lostinthebabylon
Lost In The Babylon
~ 桜星昴流 ~
Subaru; Italy.
2d artist and animator, full-time nerd, lifetime gamer, professional procrastinator.
This is a multifandom and personal art blog, with a lot of Assassin's Creed around atm.
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This incredible artwork by Subaru @lostinthebabylon for my OFMD Big Bang fic:
And there's nothin' sure in this world
Subaru went totally over and above the call of duty on this project - giving my *4* pieces of beautiful art - as well as being kinds, supportive and an utter delight to work with.
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Go read this absolute beauty! I loved working on the illustrations for this story and Izzy and Lucius are the cutest here 💕 This was my fist OFMD Big Bang and working with @lazy-medusa has been a real pleasure!
Now EVERYONE ONBOARD THE SPRIZZY TRAIN CHOP CHOP-
[OFMD BB] And there's nothin' sure in this world
Title: And there's nothin' sure in this world
Author: LazyMedusa
Artist: @lostinthebabylon
Characters: Lucius Spriggs, Israel Hands, Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet, Frenchie, Wee John Feeney, Jim Jimenez
Relationship(s): Israel Hands/Lucius Spriggs
Rating: E
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Time Loop, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Weddings, Fake/Pretend Relationship
Warnings: Canon-Typical Violence
Summary:
He stares at the ceiling.
Checks his phone.
Back to the ceiling. Back to the phone.
No reply.
He opens the photo and reads the invite again, as if it might’ve changed somehow.
PLUS GUEST.
Fuck.
He tips back his head and groans.
--- Or, Izzy wakes up on the morning of Edward’s wedding. And wakes up on the morning of Edward’s wedding. And again. And again…
Wordcount: 45,818
Link to art masterpost.
Link to story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51404974
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so here's the thing
i've seen a bunch of people say on twitter and stuff how... ed's behavior is very abusive and his anger is dangerous and he isn't romantic lead material because of it
and i get where they're coming from
but to me the main issue isn't putting ed in the position of a romantic lead, but not crafting the narrative around his characterization so that it allows for a spicy romantic pirates-in-love narrative instead of...whatever this is.
i'm going to try and explain this. idk if i'll do well but i'll try
the way she show presents stede is as an innocent baby who isn't really equipped for pirate life. he goes into a fugue/disassociative state whenever there's any real violence, apparently, and needs protecting by other characters when things get too rough - for example when ed is telling ned lowe not to take the poker to stede.
that's fine! it's honestly adorable to see a masc character being so soft around the edges and being protected by other characters this way.
(i'm not going to touch on stede's... eh... not great characterization this season rn)
then there's izzy, who is shown as a bit violent, a bit rough around the edges. he's more likely to draw a sword or throw a punch or hit someone with a chair or take a punch like a champ. violence is just part of life for him and that's okay, it just Is, from small things like smacking stede on the ass to bigger things like being wall slammed, it's not all that big or bad for violence to happen around and with him, he tends to give as good as he gets (there's some nuance here but i'm talking the macro themes not the micro of what izzy does vs is done to him)
and finally there's ed
ed is presented as violent (stabbing knives at guys, telling fang to use the snail fork etc) and used to a life of violence, and then in season 2 he's presented as really violent, his anger coming out in dangerous and terrifying ways
and frankly, i'd be super into it if he and izzy were the main ship and that twisted dynamic from the first two episodes of s2 was explored and fleshed out into something deeper
friends to enemies to lovers who fight and fuck. angry pirates who lay hands on each other, who break the whole ship with each other in the heat of passion.
except instead, s2 gives us... abuse. it gives us izzy cringing and lowering his head and trying to protect the kids crew from ed's angry outbursts.
so when stede comes back and he's still soft around the edges and ed headbutts him and it's deliberate, it's... not a great look, and the vibes are a bit skewed
if stede fought back, if when ed struck out at him he struck back, if they fought rather than it being one-sided, if it was friends to enemies to lovers and not presented as healthy, but maybe they can work their way there, who knows, maybe even more like anne bonnie and mary read because hey, they were doing something very similar?
except they were both into it. they were both enjoying the fighting and the fucking and the burning down the house.
stede's not enjoying it.
i cannot describe how much i hate this sequence just because of the way stede flinches
anne and mary don't!! mary jumps at the unexpected bang but she doesnt flinch, she doesn't cover her face like she thinks the vase will be coming for her not the wall and anne? looks so into it
and the thing is that in real life, no, you don't want to date someone who throws shit around, or headbutts you
but in fiction when it's two fucked up people doing this shit together like anne and mary?
that can be fun.
but instead what we've been given is stede flinching and apologizing to ed and then all of ed's...what, semi-redemption???? is done away from the other collection of people he abused, and then he spends some time on a fishing boat wearing a dog collar and everything is fine because he's good now and won't be doing anything bad ever again
and it's just... poor writing. the vibes are rancid.
i spent a really big chunk of time between s1 and s2 defending ed. i kept saying how what he did to izzy by making him eat his toe wasn't abuse, it was a one-off and abuse isn't a one-off thing it's a pattern, and then s2 made it a pattern.
explicitly. explicitly a pattern.
not just one toe but three.
jim saying "you're in an unhealthy relationship with blackbeard"
and all ed offered izzy was a "sorry about your leg" which might've been fine if izzy survived and they could work on this more, but instead that's all the apology and closure izzy will ever get
ed threw a chair and a vase and made stede flinch in fear and stede was right to do that. what part of any of this implies this will never happen again? that stede won't press the wrong button at some point and be on the receiving end? none of it
and if we'd been presented with a s2 stede bonnet who could handle himself and stand up for himself and fight back, then maybe i could imagine that turning into a weird sexy fucked up anne/mary like thing and maybe that could be why they put that episode in, but instead it feels like that episode was going, "look, see, ed's violence is fine because these two are fine with it with each other"
but stede isn't
ed and izzy or ed and stede in an unhealthy battle of a relationship could be such a fun, interesting and downright sexy thing to watch unfold on tv, and could honestly end somewhere far more down the chill end of the spectrum, but that's not what we've been given here
i cannot argue that ed isn't an abuser anymore, and not just of izzy but of the whole crew. he terrified frenchie.
it's not good writing to try and lean into the idea that ed and the pirates are violent and live a life of violence, so it's okay that ed's been violent, while simultaneously presenting his violence as traumatic and abusive, and then less than three episodes later saying oh it's fine now, he's just a little meow meow who can do no wrong, see?
especially considering they had him murdering people at the end of the season. and sure, you can say the english are just cannon fodder and they dont 'count', but they did before. ed explicitly did not kill before, and that included the english, or the spanish, or anyone else. so either they count or they don't, but flipping him on a dime makes no sense.
ALSO
having ed be the son of an abusive man who threw plates at his mother and made her cringe and then having ed kill his father to protect his mother and then a season later having ed become the kind of man who throws chairs and vases and makes his love interest cringe is, again, not bloody optimal
i want to say again i dont CARE about tv always presenting healthy relationships or tv always giving us aspirational goals. i want messy fucked up dynamics and terrible people making terrible choices, and still, to this day, i fucking love ed teach. i would honestly love to have seen them continue with ed's darkness and bring stede into it and see where they went with that, to have stede kill ned lowe and not just bury his feelings in ed but get off on it, enjoy the violence, and see where that led, but no
and so instead all we end up with is a protagonist who is being set up for a lifetime of abuse from an intimate partner, and a romantic lead who abuses his love interests (and yes. izzy is a love interest, he is set up like one and positioned like one and treated like one), frightens his love interests with his violence, is erratic and most of all inconsistently written. he was so sorry about scaring fang as though he hadn't been deliberately terrifying the whole crew for fuck knows how long? what?!
the whole fandom has spent so long saying, "no no, i know stede bonnet irl was a slave owner, but ofmd is using the names and not any real piracy, it's more disney piracy, you know? so that kind of stuff doesnt exist!" and then they flipped around and went "blackbeard is blackbeard and so he is evil and does all these horrible things" and i dont know how to rationalize the two sides of that because it feels so out of place
i'm getting rambly, this isnt a particularly well constructed thought process, i just feel like we were robbed both of a toxic, violent relationship that could be fun to see explored on tv and a soft and sweet love story between two middle aged men exploring their first loves in one fell swoop and there's no way for s3 to bring either of those things back because they got utterly torpedoed by making ed a horrible person
ugh
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“Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one who makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.” - N’tima
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Potential 06x02 spoiler? Slightly suggestive content too
I know this season has ✨issues✨ but I still had a great time.
Had to get the Gentlebeard wormies out of my system before getting back to work 😭 I'm so soft
(Ed gets the twink treatment, sorry I don't make the rules)
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*laughs nervously* Izzy? Dead and gone for good? Naaaah, of course not, he’s just in the gravy basket…or on his way to get sea witch necromancied back by seagull Buttons. He’s ok, he’ll be back…he’ll totally be back 🥲.
#ah yes this is what happened#yep#yeah#not that crappy nonsense stuff about Izzy dying#OFMD#OFMD S2 spoilers#fanart
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Absolutely magnificent! If we get season 3 I want this to happen! Them dancing!
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how it started vs. how it's going
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"Farewell, old chum"
CON O'NEILL as Izzy Hands & TAIKA WAITITI as Blackbeard in OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH (2022— ) 2.01 / 2.02
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I’ve been wanting to animate something with “jokes jokes jokes” for years and I’m so happy I finally got to get this down for one of my classes!!
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don’t support kinodraws
i never do this kind of thing but i’m so incredibly frustrated at this happening and this person still updating their profiles, including the one they have on tumblr, as if nothing happened (save for twitter since it’s one of the few places this is being actively talked about)
don’t support @kinodraws if you don’t want someone with a long history of scamming people to pocket your money!
to summarize this current situation:
they organized an ofmd zine, releasing a copy with missing/wrong credits, missing artists etc while the earnings of this zine were promised to go to charity. the charity has now confirmed there was no donation made on the date or amount they claimed to have made, kino has deleted all of the zine’s profiles and pages, fabricated having donated $1300+ to the charity (we have no receipts of how much the zine actually made so this amount is possibly made up as well) and after promising to fix the zine itself is now ignoring the situation completely
the current situation is better told by people involved and i’ll include a couple threads
here
here
here’s the charity’s response about the donation
they also have a page on artists beware here regarding a past commission scam
it appears they’ve done this in multiple fandoms with multiple names before so i doubt they’ll stop as long as they keep getting away with this
all this said don’t go harrass kino or be an idiot, i wanted to make this post bc stealing, lying about it and expecting to let the situation die down as they move on is something i don’t want to happen again since it seems like that’s happened one too many times already. if you want to work with kino or commission them, please reconsider!
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Happy Pride Month and Happy Renewal Day everyone!
Made myself some nice icons for pride and decided to share. Feel free to use! Credits are appreciated.
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My entry for the @seisubhanamiexchange
This is a gift for Subaru @lostinthebabylon.
I decided to go with the prompt "A cute date during Tokyo Babylon times". I hope you like it!!
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Theory: part of the reason people want to flatten Izzy's character is that acknowledging his virtues means acknowledging flaws in other characters.
The reason we know he cares about the wellbeing of the crew is because he's expressing his concerns about them to Ed, who isn't giving them much thought.
Reckoning with Izzy's obvious concern for Ed's happiness and his loyalty means noticing how Ed doesn't concern himself with Izzy's feelings much at all.
Noticing how efficient and specific Izzy is when he decides to mount a defense means dealing with the fact that Stede can't answer Izzy's questions due to his ignorance.
Acknowledging that Izzy trying to get crew to work isn't that unreasonable means that Lucius's response might have been overly antagonistic.
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emily’s 1k followers celebration
➥ @his-name-is-ed asked: 💖 FAVORITE OFMD EPISODE
EPISODE 7: This Is Happening
#this episode has it all: scurvy, badass nuns, treasure hunting, cooked snake, PINING, family trauma, and a petrified orange
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