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fightmedraco · 4 months

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i'm so comfy calling myself a lesbian until I see tall pretty man long hair slutty waist with immaculate fashion taste. it's a struggle out here

#lesbian #slutty waist #alucard #adrian tepes #castlevania #our flag means death #archive of our own #just girly things #wlw #sapphic #ed teach #ed teach ofmd #ofmd #sirius black #harry potter #marauders #marauders era

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amess-art · 8 months

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edward the blushing bride

#ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #ofmd fanart #blackbeard #blackbeard fanart #ed teach #edward teach #ed teach ofmd #ofmd ed teach #ed teach fanart #ofmd s2 fanart #edward teach fanart

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jellybeanium124 · 1 year

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ed had to be born in the 1670s bc if he had access to a modern sound system and could blast rock and roll entrance music he'd become too powerful

#ofmd #our flag means death #ed teach #ed teach ofmd

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mossiestpiglet · 1 year

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I’ve seen a lot of people talk about Ed’s callous reaction to Izzy saying some of their own crew died in saving Stede’s crew, but I don’t think I’ve seen people connect it to Ed’s speech about what it means to be Blackbeard (the scene that starts with Izzy pulling Stede below deck).

"I mean, you wanted to be Blackbeard, this is what it's like. [...] The crew's gonna die. Hurry, you're gonna lose all your men. It's all gonna be your fault. All of the men who trusted you. All their blood's gonna be on your hands. It's going to be your fault! Time's up! Death it is."

That speech is entirely about the pressure of having to make decisions that other people’s lives depend on and the weight it's put on Ed over the years and it comes right after Izzy has told him that their men died and Ed brushes it off as “kinda the job”. We don't see Ed address this pressure and pain as an issue anywhere else in the show, at least not directly, and it's not connected to anything he was discussing with Stede beforehand because that was all about how there's no challenge in being Blackbeard anymore. It's with Izzy that he's been talking about death, and with the way we are shown Izzy reacting to Ed's words, I think we are meant to be seeing this as a conversation between Ed and Izzy in some ways more than one between Ed and Stede. Ed doesn't know how to say these things directly to Izzy, so he's saying them through performance, to someone else, with Izzy present.

There is something tragic of course in the fact that this is one of Ed's first bids for emotional truth, but it's still not what Izzy needs from him. It clearly has an affect on Izzy, that's why we're shown his reaction, but Izzy lives and dies on Ed's decisions and that material reality isn't changed by knowing that the pressure weighs on Ed.

#edward teach ofmd #ed teach ofmd #izzy hands #ofmd meta #ofmd analysis

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shesinbloom · 1 year

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#our flag means death #ofmd #ed our flag means death #ed teach ofmd #ed teach #blackbeard #edward teach

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leemonbeez · 4 months

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Finally had some free time after so long lol so I drew some Ed teach sketches because he's bbg pahaha

#our flag means death #taika waititi #fanart #ed teach #ed teach ofmd #blackbeard ofmd #ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd fanart

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chaos-lioness · 5 months

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Pirate Captains Analysis Chaos (It’s Zheng Yi Sao time!)

I’m wildly in love with Zheng Yi Sao for her very own self but I am also absolutely feral about the way her character plays off of our two existing pirate captains Ed and Stede, so here’s a brain dump about that!! Fair warning that there is passing mention of real life oppression in this analysis because this show is written in the real world and is thoughtful about making commentaries on it.

In summary, Zheng is another example of a pirate captain doing what Stede wishes he was doing and also she and Ed are each doing what the other wishes they were doing.

First of all, Zheng is operating with violence, but still a lot of talking it out and emotional problem solving incorporated into her pirate captaincy. And she runs her ships in a way that’s super nice for the crew. She’s succeeded at making the kind of ship Stede wanted to build except she’s Extremely successful at it. Stede wants what Zheng has.

But! She’s also trapped in that mode the same way Ed is trapped in using exclusively violence as a pirate- except Ed is trapped by ideals of masculinity while Zheng is in the same bind but with femininity. She’s learned how she has to perform the same way Ed has in order to succeed. Even when incredibly successful and very CAPABLE Of taking a violent approach (just as Ed is capable of doing things using subtlety and emotion!) she feels forced to lean into this girl-talk charade- she’s learned that she can’t command respect the way other people can unless she leans into the gender roles that were assigned to her. Just as Ed can’t command respect without leaning into a very particular kind of masculinity. Race plays into this as well, the stereotypes of Indigenous men as especially violent and East Asian women as especially subservient are part of what forces them into these modes of pirate captaincy and what makes those modes of pirate captaincy particularly agonizing to perform.

But coming back to how all three of our captains fit together, I think an interesting point is how well they’re conforming to gendered expectations. Both Stede and Zheng have had to command respect in an unusual way because of their femininity, but why does it work so well for Zheng when she dislikes it? Why does it work so badly for Stede, who can’t help but do anything else and likes it, even as he wishes he liked stereotypically masculine violence more and differently? Zheng is a more skilled and experienced pirate by a mile, obviously. But there’s also the fact that she and Ed are both performing their stereotypical gender roles very well, while Stede is conforming to stereotypical male gender roles very badly.

Stede wants to talk it through as an embrace of the ways he’s failed his society’s ideas of what a man should be. He’s like. Mediocre at both this and the violence he admires in Ed. But all of his behaviours are coming from a less forced and more genuine place than Ed and Zheng have been able to find at the beginning of the series. Stede broke out of the society that confined him and came to somewhere new. Ed has finally had the chance to do this too as of the end of season 2, he’s left piracy to try the quiet life on land he craves. Now with her fleet gone, it’s interesting to see what Zheng chooses- she wants to get revenge and raise hell. She wants to be a pirate’s pirate, like Blackbeard was. But she also embraces the social aspect of her role more authentically- she tries to build a real relationship with Ed and Stede as pirate partners. Freed from gendered and racialized expectations, Zheng, acting authentically, starts building a culture of real mutual respect where genuine allies are important and valued. And part of beating the absolute shit out of the British navy.

What is authentic to you is not right for someone else. What you want may not be what someone else wants. Success through conforming to others’ expectations, particularly oppressive expectations, is a losing game, but sometimes it’s what you’ve got. And Zheng Yi Sao’s addition to the captain crew does such a good job of reinforcing those themes!!!!

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ed ofmd #blackbeard ofmd #ed teach #ed teach ofmd #stede ofmd #stede bonnet #zheng ofmd #zheng yi sao #zheng yi sao ofmd #my stuff

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elapsed-spiral · 1 year

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Thinking about Ed and trauma and the whole pink robe sad lyrics talent show of it all.

I agree that Ed is really trying out new ways of living when he returns to the Revenge but I think there is a strangeness and a falseness to it. That's trauma baby. I think Ed has just started getting comfortable with the idea that maybe he isn't an inherently monstrous, evil person, thanks to Stede and their moment at the beach, but that growing belief has been jeopardised, thanks to Stede and Ed's other moment at the dock. I know Stede, you're also traumatised as all hell, I know buddy. And if Stede is the guy who helped Ed start to think maybe he could be "someone else", then who is he without him?

When I watch the sad song scene, it feels a bit off to me. I think partly it's because the show is still a comedy, but also because Ed is clutching at straws. He wants to keep feeling better, he wants to keep believing that he's not an irredeemable monster, but the guy who helped him start to question that belief is gone. Why is he gone? Did he change his mind? Was he wrong about Ed?

I think the scene feels off, like play acting, because Ed doesn't really believe that he is pink robe wearing, talent show loving Ed or that that's who he can be. It just feels like another part he's playing. Because who is Ed Teach, really? He's had a lot of people tell him who he is, but he's not had a lot of opportunity to figure it out for himself.

So he's in a pretty delicate place when Izzy comes along and threatens him like a little shitbag. Worse still, on some level, I think there's a warped comfort to what Izzy tells him (don't get me wrong, what Izzy says is awful): Ed is a bad person. He is just Blackbeard, and that's all he'll ever be. At least Ed knows where he stands with that, even if it confirms that he's an evil, unlovable person.

But the problem is, once you've started to realise that maybe you aren't to blame for everything and maybe some terrible things happened to you, not you to them, it's hard to put that all back in the box. And that's how you end up crying while you look at your ex's wife's weirdly prophetic art.

#sorry this got long #ed teach ofmd #ed ofmd #ofmd meta

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periken-art · 1 year

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“Morning, love.”

#my art #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd ed teach #Ed teach ofmd #fanart #ed teach #Blackbeard #blackbeard ofmd #Taika Waititi #ofmd fanart #digital art

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rapid-oxidization · 2 years

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THINKING ABOUT Ed as a Tactile Person (the red silk, the Rather Exquisite Cashmere, absolutely manhandling the auxiliary wardrobe, etc) and thinking about the translation of that re: how he displays affection. Not even in an explicit way just.... canonical things like the hand thing when he's watching over Stede, the hug after the lighthouse scheme, seeking out Stede's hand for comfort after the Bathtub Breakdown, the way he cradle's stede's face during the kiss

#as an also Tactile Person im projecting after this point but like #concepts:#Ed playing with stede's hair (maybe absentmindedly??)#Ed taking one of stede's hands in his and studying it #Ed giving Stede lots of little smooches like the little goofy ones that just end in giggles #Ed burying his face into stede's chest or running a hand along his collar bone #and i also think he would die a little whenever Stede initiates contact even if it's on the more casual side #there are more thoughts here but I have to be up for work tmrrw #ofmd #ed teach ofmd #blackbeard ofmd #Stede bonnet ofmd #stede x ed #ed x stede #blackbonnet #gentlebeard

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pastelvillaines11 · 4 days

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*mentally lamenting* “LETS GET THESE TEEN HEARTS BEATING FASTER FASTER! SO TESTOSTERONE BOYS AND HARLEQUIN GIRLS WILL YOU DANCE TO THIS BEAT AND HOLD A LOVER CLOSE! SO TESTOSTERONE BOYS AND HARLEQUIN GIRLS WILL YOU DANCE TO THIS BEAT AND HOLD A LOVER CLOOOSE~!”

#he’s just like me #Blackbeard #Ed in his murderous emo era #our flag means death #ofmd #🏴‍☠️#🐙#Ed teach ofmd

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gothboylovesbowie · 11 days

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Looks like I forgot to post this before so... Here's the details. I was on a time crunch so it's not perfect but I did this back in like October???

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ecoamerica · 23 days

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jellybeanium124 · 2 years

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I feel like if you explained the modern concepts of sexuality to Stede he’d immediately go “:D yes I am a gay gay homosexual gay!!” and add a rainbow flag to the Revenge, while Ed would be like “what the fuck is this, sexy people are sexy!”