimdark 100% historically accurate -- in fact, i don't think ofmd could exist in its current form if it tried to do this. but the references to/portrayals of real history are fun. and it almost feels like the show is trying adhere to history a certain amount on purpose, based on things i've read in interviews. and so i just think it would be fun if the show indulged in the angst of that tragic ending, blanketed in the knowledge that everything is ultimately going to turn out fine and happy in the end

#i have believed this truly since march 2022 #honestly i think my conviction is continually influenced by the fact that i expected the show to be like. 0% historically accurate #and then it wasn't #and i am a history nerd so it's hard not to indulge #ofmd spoilers #ofmd #our flag means death

[fauna-a]

IV The Tower

During all the time Ptolemy had been in the Other Place, he had not been scared, at all: he had felt such exhilarating freedom, comparable to nothing so far.

Ptolemy had never had difficulty to acknowledge his fragility, his being vulnerable to diseases and much frailer than his peers; he knew to be lucky, being born in the royal family, where he didn’t have to do as much as lift a finger. But he also knew to not be interested in physical strength, so his frailty was never an issue for him.

Until he had gone and come back from the Other Place.

He felt as if he had stones instead of limbs; every breath was painful. He was laying supine inside the pentacle he himself had drawn and then broken hours (days?) before and he couldn’t get up.

Ptolemy took a deep breath, trying to ignore the stabbing pain in his ribs and the surging fear. It was silly, he had not been scared before pronouncing the words of the backward summoning because he knew Rekhyt would have been on the other side, and had not feared the elemental walls nor of the chaos raging around him… He had not feared even his cousins nor the assassins.

Fear or not fear, however, he couldn’t stay laying there forever.

Ptolemy tried to put his strength on his arms and legs, but he didn’t receive an answer. He tried to look at his body and for the first time could glimpse his hands.

It wasn’t good.

But it wasn’t good staying there and wallowing in self-pity, too: he knew there would have been consequences. Even if he didn’t tell Rekhyt about it, Ptolemy knew there was the possibility to not survive a journey like this. Instead, he was alive, even if with some difficulty, and he was inside a pentacle. So. So he could call Rekhyt.

His body was just a little price to pay: Ptolemy knew that from that day on everything would be different.

#and then it wasn't #:'( #bartprompts24 #bartimaeus prompt week 24 #bartimaeus trilogy #bartimaeus sequence #ptolemy #the tower

[lazylyz]

Mmmm my little 5 +1 lay on hands fic about Xenk and the party has already gotten out of hand so to speak.

#xenk yendar #xedgin #me to myself: this will just be a few short scenes #😑 #and then it wasn't #exploring how he shows affection is fun #especially when the party starts to notice

[junko-jinko]

He's wearing Yakou's hoodie btw

#rain code #mdarc #raincode #viviakou #yakovi #vivia twilight #yakou furio #furilight #I don't know why I made this ok I just did #this was supposed to be just some quick silly doodle #and then it wasn't #not my best work #but it doesn't matter I will keep posting vivia #I will keep posting viviakou #and my art skills and my lack of confidence in them will not stop me #my art

[xochitai]

Zarkon can have a dress too, as a treat

#it was supposed to be a sketch #and then it wasn't #when will i learn #vld #Voltron: Legendary Defender #vld zarkon #zarkon

[dollsahoy]

as someone who never really liked the original MH dolls, I find the new bodies (the rumor is that there will be body variety) much more appealing, and I never liked their face paint, either--the box art always look livelier, simpler, and more appealing to me

I mean, I'm still probably not going to care much about the reboot, because "dolls with stock personalities" is not My Thing, either

but I also don't expect a new version of an older American kids doll line to stay static--I mean, a lot of the Barbie People now start screaming at Mattel when they use the same headsculpt for mainline Barbie for more than five years

so I see all these people like "That's not MY Monster High!"

and you're right

your Monster High was 10 years ago

the new dolls are made for kids today

so rejoice in not feeling like you have to spend all that money for all those dolls again

#you can say it's not for you #even if you expected it to be #and then it wasn't #no need to get outraged that a toy meant for kids isn't your thing

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

I want to watch the next episode of Burrow's End but I'm TERRIFIED that it's going to break my heart.

#my first introduction to dnd was fantasy high #whoch has sad moments. but is altogether a happy campaign #then i played a one shot with friends that was just two hours of us going theough a haunted circus thing #i wrestled a bottle of poison away from our steongest party member with a nat 20 and drank it because i wanted to know what it was #thats what i thought dungeons and dragons was. happy gay high schoolers and opportune nat 20s to drink poison #but the latest one shot i played had a sad ending? and Burrow's End exists??????? whats up with that??????? #no criticism to any dms. especially aabria #its just not what i expected. and thats completely on me #i saw a campaign with stoats ajd thought 'oh this is gonna be so cute and nice' #and then it WASN'T #i am so tired

[pressradio]

can I just sit here and cry ugly

#charles leclerc #that was perfect #and then it wasn't #and monaco is next

[rongzhi]

English added by me :)

#douyin #video #tiktok #cats #the last guy's name being 'DON'T MIND ME!! (WASN'T ABLE TO NAB ZHOU SHEN CONCERT TICKETS SO I'M ACTING CRAZY VERSION)' really adds to it

[skrunksthatwunk]

see 0 note flop posts aren't that bad when they're personal but 0 note fandom posts feel literally so bad. like if you don't wanna play toys with me anymore just say that. i'll pack up my super cool awesome things and go and i'll sit on the other side of the playground by myself and i won't even look at you. fuck

#yes i AM thinking about a particular post. no it wasn't that good but still. a moment of heartache for sure #like it feels so bad but im too prou dto delete it and also too lazy

[phantom-of-the-501st]

Remember that this is not the proof that they love each other

That was a last-ditch attempt from Crowley to get Aziraphale to stay

This is the proof that they love each other

Their love wasn't just made real because they kissed

It always existed

#i will argue this point til my dying breath #they always loved each other #if you think the kiss was the only proof #then i adviae you to reexamine the relationship #the kiss wasn't romantic anyway #it was desperate and painful #it was a last ditch effort from crowley because he loves aziraphale so much #but it was not the confession #he'd already confessed his feelings #the kiss was never necessary to do that #good omens #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #good omens spoilers #go2 spoilers

[o0kawaii0o]

I'll tell you a secret... my name 'Sam' is short for 'Samson'.

#SAMSON #🥺🤲 #would you boop him? #if I wasn't lazy and losing motivation for this drawing I'd have added patches on his jacket but alas #stardew valley #sdv fanart #sdv sam #stardew valley sam #o0kawaii0o

[throesofincreasingwonder]

"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.

#original post #text post #500 #1k #2k #btw i know my definition of death of the author is loosey goosey here #it wasn't the main point so i went informal with it! as ppl in the tags have pointed out it isn't exact #and i do recommend reading the wikipedia article or similar (possibly even the essay itself if you're narsty) if you want to learn more! #wasn't expecting this to take off so my apologies to my barthes-heads out there #love you mwah #5k #10k #15k #20k

[arsenicpanda]

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S (2023)

#fnaf #fnafedit #Five Nights at Freddy's #fnaf movie #matpat #fnaf movie spoilers #fnaf spoilers #fyeahmovies #filmedit #gifs* #arsenicpandacreates #this LYING LIAR WHO LIES acted like he WASN'T IN THE MOVIE alskjflskjf #yes I DID stop watching to make this gif set what of it? #also I do not like this coloring but also I'm sick of looking at it and want to sleep soooooo #there is NO COLOR in this scene I SWEAR TO GOD #you would not BELIEVE the vibrancy + saturation it took to get it to this bland point #and any further started causing problems booooooo

[seagiri]

when did this happen???

#my art #my animations #dungeon meshi #chilchuck tims #senshi #marcille donato #laios touden #i wanted to color it but i realized how awful my work process is and it wasn't worth it. enjoy anyways #also first frame senshi is slightly traced i'm sorry he's hard to draw from that angle

[wasyago]

Can you draw that snail? You know the one who got out of Grian's power and started to eat Gem's lighthouse?

little guy <3

alternatively: big guy.

#hermitcraft #grian #geminitay #my art #sketch #drawing a snail with teeth wasn't on my bingo card for this year but here we are #ALSO god can you imagine a dungeon meshi au with grian as a dm and snail as his animal? all he wished for was a mending book....... #the brainrot is strong im being tormented by the demons ( my own ideas ) #ALSO 2.0. does anyone remember that snail from adventure time? i mean. cmon. i mean..? hello?