#honest eds

[oldshowbiz]

Toronto as you remember it

#honest eds #toronto #neon #sign geeks #spadina #bloor st #yonge street #sam the record man #el mocambo #maple leaf gardens #vintage #ontario #canada #canadian

[buzzinglightsproject]

Pleased to hear an update on the possibility of this lil Honest Eds neon returning to Mirvish Village via @westbankcorp who is developing the space. Thanks for the news @jacklandauphotography + @signsthatdefine. These two shots are from 2016 when I was documenting the site for a future historical project. If you're not familiar with this hidden #neon amidst all the wild signage on this corner, it was in the back alley at the parking lot.

#honest eds #toronto #mirvish village #honesteds #signage #ontario #canada #neonsigns #buzzinglightsproject

[saadmouth]

#honest eds #toronto #lingerie

[changantenna]

now on with the news, the feisty(j) five were spotted running away from the royal guard earlier tonight. if you've caught sight of them, please feel free to tell us the details on this hotline

#undertale yellow #uty #feisty five #uty starlo #starlo #uty moray #uty ed #uty ace #uty mooch #uty memes #i had no idea where to put ace if im being honest...he nearly had his whole head out that window #my art

[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

[cinnamonsikwate]

"why couldn't shuro have just been honest about what he felt with laios and falin it's not that hard" are you. are you White

#dungeon meshi #shuro #toshiro nakamoto #look you can hate him for other things but this is very clearly a case of cultures (& personalities influenced by these cultures) clashing #shuro is japanese/east asian-coded and laios is european white boy #i am not japanese but i also come from a collectivistic society #pakikisama is a filipino value both prized and abhorred #it relies heavily on being able to read social cues and prior knowledge of societal norms #shuro being from a different country/culture is important to his character #his repressed nature is meant to contrast with laios' open one like that's the point #they both had similar upbringings but different coping mechanisms #shuro explicitly admits that he's jealous of laios being able to live life sincerely #anyway the point is they were operating on different expectations entirely and neither had healthy enough communication skills #to hash things out before they got too bad #re his attraction to falin i personally believe he unfortunately mpdg-ed her #she represented something new & different. a fresh drink of water for his parched repressed self #alas not meant to be #i'll be honest the way ryoko kui handles both fantasy & regular racism in dm is more miss than hit for me #i don't doubt that a lot of the shuro hate is based off of marcille's pov of him #marcille famously racist 😭 #characters' racist views don't often get (too) challenged #practically everyone is casually racist at some point #anyway. again if you're gonna hate shuro at least hate him for being complicit in human trafficking & slavery #he couldn't help falling for the wrong woman goddamn 😭 #calemonsito notes

[onlylostphysics]

Edward Teach + distancing himself from his own emotions

#our flag means death #ofmdedit #ofmd #edward teach #taika waititi #blackbeard #gifs #so i've been thinking a lot about how ed compartmentalises his feelings #and how he's at his most straightforwardly honest when he's pretending to be someone else #in this essay i will

[magnusthepuppet]

Could you draw a kiss moment Gentlebeard of ofmd?

they got a little silly 🤪

have this stede bunnet doodle i did too

#magnus vintriloquism #art requests #ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #ed teach #edward teach #ed x stede #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #kinda hate this i will be honest #but yk how it is #I WISH I COULD DRAW BETTER #BETTER FANART YK #whatever i hope the stede bunnet drawing makes up for my lack of skills

[sugarcoatedrattrap]

🕺

#I normally never like any time-skip age up stuff in the slightest #but smthn compelled me to make them 40 and put them suits #and the show said ‘let’s subvert the nerd stereotype by not giving the nerd glasses’ #and I said ‘no :) ‘ #gonna be honest mostly just wanted to draw eddy going from teenage/mid 20s angst #to chill middle aged lame but cool disco wear #ed edd n eddy #eddeddy #technically

[werewolf-transgenderism]

they’re having a blanket fort day

#gonna be honest i wish i 1) had a blanket fort and 2) had someone in said blanket fort to comfort me #me 🤝 ed 🤝 blanket fort era #ofmd #our flag means death #my art

[magniloquent-raven]

that's GROWTH babey

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #stede bonnet #edward teach #mary bonnet #i really like the little parallel i just noticed it #and i didn't keep it in for brevity's sake but i also kinda like that stede's first instinct was still to deflect #he pushes back with ''i was a whim to YOU'' first before settling when he sees ed getting more upset #and then he gets honest with him #because he's LEARNED

[eenedump]

May!

#I’m gonna be honest with you guys I don’t know how to draw the Kankers in eene’s style that well #ed edd n eddy #eene #eene fanart #ed edd n eddy fanart #eene kankers #kankers #kanker sisters #may kanker #may kanker fanart

[edsbacktattoo]

you know what, i can’t even judge the izzy canyon too hard because i think if they ever give edward teach a haircut i’d react in the same way. like i’d be writing obituaries and shit too. going completely hog wild on every platform where people would listen. if they ever took away his beautiful hair i’d be jumping on other people’s posts and saying completely deranged shit. i’d be starting fires. maybe i should hold my tongue

#THIS IS A JOKE ITS A JOKE ITS A JOKE #please know that i say this as an izzy fan who is devastated #his death however was satisfying and necessary #but if im completely honest with you. i’d rather have ed’s hair. #i am NOT putting this in the izzy tag #also if i cop any heat for this know that the block button is my best mate and we fuck on the reg #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2

[bluespacebug]

I like that ‘Gizmo’ has become Nadja and Laszlo’s nickname for Guillermo.

I imagine at first they genuinely didn’t care/would forget what his name is, but after time it became more about them stubbornly refusing to admit that they care/know anything about him by pretending they really thought Gizmo was his name.

Now it feels like it’s evolved to being a name they call him more out of habit than spite. They’ve spent so much time calling him Gizmo that it’s just who he is to them, they know his first name at this point, Nandor says it all the fucking time. It’s just that they’ve come too far now, they’ve committed to calling him Gizmo

#am i gaslighting myself into thinking the vampires care more than they do? maybe… but also maybe not #with every season we see more how they really care about each other and i fucking love it #also i may just be stating the obvious here but idk i haven’t seen anyone else bring it up #wwdits #they might not know his last name yet lets be honest even nandor barely remembers it XD #ed talks

[sarucane]

Stede's *sob* Last Story (Kinda)

(Parentheses in title because I'm a big believer in stories having a life of their own, and hell this is the kind of thing where a cast would agree to a movie in 10 years, and that's before we get to fanfic...but as far as OFMD the tv show goes, this is the last one)

Stede's last story doesn't really begin with him. It begins with Ed.

Ed's the one who's suggested being innkeepers. Who decided he wanted to stay on this island, to set aside the impossible bird and rest on land. Ed's adding one more story to his cacaphony of contradictory stories. But this one isn't an extreme "I'm THIS now, and my name is JEFF." It isn't a death, or a personality shift. It's a story he'd like to "give a go."

Stede used to be so obsessed with his own stories that he couldn't--or didn't dare--see what others thought of them. He had to learn to set some stories aside, in order to live the life he wanted to live.

And that's just what he's done here. The life he wants to live is one with Ed, and this is the life Ed needs to live.

This is the story Ed's telling. So, Stede tells it too. With his whole heart, and no second thoughts, none of the doubts and fears that plagued him for so long.

Stede may be binding himself to land now, to Ed, but he's more free than he's ever been--to tell any story he wants.

Ed is more scared than Stede. Is too willing, as always, to tell a story that devalues himself.

But Stede takes that story and transforms it. Because telling a story together is far, far more powerful than telling a story alone.

So Stede takes Ed's story and transforms it. Into something full of honest hope. No more buying a boat and crew and pretending to be a pirate hoping it'll change him; no more clinging to vision without action. The house needs work. The relationship needs work. The story won't become reality all by itself.

But it can.

And I love that Ed doesn't quite engage with this (yet). That even now at what turns out to be the end, he's still a bit more uncertain than Stede because he's just not as secure as Stede yet. Because that's honest.

Instead, Ed focuses on the practical. On needing some food , on the need for a bit of violence.

But that doesn't change Stede's story. And neither does the crappy smell awaiting them inside.

This is a story of hope. And it can shape reality. A heap of painted wood can be a real boy, and a terrible smell can be a smell of the future.

And Stede holds true to that long enough for Ed to finally join in telling this story. To say, "love that," and stop trivializing or devaluing the story he wants to tell.

And then Stede says "Me too." They're in the same place, telling the same story.

And then--now that the story has legs, now that the core truth of love is where it belongs, at center --Stede doesn't cling to perfection, to completeness. He doesn't try to pretend the smell is nice, or doesn't bother him.

He embraces reality, and goes about doing what needs to be done to make the important story true.

A seabird to land; a unicorn still standing in defiance of everything and everyone; two mad queers packed with insecurity and trauma finding love and peace together.

A last story, gently setting aside any ugliness of reality, kindly shoring up insecurities, and seducing its listener into becoming another storyteller.

Stede's stories carried him from one family, to another, to one last and truest family. The one he chose, with both eyes open. Took him to a home he'll build with his own hands, alongside his love.

It's story that will shape his reality--and that of those who trust him--forever. A story he'll tell, forever.

Because now, he can. He knows how.

And he won't do it alone.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #ofmd meta #ed teach #stede bonnet #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #fuuuuck i'm endlessly grateful for this ending #like rushed yes needed 10 extra minutes but damn the more i think about this the more this just works so well #it's a good ending. not great in terms of story--but great in terms of CHARACTER #it's honest and true and beautiful #they get to be okay. forever. #sad for us out here in reality but pretty nice for them if you think about it #now i'm gonna go be sad

[zrllosyn-art]

Vague hikari theorizing n stuff comic.

In which Hikari fights kaiju no 6.

#body horror #blood #kaiju no 8 #kn8 #kaiju no. 8 #kaiju no. 6 #no. 6 #Hikari Shinomiya #anyways did you know the shinomiyas give me brainrot #because they do #the comic was MOSTLY DRAWN for the 5th page im gonna be honest #anyways hikari and isao parallels real? please be real #just in case #its all very canon typical tho #anyways #I HAVE DRAWN #SO MANY A COMIC #DONT #DONT WORRY ABOUT IT (my hands did not like me very much. i took breaks n stuff tho so better than it coulda been) #BUT YEAH WHAT IF NO4 JUST HAD. PRIORITIES N STUFF THAT GOT IT ATTATCHED TO HOSTS anyways #i can go off forever about em #but like #dont #dont worry about it #i go b ed