I literally felt my heart drop... I'm so devastated they have canceled Our Flag means Death... out of all the shitty shows they decided to cancel one of the few good ones...

But you know what? Nothing can change the way OFMD felt like home to me and so many others. I don't think I've ever felt a connection and love for a show like I have for OFMD.

So in the words of our beloved unicorn Izzy hands:

"...It’s not about glory, it’s not about getting what you want. It’s about belonging to something when the world has told you you’re nothing. It’s about finding the family to kill for when yours are long dead. It’s about letting go of ego for something larger: the crew.

...Kill me. kill us all. Our spirit will last throughout your entire fucking empire because we’re good and you are a rancid syphilitic cunt."

They may have taken away our show but they'll never take away the love we had for it or the connection we felt. OFMD was more than just a TV show for me. It was home, no matter how dumb or cliche that sounds. The show meant more than anyone could understand and I'm grateful.

🖤🦄🏴‍☠️🌈🐈‍⬛

throw-back to that one panel when nathan was particularly obsessed with joel

i havent seen this gifset done yet so i decided to make one myself

saying your new home has 'good bones' after you just buried your co-worker in your front yard is crazyyy

I cannot believe that I made it through 18 whole ass months with nothing and now there’s only two weeks. And it’s going to be the longest two weeks of my whole entire life. I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas

i love watching ofmd over and over again because every two minutes i'll hear a line and be like ohhh that's where that thing i say every day is from

an accurate depiction of me trying to act normal at work today

The trailer immediately took me from "this is far too fast, this is far too fast, this is far too fast" to "HOLY SHIT I NEED THEM BACK TOMORROW."

The Tolling Bells - Rated E

"I've always known you."

Here is the beginning, and this is where we are now.

In any life. 🌸🧁

I think Stede is actually wrong about them both being “whim-prone,” and I think that set him up for Ed leaving. “Whim” is Mary’s (angry, uncomprehending) word for why he did what he did. But he’d never told Mary much of anything. He didn’t run away to sea the first time on a whim. He ran after forty-some years of deadly loneliness, on a last desperate bid to stay alive, to feel something, be something, when being everything he was asked to be had failed. And he did it after meticulously planning every inch of his ship, including space for her and the children. When she wouldn’t come, he wrote them a letter and planned his escape. That wasn’t a whim.

And he didn’t return back home on a whim; he went back after learning he’d gotten the actual pirate Blackbeard to fall in love with him, quite by accident — after having two men die in front of him, because of him — which drove home that he is in fact not a ghost or a stain but a real person, really affecting people’s lives; and that him leaving might have hurt his family badly. (And he was terrified to stay and see what more effect he would have on Ed. He couldn’t imagine it being anything good.)

And he didn’t go back to find Ed on a whim. He went because home wasn’t home any more. Home was where Ed was. He went because he found he wasn’t the same old Stede after all. He went after he’d made peace with his wife and children, and was sure they would be loved well, and had gotten their blessing to chase joy.

So for him to return and tell Ed, in the same minute that he tries to tell him he loves him — to tell him then that he left because he’s whim-prone? And that Ed fell for him instead of killing him on a similar whim? That just wasn’t true. It was Stede making light of himself and his pain and his longing, still, and the things he knows; and still not really understanding that Ed had fallen devastatingly in love with him too. Not on a whim, not without knowing who he was falling for, but because of who Stede is. Even when Ed tries to tell him, twice, I was all in, Stede doesn’t really get it. He can see Ed’s glad to have him back. He knows that’s shared. He thinks that’s enough.

So I think Ed goes on thinking this love is not so devastating for Stede as it is for him. He thinks, He loves me, but not like I love him. He thinks, I don’t even know who I am now, so how can I trust how I love him? He thinks, I was meant to teach him to be a pirate, and now he’s a pirate. What else do I even have to give him?

So Ed decides to leave and find out what else; and he thinks Stede will let him go and be fine while he’s gone, because he thinks all of this has been a whim of Stede’s. He thinks Stede has gotten what he wants most of all, the thing he asked Ed for — he’s become a proper pirate. Ed doesn’t think his softer self is essential to Stede. He has no idea what Stede went through to get back to him — Stede hasn’t told him. The first thing he consciously saw Stede do was kick him off the ship. He never even saw him cry.

All I want for Ed in the finale is for him to understand that Stede calling all this a whim was horseshit. (Perhaps by finding a love letter in a bottle? Or a few dozen?) That Stede was understating his heart terribly, as he does; and that Stede is all in, too. That Ed’s presence is essential to him. That Ed’s love is all he wants; that this is for life and till death parts them.

New project for work. I'm trying to figure out how to do the pattern for a lino cut. I'm doodling on a bad printout and revengyfied the ship as best as I could after working with the print the whole time (should have done that first but didn't think of it then).

Wish me luck.

Our Flagtober - Day 15: Animal.

"To love the sea as she must be loved requires change."

DAVID FUCKING JENKINS. YOU DID NOT HAVE TO MAKE THAT AS ROMANTIC AS YOU DID BUT HERE YOU ARE. DOING IT ALL FOR US. YOU DROPPED THIS, KING 👑

im not posting abt ofmd enough those old men literally fucked omg

forming parasocial relationships with the people at Max who answer customer service emails <3

bring it back, bring it back, don’t take it away from me

FINISHED DA BOIZ RIGHT BEFORE HALLOWEEN ENDS (CST at least al;sdjflkasf) EEEEEEEEEEEEE

i think ed would SO be stede and frank as blackbeard u can't tell me otherwise UwU

happy halloween everyone!!!!