so here are my categories updated in light of the recent events aka the end of season 1 (under the cut because it's still long af and i don't want to pollute dashes):
i have been made aware (by my friend, again) that these categories are based on fears, so:
fire:
episode 8, the contractor
episode 12, gerard keay at the hospital
episode 37, guy in the forest and milk bottles
pestilence (infestation, but cooler):
jane prentiss in general (worms)
episode 36, care home (flies)
madness (hypnotic patterns and fractals):
episode 3, not!graham's table? idk
episode 8, the contractor's dad obsessed with fractals
episode 38, homophobic vase
episodes 39, not!graham's table again? idk
bonus: episode 26, michael because
web (name-dropped by martin in episode 39, formerly spiders):
episode 16, arachnophobia
episode 36, zippo with web design that jonathan received
death:
episode 7, guy who met war
episode 11, black tendrils
episode 29, guy who plays faro
darkness:
episode 9, serial killer dad (there's a weird date inconsistency in this one)
stranger:
episode 1, anglerfish
episode 8, not!graham himself?
episode 10, vampires?
episode 27, bedroom doorknob
episode 28, anglerfish part 2 (yes i recognised sarah baldwin's name from episode 1, i'm better than jonathan /j)
episode 39, not!sasha herself?
hunt (name-dropped by jonathan):
episode 10, also vampires?
episode 14, voodoo fingers old lady ("some hungers are too strong to be denied")?
episode 15, cave diving?
episode 31, werewolf
fear of heights (?) (formerly infinity):
episode 21: parachute guy
lonely (name-dropped by my friend haha):
episode 13, graveyard and fog
episode 33, ghost ship and fog
ew (flesh/bones/meat/body/blood) (also probably two categories in a trenchcoat):
episode 8, the bleeding tree
episode 10, also also vampires?
episode 14, voodoo fingers old lady
episode 17, boneturner's book
episode 18, rotting meat nailed to the floor
episode 28, anglerfish part 2 (idk she wears her own skin like a glove and that's gross)
episode 30, abattoir
eyes (not a fear, btw, so i'm gessing fear of being watched?):
episode 12, gerard keay's lighter, and also gerard keay's tattoos
episode 23, mausoleum in germany
episode 39, jonathan feeling observed
claustrophobia (?):
episode 2, casket?
episode 15, cave diving?
episodes i have no idea where to put:
episode 4, ex altiora
episode 5, trash bags (probably multiple categories depending on the trash bag)
episodes 19 & 20, priest (probably multiple categories as well, maybe a bit of madness and a bit of ew)
episode 24, red organ and puppets (i will not let my own fear of clowns and dolls bully me into making a shiny new category just for them)
episode 25, cult roommate (could be lonely, could be darkness, idk)
episode 35, corridors (all of the categories at once)
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I wasn’t gonna talk about it, hoping someone else would say it but I’ve seen it too many times now. PLEASE DO NOT tag ships that are NOT in the fanfic. If it’s a fic for Conrad I don’t want to see “Cam Cameron x reader” or “Jeremiah fisher x reader” in the tags. Please tag your fics with the correct ship if it’s Jeremiah fisher x reader just tag it “Jeremiah Fisher x reader” if there’s other characters that ARE NOT with the reader just tag their name without the X reader. I know you want to have more tags so more people see it but there are plenty of other tags such as the show name or “TSITP Characters x reader”, anyways thank you for coming to my rant.
I’ve seen one to many fics tagged wrong and i’ve been searching for conrad fics and over half of them are jeremiah fics. LEAVE ME ALONE.
If you’re fic is currently tagged with the wrong ship tags please go fix it. i’m so serious. i’ll start crying
I’m sorry if this comes off bitchy I just would please like fics to be tagged correctly so I can read what I was actually looking for <3
THIS GOES FOR ALL FANDOMS BTW!!!!
PLEASE TAG YOUR FICS CORRECTLY, I LOVE YOU ALL, THANK YOU FOR FEEDING US FANFICS 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
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The izcourse continues...
When did people stop saying 'in my opinion'? because lord above would that simple phrase have stopped me getting so mad this morning.
I have no interest in reblogging the posts and starting drama, but some izzy takes I've seen this morning have made me want to chew through rawhide, and here's my opinion on why these 'factual statements' are wrong.
Izzy fans shouldn't be upset by his death because he's not a main character, he is a plot device to further the story of the main characters.
I'm a professional writer btw and to me a 'plot device' character is the barista who's in one scene. To me, if a named character with backstory and complicated interpersonal history with one or more main characters is just 'a plot device' - that's a waste of a character and shitty writing. I don't think ofmd is shittily written so this annoys me on two levels - disrespecting the show, and the character. Because in my view if Izzy is 'just a plot device' that's someone insulting the show.
2. Izzy was an antagonist and antagonists can only ever be redeemed and then die, or become a villain.
Not even true of ofmd and certainly not of media in general, yet stated as fact with nothing to back it up. This is NOT an opinion btw - you only have to look at Zheng and Jackie to know it's not true within the context of the show.
Jackie dobs Stede in to the British just as much as Izzy does, and she threatens them with vengeance again over the indigo - does she die? Does she become a villain? No, she's a guest at the lupete wedding for fuck sake.
Zheng insults Ed and attempts to kill Stede, two things Izzy was vilified for, gosh it was so sad when she died in the finale wasn't it? Oh no wait, she became their ally and sailed away on The Revenge!
'Have to die or become villains' is just...incomprehensible to me. The only way I can see it working in someone's head is if they think character like Jackie and Zheng did nothing wrong, when Izzy was evil, for doing the same things - albeit for more personally passionate reasons.
3. Izzy telling Ed that the ship's atmosphere was poison because of 'his feelings for Stede' was Izzy 'blaming Ed's actions on love again, just like he did in s1.e10 because Izzy is just one-note evil and only ever has that one thing to say.
To me, s1 Izzy is absolutely thrilled to have managed to bait Ed to anger, to have brought this out of him. He thinks he knows what he's just unleashed, but as we soon discover, he has no idea - because Ed had never cut off one of his extremities before. He poked the bear, but the bear was actually a fucking kraken.
s2 Izzy, in my opinion, looking at his expression above, is sad, resigned, he is saying Stede's name (which it's already established even obliquely mentioning him is a BAD IDEA with the whole 'talk it through' thing, after which Izzy sounds panicked) but he is specifically trying to make Ed see that he is not himself - that what he is doing to the crew is toxic.
Just because he's essentially saying 'This isn't you' in both scenes, doesn't mean the tone or the meaning of those scenes is the same. One scene ends with Izzy gleeful, victorious. One ends with him screaming on the deck, bleeding out.
I am happy for people to have these opinions, and for me to vehemently disagree with them, but they ARE opinions. And Izzy 'fans' or you know, people who see the show differently to you, are not stupid, racist, immature or whatever else you want to call us.
We just have a different opinion. If you're going to share your opinion, great! But it's still just your opinion.
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