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DEAD BOY DETECTIVES | THE CASE OF THE VERY LONG STAIRWAY
Sorry. No version of this where I didn't come get you, is there?
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dastaan-e-om shanti om / flintmiranda
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i just want to sit with someone by the sea in silence, listening to the sound of the serf, watching the waves and inhaling the smell of seawater
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As someone who watched 911 from the sidelines on Tumblr blogs for years and vaguely kept up with things on and off and got tempted multiple times to start watching and forced myself not to become i did have it in me to go through the cycle of hope and disappointment again after the early 2010s.....
I can not express how estatic I am for you all!
#oliver stark#911 fox#911 abc#msybe i'll finally watch it properly#buck#?#i'm just copying trending tags
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Congratulations to the all the people who go here...
Good for you all!!
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Its been 2 years but I still cant think of OFMD and Blackbeard and Ed's "everyone surrenders to my flag... I don't even need to be on the ship" dialogue without immediately thinking about Black Sails s03e01 Silver saying "we have been assigned blame for attacks we haven't been within miles of. "
I cant think of the Burden of Blackbeaed's name on Ed without immediately thinking of Silver reminding Flint that his name that is a asset held jointly by the crew who have bled and died for it.
I admit these immediate associations on my first viewing coloured how i engaged with the rest of the show and with Ed as a character. I love him. But he has also bought into his own myth as much as he also wants to run away from it.
#ofmd#ed teach#black sails#ofmd crew#izzy hands.#ivan#fang#breakup boat crew who ever they were#revenge crew for what ever they are worth to Ed.
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The reason I think they may have wanted to go more queer but also were the kind of people who would cut back to avoid backlash/please higher ups is because when the finale came out the initial interviews were less ambiguous leaning more towards "Flint had to end up in Savanna cos that is where he dies according to Treasure Island." It was only after a few days and a lot of fan noise leaning towards Sliver killed Flint (including Max's actor) that they started doing the "who knows. You can interpret it how ever you want" pitch.
So yeah.. Maybe RPJ is just lying or mistaken but going by the finale shitstorm JS is definitely the type to step back under pressure.
Thomas having a bigger role absolutely doesn't have to be about him not dying.. Just fleshing out his character and their relationship more in the flashback. I definitely don't think they needed to have a sex scene. But as much as Flint's queerness drives the story it was still very blink and miss if you weren't paying attention to the one scene in s02e05 going by the reactions to the finale.
FUNNIEST critique of Black Sails ever I am dying
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Putting aside the genre and the ideological merits of the social commentry of both shows aside for a moment, Black Sails characters had actual consequences to their choices and actions. Whether it is the narrative rewarding them or punishing them there is a clear line of cause to effect. Something I am appreciating a lot more after season 2 of OMFD
#black sails#ofmd#the battle is funny.#and I do (did) love OFMD#it has given me so many hours of joy#but i don't really enjoy the “because I said so” fairytale logic it runs on
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It isn't much of a redemption by sacrifice either considering Izzy sort of just stood there and almost accidentally got shot and didn't actually sacrifice himself for anyone....
But yeah....
So I am a certified izzy hater. I have not liked his character - I really wanted to like his character in s2 but somehow ended up hating him more - I even found his death one of the most redeeming parts of s2.
But even I found his death unearned
I know meta exists out there on why and how his death makes sense, I still find it incredibly disjointed how you had him try to kill himself in ep 2, but the universe said "lmao no", only for it then to go "lmao actually"
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i'm sorry about this one guys
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remember, the inauguration of the ram temple isn't a mere matter of hindu religious grandstanding, it is also an event to signal investment opportunities for the further development of the neoliberal economy.
sure, the official story says that the temple was built from donations gathered from hindus and inexplicable well-wishers across the economic spectrum (the fundraising for this was notably, extremely threatening), but this is most likely a smokescreen for a complicated series of economic maneuvers carried out by the bjp, rss, vhp, and allied organisations.
we already know that the temple itself was built by the multi-national construction agency larsen and toubro, which really lays precedent for the exact form of investment this “development project” and its peripheral projects seek funding from, and to whom the profits accrued will go.
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Meh...
#ofmd#i am imagining how I would have been brawling on the floor right now if season 2 finale hadn't slingshot me out of my hyperfixation#as they say.. jo hota hai bhale ke liye hota hai#love and sympathies to everyone affected by this sad new etc. etc.
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This was perhaps the first meta I wrote in the fandom when the show had just come out and building on the Black Sails dialogue between Silver and Flint where Silver points out how Flint's name doesn't belong to him alone. It is a jointly held asset for to build which the crew has spilt blood and which they have a stake in. And how that applied to Ed's desire to first quit being Blackbeard, then run away and then stop being pirates and become a travelling troupe of entertainers or what ever fancy catches his eye next.
While the actual realities of the social structures obviously varied pirate crews did not as a rule sail together for love or loyalty. They risked their life for their share and shares varied as per responsibility.
So we have Blackbeard attacking a pirate ship and loosing men and risking more men which he brushes off as commonplace for the pirate life and this would be entirely true except for a small problem. There is no prize taken from the Revenge so there is no share to be recieved by the pirates who fought. Those men die just because Ed wanted to meet Stede.
Their gain, it could be argued here was just being on Blackbeard's crew which would have come with its share of respect and reputation. In which case the Blackbeard name, his reputation must be considered as part of the crew's share.
Edward's disregard for the crew's lives is not that he is risking their lives, which in fairness he acknowledges and is his right as their captain, but that he is willing to risk them for his personal interests with no reward in return. That on a lot of ships would have been reason enough to mutiny.
This becomes worse in season 2 in the Kraken era but it is not exactly unprecedented. Edward commands the crew to dump the treasure, give up their shares that they risked their lives for because *he* wants to break a record.
His use of the guilt room money is suspect to but lets extend the benefit of doubt and assume that all that was just his share of the money,hopefully after compensating his crew for their share he made them throw away. Do we get any hint of this? No. But since we don't see anything against this either.. Let's assume so. (But if so Frenchie, Fang Archie and Izzy should have been filthy rich in their own right.)
It is canon that Ed has acted like the existence of the crew is for his own personal benefit even before the Kraken era. But they stay because presumably his name alone brings them safety and power. Even wealth considering Ed's comment about ships just surrendering to his flag. The Blackbeard name in itself is then part of the prize for which they are willing to risk their lives.
So when it comes to Ed wanting to end Blackbeard the question comes as to how much does he actually own Blackbeard and what exactly does he owe the crew in the currency of Blackbeard's name. It is, after all, a jointly held asset.
The show's solution to this is of course handwave away the QAR crew because if they are not real people but mere props in Edward's story he doesn't owe them anything...
But if you take a step back from the Edward centric world and wonder.....
#Ed Teach critical#not really but better safe#Queen Anne Revenge#Kraken revenge crew#as much as the idea that Ed needed anyone else's contribution to build the Blackbeard name was shot down as racist just after season 1#I think it is fair to say that season to solidifies it from the loses taken by the crew in the Kraken era#to Izzy's statement that he needed Blackbeard because it was “them” him and Ed.#izzy hands
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I've joked before that Izzy antis would probably enjoy Black Sails version of Israel Hands much more, considering how much closer he is to their interpretation, but lets be honest - most of them won't survive the complexity and moral ambiguity of its characters long enough to last till season 4.
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Izzy survies the attack on the Republic and is on the road to recovery. He is on board the Revenge with its crew who care about him and have elected him the Captain. This was everything he had ever wanted and more than he ever dreamed of having and he won't let anything stop him from living up to it all. It should be perfect, shouldn't it?
A gentle confrontation and an unexpected conversation forces Izzy to reconsider who he is and what it is that he really wants
Written for prompt by @rimbaudofficial
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Izzy, Ed, and Apologies
Reminder that the 2x8 dialogue between Ed and Izzy included the lines:
Izzy: "I'm sorry, I was terrible to you."
Ed: "No, I'm sorry. What are you apologizing for? I should be the one apologizing."
In particular, "What are you apologizing for?" doesn't have any potential of Ed merely forgiving Izzy or downplaying Izzy's actions. Contrast it with "You don't need to apologize," or something similar, which would otherwise fit a very similar narrative beat. Ed literally does not think Izzy did anything to warrant an apology. The only person in canon who thinks Izzy deserved to lose his toes and leg is Izzy.
If you think that Izzy deserved what Ed did to him, you need to be able to say, "Ed was wrong and Izzy was right." Otherwise you're just disregarding Ed's feelings on the issue entirely.
#i would love to think this is true but almost everything Ed says in that scene comes off as Ed just saying stuff because he is loosing Izzy#because the thing is Ed has a just says stuff when distressed problem#but as I keep saying we don't know how much either of them ment what they were saying and how much it was#this is the end so let me say something comforting#as I keep saying they deserved to have this conversation under normal circumstances without the urgency/escape of death.#absolutely agree that Izzy blames himself for more than his share.
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Izzy tried to have Stede killed as a major character flaw that makes him irredeemable is hilarious because the list of people who tried to kill/have Stede killed is over half the entire character list of the show
#Stede's entire role is to survive people who should by all rights in a logical world have killed him#starting from his own crew#but Izzy can't be forgiven because he messed it up with overcomplicated plots.#izzy hands#Izcourse
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