✨ZADDY✨ has been living rent-free in my brain since Samba dropped the bomb and I knew I had to do something about it.

Saw a tweet that said “why an inn? why did they ditch the cute little restaurant idea from s1?” and the replies were filled with sentiments such as “well no, of course they built an entire ending around one line of dialogue 🙄” and “that would require any amount of effort from the writers to build upon the existing narrative from s1”.

And that was fucking baffling to me, because oh my god, how do you miss the point that completely?

The inn isn’t the point. Personally, I read the inn as one of their whims. Next month they might decide to turn it into a bar and grill after all, and serve snake soup. Three months after that they might decide to sell it all and start their own traveling circus. What they actually do doesn’t matter, what matters is that amidst all their whims and boredom and chaos, they’ve chosen each other. They’re always going to choose each other and love each other on purpose.

Changing their temporary dream from a restaurant to an inn couldn’t matter less. They’re each other’s happy ending, not the inn.

in one ear and out the other…

@devoursjohnlock

(based on this)

- Is that Blackbeard? - Hm? No, uh, I'm Blackbeard (S01E04 - Discomfort In A Married State)

all for me and none for you xoxo

They're the same picture.

An enchanted meet cute.

my OFMD fanarts collection 🦄🏴‍☠️🐙

I’m almost convinced now that if we’d gotten a season 3 Stede would’ve actually called Ed ‘Kitten’ in the actual show

I am sooooooo normal about Stede and Ed hahahahahahahahahah I prommise!!! *explodes*

All of the amazing fics and beautiful artwork has been turned in, and we cannot wait for everyone to see them. Pre-orders will open May 15 and run until June 15.

What a bummer that Stede is technically 'dead' in Barbados. No parading around the super-hot leatherdaddy (who calls him 'zaddy' and middle-fingers all rules and mores of acceptable levels of PDA) in a much deserved in-your-face-haters glow-up tour.

as seen featured on @saveofmd_crew 's Instagram page! this week, they're celebrating the wonderful costumes featured in #ourflagmeansdeath! so, why not pop on over to their comment section and leave your thoughts on your favourite character's outfit?

as always, if you'd like to support my art, please feel free to donate to my #kofipage.

Ship Manifestos?

Do any of my fellow OFMD fans who are also Livejournal veterans remember how common ship manifestos used to be? I'm not saying they were exclusive to LJ, just that I tended to see them more commonly there, and as a discrete thing from the way general meta seems to take shape on tumblr dot com. Which is fine! The medium is the message etc, but I just started thinking about how I never see them anymore.

I think I'm thinking about this because more than in any other fandom I've ever participated in, I find myself baffled by A Few Particular non-canon ships in a way I can't possibly account for. Even with the requisite probable lack of hinges, I find myself missing the ship manifesto as a form in this situation. It's making me feel old and nostalgic and also like, fundamentally divorced from the way my brain used to handle even those ships that weren't for me.

Beyond the obvious internal fandom discourse we've had at length (and don't need to rehash) about the ways shipping does and does not feel different with ofmd, I wonder if this is more of that "we're so used to queer romance as subtext or afterthought that we handle queer-centric stories strangely" phenomenon?

Hmmm...

Might be good to leave some comments 💟

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