The Crew: *explaining to Stede what Ed did when he was gone*

Stede: must of had a rough day :)

Everyone: He’s a Mad Man who wants to literally kill you.

Stede:

Can't wait to find out if:

The crew of the Revenge attacked a ship that happened to have a wedding happening on it and Ed was like "this is awakening feelings in me"

Or

Ed was like "I am going to hunt down any motherfucker who thinks they can have their perfect happy ending to their love story while I, God's specialest boy, suffer."

So it seems pretty obvious Ed is gonna fish up the leathers next week, but I wonder if he might find some of the letters Stede chucked in the ocean too, Stede mentioning them this week but not telling Ed what was in them makes me suspicious they brought it up for a reason.

The show starts in 1717 and Blackbeard historically is killed in 1718. I have delusionally convinced myself that they will not kill him off in the show and instead have some elaborate fuckery for him to fake his death. Nothing sad will ever happen (again) in my silly little gay pirate show. You cannot convince me otherwise. I will not be taking criticism on this.

Okay so do we think they're gonna drop the trailer on September 1st or September 2nd?

as an asexual i deeply understand that sex is not the only way to show intimacy and deep emotional romantic connection.

that said if ed and stede don’t have beautiful passionate sex in season 2 i’m gonna riot.

season 2 episode 7 being titled Man On Fire....i just know stede and ed are gonna fuck nasty in it. because in S1 we got the kiss scene during episode 9 aka the penultimate episode. aka what season 2 episode 7 is. also since the music for this season appears to be 80's based (prince, patti smith), it's not a big jump to assume Man On Fire is a play on bruce springsteen's song "I'm On Fire", which is an incredibly horny song. also also we already know that these two reunite early on so by then whatever unresolved tension lingers between them would be purely sexual. listen to me the dots for these two to fuck in season 2 episode 7 are all connecting in this essay i will prove —

I see your “what if Izzy had a crush on Stede” and your “what if Stede had a crush on Izzy” and I raise you:

both of them, simultaneously, independently, reaching the same conclusion:

Oh no, he’s hot.

Tragically, our mutual love for Ed means he can never reciprocate, even if he didn’t hate me, which he does.

I must conceal my feelings from him in order to reserve whatever fragile respect he has for me.

And then both of them failing miserably and hilariously at it.

I’m really excited to see what they do with Ricky. I think the first episode did a really good job setting up his character. Right away he starts pointing out these connections between him and Stede, saying that he was also an outcast who went into pirating because of it. They were both wealthy, they enjoy fancy things, they seem pretty similar right?

No.

Because Ricky then starts insulting the other pirates. He looks down on them, he draws clear distinctions between them and the other pirates. He tells Stede that “men of our standing, we know a valuable when we see one.” When he mentions the Roman puzzle chest. Ricky clearly sees himself as better than the other pirates because of his status and wealth.

But Stede doesn’t. Sure, Stede is judgy and catty, but he never makes anyone on his crew feel bad or lesser than for not being of high status and genuinely cares for them. He also eagerly wanted to learn about pirating from them, he looked up to them and asked for their advice! Unlike Ricky, who is clearly still clinging onto that superiority, which gets him caught by Jackie when decides to be cocky and make a drink so they “know they’ve been robbed by the best.”

Which is why I think he’s going to end up resenting Stede for “planting” these ideas in his head and go after him, and he’s going to have to realize that he simply doesn’t understand piracy. Izzy’s quote about “belonging to something” makes so much sense when you see the lack of community or solidarity he has with pirates vs. Stede finding community with people who accept him

Symbolic death & rebirth in OFMD

s1: Eaten by a tiger (Stede)

s2: Massaged to death by mermaids (Ed)

s3 (???): Belly-flopping into a volcano??? (both Ed and Stede???)

is this anything

comfort in a married state

comfort in a married state

COMFORT IN A MARRIED STATE

COMFORT IN A MARRIED STATE

IF THEY GET MARRIED IN S3

EPISODE TITLE

COULD BE

COMFORT IN A MARRIED STATE

You know the thing that I really wanna know about season 2?

What. Changed. Izzy?

He was so happy, even manic when Ed shut down and became Blackbeard again, so to now see him in the trailer, with a defeated, sad look on his face teaching Stede how to be a proper pirate, I can‘t help but wonder: at what point did he realize that Ed was not happy as Blackbeard? At what point did he think „So you really are here to stay, huh, Bonnet? Might as well teach you not to die immediatly, then“. I mean of course the Izzy&Stede scenes could also happen after Ed&Stede are already reunited and officially dating, so Izzy has no other choice other then helping him… but even then: what made him ultimately realize that no matter how hard he tried, Edward was miserable without Stede and that it wasn‘t just a crush or a fling but in fact love?

Because remember, he said, „I don‘t take orders from Edward, Blackbeard is my captain“

So thinking about the moment that Izzy has to accept Edward as his captain has me rolling in my grave.

My favorite thing about making predictions for an upcoming season of a show is being wrong.

This goes double for a show like Our Flag Means Death.

Odds are we'll get to be wrong because whatever does happen will be absolutely unhinged and I cannot wait to see how wrong I am.

So Lucius and Black Pete are getting married. And if I know this show, we're definitely getting a cute ceremony on the Revenge. That means Stede would officiate since he's the captain. And I just know they're going to do that trope where Stede gets a little off track while officiating the ceremony because he looks over at Ed and they lock eyes and they're both just so in love. So I want it documented now that I saw it coming and I know I'll cry anyway.

I need it and fear it in equal amounts