#ofmd season 2 speculation

[xray-vex]

On my wish list for ofmd s2 (cont'd)

A scene where Ed gets a chance to have a genuinely impressive pirate moment, where he isn't sorta phoning it in or goofing off or having his crew do the dirty work. Where he showcases the full scope of his genius, creativity and expertise, where he proves that he is a force to be reckoned with, where he holds back nothing and shows off exactly why he's history's greatest pirate, why he's earned his reputation, and why he's even more of a badass than he is in Stede's books & Pete's tall tales.

#our flag means death #ofmd #edward teach #blackbeard #ofmd season 2 speculation #edward teach is a badass #please please please let me get what i want

[larphis]

(*Inserts graphic design is my passion meme*)

Sorry guys the hyperfixation is just STRONG

*Correction for clarification: Fang being gone wasn‘t a WISH it was a prediction, because I did in fact not know that the actor said he wouldn’t reprise the role when I made this, I just came up with that „theory“ due to his absence in the teaser

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[menaceanon]

I cannot get my arms all the way around this thought yet but…

The first season was Stede parading around the world of pirates like it was all a performance and he could be the director of these peoples’ real lives—like he could stand back and observe safely from the audience as they play pirates. (Like they were Bonnet’s playthings.) It was about Stede coming to grips with the fact that he cannot be an observer, that the intersection of his trauma and privilege lied to him, and he must in fact choose what sort of participant he is going to be.

This season… Ed has 9(?) guns strapped all over himself. Ed is performing Blackbeard, not as Blackbeard but as the imaginary boogie monster version of Blackbeard. Ed wondering deep down if maybe that’s what Stede wants.

Maybe the fact that Stede shows up just then proclaiming his love to that performance does not, in fact, go over well.

Ed playing with the cake toppers, pretending he could be part of a quiet, sweet world, a romantic world that he feels so cut off from.

Performance vs reality vs hopes vs fears vs perception how many sets did they design in s1 to looked like stages, how is that different from the real beaches and broader visual scope of s2

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd season 2 speculation #ofmd s2 speculation #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd season 2 spoilers #ofmd meta #real talk with menace #I am foaming at the mouth I am vibrating at a frequency only dogs can hear

[wistfulcynic]

real talk, i am absolutely down with the theory that Ed thinks Stede is dead. But.

but.

if he thinks that it’s to do with hearing the gunshot, or non-specific rumours floating around various ports. Because if Ed heard the actual details of Stede’s “death,” the piano and the carriage and the jungle cat, i mean. This is Blackbeard, master of the fuckery. He’s gonna know.

what i’d like to see is Ed in mourning, crashing weddings, playing with cake toppers because he thinks his love is gone.

but then he starts to hear things. And he’s like wait.

one crazy death is believable, two could be coincidence but three smells like a fuckery. And then he’s off to find Stede and drag his ass back because if he’s dead then Ed can understand him being gone but if he faked it then that means he’s gone on purpose and what the fuck.

Fuck you, Stede Bonnet

cut to dramatic reunions on black sand beaches etc

#ofmd #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death #ofmd season 2 #ofmd season 2 speculation #i just need them running across the black sand beach fighting off soldiers to get to each other #they meet in the middle #they kiss #then ed slaps stede across the face old-movie style and is like what the fuck bitch

[saltpepperbeard]

One thing--when Ed is standing outside his little post-mutiny hut, I don't think that's Stede he's shooting at. It honestly looks like Wee John since they're so much taller than Ed in that shot, plus the hair color/head shape is all wrong for Stede. Can't wait to find out what THAT scene's about 👀

OH yeah I actually don't think it's Stede either. I was just poorly vocalizing my thoughts and emotions on Ed "Babygirl" Teach not being a murderer, and even if he is through technicalities, he isn't <3 JSKDLS

BECAUSE YEAH LIKE OKAY-

The more and more I look at it, the more and more I think it's a new character. I've seen speculation that it's Hornigold, and I've also seen speculation that it's the same man seen in blue in this shot here-

REGARDLESS of who he is, I'm currently leaning towards the theory that it's the same person, and that he causes a lot of chaos for the crew in some way. Like, if you look at that bottom screenshot, it looks like things are actually?? GOING POORLY LMAO???

I just said this elsewhere, but I'll say it again: I was so caught up in the mystique that is Wee John in drag that I didn't even really notice the surroundings. It seems like someone is tied to the mast, it seems like Roach is not having a good time, and it seems like Wee John's hands are...BOUND???

AND THEN ALSO LMAO-

There's a sort of desperation in Ed's eyes that leads me to believe something happened to Stede. Either Stede's in danger, he himself is in danger, or they're both in danger. Or MAYBE EVEN EVERYONE HSDJKS.

So my current running theory for all of this is: Said guy crashed a party on the Revenge, fucked with the crew, potentially did something bad to Stede, and then he got back around to Ed. And Hornigold would provide ADDITIONAL dramatics because that's his "former boss." Like, the idea of his past coming to the present to harm Stede??? BRO,,,,,,,,,,,

Also, the Wee John shot is followed immediately by the barrel shot, so I just hsdjks. I JUST THINK THEY'RE ALL CONNECTED TBH.

#Answered #smalltall #OFMD #OFMD Season 2 #OFMD Season 2 speculation #OFMD S2 Teaser #Edward Teach #pls forgive me for going on an entire additional tangent shdjksdhlks I JUST #HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS #AND THEY KEEP SHIFTING AROUND #BUT SJDKJSHDJKSL MAN #MANY MANY THOUGHTS HEAD ENTIRELY FULL #Y'KNOW???

[aspocko]

i dont really see people talk about this or even put this in fics, but i really feel like none of the marooned crew would even suspect that ed has gone kraken. (obviously lucius, jim and frenchie know but they dont count rn since stede's presumably not going to run into them right away). for everyone who got to know blackbeard as this nerdy enthusiastic sweetheart and then found themselves dumped unceremoniously on an island and left to die... i feel like their assumption would have to be that it was all izzy's doing.

izzy has antagonized and bullied the crew from the start. sure he's incompetent, but in this case, i feel like "izzy overpowered ed and marooned us" would seem like a much more plausible scenario than what actually happened. presumably, none of the crew saw ed at all as they were throwing out stede's stuff. for all they know, ed could have been thrown overboard! or locked in the brig! who knows? they sure don't!

which puts them in a position where they would see izzy as this big bad antagonist and have to explain to stede that he's holding ed hostage and they have to RESCUE HIM! which would be extremely funny when they show up and find out that they were, in fact, QUITE MISTAKEN. i feel like that level of misunderstanding would make for some excellent drama. because having watched this show so many times, i don't see any clue, any clue at all, that would tip off the marooned crew that ed had anything to do with this.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd season 2 speculation #not to be all “why is not one talking about this” but i legit feel like im the only one who talks about this lmao #cant wait to be proven right in a few months #jk jk jk #unless.....

[thermoskind]

one thing that's been confusing and cracking me up about the torture scenes is how baffling the vibe is. like it fully looks like a party and my first assumption is something like the swede's bachelor party got crashed but i can also see the crew going down the list of party necessities and insisting that it's just not a proper pirate stag if you skimp on hiring good torturers.

#ofmd #ofmd season 2 spoilers #ofmd season 2 speculation #the party still gets crashed by some actual baddies and the torturers are so offended that everyone's good time is being interrupted

[patchworkpiratebear]

My hope for season two. The disgraced third Badminton brother - they're triplets! Pirate Badminton has already lost an eye - will this make him immune to the Stede Curse?!

#our flag means death #ofmd images #ofmd #silly #ofmd shitpost #our flag memes death #ofmd speculation #ofmd s2 speculation #ofmd season 2 speculation #nigel badminton #and his many brothers #all played by #rory kinnear

[chuplayswithfire]

i love the writing for Stede because he's an excellent example of how a person can be marginalized in some ways and privileged in others, which is, in general, the way the world actually works. its rare for there to exist a person with absolutely no privilege and only marginalizations, but people generally don't think of the ways that we're privileged, especially when we're suffering from the ways that we're marginalized

and that's why stede is a great example, and his writing does an excellent job of digging into the topic. because stede experiences a lot of marginalization as a gay man, from childhood bullying and abuse from his father right up to being pressured into marrying a woman and having children - but he's also immensely privileged by virtue of being rich, white, and a man, with each of those things insulating him from the realities of the world that other people, including the people around him, suffer through.

like, with mary - stede's marriage to mary as viewed by stede is one where they're both miserable in monotony, but when you look at the show in reality, stede checked out of his marriage because he didn't want to be there. mary didn't either, but she tried to make it work, because she doesn't have any other options in her society - she would be disgraced and without support, monetarily, or familial in most cases, if she left her husband, and she wouldn't be allowed to divorce him. she has to make it work because this is her only option.

but stede has options. stede can check out. stede can leave his wife to do the hard work of raising the kids while mary has to be the one to ask them to stop running around the house, and initiate conversations with them at the dinner table, and nurture and care for them. stede is the fun dad playmate, and its why when he decides that he wants to leave his monotonous life, where he's uncomfortable in a married state, that he leaves the children behind with her.

and with the crew - stede is a terrible captain in terms of actually knowing how to sail a ship or do anything that a ship needs doing. we all know this. the characters know this. there's a reason oluwande agrees that stede is going to get them all killed, and jim calls him the worst pirate captain ever - when stede sets out to be a captain, he genuinely sucks at this. he's terrible at it, because he didn't have to learn anything about doing any of it, he just needed to be rich to achieve everything he ever wanted, and then rely on the labor of poorer white men and poorer men of color to make it all work out for him.

in episode two, when stede finds his courage to go after the hostages and prove himself as a captain, he says "i am adequate", which is both played for comedy and empathy - comedy because its such an understatement for a positive affirmation, empathy because it's *such* an understatement and goes to outlining stede's overall low sense of worth, but i think it's also important to note that it's kind of right? at best, stede is adequate at that moment.

and throughout the show, we see stede take a lot of things to heart, but also, in many ways fail to take responsibility for things he does wrong - he overcompensates and makes them about his lack of worth, or he deflects and makes them not his fault, or he gets overly critical towards others so he doesn't have to accept any blame or fault - and it all stems from this mindset that's been built into him from youth, that he's worthless and terrible and pathetic.

and here's the thing: i'm not saying that stede's abusive father or the badmintons or anyone else who bullied and tormented stede were right. he's not a lily-livered little rich boy who's never going to be anything else. but they did impart a lot of learned helplessness into stede, at least as i see him, where because he has such low self-esteem, he genuinely seems to think that he can't possibly cause harm to other people. he feels guilty about abandoning his family, he feels guilty about leaving them behind, he feels that this makes him a bad person, but it's not until episode 9 and he learns that he's been reported dead that he seems to genuinely think about the ways that his family could have suffered without him.

after all, in keeping with the times, it's very possible that mary would have been educated on managing a household, but not finances or businesses, or the land that they run. it's very possible that other relatives could have come crawling from the woodwork for the fortune. it's possible that with the money being louis', not mary's, by right, that she could have been with very limited access to their funds.

a lot of bad things could have happened, even WITHOUT the emotional hurt that being abandoned by a husband/father would cause, but stede doesn't seem to have expected any of that. in episode 10, he's surprised and hurt that his children are angry and have forgotten him. he's angry that mary has found a person to be in love with. he's upset that he came back and coming back wasn't enough for anyone, because he didn't think he, stede bonnet, could hurt anyone.

and that's partially because he's always seen himself through the lens of victimization and the ways that others have hurt him, and not in the ways that he could hurt others. mary's life is better with stede gone not because of his inherent lack of worth as a person, but because he was a terrible husband, wrapped up in himself and his griefs and his hurts and his very real marginalizations, and in doing so completely failed to be compassionate or kind or even an active participant in his own domestic life.

by the end of the season, we see stede finally starting to own that. we see that he's recognized his part in the harm he caused, and that he's finally being active, not reactive, in his own life. he makes the decision to leave openly, he carefully removes himself from at least one of his privileges - his class, by abandoning his wealth fully, this time, no longer leaving himself a lifeline to the world of the wealthy elite, and setting out to be an equal to his crew and to ed.

and that's a GOOD way to show this kind of story. because we are often much more attuned to the ways that we experience marginalization than the ways we enjoy privilege. privilege functions near-invisibly for the privileged, because we don't see all the ways we benefit from a world that's purpose-built for us. it takes intentional thought and perspective to see that the world is not built equal, and that we don't all move through it in the same way. often times, we have to confront sources of our marginalization, like stede did in coming back home and dealing with the life he left behind, to acknowledge our privileges - like stede did again, facing his fellow disaffected rich peers and the wife and children he hurt - to begin being active participants in our lives.

i'm really glad for the way stede's journey is handled. it would have been SO easy for the show to say that stede has no fault in his actions, that he had no choices, that he was just reacting. instead the show shows us that stede had options all along, but he was so embedded within himself that he didn't see them, and straggled along, hurting people because he was too busy in that mindset, until finally he came out of it.

i'm excited to see season 2. i'm excited to see where stede grows next, now that he's finally actively shaping his life, not bowing to his learned helplessness, not looking away from the negative impacts of his choices.

#stede bonnet #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta #ofmd spoilers #ofmd season 2 speculation

[tvshowspoilers]

I made a list of some of the stories I've read on AO3 that could be considered topical right now because of the trailer. These are just the ones that are stuck in my brain or I read recently, there are a lot of other amazing ones that I'm totally missing. Butttt I compiled what comes to mind in case y’all want to read them before October 5th...SINCE WE HAVE TWO WEEKS LEFT!!!!

All of these stories were published prior to the release of the teaser or trailer so they are purely from the author's imagination!

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These are shipwreck/deserted island/etc fics:

Ed gets stuck on an island and Stede finds him there....trailer gives me the same vibes as this fic.

This fic has some artwork with it and for sure has some vibes that fit with the trailer. Worth a read!

This one starts with another storm and steers in a different direction. The author is amazing and has some really awesome other works to check out too! Also this is a big one, 48, 431 words, but worth it!

I just like this one

The following fics are some of my bookmarked fics that fit this vibe:

------------------------------------------------------------------------These are non shipwreck/island fics

This is a two partner and the second part is linked and completed in the fic.

With some theories going around about Jackie's Wedding and Ed and Stede, I figured this story is apt.

So this story is not like the others but the only one I've read thus far that has some kind of "Ed taking his heartbreak on strangers who are happy" vibe. The author tags it as "Blackbeard working through stuff" which is pretty accurate. I'd give it a go!

Someone else just posted about this story because of the trailer and good on them. Its just so cute!

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All of these fics were created by talented and hard working authors and it shows, I think! I hope anyone who sees this post finds something they like! To the authors who might be on tumblr, thank you for making such amazing stories that carried me through my (still ongoing) OFMD hyperfixation. You guys are the best ❤️❤️❤️

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[larphis]

GUYS! I made another observation from the teaser!!

When Ed confronts (what is most likely) Hornigold he is

a) wearing the perlnecklace

and

b) has his hair tied into a fancy French braid

This makes me believe that when that storm in the teaser happend which tossed Ed into the sea/when Ed was thrown overboard due to a mutiny (which ever one it is) he must have met Stede either before the storm or when stranded on the island. Because I’m more than sure that the pearlneckless is a present from Stede and Ed suddenly having fancy hair after just almost drowning in the ocean COULD be explained by Stede doing it sometime after they made up in a sweet moment of bonding since Ed wears fine things well and Stede loves making Ed feel precious ;)

(yes I know that second part is a bit of a stretch but the thought is adorable to me so let me be delulu please)

#the second I realized we are going to see French Braid Ed I died a thousand deaths. I’m so not ready AHHHH #ofmd #our flag means death #edward teach #ofmd speculation #ofmd observation #ofmd season 2 #ofmd season 2 speculation #Stede Bonnet #gentlebeard #Blackbonnet #the pearl necklace #ofmd theory #annoying fangirl screeching #ahhhh #I’m so ready

[medievill]

turns out the “make Ed jealous so he sees how much he actually still loves and wants Stede” fic trope is really extremely wow doing it for me? I think because it highlights how idiotic these two idiots are, generally but specifically about each other

anyway I am dying over “reclamation” and “in the hot seat,” go forth and prosper

#pretty sure this won’t be canon #idc I love it anyway #ofmd #our flag means death #edward teach #blackbeard #ed teach #stede bonnet #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #ofmd fanfic #ofmd fic #ofmd season 2 speculation

[finchxs-revenge]

Ok so we all know the trailer purposefully moved stuff around to throw us off so this might be a far reach here but the part of the trailer where Ed flings the knife past Izzy's face didn't show up in that episode. Of course it could just have been shot and edited out and just used for the trailer. But there could be a flashback with an extended or extra dialogue from that scene in an upcoming episode that gives us more information about something.

It's probably just something cut that was put into the trailer but hey we only get to play this what if game for another couple weeks I might as well enjoy my time playing in the sandbox while I can.

#ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #ofmds2spoilers #ofmdspoilers #edward teach #izzy hands #ofmd speculation #ofmd season 2 speculation

[saltpepperbeard]

Hear ye hear ye! I’ve some new clownery speculation (or, new in the sense that I’ve not yet seen this discussion until now; apologies if it’s been discussed already!) 🤡🏴‍☠️

Following the disappointing albeit expected fiasco that was the WB Livestream lol, I tried to do some digging on the internet, searching for any little possible little breath of life from Season 2. I ended up stumbling upon a twitter thread (shoutout to ClaireGregoryAU!) that talked about episodes finalizing.

It pointed to the episodes listed on Writers Guild of America, aka the screenshot above, and how most of them finalized in February. HOWEVER, one episode, aka episode 7, finalized later than the rest, on March 7th.

It then went on to explain that the first trailer dropped 100ish days after the season 1 episodes finalized. They all finalized in November of 2021, and the trailer dropped in February.

SO. If HBO is going to stick to a similar schedule, where does that put us for a trailer drop?

JUNE.

If it went 100 ish days out from the 7th episode’s final credit dates, that would land us in the beginning of June (potentially the 1st because I feel like that’s something they’d shoot for again for the ✨pizazz✨ lol. Or…perhaps…June the 3rd). If they went from the later date, that would put us towards the late middle.

Which, subsequently, would point towards a July/August release date for Season 2 itself, since the first season began airing about a month-ish after the trailer released.

MUCH later than a lot of us were anticipating, I know. I personally was expecting them to RELEASE the season in June, so that puts it back a month or two later than even I expected.

And AGAIN, it’s all still speculative. But it would make sense as to why HBO can’t even provide information yet. Maybe the fact that an episode finalized just a month ago still means that things need to be ironed out.

#OFMD #Our Flag Means Death #OFMD Season 2 #OFMD Season 2 speculation #OFMD s2 speculation #OFMD Season 2 Spoilers #ALSO my app does NOT want to link to the thread in question #But I’ll try and properly credit when I get home #ALSO AGAIN—sorry if anyone already talked about this #I just don’t remember seeing anyone talking about similar timelines #So I figured I’d spread the word #ESPECIALLY following all the nonsense yesterday lol #Between the help replies and dusty livestream both

[dolphinsapphire28]

OFMD season 2 spoilers...

Blackbeard's notoriety is now that of petty wedding-crasher (which ought to be added to an updated version of his wanted poster as a joke),

and...

...after having Ed pouring his heart out to Stede and kissing him on a beach, it is only fair Ed (no more Emo makeup) and Stede reunite on a beach and (perhaps in the Cave - maybe either one or both sustained injuries and need to find shelter) 'clarify' their breakup and angst once and for all (I truly wish for a spicy makeup/sex at this point). ❤ They merit all the passion they can muster. No more insecurities from either side but unbridled love and expressions thereof. ❤

[I see myself out now.]

#our flag means death s2 #ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #rhys darby #edward teach #taika waititi #ofmd season 2 promo #ofmd season 2 speculation #ofmd season 2 spoilers #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd season 2 teaser

[totallyboatless]

"ed will have a breakdown and smash the stede topper"

nah let's get more sad with it, this is SAD BOI hours, what if the stede topper is broken on accident or lost and it causes ed to break down

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd season 2 #ofmd season 2 speculation #edward teach #stede bonnet