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Original post. felt so edstede modern AU…
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Been a long time coming but the firewatch boys finally got their happy ending 🔥💞 the (not so) lost art of the fire lookout [ed/stede | 12.7k words | rated e]
“I spent months imagining you,” Stede says, stepping right up into Ed’s space, hand resting on his shoulder. “Weeks and months trying to piece together the information I had about you, trying to form it into some kind of visual. You’re everything and yet somehow nothing like I conjured up.” Ed takes a breath, leans a little closer, pressing his temple to Stede’s so he can feel the words against his skin. “There are so many gaps in my knowledge of you. How you look, and how you feel. How you taste. How you smell. I want to learn all about you. All the spaces in the jigsaw I’ve spent all summer building in my head. I want to finish it.”
[the complete series on ao3]
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seven point three miles [our flag means death | edward teach/stede bonnet | 19,776 words | rated t]
“So what brings you out here anyway?” Ed’s out of the blue question at least answers Stede’s anxieties about radio etiquette. He pulls the walkie from his pack and stares at it, deciding how much of his life he actually wants to share with this complete stranger. “What brings you out here?”
or: Stede takes a job as a remote forest fire lookout in the summer following his divorce, with a plan to find out who he is, and what he wants his life to be. With the help of the enigmatic lookout on the other side of the forest, he ends up getting more out of the experience than he could ever have hoped. [read on ao3]
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went for a rare visit to twitter bc i heard con o'neill said some things abt ofmd and i wanted to see what was up, and i ended up seeing a lot of “ed is abusive” and “this show condones abuse and abuse apologism to a dangerous degree” takes. a lot of talking abt how the show was an irresponsible portrayal of domestic violence. a lot of relating the violence in ofmd to real-world domestic abuse.
and i’m sorry but i just can’t take that criticism of the show seriously bc the portrayal of domestic violence that they were talking about was literally. amputation and forced autocannibalism.
like. cmon. real-world domestic abuse does not typically involve forced autocannibalism.
we have word-of-god confirmation from djenks himself that in the context of the fictional pirate world of ofmd, the toe stuff is pretty normal pirate stuff, and only shooting izzy’s leg was “a bit much.” and of course fans are free to analyze the show however they want and feel whatever way they want to feel about the way the show depicts physical violence. but personally i just cannot lend credence to the belief that this show handles domestic violence in a harmful way because the physical violence in ofmd is so gratuitously and ridiculously over the top that i frankly find it silly to try and relate it to real-world domestic violence.
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the way people cannot take any negative thing happening in tv shows these days is genuinely frightening and incredibly tiring. sometimes characters die. sometimes bad things happen for the story to move along. unwillingness to deal with anything upsetting in the realm of FICTION (and by upsetting i don't even mean difficult themes but just basic storytelling stuff like a character dying) is how you get incredibly watered-down cookie cutter media that doesn't make you feel anything. "ooooh but escapism" you cannot avoid everything bad forever. and if a character death is something that will send you spiralling that is something with your mental health and not with the piece of media being made. from the bottom of my heart: grow up
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Ed tries to explain his new hobby but stede just tags along for the view I assume
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Retired life
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THE REVENGE CREW / season two, in alphabetical order
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Marrying Stede...
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dreams vs reality
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I love you.
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We wrote our names on each other, in permanent ink.
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ofmd is like not comedy as in sitcom but comedy as in shakespearean where it’s psychological trauma and conflicts of violence but with dick jokes and the promise of marriage in the end
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Some old art from the beginning of 2022 🖤
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no cheating by looking but who do you think your Spotify top artist is gonna be this year 👀
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The thing is, Stede and the Revenge's takedown of Ned Low absolutely should be a legend, but not for any of the reasons that outsiders think. They were unarmed and ambushed by a notorious sadist bastard, tied up and tortured...and they destroyed him in maybe an hour.
They did it with flowers and a bathtub full of booze, with sailors dancing and singing in drag. They did it with a captain whose great pride is treating his crew well. They did it with "what if it doesn't have to be that way?"
All the work of defeating Ned was done before Stede ever drew his sword. It's like Ed said when Pete and Lucius came rushing in - it's okay. Stede has it handled. It's so easy to think that power is swords and guns and muscle and a willingness to use them against others, but Ned is the personification of coercive violence, and none of that helped him on the Revenge.
The ship has taken on near-totemic significance - like Jim says, it's a place where they live for each other, and not just to survive. Calypso's birthday party was the glorious peak of that - a stolen treasure hoard used to pay for a beautiful queer party on a holiday the crew fully made up. The whole thing was peak uselessness - no piracy was being accomplished, no purpose pursued but loving amusement for the crew.
Ned is so furious about the loss of his "legacy," motivated by envy and an obsession with status. His view of humanity is literally instrumentalist, and all he lives for is feeling superior to others. What his mercenaries saw is that the Revenge crew lives for so much more. That you can do that, and still be a pirate.
And it's absolutely deliberate that the group wasn't even referred to as Ned's crew, but as mercenaries. All he had to give them was money. Which, hey, you need that to live, but here's a crew (including fucking Blackbeard!) spending money to turn their ship into a magic garden for no practical reason, and their captain respects their work.
The Revenge was the embodiment of "what if it doesn't have to be that way?" A lighthouse, if you will, illuminating a different path. That was Stede's great accomplishment that night. But all he gets celebrated for outside the ship is the clammy horror of making Ned walk the plank.
And, well. We know Stede is vulnerable to flattery. So if everyone is finally, finally saying he's a man - no, better, that he's the man - for killing Ned, well it must be true, right? And if that seems off, well, that's what inadvisable amounts of alcohol are for.
Poor Ed really did hit the nail on the head without realizing it - it's always family stuff with notorious pirates. And it's still his father and that goose for Stede. At last he's doing a "man's work" and being rewarded for it, never mind that he had his ship built in the first place to get away from all that.
It's not a coincidence that that's when half the crew starts to make noises about leaving. And it's not a coincidence that they're motivated by love, in a chain stretching from Zheng to Archie. Chains keep us together, remember? As soon as he forgets that, the ones Stede forged start to fall apart.
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Warmth
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