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edscuntyeyeshadow · 5 months

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love how they casually put a pride flag in this 18th century pirate show lmao david jenkins does not give two fucks

#our flag means death #ofmd #david jenkins the man that you are #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #our flag means gay #gay pirates #queer #david jenkins #gentlebeard #ed x stede #calypso’s birthday #blackbonnet #gay

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totallyboatless · 4 months

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Yeah a show that touched a deep place in our hearts that reawoke a passion for life in many of us is over, but you fuckers forgot one very important thing

It’s Calypso’s motherfucking birthday

I’m gonna need everyone to reblog this and raise a glass (metaphorically or not) to something you love about this show or this weird little corner of the internet.

#get in losers we’re having a biker funeral #my local store has never carried this #i’ve never seen this brand #and yet today there it was #it’s a plastic bottle and $11 so it’s gonna be BAD #ofmd #our flag means death #calypso’s birthday

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batwynn · 4 months

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If you’re not feeling up for the more traditional holidays, you always have a cup of cheap alcohol from a bathtub for Calypso’s birthday!

#our flag means death #OFMD #ofmd s2 #calypso’s birthday #ofmd art #for those who celebrate

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thefiresofpompeii · 6 months

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the main takeaway from calypso’s birthday isn’t that it is imperative to embrace your inner tender flamboyant fabulous divine self, or even that murder in cold blood can occasionally be justified given the circumstance, but that unionisation with your fellow mercenaries is key to demanding a living wage

#communist allies crew of the revenge #ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #ofmd season 2 #calypso’s birthday #izzy hands #ned low #blackbonnet #jamie.txt

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unabashed-elation · 6 months

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As devastating as the finale was, Izzy was so good this season!

So here is my painting of his beautiful look in episode 6 :)

#our flag means death #ofmd #izzy hands #ofmd s2 #ofmd fanart #izzy hands fanart #ofmd s2e6 #calypso’s birthday #fanart #original art #mine #I am very nervous to post this #la vie en rose #con o'neill #digital art

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medievill · 6 months

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okay we all know Ned Lowe was being racist right?

we do know that right?

right? guys?

#ofmd #our flag means death #edward teach #blackbeard #ed teach #ned lowe #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd season 2 spoilers #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2 #calypsos birthday #calypso’s birthday

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queeraspirates · 4 months

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new bts of Calypso’s Birthday from the set decorator

#our flag means death #ofmd #lindsey cantrell #ofmd bts #calypso’s birthday #taika waititi #rhys darby #joel fry #david fane

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celluloidbroomcloset · 5 months

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Izzy: Give him a minute.

Ed: Go talk to him right this second it is, then!

#ofmd s2 #ofmd #our flag means death #calypso’s birthday #izzy hands #edward teach #ed teach #stede bonnet #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #gif

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edscuntyeyeshadow · 5 months

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wee john/kristian nairn appreciation post

#our flag means death #ofmd #wee john feeney #wee john ofmd #kristian nairn #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #our flag means gay #gay pirates #calypso’s birthday

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attractive-nuisance-esq · 6 months

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do you guys ever think about wee john teaching izzy how to do his makeup, the tender but inviolable bit of love that goes into sharing your queer self with someone who is coming into their own, the permission we give one another to be our authentic selves simply by being loud and proud about who we are, and

fuckin CRY ?????

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serpentarius · 3 months

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wall kiss final sketch. currently playing around with the colours digitally, so if that turns out any good I’ll post that up too 😄

ID: pencil sketch of Ed and Stede’s kiss from S2E6, “Calypso’s Birthday”, of Our Flag Means Death.

#our flag means death #ofmd #gentlebeard #ed x stede #renew as a crew #s2e6 #calypso’s birthday #wall kiss #edward teach #stede bonnet #blackbeard #OFMD art #OFMD fanart #my art #save our flag means death #stede x ed #blackbonnet

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on-till-morning · 6 months

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Just gotta give a shout out that Stede’s very first (#1) suggestion about what to do with the guilt loot is to buy clothes, which is totally 100% for the sole benefit of his only-ever-been-in-one-outfit-and-one-outfit-only bf and def not at all about I’M A BIT OF A CLOTHESHORSE Stede and all the outfits he can buy for himself while dressing Ed up in a pretty women shopping montage

#stedey boy #I see you #actually mad that we were deprived a pretty woman shopping montage with Ed and Stede #ofmd #ofmd 2 #ofmd s2e6 #calypso’s birthday #our flags mean death #ofmd s2 spoilers #stede bonnet #ed teach #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #well one outfit by choice not counting the sack plus cat bell which was someone else’s idea

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ipomoea-batatas · 2 months

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#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd fanart #ofmd frenchie #calypso’s birthday #this is my eccc sticker this year

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infernal-house-demon · 6 months

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oh my god I just listened all the way through the credits of calypso’s birthday and the crew starts singing along with izzy!! And then when it’s over they cheer and chant “one more time!” I’m cryingggg

#I need them to release a full version of this song with con singing #it fills me with emotion every time I think about it #con o’neill has the voice of an angel #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd spoilers #calypso’s birthday

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captainclickycat · 4 months

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I did another Calypso painting!

It’s an improvement on the first one, although I wish the gold showed up better on camera

#the sails aren’t very accurate #but I’m sure everyone’s going to be polite and ignore that #ofmd #ofmd fanart #our flag means death #our flag means death fanart #calypso’s birthday #clicky’s art

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thegoldenhoof · 6 months

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Poison into Positivity - Why we should have revisited The Talent Show.

Prefacing this, that as a Izzy lover, I loved the Calypso’s birthday episode. Perfect. No notes. Except that maybe it should have been longer

But boy did Ed get done dirty in that episode (and Stede but I am making my peace with this is just who Stede is. Being a better person was never his character’s motivation).

Perhaps nothing has bothered me about the whole of Ed’s arc as the poison to positivity comment because, Girl! Where? What exactly did you do to earn that? Ed threw some money at the problem and sat back which made sense in a sad way because it is a very Stede way of doing things. At least Season 1 Stede ( but again we are not talking about Stede here). And Ed was following his cues. This is Youtuber apology the sequel.

But in contrast, imagine if we had gotten The Talent Show- Take 2

A repeated problem that many posts have talked about in this season is that it was unwilling to face the trauma that it set up and look it in the eye and deal with it. So much of the show had become “shit happens move on”.

But revisiting the idea of The Talent Show for Calypso’s Birthday party would have been amazing imo and here is why…

The Chekhov's gun was already set up with Lucius mentioning it in the previous episode

This season had been spoonfeeding us Season 1 flashbacks and references and this would have fit in perfectly with the pattern.

Ed’s side of it was as set up with him not remembering the show at all. We have been told repeatedly that Ed rewrites his memories/forgets things that are uncomfortable to him.

Repraising the talent show would have worked as a shorthand for Ed actually confronting his past and would have been an opportunity to genuinely make himself vulnerable in contrast to the youtuber apology.

It would have reminded the crew that this was still the man who they cared for at one point, who just did some fucked up shit because he was hurting.

It would have shown the audience that the crew was able to look at a painful past experience and rewrite those memories with a better version if it- a stand-in for them moving past the trauma of the Kraken era and being willing to rewrite those memories with this new Ed.

Izzy could have joined Ed’s song putting it in contrast with Izzy’s anger and confusion of Season 1.

Ed is singing some old song. He hears the uneven stomp of the peg leg behind him and stops. Cue bad memories.

Izzy’s voice takes up the song. He turns back to look at Izzy and he is revealed to us, in all his Drag glory, looking equally nervous until they both give a tentative smile and continue with the song.

Ed turns to Stede pulling him into a dance. Izzy turns to Calypso kissing her hand. They are singing the same song but the have their own people to dance with now.

a) This would have given us a peek into their joint past, a happier time and laid a foundation to the relationship they are hinting at in the death scene with Ed’s “You are my only family” because we haven’t actually seen that relationship between them in either of the seasons.

b) It would have given us a transition between the earlier drunk Izzy-avoidant Ed scene and the absolute tonal whiplash of the next day morning after scene by having an on screen truce/resolution.

c) It would have shows them as two people on diverse paths who are even now still tied by their past. They too are trying to rewrite what that past should mean now with hopefully better associations.

This means we lose La vie en Rose the, I’d make that sacrifice for some actual character growth. (We could still have had that performance over the end titles/longer post credit maybe?)

8. This would actually fit in with the message of turning poison into positivity for both Ed and the crew and Ed and Izzy. It would also have had Ed make an emotional investment in that transition and not a monetary one so he has actually earned that comment.

9. It would have made Ned’s interruption much more painful because Ed is trying to make amends for something he did here and another consequence of his actions have come crashing in.

Cue Stede killing Ned but now it doubles down on the “You don’t have to do this alone. I’m here beside you helping you (however badly) too” message.

Overall…

The larger events of the episode don’t change.

Just a few dialogues here and there and maybe trim the Ed giving money to the kids scene (Because what? Why? I dont care u gave them a knife. Those kids are getting murdered within a couple of days. Good job Ed!).

So little changes. And yet there was so much potential for shifting the tone and not putting all their eggs into the one basket that they were planning to smash with a hammer.

#ofmd #ed teach #blackbeard #izzy hands #calypso’s birthday #ofmd critical?

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