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transjudas · 6 months

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God's perfect little rich boy.

#stede bonnet #izzy hands #blackbonnet #ofmd #ofmdedit #chauncey badminton #ofmdaily #ofmdblog #ofmdsource #userkristi #usereena #userlauren #alivedean #userklou #our flag means death #gentlebeard

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luciuscodedswedeboy · 10 months

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EDWARD II (1592) by Christopher Marlowe

#was no one gonna tell me that kit marlowe wrote a canon gay relationship based on a historical gay relationship in 15-fuckin-92??#gentlebeard #edward teach #stede bonnet #chauncey badminton #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd memes #1K

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sherlockig · 5 months

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#ofmd #our flag means death #ed teach #edward teach #stede bonnet #chauncey badminton

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edscuntyeyeshadow · 5 months

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have a somewhat vague memory of posting this already but whatever. I love this so much

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #our flag means gay #gay pirates #stede bonnet #stede fucking bonnet #chauncey badminton #ofmd meta #ofmd s1 #gay #queer #ofmd tweet

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joeal-kaysani · 2 years

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things to never say to a gentleman pirate who just came out (insp.)

+ bonus:

#our flag means death #ofmdedit #stede bonnet #ed teach #blackbeard #izzy hands #chauncey badminton #lucius spriggs #mary bonnet #father bonnet #spanish jackie #edits #oc #*#500 #1k

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our-flag-means-love · 2 years

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Corporate needs you to find the difference between these two scenes.

Bonus: The aftermath

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd gif #ofmd gifs #ofmd gifset #ofmd edit #blackbeard #edward teach #stede bonnet #izzy hands #israel hands #chauncey badminton #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #cw gun

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celluloidbroomcloset · 5 months

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I was thinking about monstrosity and how both Stede and Ed believe that they're monsters, in different ways.

Chauncey tells Stede that he's not a human being but a monster and a plague who destroys everything he touches, which catalyzes for Stede everything he's known since childhood. Ed's entire life from the time he kills his father to the present moment has been developing monstrosity as a safeguard while also internalizing the guilt of the murder.

The first time they meet, Stede (without meaning to) reminds Ed of his monstrosity by showing him the picture-book image of Blackbeard. Ed points out how ridiculous it is - he's aware, even then, that the Blackbeard image isn't true to him. Stede himself doesn't recognize Ed as Blackbeard at first because Ed is quite obviously not the image.

Stede's monstrosity is directly tied to his sexuality and how he expresses it - he’s not “masculine” enough. Ed's monstrosity is tied to his inability to escape from the masculine image he’s created to protect himself. Both are targeted by bullies who attempt to destroy the monster they see - Chauncey by rendering Stede a subhuman thing that should be stamped out, Izzy by threatening Ed back into his Blackbeard persona. Both are told they should be dead rather than what they are.

If Ed's monstrosity becomes increasingly externalized, Stede's perceived monstrosity is all internal - what Chauncey says about him congeals into a set of memories and sensations of being "wrong" and "different." It's particularly cruel because Stede himself loves beautiful things so much, and he now believes that he destroys those things simply by existing - and Ed, this man that he finds so beautiful and so lovable, is one of the things he's destroyed. Stede also doesn't think himself worthy of love because there is something wrong about him; he looks like a human being, but he isn't one.

Ed doesn’t know that some of Stede’s offer of friendship in the bathtub scene is a result of empathetic understanding - he knows what it is to be an isolated, frightened child despised by his own father. He knows what it is to harbor a secret and have it eat you from the inside out. He knows what it is to feel monstrous.

That scene with Chauncey is as important as Ed's scene with Izzy and vice versa. Stede is just coming to the realization that he's in love with Ed, and that that love is something he's allowed to feel and something that's reciprocated. He's still uncertain, he's still tentative, and he's still scared, but he's experiencing the spark of who he is. Chauncey shoves him back into the closet by telling him that the happiness he feels is wrong and destructive and he should be dead. I don't think it's a stretch to say that Stede hears that he's corrupted Ed by falling in love with him and by making Ed want him.

Then there is the scene between Ed and Izzy, when Ed has returned to the Revenge. I've seen some posts remarking on how the scenes leading up to this are the most vulnerable and the most openly queer Ed has been. (If anyone knows the posts I'm talking about, please let me know and I'll link them, because I cannot find them right now!) He's walking around in Stede's silk dressing gown, singing terrible but heartfelt songs, and crying in his blanket fort. He hasn't responded with violence; he even goes to Lucius to help him work through the pain he's feeling. Then Izzy confronts him, mocking him for being "a namby-pamby in a silk gown, pining for his boyfriend." Ed tries to defend himself, "I'm still Blackbeard," and Izzy shoves the monstrous image of Blackbeard into his face. Become like this again, he says, or "Edward better watch his step."

Ed cracks. All the feelings he had and didn't have the emotional or verbal language to express or process — never once does either he or Stede utter the word "love" in the beach scene. The closest he can come is "what makes Ed happy is you" — are not just wrong and unmasculine, but dangerous. Ed's sexuality is fine, but how he expresses it and the feelings attached to it are not. Men don't pine for their boyfriends. Men who do that are better off dead. So he kills Lucius, the closest representative of that kind of gentle, queer maleness that Stede brought out in Ed, and transforms himself into the external monster he's been constantly told he was.

Both Chauncey and Izzy present their violence as logical, rational thought - they've considered it and come to a conclusion. Ed and Stede, as they are, should not exist.

What’s tragic at the end of Season 1 is that Ed and Stede really are happy when they’re together. They both begin to discard the posturing of their personas and see the idiosyncrasies of the other as endearing and lovable. They play together and discover things about themselves they didn’t know existed. It's such a simple statement - they make each other happy. But that happiness can’t be allowed to exist in the world of Izzy and Chauncey, the repressed patriarchal world where men don't cry, don't feel, and definitely don't love each other. The big villain of OFMD isn't a single person but the violence of toxic masculinity and how it turns men into monsters.

#ofmd s2 #our flag means death #ofmd season 2 #ofmd meta #stede bonnet #ed teach #izzy hands #chauncey badminton #gif #tw: homophobia #this has definitely been remarked on before #but i had thoughts

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kitnightowl · 8 months

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It’s a shame we probably won’t see anymore of the Badminton twins in the new season of ofmd. If they did show up would probably be one of their wives but with a letter.

How I imagine it they pan to one of the Badminton’s wives in a room ether reading, or knitting next to a bassinet. A butler comes in with the letter, telling her she has a letter about her husband. We don’t see her face yet but after a bit we see her sobbing into the letter. Soon her kids come in asking, “what is wrong, mother?” We turn to the children and it’s normal children but with, Rory Kinnear’s face but with normal children voices.

We pan back to the mom and we see her face. It’s, Rory Kinnear too but with makeup. She tells them that their father is dead while dealing with pirates. After a bit of sniffling from the wife, she softly says, “it’s such a shame too. My husband only saw our new born for a bit before leaving”. We then pan to the baby in the bassinet, and it’s also just, Rory Kinnear sucking on a pacifier.

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maevedmab · 5 months

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OFMD plus Mincing Mocking bird part 1

#ofmd #our flag means death #jim jimenez #rhys darby #taika waititi #chauncey badminton #David Jenkins #stede bonnet #blackbeard #Doug #ed teach #roach #samba schutte

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ladypolitik · 1 year

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#incorrect quotes #twitter quote meme #izzy hands #spanish jackie #chauncey badminton #ofmd #our flag means death meme #our flag means death memes #our flag means death #con o'neill #leslie jones #rory kinnear #ofmd crack #our flag means death as ao3 tags #ofmd as ao3 tags #ao3tagsbot

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everyscreentoobeseen · 6 months

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Hold on, why do yall think Stede's choice to kill Ned was a WHIM?????

First of all, this isnt the first time Stede got someone killed. Chuancy was an accident, but he did use the stun move. All of ep 2 s1 was about Stede learning how to deal with it. He still feels bad but as he told the natives. He dosen't feel bad that Chauncey is dead. His crew was under threat. So he stopped Badminton from hurting them. His bad feelings came from somewhere else.

Nighel Badminton got himself killed but it did make Stede run back home and face his problems. When he does go back home he tells the other rich guys.

"I've seen death. Been the cause of it. It changes you."

He already knows what it's like be a killer!

But everytime it wasn't his choice. The Badmintons were accidents. He never got to actually choose to be a killer.

That's why when Ned Low invaded his "safe space ship", captured his crew (family) and tortured not only them but also The Love of his Life, Making it into a fucked up PERFORMANCE! All his life bullies found fun in torturing him. Why would this guy be any different.

Hell yeah he was ready to kill him.

Of course, this time he gets to choose. This is not him using a stun move. He is now the conducter of Ned's death and he'll be damned if it's not done His Way.

He's not gonna stab him. It's not gonna be messy. It's not gonna be fast like a gunshot or a stab through the head.

He is going to make Ned SUFFER. Force him to walk the plank. Throw his precious violin in his face and let him drown. It's clean. It's poetic. It's outsourcing the big job to nature. Just like killing spiders.

But Ned continues to demean him. "You know once you kill me your a real pirate. Your not an amateur anymore." Even after everything Stede has been through. Not matter how much he's grown, the world still thinks he's playing at pirating.

The Badmintons dont count.

EVEN ED THINKS SO!

"Once you've killed in cold blood. You cant come back."

Well Chuancy's death was cold blooded wasn't it? Stede snuck him from behind. The boat fire that he caused isn't enough either. When Ed burns a boat, it's murder. But when Stede does it it's "quirky". Stede ALREADY considered himself a killer but NO ONE ELSE DOES. (not even the fandom apparently.)

Yes, he wanted to prove himself. But I don't think that was the thought process until Ned brought it up.

Stede did not hesitate on Ned's death until the others made him question himself. He was completely set on making sure Ned wasn't a threat to his ship. He was so sure of making him walk the plank. It was PLANNED from the moment he put the plank down and the other boat left. What's one more death? But then everyone was treating him like a innocent child?? Like he's doing something unlike him?

He HAD TO PROVE to everyone in that moment that he could kill Ned because no one RECOGNIZED that he was ALREADY a killer.

Him killing Ned became a point to make once he realized there was even a point to be made.

The only reason that he felt even a little bad about it was because Ed asked him not to. He felt like he let Ed down. That maybe Edward like Stede Bonnet, Landed Gentry Pretending to Be A Pirate more than Stede Bonnet, Real Pirate. Because he realized how much he's changed. No more Gentleman, now he's just a Pirate.

That's why he Sped Things Up with Ed. He wanted Ed to prove that he could handle not so innocent Stede FUCKING Bonnet. That he wouldn't leave Stede after seeing this new side of him. He gets consent and then goes on to have the man of his dreams after saving him. How romantic male lead of him.

Of course the NEXT FUCKING DAY HE GETS TOLD IT WAS A MISTAKE!!!! THAT HE'S NOT READY FOR "WHATEVER THIS IS".

How on earth was Stede not supposed to take this as "I dont like the you that isn't soft, isn't insecure, isnt in need of protection." That Ed is leaving to become a fisherman because he cant stand Stede being the messy one for once in his life.

Maybe it was trauma. Maybe it was a show of toxic masculinity. But dont pretend like Stede did it on a WHIM.

#ofmd #blackbeard #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #edward teach #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #stede bonnet #stede fucking bonnet #ned low #chauncey badminton #nigel badminton #the takes I've been seeing are.... SO BAD #pls tell me you don't think stede wasn't actively choosing to kill a man that attacked him first #i need to read/write fanfics about this #ofmd meta #man on fire #calypso's birthday

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walkthebass · 1 year

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Listen, OFMD is chock full of funny scenes, but I just don't know that anything is going to beat out the scene with Spanish Jackie and Chauncey Badminton. They just... couldn't care less about what the other has to say. Every single line of dialogue runs smack into an impenetrable wall of indifference, like Wile E. Coyote taking aim at a brick wall that nobody even bothered to paint.

"He broke my nose jar, and one of his crew murdered my favorite husband."

"I didn't follow any of that."

Spanish Jackie lobs it over the plate; Badminton doesn't even pick up his bat. This shit has me howling every time.

#ofmd #our flag means death #spanish jackie #chauncey badminton

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an-egg-on-it · 8 months

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Bitches who get in the way of love

#bbc ghosts #francis button #chauncey badminton #ofmd #our flag means death #the metatron #good omens #good omens spoilers

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napneeders · 1 year

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thinking about "Stede Bonnet is not a human" and the neurodivergent nagging conviction that there's something fundamentally different about you, always on the verge of internalising that whatever it is is also fundamentally bad

#stede bonnet #nd #ofmd #chauncey badminton

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vivelegalite · 7 months

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(holding head in my hands, rocking back and forth) ed doesn't know about chauncey. ed doesn't know about chauncey. ed doesn't know what happened to stede that night

#ofmd #ofmd spoilers #technically. spoilers for s1 #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death season 2 #stede bonnet #edward teach #ed teach #blackbeard #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #chauncey badminton #im goin insane x

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batsarebetterthanpeople · 4 months

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I think it's important to note that Chauncy's speech about Stede being a monster and a plague didn't come when Chauncy first saw Stede after Nigels murder, and they would have had private time together for Chauncy to deliver such a speech. No, Chauncy starts dehumanizing him like that after Blackbeard inexplicably gives up piracy for Stede. before that he was on a standard revenge quest then he saw that Stede had an objectively cool boyfriend and he decided Bonnet was a plague that had to be put down. Bringing pirates to ruin is in Chauncy's fucking job description, he doesn't give a fuck that blackbeard has gone down. He gives a fuck that it kinda seems like Stede might be sodomizing Blackbeard on the regular. I'm not saying that's his only motive obviously. Stede and Blackbeard just lost him his job, he still hasn't gotten revenge for his brother, but I do think that the monster and plague stuff is coming from a place of Chauncy feeling a certain type of way about Stede leaving his nuclear family behind to go plunder Blackbeard's booty.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta #chauncey badminton

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