#ofmd s2e4

[unhingedpirates]

(psst. guys i don't think frenchie is left-handed at all)

#maybe he just forgot #frenchie #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2e2 #ofmd s2e3 #ofmd s1e3 #ofmd s2e4 #david jenkins doing his thing of not giving a fuck yet again #good for him

[googoogojob]

#stede bunnet #ofmd fanart #stick figure #ofmd s2e4 #steve bunnet

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

this was @asneakyfox's idea (og)

#ofmd #ofmd meme #our flag means death #izzy hands #dizzy izzy #israel hands #sc #edit #mine #og #j #ofmd s2e4 #image id in alt text

[hamletisabitch]

Fun and Games is a perfect episode to me. Ed and Stede's arguments and reconciliation are so real. Izzy is so pathetic and strange he's able to unite the crew. My best friend Roach gets more than one line. Olu says "yeah babe" to Jim. Buttons is litterally a bird. "Seabird" plays as an antidote to the bird that never lands.

#ofmd s2 #ofmd #fun and games #ofmd s2e4 #rewatching for #renew as a crew

[adickaboutspoons]

I object to the term "whim"

In episodes 4 and 5 of the second season, there's a lot of throwing around of the word "whim." Ed and Stede both argue that they were just a whim to the other, Stede concludes they they are both "whim-prone" and that whim-prone people shouldn't run off to China together, and Ed cites their "whim-prone"ness as a reason to take things slow as they start to rebuild their relationship.

And I know we all like to joke about U-Haul failboats in love, but they aren't whim-prone. That's not what's going on here.

The first time on the show that we hear the word "whim" is in s1e4, when Izzy says "For years, I've followed your every whim, I've managed your increasingly erratic moods, I've massaged this crew when they were worried about your judgment." But from what we see of Izzy's interactions with the crew, he's not a massager, he's a sledgehammer, and the crew respect Blackbeard a hell of a lot more than they respect Izzy. Ed's moods don't read as "erratic" at all if you pay attention to what he's responding to; he's an emotional guy, for sure, but mostly even-keeled until highly provoked. And as for "following [his] every whim," Izzy can barely follow orders as given - committing insubordination at least twice that we see; not telling Stede that it was Blackbeard that wanted to meet him in s1e3, and flat-out ignoring Ed's "we're not doing this" in s1e6 when he challenges Stede to the duel. So I don't see Izzy as a reliable narrator when he suggests Ed is "whim-prone" - it might look like that to him because he doesn't try to understand Ed on his own terms, but it is v. much a construction that Izzy is imposing on Ed; not an objective character trait Ed possesses. After all, you don't get a reputation for being "history's most brilliant tactician" if you're not, at the heart of it all, a planner.

Stede is also a planner. Mary accuses Stede of abandoning his family on a whim, but that's also inaccurate. Thanks to all the hard work @nicnacsnonsense did in her marvelous 1st season timeline video, we know that SIX MONTHS elapsed between Stede proposing with his model boat that they go to sea at the anniversary debacle and the night of Mary's apology when Stede had already committed to actually leaving. That's not a whim - that's plenty of time for serious deliberation. It LOOKED like a whim from the outside because of their disastrous communication failures, but that doesn't make it true. Unabandoning his family was not a whim either - Chauncy was the catalyst, but only because he created a high-pressure situation that validated all of the insecurities we'd seen Stede struggling with all season; guilt over abandoning his family, and his crater-bottom self-esteem that the people he loved were better off without him. Even in season 2, we see more of this long-game behavior, where Stede takes his drudge job in towels and elevates it by applying scent; a move that LOOKS whim-prone from the outside, but primes him for success when it comes time to escape, because it means he knows the guards are used to deeply inhaling the scent of the fresh towels he gives them, and is thus he is able to trick them into chloroforming themselves.

There are times in the 1st season where it might LOOK like they are being whim-prone, but for the most part, those things are mostly time-critical circumstances . The impulsive decision to go to the French Party Boat? The invitation was for that night, so it's not like another opportunity like that was just going to come along. Stede's impromptu Fuckery? He'd JUST been introduced to the concept that morning, and the ships on which he wanted to try it out were three days away. If you'll recall, Ed actually tries to talk him out of going through with it with such a short turn-around time, and likely would have succeeded if Izzy hadn't interveined to further his "Kill Stede Now" agenda. The Treasure hunt? Stede was anxiously scrabbling for ANYTHING to keep Ed's attention (AFTER he confirmed there were no oranges for sale, not even for ready money) because Ed said that his plans for the day included "planning for the next adventure" and leaving. Act of Grace? Signing away ten years of your life for a man you've known for a month IS a lot, but the alternative was letting Stede be executed. Running away together? I'll give you that China was quite the absurd swing, but they WERE in jail for all intents and purposes - no sense staying longer than absolutely necessary, and there theoretically could have been time for re-working the plan once they were just away had circumstances not arisen.

So while I think it's fair to call the boys whimsical with their love of dress-up and lovely perfumed things and theatrics and tasty sugary treats, I wouldn't say whim-prone is an accurate descriptor (and the fact that they are accepting that it is makes my heart crack wide open for them, because it's evidence that they're still both uncritically absorbing the labels applied to them by people who don't really understand them at all), nor the problem they need to address.

Their real problem is actually the exact opposite of flitting from whim to whim; that, once they've committed to something, they are all in, 100% ride-or-die. It's why Ed resigned himself to going down with the ship when it turned out he'd miscalculated the date instead of trying any evasive maneuvers with the fog to give them cover. It's why, when Stede didn't show at the docks, Ed went full pillow fort until Lucius was able to talk him around into life going on without Stede. It's why Stede threw himself into trying to be all the things he thought he'd failed to be as a husband and father when he came back to his family, and was committed to staying, even though it was making him miserable, until Mary tried to murder him.

Ultimately, the solution for both these conditions is the same - slowing down. But it's not a matter of making sure this is serious and not just a whim for either of them; it's a matter of taking the time to understand exactly what it is that you're committing to. So I object to the term "whim."

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2e4 #ofmd s2e5 #my modest contribution to fandom

[mossiestpiglet]

“You were the one who kept his body aboard” Oh? Oh? My god?? This raised so many questions I doubt will ever be answered. Who told Stede that it was Izzy who insisted they keep the body? How much did Izzy have to push the others to let him keep Ed’s body? Did the others just understand right away and give in? Did Izzy visit Ed’s body when they were adrift, thinking he was dead? Has anyone told/will anyone tell Ed that it was Izzy who kept him on board, meaning it was actually Izzy who kept him alive?

#ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2e4 #izzy hands #edward teach #stede bonnet #edizzy #ofmd #ecdysing

[thetardigrape]

Hang on

Boys please tell me you don't think this is a handy

(thanks to @eddie-redcliffe for the beautiful gif)

#ofmd s2 #ofmd s2e4 #ofmd s2e5 #gentlebeard #(ps i def think stede thinks that's a handy) #(probably not ed but who knows)

[parttimesarah]

…

We’ve all been there.

#oh to be a pirate among pirates and able to smash shit up when you feel like it’s called for #ofmd s2e4 #ofmd 2 #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #ofmd season 2 #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd gifs #ed teach #blackbeard #taika waititi #i made a gif #use it wisely… or not

[flowersforvax]

I love how ofmd keeps playing hot potato with the genres: Buttons turns into a bird, magic is real now? SURE

love that for us

#flowers talks ofmd #ofmd #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2e4 #our flag means death #ofmd s2

[thinking-about-fiction]

As I watched the episode I said "If Buttons actually turns into a bird, I'm going to lose my damn mind" and then Buttons turned into a bird with no reveal of a trick and I proceeded to lose my damn mind right on cue

#Ofmd #Buttons #Ofmd buttons #Our flag means death #Ofmd s2e4

[goddess-of-silvers]

Appreciation post for the messy toxic lesbians Anne Bonny and Mary Read. I love you and your instigating, please come back.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #ofmd spoiler #ofmd s2e4 #anne bonny #mary read #anne bonny x mary read #blackbonnet #stede bonnet #ed teach #ed x stede #lets go lesbians

[unhingedpirates]

'Stede stabbed me once' 🥰☺️💕😍💓

#i love him #he's so cute #and he did enjoy the stabbing lol #but even when he's angry he remembers that fondly lol #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd 2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2e4 #ed teach #stede bonnet #blackbonnet #ofmd spoilers #ofmd 2 spoilers

[googoogojob]

#ofmd fanart #stick figure #our flag means death #ed ofmd #edward teach #ofmd s2e4

[aithusarosekiller]

I'm FINE

#ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #izzy hands #israel hands #ofmd izzy #*amos diggory voice* MY BOYYYYY #ofmd season two #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2e4

[electric-friend]

djenks has been at the fuckin fanfiction, i can smell it.

#ofmd s2 spoilers #my gifs #izzy hands #ofmd #ofmd s2e4

[genderfluidcrowley]

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT MARY MEANT WHEN SHE SAID THAT ED HAS A TYPE

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2e4