#pear watches ofmd

[pearwaldorf]

Thinking about this meta and all the things that have happened this season with Izzy. It's not just that the writers and Jenkins have pushed back against all the nonsense, they've done it in a way that feels extremely targeted towards the, ah, less charitable interpretations. (I could be completely reading into it! I know some of the writers are familiar with fandom, although I do not know if they keep tabs on OFMD fandom.)

Stede's fantasy sequence in E1 is obviously a send-up of not just silly romance tropes, but predictions about what people thought would happen. Y'all, everybody involved in this show is extremely genre-aware. Do you think they'd play it straight like that?

Everything about the previous order has been upset, making room for new combinations of relationships (Izzy and both crews, Izzy and Blackbeard's crew, Izzy and Stede), or inversions of previous dynamics (Lucius).

And Darcy's observation that sometimes you extend grace to somebody who probably doesn't deserve it (because it isn't always about them) struck me. It's such a kind thing you rarely see in media, for people not just to look past harm that's been done to them by a specific person, but to extend the hand they wish they'd been given in the same situation. To the person who harmed them.

It's not apologism or excusing the behavior. It's looking past what was done and extending empathy and community to somebody who is obviously hurting.

And to me, all of this feels like the show tugging at your sleeve and going "Hey. Look at this. Isn't this way more interesting than what you thought was going to happen? Aren't you more entertained? Aren't you glad there's less hurt in the world? Isn't this better?"

#pear text #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death #ofmd #pear watches ofmd

[daily-mees]

OFMD and GO are only similar if you reduce all the characters down to cliche, one-dimensional stereotypes of queer men. Which you obviously do and are fine with. Gross.

omg!! i'm famous enough to get hate mail!!! i consider this an achievement, thank u anon <3 i am honoured

(good omens s2 and ofmd spoilers in following brackets)

(for reference for people wondering, the similarities both previous asker and i were referring to were the ending of ofmd s1 and the ending of good omens s2. i mean, okay, beyond “they're both hugely beloved recent shows about queer people starring fantastic middle-aged actors, and also they feature a confession, kiss and immediate heartbreaking breakup between their central characters at the last point in their stories we currently have access to” there's not a big much of similarity but. but we tend to think of said quoted similarities as a little noteworthy. it's apples and pears. different taste, yis, but both are fruit with seeds at their core)

i think anon may have missed something or perhaps not seen good omens 2 so i wish them a hearty watch/rewatch and some yummy food to go along with it, and someone to watch with who engages them in thoughtful, respectful and enthusiastic conversation. i find that does very well.

also, here's a mees to soothe your weary heart, anon

[ID: simple pen doodle of a mouse with triangle feet, big ears, a pointy nose and little whiskers, sitting on its haunches with its forepaws up on a large heart shape. the mouse is smiling happily. end ID.]

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[phantomram-b00]

Been wanting to do this for sometime so here are some of my headcanon for Autistic Aziraphale.

Please note that Autism is a spectrum and that everyone’s have a different experience because some of these are hc are based on experiences I have as an autistic person or maybe other might’ve too. So please be mindful, but hope you guys enjoy and feel free to ask any questions. (I love this gif)

Headcanon 1:

Aziraphale isn’t comfortable with crowds or at the very least crowds that might be noisy or isn’t his usually spaces or familiar with (I.e his bookshop, Give me coffee or give me death, etc) so he usually just wouldn’t want to go or if he does try it, he’ll bring his yellow Walkman Crowley got him so he can listen to music since music calm him down.

Headcanon 2:

He’s the type to want to listen to any other songs to not get out the comfort zone so if he does, he would have to listen to them twice or three times in order to decide if he like the song or not. (Idk if this one odd let me explain, it something I do since I don’t like to listen to different songs that isn’t in my comfort zone let alone song that aren’t my usual so if I did listen to it I would have to listen to them fully two or three times to see if I like the lyric, rhyme and beat. Just to make sure it not too loud, repetitive, or fits in my comfort zone for me. But also the lyric the factor since I like interpreting songs, probably why I like The Crane’s wives for example or even Laufey sm.)

Headcanon 3:

Hardcover > Paperback because he likes the feeling of the hardcover then he does with paperbacks. But also he feels the texture is better. Hence why most of the books in his bookshop are hardcovers.

Headcanon 4:

He does have specific food textures he doesn’t typically like. Like bananas, if the bread is too flakey, rice is too hard, some sandwiches or eggs. So he stays away from it and stick to his safe foods like sushi, pears, cakes.

Headcanon 5:

Crowley love it when Aziraphale hyperfixates and talk about his favorite book he reading because it fill him with love to see that Aziraphale find something he loves. It actually took Aziraphale some time since heaven would often interrupts, ignore or blatantly brush him off to cut it out leaving Aziraphale to feel insecure about his special interest. Ofc it also toke meeting mortals like him to get him to open up so when Crowley first heard him hyperfixate it made him happy. Because that how Aziraphale in a sense show trust in him and himself to open up.

Headcanon 6:

Aziraphale likes to stim! I think I kinda dip my toes in it in some post from before but I do believe that he stims. Whether he hums a tone, wiggles or etc. he also started doing this after time passed because again heaven and also some mortal look down on this. But with the comfort of his bookshop, Crowley and also meeting understanding mortal he start to feel more comfortable. Granted he still try to hide it due to masking and to this day still mask but once he with Crowley or in the comfort of his home he stims.

And that really about it for hc today

Me rambling in 3…..2…….1 (tw: ableism)

And that’s pretty much concludes it, I might do this again as it fun. Headcanon is my favorite thing as well as when it comes to autistic headcanon. Autistic rep has been… not the best, granted I haven’t watch much tv shows other than ofmd, good omens, and more so I’m not sure if they got better, I don’t know if I’ll talk about that aspect of negative reps but all say, they have harmful impact as I have a family member that will joke “when will I see numbers” which…sure it a joke but…. I can’t help but feel bad. So doing this and seeing positive rep or seeing autistic/adhd coded characters make me happy!

This is fun in so many ways, mostly because as shown in my past post I relate to aziraphale. Still don’t know how I feel about that but regardless I love his character, his flaws, everything! And I see how he autistic coded in my eyes so it makes me almost relate to him even more. And I’ve been wanting to show my personal headcanon for a while just I thought now would be the best day. Especially as this Good Omens brainrot is alive and well among my other brainrot. I do hope you guys enjoy this let me know if you wanna hear more or if you have your own personal hc that you want to share. And hope you guys are having a good day with how bizarre 2024 is and hope you’re also having fun ghostly pals.

Here a Aziracrow/ineffable husbands/spouse/wives gif:

#autistic aziraphale #good omens #autistic headcanon #aziraphale #aziraphale good omens #good omens aziraphale #I do believe Crowley also autistic or adhd or both #good omens headcanon #good omens rambles #phantomramble #phantom rambles #tw: ableism #good omens is my permanent roommate #good omens fandom

[the-acid-pear]

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#5

AS PER REQUEST OF MY BELOVED BESTIE @eyerolls-the-view IT IS DECIDED THAT I WILL START WATCHING OFMD‼ And of course im gonna make that everyone's problem.

Since it's a show and not a movie liveblogging is trickier but i guess i'll keep it all in this post???

130 notes. Posted June 22, 2022

#4

Literally thinking non stop of how great Floofty is because they are NOT evil. They are mean, yes, but they aren't even THAT mean. They are LITERALLY just misunderstood. Like the fandom tends to pain them as significantly more mean and heartless and that's just not how Floofty is!!!

Man it's just, who would have thought this purple nonbinary muppet in a game about walking animal food would turn out to be such incredible neurodivergent representation??

144 notes. Posted May 4, 2022

#3

I miss her so fucking much it's unreal

267 notes. Posted February 9, 2022

#2

(Pttsss, it's me, I am People)

489 notes. Posted January 28, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

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#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #luly talks #fun fact! i had to translate this manually :) #the OFMD post being so high feels so unfair that just me livebloggig 💀 #OH WAIT THAT'S WHY IM MY N°1 MOST RBED LMAO

[eriexplosion]

Okay real talk yes I want them to make up and I want Edward to have the love of his life and finally get some positive improvement in his world and be able to live as himself, but Stede. Stede. Stede. He would be justified in shooting you.

HE LEFT HIM AT THE ALTAR DOCK YOU DON'T JUST DO THAT I DON'T CARE HOW BAD YOU FEEL. ED WOULD HAVE TAKEN YOU TO SEE YOUR DAMNED WIFE, AND HE'D AT LEAST KNOW YOU DIDN'T ABANDON HIM!

#eri watches ofmd #Bad and naughty Stedes get put in the pear wiggler

[pearwaldorf]

40%!!!!!! 40 GODDAMN PERCENT!!

I have said previously that something definitely happened that made a show with a well-executed first season get roughly paced and choppy, but I was not expecting them to have to make do with pretty much half their budget and relocating overseas. I don't think S2 would have been as good without Aotearoa (the people and the landscape) pulling more than its weight, but fuck.

There's only so much fat you can cut before you start slicing into bone, and I worry that Max will just be like "You pulled a pretty decent season out of 40% of the budget, we'll give you a smidge more and expect the goddamn moon."

I hope David Zaslav steps on Legos barefoot for the rest of his miserable pathetic life.

#pear watches ofmd

[pearwaldorf]

It was good while we had it. It really was. It wasn't perfect, but nothing is. It gave us a cast of queers of all types who were allowed to be people, not stand-ins for some token nod towards representation.

It gave me two idiots that healed something I didn't know was missing. It told me it's never too late to figure yourself out and work towards your own happiness, regardless of what the people around you think.

We got three canon queer couples. THREE. And then a basically canon throuple! That was really cool!

I've met so many wonderful people in this fandom, and I would not trade that for anything.

Be kind to yourselves today, friends. I love you.

#our flag means death #ofmd #i am very sad right now #i'll be ok #but i'm going to be sad today #pear watches ofmd

[pearwaldorf]

The canon gave us absolutely consensual but ill-advised sex after a traumatic event and all some people can do is talk about how it was "actually dubcon"?? (Yeah, "fuck or die" is a trope but "fucking because we nearly died" is something I don't see nearly enough of. )

They don't understand how much of a gift this is and I am Extremely Annoyed. I didn't get into OFMD fandom until after all the S1 episodes dropped, and the lack of nuance and sheer reductiveness some people in it display is a fucking travesty and frankly disrespectful to the show and the work the cast and crew have put into it.

People can enjoy a thing however deeply or shallowly they want. But there's a difference between honestly engaging with the work as it is and making shit up and pretending it's actually canon.

#pear text #cranky post #ofmd spoilers #yes i'm working on something #it'll probably be about six months before it's done lmao #pear watches ofmd

[pearwaldorf]

So I was just reminded of the "Works for spiders, works for men" line and oh my god there are going to be so many fucking spiders in that tiny decrepit shack of theirs.

Ed is going to wake up, probably the morning after the Revenge leaves, see a giant spider in the kitchen, and seriously reconsider going back to pirating. He's not gonna do it, but he's definitely going to think about it.

(Stede is tender-hearted and would prefer not to kill them. But it is a tropical island, and they're never going to run out. Besides, they scare Ed, and that's reason enough.)

#spiders cw #arachnophobia cw #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 spoilers #gentlebeard #ed x stede #pear watches ofmd

[pearwaldorf]

I have been trying to write this on and off for a while. I figure the second anniversary of the show is as fine an occasion as any to shove it out into the world. It is not everything I want to say about it, but I think the important bits are there.

It is a human impulse to be seen. To be told, through art, you are not alone. It is universal, but of special importance to people who are not well-represented in media (i.e. everybody who isn’t cis, white, able-bodied, skinny, and conventionally attractive).   

This show speaks to me as a queer person who figured things out later than most of my peers. (Not quite as late as Ed and Stede but not terribly far off either.) It’s not super common to see queer media address this, and I didn’t realize how much I needed that reassurance until I got it. That it’s okay to find these things any time in your life. To be told “A queer is never late, they’re always fashionably on-time.” 

They’re not my first canon queer ship. But they are the first ones where I knew it was true from the get-go. Multiple people assured me this was the case. And yet, I still didn’t believe it until I saw it with my own two eyes. This experience is not unusual for fans around my age.  

After I finished up season one, I laid in bed and cried. It’s not something I thought would affect me so much, but it feels like a weight I’d carried so long I didn’t realize it wasn’t supposed to be part of me is gone.

One of the reasons people unfamiliar with the fandom seem to think it’s absolutely crazy (which some of it is, to be fair, but every fandom has that) is the way fans of the show get extremely super intense about it. It took me a few weeks to realize this is a trauma response. I’m not even sure “trauma” is the right word. It doesn’t interfere with my day to day function, but it lasted for years. Decades. So it was definitely something that fucked me up. And in the way you can only start to see something as you’re moving past it, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to get my head around this. (I don’t know if I have anything to say about it yet. Maybe I need more time to sit with it.)

I know this sounds contrary, but I’m really glad David Jenkins does not come from fandom. Sometimes it’s good to know where a line is, and others it’s better to not know there’s a line at all. And this is, sad to say, remarkable to somebody who has had to deal with this for so long. With so many writers and showrunners aware of the line, and getting right up next to it, but never crossing it.

Imagine doing a show with a queer romance and not understanding why this was received with such emotion and fervor, because it’s just two people in love right? What blissful ignorance that this needed to be explained to him! And then he listened to people’s experiences with queerbaiting, and went “Oh my god you thought I was going to do WHAT?” And then you go “Huh. That is really fucked up.” 

The problem with being told something enough, even though you know it’s wrong, is you start to believe it regardless. All the excuses and hedging. It’s so very difficult to do they tell us, when we hear from queer creators how they had fight tooth and nail to make it as gay as it already was. 

And then comes Jenks, just yeeting it out there: majority queer and (not and/or. and) POC cast, an openly non-binary person playing an openly non-binary character. The ability to not have to make one queer (and/or) POC character speak for everybody, so you can inject a tiny bit of nuance into the conversation. The way you can tell more kinds of stories, like the one where the smol angry internalized homophobe comes into his own with the support of a queer community, even though he was a giant fucking asshole to them before.

So many people were like “You can just DO that? It’s really that easy?” And wasn’t that a fucking Situation, to have that curtain pulled aside. What next? Majority POC casts with stories about POC written by POC? Absolute madness. (Please please watch The Brothers Sun on Netflix. It’s so fucking good.) 

And people will scoff and say “Of course a cishet(?) white man would be able to get this pushed through.” But do they usually? The thing I don’t think people understand about allies is they use their privilege to wedge the door open. You still have to do the work to get through, but at least you have a place to start. And it really fucking matters.

The press keeps trying to tell me The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin is the OFMD substitute we need while we float in the gravy basket. I’m sure it’s a perfectly fine show, but I don’t know who has watched OFMD and decided the itch we needed scratched was anachronistic historical comedy.

I want stories written by people that reflect their lived experiences, with actors and crew committed to bringing that to life. And I would like streamers and studios to commit to giving them a chance, and marketing them properly so people know they exist. 

You can keep people satisficed with scraps for only so long. At some point, somebody is going to give them a whole seven course dinner and people will wonder why they’ve been putting up with starving this entire time.

#our flag means death #ofmd #our flag turns 2 #pear watches ofmd #pear text

[pearwaldorf]

I am starting a rewatch for the first time since S2 aired. It is absolutely incredible how much character growth they packed into 5ish hours, holy shit.

I have no idea what Jenkins's experience with Kiwi (and I would say specifically Maori Kiwi) media was before OFMD, but tonally it is a perfect match. The concept of a pirate themed workplace comedy fits right in with Wellington Paranormal and Flight of the Conchords (both Jemaine Clement joints as you know).

I honestly don't think this show would have worked without Rhys Darby. I know of no one else who could nail that combination and balance of absolute dumbass, utter insanity, and earnest sweetness. In the Muppet version of the show, Stede is played by Grover.

Random observations:

I find it rare that jokes land just as hard on subsequent rewatches, but this show delivers consistently. Stede's first pirating, Lucius doing the Pinocchio voice? Remains 👌🏼

Still love Lucius putting the pieces together regarding Stede being bullied by Nigel, and the heavy mental sigh he makes knowing he has to watch out for this dweeby baby gay because the freaks look after the other freaks

I keep forgetting how sad and awkward and lonely Stede is at the start of all this. I still find it genuinely distressing to think about how long he's spent hoping for somebody to understand him, even a tiny bit. He's come so far!!

#pear watches ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd

[pearwaldorf]

"Discomfort in a Married State" remains my favorite episode of S1 because it has so much chewy characterization and ridiculousness.

Rewatching it this time I'm struck by how absolutely miserable Stede is in his old life. I can't imagine it made him very fun to be around as a husband or father.

This is also the first chance we get to dig into Ed as a person, as opposed to the mysterious Blackbeard. Izzy's not wrong that it's probably a giant pain to be the bridge between him and the crew, smoothing over his capricious moods.

I love how gentle and kind Ed is when Stede wakes up. He's always had that capacity for softness, but no safe place to let it out. Even before they really talk, Stede allows him to be someone other than Blackbeard.

That conversation in the cabin is the part where I started rooting for them as a couple. That was a first date talk, whether they realized it or not.

The clothes swap is a weird and fun thing, but also a way for Stede to get insight into Blackbeard's life. I don't think he understands it in a way he could articulate, but he knows Ed. Or at this point, is starting to.

The fucking lighthouse. The setup is genuinely the stupidest thing. One night from the full moon doesn't make a difference unless you're trying to do a ritual or some shit. 1717 is manifestly not a leap year!

I feel like this is one of those places where Jenkins's background as a playwright (and the magical realism logic of the show) manifests. Just go with it, you're already this far in. It's such a beautiful and beautifully shot sequence.

And the hug! The sheer exuberance of it! Ed doesn't think about it at all, he just grabs Stede. Neither of them strike me as touchy people, but with each other? I don't think they spend much time out of each others' space after that for pretty much for the rest of the season.

It's a real good episode in a real good season. We'll always have this, even if we don't get any more.

[pearwaldorf]

do u think Ed switches to crop tops exclusively when they're working on the inn? Does he pair them with ratty cut-offs because it's hot as fuck and it makes sense when you're doing intense physical labor?

Does he put up his hair purely for utility's sake absentmindedly and get all confused when Stede walks into a post or hits his finger with a hammer?

I really hope so.

#pear watches ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd #i have a feeling ed knows he's hot #but only when he thinks he's doing something hot #he is completely puzzled when stede finds his very existence arousing

[pearwaldorf]

The sort of stupid shit I wonder about when I take a break from rotating Gentlebeard in my brain:

Is Olivia an aspect of the sea? Of anybody in this cast I think Buttons is the most capable of understanding the beauty and terror of the unfettered ocean, but human minds grasp the small and concrete more easily.

What's the whole sitch with her and Buttons? Are they just friends? Did they become closer after Karl's death? I feel like plotting and executing revenge on your mate and friend's killer is a really satisfying bonding experience.

Apparently seagulls have long-term mates, so it is entirely possible one of the reasons Buttons transformed is to be closer to Olivia as well as the ocean.

The narrative symmetry of the dead seagull in episode 1 and Buttons's transformation. Are both not impossible birds?

#our flag means death #ofmd spoilers #ofmd #shitpost #ofmd meta #nathaniel buttons #buttons ofmd #apologies to the butthands shippers #pear text #pear watches ofmd

[pearwaldorf]

Oh my god. So I saw Izzy playing with the candles when he has his audience with Ricky but I was paying attention to the dialogue, not the incidentals.

He's not sticking his fingers in the flame like the first time we see him talking to Blackbeard. This isn't something the scene draws attention to at all, but that little detail contains so much information about Izzy's character development over this season.

Con O'Neill I am going to kiss you on the fucking mouth.

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 spoilers #izzy hands #attention to detail and craft makes me feral ok #pear watches ofmd

[pearwaldorf]

(jumping off from this wonderfully chewy post and the response)

I'm glad I never saw any of the "Ed has ADHD ergo Stede is just a hyperfixation he'll move on from" posts when they were floating around because I would have lost my damn shit.

(I am a late diagnosed woman, and you can use my experience as a literal template for all the things that conspired/did not lead to a diagnoses when it should have happened: nascent awareness of ADHD as a thing, the perception of it being a boy's condition, the way inattentive types just drift off and not cause distractions, being a "gifted" kid so there's no way you can have it.)

And I can tell immediately people who say shit like this do not have ADHD*, because while it is absolutely possible to hyperfixate on a person, it's not the same thing as genuine attraction or even limerence, in my experience at least. From the outside they look similar, but it doesn't feel the same at all. It feels almost compulsive, in a way that not even a regular hyperfixation** does. Maybe that's the dopamine fiending kicking in, idk.

Anyways. There's nothing that strikes me about Ed's behavior in S1 as a hyperfixation of any sort. He's already bored as fuck of his life, and even if he didn't have ADHD hearing about Stede would have been enough to pique his interest.

The thing that made me absolutely sure it was real though? The way he was sobbing his heart out in bed. I, too, had an extremely traumatic first breakup and it was A Thing to be almost physically thrown back into that feeling, despite being over it and have been for years. I felt it, the way your body keeps things that your mind doesn't always remember or think about. That's not an ADHD thing, that's a connection I felt as a fellow human who has been through that experience.

And it's unsurprising to me that the show does a much better job of integrating possible ADHD traits into Ed's characterization than most fans do. I laughed so hard at Ed fidgeting in the boat and him deciding he wanted to be a fisherman on the turn of a dime. The possibility of it certainly informs his character and actions, but his choices are still clear and understandable even if he isn't.

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* And as the previous post mentions, people's neurodivergent headcanons of Ed are always racialized and used to justify taking away agency from him. I have never seen people saying Stede's headcanoned autism should result in the same outcome. 🤔🤔

** ime regular hyperfixation is more about flow and time blindness, the way you can lose yourself in a thing for hours because you're just vibing and doing a thing you enjoy to the exclusion of all else.

#pear watches ofmd #pear text #if you have questions or want to talk about adhd or late diagnosis #please feel free to hit me up