saira, she/her: teacher, translator, writer. US transplant in the UK. AO3: profdanglais
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“Act of Grace” is such a fantastic episode in so many ways, but…the speed with which Ed takes Stede’s blindfold off. First he gets in between Stede and the firing squad, then starts rapidly moving him away from death. He doesn’t even wait for anyone to tell the firing squad to stand down, just turns around and yanks the blindfold off, because if the blindfold’s off, they can’t shoot Stede. And once again, the first thing Stede sees when he opens his eyes is Ed.
We also get the parallel in The Innkeeper, when Stede removing the cloth from Ed’s face starts bringing him back from the edge of death. Both men realize in the moment that they don’t want to die and it’s through the intervention, and love, of the other that they’re able to bring themselves back.
They just keep standing between each other and death.
#i just last night finished a rewatch of s1 and the shrimp emotions i feel at this scene i stg#also can we talk about the look on stede’s face when the blindfold comes off#that little smile that’s so happy to see ed despite the peril they’re both in#his little face when he asks ‘what’s the act of grace’#imo this is really the moment when you know they’re in love. this is a love story#our flag means death
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i stumbled onto a stizzy writer earlier and out of morbid curiosity looked at one of the fics. Their disclaimer was something like “as usual ed is off happily being a fisherman somewhere” so i guess in their world ed just conveniently vanishes and stede is unbothered by it. No idea what show they were watching
I've been encountering more Stizzy out there lately, and whatever, ships aren't moral indicators, don't like don't read, etc. And so I do not read!
But, like. What do Stizzy folks do with Ed?
Stede adores Ed and would never so much as consider someone else, especially not someone he has a mostly antagonistic relationship with. In-show-Izzy is so tied up with Ed that I don't even know what you'd do with him in an Ed-free environment. Do Stizzy writers kill Ed off? Make up whole new universes where Ed never existed (and in that case, why don't Stede and Izzy just hate each other forever without Ed to bring them together)?
I don't like any Izzy ships because I think everyone else on the show deserves better, but this is really the only one that makes absolutely no sense to me, not even as an enemies-to-lovers situation.
#i hate it viscerally#it’s so so weird to me that this even occurs to people#it would make neither of them happy#idk izzy stans so desperate to give him a boyfriend they will ship him with literally anyone
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holy fuck i just encountered a stizzy shipper the wild. The ‘for you’ stream betrayed me badly. Beloved hellsite please be aware that stizzy is emphatically not ‘for me’. i feel like i just found a really gross bug or a chimaera or something. i want both to study it and run screaming away
#no tags because i don’t want the chimaera bugs to find me#but seriously holy fuck#i cannot believe people are actually serious with that ship#unreal#of course it’s still all about izzy#and stede taking care of him and becoming a badass pirate(?) for him(???)#oh and apparently izzy has a competence kink lololol#no wonder he’s wound so tight he can never have a wank#too much of a loser to turn his own self on
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@thisonesatellite @ohmightydevviepuu
they should make an international travel that is free if you're internet friends
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Ohhh fuck but just imagine that moment where Ed hides that one robe of Stede's away. If he's burning everything else, it was probably quite a production, so everyone's in and out grabbing clothes, just like with the books. And he waits for just one moment of quiet, and he grabs one robe from the pile. Not a showy one, not one anyone will notice is gone. A relatively plain one, one he can maybe imagine someone like him getting to wear someday, and he frantically hides it, looking over his shoulder the whole time. And all he can think about is making it until he's alone, so he can cover up the smell of smoke by holding the sleeve up to his nose and pretending it's Stede holding him.
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AO3 Subscribers Poll
(please reblog and share for a bigger reach <3)
#between my two pseuds there are 757#possibly there would be some redundancy there if i had everything under one name#but the fandoms are pretty different so idk
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THEIR FAVOURITE ANIMALS! 💕
ed: what do you mean “which?”
stede: which favourite animal?
ed: uh, the one that’s your most favourite?
stede: i know! but what sort of criteria are we working under here, do you mean animals i’ve encountered, or animals i’ve heard of,
ed: i mean any. animal.
ed: that exists.
stede: ah well. there you go, you’ve just taken out half a dozen possible answers for me
ed: half a—
ed:
ed: actually let’s shelve that other thing. what’s your favourite animal that doesn’t exist
stede: uhhmm…can i give you a top five
ed: yeah, fuck it
stede, counting on his fingers and concentrating very hard: okay. HOOP SNAKE,
ed: alright off to a weird start, like it
stede: UNICORN,
ed: of course
stede: SEA SERPENT
ed: that’s two snakes
stede: HIPPOGRIFF
ed: and we’ve got a horse and a half, okay
stede: PLATYPUS
ed: excellent
ed: wait what
stede: i said HOOP SNAKE,
ed: no what was that last one
stede: UNIC—the platypus?
ed: yeah
stede: it’s a small mammal with the bill of a duck and the—
ed: those are real
stede: hah ha!
stede:
stede: what, really??
ed: sailed with a platypus once. squiggly little fuckers
stede: are they real???
ed: mmm—i guess it was more like i sailed with a guy with a platypus. me and the platypus, we weren’t, like, associates
stede: that’s a real creature???
ed: yeah, man, what did you think it was
stede: i don’t know! i saw it in a bestiary!
ed: well i saw it in real life
stede: how??? where???
ed: with my eyeballs, and, uh, i don’t know, round panama i think?
stede: panama. how long would that take, there and back?
ed: trip to panama? umm… hmm. depending on the wind we’d
ed, realizing:
ed: no.
stede: edward
ed: please don’t bring home a platypus
stede: i can be the one to take care of it! what do they eat?
ed: i don’t know, bugs and shit? stede, we don’t have the room for a platypus
stede: it could be an indoor outdoor platypus!
ed: oh, right, ok, and when it’s three in the morning and there’s a platypus yowling on the porch because it wants let in—
stede: we’ll install a platypus flap on the door—
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Heya, loves! 💜💛
Here's a small treat for you this cozy sunday morning: just Ed and Stede being all soft and kissy.
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reblog the money pigeon for a financially stable future
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gonna go off a bit on the subject of the "he's me fr" school of character analysis. Because while it's absolutely fine and good even to relate to fictional characters and see aspects of yourself in them, it's also important to recognise the difference between your interpretation based on your experiences and what is actually shown on the page or screen.
humans are primed to recognise patterns. We are strongly inclined to contextualise things to suit our existing worldviews. We don't like contradiction and we don't like things we don't understand. It's so natural for us then to reframe anything we find confusing or contradictory that we often don't even notice we are doing it.
this is bad! This is dangerous! This is how you get bigotry and hatred!
a lot of people reframe things they don't understand (other races, cultures, religions, genders) into Other and Other is frequently Bad or even Evil. It's relatively easy to spot when other people do this and to understand that it is wrong. But surely, you may then say to yourself, if i am reframing things into what is familiar to me that's good, right? i'm Relating and that's a positive thing!
and i guess, yes and no. Yes because finding connection can be validating and because there's a reason that representation in media is so important--that reason being largely because it gives a wider range of people the opportunity to see others like them on screens and in pages. But also that act of relating to something you know is in fact an act of bias. You are biased in favour of recognising that thing because it is You. It's important to you as part of your identity but you should be aware that this can lead you to overcompensate and to misinterpret things because you are seeking that connection so intensely. And honestly i think this is also fine so long as you are able to recognise the difference.
there's a difference between saying "i identify in X way and demonstrate Y characteristic. This fictional character demonstrates Y characteristic therefore i am going to interpret them as identifying in X way" and saying "this character MUST OBVIOUSLY identify in X way because I DO and I SAID SO and this is now a VALID TEXTUAL INTERPRETATION."
maybe it is. Maybe it also isn't. Maybe Y characteristic is something that supports many different interpretations and "because they're totally me and i said so" is neither a strong argument nor a healthy way to process the world.
let me give a real world example. i am acespec, something i didn't understand until relatively recently and definitely couldn't have defined when i was in college because that was like 1997 and the language i needed really didn't exist then. Or at least it didn't exist in my corner of the american midwest. Anyway. i had a friend in college who was gay. He had come out at 18, which in the late 90s rural midwest was a big fucking deal. He was very proud of his identity, to the point of being aggressive about it and one of his big things was trying to encourage other people to explore their own sexual identities.
which is fine, right? Good, even. People should be able to do that and his intention was to be a safe space for his friends. His intentions were good! What wasn't good was the way he absolutely targeted me as someone who didn't date and didn't "chase men" <-this was literally the way he phrased it to me. He said "you don't chase men and you don't want to date them therefore you are a lesbian just admit it."
he absolutely would not accept that i wasn't gay too. He used to get mad at me for arguing with him about it. The way his world was framed you were either gay or straight (reminding folks this was the 90s) and so if you weren't demonstrating Accepted Straight Behaviour, ie dating and lots of sex, that must mean you were closeted gay and should just come out already, otherwise what are you some sort of homophobe?
he wasn't able to recognise that his interpretation of the characteristics i showed were not the only possible interpretation. Even if i weren't acespec i could just not have met anyone i was interested in! (this was also true). There were at least half a dozen other explanations for it but he insisted his was the only way because it was His identity and His experience and he was i think genuinely trying to relate to me on that level. Instead he ended up alienating me because i knew the choice wasn't as simple as "gay or closeted and probably homophobic" but there was absolutely no convincing him of that.
obviously there is a difference between what he did and fictional character analysis. Obviously fictional characters are not going to be hurt by people interpreting them as whatever the way i was hurt by my friend's behaviour. But i put it to you that the same inability to differentiate between what is real and what is your own interpretation based on your personal biases is a negative thing and something people need to be aware of. If you are capable of imposing traits on fictional people based on your own identity and recognising that doesn't necessarily mean they have those traits then great, more power to you, go forth and fanfic. But if you interpret a character in X way and genuinely, deeply believe that your interpretation is the only right and valid one based on nothing more than your own experiences then i strongly urge you to examine your biases and learn to do textual character analysis. For yourself, for your own metacognition skills, but also for the people around you. Believing you are right and there is no other way to think is the quickest path to intolerance and hatred that there is.
#yes this is about crazy ass takes on the gay pirates#but i will not tag it as such because i don't want the drama#getting it off my chest on a blog no one reads anyway#behave in the notes or you are blocked
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"this is totally a real and true and valid thing, i even heard about it on a podcast" is absolutely the funniest way to support an argument while also being the most depressing
#the kids are not all right#i mean#podcasts are 100% accurate about all things in all ways right#they are never biased#i genuinely don't know whether to laugh or cry
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the doctor who wardrobe dept really looked at ncuti gatwa and said “this man simply cannot be contained within a single costume” and honestly i love that for all of us
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Reblog for a larger sample size!
No "show results", if you're not a fanfic writer just be patient.
I saw a post about an anon saying it was embarrasing to have an ao3 account in your 30s (it's absolutely not), so I want to do a poll and see what the age range actually is.
#op keep in mind that this is more representative of the tumblr userbase than all fanfic writers#tumblr skews young but fic is written by all age groups#also to the youth: your life will be so much happier if you stop being embarrassed all the time#just do you kids. do you.
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The average follower boops you 5.5 times factoid is actually just statistical error. The average follower boops you 1 time. Boopers Georg, who went insane and booped you 100+ times, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
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Ok now we have a booping feature I propose to tumblr next ides of March we have a stabbing counter and the person with the most stabs gets crowned Caesar and the blog with the most stabbings gets crowned Brutus
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ed and stede would not fuck izzy hope this helps <3
#the tags on this post are so gratifying#i’m thrilled not to be the only one who finds steddyhands gross#just disgusting as a concept#it’s not because i object to poly ships!#not in the slightest#but this one in particular is repulsive and frankly offensive#ed and stede do not want or need that little rat man in their beautiful love story#ed wouldn’t fuck izzy with someone else’s dick#and stizzy? lol. lmao. what. you ship this? your brain is couscous
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