you know what? i know all of tumblr is obsessed with ed (and I get it, the trauma and wet cat energy is captivating) but I am a stede girlie. i too harbor unmanageable amounts of guilt day after day for shit that doesn't matter anymore. i too am constantly trying to compensate for my lack of experience in a skill i love and i hate myself for it. i embarrass myself constantly. i dont know how to maintain loving relationships. i've been bullied more times than i can count for liking unconventional methods of presentation, or not knowing the inside knowledge and nuance of something, or most frequently just not being cool or tough or masculine enough. I am cringey. I am queer. I am insecure, scared, stupid, but I live on despite it anyways and i think that's such an important message to teach other queers, especially camp queers.
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I think as a way to get a season three taika and rhys should creat a sci fi series where everything is the exact same except instead of pirates its space pirates and instead of ships its space ships. call it our coordinates mean peril
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Anyway Stede helping Ed get ready for the "posh knobs" party in The Best Revenge is Dressing Well, and once Ed is all dressed up in his finery, he turns to Stede, a little unsure, and says "I dunno, feels like it's missing something."
Stede looks him over, considering, and suddenly he knows just what Ed's outfit is lacking. "How about—" but then he cuts himself off, recalling the endless ridicule he faced during his school days for being too soft, too effeminate, too weak, and shuts his mouth. Ed would surely laugh at him.
"What?" Ed presses. "I trust your judgement, man, you seem like you've been to enough of these things."
"Well, I was thinking... maybe we could put some flowers in your hair."
He's about to start backtracking, it was a stupid suggestion anyway, but then Ed—Blackbeard—the person who Stede at this point believes to be the absolute pinnacle of masculinity, looks at him with excited eyes, and says, "Oh, that's a fuckin' great idea."
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