OFMD resources

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Season 1

Google drive for season 1

Google drive for season 1 with German dubs shared by @rainbowbonnet [tumblr post]

Season 1 with English captions: (split up cause I'm not paying for extra storage lmao)

Episode 1-4

Episode 5-8

Episode 9+10

Season 2

@tzikeh has a Google drive link + more resources

adaisgay_ has uploaded the 2nd season! (Direct Google drive link in case the tweet doesn’t work)

@smol-ish-rose has a Google drive link

@lozzzzaaaaaa has a Google drive link - ep 5-8

You can also watch season 2 here

Season 2 with English captions These are temporary and better quality versions will be added soon. The quality is fine, but it's a screen recording so the audio could be better Episode 1 & 2 have been updated.

Episode 1-5

Episode 6-8

Season 2 subtitle files (.ttml) You can add these as embbeded captions to your own videos

Episode 1-2

Behind the scenes stuff

@ourflagmeansbts - my bts blog posting daily bts

BTS Google drive

BTS Video

Other stuff

Newark, Newark season 1 episode 1-3

my yt channel where you can find instagram lives and bts videos etc.

GUYS LOOK AT THEIR HANDS

FRENCHIE AND IZZY ARE HOLDING HANDS

FRECHIE IS COMFORTING HIM BY HOLDING HIS FUCKING HAND

YALL IMMA GO FUCKING FERAL

puck-core

my secret santa for @erik-lehnsherr-needs-to-stop ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

making fanart of my own fic for a chapter i havent even written yet, insane behavior

the lyrics I wrote inspired by Saltburn are now an actual song!!!!

this is from Oliver Quick's POV - an ode to felix

be kind with me - this is so so rough and my voice is wildly nasal at the moment but it's something and I think I like it - wanna do something with it perhaps :)

also this is my face! hello pals!

He says "don't do this, Cas." Not "what are you talking about?" He says don't do this. Because he knew. He always knew about this slowly blossoming thing between them that he was always too scared to acknowledge. And you say IT WAS PLATONIC????

Green on the Vine

Author: CharlieDC

Artist: sweetpotato_70

Beta reader: @pluviophiliced :)

Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), George Bonnet, Elizabeth Bonnet, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Wynona the Cow

Relationship(s): Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet, Background George Bonnet/Elizabeth Bonnet

Rating:  Mature

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - 1990s, Alternate Universe - Farm/Ranch, Kansas, Alternate Universe - Teenagers, Summer Love, Young Love, First Kiss, Getting Together, Tooth-Rotting Fluff

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Summary: All the love on the Bonnet Family Farm left with the last breath of Elizabeth Bonnet. Stede thinks there’s still a heap left in the strawberry field she left behind. He finds it out for certain when, during the Summer of ‘96, the new farmhand comes to work with Stede’s dad. As Stede comes to learn, love grows in the most unexpected places.

Wordcount: 32,152

They saw her boobs 🤭.

My Completed Big Bang Challenge 2023 —

Title: i looked for happiness, i found you

Author: burberrylou

Artist: Nita

Beta Reader: gentlepanpirate

Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, "Calico" Jack Rackham

Relationship(s): Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet

Rating: Explicit

Additional Tags: Lesbians :), Our Flag Means Death Big Bang 2023, burberrylou's lesbian agenda, 5+1 Things, The Inevitability of Stede Bonnet Falling for Edward Teach, OFMD Big Bang 23, Meet-Cute, First Time, Cunnilingus, Vaginal Fingering, Art Museums, art gallery dates, Falling In Love, Blackbeard | Edward Teach Loves Stede Bonnet, Stede Bonnet Loves Blackbeard | Edward Teach, POV Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Poetry, Love Poems, here and there, Prose and Poetry, and porn, but who's counting, Semi-Public Sex, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Idiots in Love, Love at First Sight, Basically, Useless Lesbians, Lesbian Sex, Lesbians, POV Lesbian Character, Background Israel Hands/"Calico" Jack Rackham, Recovering Alcoholic Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Therapy, Feel-good, Everyone Is Gay, Everyone are Lesbians, Happy Ending, happy beginning and middle, it's a happy fic man idk, Author is Open to Hearing about Dead Batteries, even though the porn is arguably my tamest yet

Warnings: None

Summary: Recovering alcoholic Ed Teach has always had a knack for poetry—but everything she writes is sad. Her therapist challenges her to write only happy things for six months, and to bring a poem to her session at the end of each month. When she leaves the office that day and heads to her favorite art gallery for some much needed inspiration and some TLC, she meets Stede Bonnet, recently retired workaholic looking for a new purpose. She’s immediately drawn in. This story is broken into six sections, with each section titled for the “happy thing” that Ed writes about each month.

Over the course of these six months, there are six specific days spent with Stede that explore their blossoming relationship—beginning with the day they meet.

Word Count: 20,604

Art Masterpost

Ao3 Story Link

“Not moving on is worse.”

In the context of season two, I struggle to reconcile the intersection of sincerity and comedy, and the idea of what pains and traumas we are meant to understand at the deeper level of what trauma is with those that serve only the purpose of comedic timing. This isn’t limited to one character, but rather to the season as a whole.

Season one highlighted childhood trauma and the ability to move on from that, becoming the best adult version of oneself possible. We see this evident in Ed, Stede, and Jim specifically as we are allowed to explore their pasts and their traumas — and we can presume that no one on the crew of the Revenge is without trauma (Fang’s dog, anyone?) of some kind that they carry with them. Stede handles his traumas and how to process them through running away and avoiding the issue until he no longer can. Ed does something similar, though he is able to craft a facade to use as a shield and a weapon, even if he never delivers a killing blow himself. Jim dedicates their life to revenge.

We witness all of these characters allow the defining characteristic of love to be allowing themselves to be saved and valued for who they are — not for what they can offer.

When season two opens, we as an audience see Ed at, arguably, his worst (I say arguably because we didn’t see Blackbeard in his prime, so… do with that what you will, I suppose). We see how this affects beloved and treasured characters, as well as new characters that we have yet to fall in love with. We see Fang fall apart not once but twice within the first two episodes alone. In episode two, we see Ed — a much beloved and adored character who we know intimately — lash out when confronted for his behavior. He lashes out at his crew and physically mutilates his closest confidant for daring to question him. “But that’s piracy!” And you’re right! But don’t we watch the first episode of season one highlight how much Stede Bonnet wants to change piracy? Isn’t this show supposed to be about found family, and getting better, and finding healing? In which case, we’re watching Ed behave abusively in the wake of his mental struggles as he once again attempts to hide behind the same facade that has protected him in the past. Ed suffers this breakdown in response to not one but two perceived rejections from the two people he would claim to be the most important in his life, and in a classic mental illness fashion, he barricades himself off and settles into the persona that is everything he doesn’t want to be.

His crew fears him. They’ve been kidnapped and essentially held hostage under the man they believe to have murdered their crew — their friends — and are watching him continue to devolve. Enter Izzy Hands and Jim Jimenez. Izzy is well aware of his hand in Ed’s state. “Well, he instigated it!” He did. He wanted back a version of Blackbeard who he saw as safe territory: a necessary evil for the continued survival and safety of the crew, ship, and Ed and Izzy themselves. And then he watched Edward “Only Ever Killed One Person Personally” Teach fulfill the legend he’s always been known as, and watched him become someone who couldn’t care less about life or death or anything in between. Ed surpassed and buried the version of Blackbeard that Izzy wanted to return, and he was force-fed the consequences of this with an unavoidable cruelty. “Well, he deserved what he got! Violence was always on the table, because it’s piracy!” But once again, we’re operating under the assumption that the big themes of this show are healing from trauma and being worthy of being loved even if we’ve done bad things. 

While we’re on that topic, though, let’s explore that. Ed’s childhood trauma comes from his abusive father. He carries the weight of that abuse with him well into adulthood, as well as the weight of what he had to do to survive it. What he had to do to save his mother. This season sees him abusing those around him. Despite this, despite his erratic behavior and the mistreatment of his crew, he is still loved (by crew and fandom both, if I may add). He is still loved by Stede, despite the trail of blood he leaves in his wake. Stede is still longing to find him, despite knowing what he’s done and what he’s now capable of, and this continues to reiterate that idea of you deserve to be loved even when you’ve done wrong.

And then, Stede finds him.

We as an audience witness Ed make the choice to stay alive. We watch the thought process, we see that he chooses to fight for that love that comes alongside being saved. Being wanted. Being seen for who you are and loved because of it. And up to here, I’m on board. I’m excited to see what’s next and how Ed will reconcile for what he’s done and the harm he’s caused at the hands of his mental illness — because the truth is, we harm people when we aren’t adequately being responsible for our mental illness. This is a real-world thing. We lash out when we’re hurt, or when we’re rejected, or when we’re struggling. When we’re suffering, we often can’t see past ourselves to see whether or not we’re also causing others to suffer. This does not make us bad people — and it didn’t make Ed one. And then the “apology” came and went. The only member of the crew Ed really sits and ever has a drawn out conversation with about anything is Fang, and even this is somewhat shallow. Fang absolves him and moves on. We don’t get to see whether or not Ed ponders this conversation long-term or whether or not he battles with himself over how to move on. 

We’re left with a traumatized crew who semi-accepted a half-hearted apology and a beloved character who hasn’t actually been held accountable at all. “But he apologized and wore the bell and fixed that door latch!” Yes, and? He physically mutilated his first mate, instructed him to be killed, traumatized an entire crew — and this all takes a backseat to his relationship with Stede. And what a stunning scene between the two of them in the moonlight, where Ed finds it in him to ask to take things slow. Where he recognizes his needs and vocalizes them. I left this episode feeling so hopeful, because half-baked apology aside, Ed is actively learning to vocalize his thoughts and ask for what he needs when he recognizes in himself that something is going to be harmful to him. We had a kiss, we had Ed asking for help when he needed it, we had a proposal, we had “not moving on is worse,” and even knowing only three episodes remained, I left feeling like we had been so perfectly set up to see how things were only going to keep improving. 

In the first episodes of the season, we see murderous raids and mutilated first mates and two suicide attempts (though I suppose one was more of a mass murder-suicide attempt?) and these are all thrown together. In episode six, Stede deescalates a raid from a bloodbath of his own crew and sends another crew on their way with the lessons and values that he has been pursuing since the first episode of the first season. He then, in a parallel to the French ship of season one, causes a man’s death. This is highlighted as a turning point, something that can’t be ever moved on from. (“There’s no coming back from that.”) But what about the other traumatic events of the season that are treated as jokes? Izzy’s drinking, day in and day out, bottle after bottle after bottle — coping with the reality of his life and the way it’s been altered beyond recognition. The mop he used as a makeshift leg snapping, forcing him to pull himself away from the crew with his own hands. Lucius’s mention of being sexually assaulted and Stede’s look of disgust, the way he literally runs away from the conversation. Lucius never gets to air out his traumas, not really, not with someone who listens and tells him he’s safe and allows him to talk things through. Even Pete gets ill instead of being able to offer support.

I struggle to reconcile what is and isn’t comedy in this season, or what violence is meant to be taken for what it is. The Ed and Izzy breakdowns in episodes one and two sat far too close to my chest for me to look past them into comedy — and the suicidality of both men was glossed over and moved on from so quickly, never explored. Did Izzy’s “I wanna go” in the final episode mean he never moved on? That some part of him was still lying in that room with a gun to his head? You don’t become non-suicidal in a matter of days — is there still something lingering in the back of Ed’s mind? There was never a conversation about it, and there was never anything between the two of them that could allow me comfort in knowing that they had reached some sort of understanding. This season pulled domestic abuse, alcohol abuse, and suicidal tendencies straight from my own traumas and never held anyone accountable for any of them. There was no healing. There was no real talking it through. “Well, it’s not a rom-com, so—” Except it continues to be presented as one. Shortcomings of storylines of characters that seem to have been cast aside or mischaracterized this season aside, I cannot for the life of me reconcile how a show about kindness and moving on and being loved amidst all of your flaws could have a season so wrought with traumas and yet never discuss them. Never explore them in a way that allows me to move on. I love this show and there were so many good things about this season; I love these characters, and yet I feel so disconnected from it for the first time in over a year. Not moving on is worse, sure, but moving on without accountability leaves wounds unable to heal. How do you move on from that?

Okay. I’m going to wait to do a second watch before I articulate most of my other feelings here, but I want to address one thing.

I’m seeing a lot of posts like, “I related to Izzy because I am also queer and older/disabled/depressed. By killing him off, the writers are saying that I deserve to die.”

Guys.

I’m not saying your feelings aren’t valid. I totally understand grieving a character that you relate to. But speaking as a writer, I just want to point out that trying to write with the shadow of “what is the absolute worst and most harmful way a reader can interpret this” will smother your ability to create. Twisting yourself in knots, trying to think up the worst-faith takes possible and scotch-guarding all your writing decisions against them is exhausting to the point of making you just not want to write anymore.

And we’ve seen the writers deliberately choose not to do this in Season 1. Remember all those terrible “Izzy is racist” takes that the writers and cast seemed completely blindsided by? That happened because the writers and directors and actors weren’t going over every scene with a fine tooth comb, ferreting out every shot or line of dialogue or micro expression that could possibly be interpreted as racist, and scrubbing it off. Because there comes a point where your story is what it needs to be, and you have to accept that some people will interpret it in ways you didn’t intend them to. And if you can’t accept that, you’ll never find the courage to put your work out there.

The point of diverse casts and writing teams isn’t to achieve a state of, “Nothing bad ever happens to a character from a marginalized demographic ever again.” It’s to achieve a status quo of these types of characters just being people in the world of the story. Not symbols, not representation boxes to tick, not tokens that you can point to so that you can say, “Here, we acknowledged this type of person exists, now where’s our woke points?”

OFMD is full of characters of color, queer characters, older characters, characters of differing body types. And in stories, things happen to characters. Some fall in love. Some make the same mistakes over and over. Some turn into birds. Some die.

Izzy’s character represents a lot of things, but he does not represent every older, disabled fan or fan who has struggled with suicide, any more than Jim represents all genderqueer fans, or Olu represents all black fans. That’s not how the writers were handling him. They were handling him like a character, because that’s what you have to do.

Again, I understand being sad. I am so, so fucking sad. But this idea of, “Any time something bad happens to a character I relate to means that the writer thinks I deserve these bad things to happen to me,” will poison everything you engage with eventually. Because stories are full of things happening to characters, and they won’t all be good things. And the more representation we get, the more often bad things will happen to characters we relate to.

But good things will happen too.

Queer couples get married. Disabled women run off with their favorite husbands. Middle-aged characters change careers. A multiracial polycule finds a home at sea. A fat man covered in tattoos stars in a drag show and all his friends cheer. All these things happened in the same show as Izzy’s death. This is what this world is.

Anyway. I know emotions are running high and I’ll probably get blocked or unfollowed by a few people for this. But I’m just trying to find my peace where I can, and if anyone else finds this useful, cheers.

it’s ✨Him✨

handing s2 ep2 Ed teach a hot water bottle and 50mg of sertraline 💖

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