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maybeonedayillfindout · 7 months

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"animal motifs tend to be gendered" to YOU. to me that man is a fly on the wall and that woman is a feral coyote and that man is a common swift and that girl is an anglerfish and that person is a shelter dog and that man is

#and that man is a stag #anyways this is about our flag means death #ofmd #tma #writing #hannibal #animal motif #maybe/elias' fantastic new thoughts

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sketchy-scribs-n-doods · 9 months

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the four horsemen of Queer Agony

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keep-dreaming-killjoys · 7 months

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I just want to have this on my blog <33

#i will never be normal about this.#izzy. pls let me pin you to a corkboard 🥺👉🏻👈🏻#anyway. stunning performance. gonna go and cry myself to sleep now #our flag means death #ofmd season 2 spoilers #ofmd

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heynhay · 8 months

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OFMD season two bonus posters! (source)

#ofmd #our flag means death #hey guys by the way. I did actually just lie. i made these for fun. but like dont tell the other guy that i wanna see if he notices #normally i would make a self deprecating joke about how im sure everyone noticed bc i am such an amateur but like.#did you guys see their actual promo materials. just curious on what the.#what the thought process was there.#it looks air fried #anyway #art #my art

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pikechris · 8 months

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god I love how ed keeps subverting gender norms and expectations. he's literally named for his beard, he's the most feared pirate on the seven seas, the legends describe him as some sort of devil-like figure with glowing eyes and a head of smoke, all the portraits of him are these hypermasculine caricatures, so you'd expect him to be toxic macho man but NO. he's ed teach. he's queer. he ties his hair in a bun. he has a shiny dangly earring. he paints his nails pink. he loves soft fabrics. he drinks his tea with seven sugars. he wears pearly necklaces. he cries a lot. he paints the bride cake topper to look like him. he wears eye makeup. he's emo. he writes a sad breakup song. he actively dislikes being blackbeard and putting that mask on anymore. he's everything to me he's one of the best characters of all time

#our flag means death #ofmd #edward teach #ed teach #blackbeard #sofi.txt #that's what it's all about has been since we first met him!!!!!!#like we know this but damn the trailer. those LOOKS #anyway that being said. nonbinary ed rights #1k

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daftmooncretin · 7 months

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you may be entitled to emotional compensation

#WHY THE FUCK DID I MAKE THIS #i think momentarily my body was inhibited by an otherworldly force #but also i have many thoughts about stizzy #especially the izzy hands hand placement ™️#anyway they cute yall they so cute #stizzy #gentlehands #steddyhands #ofmd #gay #our flag means gay #our flag means death #izzy hands #stede bonnet #ofmd spoilers

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hansoeii · 1 year

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the steard is making a return!

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djarin · 6 months

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one of the main reasons i love ofmd is the unapologetic queer joy they show us. there's not a single moment where the drama revolves around a character's "coming out" moment. there's no need to accept or reject anyone for what they identify as. like, for fuck's sake, there have been so many moments in the show where they explicitly tell us, "hey, this is us, take it or leave it." no explanations, no justifications—just pure, unfiltered representation. it truly drives in the point that at the end of the day, queer people are also just simply people.

as much as i appreciate the abundance of queer representation we're getting now, i cannot emphasize how much a show like ofmd means to me. i am begging more companies to do what ofmd is doing and just show queer people living as boring old fucking people instead of as victims. take us beyond existing as an educational tool or a plot device. show queer people being people, and we'll stop being victims.

"kill me. kill us all. our spirit will last throughout your entire fսckin' empire because... we're good." you know what this show teaches us? that queer people are resilient as fuck, and that whatever we may have been told, shown, and made to believe about our queerness is wrong. we're good. we continue to be good despite the hardships we face. despite all the shit our elders and trailblazers have gone through from the beginning. despite the political landscapes of today that continue to try to strip us of our dignity and rights. we still exist and we will continue to exist—as people first, and victims last.

#elio talks #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #lgbt #queer #izzy hands #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #ofmd meta #like.... guys i just cant stop thinking about this. sob #that quote has literally been burnt into my mind the moment i heard it #like. they really did that to us. FOR us #looked us straight in the eye and said 'you're good you know. don't believe the shit you've heard.'#'your queerness does not defile you.'#anyway. feeling v passionate about this #prob bc im also doing extensive research about queer and trans youth in the 'at-risk' narrative w my prof sdjgjsgs

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celluloidbroomcloset · 6 months

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Man, I been writing quite a bit about Izzy Hands and toxic masculinity and his arc with that and here's the thing: the arc DOES NOT WORK if you just pretend he does not have a huge amount of deeply complicated internalized homophobia. His hatred of Stede and Lucius in Season 1 is about their masculine presentation and their not falling into and remaining in the correct categories and he makes that everyone else's problem because he's been warped by a painfully toxic masculine culture. The arc is about showing how horrific that culture is and how it nearly KILLS not just Ed, but the entire crew including Izzy himself, and how being freed from all those assumptions literally saves them. The whole dang thing is poison into positivity, but if you don't accept that the poison exists, that the gangrenous limb has to come off, then positivity isn't going to do shit.

I dunno, man, it makes me mad that such a fantastic and complicated arc has been just ignored or explained away by some folks because they don't want this angry, unhappy white man to be an actual antagonist who finds redemption.

#ofmd season 2 #our flag means death #ofmd meta #once again #i shall not tag this #because i don't want the shit #anyway i'm almost done #then i can think about stede and ed and class and see if i wanna look into that whole kettle of fish

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bookshelfdreams · 7 months

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fr if "this is no longer the queer joy show" for you, idk what to tell you. maybe next time try engaging with the actual story instead of the version of it you made up in your head

#if you hate ofmd now you never deserved it anyway #like if this blindsided you. if you do not see how it fits in with the whole narrative.#thats kind of on you #it makes perfect sense and its a beautiful conclusion to the arc of this season #and honestly pulling it off took some balls knowing how incredibly normal this fandom is about this character #ofmd s2 spoilers #oh whatever. fuck it.#our flag means death #thoughts

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xoxoemynn · 4 months

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For OFMD Tumblr friends who want a S3 and are scared of Twitter

First, no judgment from me. I very much get it. I resisted Twitter for a long time, and even though I'm now a bit more comfortable on it, it's still not my Fandom Home. There are a TON of valid reasons not to be on Twitter, but if you REALLY want to keep OFMD visible right now and help its chances of returning for a third season, Twitter is the best place to do it. Like it or not, Twitter is still the best social media platform for raising awareness and for instant news updates.

Tumblr posts don't make headlines. Topics that have been trending on Twitter do. And if we want this show to come back, we need to make OFMD impossible to ignore.

By now you've probably seen just how close we came to a S3, and if you're like me, you are RAGING and donning your battle jacket. But I get it can be intimidating to get on Twitter for the first time, so I thought I'd address some common anxieties I see. I'll put below a cut because this got a bit long, but I promise it's a quick read.

I don't know what to say! Where do I even start? That's okay! You don't have to create your own tweets (although it's great if you do). Amplifying other people's posts is also important. Go ahead and like/retweet/reply to other people's posts. This may also help you get an idea of what you may like to say in your own tweets.

Hashtags...yes? Yes! Although don't use too many or you may get flagged as a bot. The biggest one that seems to be emerging is #SaveOFMD. Other popular ones are #RenewAsACrew, #RenewOurFlagMeansDeath, and of course, #OFMD and #OurFlagMeansDeath.

Should I just be tagging all the streaming services? Per @renewasacrew, no. It's counterproductive. You'll want to tag one streamer at a time and be specific. Below is an example of a tweet I made the other day -- use specific reasons why that that particular streamer may benefit from picking up OFMD.

I'm scared. People are mean. Yeah, people are mean. But I will say the vibes over at OFMD Twitter are currently the best I've ever seen them. People seem to have united for the greater good and are being overwhelmingly positive and just trying to do whatever we can to save the show. (That said, again, I already had a pretty curated feed, and was very liberal with blocking users/terms I didn't want to see, but I've been able to spend so much more time in the For You tab than I ever have without being jump scared by something.)

But I don't know anyone there! Wouldn't I just be shouting into the void? Not if you use the hashtags! Fans are being really good about following those and engaging with the tweets. Plus, [Stede voice], I'm your friend. I'm xoxoemynn over there as well, I'll follow you back and engage with any of your posts that I see. Plus, what's been REALLY lovely to see is that SO many lurkers have come out of lurkerdom to support the efforts, and they are being welcomed with open arms, so you will not be alone. Again, I am telling you, vibes? Best I've ever seen them.

I can't get sucked into another social media platform, I don't have the time. The beauty here is you don't need to spend a lot of time. I've been on Twitter more in the past week than I have in the entire year I've had an account, and I'm still only on for maybe an hour total the entire day? I open the app, I check a couple accounts, I engage with a handful of posts, and I close the app. It takes all of five minutes. It's an extremely small lift that can have a very big impact.

My bet is on Zaslav expecting us to be upset, and that there may be a day or two of outrage, but then we'd move on. I'm sure right now he's trying to convince everyone that this is a fluke, and that it'll blow over soon. Don't let him win. Keep OFMD in the news. Be loud (but polite) and make Max and other streamers take note of what a passionate, loyal fan base this show has. Make their stocks continue to drop. Make it clear this is NOT just a fluke, it is NOT business as usual. It's a BIG fuck up with lasting consequences.

Twitter, for all its sins, is the best place to do this.

Now let's get our damned show back.

#ofmd #our flag means death #renew as a crew #truly BELIEVE ME I get wanting to stay away!!#and if after we get picked up again you want to delete your account please go ahead and do that!#but this is a really easy and tangible way to show Max/other streamers #just how beloved the show is and how it would benefit them to save it #I love tumblr but it's not going to give us the kind of impact we want #it's for fans - not for external folks/key decision makers #ANYWAY I am by NO MEANS a twitter expert but I'm getting better #and I've seen some people be nervous about getting on the platform so I thought I'd try to help <3

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local-space-gay · 7 months

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I know a lot of fans were already speculating this but it’s so amazing seeing Stede being such a romantic person this season. I love that we’re seeing him discover that he does like romance and he does like intimacy and he has such a capacity to love, he just probably didn’t realize it until now because he never felt that way with Mary. The way he wrote to Ed in his letters and the beautiful dialogue in ep. 4 where he’s just telling Ed how much he loves being around him, and just the entire moonlight kiss scene in ep. 5. This man is such a romantic and he’s finally getting to show it now that he’s with someone he genuinely loves.

#anyway I have a lot of feelings about this #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #ofmd stede #blackbonnet #ed x stede #Stede x ed #gentlebeard #stedward #our flag means gay #our flag means death

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piratecaptainscaptainpirates · 7 months

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Ed: don't expect me to just melt back into your arms!! 😤😤

Stede: *hits him with that earnest whimsy*

Ed: *just melts back into his arms*

#ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #something about how he doesn't even know how unloveable ed feels and but he knows him well enough to say what he needed to hear anyway

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usersukuna · 1 month

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Not now kitten, daddy's busy staring at gifs of old men kissing