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#WHO TF DID THAT?!?#i shout staring directly at david jenkins#gentlebeard#edward teach#stede bonnet#ofmd 2x6#ofmd 2x7#our flag means death#ofmd#ofmd s2 spoilers#ofmd spoilers
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2x1 | 2x7
#ofmd#ofmdedit#our flag means death#ed x stede#stede x ed#ed teach#edward teach#taika waititi#rhys darby#so rom com of them#gif#gifs#gifset#2x1#2x7#stede bonnet
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2x7 missing scene sex and stede knows what he's doing but not from experience, and ed can and has presumed the latter part of that but he's letting stede take the lead anyway, and at first stede is too impatient (frantic) to get the oil and just tosses his rings down on the bed around ed and sticks his fingers in his mouth, and ed is like O.O (horny) and stede panics that he's doing it wrong and asks, with his mouth still comically stuffed full of his own fingers, "right??"
#jack facts#am i going to write 2x7 missing scene sex fic after all the other 2x7 missing scene sex fics on ao3 (so far) have disappointed me?#maybe so#ofmd#blackbonnet#hc
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Stede to Izzy in 2x3:
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Stede doesn't have time for that nonsense
#our flag means death#ofmd#stede bonnet#izzy hands#“i know you think you know him” lol#the pathetic confession in 2x1 and trying to commiserate as equals in 2x7#sit down man#you were never in the game#Youtube
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Ed's Emerald Ring, a love story
I am going to repost this with a few new ideas and some pictures that are actually decent.
This is Part 1: The Proof
The Emerald ring Ed wears in season 2 of OFMD is Stede's ring.
The emerald ring is too big for Ed. Stede's rings are canonically too big for Ed. In 1x4 when they change clothes, Stede's rings on Ed's hands are lopsided the entire time. Ed's usual rings fit him well. The Emerald ring is also lopsided nearly the entire time. There is NO reason for Gypsy Taylor to make Taika Waititi wear a ring that doesn't fit unless there was a specific reason that it needed to be too big.
Stede's rings on Ed, too big for him:
The Emerald ring on Ed, also too big
If the ring was part of his plunder Ed would have gotten rid of it in 2x6 when he called his plunder poison. He got rid of most or all of his plunder, but he kept the emerald ring, why? Because it isn't tied to piracy. Even if he did keep some of his plunder, we know he considers it to be poison, so why would he keep something that was stolen so close to him? on his body all the time? I simply don't believe that he would keep something close to his heart that came from the thing he is trying to escape.
When Ed drops his leathers overboard in 2x7 he still keeps the emerald ring. If the ring had some attachment to the leathers he would have sunk it with the rest of his stuff.
The ring is Stede's color. Stede spends a majority of his time in green/sea green clothing, Stede's main ring is sea green. The captain's cabin has a lot of green elements. Nearly every outfit he wears has at least a trace of green in it, even before he leaves his wife. The "exquisite cashmere" that Ed rubs on his face has a lot of green in it. Stede's bed sheets also have green in them. Most of the time we see Stede's daughter she is also in green, not sure what to make of that other then connecting them to each other.
Interestingly, the first non green outfit that we see Stede wear after meeting Ed is Purple, Ed's color
Ed has a history of keeping stuff that signifies Stede close to him. We see this when he wears Stede's black scarf for most of season 1 and puts it back on right before he sails into the storm in season 2.
The only reason for Ed to keep a piece of jewelry THAT DOESN'T FIT is if the meaning was divorced from piracy and special to him, and the only thing in his life that comes close to that is Stede.
thus ends part 1. I'll be back with part 2 in a bit
#blackbeard x stede#ed x stede#edward x stede#ofmd#ofmd s2 spoilers#ofmd stede#lgbt pride#emerald#green#blackbeard#ofmd season 2#ofmd s2#ofmd spoilers#ofmd 2#our flag means death spoilers#ofmd season 2 spoilers#ofmd season one#taika waititi#rhys darby#david jenkins#renew as a crew
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OFMD Critique: Finales, Writing Backwards, and the Importance of Building Relationships
Continuing on the rambling meta bc it turns out there are a couple of people that responded well to my initial thoughts...
Am I the only one that felt like the OFMD Season 2 finale suffered from the exact same problem as the Game of Thrones or the How I Met Your Mother Season finales? Well, not exactly the same, but lemme explain.
The treatment of Izzy Hands in Season 2 of OFMD feels like when they sat down to write this season, they wrote his death scene first (for whatever reasons that might be, though likely for the sake of Ed's arc- we're not going to address my feelings on THAT rn), THEN backfilled his arc for the rest of the season based on that, but then didn't rewrite his death scene to address the stuff that organically happened when writing the rest of the season.
Like, for example, I've seen plenty of people point out that the deathbed apology from Izzy to Ed doesn't really work (I fed your darkness) both in regards to the sheer imbalance of damage shown onscreen between Ed and Izzy, but also doesn't work as a "putting Blackbeard behind us" scene when Izzy figuratively (and literally, if you count him as part of the group with the cannonball) killed his half of Blackbeard in the storm scene in 2x2, with whatever parts lingering in him killed with the unicorn scene in 2x4. After this point, his arc and his focus has very, very little to do with Blackbeard or hell, Ed in general besides the couple of comments made to Ed and Stede that cement that Izzy is happy that Ed moved on and found someone that makes him happy.
Izzy's arc has left Blackbeard behind already. He has already hit the emotional beat that the finale wants to retread.
And then the other part of his deathbed comments to Ed- "the crew loves you, Ed"- makes no sense from the Ed side of things. The show built up an arc for Izzy that would make people care when he died, but that arc was literally about the crew literally putting aside their differences/fear/distrust of each other to help, support, and accept Izzy as their figurehead, their protector, their friend, their recovery, their family, their (insert positive symbolism/metaphor for all of the VARIOUS implied flirtations here).
What did they have with Ed? Other than his moments with Stede and Fang, what relationships were built up before Izzy's death? Calypso's birthday included no scenes of the crew interacting with Ed other than the short Archie/Ed/Stede convo at the beginning. We get none of him talking to them when prepping for the party. He spends 2x7 and 2x8 with Stede, only having scenes with Stede, never building anything with the crew.
THE LAST SUBSTANTIAL INTERACTION ED HAS WITH THE CREW BEFORE IZZY DIES IS THE "INFLUENCER APOLOGY" IN 2X5 (other than with Fang in the boat). Holy shit, I didn't even realize that until I got to this point in the meta. I had realized that something felt wrong/off about the "the crew loves you line," but I thought that it was because 2x1-2x3 cast such a long shadow on the rest of the season that it was impossible to escape. No, there were cracks in the back half of the season as well.
All of which is to say: if you have to kill Izzy (which you really, really don't, btw, it makes little sense in a show where pretty much every character has survived a near death experience with nary a scratch, but for the sake of hypothetical), there is a way you can pull it off: you have the crew at Izzy's side as he dies instead of Ed. You have their relationship with Izzy at the forefront, because their relationship is the one that matters at this point in the narrative. You have Izzy die trying to save one of them, not by random gunshot.
And then after Izzy dies, you finally give the crew their agency back. You let Izzy's death be the last straw in THEIR arcs. You let them tell Ed that they cannot allow him to stay on the ship after everything. You let them tell him that they are putting their foot down, and he can go retire if he wants, but they will not let him destroy this crew anymore.
(Or, you know, you can have all of that with a death SCARE instead of an actual death, and allow Izzy to sail off into the sunset as a first mate instead of as a dead body. Because that would suit the tone of the show and the story better.)
But I have the feeling that point B (Izzy dying/his death scene) was the thing that was decided on first, and so the budget crunch/other factors may have led the writers into making the same mistake as so many before them have: writing point A out organically, and then failing to change Point B when it no longer fit the story they had written.
#izzy hands#ofmd critical#2x08 mermen#ofmd 2x08#ed teach critical#meta#fix it#kind of#analysis#i know I'm rambling#calypsos birthday#we really ahould have taken the “red flags” episode title more seriously#ofmd meta
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OFMD S3 (Manifesting!)
I think we've all seen Casey Bloys' comments on an OFMD S3:
“What’s a little bit different in a linear world than here is… how a show performs over a longer period of time than three weeks or something,” Bloys stated. “So we’re figuring out how it’s doing, what it’s looking like.”
My reaction:
Really, HBO? HBO, after running one of the worst, most spoilery, most front loaded marketing campaigns I have ever seen, wants to talk about the long term?
The question that was driving everyone feral for an S2 was, will Stede and Ed find each other again? HBO/MAX put their first face-to-face meeting in the trailer. Why watch the show when the marketing will just toss a greatest hits reel out to the public before the episode even releases?
The showstopping set piece of 2x3 (MerStede rescuing Ed) was spoiled in their "marketing" since they released the concept art for MerStede days before the episode aired in a BTS video.
Let's look at the finale:
The beach kisses and the inn were spoiled in BTS videos released days before the episode was released after putting a week between 2x7 and 2x8 releases. Yeah, yeah, they didn't show the kisses exactly, but what else would that pose be for? It really enforced that 2x7 and 2x8 should have been released together, but HBO/MAX choose to create a cliffhanger while immediately posting the resolution in their marketing
Ed thinking Stede was dead was spoiled by the episode promo
Ed and Stede running toward one another on the beach was spoiled by the trailer. (It didn't show them in frame together, but it was obviously the same location and the direction they were going in matched.)
Ed reading one of Stede's letters was spoiled by marketing a few days before the finale release for no discernable reason
Izzy's climatic speech to Ricky (and that he was saying it to Ricky!) was spoiled in the trailer. It could have been a good hype VO, and they didn't need to spoil whom Izzy was talking to
The crew in the British garb and taking out soldiers was in the trailer. This plot begins nine minutes before the credits start.
The Revenge Crew working with Spanish Jackie and Zheng at some point was well spoiled beforehand in their BTS promo material. Zheng saying they should team up is three minutes before the credits start.
(Has anyone seen this amount of BTS material of episodes, including the season climax, released before an episode releases instead of after? Just holding this BTS material until after seems like a no-brainer to extending a show's interest after the finale is released.)
The reason the pacing felt super "off" on your first watch is because HBO/MAX already released a bulleted run through of the episode beforehand, and you were mentally ticking it off as you went instead of watching it organically. Watching it a second time really improves the flow of the episode.
This is a show whose popularity was raised created entirely through word-of-mouth excitement. The greediness of these streaming companies is why we couldn't have the actors doing promo, but then they took away the show's next most powerful tool, the word-of-mouth discussion, by releasing large swathes of the climax of the season before it aired, and the social media hype and discussion was front loaded to before release instead of after.
S3 was set up to show Ed and Stede as a solid couple and to show the pirate community against the British, and the season climax of these two points was released by HBO/MAX before the episode, and it was excitedly discussed then. Now, a week after release, we're stuck in some horrible gravy basket of discussing the part of the last five-ten minutes that HBO/MAX didn't outright spoil (though they tried their hardest with the grave promo stills and Ed's bloody hand in the promo!): Izzy's death. No one is having fun!
There is a lot of story setup for an S3 but DJenks and company had to set up a season that could double as a series finale in a pinch, so we also lost the "What happens next??" fervor because HBO/MAX wouldn't greenlight two seasons at once of their biggest new IP of 2022. The bizarre marketing strategy didn't lend itself to a long term success, and it's up to the fans once again to do HBO/MAX's job for them.
#ofmd#our flag means death#ofmd s2#ofmd 2x08#hbo max#ofmd s3#renew as a crew#talk it through as a crew#ofmd meta#renewal gravy basket#ranty rant rant#ofmd s2 spoilers#is it worth tagging s2 spoilers anymore?
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OFMD 2x7
I think I need to go into isolation for a bit to recover ngl. Gonna try to distract myself with my actual real life for a bit. Until next week that is.
#ofmd#our flag means death#ofmd season 2#ofmd s2#who am I kidding#I'm gonna read a fuck tonne of fluffy ass fanfiction
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[Note: I drafted this up before Thursday. Didn't edit my thoughts but they have CHANGED since 2x7. Left the opinions untouched.]
Day before episodes 2x6 and 2x7! My thoughts on the main trio ships.
These are all my personal (and rather unhinged) opinions. Feel free to tell me why I'm wrong! 😁
Crackpot ship theory after the cut:
Ed x Stede: They're very cute but they kinda make each other worse in an unfun way. Ed's kinda getting enabled by Stede; I'm thinking of that early 2x5 scene involving Ed's awful speech. Stede is kinda ignoring the crew's safety needs for Ed's sake, although simply exiling Ed isn't really the answer either. They both need to grow up if their endgame is going to be satisfying.
Ed x Izzy: Oh god, they make each other so much worse, but in a way that you can't tear your eyes from. Something about this ship makes some dark, angry thing in my psyche absolutely feral. However, it would be a hugely unsatisfying regression for Izzy, not to mention—what the hell would have had to happen to break up Ed and Stede? Thankfully, this will never become canon—although I adore it in fic.
Stede x Izzy: Are you a person of culture? Do you want to see your enemies to lovers slow burn come to life? Are you unsatisfied with Edward's growth? The cult of stizzy welcomes you with open arms. After 2x2, I already wanted Izzy and Stede to get as far away from Edward as possible. After 2x5, I want Izzy to have someone who looks at him the way Stede looks at him—and not just the happy moments! I want Izzy to get as good as he gives.
this has approximately 0% chance of becoming canon.
Stede x Izzy x Edward: Now, I know what you're saying. "Steddyhands??? After all your Edward trash talk???" Yes. Did logic get you to Buttons becoming a bird?? Now hush.
For better or for worse, OFMD is a show about change—painful, difficult, necessary change. It's also a show about love, and how every person is worthy of love. It would send a cruel message for Edward to be truly irredeemable. They have to square the circle of him doing some truly heinous shit, and coming back from it.
Izzy is at the core of that. Edward cannot succeed on his journey without making amends to Izzy. Likewise, Izzy has to find a way to accept what happened to him. Not to forgive Edward, but to accept his new life after what was done to him.
I also think Edward and Izzy's love for each other was possessive and unhealthy, but it probably wasn't always that way—and it doesn't have to stay that way. But they were missing a piece of the puzzle, because they were both trapped in survival mode for so long.
Stede has shown them that there's a different way, and both of them are changing for it. In some ways, each of them has something the other two need. Edward is their spontaneity, Izzy is their pragmatism and Stede is their kindness.
Notes: I considered these ships as an endgame to the exclusion of the rest of the ships. Color and shape coded green-bold, orange-italics and red-subscript for how much I wanna see them, green-bold being high and red-subscript being low.
These are all personal opinions and I respect everyone's right to choose the ships they want to see canon.
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Our Flag Means Death 1x4 | 2x7 ⇉ Ed and Stede in the bed nook 💜
#ofmd#ofmd s2#ofmd s2 spoilers#our flag means death#ofmdedit#ofmdsource#ofmd gifs#ida.stuff#ofmd 2x7#edward teach#stede bonnet#something something stede is naked while ed is covered up both times
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this is frankly indecent
(dedicated to @sherlockig and @aha-my-villainous-thoughts)
#ofmd#ofmd s2#ofmd s2 spoilers#our flag means death#ofmdedit#ofmdsource#ofmd gifs#ida.stuff#ofmd 2x7#edward teach#stede bonnet#both of them shamelessly doing this in public. please boys
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Self-care spa date for kings <3
#ofmd#ofmd s2#ofmd s2 spoilers#our flag means death#ofmdedit#ofmdsource#ofmd gifs#ida.stuff#ofmd 2x7#roach#fang#they're both so hot it's not fair
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Finally gaining approval and popularity in a world you always craved being a part of vs. watching the other person enjoying the very thing you're trying to escape
One difference:
#i honestly think stede stays quietly behind because he thinks he doesn't deserve better than to be ridiculed and ignored#while ed leaves before things go to shit because he's 1) panicking and 2) can't allow himself to be loved for real yet#meaning he can't step in like stede did when things start going wrong (but i wonder if the fight with zheng would've happened if he stayed)#this has been bouncing around in my head since thursday but i've never struggled more with a gifset lmao#these were hell to color and i gave up making this coherent bye#ofmd s2 spoilers#our flag means death#ofmd#ofmdedit#ofmdsource#ofmd gifs#ida.stuff#ofmd 2x7#ofmd s2#edward teach#stede bonnet
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Stede bringing Ed breakfast in "bed" // Ed bringing Stede breakfast in bed 🥰
#ofmd#ofmd s2#ofmd s2 spoilers#our flag means death#ofmdedit#ofmdsource#ofmd gifs#ida.stuff#😭😭😭🥹🥹🥹#ofmd 2x7#edward teach#stede bonnet
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pirates don't pay 😏
#the way his hair gets caught in his beard... yeah#ofmd#ofmd s2#our flag means death#ofmdedit#ofmdsource#ofmd gifs#ida.stuff#ofmd 2x7#edward teach#giving stede the smoulder
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