Currently hyperfocused on gay pirates but originally & always here for mlm, screaming about kissing books, & being queer/doing crime. @stedesleftshoe on twitter
I guess we know what was going on with Izzy to make him fumble the whole "guard the single hostage" thing so badly now, huh. I was giving him a hard time before for his absolute no thoughts blank stare while everyone else looked cool during the getting dressed montage and for not checking to make sure the hostage didn't have weapons on him, but now we know that he was just busy rubbing all his braincells together to try to figure out if this escape plan was even worth it anymore.
He heard Ed call Stede zaddy in front of that whole room and I think that was his last straw. He did tell Ed that he wanted to go and we know why now
It's been a week today since we got the news OFMD was cancelled, and today I'm thinking about how much we deserve to see Ed and Stede get married.
We see the desire to marry Stede as such a desperate, tender, heartfelt wish for Ed. When he puts his little cake toppers next to each other, it's so tentative. He painted the bride to look like himself so carefully - look at the little swirling details he's done on the dress! And the way he nudges it over next to the one representing Stede is so slow and hesitant, like he's scared to even admit to himself how much he wants this.
There's such a palpable yearning in Ed's expression here. He wants this so badly. We know that this is what Ed's decided as his last night, we know he's planning on committing suicide the next day, and he just wants to indulge in imagining a happy, soft future he thinks he's never going to get to have.
And at the end of the season? Ed is, slowly, learning that he's not the unlovable monster he thought he was. He knows Stede loves him, and he feels secure enough to tell Stede he loves him back. He knows Stede is committed to him just as deeply as he's committed to Stede; they're each other's first priority and they're going to settle down to build a life together, free from the pressures of Blackbeard's image and safe from the dangers of piracy.
When Lucius and Pete get married, as they hear the vows, Ed's able to think about how they apply to him and Stede, too. And he's able to take that desperate longing for something he thought he couldn't have and know he's going to get it.
When you combine that with Stede's whole thing? How he expressed his wish in s1 that he'd be able to marry for love? How that was something he probably never thought he'd actually get once his father paired him off with Mary, how he resigned himself to a loveless, miserable marriage - and how he found love with Ed? When Stede realizes he can actually ask Ed to marry him, that he can actually choose to marry this man for love-
They're gonna get married so hard and we deserve to see it!
The popularity of ships like Aziraphael/Crowley and Ed/Stede makes so much sense because it’s the classic good boy meets bad boy except this time the bad boy is also a good boy, the good boy is insane actually, and both boys are middle aged men