#izzie and christian

[ghostxalien]

TOTAL DRAMA X IDV

#total drama harold #total drama cody #total drama noah #total drama heather #total drama duncan #total drama lindsay #identityv #identity v #crossover #idv #lol don't take this seriously #ghostxalien #cody allen christian #total drama izzy #idv journalist #idv acrobat #idv mechanic

[sunnibits]

Izzy gets captured by enemy pirates and one of the younger guys is like “come on, let’s give him a few lashes to loosen is tongue” but the captain’s eyes widen and he stops him.. “nah man, that’s Izzy the freak Hands. you can’t torture Izzy Hands.”

meanwhile Izzy is just grinning like a madman and licking his lips, like ‘go ahead, I fucking dare you’

#is this too slutty for my christian minecraft server? eh whatever I don’t care #I like that kinky old man #izzy hands #ofmd

[jew-flexive]

everything i've learned about ofmd has been against my will but oh my GOD am i so glad i never watched that show....to all my mutuals processing yet another fucked up The Only True [& Christian!!] Redemption Is Death story line, ooof my thoughts are with you

#I watched like 20 min of the pilot and noped tf out when I saw they were poor meow meowing a slave owner #but obviously it was escapism and milages vary #I fell in love with izzy hands a little through gif sets and some meta my mutuals posted about british class politics and codependency #so when i saw that there was a domestic violence storyline this season I was a little concerned... #but damn. they really did the Dead Christian Martyr scene huh #like. the character only died to redeem himself and let the hero off the hook for his bad behavior #ooooof #OOOOOOOOf #tagging this #anti ofmd #just in case

[cononeillbreastingboobily]

Deranged Steddyhands headcanon time:

In the original story by Hans Christian Andersen, the Little Mermaid was in pain with every step she took, on top of the fact that she couldn't talk. And the story ended with her jumping to her death in the sea after she refused to kill the prince and his fiancée.

Y'all. What if this time, the little mermaid falls for the prince AND his fiance?

Except she doesn't die, not really. What if it's not death? What if it's just... Starting over?

Aka Izzy leaves after Stede and Ed reconcile, and the latter two go after him, after realising they both have feelings for him?

#excuse me i just. needed to get this out lest i'd explode #steddyhands #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #<- manifesting 🙏🏻 #stede bonnet #ed teach #izzy hands #the little mermaid #hans christian andersen

[izayoichan]

Vy: That he found a luck dragon, because I think I found mine in you. Inherited from dad of course.

Hayden just chuckled, he knew his dad called his dragon a luck dragon, and he didn’t mind being called one as well. Even if he often did not feel much like one, this was one of those occasions, he had to agree with his husband. Perhaps there was some luck in him after all. 

Flynn: So Izzy still doesn’t talk much huh?

He sat next to Fannar in one of the sofa’s, Arlo being with his aunt and dad discussing some potions, so it gave the twins some alone time while all the kids were busy with their newly opened presents. 

Fannar: No, he stays quiet mostly. Libby always says she speaks enough for both. Flynn: Worried, even if you know why? Fannar: A little, it's hard not to when it’s your kids right? Flynn: Yep, Arlo is still in denial? Fannar: -chuckles- Yes, but I hope one day he realizes that he can just talk, without worrying about it. Flynn: I’m sure he will one day. The two talked a bit more, before it was time for everyone to head home, leaving River and Lucas sitting in their now more empty and quiet home with a sleeping Munchie next to them. 

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#the ward legacy #tumblrstories #writblr #simblr #simblrstories #co created with mahvaladara #storytelling #stories #Flynn Ward #Emil Ward #Tyvan Ward #Rylan Ward #River Ward #Lucas Ward #Liam Ward #Hayle Ward #Christian Ward #Hayden Ward #Yvreon Ward #Ibuki Ward #Kaylin Ward #Mateo Ward #Melisan Ward #Isagel Ward-Sullyvan #Libidel Ward-Sullyvan #Fannar Ward-Sullyvan #Arlo Ward-Sullyvan #Izzy is still the quiet one #Libby does most the talking #maybe one day though

[whitenikes]

production day fun

#jake walman #detroit red wings #the jake one rips so hard #christian fischer #alex debrincat #thank you izzy <3

[babybluebex]

am i allowed to be delulu here? bc king of my heart by taylor swift like. IS. me and christian’s song

#i’m going crazy #i texted izzy and he’s not answering so have my crazy thoughts #christian friedel #bex says

[treesofgreen]

Hot take from someone who grew up in an abusive, violent home with a mother that found her own refuge in religion and thought she was saving her children's souls if not their minds and bodies when she was actually holding our heads under water: Ed has been consciously and subconsciously denying his desires his whole life not to please Izzy, or to conform to "Toxic Masculinity", but for his mother.

I think not enough weight is given to just how badly a well-intentioned parent can fuck you up for life, especially when they are the safe one, the better one, the one who is hurting you the least in the moment, the one you feel you need to protect even though you are the child.

Ed's mother tells him earnestly, sincerely, kindly that fine things aren't for them. Aren't for him. God says so. And when someone speaks that way about God? God comes first. Over themselves, over you. And you should know your place, never forget your place. Who are you to argue with god? Who are you to argue with your mother's faith in god even - especially - when you don't believe it yourself? How can you take what consoles her away? How can you ever be free of her faith when it was so important to her and she whispered it to you so sweetly it made itself a home in your bones, entwined with your father's violence?

And you'd love nothing more than to scrape it all out and give into your yearnings but that would be a rejection of your mother, who suffered so much (your own suffering does not matter, then or now - it does, but that's what you tell yourself whenever you think of your mother).

Ed has spent a lifetime locking parts of himself away in a little bitty box because of his childhood trauma. Stede has the key.

#edward teach #our flag means death #abuse #child abuse #trauma #christianity #ofmd #we actually see a decent amount of softness/tolerance for softness from izzy in the series #i am not sure where the idea that ed's denial of self stems from izzy and not the actual childhood trauma we see onscreen comes from #just in case i have to say it - i am not blaming ed's mother for his father's abuse or saying she could have done anything to stop it #just that she left her mark as well however inadvertently

[gothabillybisexual]

things about christian borle’s portrayal of orin that i can’t stop thinkin about:

•the fact that seymour is taller than him, like basically towers over him

•he just has this absolutely terrifying crazed grin on his face in the first few times he takes the nitrous oxide

•yells ‘HEY’ at people he’s not even mad at just to watch their horrified confused expressions

•he’s comical but like, in a scary unhinged way

•spends like a full minute just staring down at seymour n stroking his head while he’s in the chair

•his voice gets unnecessarily husky like every 2 seconds

•pokes his head out from behind the curtain when seymour comes into the office

•dumb lil leg shimmy

#lsoh #little shop of horrors #many people dislike christian’s version of him but god he’s so entertaining #this is from the youtube bootleg btw..seymour n audrey r played by understudies in it #shut up izzy

[sunriseverse]

izzy hands? izzy fucking hands? mr control issues blackbeard obsessed frenetically catholically devoted to his captain hands? mr moans daddy with no provocation gets excited about being choked out and forced to eat his own toe hands? haver of the worst kinks known to man? yeah? that’s your pathetic little meow meow? your sopping wet blorbo? you’re going to parade him around in the 18th century version of leather daddy gear? you’re going to turn in for the night by looking at photos of him and going god he’s pathetic i love him <3? known toxic masculinity steeped israel izzy fuck-me-blackbeard hands? him? okay! have fun!

#i’m completely serious by the way if you love izzy hands i love you. i hate izzy though. it’s not complicated #sorry if the catholic bit is wrong i don’t know shit about christians and i don’t care #it’s like three am and i’ve been up almost a full day so as you can imagine i am only posting the most hinged of posts #c.txt

[unproduciblesmackdown]

interestingly the only mention i can find of a monastery loquarium is (rendered "loquorium") in "the california padres and their mission" by charles francis saunders and joseph smeaton chase, a book in the public domain:

The Mission relics at Santa Inés are many and interesting. Besides those used in the present-day church services, and the beautiful old vestments that are in the sacristy, there is a considerable collection arranged for interested visitors in an interior room of the convento — a room formerly used as the loquorium, where daily, after dinner and after supper, the friars were at liberty to come to rest for an hour from their laboring and praying, and relax in human chat.

the next paragraph also mentions this room now housing relics "patiently got together from all sorts of places," including "from the earth of the surrounding fields as the plough turns it up"

#originally the search yielded archive.org's text version which seems to have been like that autogenerated version from (their own) scan #where it clearly results in a lot of typos as it's ''misread'' like ''inés'' becoming ''in6s'' #so it made it difficult to cross reference w/the pdf scan lol...''convento'' had become ''comento'' like i figured that was wrong but had t #actually see the original text to know what had gone wrong there #speaking of limited information recorded in specific places.... #how that santa inés is i believe from saint agnes; the portuguese form being inez #akd's character in ''the outside story'' being called ''inez'' in some articles but in the movie they're only called/credited as ''izzy'' #a potential nickname; i could believe that this jumped off from them being named inez but thus far it remains apocrypha lol.... #pentiment #it's also ofc like; how many resources on olden monastery rooms that aren't scanned / converted to text / public domain available thusly... #but you can somewhat expect Monastic Trivia to potentially show up in other sites or even via like online dictionaries.... #checked as much by looking up another [term for Special Room in a monastery] and getting various results defining it #oh now i'm remembering some fun research moment learning that some like Christian Order was defined by standing during prayers instead of #kneeling...and the definition is available and they're all exactly the same b/c they all come from One Resource offering that definition #this came from that ''i'm drawing winston's Standing Posture a certain way'' moment where i read the wikipedia page for [standing] lol #which stemmed from reading the wikipedia page for contrapposto in an effort to learn other Artistic Terms For Standing Certain Ways #orthostasis....yep there it is in the ''see also'' section of the wikipedia Standing article: agonoclita / the agonoclites #7th century christian sect who Never Kneeled...name from greek for like ''i do not bend the knee''...One Citation = everyone's sole citatio #oh also noticing that a loquarium was probably all the more relevant when piero seems to note The Rule frowns on too much conversing for fu #like i've been to Dinner With Benedictines In Their Monastery multiple times lol no such pressure modern day to not chitchat #but that when Rule manifestations were thusly; a room that was like ''exempt'' from that would be unsurprising....fun chitchat hq #monasteries of w/e various orders having zones dedicated to being more chill than is supposedly required outside it.... #hmm wikipedia's saying benedictines maintain silence As Much As Possible outside bonus silent hrs / social convos are Limited #news to me. also says ''but such details'' abt the day to day life is technically left by The Rule up to whatever Superior of an abbey #evidently the way of doing things at the one i was familiar with / around were not so pressed about silence / rare/limited socializing

[professorsta]

Our Flag Means Death/Moulin Rouge au:

Christian : Frenchie

Satine : Izzy Hands

Harold Zidler : Blackbeard

Toulouse : Stede

Narcoleptic Argentinian : Roach

Le Chocolat : Fang and Ivan

Nini : Calico Jack

The Duke : Badminton/Hornigold

Satie/Audrey (bohemian friends of Toulouse) : Lucius and Olu

Possible plot?:

Frenchie, a young romantic who spends most of his days playing for the rich and wealthy, decides one day to escape the land of luxury to fulfill his dream of becoming a famous musician and writer. With the help of his best friend Wee John they set off to the Republic of Pirates, where the misfits and those on the fringes of society dwell.

There he meets a band of bohemian dreamers, set to put on a moving musical, or what they liked to call a “Fuckery”, to make a statement of the ever suffocating and isolating society that the bohemians mean to ravish with joy and love. Stede, a wealthy man who left his position for unknown reasons is the leader of said group, and employs frenchie to help as the head writer.

There he also meets Roach, a manic tango dancer, Lucius, a pickpocket who frequents the Queen Anne, and Olu, born and bred in the Republic of Pirates and knows it like the back of his hand. Stede ensnares frenchie and Wee John in their plan of infiltrating the Queen Anne, a ship ran by the famed “Captain” Blackbeard which allows the rich and wealthy to experience the freaks and slums of society via cabaret and burlesque, to put on a show of their own.

The star of the show, known as the Holy Jewel, is meant to be convinced by frenchie to put on their play in Queen Anne’s floating theater. Having mistaken Frenchie for The Duke (the man Izzy is set to marry to ensure the continuation of the Queen Anne) after sneaking into his dressing room and getting caught with him by the Duke, Izzy is forced to allow Stede and his crew to perform their play, Spectacular Fuckery (Izzy is still trying to change the name) as a coverup. Blackbeard is reluctant to agree until he catches the eye of Stede Bonnet. Through preparing for the musical, the two leaders bond.

Later Blackbeard confessing to Stede that the reason Izzy has agreed to marry The Duke was because Hornigold, their old Captain, was coming back and threatened to ruin everything they had made. Blackbeard and Izzy thought that making an alliance with the Duke would ensure their safety. Stede struggles with knowing he has the money to help, but not wanting to reveal his true position in life as well as who he really is. The two men grow in affection as do Olu and the main guard of the Queen Anne’s, Jim, who was a young lad sold to the Queen Anne’s as a prostitute but was instead put in place as Blackbeard and Izzys protector. Olu and Jim take an undercover look in what’s happening in the Republic of Pirates and The Duke, sensing something fishy happening between the rich and their leaders.

In the A Plot, Frenchie is writing and trying to gain inspiration, finding his most musings in Izzy who has taken a reluctant liking to the penniless writer. Izzy secretly revels in the attention, and they slowly begin to get to know on another, using the excuse of Izzy being his muse to gain more of a deeper relationship. As the two star crossed lovers fall harder for eachother, the Duke’s suspicions start to grow until Calico Jack, one of the CanCan boys, reveals the true nature of Izzy and Frenchies relationship. Threatening his life, Izzy is forced to break frenchie’s heart and marry the Duke. With the help of his friends frenchie tries to save Izzy, and understand whos really pulling the string in the Republic of Pirates

That’s the basic plot it’s essentially Moulin Rouge but with more plot lines and other characters includes to make it it’s own thing. Hornigold is in it but I decided not as the Duke because I wanted a face you can imagine and we’ve never meat Hornigold. Blackpete is also in this but he’s with the Swede and Buttons in another bohemian group Frenchie befriends, it’s just that his main crew is Lucius, Jim, wee John, roach, Olu, and Izzy, which I think is accurate to the show and in the future of the show. Also can’t decide if Izzy dies or not lol. Anyway anyone can feel free to add on or make their own aus, tag me though so I can check them out !

#our flag means death #moulin rouge musical #moulin rouge #christian and satine #frenchie #frenchie and Izzy #Frenchizzy #ouizzy #Izzy hands #Blackbeard #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #lucius ofmd #ofmd

[violentdevotion]

#ameera speaks #izzy tag #tava tag #i woke up today at 7am and decided im gonna be weird abt christian bale today #these are 3 different people i rly know how to monopolise the conversation

[mygirlfriendisabutthead]

#music #izzy reign #cody jamison #christian koo #randalive #the nightmare before christmas #Youtube

[is-the-thing-actually-jewish]

So, ummm...

https://www.tumblr.com/themussarcenter?source=share

This Tumblr just started following me, and idk, I have a bad feeling about it. It's like they're trying too hard to be Jewish. Plus, mussar isn't something that you can do??? It's a moral code.

There's something sus about this.

Rating: NOT JEWISH—WELL KNOWN MESSIANIC MISSIONARY

Izzy, as those who know him unaffectionately call him, is a Christian Missionary cosplaying as a Jew; he's associated with a number of Messianic groups, regularly remakes his tumblr accounts to get around blocks and bans, and actively stalks Judaism-related tags here on Tumblr trying to find fresh victims who aren't already wise to who and what he is.

Literally just mentioning Judaism on your blog is enough to summon him (over on my fandom blog, I kept my Judaism quiet for years, and within literal days of going public on that he had followed me there), and "themussarcenter" is just one of several urls he uses and reuses. @jumblr-protector-golem has a list, in his own dedicated subsection, of the regular urls that he reuses. The man is, to put it bluntly, obsessed and creepy even by the standards of Messianics.

—Mod Joseph

#not actually jewish #messianics #christianity #jumblr #general category topic

[bakasara]

Trying to parse my thoughts on Izzy's death and why I had a different reaction to it than I thought I would. To summarize: I thought I wouldn't like it, but also that they wouldn't do it; the opposite happened– they did it but I'm ok with it.

I'm also feeling like talking through some mourning for an amazing character, so follow along if that's you, too 😌

(I should probably clarify the following thoughts are coming from someone who deeply enjoyed this season.)

I first wondered what would be of Izzy around the end of season 1. I expected him to have a heel-face turn – which I object to calling a redemption arc and I'll get into why, because the distinction ties into his death imo. A lot of antagonistic characters' changes of heart end directly in death, but I thought they'd subvert that trope. And they... did, actually, despite Izzy dying. Not an option I had imagined.

What the show avoided is the logic, the set of tropes attached to the deaths of this kind of character. These deaths usually come as a consequence of the character's changed ethics or "redemption". My being against that scenario came from the diverging natures of traditional redemption arcs and OFMD's rhetoric.

A traditional redemption arc functions by a kind of catholic logic, if you will: the villain can become one of the good guys by balancing out his "sins"/bad deeds with enough good deeds to tip a moral scale. This often involves a purifying suffering, which acts as an agent to expiate one's faults. To the viewer, this suffering can serve to activate our empathy and make the character more sympathetic. It can also legitimize his quest: our trust in the character's good intentions comes from seeing that the character is ready to make sacrifices to become better and he isn't deterred by the hardships of doing the right thing.

The death occurring at the end of a traditional redemption arc acts as the ultimate sacrifice and/or purification. A number of ideas might be at play behind it, depending on each story: only in death can the soul become fully pure, or a final sacrifice is "needed" to demonstrate the change once and for all, or change was only possible up to a point after which there is no viable/acceptable future – the character deserves moral points for changing, but not so many that he also deserves a full life, or past crimes make him more expendable, etc.

But these are all ideas that aren't evoked in any of the crew's journey in OFMD. For starters, the show isn't interested in "catholic" redemption; its focus is on reintegration/rehabilitation into the community. Rather than appealing to the more traditional (in Western media) and more christian principle of "purification of the soul through mortification of the body", it plays with notions of restorative justice.

We see it especially this season with Ed and Izzy. Ed's arc is a whole little lab for it. We have the community being made to decide whether he can stay or should leave; catbell!Ed is made to apologize to the people affected – which he initially does abysmally, with what fandom has dubbed his "CEO's/YouTube apology". Later, he's given the opportunity to have a more honest and genuine conversation with Fang where he learns about how he hurt him. He's made to repair some of the material damage his behavior caused. Some members feel repaid by the idea that they did to him the same he did to them (Fang) while others don't (Lucius), and the show touches on what this means for each/legitimizes both feelings. Arguably, Ed using his treasure to throw Calypso's birthday party – a much needed refrain and moment of social (re-)connection within the community – is an additional form of reparation. While Stede's belief in Ed has a clear role in helping Ed change for the better, Izzy's s2 journey focuses even more intensely on the role of social support within an individual's constructive (re-)integration into their community. The show is condensed by choice of format, but the beats are all there.

With that kind of rhetoric set up, I'd never be able to accept Izzy dying in a way that feels like a punishment for his past crimes, nor in a way that should "confirm" his positive change/"purify" him for good. And he doesn't! By the time he dies, we know full well he's deeply changed, it's already established to completion. How it happens has nothing to do with proving himself – he's randomly shot in battle. It's never questioned that the time he got to live surrounded by affection mattered. The speech he gives Ed is only possible because he's changed, accessing a completely different perspective on piracy/life than before, like we see when he talks to Ricky earlier. The reason the whole crew is paying respect and crying is because he became "the new unicorn", a treasured member with a defined role. But his death itself is the show going back to the initial symbolism of Izzy as ultimate pirate. The narrative function of his death is underscoring that the age of piracy has come to an end. It's nothing to do with his change. It's posited as the "natural conclusion" (again, by symbolic function) of a character that represented piracy through-and-through, not the "natural conclusion" of a process of becoming better.

And for me, that difference changes everything. I can see and accept the logic behind it, even as I mourn Izzy as a character. It makes the grief feel like a catharsis I experience within the context of the story I'm watching, rather than a grief I feel from a show "betraying" me.

It's also a difference that completely changes how Izzy's death relates to his queerness. Izzy's change is intertwined with being able to express queer affection openly. Becoming "a unicorn" is this extremely queer imagery already – a magical rainbow creature. His role becomes akin to a mother to the crew (the mother hen!Izzy many headcanoned last season, tapping into his potential), a position that isn't extraneous to older queens, including our honored real-life mean-old-queer men. Last season he threatened another queer man for showing too much delicacy, effeminacy, vulnerability. Now, his change is a process that culminates in him singing a tender love song among the crew in drag. He's given the privilege of playing the soundtrack to our protagonists making love for the first time, which ties him symbolically to the event in a way it does no other crew member. Suffice it to say that insinuating his process of change should end in death would have been disastrous, as far as I'm concerned. Antithetical to the show's supporting ideology.

But that's not how it went. Grief occupies a big role in the queer community, but it's so rare that we get to experience it cathartically. In real life, we often have to contend with the ways queerphobia causes us trauma or even shortens our lives, or the lives of our friends. In fictional narratives, a lot of characters that get to express queerness unabashedly still die for the transgression. They're still usually the only queer character with relevant screen time or at all, at best one of two that formed a tragic couple.

We almost never have the opportunity to just mourn some motherfucker who died because they meant something else as well that was central to their character. To mourn and know we're mourning someone who wasn't ever punished for being queer-as-in-fuck-you and going all out. To mourn and not feel like it's another message of queer doom, because for once the character is surrounded by an entire crew of other queer characters that go on to live and be happy. To know the story is saying something about life, not about being queer. To know this kind of crafting was deliberate, too, because the creator has talked about working to avoid those tropes. I struggle to remember another time I had the opportunity to grieve for a queer character like they're a human being, without the implication that it's queerness itself that's a death sentence.

And honestly? It feels good. It feels like a form of catharsis I do not dislike. That I'm maybe kinda glad for. OFMD is and stays a magical world. Beyond that, in a show full of queers, one of them dies after getting some extraordinarily meaningful happiness, and it's peaceful, and I get to just be sad for the fucker without the gutting of being reminded that if you're gay, better not shoot too high. It feels like a completely different emotion that no other show, for now, would give me, but OFMD. To me, it's yet another thing it's pulled off.

As it's been known to do.

#ofmd #having warm izzy thoughts in this chili's tonight #ofmd meta #my meta