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melissa-leaf · 8 months

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#carlos alcaraz #juan carlos ferrero #special spanish baby #um hello David?#David Ferrer #vamos 😌❤️#tennis #gifs #us open 2023

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thelionsship · 8 months

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Short Comic : Always ‘sí’ for you, Rogi. 💗🚗

#fedal #roger federer #rafael nadal #rafa nadal #feliciano lopez #david ferrer #spanish #spanish team #tennis #oh my goodness #i love these two #but #this is so silly #im crying #thelions_ship #my art #fanart #art #artwork

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tennis-out-of-context · 1 year

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#rafael nadal #rafael nadal gifs #sitting #feliciano lopez #feliciano lopez gifs #david ferrer #david ferrer gifs

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zingaplanet · 2 years

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If you shall ever doubt who's the real sexy, party-crazed, homoerotic jock group of this tennis AU let me remind you of the glory that is Spain winning the Davis Cup in 2011, tx.

#bonus rafa nadal shaking those hips that def don't lie #were we ever in doubt #the legendary spanish armada #QUEENS #also i get it k. i too would ghost the kinsey scale if feli lopez is dancing with me tx #rafael nadal #feliciano lopez #david ferrer #marc lopez #spain #davis cup #tennis #fedal #rafa

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janesurlife · 1 year

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I know Ferru...I KNOW!!!!!!

#rafael nadal #david ferrer #spanish armada

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hetookhertoamovie · 3 months

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Rafael Nadal / Roger Federer / Novak Djokovic / David Ferrer

2011 ATP World Tour Media Guide

#tennis #atp tour #rafael nadal #roger federer #novak djokovic #david ferrer #digital media #archive #2011

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daikenkki · 21 days

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#US Open #tennis #David Ferrer #Fernando Verdasco

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tennisrpfshipsbracket · 2 months

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round 1, match 2

#tennis #chris evert #martina navratilova #rafael nadal #david ferrer

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spenglernot · 6 months

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STORIES TELLING: NED LOWE AND THE DEATH OF POOR REPRESENTATION IN OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH

In history, Ned Lowe was one of the most sadistic and violent pirates in the early 18th century, so he’s an obvious choice for a villain for season 2, episode 6 – Calypso’s Birthday. What is interesting is what the OFMD writers chose to do with him.

Lowe announces himself to the crew of the Revenge with great fanfare (cannon ball attack) and gets right to the point.

Ed is thoroughly unimpressed.

Cut to Ed and Stede tied up while Ned attempts to set the mood so he can monologue about why he wants to kill Ed.

Ed knows what’s coming. He is going to suffer but he still can’t be arsed to meet Ned with anything but vaguely bored dismissiveness (and Stede is happy to play along).

Up on the deck, Ned prepares the crew for his big, dramatic moment of symphonic torture.

Note that the Revenge crew is tied down, braced by vices and generally unable to protect themselves from imminent torture and possible death, but their spirits are up. They don’t seem terribly fussed.

Then Stede uses his people positive management style to happily orchestrate a worker uprising in Ned’s crew.

Ned’s crew responds instantly; severing their allegiance to Lowe and telling him off.

The crew sails away and talks profit sharing while Ned dully threatens to hunt them down.

Ned is now a prisoner of the Revenge crew and seems entirely disinterested in his own survival.

And Ned sinks to the depths, without struggling at all.

There is a lot going on in this episode: pay and labor equity direct action, gay love engagement bliss, kink humor, Stede being a hero and saving his crew by playing to his strengths, then having to decide whether to kill in cold blood and feel the consequences of that choice. Ed having one more reason to be done with piracy (while being so impressed with and fond of Stede), and then watching his man make a fraught choice and having to deal with the fallout from that. (And, damn, I haven’t even mentioned the passionate sex bit.) Anyway, back to the point.

Now for the the meta part

The Ned Lowe sequences are perfectly in keeping with OFMD’s signature blend of madcap violence, humor, and big emotional gut punches. But something about Ned Lowe just strikes me as off for this show.

Ned is seriously threatening the crews’ lives, so why don’t they take him seriously?

Why does Ned have such a boring, throwaway backstory?

Why is Ned so nonchalant about his own death; like it’s a foregone conclusion?

Why does Ned have a silver violin and silver spurs on his slip-on dress shoes?

Why is Ned sartorially monochromatic?

And then I realized who Ned reminds me of.

This guy,

Earnst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film Diamonds are Forever (1971)

And this guy,

Scar in Disney's The Lion King (1994).

And this guy,

Xerxes, 300 (2006).

And it sure seems like Ned Lowe isn’t just an episodic villain. He is an archetype of the one-dimensional, stereotypical queer-coded villain that has been endemic in film and television throughout history. The OFMD writers have a lot to say about what to do with this kind of character:

Don’t respect him.

Feel free to openly mock him.

Don’t let him take your joy, even though he will hurt you.

He won’t disappear on his own. You have to throw something at him (take action) to make him go away.

Once he’s in the water, he’s content to drown. He’s not into what he’s doing any more than you are.

Oh and, just to be clear,

The LGBTQIA+ community has a very long history of turning shit media into better stories. So, hey, big media, prepare to have your crap characters wrecked (improved).

Now, back to our transformative pirate show with rich, complex queer characters and a multi-layered plot that surprises me every week and makes me feel big feelings - most of all, joy.

Final thought: I do wonder if Ned Lowe is monochromatically silver as a tribute to/poke at, Hollywood and the silver screen.

This meta was written before OFMD season 2 has fully aired. No idea what’s going to happen in the finale (and I’ve generally fled social media to avoid spoilers). I’ll be back, looking at everyone’s fascinating posts after episode 8 airs.