#ofmd izzy hands

[ourflagmeansheartbreak]

Thinking how Swede missed Izzy’s redemption arc and Izzy missed Swede’s slut arc. When they met it should’ve gone something like this

#ofmd #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #blackbeard ofmd #ofmd season 2 #ofmd trailer #ofmd 2 #ofmd stede #archive of our own #roach ofmd #ofmd bts #izzy x stede #izzy x blackbeard #izzy x lucius #izzy x frenchie #ofmd izzy hands #dizzy izzy #izzy hands #ofmd izzy #ofmd swede #our flag means death s2 #our flag means death season 2 #our flag means death stede #our flag means love #our flag is death #ourflagmeansdeathedit #our flag means death spoilers #our flag meets death #our flag means gay

[lorocomonkey]

Man

I

Love

Fang

#ofmd izzy hands #ofmd fang #israel hands #ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #fanart #doodle #fang my beloved

[a-sassy-bench]

wee john and izzy are cuddling in the back

i will never get over this

#our flag means death #ofmd #izzy hands #ofmd izzy #ofmd s2 #ofmd izzy hands #ofmd season two #our flag means death s2 #our flag means death izzy #our flag means death season 2 #wee john our flag means death #wee john ofmd #wee john feeney #con oniell #con o'neill #calypso's birthday

[5queerducksinatrenchcoat]

IZZY'S THEIR UNICORN! LUCIUS AND HIS CUNTY LIL BELL BOTTOMS! A SEAGULL! FRENCHIE'S GOT A PEANUT ALLERGY! FANG AND ED WENT TO CATCH FISHIES! IZZY AND STEDE WERE LITERALLY JUST HANGING OUT THE WHOLE TIME! PROPOSAL!!! IZZY JUST VIBING AND GETTING PRAISED!!! IZZY MADE LUCIUS A LIL WOODEN SHARK!!! IZZY ALREADY KNEW HOW TO WHITTLE AND HE DOES IT WELL!!!!

KEVIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd season 2 spoilers #our flag means death season 2 spoilers #ofmd lucius #ofmd frenchie #izzy hands #ofmd izzy #ofmd izzy hands #stede bonnet #ofmd stede #ed teach #ofmd edward teach #ofmd fang #ofmd buttons

[tuherrus]

🌹🎶

#ouizzy #ofmd season 2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death #our flag means death season 2 #izzy hands #ofmd izzy hands #frenchie #ofmd frenchie #please join my delusion land

[idzymi]

He’d be her favourite husband I’m telling you

#ofmd spanish jackie #spanish jackie #izzy hands #ofmd izzy #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2 #ofmd 2 #ofmd #spanish Jackie x Izzy hands #izzy indestructible little fucker hands #ofmd izzy hands

[cursed-coat-of-homosexuality]

GET BUTT SLAPPED, IDIOT!!!!!!

#ofmd #I CAN NOT BELIEVE WE JUST SAW THAT #fucking phenomenal #i love ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #our flag means death trailer #ofmd trailer #ofmd trailer s2 #ofmd izzy hands #ofmd gifs #ofmd stede bonnet

[nawoja]

i knew i'd seen it before

#I miss Con's tweets #izzy hands #con oneill #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #izzy hands our flag means death #ofmd izzy #ofmd izzy hands

[morgodrawings]

Captain Izzy Hands

How cool it would’ve been if we had just been able to continue to watch him grow, this is the drawing I will live in for the rest of my days.

#izzy hands #izzy hands fanart #con oneill #con o'neill #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2 #ofmd fanart #ofmd #ofmd izzy #ofmd izzy hands #our flag means death season 2 #our flag means death fanart #our flag means death #our flag means fanart

[ourflagmeansheartbreak]

I’m collecting these like them infinity stones

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 #blackbeard ofmd #ofmd season 2 #ofmd trailer #ofmd 2 #ofmd stede #archive of our own #izzy x stede #izzy our flag means death #izzy fucking hands #ed x izzy #izzy x blackbeard #izzy x lucius #ofmd izzy hands #dizzy izzy #izzy hands #ofmd bts #ofmd cast #ofmd izzy #ofmdedit #our flag means death season 2 #our flag means death stede #our flag means death spoilers #our flag means love #our flag is death #jim our flag means death #ourflagmeansdeathedit

[andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel]

David Jenkins was not a Big Name Showrunner before OFMD. In fact, I had never heard of him before. I am not even sure what he did before OFMD, according to IMDB he wrote exactly one other show and it is one I have never even heard of before.

And he somehow got HBO to make his weird little show about gay pirates, and he got Taika Waititi to help with it, and while nobody was expecting anything of it - I mean come on guys, remember when OFMD dropped and everyone only gradually realised what it was - it became The Little Show That Could. With almost no advertising. No marketing. HBO did clearly did not expect this show to be anything, to make any real money or to go beyond one season.

But then it blew up.

Because David Jenkins was so insightful, he was so good, he brought so much fresh wind into a business where we usually can tell how the next three steps of how any show is going to go (and to be fair, a lot of us feared that Izzy's death in season 2 was coming, because all the signs fit), that we put him on a pedestal.

THE FUCKING PEDESTAL.

Yes he is brilliant. He has done stuff with OFMD that you never ever see somewhere else. He has understood that historical accuracy, as well as physics and geography, are merely backdrop for plot and characters. Completely irrelevant if you need them to be, but then suddenly important if you have a bit of story that won't work without. He understood that queer relationships deserve to be told, and when confronted with skeptic fans he learned about queerbaiting.

He took a lot of tropes and put them on their head. He structured his show like fanfic. He put thought into his stories instead of following the beaten track. He single-handedly raised the bar for every showrunner out there.

But it is still only his second show.

If he didn't shine so brightly during OFMD's first season, nobody would have expected so much of him.

And yes. He dropped the ball on Izzy.

I loved Izzy to pieces ever since season 1, I wanted to pin him to a board like a bug and study him and take him apart and put him in a blender and in situations, I loved to hate him and in season 2 I loved to love him. He is such a brilliant, complex character, so well written and so well played by Con O'Neill; the options for character analysis, relationship analysis, various interpretations of everything he has done, are simply limitless. 🤯 That is due to David Jenkins & Con O'Neill.

And David Jenkins, standing in the spotlight of all of our exaggerated expectations, decided it would have the greatest emotional impact if he killed him. He made him a symbol, for the end of The Golden Age of Piracy™, and he killed him.

He was right.

He was not original.

He fell for one of the very tropes he so successfully fought in season 1, and for the most part of season 2.

Procuring an emotional response by having a beloved character, who was just starting to embark on an exciting new journey, die tragically and emotionally, providing motivation for the remaining characters.

It was a cheap move.

It is not a Bury Your Gays. Everyone is queer on this show, you can't call something a Bury Your Gays if that would be true for every character death.

But Izzy was also old, and disabled, and he had survived a suicide attempt (that he was driven into, not chose for himself), and had just had an arc of growth and character development that could have gone on for such a long time after this. He had just learned to trust and be vulnerable and experience (gender)queer joy. God, there were so many places his character could have gone.

I loved Izzy as a character, I didn't relate much to him. But Your Mileage May Vary, and I am so, so sorry for everyone who did. You didn't deserve this.

But David Jenkins? Is still sooo much better than any generic bland showrunner that is going places in Hollywood. You want to boycott anything, boycott the big streaming services that don't have the guts to make their main characters queer, to think that "a bit of both" is inclusive or bold, and who drive out any creatives that object and try to sneak in inclusiveness. They are the enemy. They are systemic discrimination and injustice.

David Jenkins is just starting out. And he did so much better on his very first successful show than anyone who has been in the business for years. If anyone deserves a chance to prove that he can do better, it's him.

I'm sure he'll come to regret his decision. I'm sure he'll see where he went wrong, how he could have done better, and fix it in any show he might do after this. I, for one, would much rather see any show he is involved in than most of the crap that the AMPTP is putting out, now or in the future. He can only get better. And he did do a lot of things right. Never forget that. Because the majority of showrunners can't even do the minimum, and David Jenkins went above and beyond.

I think he deserves a little slack. If anyone in the streaming industry does, it's him.

It's the fucking pedestal that is the problem. It makes people who do good but are not perfect suddenly look worse than the most cowardice, opportunistic mediocre guy. But they are not and they deserve a leg up, or we are stuck with the worse option who gets support from all the wrong places. Don't fall for it.

#david jenkins #our flag means death #ofmd #izzy hands #ofmd izzy hands #con o'neill #nikku.txt

[a-sassy-bench]

this one tiny moment killed me

frenchie is a good guy, but he always felt a bit less emotionally connected to the others, and he had a strong sense of self-preservation. he's the one who suggested to "bottle it up" in s1 and who told us about repressing his trauma in s2

but here, where absolutely everything is on the line, in a scene where everyone else is just an onlooker, frenchie is only thinking of izzy's safety in that moment

it's such a small gesture and i cannot stop thinking about it

#our flag means death frenchie #frenchie ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd #joel fry #ofmd izzy hands #ofmd izzy #izzy hands #ofmd s2 #ofmd season two #our flag means death s2 #our flag means death season 2 #frenchie #ouizzy #frenchie x izzy

[master-of-the-stars]

Together again!

#digital art #ofmd #our flag means death #calico jack #izzy hands #ofmd calico jack #ofmd izzy #ofmd izzy hands #cjizzy

[tuherrus]

when is a monster not a monster?

(ref’d from this stock!)

#steddyhands #ofmd izzy hands #izzy hands #ofmd izzy #blackhands #edizzy

[disabledpirate]

#ofmd #izzy hands #our flag means death #edizzy #ed teach #blackhands #ofmd blackbeard #edward teach #ofmd izzy hands #ofmd meme

[cursed-coat-of-homosexuality]

I just love how everybody is panicking and screaming their lungs out. Izzy's giving a full chested wail of "KILL ME!!! KILL ME NOW!!!!", only for Ed to be like "hmmm 🤔 something smells fishy🤢😡". truly the most well built, soundproofed ship of all, it's the brazilian cherry wood if you ask me.

#i do wonder if that principle applies to captains cabin though... ifyaknowwhatimean #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death s2 #our flag means death #ofmd ed teach #ofmd izzy hands