Last Line Tag Game
Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many you like).
tagged by @kallistoi and @jaynovz thank you both I love u sm
last thing I worked on was parrotfic which makes it very easy to delineate a last line bc it's. A Poem. but I'm gonna include a few preceding lines because a) I like them b) it's worth it c) no one can stop me
Atop a branch sits perched a sanguine bird.
It whistles something awful (tune of him—
he knows that horrid melody by heart).
He breathes. It sings. He sighs. “I can’t do it
without you.”
“You won’t have to,” answers Flint.
hrrk not gonna tag anyone bc I am shrimply too tired 😌🫀
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aaaand last one I can think of to spam you as of now at least is 'Wrongcat'
Yuko Kamiya seeing her daughter on the couch watching TV...with a very strange looking cat curled on her lap. "Sweetheart, where did you find that cat?"
"She was hungry so I brought her home."
"Honey, you can't just-"
"Right? I tried telling her I was fine, but this kid of yours is stubborn."
"...was that the cat just now? Talking?"
"...Yeah? Why wouldn't I be? Oh! Kari turn the volume up, that mouse is gonna get it now!"
Cue screaming.
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broke: Izzy wearing makeup and singing for the crew is OOC
woke: Izzy is open to experimenting and trying new things now because hitting rock bottom helped him realize how depressed his old life made him and he now knows he needs to change to find happiness
bespoke: he's like this now because they cut off the homophobic leg
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god of the snazzy suit-makers' guild. you wear all the suits. they do like a panathenaic procession for you every year except instead of clothing athena's statue with a fancy new dress it's clothing your statue with a fancy new suit.
also this reminded me to ask where u get ur suits........ 👀
LOVE this for me thank you ljfksdf
me @ my worshippers: suits be upon ye
(I got my rainbow suit from macy's and the rest I got from a tiny little suiting store in a weird hidden corner of [redacted mall name]. I got them and the rainbow suit tailored in-house there as well)
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in season 1 when calico jack called izzy a sentimental bastard i always figured it was mostly a dig about his feelings for ed, but uhhhhhhh. season 2 is making it abundantly clear that's just an accurate description of izzy as a person lmfao like, him weeping over his new leg while insulting the crew even though they can't even hear him?? and then he goes and stands at the bow of the ship WITH the note just to have a nice little moment by himself. i half expected him to let it float away after that but he DIDN'T. does he just keep it tucked into his vest now? i bet he fucking does
and i mean to be fair the entire time we've known him he's been wearing a ring around his little tie thing and we can only assume that's for sentimental reasons too i'm losing my mind he's just a little shit with a lot of feelings
bastard (sentimental)
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just remembered Izzy was in the room for that scene where Stede asks if he can call Ed his boyfriend and it's sooo funny to think of him having a very belated realization that everything he did in season one happened in response to a guy Ed hadn't even defined the relationship with yet
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I've been thinking about this exchange between Izzy and Ed in "Discomfort in a Married State":
"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—"
"Mm, sounds stressful, Izzy."
"It is."
Izzy has assigned himself the role of "managing" Blackbeard, but it's quite obvious, both in Ed's response and in the way he says it, that Ed has never wanted or expected him to. And he continues to try to manage Ed, even when Ed clearly tells him not to.
Both Ed and Stede have that word "whim" thrown at them by people who don't really understand them - Izzy and Mary - and both at first resist the word (Stede even says "I object to the word whim"), then internalize it. It seems what are being called whims by outsiders are actually expressions of deep desires that neither Ed nor Stede have the verbal or emotional language to describe.
It's not a whim that has Stede running off to a be a pirate - it's all the frustration and loneliness and repression - and it's not a whim to go back to Mary - it's a result of guilt and self-loathing. It's not a whim that has Ed following the Revenge to meet Stede - it's wanting to find someone who might be a kindred spirit. But neither of them can openly articulate those feelings, either to the people who are calling them whims or fully to themselves. Stede goes further than Ed does because so many of his desires are located in his repressed homosexuality, and once he's able to articulate that - with Mary's help - he understands his feelings. He still believes that he's "whim-prone" in other ways, but not when it comes to Ed.
Ed is especially leery about his own desires, which have been managed by other people for so long, and about Stede's. His idea to "run off to China" is a whim in a certain sense, but it's expressing a desire to leave behind their old identities and form something new together. His desire to "take it slow" is about his own healing independent of Stede, but it's also built on a fear that Stede is going to disappear again. After they have sex, Ed again falls into the fear that it was a whim, but it's not his whim - it's Stede's. He's scared that what meant so much to him doesn't mean as much to Stede, or not enough for Stede to be able to let go of piracy and fame. He's worried that piracy wasn't a whim, but he was.
Both of them have been managed most of their lives, in different ways and by people and structures that they never wanted to manage them in the first place. It was all about keeping them in settled, socially acceptable places where they can't escape, and casting doubt on the legitimacy of their desires. (I don't think Izzy, and certainly not Mary, consciously think of it in these terms, and Mary especially has had to subsume her own needs as much as Stede has.)
In the scene with Izzy, Ed's evidently pushing back at the management, and he probably has been for a while. But this is likely the first time where his desires are getting more articulated, after his conversation with Stede, and are the same moment when Izzy starts trying to exert even more control over him.
His finding the letter is a mirror to Stede's conversation with Mary - the realization of who he is and who the man he loves is, and that the feelings he's experienced not just for but from Stede are not whims but bone-deep love.
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