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khruschevshoe · 5 months

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I would like to once again speak about how unfair it is that Archie, Olu, and Jim are the prettiest polycule in the world (this also includes Zheng if that is your jam, she's also pretty). And this doesn't mean "pretty" like a dress, it means "pretty" like the sun and stars and moon are pretty, pretty in terms of a weapon flung from a hand, pretty in terms of a force of nature, pretty in terms of a plant growing in a place where it should not survive, pretty in terms of a kiss between bloody teeth, pretty in terms of cutting the ocean in two in order to find each other again, in this essay I will-

#archie ofmd #jim jimenez #archie jimenez #oluwande boodhari #oluwande jimenez #jim x archie x oluwande #garlicule rides again #I WILL PUSH THE GARLICULE APPRECIATION AGENDA #ofmd #ofmd season 2

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aletterinthenameofsanity · 5 months

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Me, about to write a fic ft. Olu in a gown, Archie/Jim/Olu hurt/comfort and flirting, Olu&Mel friendship, and undercover fuckery shenanigans? More likely than you think.

(I'm now wondering how much of the inspiration for the aesthetics/vibes of this fic comes from how much early Panic! at the Disco I'm listening to. Y'all can probably tell me.)

#aletterinthenameofsanity #my fics #fanfic #ao3 #writing progress #writing process #my writing #jim x archie x oluwande #jim jimenez #captain oluwande boodhari #oluwande boodhari #oluwande jimenez #archie ofmd #archie jimenez

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cliopadra · 6 months

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Apparently it’s #IzzyIsThriving day, so excuse me while I pause my mental health break to throw a tipsy doodle of a crew cuddle pile at you guys

#our flag means death #our flag means death s2 #izzy hands #fang #jim jimenez #roach #archie #oluwande #buttons #wee john feeney #frenchie #lucius spriggs #black pete #cliopadra blabbers on #my art #izzy is thriving

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nortism · 7 months

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jim jimenez and their girlfriend working together to get jim’s boyfriend a girlfriend, truly no one is doing it like them

#i can’t believe they invented polyamory #does the polycule have a name yet?#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd 2 #ofmd 2 spoilers #our flag means death spoilers #ofmd spoilers #jim jimenez #jim ofmd #oluwande boodhari #archie ofmd #jim x oluwande #jim x archie #zheng x oluwande #zheng yi sao #polyamory #mine

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samuelroukin · 7 months

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VICO ORTIZ as Jim Jimenez & SAMSON KAYO as Oluwande Boodhari in OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH (2022— ) Episode 2.03 The Innkeeper

#jim jimenez #oluwande boodhari #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmdedit #tvedit #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 #ben.gif

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saltpepperbeard · 7 months

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Next on Our Flag Means Death...

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jaypentaghast · 7 months

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All the crew needed to be ok again was a shared art project to help the injured local cat they recently adopted.

+ bonus

The cat in question.

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coishen · 6 months

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#artists on tumblr #sketch #ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #jim ofmd #ofmd jim #archie ofmd #ofmd archie #ofmd oluwande #oluwande boodhari #jim jimenez #zheng yi sao #ofmd zheng yi sao

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mexibrenes · 5 months

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Pirate ship? More like love boat! . . . The funny pirate show gave me lots of feelings, HBO give us season 3 pls.

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mopeytwat · 6 months

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The Crew♡

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khruschevshoe · 5 months

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OFMD (fic) analysis: The Power of Names, Agency, and Creating Yourself

So, this is going to be Part 1 out of who knows how many analyzing different aspects of @aletterinthenameofsanity 's magnum opus OFMD fic series "made a promise when I left for the coast (made a life out of chasing a ghost)." Now, the series is divided into three sections, "Season 2," "Season 3," and "Extras" (which includes missing scenes, AUs, and post-canon "special episodes"). This first essay will be addressing the symbolic/thematic meaning of characters choosing their own names in this series throughout all parts (some of these metas will only tackle one section/season/ or even fic).

It is clear in this series that names take on a particular meaning, due to the multiple times it is emphasized, such as in part 15 of the series (the "pilot" of "Season 3"), when Captain Olu says, "Everyone's entitled to choose their own name on my ship." Names, when taken on a ship, allow someone to both shed their precious life and claim one for their own. I'm going to go through the various ways this is presented in series and how letting characters choose their names on the Revenge allows them to gain agency within their lives and world.

1): Name as Gender: Jim and Pete

Early on in the series, Jim and Pete's friendship is established from Jim's POV, where we discover that before the Blackbeard-Kraken-era, Jim and Pete bonded when Pete revealed that Pete is also trans, which in the series is often referred to as "the power of creation" (there's an essay analyzing the religious implications in the works, I swear). This is a point of connection and pride between them, and is the foundation to a great and enduring friendship and place of trust that often gets both of them through low points.

This friendship is further emphasized in part 13, Pete's internal monologue echoes previous assertions by Jim's internal monologue that "they have things in common that go beneath everything, a connection that threads itself across the sea, through razors and potential top scars and names left buried on land."

2) Name as Family: The Jimenezes and the Spriggs

A) The Jimenez Matelots

During their wedding reception in part 9 of the series, Olu and Archie both make it clear that they are going to take Jim's last name due to the importance of becoming Jim's family. Olu will trade in his last name, and Archie will take on a last name for the first time, as a sign of loyalty, loved, and comfort, because for Olu and Archie, "What price is a last name when it comes to making Jim feel comfortable and loved?"

B) The Spriggs Siblings

The choice of the last name "Spriggs" by Mel and Lucius has almost the opposite backstory of the Jimenez matelots- rather than keeping a last name to honor a family, the Spriggs siblings keep their last name to spite their abusive father. When Mel is asked by Roach in part 18 of the series as to why she keeps her last name when, as a pirate, she could have easily dropped it entirely when starting a new life, she tells him that she kept it because it connected it to her brother. Her internal monologue explains that "She stayed Mel Spriggs, damn the consequences, not because the last name gave her protection, but because it connected her to the one person who, at any point in her life, had protected her." It has nothing to do with "the lily-livered douche" that was her father; it as to do with her connection to Lucius. And as the series progresses, even after Lucius gets married to Izzy and Pete, we see that he keeps his last name while Pete picks up the last name "Hands-Spriggs." As much as his matelots mean to him, shown by the rings they share (objects as symbolism will be another analysis), his relationship with his sister is just as important to him.

3) Name as Intimacy: Frenchie and Zheng Yi Sao | Ching Shih

So, this one is not as startling or connected to character agency as the others, but I really like what this relationship does with language. Zheng Yi Sao literally translates as "wife of Zheng Yi" and is used almost as both name and title, the name of the Pirate Queen and Emperor of China, while Ching Shih is her Cantonese name, within the language she grew up speaking. Historically, Zheng Yi Sao had to learn Mandarin to fit in with upper crust society, and it makes sense that the name she rules the seas with (even in OFMD) is within that more "elevated" language.

But here's the kicker: Frenchie doesn't call her Zheng. He calls her Ching Shih, honoring where she came from, acknowledging that he gets a far more intimate side of her than the rest of the world do. In part 40, in the moment of their engagement (which comes after years of a really fun half friends-with-benefits, half-long-distance-relationship that they have going on), Frenchie accepts Zheng's proposal with the line "I’d love to be yours, Ching Shih, as long as you- not your title, or your power, or whatever, just you - would be mine.”

4) Name as Agency: Mel and Roach

When Mel first joins the crew of the Revenge, Olu calls her "Miss Spriggs" and she asks to be called Mel instead. It is made clear that to her, her first name is a gesture of identity and agency as she begins a new life, a fact that is emphasized in part 39, which covers Mel's life leading up to the moment she murders her parents and leaves home. This part refers to Mel exclusively by the name "Melanie" until the moment she leaves Anguilla and takes her agency back into her own hands, paralleling the death of "Blackbeard" and the freedom of the crew with the line "Melanie Spriggs dies along with her parents; Blackbeard dies along with Izzy’s love for Edward Teach."

In part 18 of the series, we see Roach explain that his choice of name was a similar act of agency, a moment when he chose the name thar embodied his own survival instinct with the lines ""Being a pirate is about creating a life for yourself. A name, a family, a home. I picked Roach because I refuse to let anyone kill me.” He gives her a toothy grin that she can’t help but return. “I’m an invincible little fucker.”"

5) Name as Family (Part 2): Femi Boodhari and the Jimenez Matelots

Finally, we return to the theme of names being used for chosen family. When the Jimenez matelots visit Femi, Olu’s mother, in part 41 of the series, at first Jim is worried that Femi will be disappointed that her son traded away his name for theirs, Femi gives Jim and Archie a way to honor and carry both the Jimenez and Boodhari names and legacies: as a blacksmith, she makes Jim a knife and Archie a new axehead with the Boodhari name in the side so that way the family, their culture, and her own legacy of escaping slavery and starting her own business and family can be honored. Though it's not as straightforward an example of "choosing a name" as the others, I think it is a nice endcap in this series for the theme.

(Also, as a note: these metas/analysises take a lot longer to write than it took me to make moodboards. So they'll probably come out a little less frequently, even if they are just as much fun to do!)

@blue-b-bro @possumsmushroom @yuenity @bricksbloggyplace @cosmicquill @a-pessimistic-swiftie @polikate

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cliopadra · 2 months

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“Izzy’s regret is never allowing himself to fall in love” well good thing he’s alive and well and can be gently pushed into an All Deck on Hands situation to fix that, huh?

(Just got out of an *incredibly* dull seminar, so have a set of Izzy doodles I made to entertain myself )

#our flag means death #izzy hands #all deck on hands #roach #wee john #frenchie #fang #archie #jim jimenez #oluwande #lucius spriggs #black pete #buttons #cliopadra blabbers on #my art #my art crap #quote from yesterday’s WJW by the way

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orions-beltloops · 7 months

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Olu literally can’t stop pulling the baddest fucking bitches he’s got that tender swag

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd 2 #ofmd s2 #ofmd season two #ofmd spoilers #ofmd oluwande #oluwande boodhari #jim jimenez #teal oranges #zheng yi sao

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stitchologist · 6 months

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An encouraging love letter all the fanfic writers and artists-

Don't stop.

I don't care if Canon has gone off the rails or given us lore that directly contradicts your ideas. I want to read it. I want to see it. I want to know where you'd take these characters. I want to know what inspired you to create in the first place and I want to go on that journey with you. I want you to finish.

I want you to make it better. I want you to make it worse. Make it silly and heartbreaking and amazing. Make it everyday life and what ifs and 5&1s.

I'll be there with kudos and likes and ❤️❤️❤️ comments since this is the most articulate I've been in months.

Keep going. You loved an idea so much you've spent who knows how many hours writing and editing and drawing and posting.

I see you. Don't stop.

❤️❤️❤️

#ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #izzy hands #stede bonnet #edward teach #frenchie #wee john feeney #roach ofmd #nathaniel buttons #lucius spriggs #black pete #oluwande boodhari #jim jimenez #fang ofmd #ivan ofmd #archie ofmd #crew of the revenge

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annabethwarriorprincess · 7 months

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Jim and Olu out here collecting new partners, building out their polycule, till they finally have enough ppl to fight Spanish Jackies Polycule

#ofmd #jim x oluwande #jim x archie #ofmd spoilers #zheng yi sao #ofmd zheng yi sao #oluwande x zheng #ofmd archie #oluwande boodhari #jim jimenez

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jaypentaghast · 7 months

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Our Flag Means Death | Season 2 Jim has two hands to hold both their partners' 💙🧡❤️

#as they protect them from an evil curse #look at how much fun they have together #they're dating but also they're best friends and that's all that matters to me #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death s2 spoilers #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #archie ofmd #oluwande #oluwande boodhari #tealoranges #jimolu #jim jimenez #jimarchie #mine #gif

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