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seance · 6 months

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STEDE BONNET / THE GENTLEMAN PIRATE / CAPTAIN OF THE REVENGE

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here-there-everyfuckenwhere · 3 months

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Do you wanna be my boyfriend..?

🎶 Bobby Sox by Green Day 🎶

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aha-my-villainous-thoughts · 6 months

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It's all about them.

(I'm just a big ole ball of happy mush at the moment, I love our blackbonnet boys 💜)

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harrylovesspaezle · 2 months

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Ed turning the bride cake topper into himself

#no idea if this has been done but i just thought of this #ofmd #ofmd meme #our flag means death #edward teach #ed teach #stede bonnet #ofmd s2 #save ofmd #adopt our crew

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sarucane · 5 months

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Do we just keep telling the same story forever? Meta on OFMD S1E7 "This is Happening"

In this S1E7, two characters--Ed and Jim--have to answer a simple question: Am I ready to tell a diferent story?

At the start of the episode, Ed's framing his time on Stede's ship as "sitting idle." He's thinking about preparing for the next adventure, whatever that may be--the next chapter in a story he knows and understands. Because there are rules. A ship has only one captain.

When Stede tries to prove that Ed can tell the next chapter in that story without leaving the Revenge, Ed is pretty unapologetic in his disdain. But he does come along, even while moaning and complaining.

And Stede's just trying to tell the same story, too. What he imagines a pirate's tale is supposed to be, not what it actually is. He doesn't recognize the difference between nonsense and truth, he's so caught up in "entertaining" Ed that he doesn't realize he needs to feed Ed.

But in fairness to Stede, Ed has a poor grip on what he really wants as well. When he fantasizes as he flirts with Stede, he's not imagining a swashbuckling adventure. He's imagining opening a restaurant. He's half in his old life, and half out.

Lucius, the unemotional observer, figures all this out of course.

He sees that Ed is absolutely very receptive to Stede, and that Stede is crazy about Ed. But Ed is caught up in who he's been, without seriously considering how to move forward in this story he's in now. So Lucius confronts Ed. He points out that Ed's story as it is going now ends one way: pain and loneliness. And he asks if Ed wants that.

Stede didn't want Ed to leave, so he told a story about treasure hunting. And Ed doesn't want to leave and be alone again, so he tells the story too. And by telling that story together, Ed and Stede find their way to the same place: beginning a new chapter. Imagining a life they can live together, without devaluing or overwriting anything that came before.

It sounds nice, although it's shallow (Ed's not going to be happy as a pirate, Stede is bad at telling this pirate's story and he'll never be a successful traditional pirate). But it's still a hopeful story, because they're still moving forward. Right on the edge of telling a different story.

And resolving in the opposite direction is Jim's plot. Jim's story is relentlessly upbeat and funny in this ep, but it's a tragedy through and through. Jim, like Ed, is half in their old life and half out. Has been with Olu for more than a year, without actually doing anything, while keeping him at a distance.

And it turns out they were "raised by a nun to be a killing machine." That Nana projected all her own trauma and righteousness onto Jim, and passed cruel judgement when Jim says that they already killed "the only one that matters." When Jim suggests that they might have moved on, and be ready to tell another story.

Jim regresses in this episode. They let Olu walk away instead of telling a new story with him, one where he's their family. They take the petrified orange as a sign that they should go back to being who Nana told them they were, to being obsessed with revenge. But really, it's more like a warning of what they'll become if they cling to the same old story.

It's sad. And it's a painful foreshadowing of what awaits Ed and Stede when they falter on the path forward, when they think their past defines their future. When they tell someone else's story, instead of their own.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd meta #ofmd spoilers #ed teach #stede bonnet #blackbonnet #jim jimenez #oluwande boodhari #ofmd oluwande #legit i think this is my least favorite ep #the plot with ed and stede is nice because it gives them something to aim for in terms of how they can just be chill together #and the conversation with lucius is good for ed pushes him in an interesting way--does he REALLY want this he has to figure that out #it's a nice bit of nuance for his character and the story's richer for it #and it's great crew development in this ep sure #but they really pulled their punches with Jim's plot #nana is super cool and funny and all but she's also toxic as hell #and jim's plot feels like the writers just played everything safe and it's annoying

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ourflagmeansgayrights · 11 months

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it's in so many fics and so many metas and so many joke posts and so many people act like it's a blatant canonical fact that sometimes it feels like im going crazy

but every time i rewatch the show im struck by how literally the only solid evidence for the interpretation that izzy is essential in running ed's ship

is the fact that izzy says so

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta #izzy hands #dizzy izzy #izzy critical #<- i guess????#txt #meta #mine #og #like please take note of the word Essential here #im not arguing if he's good or bad at being a pirate (altho i certainly have my opinions on that too lol)#im saying that i have read fics where izzy is kicked off the ship and everything falls apart #i have read fics where ed himself is like “i've never had to learn how to actually manage a ship‚ izzy's always done it for me”#i have read posts and metas about how izzy's the only one who can wrangle stede's crew into being good pirates #and it's one of those fanon interpretations that has so little canonical backing it just. baffles me.

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gabichanwrites · 6 months

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Imagine you have a character, a broken, vicious man who bites and spits venom even at a person he loves the most, who pushes the buttons of his love just because this toxic familiarity is all he knows, just because it's all he feels safe doing. And then his love finds another person who brings out such a different part of them, a part this character never could or maybe just long forgot how to do. He drowns in jealousy, in his bitternes, he hurts his love, he hurts his love's beloved, their crew... And finally gets what he wanted. Finally has his Blackbeard back, finally can forget about the part of Ed he can no longer reach... But suddenly Blackbeard is unpredictable even to this character.

And suddenly everything changes as he slips and can no longer even enjoy the familiar toxicity because he saw something better and kinder and selfishly wishes for it too, despite it all. And suddenly he understands people around him, people who never saw the evil in Edward, and suddenly he realizes it's his fault. All of it, just a part of it - doesn't matter. He caused this and nobody is happy, not even him.

And then, despite everything, others start to care for him. They tell him "We think you're in a toxic relationship" as if they didn't know it was him who brought Blackbeard back and they hug him tight as if he wasn't the once to sentence them to this horror and they hold his hand when he panics. They experience kindness and hope in a miserable place, maybe a glimpse of what made Blackbeard so soft for a moment there. And when everything falls apart, when he takes the final tumble in this horrible dance he has with Blackbeard, somebody is there to hold him up. Somebody is there to criticize his drinking and make him a new leg and call him their unicorn. The character is "their bastard", he is part of them. He is part of something kind and accepting and he shyly embraces the new familarity-that-might-be, even when he still insults and retreats and bottles stuff up because maybe if he seems fine he can help others, maybe in the end he can be loved in a way as kind as theirs. Maybe he can have a family.

So once they are again in danger he takes the chance and speaks boldly and captures the ominous attention of the enemy. He takes a risk for them. He takes a bullet for it. He rests in the arms of his love and tells him he's sorry even when he could never accept the other's apology. He never gets the chance to try more and forgive more and try to be forgiven more. He can only ever serve as a tool for another character, can never evolve to existing on his own, to healing on his own.

You are Izzy Hands. You are drowning in your mistakes and the toxic familiarity you're too afraid to get out of. And once you dare to try...

The show would rather have you die than give you a chance at healing and happiness.

Your death doesn't prove a point and it doesn't mean anything. It's just cruel.

#Izzy hands #yes i am dramatic #yes i may be a spoilsport #whatever i am is also so incredibly bitter #because the way this story ended is disrespectful to us all #because even if we never fell as low as Izzy #this is still Our Flag Means Death #the show which never gave a damn about historical accuracy or brutal reality #a sit-com about silly gay pirates who get to joke and adventure and open up to each other and heal #so why does a character who has only just begun healing in any way has to die #what is the point?#why can't he leave the stage with the rest of his crew-family #finally opening up to them?#why does Ed and Stede deserve a happy ending but not Izzy?#ofmd #ofmd critical #i wish it wasn't

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silk-and-oranges · 2 years

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"I'm not a good person, Stede. That's why I don't have any friends." i know it's a romance and the main plot is Ed and Stede but please please please i need Ed to have friends. To be friend with Fang and Frenchie and Wee John and Roach and Black Pete and Lucius and all of them. to share jokes and drinks and not always be in a hierarchical position as captains like we see Stede with Lucius and Olu and all. i need it, he needs it, we all need it.

#he doesn't even consider Jack his friend #sure it's is old pal and all but it's not his friend #not like ed sees the crew being friends with each other #like Wee John and Frenchie #i might even want him to have friends more than i want him to reunite with Stede #idk i feel like that's crucial to his character dev #it can't be only stede that's not healthy #even for his self-worth and all he needs friends #that also means the crew has to stop seeing him as blackbeard and start seeing him as edward like they started doing in e10 #uuuuuuuugh #gooooood i can't wait for s2 #ofmd

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lecter-lioncourt · 2 years

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Me when an OFMD fan yet again forgets about Ed's 3 canon acts of animal cruelty, ordering Fang to skin a man alive with a snail fork, setting fire to a ship full of people and burning them alive, cutting people's body parts off, canonologically "loving a good maim" etc and instead infantalizes Ed and somehow places the blame for all his Kraken antics onto Izzy:

#also can I say that given how nd coded Ed is I actually find it ableist how some people treat him fhfhfjfj #did Izzy push him? yeah. does that make Ed blameless? NO #not saying Izzy is an angel btw I'm simply saying that Ed ALSO isn't an angel #let Ed be accountable for his actions!#I hate the headcanon that Stede won't be upset w ed for the same reason #why WOULDN'T stede be upset with ed? why SHOULDN'T he be?#he marooned most of his crew straight up drowned another and kidnapped the other two #he stole stede's ship and ruined all his things #stede has every right to be upset w ed in s2 #ed is not a blameless victim babyman ok #let characters be complex! characters don't have to be morally pure to be likable. or even good people #anyway please stop woobifying ed for the sake of protagonist favouritism and izzy slander #mine #ofmd #edward teach #izzy hands #fandom stuff

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bisexualmultifandommess · 1 year

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Okay what I really need next season is for someone to give Stede a hug that’s all I want! Let this man have a moment to breathe and get comforted by someone.

#I know the crew are probably going to be a little annoyed for a bit at first because he was gone and ed went mental #but after the first episode I need them to show that they still care #one of them gives him a hug or offers him words of encouragement #imagine they all sneak back on the boat and frenchie just runs up and gives stede a massive hug #because one of the pirate dads is back and has brought the rest of the family #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd season 2 #stede bonnet #the gentleman pirate

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cowboysmp3 · 6 months

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sorry 2 say but i am not on the side of ed izzy and stede being a throuple mainly cause i think izzy is thriving now he’s relatively free from ed and i think izzy deserves much better <3 i think izzy is at his best when he’s not being defined by his relationship with blackbeard god bless

#i say this with all the love towards ed #but i legit don’t understand the appeal #ed and izzy’s relationship is so fundamentally horrific #i think he’s a fun occasional balancer to them and i DEEPLY enjoy his friendship with stede #but his freedom has come with his developing friendship with the rest of the crew #and how they’ve emotionally supported him #being real i don’t actually care though it’s a tv show #ofmd #ofmd spoilers #izzy hands #blackbeard #stede bonnet

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srapsodia · 2 years

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i was talking with friends about daemons a while back and i love this concept so much i had to doodle a few of them

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd fanart #my art #we came up with daemons for the whole crew + a bunch of side characters and one of these days I'd like to draw them all #ed's daemon is unsettled and they use it to their advantage to add to the mythos of blackbeard #stede's is an albatross #olu's is a sugar glider but i struggled to draw it djfjjdd. jim has a big jungle cat #frenchie has a rat and wee john a mouse #everyone thinks buttons' is karl but it's actually a whale thathat follows them frfrom far away. karl is just a friend #mary has a komodo dragon #sjfjs i love daemons so much

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harrylovesspaezle · 2 months

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now why would they cut the only proper verbal confirmation that they are boyfriends??

#hope it has nothing to do with max #ofmd #our flag means death #edward teach #ed teach #stede bonnet #ed x stede #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #rhys darby #taika waititi #adopt our crew

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mermaidlighthouse · 6 months

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The crew comes to visit the inn

Lucius: the meal was nice but did anyone else notice there’s no meat???

The crew: nods and murmurs yeahs

Ed: ☹️ just eat ur fuckin food

Stede: *👀 @ Ed* well…I mean…vegetarianism is a lifestyle choice…*whispers* we can’t hunt…Ed’s a bit touchy about fish so I haven’t even tried no one comes to the inn becuz people think our sex noises are ghosts haunting the building so we can’t pay for anything

The crew:……….

Stede: ANYWAY have you seen the garden????

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adickaboutspoons · 8 months

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Hey -

#and before anyone @s me about how it's not the same because of the class divide #I would argue that it's MORE brave for Stede to be pushing back against his crew's opinion #he's penniless now and has v. few practical life skills #he rescued the crew from the island but they're under no obligation to enable his quest to reunite with the man who left them there #their opinion isn't a matter of mere social ostracization #it's a question of Stede's continued survival #(and to the people saying he's talking about Izzy -#I mean he's pulling down the poster of Blackbeard when he starts & holding said poster at the end.#We're clearly meant to be thinking he is referring to Ed here)#ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd #our flag means death

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