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edscuntyeyeshadow · 6 months

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the way some people reacted to David Jenkins and Neil Gaiman saying their shows would only have 3 seasons is so funny because I saw so many feeling devastated while I am so relieved and relaxed about it. don’t get me wrong I love getting more content with the characters I love but… normalize cohesive storytelling. normalize ENDINGS. do you REALLY want another s*pernatural????

#our flag means death #ofmd s2 #good omens #good omens 2 #ofmd #gentlebeard #gay pirates #ineffable husbands #david jenkins #neil gaiman #edward teach #stede bonnet #ofmd season 2 #our flag means gay #gomens #our flag means good omens #my posts

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hansoeii · 8 months

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Do you think of me?

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jomarchswritingjacket · 11 months

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if you’re gay then you dream of being at least one of these

feel free to replace gay with bi, pan, lesbian, ace, etc.

(and yes i did delete the original poll so i could add the gay vampire option)

#tumblr polls #polls #vampire #gay vampires #gay pirates #pirate #gay cowboy #cowboy #gay knights #knight #lgbtqia #lgbtqplus #queer #gay #lesbian #bi #bisexual #pan #pansexual #ace #asexual

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cillacantstudysosheshere · 6 months

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Switching from gay angels to gay pirates

#ofmd season 2 #ofmd #our flag means death #good omens #good omens 2 #go #go season 2 #ed x stede #aziracrow #gay pirates #gay angel #gos2 #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #gentlebeard

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luckycaptainluz · 7 months

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so what if hypothetically I had tears streaming down my face as we speak

#my art #ofmd #ofmd season 2 #ofmd spoilers #stede bonnet #blackbonnet #edward teach #our flag means death #our flag means fanart #gay pirates

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pineapplebread · 6 months

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Edward Teach & Stede Bonnet

Inspired by classical paintings of royals.

New York Comic Con 2023✨Exhibitor booth #1937

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clairegregoryau · 6 months

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Through the Looking Glass

From fairytale in Season 1 to stark reality in Season 2 of Our Flag Means Death- meta ported across from this Twitter thread by popular demand!

This thread contains spoilers for the entirety of OFMD Season 2

First OFMD S1 rewatch since S2, and holy shit, if you haven't done that yet... do that. A thing that it made instantly clear: they told us *all along* where this was going, but there was a reason we didn't see it. Because we were living in Stede's world then. Now it's Ed's.

I know that a lot of us have felt that the tone shift at the end of S2 was... jarring, compared to what's come before. This felt like a show that wouldn't go there. One where being run through was a temporary hiccup. We've travelled all the way from this to this.

But we haven't jumped there without a journey in between. And from the minute we started hearing about Blackbeard, the show never tried to hide what Ed's world and his specific life was like. Not once. In fact they told us over and over and over.

But Season 1 told us a lot of those things through song and story and fuckery. It blended reality with fiction.

Stede met the Blackbeard he knew through books and tall tales, and the real man was even more wonderful than he'd imagined.

We, along with Stede, were comfortable thinking that all those other tales were exaggerations and misrepresentations, and a lot of them very likely were.

The Ed Stede got to know was a person who was capable of whimsy and silliness and loved soft things and doing something weird. Yep, he was also capable of violence and rage, but when he was with Stede, he didn't feel it so much.

This was a vacation from that life.

To Stede he was absolutely lovely... oh, and also a bloodthirsty killer. And Stede loved (and loves) everything about him, and both of those things can be true. This is a perfect example of a spot where (in watching Season 1 without the benefit of hindsight) I assumed that everyone else in that pub was wrong, and Stede was simply trying to protect Ed's fearsome reputation by agreeing on the bloodthirsty bits. And I think from Stede's perspective that was largely true. I think that's how they wanted us to see Ed, through his eyes. Now, after watching both seasons, I think it wasn't the whole picture.

They told us, we heard it, we saw glimpses of it. But we (and Ed) were in Stede's run-away-to-sea fairytale the whole time. It wasn't until Stede left that we saw the reality- the Ed we knew had been, to a degree, a fictional character all along. I always saw this scene as Ed putting a bit of distance between himself and reality; it always felt like the Blackbeard of Stede's storybooks was the fictional one. But now it feels like the softer Ed that Stede knew was much the same- neither of them the whole story of who Ed was and is.

The one person who refused to live in Stede's fairytale was Izzy. I've seen people say it before, but he always gave off that vibe of the only human in the Muppets movie, or the guy who was in Black Sails while everyone else was in Pirates of the Caribbean. He saw the real risks clearly.

And in that light, the end of S1 has shifted an inch to the left for me, and I'm seeing it at a slightly different angle.

Izzy ripped away the healing Ed was doing, but in some respects he did it by tearing away the fairytale we'd all been living in, shoving Ed back into the Blackbeard story.

And that's where we pick up again in Season 2.

The fairytale reference came back in S2 in two notable places, those being Jim carrying that legacy forward in the darkest times, and in Izzy invoking the wooden boy against Ricky's efforts. Stede's made himself into a real boy. Ricky, nope.

Now that I've watched both seasons together, the tone shift doesn't feel so jarring at all, actually.

It feels like sliding through the looking glass, out of Stede's world, and into Ed's- a world that existed all along; we were just seeing it, la vie en rose, through Stede's eyes.

At the beginning of S2, Stede's gone, and we're seeing it unfiltered through Ed's reality.

But Stede wasn't lying when he said he loved everything about Ed. He made a promise to come back and find him- he went down into Ed's darkest place and reminded him that no matter how bad things got, there WAS someone waiting for him, ready to love him.

The contrast between S1's fantasy and S2's reality (excluding mermaids and actual bird guys and cursed coats) is stark, but it really is that.

We have the same settings, the same people, and very different ideas and outcomes at different times.

But it was always there.

Things do come back to a state of (precarious) balance once they're all together. Apologies are made, whether they're spoken out loud or through actions. Things go right, things go wrong. Healing happens. Izzy continues to have the steadiest, most real through-line in the story as he tracks toward redemption, finds acceptance, and to an extent finds himself.

Once again, I hate that they went here with the ending and I wish they hadn't. But it got a fraction easier for me looking at it not as a continuation of Stede's fairytale, but of the grounded-in-pirate-reality arc Izzy was always on, even while we lived in Stede's world.

Where does that leave us? We're not going back to the fairytale, but we're not going to be living in Black Sails for S3, either. We've hit a fusion point where S1 ended with each of them going to separate, miserable homes, but S2 ended with them in the same place, ready and willing to make a go of it.

Season 3 is going to give us their world, together.

I LOVED the moments in this season where the deep emotions were in balance with the silliness I've always adored about this show. Eps4-6 were wonderful like that. Clearly we're not done with drama, either, but like Ed and Stede, I think we'll find a middle ground.

Anyway in conclusion, a rewatch of S1 after S2 somehow made me love the first season even more, which felt impossible? It's now gained /even more/ layers of depth than it had before. No matter how you feel about S2 I think it's worth that rewatch.

Adding one more bit of clarity for myself: I think we got a bit (intentionally) seduced in S1 by the idea that the Ed of the storybooks, the Vampire Viking Clown with the nine guns, was a version of him that others saw, when Stede saw the REAL person who 'worked' for Blackbeard.

In hindsight I think it's clear the Ed Stede go to know was also not the complete version of himself- the reality is, there's a whole spectrum between the two, and they've landed in the middle of it now. Ed intentionally leaned into the unlovable Kraken image to protect himself.

It very much didn't work, just like being just... Edward hadn't worked to protect himself, either. This season has been very much about pulling those two extremes together and finding all the parts that make up Ed overall (another thread on that here on Twitter, which I'll also shift across to Tumblr soon!)

And I think one of my favourite things in S2 has been seeing the way Stede SEES that- he knows what Ed's done, everyone's told him, but he still loves Ed. sees his trauma and how it affects him, and believes he's a good man regardless. He IS lovable; he's not forever broken.

And together, they can heal.

#ofmd #our flag means death #gay pirates #ofmd meta #unreliable narrators #fantasy vs reality #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 spoilers

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verk0my · 2 years

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the world is brighter than the sun now that you're here

you can get a print here: inprnt!

#stede bonnet #edward teach #blackbeard #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #our flag means death #ofmd #gay pirates #fanart #verkomy #verkomy 2022 #clip studio paint #prints #my art #art

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donkussy · 7 months

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OH wow, I've just realised I've never posted this on here! S2 is so close omg

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #edward teach #ed x stede #ofmd fanart #ofmd stede #ofmd ed #ofmd edward teach #gentlebeard #our frames mean love #our flag means fanart #gay pirates

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autopsy-barista · 6 months

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"Calypso"

[alcohol markers and colored pencils]

#artists on tumblr #fanart #ofmd fanart #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death #gay pirates #drag queen #wee john feeney #wee john ofmd #traditional drawing #traditional art

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edscuntyeyeshadow · 6 months

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rewatching ofmd right now and literally all I can think about is how the guy on the left is somehow also the guy that shoved edward teach against a wall for the purposes of having hot gay sex

#ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #gentlebeard #ofmd #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death #our flag means gay #gay pirates #stede bonnet #edward teach #stede fucking bonnet #blackbonnet #ed x stede

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incaseyouart · 2 years

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Just pirates bein bros romantically in the moonlight~

#our flag means death #ofmd #black bonnet #stede bonnet #edward teach #blackbeard #gay pirates #my art #digital art #this show is everything

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alexis-royce · 18 days

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Hoping This Finds You Well is coming to Steam!

An experiment in letter writing, meant to evoke the distinctly sweet homoerotisicm of Victorian and Edwardian literature. Follow the correspondence of two professors, in the months before one of them makes a decision he'll never be able to take back.

A visual novel with a cute mechanic: Slide the letters back and forth across the screen, to experience the time the letter is written, and when it is read

About 10,000 words in length

Two scientists, one of them arguably quite mad!

Wishlist it right now!

#indie games #visual novel #gay #trans #dark academia #romance #lgbt #light academia #transmasc #gay romance #queer romance #queer fantasy #lgbtq books #gay pirates

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xrequiemm · 2 years

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Forbidden romance

#ofmd #clip studio paint #csp #blackbeard #ofmd fanart #our flag means death #our flag means death fanart #rhys darby #stede bonnet #taika waititi #blackbonnet #digital art #gentlebeard #ofmd blackbeard #ofmd stede #gay pirates #our flag means gay

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insomnioo69 · 6 months

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"you wear fine things well"

I can't with these two

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highonstan · 6 months

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I can’t be the only one SO intrigued by Izzy’s backstory like?? that man knows at least a bit of french, knows classical songs, can sing like an angel and can read (and prob write).

Like??? i need to know more about him i’m begging.

#izzy hands #israel hands #ofmd izzy #ofmd s2 #ofmd #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death #ofmd2 #ofmd season 2 #con o'neill #blackbeard #stede bonnet #edward teach #gay pirates

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