I swear to fucking God that if Izzy gets his redemption arc and is then killed off I will start a fucking land war.

Actually, if anyone in the crew of the Revenge dies, I will summon an eldritch being to swallow the world.

I would just like to say I appreciate media taking on the whole ‘old gay’ thing because, yes, representation of queer youth is important but we often forget that there are also queer people older than the age of 25. With the recent movies/shows (OFMD, Good Omens, The Last of Us, Knives out, Glass onion etc.) there’s been a lot of rep for older queer people and I think that’s just swell :)

Edited:

Someone commented that I forgot B99 and I wholeheartedly agree. Holt and Kevin are amazing rep.

izzy talking to ed after he heard the gunshot like

Our flag means death Playmobil

I thought I should post this before season 2 comes out

wild hopes predictions for ofmd season 2

episode 1 parallel where ed tries to lead his new crew

frenchie and fang become bros

stede learns how much things cost

jim throws izzy overboard

a whole episode of ed and stede and their crews in the same town and they keep nearly running into each other, but don't

buttons solo adventure that no one on the crew believes happened

ed runs the Revenge aground

lucius gives an intro monologue (similar to mary's) where he rants about ed and stede's bullshit

roach enters a cooking contest, loses on a technicality, and the crew steals the prize money

everyone thinks the Revenge is haunted but it's just lucius

stede kills the eldest badminton brother On Purpose

babygirl ✨

I truly think Stede is about to have his own breakdown. Now, idk if it’s going to happen at the end of this season or in the 3rd if we get one. But Stede has been ignoring his trauma for too long.

Stede is good with other people’s emotions because he knows how he wants people to treat his own. But he’s so busy pushing people to better places and helping others that he completely disregards what he’s gone through. He hasn’t ANYONE what happened in those woods the night he escaped the British. He hasn’t told anyone about what Badminton’s said to him, or being bullied, or the way his father treated him. I don’t even know (and I doubt) he’s even REALLY told Ed just how trapped he was in his marriage with Mary.

When Stede really, actually kills a man on purpose, instead of talking it out, he throws himself into Ed’s arms. And Ed obliges because I think this is the kind of comfort he knows how to give.

And now we can see, as Ed rises to better places, Stede is descending. Stede has discovered his own power. He’s discovered he doesn’t have to take shit from people and while I’m so glad for him, he’s also doing so without addressing that’s he’s breaking his own “not fighting violence with violence” and “talk it through as a crew” and “turn poison into positivity” It feels good now, but especially without working it out in a meaningful way, he’s losing himself to it. He thinks he needs to be this macho tough guy to feel powerful, cause he’s discovered what all the people he’s helped have, that power feels good in the moment. And then, he’ll, you’ve done one bad thing, why not another? It doesn’t feel as bad as you thought? So maybe it’s normal? But then the trauma comes, and you wonder if your a good person anymore, or if you ever were? But you ignore the feeling, because it feels good, and your not weak any more. Nobody can hurt your. So drown yourself in more power or liquor or drugs. Who cares if your a bad person? If people hurt you, you hurt them back. And people respect you for it. And by the time you look back and realize how bad things are, you might think it’s too late to change.

Violence and power is like a drug, you chase the high of power, and when you start to feel it, you remind yourself why you do it with more shows of violence and your tolerance for it just gets higher and higher until the only person left to hurt is yourself, and your Blackbeard, and your sailing your ship into a storm to kill yourself and your entire crew, because your an unlovable monster and you can’t see the light beyond the violence anymore.

Ed and Izzy don’t quite see what’s happening as a bad thing because to them, this is normal pirate stuff. And Stede is Stede. Kind, loving, soft, fabric loving Stede, who is so in tune with people’s emotions he literally therapy’d Ted Lowe’s crew into turning on him in the middle of being tortured. Stede couldn’t possibly become like them. He’s just more piratey now. And see? Look how much fun he’s having? He’s fine!

And Ed? He sees Stede happy and powerful and is so happy for him that he doesn’t even consider asking Stede to come with him this time when he decides to quit and become a fisherman. Ed thinks they are on different paths. And he doesn’t even conceive that this path is a danger to Stede, because it’s Stede. Stede could never get as bad as he did. Right? So best to just end things and let him be happy before either of them get to attached (though, it’s a little fucking late for that one bud).

Mark my words, unless somebody steps in and realizes what’s happening, Stede is going to end up just like all the other pirates we’ve seen. And there is only one way that kind of violence can end, with him getting himself killed, either someone else’s hands, or his own.

sooo... who's writing the full, half-a-million words, our flag means death season 3 fanfiction? asking for a friend

Me, pirating season two tomorrow:

I'm not doing any piracy...

Meanwhile my brain:

🎶🎶🎶 OoOoh a pirates life might seem nice... 🎶🎶🎶🎶

our flag means death + text posts (and a tweet!)

oluwande my love, my gem, my light

Stede and Ed make awesome study buddies!

CON O'NEILL EMMY WHEN?????