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I did this. On purpose.
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Ed is just. He’s so happy. He’s fucking THRILLED to be back together with his boyfriend. It’s got him saying nearly incoherent shit in a room full of people. He’s rambling about cats in a life or death situation. That man is delirious with happiness after a lifetime of suffering.
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OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH Season 1, Episode 7 “This Is Happening”
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I just think of how much Stede has grown. He was so scared in “Act of Grace.” He’s so uncertain about who he is and what he feels. And then when he talks to Ed on the sofa, it’s with this clarity and maturity and total lack of fear or uncertainty. He knows he’s in love, that he has been for months, that this man is all he ever wanted. He’s not afraid of anything. He just has to finally tell Ed what he feels, like he failed to before. And it’s so simple and so lovely.
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Yep. And Ed immediately tearing up at it. They killed me and healed me in one go.
Also the way their voices change with emotion. Ed/Taika in this scene. And Stede/Rhys in the first kiss scene. They truly let their characters live and speak through them. It's pure magic.
Stede immediately saying that he likes the length of Ed’s beard, after one of their last conversations being about how Ed can’t be Blackbeard without a black beard…
Poor baby has internalized everything. He’s repeated everything he said wrong in his head for months. He’s rehearsed everything he wanted to say to Ed, to assure him of his love.
It’s such a great reminder that Stede never declared his love. He never gave Ed assurance of his feelings, and then he ran off and seemed to confirm that what he didn’t feel the same. And Stede’s so determined that Ed is gonna know how much he loves him.
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Our Flag Means Death → A Gentleman Pirate
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The thing I am fucking feral about today: this shit.
Look. Look at this.
Stede, by and large, is not a Toucher. (That’s a whole separate essay.) He’s hesitant as fuck about it, and tends to initiate contact, if at all, through some intermediary: clothing, air, etc. Later, with Ed, he’ll do incidental touches, little things that could be explained away like the brush of arms together, etc.
(THIS IS NOT THAT ESSAY.)
But look at this shit. “May I?” Stede asks, and he gives it a moment but Ed doesn’t actually hand it over. He doesn’t even answer.
And Stede just reaches out, takes an end of the silk, and
slowly
drags it
through Ed’s fingers as Ed fucking tilts his eyes upwards in complete silence, his gaze clicking from spot to spot as his heart gets unwound from his lax – but not relaxed – grip.
And while I like the meta where Stede has NO FUCKING CLUE ABOUT HOW SEDUCTIVE HE’S BEING, I also like the idea that for the first time in his life, because this is a Queer Situation, Stede has the glimmerings of Game. Because, my god, the forwardness of it. He didn’t wait for Ed to give it to him. He just reached out and took, but in such a syrup-slow manner that Ed could’ve said no, could’ve just tightened his fingers if he didn’t want to let Stede take this precious thing– and Stede’s giving him that time while simultaneously also making some pretty great allusions, intentional or not, to how exactly he’d make his move, if a move he ever made.
Like, “May I?“ Stede would ask, and Ed (Blackbeard) wouldn’t move, wouldn’t say a word, but he wouldn’t step away either, would just watch Stede with a clicking gaze as Stede stepped forward, raised his hands, and drew Ed syrup-slow toward him, every moment one where Ed could turn away and every moment clear that Stede was here, wanting this, wanting him, and deliberate in his want.
So my god, the pure queer seduction of this scene: the intermediary object as a stand-in for themselves; the plausible deniability; the silent consent (a subgenre of plausible deniability); coded language; “innocent” touch as protective camouflage…
(It’s a little distressing to consider how much queer romantic context comes from trying to be both Open to a possibility while simultaneously trying not to get the shit beaten out of us for being wrong. It’s a powerful language. It’s a tragic one. It’s what makes it feel so special if it goes right.)
Anyway. Stede may have no idea the levels he’s playing at here, but he’s a man who was explicitly and in canon abused for displaying a particular flavor of non-masculine behavior. Even if he doesn’t know he’s queer, he knows the need for the language of safety; he’s been learning it since childhood. So he speaks it– and Ed, who engages in at least “when at sea” levels of queer living, picks up on it like the Stede-radio he’s been tuning for ages now to find a signal that explains him has suddenly gone from static to the crystal-clear notes of Gnossienne No. 5.
Is it any wonder that Ed’s oh no moment is fucking palpable here? Is it any wonder that Stede comes away from this scene a little more certain of himself around Ed, able to argue him into staying, pull him into a treasure hunt, touch his bare arm against Ed’s when they become co-captains?
GAH these fuckheads, look at them.
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I wonder how all of Hollywood sleeps at night knowing nobody will ever make an episode of television better than “The Innkeeper” forever. must be tough huh
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please leave doug for me
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Our Flag Means Death, Season 1 (2022)
The Revenge
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I want to chew on him like on this thing 👀😭
They are the same picture anyway 🤪
😭😭😭
Behind The Flag: Mermaid Day
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Izzy, after attempting to purchase Ed from a colonial power: You really want to lick the king's boots?
Stede, whose life literally depends on Ed signing the Act of Grace: You really don't have to do this.
Izzy tries everything he can to literally possess Ed. Stede would rather give up his own life than for Ed to be coerced.
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my new favorite critical review of ofmd s2 is the one i just read that complained that ed had an arc about coming to realize he's not necessarily a good person but didn't do enough grappling with it
i'm not sure how you could possibly come to the conclusion that this is what his s2 arc was supposed to be about. there is no way he could have possibly come to the realization that he's not necessarily a good person in s2, because he started out already thinking he was not a good person when we met him in season 1. we knew this because he literally said the exact words "i'm not a good person."
and then he went on to say "that's why i don't have any friends," communicating that his belief that he is not a good person is connected to his belief that he is unlovable. and then in s2 he reminded us of this by repeating out loud multiple times that he believed he was unlovable, and spent the whole season gradually coming around to the belief that he can in fact be loved and have friends. that was the whole thing. i'm literally trying to think of a way this could have been made less subtle
#alright#i am traumatized and full of selfdoubt to the brim#i do question my judgement nearly constantly#but these ridiculous takes (in addition to making me despair for humanity) give me confidence#that i'm in the middle of zombie apocalypse 🤪#joking#or am i 😶🌫️#ofmd
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imagine: stede having to appreciate the beauty of a butterfly landing on ed's head in silence bc if he said it out loud, ed would certainly start whipping his head around like a madman in an attempt to get it off.
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