This has actually really helped me, thank you for this post

Broke: Izzy said “I want to go” because he legitimately believed his life’s journey had reached its end.

Woke: Izzy said it so that Edward could move on, a comforting lie in the service of seeing to his beloved captain’s emotional needs one last time.

Bespoke: Izzy went into the gravy basket when he got shot, where Sea Witch Buttons appeared to him and told him if he chose life, his ultimate fate was handling the customer complaint department at Ed & Stede’s Bed & Breakfast & Seafood Restaurant & Freelance Carpentry Business, and knowing this, chose death.

Ok help me

I’ve read recently some stuff and I want to verify it, apparently these are things that have been said at cons, and I need help pointing to the right ones.

1. Vico wants top surgery because of Jim fanart (simplified)

2. Someone on the cast is now enby after working with Vico.

3. Con saying he has a husband

4. Vico saying majority on the cast were part of the rainbow spectrum

5. Nathan talking about kissing Con.

I’ve watched panel clips looking but if anyone knows do me a favour.

could you imagine being almost 60 and saying “yeah I’ll play a pirate” and then half the internet is talking about your tits

Me: Wow the finale was super sad, I'll go watch Con O'neill in a random episode of Midsomer Murders to cheer myself up.

His Character: Unrequited love for his brother's widow that gets returned two seconds before he is TRAMPLED TO DEATH BY COWS.

I heard you guys liked Samba and Con height-related silliness so I slapped together the full cut for you you're welcomeeeee […]@sambaschutte @oneil.con you are both wonderful, thank you.

Because I am in mourning I’m making Izzy art

As a person who became disabled, like Izzy, I went through a lot, it was a long road to acceptance, and since the physically disabled are vastly underrepresented as it is, here was my stupid, naive, ass thinking there was decent representation for once.

OFMD season 1 actually helped me to accept that I was a valid part of the Queer community. When I told my friends about it, I was so excited since my entire life I have loved pirates, one was even like, “a comedy, gay pirate show with all these actors who you love, did you write the show?”

I felt like the show was made for me, but then the fandom was just so overwhelmingly positive and accepting, I started to let myself fall im love with the show like I haven’t since game of thrones broke my heart. Izzy’s death has me completely devastated.

I feel betrayed.

personally if i really wanted a third season of my already low budgeted show about multiply marginalised and oppressed sections of the community that are hugely underrepresented in media and television, i personally wouldn't do my best to alienate the audience on which i rely

but what do i know. i'm just some working class disabled homo. maybe i should die in the last few minutes of said tv show to absolutely 0 narrative or emotional gain whilst victim blaming myself for my abuse

I had only just started to trust tv again after game of thrones

OFMD season 2 feels like watching someone bowl a perfect game, strike after strike, then on their final frame miss so badly they spin right round and kill a passing child.

All that growth and hope and finding a sense of belonging and community. Nope. Still tucked up safe and sound in his grave before the final credits.

Not even just buried now. Coddled like sacrificial lambs first.

OFMD season 2 feels like watching someone bowl a perfect game, strike after strike, then on their final frame miss so badly they spin right round and kill a passing child.

All that growth and hope and finding a sense of belonging and community. Nope. Still tucked up safe and sound in his grave before the final credits.

Not even just buried now. Coddled like sacrificial lambs first.

It would have made more sense if whenever Stede and Ed stayed on land, Izzy became the new captain of the Revenge. As a parallel to season 1, except this time he has the crew's trust and is ready to take on the position without Blackbeard. THAT is what they could have done with his character development instead of throwing it away for a cheap emotional scene. Like he could have still been gravely injured so he and Ed could have that heart to heart but actually killing him was just unnecessary

the only thing I disagree with straight down into my bones level about this whole thing is David Jenkins saying Izzy was like a dad figure to Ed. no the fuck he was not. that dynamic was so weird and caring and horny and violent and sensual and romantic and obsessive and loving and honestly if their dynamic was like anything in life, it was two semi-closeted teenage girls. let’s be real hate it or love it edizzy was on some jennifer’s body shit

I’m devastated

Spare a thought for Con O'Neill who, for months, went to comic cons and had to listen to people telling him how important Izzy is to them, how they see themselves in him and how, if something bad happened to Izzy, they would be absolutely devastated. Man deserves an award.

"Well, that's that, then"

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH (2022— ) Episode 2.08

As a huge Izzy fan, I think this has killed the show for me. As when Tony Stark was killed off, it killed my love for the MCU, killing off Izzy might have just killed this for me.

I just don’t understand how his story could be just cut short like that. Why couldn’t Izzy at least get a better send off, why give such a pivotal character such a meaningless death?

This hurts.

This really hurts.

broken but not destroyed

WHAT A DISAPPOINTING AND HEARTBREAKING FINALE? To have the man who was abused, mutilated, and disabled for protecting the crew, to have a suicide attempt survivor who crawled on the ground, to have someone who battled depression and alcoholism, to cement his role as the 'Ship's Unicorn" (the figurehead that protected the crew) only to reduce him as someone who "had to die" because he had no more narrative feeling, what a slap to the face. DJenkins said he didn't want to fall back into old tropes and burying your gays, but there's an elder disabled queer man you just buried for what, to absolve Ed of his abuse? Izzy died thinking he DESERVED the torture done upon him. What a disgrace. Izzy fans rallied and kickstarted a S3 renewal Campaign. And many of us are heartbroken and grieving for a show who promised kindness but only justified the abuse we've gotten the past months? We stayed and hoped better because of kindness and belonging. "This show is kind" has never rang more hollow. I'll still love and create art for him, but I don't think I can trust any other queer show again. I thought this would be different. Do you want a queer show full of kindness and found family, for all queers, the disabled and survivors and the rough around the edges ones? It's not Our Flag Means Death.

the entire ofmd fandom rn

gif by @izzyfag

"Are you gay, straight, bi, pan, queer..."

Sweetie, I'm just looking for someone who will put up with my rants about fictional gay characters falling in love and breaking each other's hearts

Y’all piratey crafters are next level