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Who are the “Ash People?”
We’ve already potentially been given hints about the so-called “Ash People” that have been hinted at for the next film installment. In “The Next Shadow,” a comic centering around Jake’s first couple of weeks post-first movie, we see a conflict develop between Tsu’tey’s family and Jake. Tsu’tey’s mother, Artsut, is unhappy with her late son’s decision to have Jake lead, and attempts to dethrone him via a “first blood” rite. After having her youngest son, Arvok, unknowingly fight Jake with a poisoned blade, Artsut attempts to offer a solution to her child. This is what she says:
“Clans, out there in the ashes.” Seems like a definite thread that will lead us to our next clan. These people are seemingly ones to not judge outcasts, ones who’ve gone so far as murder/attempted murder like Arvok.
Given that the clan is by a volcano, could they have a more volatile state of living due to the changing and growing nature of volcanoes? I dislike the notion of them being “evil,” so I hope that isn’t the direction this will take. I do understand, though, that having an entirely positive view of a people isn’t always the best either.
Now, their name. This isn’t confirmed by any means, and could be a totally different clan from what Artsut mentions here, but it does seem like the Ash People could be the Mangkwan Clan.
#thoughts and meta#avatar 2009#avatar 2#avatar 3#na'vi#ash people#mangkwan clan#artsut#arvok#jake sully#tsu'tey#sorry this is kinda rushed but yeah#this was also circulating on reddit so i thought id make a quick version for tumblr
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Been thinking, snow and a lot of the older members of thr district dress very classic and how they dressed in ABOSBAS.
Everyone remarked about how gaudy and insane Lucy Gray Baird dressed.
Tigris was head designer for the games and style icon in the Capitol for a while. She had power to influence the taste makers and younger generations that way...
What if she made the fashion so outrageous so Snow wouldn't forget Lucy and how good Tigris thought Coryo was before the switch to Coriolanus.
A final whisper for hope and reminding. In a subtle and meaningful way.
Just food for thought...
#personal#tigris snow#lucy gray baird#coriolanus snow#a ballad of songbirds and snakes#the hunger games#thoughts and meta#symbols#pleas validate me#help
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I mean with Tulin being revealed to be a companion to Link I am somewhat bracing to say “called it!” When Tears of the Kingdom comes out as since like 2021, while I hardly shared it on Discord Servers I have this prediction that Teba’s gonna die in the sequel primarily due to the Vah Medoh quest various Rito are like “please keep from dying and being a splat mark on the ground.” And in a way to let the other shoe drop they kill him. That and the fact that there are no dads in video games, primarily from Japanese properties is still a thing, makes him a candidate to be killed. Plus they’re not gonna kill Zelda as the recent trailer revealed but killing a character that helped Link with the Divine Beasts that’s modestly popular but not as popular as either Sidon or Riju or as unpopular as Yunobo would be a good bet to pull at some heartstrings. As you would get the safety of killing off an unpopular character while simultaneously avoiding the absolute rioting that would happen if you kill a popular character. Of course there are also possibilities that he became chief or he got injured that left him incapacitated or many other things that would put him out of action, but personally I don’t put much stock in those.
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I'm not the first to mention this, but one bit that I thought was really clever in Steven Universe is the ways in which the show subtly justifies the cartoonism of the principle cast always wearing the same outfit for ease-of-animation purposes. The gems are a gimme in that they're all hardlight-projections, and even before that's solidified as a plot point they're otherworldly and superheroic enough that you don't really think to question it. But Steven canonically just owns hundreds and hundreds of those star shirts, which are leftover merchandise from his father's fizzled-out career as a rock star. Into which you can read a whole bunch of other stuff if you really want to, right? And I do want to. It's reflective of Greg's misplaced optimism that he got hundreds of those made in the first place, and it's a benign but visible example of how Steven's life is shaped by the knock-on effects of decisions his parents made before he was even alive. He's got his mother's superpowers and he's wearing his father's shirts.
#steven universe#steven universe analysis#greg universe#thoughts#meta#su#contrast Connie who actually does have a range of diverse outfits#and tastes in outfits which evolve over the show!#because she's part of Steven's Universe#but she has somewhere to go home to
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“their miracle was so big bc crowley used to be an archangel” have u considered that aziraphale and crowley love each other so much that their love alone could move the tides just by staring at the ocean for too long. have u considered that they did the miracle not really to protect gabriel but to protect what they had, what they’d built with each other. and that was them barely even trying
#sorry but the whole ‘crowley was an archangel’ take is not the one for this scenario#the whole thesis of the show is that they’re more powerful and at their best when they’re together#their combined miracle is just a manifestation of that#and i can’t wait to see how they use that bit in s3#good omens#good omens meta#go2 spoilers#thoughts
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You know what this makes me think about? A guy as paranoid and highly trained as Batman would absolutely flip out if someone he didn’t know tried to touch him. He’s probably on alert at virtually all times for possible hits or hands reaching toward him.
But here? He’s on his comm and he doesn’t even blink when Dick reaches into his belt pockets. His belt pockets with explosives and highly dangerous materials that shouldn’t be accessible to anyone who doesn’t know how to disarm them.
Dick reaches into his belt for a sucker and Bruce just lets him. It’s such a casual display of touch that I overlooked the first time I came across this panel.
How many small touches and invasions of his space does Bruce allow from family? How big of a gift is it for him to allow those? What other ways does the Batfamily climb all over him with casual touch and affection? Did he have to learn to accept it after being relatively devoid of it for so long?
Just some morning thoughts as I wake up on cold medicine.
#thoughts#bruce wayne#batman#dc#batfamily#dick grayson#meta#Batman meta#batfamily meta#clark kent#superman#nightwing
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The scene in the Barbie trailer when Barbie is skating around with Ken and asks "Why is everyone staring at me?"
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE AN ADOLESCENT GIRL.
Living in Barbieland (childhood girlhood) but then suddenly you're all grown up in the real world subject to scrutiny and sexualisation (the guy slapping Barbie's ass) and feeling like existing is a crime?
Being forced by adult men into a box (which leads to the not like other girls syndrome) and exploring the 'real world' (being forced to grow up too quickly) while fighting the realisation that maybe the world sucks and being a woman is so difficult while hoping with all your heart that it's not always going to be this way.
Losing touch with the very things that made you happy because they're considered immature and girly? (The group of teens that said they hadn't played with Barbies since they were five.)
Older women telling you that you have to learn the truth about the world and that you can never have your old life back (Kate Mckinnon's Barbie) despite it being the only thing you yearn for, but also older women being a bright spot and support (the old woman on the bench) in the endless slough of life.
And this is just the trailer!!! I'm so excited for this movie I can't breathe, Greta Gerwig the woman that you are 😭
#barbie#more thoughts on this when my mental coherence returns#but ahhh!#im also really excited to see america ferrera's role because I have a feeling it's gonna be pivotal#Barbie meta#the barbie movie#barbie (2023)#shut up im so excited#ken is the emotional support pet every adolescent girl needs#THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A TEENAGE GIRL#i already love this movie so much#and it hasnt even released#thoughts r scattered cuz the trailer is that good
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One thing I love about Crowley --never stated, but consistently shown-- is that he is, at heart, an engineer.
I have a few different things to say about that. Let's unpack them.
As the Unnamed Angel, we see his designs for the Pillars of Creation are millions of pages long, comprised of cramped text, footnotes, diagrams, schematics, etc. It's very...Renaissance polymath, in the way it implies a particular intersection of artist and inventor.
Also: in the naked romanticism with which he views his stars.
We already knew he made stars, but in s2 we learn that he did NOT sculpt each of them by hand. He designed a nebula ("a star factory," he says) that will form several thousand young stars and proto-planets, and all --aside from getting the 'factory' running-- without him lifting a finger. We also learn that these young stars and proto-planets stand in contrast to those made by other angels, which are going to come 'pre-aged.'
...I'm reminded of Hastur and Ligur's approach to temptations. Damning one human soul at a time, devoting singular attention to it over the course of years or decades, and how that stands in contrast to Crowley's reliance on, quote, 'knock-on effects.'
Ligur: It's not exactly...craftsmanship.
Crowley: Head office don't seem to mind. They love me down there.
Hm.
I'm also reminded of the M25.
The M25 may not be as grand as a nebula (sentences you only say in GOmens fandom...), but LIKE his nebula it's an intricate, self-sustaining engine that does Crowley's work for him, many times over. Again.
That's some pretty neat characterization --and so is the indication towards Crowley's disinterest in victimizing anyone tempting individual people. It takes a considerable amount of planning and effort (and creeping about in wellies), but in accordance with his design the M25 generates a constant stream of low-grade evil on a gigantic scale.
Cumulatively gigantic, that is. Individually? Negligible.
But no other demon understands human nature well enough to parse that one million ticked-off motorists are not, in any meaningful way, actually equivalent to one dictator, or one mass-murderer, or even one little influential regressive. That's the trick of it. Crowley gets Hell's approval (which he NEEDS to survive, and to maintain the degree of freedom he's eked out for himself), and at the same time ensures that any actual ~Evil Influence~ is spread nice and thin.
It's some clever machinery. And he knows it, too:
The Unnamed Angel and Crowley are both proud of their ideas.
(musings on professional pride, Leonardo da Vinci, the crank handle, and 'the point to which Crowley loves Aziraphale' under the cut)
In the 1970's Crowley gives a presentation on the M25, projector and all, to a room full of increasingly impatient demons. Maybe the presentation was work-ordered; the 'can I hear a WAHOO?' definitely wasn't.
Before the Beginning, the Unnamed Angel can barely contain his excitement about his nebula. Aziraphale manages a baffled-but-polite, "....That's nice... :)"
11 years ago, Hastur and Ligur want to 'tell the deeds of the day,' and Crowley smiles to himself because (according to the script-book) he knows he has 'the best one.'
(Naturally, his 'deed' has nothing to do with tempting anybody, and everything to do with setting up a human-powered Rube-Goldberg machine of petty annoyance. Oodles of 'Evil' generated; very little harm done.)
Hastur and Ligur don't get it, of course. That's also consistent.
Nobody ever knows what the hell he's talking about.
It didn't make it on-screen, but, in both the novel AND the script-book, Crowley was friends with Leonardo da Vinci. The quintessential Renaissance polymath. That's where he got his drawing of the Mona Lisa --they're getting very drunk together, and Crowley picks up the 'most beautiful' of the preliminary sketches. He wants to buy it. Leonardo agrees almost off-the-cuff, very casual, because they're friends, and because he has bigger fish to fry than haggling over a doodle:
He goes, "Now, explain this helicopter thingie again, will you?" Because he's an engineer, too.
(It is 1519 at the latest, in this scene. Why the FUCK would Crowley know about helicopters, and be able to explain them, comprehensively, to Leonardo da Vinci?
...Well. I choose to believe he got bored one day and worked it out. Look, if you know how to build a nebula, you can probably handle aerodynamics. And anyway, I think it's telling that this is his idea of shooting the shit. 'A drunken mind speaks a sober heart,' and all. He probably babbled about Aziraphale long enough to make poor Leo sick)
Apart from Aziraphale, Leonardo da Vinci is the only person Crowley has any keepsakes or mementos of.
Think about that, though. Aziraphale's bookshop is bursting with letters, paintings, busts, and personalized signatures memorializing all the humans he's known and befriended over 6000 years (indeed: Aziraphale has living human friends up and down Whickber Street. He's part of a community).
Crowley doesn't have any of that. It's just the stone albatross from the Church (for pining), the infamous gay sex statue (for spicy pining), the houseplants (for roleplaying his deepest trauma over and over, as one does), and this one piece of artwork, inscribed, "To my friend Anthony from your friend Leo da V."
To me, at least, that suggests a level of attachment that seems to be rare for Crowley.
...Maybe he liked having someone to talk shop with? Someone who was interested? Someone engaged enough to ask questions when they didn't immediately understand?
...Anyway.
There's also the matter of the crank handle.
This thing:
This is one of the subtler changes from the book. In the book, Crowley knows Satan is coming and, desperate, arms himself with a tire iron. It's the best he can do. He's not Aziraphale; he wasn't made to wield a flaming sword.
The show, IMO, improves on this considerably. Now he, like Aziraphale, gets to face annihilation with what he was made for in his hand. And it's not a weapon, not even an improvised one like the tire iron.
He made stars with it.
[both gifs by @fuckyeahgoodomens]
If you Google 'crank handle,' you'll get variations on this:
Crank handles have been around for centuries. Consisting of a mechanical arm that's connected to a perpendicular rotating shaft, they are designed to convert circular motion into rotary or reciprocating motion.
Which is to say they're one of the 'simple machines,' like a lever or a pulley; the bread and butter of engineering. You'll also get a list of uses for a crank handle, archaic and modern. Among them: cranking up the engine of an old-fashioned car... say, a 1933 Bentley. That's what Crowley has been using his for, lately. But he's had it since he was an angel and he's still, it seems, very capable of it's angelic applications.
Stopping time. For instance.
(This is conjecture on my part, but, I like to imagine that Crowley has the ability to stop time for the same reason I can --and should-- unplug my computer before I perform maintenance on it. Time and Space are a matched set, after all, and in his designs in particular, one feeds into the other.)
I know everyone has already said this, but: I REALLY LIKE that when he needs to channel the heights of his power, he does so not with a weapon but with a tool. Practically with a little handheld metaphor for ingenuity. One from long-lost days when he made beautiful things.
(And he loved it. Still loves it --he incorporated that metaphor into the Bentley, didn't he?)
Let Aziraphale rock up to the apocalypse with a weapon: he has his own compelling thematic reasons to do exactly that. Crowley's story is different, and fighting isn't the only way to express defiance. And if you've been condemned as a demon and assumed to be destructive by your very nature, what better way than this?
He made stars. They didn't manage to take that from him.
Neither Crowley nor Aziraphale are fighters, really --they have no intention of fighting in any war. They'll annoy everyone until there's no war to fight in, for a start. But between the two, if one must be, then that one is Aziraphale. Principality of the Earth, Guardian of the Eastern Gate, Wielder of the Flaming Sword... all that stuff. Even if he'd prefer not to, it's very clear that Aziraphale can rise to the occasion, if he must.
Crowley was never that kind of angel. He wasn't a Principality. He doesn't have a sword.
...And yet.
It's Crowley who protects. He's the one who paces, who stands guard, who circles Aziraphale and glares out at the world, just daring anyone else to come near.
In light of everything else I've said here, I think that's interesting.
Obviously part of it is that Aziraphale enjoys it and, you know, good for him. He's living his best life, no doubt no doubt no doubt. But what about Crowley? What's driving that behavior, really?
Have you heard the phrase, 'loved to the point of invention'? Well, what if 'the point of invention' was where you started? What if where you end up involves glaring out at the world, just daring anyone else to come near? What is that, in relation to the bright-eyed thing you used to be?
What do we name the point to which Crowley loves Aziraphale?
...Thinking about how an excitable angel with three million pages of star design he wants to tell you all about...becomes a guard dog. Is all.
#good omens#ineffable husbands#aziracrow#Crowley#Aziraphale#good omens 2#good omens meta#unfortunately I do not have trains of thought#only long meandering strolls of thought#sorry about it#anyway tl;dr Crowley is a nerd#also I have a strange emotional attachment to the idea of 1500's Crowley...#...facedown in a pile of Mona Lisa sketches; drunkenly info-dumping about Aziraphale#and Da Vinci is just like. 'Ahhhh mio amico Antonio. You fucking simp.'
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can we talk about how Damian’s culture shock had not been addressed in any significant way ever in canon or fanon?
imagine you are 10 years old, your mother loves you dearly, you are told all your life stories of how important and legendary your father The Batman is, you are to be a strong warrior-assassin-son and you excel in your training, your mother and grandfather are proud of you until they say you have to leave.
you lose everything. your home country, language, religion, relationships. your comfort foods, smells, clothes. everything.
you're given to your father who you have been told you need to prove yourself to, you are being treated as an enemy, you have no allies, no one will explain the unwritten unspoken rules especially not your father who has decided you are a nuisance.
they tell you your past and everyone in it is evil, your home is evil, your mother and grandfather are evil. you cannot have any connection to anything or anyone familiar.
your father dies. they all still hate you. they will not let you go home.
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A brief theory on the origin of the Na’vi
When it comes to thinking about extraterrestrial life, most scientists have generally held the belief that any society out there would have to be drastically more technologically advanced than humanity. And yet, we have the Na’vi. A race of people that the word “neolithic” might more or less describe aptly (cultural standards not withstanding).
A race of people who do not have technology, and frankly, seem to abhor it. And with new canon information from “The World of AVATAR: A Visual Exploration,” we may just have a thread that leads us to a different origin of the Na’vi as we see them.
What we have in this book, is the so-called “Three Laws of Eywa.” They are as follows: “You shall not set stone upon stone. Neither shall you use the turning wheel. Nor use the metals of the ground.”
Now, what these simple rules implicate, is frankly fascinating. The use of masonry, the wheel, and metallurgy are all practices that can be argued, if not proven to be, catalysts that launched humans to where we stand today. They are some of the barebones of a society such as ours. So why are they forbidden to the Na’vi?
It is stated that these “keep the Na’vi pure in the eyes of Eywa,” and “...predate even the legendary Time of First Songs.” The theory I, and many other fans have proposed is this: A very, very long time ago, the Na’vi were, in fact, a highly advanced civilization. However, some sort of catastrophic event caused all of this to change. Thematically speaking, this could very easily mimic where we as humans stand in our world, where we find ourselves staring down at war, climate change, and economic collapse.
It is entirely possible that the Na’vi once fit our visions of alien life. Technologically advanced, perhaps even with the early vestiges or fully formed space flight. But, this apocalyptic event caused a collapse. The form of Eywa, the Na’vi’s mass-remembered conscious, may have realized that the aforementioned rules were the spark that lit the technological fuse. Instead, she made it so that the Na’vi would not progress past the era of the hunter-gatherer, to ensure their survival without bringing about another collapse.
#na'vi#avatar 2009#thoughts and meta#avatar 2#theres more from the book i want to discuss#particularly about the nature of eywa#bc she's...maybe not as nice as she seems lol#avatar the way of water#the way of water
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Yeah this is a bunch of concept sketches containing scenes of what I want a Pokemon legends Meloetta would look like. I know that either Victini and Genesect are more likely with a lot of fans wanting Legends Kyurem also being a thing. But I'm not a fucking coward to suggest Stray Gods meets Pokemon. And I know Pokemon does have the money to do this with you know biggest multimedia franchise ever but doubt they will ever do because "too risky" and "might not make money."
Anyway more ideas are under the cut.
So yeah Legends Meloetta takes place in the same time period as Legends Arceus but maybe some time after the events of that game, and it focuses on a struggling Vaudeville troupe that Meloetta (for whatever reason) is fond of. You can play as as Thalia(Hilda), Calliope(Rosa), Erato(Hilbert), or Euterpe(Nate), and whether you're an immigrant that recently moved to Unova or just straight up Isekaied by Meloetta (or more likely Meloetta with help), you're the newest member of this troupe. And while you are helping to get this troupe out of debt you're trying to find an entity that's trying to hurt Meloetta and stop it, as well as trying to reconstruct (and eventually recreate) the relic song. The members of the troupe are the NPC versions of the characters you didn't pick, the leader Apollo (Not supposed to be related to anyone we know of), Willemina the accountant (possibly an ancestor of Ghetsis) and various other characters. Clio (Who may or may not be related to N) is the woman your character is staying with who knows a lot about history and help on the Meloetta mystery subplot.
As for gameplay, if you know anything about Stray Gods, you'd know that it's a musical game where there are lots of choices to make that can affect the songs to wind up, making no two playthroughs be the same. So yeah much of the gameplay, especially the story revolves around making one of four choices an idealistic choice (black), a practical choice (white), an aggressive choice (grey), or have Meloetta make it for you (blank). And this does carry over in your interactions with wild pokemon to an extent. While you can still fight and catch pokemon, you can also sing to them to either coax them to be more catchable, or get them to leave you alone. Also it is possible to go through the game without catching a pokemon, so you can do your theoretical no pokemon run, you're just gonna have a longer wait time between jobs as catching pokemon is the fastest way to make money.
Oh and there should be voice acting to make the song come to life. This includes the your character who would also be singing in some parts. Though if you name your character other than the canonical names the dialogue will just continue the dialogue without saying your name.
So yeah this is what I got on this idea.
#pokemon#pokemon legends#pokemon legends unova#pokemon legends meloetta#meloetta#concept art#concept sketches#thoughts and meta#unova#art
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ALSO NOTICE THAT
Hua Cheng smiled when qr said that Xie Lian has him on a leash
AND THIS IS THE FACE HE MADE
AFTER QR SAID THAT XIE LIAN WAS LICKING HIS BOOTS
THAT’S
A L L YOU HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT HIM
#tgcf#hualian#xie lian#hua cheng#tian guan ci fu#tgcf thoughts#tgcf season 2#tgcf donghua#heaven officials blessing#天官赐福#tgcf analysis#tgcf fandom#tgcf meta#tgcf s2
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One moment from Adventure time that stuck with me big-time when I was a kid was the episode where the Lich first showed up, because in the climax Finn is pursuing him and he chases him down into what are clearly the ruins of a contemporary subway station. And that blew my little mind, because up till that point I'd been parsing it as one of those impossible gonzo mishmash anything-goes constructed worlds, and then abruptly without fanfare here's strong evidence that there's some kinda throughline between the world you recognize and the inexplicable fantasy setting on screen. Here's some strong recontextualization of what Finn the human means, in the singular like that, now that we've got a subway recognizably built by modern humans. I mean this was my statue-of-liberty-on-a-beach moment, except it wasn't even the salient twist of the episode- it was just there, a background setpiece which didn't have especial attention called to it beyond being where the bad guy of that week's episode had been chased off to. Love shit like that, clear but understated signifiers that you're actually been looking at a post-apocalypse this whole time.
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crowley visibly cringes and rejects aziraphale when aziraphale calls him good, calls him nice. he doesn’t want to be considered good or nice by (what he thinks is) aziraphale’s (heaven’s) definition of good or nice. not just bc he’s scared of hell’s retribution, but because he knows heaven’s definition of good and nice is wrong, is black and white.
when mrs sandwich calls him good, he doesn’t cringe. his rejection of “i’m not, actually,” is half-assed and cheeky at best, is his automatic response.
but then he says “thank you.”
crowley appreciates being called good by a human. he knows that humanity’s definition of good is nuanced and complicated. when a human calls him good, he sees it for what it is–a genuine compliment to his character and his actions, but not a divine declaration about his being as a whole. he reveres the morals of humanity more than he’s ever revered the morals of heaven and hell.
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Is that. A Nightingale????
"I'm afraid that's not for you, sir. What about this?", Goldstone asks while showing Aziraphale a case with a bronze nightingale as a handle. "No, no, no, it's alright. I've found my showstopper.", Aziraphale answers, looking at the magic bullet catch.
Is Aziraphale actually choosing a RIFLE over a Nightingale in this scene. I am losing it.
Not only is he choosing danger over the safe option, he's choosing a weapon. HE IS CHOOSING TO FIGHT.
And, he is also choosing to do this with Crowley (even though Crowley is reluctant) and he is choosing to trust him. He's not even considering the safe option.
#good omens#crowley#aziraphale#ineffable husbands#good omens 2#good omens spoilers#good omens theory#good omens thoughts#good omens meta#not art#sorry this is not an art post but I had to scream these thougts out into the void#im going up the walls
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something something Ed not being able to step in to protect Stede from physical and emotional harm out of fear of damaging Stede's reputation and instead letting it play out as he silently falls apart in the background
#our flag means death#ofmd#ofmdedit#ofmd s2 spoilers#edward teach#blackbeard#blackbonnet#gentlebeard#taika waititi#there's an excellent meta on this in my head but unfortunately i don't know how to write#if anyone understands what i mean here please put my thoughts to words#my stuff
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