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bizarrelittlemew · 2 months

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Stede being firm (requested by anon)

#ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #ofmdedit #ofmdsource #ofmd gifs #ida.stuff #stede bonnet #edward teach #ofmd 1x3 #ofmd 1x5 #ofmd 1x7 #ofmd 1x8 #ofmd 2x3 #ofmd 2x5 #ofmd 2x6 #this took ages 💀#but i've been wanting to do it for a long time

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follows-the-bees · 3 months

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Ed and Frenchie connecting right away always makes me smile.

Their connection in 1x5 feels instinctual. We see Frenchie carefree, walking into the captain's quarters with a flourish in his new outfit. He's comfortable with them, and when Ed and Stede decide to go to the party, Ed right away asks Frenchie to come along if he doesn't have any plans.

Then when Ed walks out of the party upset Stede is not the only one to respond to that. Frenchie's body language immediately changes from relaxed and having fun to standing straight up, concern on his face followed immediately by a crack at the societal people.

We don't see it directly on screen but Frenchie and Olu used their earlier agreement with Abshir over the pyramid scheme to get Stede the information for the passive aggression moment.

We don't know much about Frenchie's past, only that he worked in "service," can play the lute, and is an absolute gem at pulling off ploys.

I have written about how Frenchie and Ed have similar coping mechanisms with their trauma, and while not on the surface or talked about, it adds to their connection.

(This connection also explains why Ed keeps Frenchie aboard at the end of the first season and why he chooses Frenchie to be first mate.)

Now I feel like I'm rambling but my point is, we learn so much about Frenchie's character in this episode and the relation between Ed and Frenchie is instant and sweet. I love the effortlessness behind connections between people in this show.

The Best Revenge is Dressing Well is a great episode and these small moments, this link makes it all the more deeper.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd edward teach #ofmd frenchie #stede bonnet #their bond is special to me #ofmd 1x5 #the best revenge is dressing well

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livelovecaliforniadreams · 7 months

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Ed + Stede Moments Per Episode: 1x5 - The Best Revenge is Dressing Well

#edstede moments #ofmd #ofmdedit #ofmdedits #our flag means death #ed x stede #stede x ed #stede bonnet #rhys darby #taika waititi #captain blackbeard #1x5 #insane #looks #gif #gifs #gifset

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epersonae · 3 months

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Tbh "sometimes a quick death is the best way to end a bad conversation" is some solid Dorothy Parker style banter

#ofmd #1x5 my beloved #The episode of all time #Also poor anxious stede thru the whole thing

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luciuscodedswedeboy · 7 months

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OFMD 1x5 🤝 OFMD 2x5

moonlight gentlebeard

below decks LuPete

on deck Sprizzy flirting

Pete watching said flirting

Lucius drawing one of his babes

crew hijinks with fancy clothes on another ship

being my favourite episode of the season

#this ep was literally like a balm for all the trauma of eps 1-3 #😭😭😭#gentlebeard #edward teach #stede bonnet #lupete #black pete ofmd #lucius spriggs #sprizzy #izzy hands #lupete wedding #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers

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iamadequate1 · 2 months

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Unpopular Opinions on 2x6!

I was in and out of WJW yesterday, but was it said who (Max or DJenks) initiated the 2x6 rewrite? I know Max is to blame for the truncated episode count and episode length, but the makeover-pressure storyline of the original 2x6 maybe just was not working and they decided to correct?

We don't know exactly what "makeover" entailed, but Ed already found Stede attractive under any circumstance (the hanged and sickly look of 1x4, still trying to kiss him after seeing him in that ugly af wig for most of 1x5, that adventurer outfit in 1x7 that did no favor for his legs, etc.) and Stede was already confident enough to try for sex in 2x5. I'm not sure what would have been the point of a Stede makeover, whether it was to make him more "manly" or more "fancy" or more "pretty and gnc" or more whatever was going to be used. The thing that was holding Ed back was wanting to be careful and fear of being hurt again; a Stede makeover wouldn't have helped that, and the crew intervening would have done more harm than good. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Really, the only thing Ed/Stede-wise I'm missing in 2x6 is some degree of sexual tension and a slow dance, dammit. Oh, and really more segue scene in going from on deck, to below deck, to on deck with Ned Low. That was weird.

But, here's the thing: Stede is underdeveloped in S2 compared to Ed. I wrote this thing between the releases of 2x7 and 2x8, and this is the biggest failure that Max gave OFMD in this time truncation. (And the biggest failure from DJenks + company in response is spending so much of the premium screen time on Izzy instead of killing him off early, but I digress...)

This is what I ended that post on, and I stand by it:

I think it should be noted that as of the end of 2x7, Stede is the only crew member who hasn't had mental reflection and/or therapy in Season 2. He realized Mary, Alma, and Louis didn't need him and he was in love with Ed in 1x10, but the voice calling him a child with a toy, an idiot, weak, and ugly is still there.

This is why we need an S3!!!

So, on the lost makeover scene, Stede is the only character that has explicitly had body image issues (from what I remember...), so I really could do without a makeover scene, especially with Stede getting dumped the next episode just a few hours after sleeping with Ed the first time. If Ed had given given him cute reassurances that no makeover was necessary, the dumping would have been even worse! If the crew had pressured the sex in any way, that dumping would have been EXTRA even worse!

I think the makeover/cupid stuff was best left out of canon. I'm sure it would work in a fanfic, but in the placement of the canon story, I don't think it belonged. We REALLY needed more time between "take it slow" and The Banginging (just like we needed more time in the cocaptains era), but 8 episodes, I enjoy the beat breakdowns they chose in the time they were allotted,

Getting more into unpopular opinion territory: I don't care in the slightest that polycule scenes were cut since that storyline is so incredibly uninteresting to me; I don't mind it, but I just don't miss it when it's not around. We don't know who made the call on cutting the polycule scene(s), but IMO, gay Die Hard with Lupete was way better than anything the polycule could have done. And moving the Lupete wedding to the end made the season end on a higher and more hopeful note.

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd meta #stede bonnet #loml #izzy critical #i love lupete most of all #ofmd s2e6

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bizarrelittlemew · 4 months

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Ed & Stede being protective of each other for @xoxoemynn's birthday 💜

Happy birthday Marianne!! I'm so happy and lucky to have become friends with you this past year – you're so immensely talented, clever and kind, have a brilliant mind, write incredible fics, and on top of that, you're always ready to stand up for your friends (seriously idk what I'd have done without you the past few months) 💗 you deserve all the best in the world and hope you have a wonderful day!!

#ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #ofmdedit #ofmdsource #ofmd gifs #ida.stuff #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #edward teach #stede bonnet #ofmd 1x5 #ofmd 1x9 #ofmd 2x6 #also looking forward to the 6 hours overlap where it's both out birthdays <3

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bizarrelittlemew · 5 months

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