#it is half-a$$ed

[thats-entirely-too-much-tuna]

these frames are 37 seconds apart. for eighteen months we’ve been reading and writing and theorizing about their eventual reconciliation, and stede bartholomew bonnet managed to speedrun it in THIRTY-SEVEN SECONDS.

#ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #ofmd #rhys darby #taika waititi #stede bonnet #edward teach #i’m half-joking in the sense that i know they still have much to discuss and work out and heal from #but you can’t deny how fast ed went from 😠 to 🥹 when faced with stede’s swagless whimsy and autistic charm

[sicbic]

Want to get better but want to get worse. Want people to know but don’t want them to find out.

#4norexi4 #ed not ed sheeran #mealspø #pro a4a #thinspø #tw ana diary #ana meal #ana dairy #ana rant #ana trigger #self h@rm #tw ana shit #self half #tw sui implied #tw sh related #tw sh joke #tw sh implied

[laceratedlamiaceae]

"It wasn't actually you who stabbed the painting, was it?" Stede asks suddenly in the middle of their training.

"No," Izzy answers after a moment of careful consideration.

"Then why'd you tell me you did?"

"I thought Edward was dead. And I want"--Izzy heaves a shaky sigh--"I wanted someone to remember him fondly."

"You mean me?" Stede asks, pointing at himself dumbfounded.

"Fuck if anyone else is going to, after all the shit he did."

Stede takes a moment to consider this. Even after everything his crew has told him about Ed, he finds it hard to believe that it isn't all just one big misunderstanding. But if Izzy, Blackbeard's most loyal servant, was saying it as well…

"Not even you?"

Izzy shakes his head, holding back the tears threatening to well up. "Not anymore."

#and then they kiss and live together happily ever after without ed the end #idk my internet went out for like half an hour and then this happened #our flag means death #ofmd #stede bonnet #izzy hands #stizzy #kind of #ficlet #ofmd season 2 #ofmd season 2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Ed looking at Stede in "Discomfort in a Married State"

He's insane and I like it.

He's insane and I love it.

He's insane...

...and I love him.

#ofmd #our flag means death #edward teach #ed teach #stede bonnet #taika waititi #gif #congrats once more to taika for getting so much through his eyes #since the lower half of his face is basically not visible

[hummingbee-o0o]

And he will not be trifled with!

(come on, season 3, you know this is Ed's ultimate fantasy, deliver it to him and to all of us)

#ofmd #our flag means death #Stede Bonnet #Edward Teach #blackbonnet #ofmd art #gentlebeard #ed x stede #I had so much fun with this one I honestly spent like half the drawing time just giggling #I think this might be my favourite thing I've drawn so far #o0o draws

[sufroyo]

i think kimberly shouldve had an emo phase at some point pls and thank uuuu :3

#froyoscribbles #street fighter #street fighter 6 #sf6 #ed #jamie siu #luke sullivan #kimberly jackson #id in alt text #bonus ed bc his trailer dropped just before i could get around to starting the sketch for this haha #sorry if this looks weird being half fully rendered but on the bright side i think i know how to do at least sketchy lineart again :')

[sarucane]

Why was finding Stede's letter so important for Ed?

Real talk, I adore the season 2 finale and to me the rush is worth it to have a safe ending place. But this episode is so overpacked, and Ed goes through such an incredible character arc and I love it, so here goes my rant on why he burst into tears and screamed at the forest when he read Stede's letter.

Ed is all goddamn over the place in the first part of this episode, tossed about by his insecurity and baffled by what is safe and what is unsafe. He has a voiceover about how amazing being a fisherman is, then ends up regressing into childhood trauma when another father figure freaks out over dinner. Ed doesn't even choose to leave the fisherman fantasy: the fantasy gets shattered and he gets fired in a high-speed parallel of Stede trying to go home (return to a safe, simple life) and finding he doesn't belong there in S1E10. At least Ed does manage to not drown in self-hatred on the way out.

And then Ed returns to the pirate safe space, only to find that it's been invaded and taken over. And that his selfishness, the low self-esteem that distorted his view of reality and his relationship, may have had real consequences for someone he loves (another parallel with Stede, this time early season 2). Ed may have been off pretending to be a "dirty old fisherman" while Stede died.

What was safe is now unsafe. All Ed has left is himself--so he really looks at himself.

At the fact that the kraken is always there, no matter what clothes he wears or how deeply he tries to bury it. He can fight that and run from it, and end up losing everything. Or he can embrace it, and figure out what comes next. Be what he was made by his past, however dark that past was.

But Ed's past wasn't all darkness. Ed walks onto the beach and gets a letter from the past, and suddenly there is something safe again in his world. Something worth killing for.

Ed first started falling for Stede through the stories Stede built around himself, stories formed by boastful encounters with Izzy, muttered hallucinations, and trinkets decking his ship. Back then, Ed didn't believe he himself was a good person, didn't believe he could have friends. But Stede told him stories about friendship and treasure maps, and Ed took these to heart and told stories to match, and Ed found truth through the fiction.

Then Stede left, and those stories fell away for Ed. Ed embraced the story of the kraken, of Blackbeard. Instead of a story about love or survival, he wrote a story about an impossible bird, a raiding record, and a treacherous crew--and mourned a story about lost love.

But Stede kept writing stories. He poured himself into his letters, poured his heart into sustaining his connection to Ed in spite of all the obstacles.

Ed didn't believe in this story after Stede came back, even though he wanted to. He kept emotional distance from Stede, avoided risks, and bailed after two days. Because Ed didn't trust that their bond was solid, that their story was something that could survive Ed's darkness, insecurities, and damage. Didn't trust that what Stede said this time, he had truly thought about, and meant with all his heart.

Stede didn't get how insecure Ed was in all this, because Stede was just so sure of Ed, and of their love. Stede believed in his story with his whole soul, and Stede's stories have a way of creating reality--after all, the whole crew of the Revenge became "real boys." But he couldn't figure out how to communicate this to Ed, to let Ed believe it too.

And then, at a moment where his identity is fractured and re-forming, Ed finds this letter. And just like that, there's a solid ground of story beneath his feet.

Because there was, in fact, solid ground beneath his feet all along.

Ed's and Stede's relationship, like all relationships, is hard. But they formed a real bond of love in season 1, and like Mary Bonnet said, being in love is easy. Ed can trust it--like he did before, but for real this time.

Ed's figuring this out ruddy late. He and Stede didn't communicate these things to each other when they had the chance, and now the chance may have slipped away. So now, Ed yells his feelings at the world and runs off to try to find his person.

When Ed finds Stede again, he doesn't hold back anything. He doesn't hesitate to kill, and he doesn't hesitate to drop his sword when he reaches Stede. They're finally face to face, in every way. Finally balanced, and seeing each other clearly, and able to communicate.

And, for the first time since he and Stede reached each other this season--for the first time since his vision in the Gravy Basket really--Ed is utterly vulnerable.

And entirely safe.

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #ofmd meta #ed teach #stede bonnet #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #arrrggggghhh every moment needed time to land it's like they were counting seconds in this ep #there's just too damn much it's as much as stede went through last year but 7 minutes less screentime #goddamn gorgeous tho #hey if someone sees this and can direct me to gifs that hit the still images i'll be eternally grateful gif searching makes me nuts #i gave up after half an hour on gif searches sorrry

[qtipkyutip]

Finished watching FMAB lately and frankly, erm, obsessed? Uhhh anyways have the Elric brothers……. UH, I might have a crush on both of them both at once lols….

#art #digital art #fma #fmab #fma brotherhood #edward elric #alphonse elric #fullmetal alchemist #fma fanart #im so normal about them lols #GOD. like first half I was like omg Edward… heart eyes BUT THEN LIKE… AL… ahh #also like there was gonna on;y be a little sticker of al but then I thought he’d be lonely without Ed so I made one of him too

[soapbubbles511]

They've been leaning into the season 1 parallels. So I'm about to speculate some parallels based on what we've seen in various promos. I suspect they will parallel some of these moments even if it's not exactly the bits we've seen in the promos.

Ed returns just in time for a confrontation with the British

Chaos all around. Ed and Stede are just gazing at each other. You came back. Never left. (And like the you wear fine things well scene this time they can kiss)

Then since we only have 8 episodes this time, parallels also include episode 9. Later, they're alone somewhere a bit secluded. You make Ed/Stede happy. Let's run away to China. Except they're actually talking it through this time. They make each other happy, they'll figure out their next adventure together.

Which can then set up their general S3 arc. The Golden Age of Piracy is coming to an end. Real Stede and Blackbeard die. S3 is a lot of confrontation with the Navy as they figure out how to fake their deaths and retire.

#will half of this be proven wrong in a couple days? #very possible #but i was having fun trying to connect dots #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #edward teach #stede bonnet #ed/stede

[emotinalsupportturtle]

whenever I feel sad, overwhelmed, stressed or plain disgusted with life I watch some unhinged British TV (especially comedy panels and shows)

No cure like that

*warning - obsession with comedy shows has been revived

#would i lie to you #qi #8 out of 10 cats #big fat quiz #nmtb #ed byrne #dara o briain #jimmy carr #noel fielding #katherine ryan #aisling bea #romesh ranganathan #stephen fry #alan davis #david mitchell #victoria coren mitchell #james acaster #mae martin #half these people aren't even british #way too many people to tag #gbbo #taskmaster #i'm just tagging a few shows/comedians #this is just me dumping a bunch of names #if anybody has more recommendations send them my way #also i know v little about most these ppl #they may turn out to be assholes but they funny #There is also Blackadder Monty python fry and Laurie etc but that would make this list ridiculously long #And a shit ton more sitcoms

[penelopepitstopp]

Ed Gamble: Blood Sugar (2019)

#ed gamble #stand up #diabetes #type 1 diabetes #the fact ed got offered a stand up special and said cool thanks and made half of it just about diabetes in front of an audience of muggles #king behaviour #ed talking about his t1d

[petratherrock]

New OP

#yknow when animes.give you the hopeful op and/or ed it usually means buckle up 👀 and/or it's the half marker of the season #anyway looking senshi 👀 dunno why it didn't occur to me that he'd sleep w/o his helmet so now I'm Looking #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi #laios touden #falin touden #marcille donato #senshi #chilchuck tims #anime #op #so cannibalism isn't out huh based on the op/jk

[kaddyssammlung]

#sleep token #sleep token worship #I swear I'll be in my bed in a sec....cramps....damn it why?! why?! why am I fighting nature? so yes am I able to have kids #birth life; I like this because it sounds huge; but at what cost? I'm trying to be accepting but; Katrin just got to bed #and no; nature does not care that I have no desire to have kids #tw for this one: when I was really EDed I did not have my period in one and half years and I did not miss it #when I feel low I have thoughts about that...that I don't want to mention because this is not the place to discuss this right now

[werewolf-transgenderism]

transgenderizes your pirates

#i may be actively going insane but hey i’ve spent half the day working on the other ed painting and then cranked out this drawing also #ofmd #our flag means death #my art #ed my beloved

[perplexingly]

I caught up to ofmd and I’ve seen the discourse in the tags and I think that is just a distraction from the more important discourse: namely that all these pirates seems to be unaware of their surroundings — using open fire like candles, placing small objects haphazardly on the windowsill, placing a breakfast tray with cups on the bed — don’t they realize their ground is not stable but swaying with every wave 😭

#ofmd #the latter half of s2 all happens in Ed’s mind #because the entire goddamn ship burned after Izzy placed all these candles around

[paranormalcryptid]

I think Gotham could be a better show if Edward got punched more often, I love him dearly but I think that would be helpful.

#ed nygma #edward nygma #the riddler #gotham 2014 #gotham series #gotham #yes this is still about gotham #like if he got punched half as many times as oswald was #he deserves it #he's cute but stupid #he's just a little guy #nygmobblepot #oswald cobblepot #the penguin #riddlebird #jim gordon #james gordon #Detective gordon