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It's 2028. You're watching the very last season of hit tv show Our Flag Means Death.

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“Never expect anything in return from anyone. But the truth is when we really love someone, we naturally expect a little care and love from them.”

— lieinlove

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“I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.”

— Michael Faudet

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The Songbirds Keep Singing

- drawn & painted in Photoshop

((oh how i adore them))

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You gotta write for funsies sometimes. Everything doesn’t have to be groundbreaking. Like. Who cares if it’s a little silly it is made out of love

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it’s been ten years since amy flirted with jake for twenty seconds and he became obsessed with her forever. how’s everyone feeling about that

me personally:

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OK, yes, Rhys Darby can and should and indeed must play the Scarlet Pimpernel. Why?

Sir Percy Blakeney is basically Stede Bonnet if he were an exceptional swordsman. Everyone thinks he's a brainless fop, when he's actually a badass hero going around saving people from the guillotine and looking fabulous while doing it. So you get the best of both worlds: He's a dingbat! He's a badass! He's a combination dingbat and badass!

Lots of fuckery. How does Sir Percy and his group get away with it? By dressing up and playing pretend and enacting daring rescues from right off the executioner's block.

Fancy clothes. So many fancy clothes. 18th Century outfits, each swishier than the last.

ANGST. Sir Percy is married to Marguerite, with whom he is passionately in love, but he thinks she betrayed someone and got them killed. And Marguerite? She thinks he's fallen out of love with her and she doesn't know why. They are cold and distant and seething with barely repressed passion. They are incredibly hot for each other and won't act on it. It's fantastic.

Sword fights! Sea battles! Chases across the countryside! More fuckery! Many chances for running around and jumping off things. Lots of action.

Tl;dr: Rhys Darby should play the Scarlet Pimpernel because I want to see it.

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My therapist just told me my problem is that I need to write more fanfiction.

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Some of your books make it seems like you believe in actual literal magic, do you? ()

I can write down a few words and make people thousands of miles away, whom I have never met and will never meet, laugh tears of joy and cry tears of true sorrow for people who do not exist and have never existed and never will exist. If that isn't actual literal magic I don't know what is.

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繕い　　(；ﾟДﾟ) ﾅﾝﾄｫ Mending a sweater

（Reddit:r/oddlysatisfying u/thegupeeman）

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the ninth doctor came, served cunt so hard he rebooted an entire franchise, and then died. icon

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the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire

icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down

cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)

feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated

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The thing is, Stede and the Revenge's takedown of Ned Low absolutely should be a legend, but not for any of the reasons that outsiders think. They were unarmed and ambushed by a notorious sadist bastard, tied up and tortured...and they destroyed him in maybe an hour.

They did it with flowers and a bathtub full of booze, with sailors dancing and singing in drag. They did it with a captain whose great pride is treating his crew well. They did it with "what if it doesn't have to be that way?"

All the work of defeating Ned was done before Stede ever drew his sword. It's like Ed said when Pete and Lucius came rushing in - it's okay. Stede has it handled. It's so easy to think that power is swords and guns and muscle and a willingness to use them against others, but Ned is the personification of coercive violence, and none of that helped him on the Revenge.

The ship has taken on near-totemic significance - like Jim says, it's a place where they live for each other, and not just to survive. Calypso's birthday party was the glorious peak of that - a stolen treasure hoard used to pay for a beautiful queer party on a holiday the crew fully made up. The whole thing was peak uselessness - no piracy was being accomplished, no purpose pursued but loving amusement for the crew.

Ned is so furious about the loss of his "legacy," motivated by envy and an obsession with status. His view of humanity is literally instrumentalist, and all he lives for is feeling superior to others. What his mercenaries saw is that the Revenge crew lives for so much more. That you can do that, and still be a pirate.

And it's absolutely deliberate that the group wasn't even referred to as Ned's crew, but as mercenaries. All he had to give them was money. Which, hey, you need that to live, but here's a crew (including fucking Blackbeard!) spending money to turn their ship into a magic garden for no practical reason, and their captain respects their work.

The Revenge was the embodiment of "what if it doesn't have to be that way?" A lighthouse, if you will, illuminating a different path. That was Stede's great accomplishment that night. But all he gets celebrated for outside the ship is the clammy horror of making Ned walk the plank.

And, well. We know Stede is vulnerable to flattery. So if everyone is finally, finally saying he's a man - no, better, that he's the man - for killing Ned, well it must be true, right? And if that seems off, well, that's what inadvisable amounts of alcohol are for.

Poor Ed really did hit the nail on the head without realizing it - it's always family stuff with notorious pirates. And it's still his father and that goose for Stede. At last he's doing a "man's work" and being rewarded for it, never mind that he had his ship built in the first place to get away from all that.

It's not a coincidence that that's when half the crew starts to make noises about leaving. And it's not a coincidence that they're motivated by love, in a chain stretching from Zheng to Archie. Chains keep us together, remember? As soon as he forgets that, the ones Stede forged start to fall apart.

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oh yeah is anyone gonna talk abt how for months the ofmd fandom were agonising over whether or not ed could read, and it turns out he can. and that means that when he signs his name as an x to give up his piracy, that was ed's deliberate choice, his last sign of freedom as he surrenders it to the british. and when he asks lucius to help him write his song, he does so bc he wants lucius to guide him and be a companion to help him work through being left by stede, under the guise of being his boss. cool.

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Guys do you remember how we were like “if stede seduced ed on accident in season one imagine what he’s going to be like in season two when he’s trying”

And we got LOVE LETTERS IN BOTTLES

And “COME BACK TO ME”

And “I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU”

And KISSING IN THE MOONLIGHT

And SHOVING AGAINST A WALL

And “I LONG FOR YOU”

Like are you fucking kidding me?! Bask in it! It actually happened!!! Stede Bonnet, dashing romantic lead! He’s an idiot but he knows how to seduce his unhinged boyfriend!

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“When you can tell your story and it doesn’t make you cry, that’s when you know you’ve healed.”

— Unknown