I am LOVING the new season of Ghosts so far but particularly Kitty’s horrified realisation that her friends Fuck

la vie en rose is actually a nadja & laszlo original that got plagiarized, which is why izzy was singing it in the 1700s

“clean yourself up and come find me, we have much work to do” vs. “clean up your own fucking mess, I’m not doing it, been doing it all my fucking life”

two different scenes of Ed visiting a very vulnerable Izzy in bed… very different dynamics in both………

do you get it…. do you understand me……..

don’t understand izzy haters don’t understand ed haters they are intertwined they are broken into pieces they love each other but even the best they can do isn’t enough they are barbed wire they are a gold chain they are wrong for each other they were born to be side by side there is not one without the other and it’s terrible now but there’s a deep-seated need to fix it, they’re going to try fix it

*me aggressively tapping a stick against the Prehistoric Planet producers’ windows in the middle of the night* where are the coelacanths mr favreau they’ve been alive for 66 million years and your ocean episode took place 65 million years ago *smacks the stick against the glass even louder until security has to come get me* where are my fiSH MR FAVREAU *hurls the stick against the window as i’m dragged away* MY COELACANTHS MR FAVREAU

The only S3 opening I accept is Izzy literally clawing out of the grave, yelling: 'None of you absolute TWATS bothered to check for a pulse??'

In a show where every tiny movement has 26280 meanings and possible interpretations, I refuse to believe that this death has absolutely none.

And I also hope after crawling out, his first half conscious journey is into Ed's and Stede's inn, sending both into a cardiac arrest

I'm still not over this

Ed was like: see Izzy? I'm the worst human being, no, a monster! A devil! No wonder no one loves me!

Izzy, without 3 toes at this point: I love you.

I'm not surprised Ed didn't take it in well

wait hang on 😭😭 are people seriously debating “he’s a complicated man” right now??

i agree that izzy’s an unreliable narrator, and i think that some of the things he’s said about ed aren’t necessarily true, much as many other things he’s said are also not necessarily true. he’s not really aware of the full picture the whole time, poor duck, as much as i adore him.

but like… besides the fact it really doesn’t have anything to do with wether or not you think izzy’s doing complex evil shit to ed on purpose, and people seem to be making it about that…

ed is VERY MUCH a complicated man. as someone who relates to ed probably more than stede or izzy… he’s absolutely a complicated man. ed can be violent, and suicidal, and he clearly experiences some form of emotional dysregulation, and he’s done things to people that weren’t justified. the crew was traumatised by ed’s behaviour and how much violence he placed them in a position to commit.

the way ed responds to rejection is so violent and out of proportion, his consecutive raids, his suicidal antagonism towards the crew… and for me and my personal issues, that’s extremely relatable… but it is NOT mentally well behaviour.

ed also exhibits patterns of disordered alcohol use, and his anger often causes him to lash out (yes, often at izzy who pushes his buttons, and yes, izzy’s behaviour is a factor in this. but it’s also worth noting ed has agency as a character and his violence is still violence, provoked or not) and one of his most integral traumas is how an act of violence saved him from the violent alcoholic who was his father.

there’s nothing about ed that’s not a complicated man. he’s done bad things that weren’t justified. that doesn’t make him a bad man. it makes him a complicated one. it’s very clear he knows how to be a better person. and that he can be. that the show left out a lot of that journey is really disappointing, but ed feels like he’s a monster and he does bad things to become the villain he thinks he deserves to be treated as, you know?

he is SUCH a complicated man. that doesn’t mean he’s irredeemable or bad, it doesn’t mean there’s a moral obligation to dislike him either. none of that’s the case. but izzy got it right when he called ed complicated. i think in some ways izzy had finally realised that he wasn’t always going to understand ed because ed wasn’t always going to think the way he did, but he was coming to accept that he didn’t need ed to be someone he could understand as long as ed was happy? does that make sense? i know that’s a sappy outlook on a canonically toxic relationship but i just cannot believe that there’s a genuinely widely accepted take going around which boils down to people thinking it’s wrong to call ed a complicated man. like, huh???? girl….

anyyywayyysss. totally unrelated to any previous posts or potential current WIPs (lie) I have a headcanon that izzy is like. ridiculously loud during sex. and I don’t just mean like, moaning and whimpering (which he does do) but like,,, have you heard how much that man swears? and how LOUD he can swear?? his unchallenged yelling prowess? you can NOT tell me that my man wouldn’t be the most noisy ass bottom alive in bed but in like the most aggressive way possible. if it almost sounds like he’s angry with you then you’re doing it right. just raging lustful screaming echoing for ten miles in every direction like “FUUUCKKKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK OH FUCKING SHIT - NGH - FUCK - DADDY - FUCK - JESUS FUCKING BALLS FUCKING HELL ED. 💖EDDIE ED EDEDEDDIEOHEDFUCK - NGHHH SHIT - AH-” etc etc you get the picture. the crew of the queen anne have never known a full nights sleep in their entire lives.

WAS ANYONE GOING TO TELL ME THAT THE REAL LIFE ISRAEL HANDS WAS SHOT IN THE KNEE BY BLACKBEARD OR WAS I JUST SUPPOSED TO FIND THAT OUT FROM A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE MYSELF

me + all my mutuals when izzys getting a favourable arc in s2

when I type 'I want to be a' my phone suggests 'vampire'. okay then.

i love how in ofmd time, like everything else, makes no sense. in one afternoon izzy tried to teach stede how to be a pirate, failed, the revenge crew found a cursed ship, proceeded to have a collective mental break over stede's cursed suit, found ANOTHER ship, raided it, tied up the crew in order to ditch the suit, made it home before dark, meanwhile ed and fang went fishing

perfect. no notes

I love how in 1x10, Izzy was like

only instead of pulling himself together and focusing, like the Elasticgirl, Blackbeard went on a violent killing spree, hurting everyone around him

it's in so many fics and so many metas and so many joke posts and so many people act like it's a blatant canonical fact that sometimes it feels like im going crazy

but every time i rewatch the show im struck by how literally the only solid evidence for the interpretation that izzy is essential in running ed's ship

is the fact that izzy says so

On symbolism in OFMD (And like. Understanding what is LITERALLY spelled out for us?)

Stede - The Lighthouse (textual - explicit)

Mary - The Lighthouse (textual - implicit/by association)

Ed - The Kraken (textual - explicit)

Izzy - The Anchor (interpretive - implicit)

Stede (and Mary, by association) is represented by The Lighthouse. From his wedding, to his impending death, to his return to sea. 'We are to be lighthouses to each other', 'It's a lighthouse, I should have been one for my family [. . .] We need to be a lighthouse', [arm up like a signal to his marooned crew]. These are textually explicit instances of symbolism. He is helping guide his crew towards better lives, he is doing the same for Ed, and he is also the thing that causes them all to crack up on the rocks and sink to the depths that The Kraken inhabits.

Ed is represented by The Kraken. From the implicit fear/respect of everyone who knows of him, to his murdering his father, to his 'murdering' Lucius/maiming Izzy/marooning and kidnapping Stede's crew. 'The kraken didn't kill my dad, I did, I'm the kraken', 'I am the kraken' [self affirmingly before he goes to maim Izzy]. These are textually explicit instances of symbolism. The kraken was often drawn on maps/charts to represent dangerous waters. It is a warning against danger but it is also a form of protection. Ed embodies the kraken when he is hurt. He kills his father to protect himself/his mother. He 'kills' Lucius and maims Izzy and maroons most of the crew to protect himself from the hurt that Stede caused when he left and from the consequences of what continuing to show his vulnerability might lead to if Izzy is right (which he is, outside of The Revenge at least) and if he doesn't have Izzy in his corner anymore. He is hurt and he brings everyone he can down into the depths with him.

Izzy is the anchor. From his desire for stability, his aversion to change, his desire to protect what is important to him (himself, Ed, and HIS crew through the reputation of Blackbeard). 'Bored as you might be, if we don't come up with a plan soon, we're all gonna fucking die', 'Your lot's days of lying around doing fuck all are through. Starting today you're all going to be getting specific duties', 'Bonnet's done something to my bosses brain', '[mid resignation rant] losing several of our crew', 'I'm not dying. Not for him and not for you', 'loyalty to your captain, above all else [. . .] I couldn't sit by and let you ruin yourself for that twat', [is tied to an anchor by a crew that don't like him as captain because of the way he enforces the norm that he inhabited as a pirate (which Fang and Ivan ALSO inhabited before The Revenge, and which Fang returns to once Blackbeard/The Kraken is the one enforcing it again)]. These are interpretive instances of symbolism. Anchors keep a ship safe but they also keep it unmoving. Izzy wants the normalcy and security of Ed's Blackbeard (who people surrender to on sight, which means no danger) but Ed finds that life boring because there is no challenge and there is no change. He goes down with the ship when it cracks up on the rocks and he is content in the depths because that is what is familiar to him. He does not know that iron rusts.

And nobody is a molotov cocktail.

Except for Wee John. Wee John can be a molotov cocktail.