Okay... I finished OFMD S2...
And yeah, as much as it breaks my heart, this season disappointed me in so many different ways. There are a few things I absolutely adored, but a lot of it felt like a disservice to a lot of the work S1 did to establish the universe and its characters.
Oluwande gave Stede advice like one whole time this season, even though that was a big part of the first. Him consistently being supportive was such a light, and it was pretty much replaced with him just being generally bubbly (and I fucking loved watching him be bubbly and joyful, might I add, but it's different).
Jim's complicated relationship with the idea of taking vengeance wasn't brought up at all. Jim's relationship with Oluwande was absolutely shifted, even now, I cannot watch S1 with the knowledge that they're going to be played off as "best friends who hooked up once" and see it, they HAD to have been intended as an endgame couple in the beginning.
Frenchie didn't sing even once, despite the fact that the very first scene opens to his voice! Frenchie as a character was shrunken a ton, in general. Ed leaned on him a lot in S1, that was gone. Wee John was shown as his best friend, but how many words did they even exchange this season? They let him do another grift, but it didn't include Oluwande so (personally) it felt cheapened.
Wee John didn't make a single fucking joke about fire! Even though there was a lot of fire this season, and he made like three separate comments about arson in the previous one?!?!?! And, again, he barely even talks to Frenchie at all!
The Swede was benched for half the episodes, Buttons became a bird halfway through and possibly won't be coming back at all, Ivan was killed off with a one-liner, and Izzy died as a completely backwards version of himself that we were given almost no show of him transitioning into.
Izzy, who practically stole a bunch of other character's "moments" while they rushed through his redemption so they could kill him at the end and hope they got everyone attached to him enough to care. Izzy got to sing, Izzy got to play advisor to Stede, Izzy got to do drag with John, Izzy whittled a gift for Lucius instead of Pete, Izzy pretty much interrupted every single scene Gentlebeard had... It's just... frustrating.
Season 1 was revolutionary to me, but Season 2 just felt far more average in comparison. I don't know, I was so excited, and rewatching season 1 is still exhilarating, but season 2 just doesn't do as much for me. I really feel like it was the wrong choice to spend as much time as they did with Izzy when they still skipped almost the entirety of his "redemption," condense so many of the other characters to make for time, but still make sure we could fit in some incredible jokes.
One of the only things that didn't change for me, was the humor.
But about half of my favorite things just didn't exist these last 8 episodes, so I need to go drown myself in some fanfics.
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I think Blackbeard (OFMD) and King Richard (Galavant) would get along well
Ed would be ALL ABOUT Tad Cooper and just know that he’s a dragon from the start and Richard would just be glad to have another buddy
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You already know it's Ed again.
-drawn & painted in Photoshop
He's so fun to draw, what can I say? Started off playing with his Sailor-Moon-character-length hair for fun, and finally thought of a post S2 angst look. His crops are thriving, his heart is full, his skin is clear - Stede is the love of his life and vice versa 😩🙌✨💗
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I’m more active on Twitter. (Penemues_Quill)
Plus I get to post the naughty stuff there.
Izzy is a yappy little pup who just needs some tough love.
<3
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Heartbroken yearning silly I drew for fun.
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Congratulations to Ed for winning the Our Flag Means Tournament!!
(Can you tell I did this with my finger on my phone?)
A well-deserved win after eliminating strong contestants such as hiw own husband Stede, episode 5 mvp Abshir, my own fav Lucius, or everyone's bestie Oluwande. Congrats!!
That's it for the tournament! If you started following me because of it, you can choose to unfollow me now, as I'll go back to my regular schedule of shitposting and reblogging stuff about more or less anything (probably Nimona and Barbie for now), but if you feel like that sounds fun, you are of course invited to stay!
I hope you all had fun!!
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hi friends!
im super excited to finally show u all the full piece i worked on for the @ofmdzine, Spring Tides! we got a bit of a medusa-themed kraken!ed here
u can find my work alongside the art and written work of many other incredibly talented artists in volume ii!
it was a wonderful experience working on this zine and working with the other creators, im glad this was my first zine experience and can't wait for the next one! ❤🏴☠️
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