#izzy rants

[labelleizzy]

Some days count as Successful if I Feed Myself And Unload The Dishwasher.

Bonus: I Showered 🚿, fed the critters (fishes and cat) and I'm struggling to put the phone down to Finish An Art.

It's a Bitch of an Executive Dysfunction day

#izzy writes #izzy rants #adhd problems #also im tired #yesterday #was great #and also a lot. #Northern California Renaissance Fair

[izzy-the-chaotic-gremlin]

A little fun fact about my self is I laugh when extremely stressed or just stressed in general, I laugh when I'm hurting and I laugh when I'm crying, I quit literally take the quote

"just because you see a smile doesn't mean you know what hidden underneath"

Literally

just because I'm smiling and laughing doesn't mean I'm ok, it doesn't mean I'm all fine and dandy or having fun

And yes I have the full on villain laugh, just straight up evil laughter coming from me baby :]

#Izzy rants

[mossygnome]

the irony of technophobe, paranoid about being watched on the internet, hildy hater eddie becoming the social media dude for the dispatch centre

#izzy rants #whyyy #911 show #911 tv show #911 fox #eddie diaz

[brandnewhuman]

ANNOUNCEMENT FUCKERS, DADDY IS BACK

After debating on it for a long time I decided to give in and start writing again. This time around I'll give myself a bit more freedom to write so I will still take requests and such but I'll make them when I can and mostly I write stuff I want first SO THE FLOW FLOWS MKAY?

I've missed this so much and I realised that pushing myself into doing just what others want would end up stressing me out SO IM HERE TO TELL YOU THAT THIS TIME IM GONNA STICK AROUND FR FR AND YOU'LL HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT.

ALSO, THIS IS NOW A MULTIFANDOM PLACE BITCHES SO WHEN ASKING FOR MATCHUPS SPECIFY WHAT FANDOM YOU WANT AND STUFF.

#slasher fandom #slasher community #slashers #izzy rants

[that-lame-ghoul9000]

There is no way in hell that Eddie was 17.

Either he's been smart this whole time and said "fuck it" after skipping grades.

But most seniors are 18. Or at least 17 turning 18. If Eddie was a 3rd go around Senior. He'd be in his 20's

What in the Edward Cullen shit are you pulling Duffer Brothers.

Yall got lazy with his missing poster.

-the only way Eddie and crissy could have been in middle school together would be if it was a k-8th grade type school and those do exist. We never saw an elementary school. But sign did say MIDDLE SCHOOL on it. Also if there is a gate in the exact spot where each kid died you mean to tell me

NO ONE noticed one in the middle of the road? Fred died in the middle of the road. No one drove down that road ever again? Excuse me what? Red glowing hole with vines coming out it? No one noticed.

Stranger Things season 4: Vecna's Curse. Nah more like

Season 4: The year of infuriating plot holes from hell.

#eddie munson #eddie munson stranger things #stranger things #eddie munson angst #eddie munson fluff #eddie munson smut #eddie munson better survive #stranger things season 4 #stranger things spoilers #eddie stranger things #they did eddie munson dirty #Izzy Rants

[bradshawswife]

soo BESTIES i need to scream!!! i’m having one of those moments!!!

so you know my delicious man of a manager? the one i’m hopelessly dreaming about quite literally everyday

well

today i had a moment!!! and he definitely knew something was up!!!

i was blending these two small mcflurries and he came over to make 2 cones, well the blender thing and the ice cream dispenser are literally right next to eachother.. so we’re like touching hips at this point

He smells SOOOO good. Like absolutely scrumptious. So i end up dropping a mcflurry mid blend and i’m like “whoops” and GET A LOAD OF WHAT THIS MAN SAYS

“You okay?” iN MY EAR??? NO SIR I AM NOT OK YOUR TALL FRAME IS PRACTICALLY HOVERING OVER ME AND I’M HAVING A CRISIS AND YOU SMELL GOOD AND YOU JUST WHISPERED INTO MY EAR

#ok i think i’m done screaming #i’m just #having a moment!!! #a crisis if you will #on top of my many other crises!!! #not tgm #izzy rants #i’m so #he’s so!!! #HE DRIVES ME BONKERS #I WANT THIS TO BE A FRIENDS TO MAYBE LOVERS BUT I’VE INSTANTLY LIKED HIM SO IT CAN’T #I JUST GOTTA MAKE HIM LIKE ME ??? #maybe he already does #but ugh #i’ve stalked his fb too much as well🤣

[izzybellgee]

Headcanoning sexual dimorphism in eliksni to be practically nil because we don't see a big physical delineation in-game and I think an essentially agender alien species that has social-construct gender just for fun and non-hierarchical purposes is neat

#izzy rants #destiny ranting

[demonsandpieohmy]

Coping with eps 1-3

#our flag memes death #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd spoilers #kind of #our flag means death spoilers #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death season 2 #gentlebeard #stede bonnet #izzy hands #Blackbeard #lilly rants #1k

[plantsjustwannahavefun]

I used to think that the reason I wasn't satisfied with Izzy's death was because I was too attached to his perspective as a character and couldn't focus on the big picture of the season and the main Gentlebeard relationship enough. I mean, I was still convinced that his death and the way it was carried out was a shit writing decision, but everyone else outside the Izzy Canyon circles seemed fine with it, so I was starting to think that maybe they were right.

So I looked back on the rest of the season and rewatched the finale... And realised something that I'd been trying to ignore because it was too painful to admit. A huge part of why Izzy's death hit so hard (in a bad way, not that delicious masochistic pain of having a beloved character die a good, narratively satisfying death) was because throughout this season he was the only character who actually had a satisfying arc and development. Practically no one else did. I didn't actually care for Gentlebeard this season, not the way I cared in S1. From episode 1 to 8 and a half, Izzy's arc was crafted with more care, kindness, subtlety and narrative weight than the main Gentlebeard arc which, in comparison, felt like a string of choppy beads badly tied together in an approximate shape of an arc, but collapsed as soon as you looked at it too closely.

Yes, we all know this season suffered for being 2 episodes too short, but I don't think that's all there is to it. This is starting to feel like GoT season 8 all over again. Would it have been better if it wasn't so rushed? Maybe. Or maybe it would have been even worse because this season just didn't seem to know what to do with itself or the characters. The themes and symbolism are all over the place and completely inconsistent. Ed and Stede's characters are practically back at the same place they left in S1. All they did was bounce off the walls back and forth with no real growth. As soon as they took a step towards fixing their relationship or growing as people, they either tool three steps back or it just got dropped. Stede letting fame get to his head? Interesting and realistic development. And how was it resolved? It wasn't. Stede and Ed being whim prone? I'm glad they brought it up. And then they just fell for another whim and it was presented as a satisfying ending.

Ed went from the Kraken, to taking the first steps towards being Ed, then suddenly all the way to being Ed by way of a Night of Magical Healing Sex that he he didn't actually want to happen because he wasn't ready. And then all of a sudden he pivoted to abandoning Stede and piracy and becoming a fisherman... for 5 min. And then back to Blackbeard again because two fishermen were mean to him for 5 minutes. And then abandoning it again to open an inn. How was any of this even remotely coherent or satisfying? They didn't even have a single conversation about any of it. Ed had more proper closure and communication with Izzy during his dying scene than with Stede and the rest of the crew put together. Izzy's arc got sacrificed to do the heavy lifting for Ed's arc and became nothing more than a shortcut to speed run his character growth. Except it didn't even lead anywhere. "Ed, they're your family, they love you" no they don't, he didn't even have a single positive conversation with any of them except Fang. Of course this could have been the point, and Ed could have seen Izzy's death, his own discovery of found family and his dying words as a pretext to repair his relationship with the crew. But he just left them and stayed with Stede instead.

Sure, you could say this was only the second act of the story, and S3 will resolve everything. But the second act is still meant to move the story and the characters forward in some way. Yes, of course if we get S3, I imagine Stede and Ed's life as innkeepers won't exactly be idyllic. But the problem is that the conflicts they'd have will only be a rehash and repeat of the same conflicts they've already have, or were supposed to have, this season. Multiple times, even. We already know that Ed is simply unable to live with himself no matter what life he chooses. The title of S1 was literally "wherever you go, there you are". We already know Stede's love isn't enough to fix him. We already know their goals in life are completely opposite. Maybe they could have shown Stede realising, after his humiliating in S7, that piracy wasn't all it was cracked up to be or he isn't suited for it, and that's why he chose to leave it behind and open an inn, but that's not the explanation we were given. It was just another whim. They literally didn't learn anything this season. They had two baby conversations in E4 and E5 and didn't take anything from it, just kept doing the complete opposite of anything. "We're both prone to whims, let's take things slow" became "let's take things extremely fast by moving in together permanently and becoming entrepreneurs". They never talked about the actual, deepseated, longstanding trauma issues they needed to resolve before they could even begin to have a proper relationship. They literally got a heavy-handed glimpse in what their life would become if they just stuck together without addressing their own personal issues, and chose to do that very thing. It that's what S3 is going to address, then why were Anne and Mary part of this season instead of the next one?

I remember everyone saying they wanted Ed and Stede to reunite as quickly as possible in S2, and I get why. They have great chemistry together. The season is about them. But for it to work, spending more time apart is exactly what they needed. They needed to learn how to live with themselves and others, first. Romantic love alone can't fix you as a person. You have to fix yourself first. Community can help (as with Izzy's case), but you still have to put in the work. In retrospect, I'm glad that Izzy didn't get a love interest this season - because he wasn't ready yet, and had to learn how to have normal relationships and friendships with other people before attempting an intimate romantic relationship, lest he ended up falling head first unit another toxic mutually dependent relationship. That's what Stede and Ed should have tried too. Instead the show just ended up using Izzy's death as a quick surgical fix, robbing Ed of his agency and having to do the hard work repairing himself and his relationships with other people. There's a sad irony in getting exactly one character's arc just this, and then using it as a sacrificial lamb to patch over the main character's arc.

#another long rant #I should probably start tagging this accordingly #ofmd critical #I mean I still love the show and always will #I don't want to be associated with unhinged haters or anything #the reason I criticise this season so much these days is precisely because I love the show so much #it deserved better #it had so much good going for it #so much promise and potential #and in the end much of it was wasted #ofmd #our flag means death #izzy hands #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers

[sarucane]

Why did Ed shoot Izzy then?

Figured I'd go ahead and rant about this because once I started thinking about it, it took a bit to unpack, and someone might be interested? Eh, anyway

So the reason this is actually an odd moment is this: it comes across as careless, but Ed's real violence is never careless. Ed's violence is actually really precisely targeted. He has a reputation for violence, total strangers call him a "fucking madman," and he does do some stuff offscreen ("I have seen you maim a few people") but in terms of what we actually see on our screens Ed becomes violent himself very, very rarely.

But here, he shoots Izzy. A very violent act, done casually and to someone he knows personally.

Why? Izzy thinks it's because of Stede, says himself in this scene that the source of the poison on the ship is Ed's feelings for Stede, tells Stede Ed shot him "because I dared to mention your fucking name."

But that just doesn't track. Ed is clearly brooding over Stede at several other points, and he doesn't get remotely violent. He doesn't join in the fighting at the wedding when he sees the figurine that looks like Stede or throw it against the wall later, or even become violent in any of the scenes that figurine appears in. If anything, the evidence rather suggests that Izzy has mixed up "poison" and "cure": Ed gets notably more chill when he's looked at that figurine recently.

So why does Ed shoot Izzy here? And when Izzy came to him a few minutes before with "I have love for you, I'm worried about you," why did Ed blow him off, then get scary at something that did invoke Stede?

Well, because it's Izzy who's saying this. It's not Stede himself, it's the combo of Ed having Izzy and Stede in his head at the same time that's provoking violence.

Izzy set the terms for this relationship. Ed was vulnerable and open, and Izzy said that was a fate worse than death. Ed thought he was in a safe space, and Izzy threw shame and threats at him.

Ed conformed to Izzy's expectations, directly and completely. Izzy was clearly happy that Ed was cutting off his toe and making him eat it. Izzy set the rules, and Ed followed them. That's right down to the scene before this, when Izzy says that the crew are refusing to throw away the treasure and Ed says "and that's another toe." There are rules, they're being followed.

And then Izzy goes and tries to change the rules. Tries to encourage Ed to be vulnerable. Invokes the original source of the pain that made Ed vulnerable in the first place.

It's actually kinda admirable that Izzy does this. What he's doing is beginning to acknowledge how wrong he was before. But it's too little (he still thinks of Stede as a problem, not a solution) and far too late.

Ed's not going to take anything that hits him where he hurts from Izzy. He followed the rules--hell, he's still following the rules when he shoots Izzy, hits him on the same leg that was losing toes. He doesn't owe Izzy one iota of vulnerability. And more importantly, he can't become vulnerable with Izzy. The relationship is absolutely and completely entrenched. This story ends with one of them killing the other. And just like Izzy's the one who started them on the path of that story, now Ed's the one who's going to push it forward.

#ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #ofmd spoilers #ofmd meta #ed teach #izzy hands #I can't believe I went on for that long #well i found something else to rant about my spiral parallels are almost out so cool #ed totally didn't think for a second izzy was dead come on if he wanted Izzy dead he would have made Archie first mate #blackbeard

[mwesrik]

Okay bit of a different post for the finale than my usual meme rant because I’m just done with everything today

Fandom is my safe space. It has been since I figured out what the internet was. And frankly I’ve been having a really shitty time recently.

And what the OFMD fandom is doing rn is frankly making me really fucking pissed

I understand being upset at character deaths. I understand being upset over budget cuts or lack of character development that you wished for. I understand being upset over the direction a show has taken.

But the way people are literally ABUSING the writers of a show that has been GROUNDBREAKING makes me sick.

YES! The budget cuts messed up the pacing and character development. You can think of Izzy’s death whatever you want. But to drag down a show, that has done so much for the queer community. With writers and actors and crew who have done their absolut best to make us feel seen and heard and to give us a mainstream story which is filled with queer joy. It just sets my teeth on edge.

I liked the finale. I cried over Izzy and wish HBO were less of a cunt firm and had given the show more episodes. I wish Ed and Stede had talked and I wish we had more episodes.

But I was overall happy. Because the main couple had their cheesy, happy moments. They literally said they loved each other for fucks sake. And everyone is fucking focused on Izzy and not even talking about the the main couple anymore. Not because they suck but because they’re not their blorbo they can project their angsty fantasies onto. And I like Izzy, I really fucking loved him but he was a side character. One that was quite obviously doomed to die since season 1. So saying the show is ‚literal dogshit now‘ is just such a wild jump to me.

His death was also obviously rushed because of the lack of time. It’s not the fault of the crew!!! that they had to adjust their script to the funds and time they were given.

I can’t come onto the internet to be happy about my favourite show being queer and dramatic and campy, and sure a bit messy because everything is fucking DRENCHED in toxicity and whinging.

Sorry if this offends anyone, if anyone even sees it but this really pissed me off today. My one thing that cheers me up made me even more depressed today because people have no inhibitions anymore as soon as their favourite media isn’t perfectly aligned with their image of how it should be.

TL,DR: I’m really over the OFMD fandom being toxic over Izzy and other issues while ignoring all the brilliant things this show has given us.

#ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #rant #fandom toxicity #fandom #Izzy hands #queer media #queer joy #im honestly very happy about a lot of developments #Ed and Stede were adorable #and I love the crew so much #they got their inn!!!! #curious to see what season 3 holds now #because it kinda seems like they prepared for the show to not get picked up again #knock on wood #because this show makes me so happy #despite it all #and Lucius and Pete got married!! #also Ed’s entire fishing adventure was fucking hilarious #did he change into his leathers in the water??? #extra bitch ✨ #ofmd spoilers

[labelleizzy]

Calories are bullshit.

You wanna know why?

Because they measure calories in food by IGNITING THE FOOD ON FIRE.

In a real shocking development, human bodies DO NOT light food on fire internally when we digest food

🥑🥝🥩🥨🥪🥦🌭🌮🥟🥧🍜🍝🍔🍕🍞

BMI is utter bullshit, calories are bullshit, "you just need to burn more calories than you consume" is BULLSHIT.

Metabolism is complicated. Bodies are individual and react individually to different foods. I grind black pepper on a meal, that would send my friend V to hospital.

Bodies are freaking weird.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

#calories are bullshit #bmi is bullshit #metabolism is complicated #eat food #live your best life #just eat #izzy rants #izzy writes

[izzy-the-chaotic-gremlin]

I got Duolingo to learn Italian, this is how much Pizza Tower has F[Cain filter] RUINED ME!

HELL IF I SEE PASTA BROKEN YOU WILL GET A LONG ASS TALK TO NOT DO THAT, LIKE HOW DOSE A FANDOME DO THIS TO SOMEBODY!?!?

#pizza tower #Izzy rants

[mossygnome]

don’t yell at me but not entirely sure i’m gonna watch heartstopper s2 bc i know what’s going to happen and i have just recovered from an ed myself 😭 and i know that they’ll be doing their best not to trigger people but i think if i do watch it imma need to skip those scenes :( and i’m annoyed bc i just wanna enjoy a tv show but nooo my brain hates enjoyment

#heartstopper #heartstopper season 2 #ed recovery #mental health #izzy rants

[flytomy134340]

thinking about Izzy's mood swings and realised that this was most likely the first time that he's been allowed to process his feelings at his own pace aboard a ship.

think about it, under blackbeard he HAD to constantly be on his guard, he didn't have time to process feelings because they were constantly moving on to the next thing but now, with Stede, the crew lets him do what HE wants. spent most of his time drunk and cursing out a headless unicorn? fine by us. wanting to wallow in your own sorrow and self hatred?? knock yourself out, just do it in one of the rooms where you can't harm yourself. the crew even respects his need to be alone, thus them leaving him his new leg by the door and not sticking around to see his reaction.

no one (so far in season 2) is forcing ANYTHING of Izzy, and i think that's why Izzy has been having a better time on the ship and actually bonding with his crewmates and captain. don't mind me or the seas of tears that are coming from my eyes ;^;

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #ofmd izzy #izzy hands #laika rants

[that-lame-ghoul9000]

Tw: Panic attacks, Unsupportive family, social anxiety.

Oh yes the best course of action when you drag an introvert with social anxiety to an amusement park is to scream and yell at them when they're having a panic attack.

Thanks I needed that. You're right. I should just "calm down"

I'm ready to go home. To my room. Close the light canceling blinds and curl into a ball.

#fuck me right #mental heath support #tw mental disorders #izzy speaks #izzy rants