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I’m gonna be so real and vulnerable with you right now…… I really want ofmd to come back.

There, I said it. Wow. Feels good to get that off my chest.

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Just remembered the fact that Stede genuinely thought Ed was dead and gone forever and I want to weep!

His whole world was shattered in seconds and the fact that he spent so many months working towards his one goal of finding Ed and telling him he loves him, only for him to realise Ed wouldn’t be able to hear his confession… it actually makes me feel a little bit sick it’s so sad

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It's so striking, and it comes up over and over again in the show once you watch for it, how much Ed's issues with himself tie into being consistently de-personed by others.

Growing up, Ed's mother tried to protect him by telling him that some people just aren't meant to have nice things, and he's one of them. Already, he has to be thinking of himself as a lesser version of a person, just growing up the way he has and internalizing messages like that.

And then it escalates. When he makes up stories to protect himself from the terrible reality of killing his father to protect himself and his mother, Ed makes himself into a monster that he describes as the scariest thing he's ever seen.

As an adult, in what we see alone, it happens over and over again. The racist French captain compares him to a donkey. At the party, he's exoticized and treated as a party trick, not a person, and people act like they're entitled to touch his beard, like he's just a funny prop. Izzy especially is very bad for removing Ed's humanity - "this thing you've become," he says in s1e10, like Ed's a thing and not a person, and more obviously describing Ed as a literal "wild dog" that needed to be put down (still makes my lip curl, fuck), and then describing him as a shark later. It all serves to paint this image of Ed as a thing that behaves randomly and unpredictably, and remove the burden of needing to empathize and treat Ed like a fellow human being. It's not hard to understand how consistent abuse and ridicule can lead to reactive violence, but that would require treating Ed like a person. Even his kitty collar during his probation - it's like Ed is so constantly treated like a wild animal who needs to be managed and controlled rather than a human being.

It's heartbreakingly rare for Ed to have others treat him like a human being who is equally deserving of respect and care. Stede and Jackie do, and the crew are absolutely getting there with him, but Ed is so accustomed to being treated less than human. It's one of the things I would've loved to see in s3, Ed just...getting to be a regular dude.

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You’re exactly right!!! The 8-10 ep formula might work really well for something like stranger things, where the plot is the story, but for something like ofmd, it’s not the plot that matters, but the characters. And limiting a show like that to just 10 eps per season is depriving it of the opportunity for us to learn and love the characters and the way they interact and the weird shit they do. Where is our beach episode! Where is our bottle episode! Where is our episode where they somehow all wind up switching bodies and have to figure out how to switch back (after having sex with each other because let’s be real that’s what they would do)! Where is the episode where Ed and Jim get stuck in a closet together for 5 hours before they’re found and come to a deeper understanding of who they both are???

Last thought before I shut up and go to sleep I promise!!! But fuck you guys ofmd deserved so many more episodes! I don’t just mean season 3, but overall the show deserves to be longer. I adore it but I can’t help but want more. I just wish ofmd had the time to explore so many more little moments between the characters! I want filler! I want shenanigans! The show deserves a s3 but I also think it deserved more than 18 episodes in the first place. And maybe I’m just being selfish but fuck I just wanna watch Stede and Ed goof off together forever is that too much to ask?

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Sometimes having a reputation for being smart beats actually being smart.

I once beat my school’s chess champion in a game because he spent the entire match desperately trying to work out my strategy because I was “smart” and therefore good at chess.

We were playing with a Lord of the Rings chess set. I was moving the characters I liked best.

I’m terrible at chess.

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you ever read fanfiction so good you start experiencing penis envy. sorry is this a safe space

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when stede is walking around the empty torn-up cabin. and then the camera pans down to show u the stabbed up chair in the shadowy foreground. its a shot that its so easy to imagine menacing music being played over but instead the tender little piano comes in w gnossienne 5 and stede quietly starts cleaning up. help me

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I'm still absolutely in awe of how the last shots of Ed in s1 managed to make a six-foot tall adult man look exactly one inch tall.

It's one of the things that I really love about Taika Waititi as an actor - he's got a really very nice and often understated sense of physicality that brings so much to the performance. He's very much a full-bodied actor and embodies the role with everything he's got. Ed's not just crying here, he's curled up so tight on himself, his posture is so tense and miserable, and Taika Waititi really isn't afraid at all to ugly cry to sell the performance, and it all really, really works.

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Hotel Fired or Pirate Fired?

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Wait, you were actually born in the 1900's? Thats so cool

i am going to eat my own entire skin

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I don't really understand the concept of this app, but I'm going to try again bc I'm obsessed with ofmd and I need more fanart

also, twitter is dead and I NEED to write again

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Okay though, gd, it is heartbreaking how little choice Ed has EVER been able to have in his entire life, how little freedom to get to find outo what he actually likes.

I do think there are elements of things that he genuinely enjoys and likes in piracy and in the Blackbeard aesthetic. But they are so manufactured specifically to cultivate a very narrow, hyper-masculine image, and Ed sheds them so, so very eagerly when he gets the chance.

When he lets himself wear pretty, soft robes, that's probably as close as we get to him choosing what to wear based on what he likes and needs in the moment. At the end of s1, Ed's even berated by Izzy for things as simple as telling others what name he would like to be called.

I want to see Ed get to choose what he likes. I want him to get to gush over pretty fabrics and soft clothes and find out what he wants to really wear for the first time. I want him to find lots of animal-fur rugs that Stede thinks are tacky but loves because Ed loves them, and I want him to shyly admit he'd like to try on that dress in the shop window, and I'd like for him to have a phase where he gets, like, really into fishing-themed home decor and they have decorative fishing hook art on the walls. He deserves to be able to discover what he likes without judgment or fear.

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For real though. One thing I mourn about series 3 is that I really wanted to see Ed’s outfits. Like, this is a man who is always in costume, whether it’s his own leather-jacket-armour, or a sack-cloth onesie, or dressing up in Stede’s clothes for fun or for comfort, or claiming Buttons’s leftovers to live his fantasy fisherman life, the whole Kraken look, or even painting himself as a bride.

I want to see what he’ll choose to wear when he can finally have a choice of his own. I want to see what it means for him to just be Ed. 💜

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i dont think fandom people who only think about male characters and only create content for male characters are like horrible misogynists but i do think they often have some shit they need to unpack. like how can you , for example, play life is strange and the only thing you come away with from that is you want nathan and warren to fuck nasty. how can you watch birds of prey, and the only thing you come away with from that is you want roman and victor to fuck nasty......... like idk! idk! i just find it strange especially when people will engage with media Specifically about women and then put no effort in to empathize or care about them, sometimes even going far enough to say they HATE the female characters and that theyre bitches... IDK!!!!

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omg imagine being born and you are on a spaceship and everyone aboard is sooo so mad at you just because you burst out of some guy's chest to be born. like um sorry i've not been alive before i didn't even know that's not allowed please be nice to me um the spaceship floor is cold is no one going to knit me some little booties i am calling child protective services

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Listen if the blorbo that you identify with is manipulative, emotionally abusive, homophobic, and racist, then you can’t be surprised when people don’t take your words at face value, especially with the way you try to twist the narrative to make the abuser the victim and the revisionist history of your group.

Like, the gaslighting. It’s just unreal.

Lord save me from the hypocrisy of the cany*n.

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this is so fucking funny jrbfgjkbjhfbg