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The way Rhys makes this sound so fucking gentle and loving in Stede's mouth. Both times! There's so much tenderness in it.
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Stede calling Ed a nut
~ For @agaywithcoffee (Ily, you nut! 💕)
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The cabin scene with Ed and Izzy does seem to be the moment when Izzy has fully realized that THIS is who Ed is and who he always was. Stede didn’t do anything to him, except make him safe to be himself. Izzy is seeing that beneath the beard and the leather and the hypermasculine, violent persona, Ed was always a soft gay man who loved gently and wanted to be loved.
And throughout the season, we see how Izzy HATES men like that. We see how he hates Stede, and how Lucius threatens him. We see how angry it makes him to see them not doing masculinity “right.” And remember that Izzy always thinks of Ed as an extension of himself, and does so right up until the end. So he sees Ed crying and heartbroken and trying to heal, and thinks that underneath the facade is something that he truly hates and fears in himself, so he has to force Ed back down and break his bones until he’s Blackbeard again.
He never knew Ed as he truly was. He never understood Ed. And he spends the next few episodes desperately claiming that no, he does know Ed better than anyone, until Stede comes back and once again breaks the through all the lies that Izzy shored up around himself. Because Stede ALWAYS saw Ed as he was.
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Two years ago I watched a tv show that brightened up my life exactly when I needed it. I loved its protagonist so much that I ended up watching everything he'd ever worked in, and I was forever changed.
I'm in awe of Rhys. I love his energy, his tenderness, his dedication to make people happy. He is not ashamed to show his most vulnerable side, and he's not afraid of being a weirdo in a world of people who are ready to bully. When I grow up to be 50, I want to be like him.
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I just realized that Ed had no reason to make Lucius count down from 1 hour 47 minutes BACKWARDS except for the dramatic effect of the final countdown during uh oh time's almost up what are you gonna do TIME FOR A NEW IDEA STEDE (although Stede's not even conscious when Ed makes Lucius start counting, so Ed doesn't know precisely what is going to happen at this moment, he just knows there's going to be SUSPENSE then he's going to knock Stede's socks off by revealing his brilliant tactical mind).
Ed Teach you are such a drama queen, and you are already so smitten.
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Yup, my prediction too.
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Arctic wolves traversing deep snow...
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One fallacy, I think, of anti piracy arguments is that a lot of them seem to assume that if I'm unable to pirate something I'm going to pay for it instead rather than going "oh! that's a terrible shame" and then quickly forgetting about it
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Blackbeard’s Breakfast in Bed™
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can you IMAGINE seeing adam west walk into an orgy and just start Being Batman… holy shit
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The distinct difference
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I really don't want to open a can of worms with this, but why would some folks be disinclined to the possibility of Ed being a bottom (say at least once) with Stede?
Oh boy. OK. I think this all comes back to Izzy as representative of a patriarchal and misogynist society that has particular ideas about gender and sexual roles.
I went into a lot of detail on this older post. One of Izzy’s problems with Stede - and also with Ed as he is outside of Blackbeard - is that Stede refuses to fall within the correct position on the masculine hierarchy, and this feeds into Izzy's reaction in the stabbing scene, which is the first intimation both Izzy and the viewer have that Ed would like to be penetrated by Stede. To Izzy, the idea of the soft, effeminate man penetrating the powerful, dominant man is offensive because penetration is about dominance and shaming. To him and to anyone who takes this view, Stede topping Ed would degrade Ed. This concept is deeply misogynist because it assumes that men who “act as women” (are penetrated) are lesser than and are being possessed or humiliated by men who “act as men” (do the penetrating).
So, IF you take Izzy’s (the misogynist and patriarchal) perspective that penetrating is about enacting power/control/possession over another, then Stede (white man) penetrating Ed (moc) could be seen as itself racist. This reading would begin with the assumption that any man who is penetrated is being subdued and degraded, and to have a white man doing that to a MoC is doubly shameful and racist. But you have to make the a patriarchal and misogynist assumption to get there.
I do not at all think this is the assumption the show makes. It is a toxic viewpoint that bases itself in misogyny and strict gender and sexual roles that casts the person being penetrated as being possessed/shamed by the person doing the penetrating.
Something this show does really well is to reveal how very toxic the gender and sexual binary is. The characters are all trapped in these strict roles that are against their desires, and they are free and happy when they shake loose from those roles. Ed wants to be safe with someone; he wants to be penetrated safely and without pain, and Stede is someone with whom he feels safe and who does NOT see penetrating him as staking a claim or as something that gives him CONTROL over Ed’s body or Ed’s emotions. He doesn’t gain pleasure from harming Ed in any way, and he does not see gay sex (regardless of role) as shameful (we see this in the scene between him and CJ).
This is one of the reasons why the stabbing scene is actually so important—Stede does not recognize eroticism in causing Ed harm, and Ed is working towards being able to ask to be held and touched and penetrated without harm, by someone who does not treat it as degrading Ed.
This is all based in the context of the show and the characters. and another show, differently written, could have made all the dynamics very problematic indeed.
We joke about it, but Stede topping Ed does indeed have thematic importance both to the characters and to the show’s overall project in upending patriarchal assumptions about gender and sexuality.
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