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burlesque dancer, chef and restaurant owner, pastry brand owner, retired (or not) architect, tattoo studio owner, IT contractor, mechanic, D&D Master, former gangster (?) - what are your fauvorite AU proffessions?

AUs are so fucking funny. Here's my blorbo. In an alternate universe he fights everyday to keep himself alive against an uncaring world. In another universe he sings sometimes.

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I assumed there was a kind of "self organising thing" - Oluwande and Frenchie themselves didn't see any other way for crew to survive this party.

Even worse than Stede convincing them. Even more for Stede to apologise them and feel guilty about. Maybe Badminton accident was just accident, but the true guilt was about thoughtless endangerment of the crew's lives and extreme blindness to his own privileges.

I was rewatching the Our Flag Means Death pilot today and I was thinking about the fact that Stede made Frenchie and Olu “the help” for the tea party from hell.

**Edit: how did he convince them to go along with it? Was it just the stress of the situation so they went with it? maybe bribed with an extra week’s pay? It’s not like he had a good captain voice at that time to order them😜**

Knowing Stede that wouldn’t have sat well with him so I just think about how profusely and earnestly he would have apologized for doing that to them and putting them in that position.

Idk I’m sure there’s a fic out there about it, but they clearly don’t hold that against him (more his incompetence), so I like to imagine he apologized or did something to make it up to them later.

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Best interpretation of shouting Ed ever.

OK, but the "we wrote our names on each other in permanent ink" scene isn't just the connection of their voices or the words in the letter, it's a connection across time and space and beyond death.

We see Stede looking at the bottle that contains the letter he wrote. We hear his voice speaking the words of the letter, and then the voice and the words intertwining with Ed's voice in the present, in a place where he doesn't know if Stede is alive or dead, where their love has survived, after Stede's words have helped bring Ed back from the edge of death, after Ed has been so afraid that Stede didn't really come back for him. There is Stede, speaking across time, possibly speaking from beyond death, that they are intertwined with each other and always have been, and there is Ed, shouting that he hears him.

It just gets me, man.

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I'm pansexual, I'm divorced, I agree. Let him be gay!

Am very much for bi representation. Need more canonically bi characters in film and TV. Bring us positive bi representation that is not weird porn-adjacent sexualization for male gaze-y dweebs.

Stede Bonnet is not bi. Dude is gayer than Liberace on a Friday night. Super fucking gay. Let him be gay.

I’d also say it’s quite IMPORTANT to his characterization that he’s gay. He’s not just married to the wrong woman. He is not attracted to women. He doesn’t want to be with women and that’s confusing FOR HIM. He thinks there’s something broken about him because he cannot make it work with a woman. That’s inherent to his characterization, and it highlights the damage that compulsory heterosexuality does to both partners in a marriage like that. Saying that he must be bi because he was married is entirely misunderstanding the thematic use of his marriage.

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I hate that the fanon idea of Ed as someone with a small vocabulary/someone who is "bad with words" is still presented so often without criticizing it in fanworks.

It's just not supported by canon at all. Ed speaks very casually, but that's true of every other character on the show (including Stede, who's so often made into someone who talks like the poshest of Brits, but that's a topic for another day).

The only times we see Ed stumble over words, it's more that he's unfamiliar with the concepts they represent. He doesn't know what "retirement" means, but he's a pirate from a low-class background, so it makes sense he's never heard it before (and that he assumes other pirates, like Izzy, wouldn't know what it meant). He stumbles over "passive aggression," mishearing the first word as "massive," but if mishearing one very similar word as another is a sign of a limited vocabulary, I'm sure we're all guilty there - and the way Ed corrects himself and acts a bit embarrassed makes it clear he's not used to messing up his words like that.

Ed's vocabulary is often shown to be absolutely fine, bordering on impressive, in the show itself! He sure as fuck never needs Stede to explain big words to him (please stop making me read that). Ed frequently chooses larger/less commonplace words to describe things (diabolical, optimal, intercourse, etc.) when smaller words would do fine. He does not have a limited vocabulary. In fact, the way Hornigold chides Ed for using "purgatory" to describe the gravy basket when he thinks a simpler term would be better makes it seem like Ed's even a bit insecure about how other pirates might think his vocabulary is too hoity-toity.

Now, writing Ed as someone who is self-conscious of his ability to come across as good with words is something I've seen done very well as a commentary on race and class, especially by other fans of color. Writing about Ed thinking he's "bad with words" while at the same time being very obviously eloquent is a great deconstruction of this theme. But I hate when it's used uncritically, and especially when Stede has to explain perfectly commonplace words to Ed. Ed doesn't need Mr. "Calm down mr. wavey blade" over here to give him vocabulary lessons.

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"I was just a whim. Yeah, just a whim to you, another plaything like your fancy toy unicorn boat and your wife."

We focus on the word whim (in part because Stede does) but can we also mention the word plaything? Ed has used this word before, after he maroons part of Stede’s crew on the island: "Farewell, Bonnet's playthings."

It’s interesting because of course we don’t have Ed talking to anyone about what he thinks happened when Stede didn't show up on the dock, but some of his fear—or an explanation he might have considered—is that it was all a game to Stede. And it makes sense: Stede is wealthy, he has no material reason to be a pirate, and he does treat piracy, for a while, like a game. He buys a boat and outfits it according to his fantasies, and buys a crew, and when Ed shows up, they immediately start playing games. He can very much come off as a privileged guy treating people's lives like something he can play with. Stede makes Ed fall for him so easily, without apparently any effort, so Ed may indeed have thought that he was just another thing for Stede to play with and toss away when he got bored (or it got too real). And it does get too real when they kiss and Ed suggests running off together.

They’re both kids in the first season, in a lot of ways, but Ed knows that what he felt wasn’t a game. He doesn't fully realize that what Stede felt wasn't a game either; in fact, that's part of what frightened Stede to begin with. Part of their conversation in "Fun and Games" turns on just how much not a game this was for Ed—"I was all in."—and Stede moves very rapidly to proving that this was not a game for him either.

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parce qu'on s'est crié des mots qui ont sali tous nos plus beaux dessins, on a hurlé des chaudières d'encre noire sur le bonheur

j'expose ma tête, mes yeux, mon cœur et mes mains

si tu reviens

something quiet, gentle, and romantic for today. I’ve been assured it’s suggestive enough for @goodomensafterdark ‘s smut war, so enjoy this soft interlude with suggestive tummy ❤️

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i love the whole Ned scene meta.

Something we don't really talk about with the "I love you/I know" scene.

It is not just important that Stede knows Ed loves him and has known since before they were even reunited. It’s that the last time they saw each other, they fought. Ed said their night together was a mistake. Stede said he was a coward. They yelled, and Ed stormed off.

And Ed has always thought that his emotions and expressing them lead to other people not loving him. That they make others frightened of him or repulsed by him. He's never been safe to panic (because Blackbeard doesn't panic) or be afraid (because Blackbeard doesn't feel fear) or be happy (because he looks crazy) or cry (because Edward better watch his step). And once again, his emotions have run away with him.

So he says sorry the moment he gets to Stede again. But Stede KNOWS. Their fight did nothing to stop Stede knowing that Ed loves him. Ed being panicked and emotional and saying things he didn’t mean did not stop Stede from loving him. They did not convince Stede that Ed doesn’t love him or want him around. Stede knows.

That’s really important, because they are going to fight and they will say things they don’t mean. Ed will panic and get emotional. So will Stede. But they know they still love each other. Ed doesn’t have to be frightened that his emotions will drive Stede away. He doesn't have to keep saying "I love you" when he gets upset, because Stede knows.

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I hope we haven't seen the last of this indestructible little f'ker 🦄💕

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In a universe where piracy is coming to its natural end, where the theme that the leads' lives revolves around is looking like a past they'll think fondly of, someone like Izzy hands - who is the motif of that theme, THE pirate incarnate - he doesn't fit. He's done his job, he kept piracy alive for his entire life, he kept the man he loves alive as best as he could, he came full circle to realising that there was joy and beauty to be found. But he doesn't want to fish, he fucking hates fishing, an inn sounds even worse. He is piracy, it's all of him. He was done. Izzy Hands' death is a call to everyone that the days of piracy are over, that they should remember him as someone who kept it going, who did his best with the resources he had, who died a pirate's death exactly as he wanted.

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Here you are, it's usefull for me as well - i do dragking gig as the other ofmd leatherdaddy (the villain whose name cannot be spoken xddd because he has really awkward fandom, shush).

I really need to know something... for my own Ed-ification. But what is the femme equivalent of a Leather Daddy, ,because bestie I WAS that today and I wanna know what to call that look b/c ICONIC.

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Woooo, so interesting @quarterblindsocialworker . I did some research and i found leatherdykes!

I really need to know something... for my own Ed-ification. But what is the femme equivalent of a Leather Daddy, ,because bestie I WAS that today and I wanna know what to call that look b/c ICONIC.

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new niche just dropped

edit: there’s a pattern of something something wanting to protect their partners from what they know to be horrible

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@celluloidbroomcloset you write so amazing brillant pieces, that sometimes I'm to ashamed and shy trying to left my comment in my broken, flawed english, you know? I'll fix it today because your fics totally deserves as much praising and compliments as Stede and Ed themselves. I'd like to write them with tenderness and thinking about details.

A new fic from me, as Stede and Ed try a role reversal.

I do like comments, if you dig. If not...OK, fine, whatever. :P

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wtf

i wrote a comment on max Instagram that got me INSTANTLY muted and comment removed and it went more or less like:

"maybe we should start talking about why queer shows get cut short. maybe we should talk about why a show that is well performing gets a budget cut and then gets cancelled. let's talk about how a show with representation of POC, trans, gays, lesbians and queers gets cancelled"

there is where it hurts. therfore, as the delete and mute were INSTANT i claim it is truth. and it is the reason.

I AM FUCKING PISSED OFF

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this

Renew as a Crew

My favorite thing about the campaign to save Our Flag Means Death is the fact that the mission to save the show resonates so deeply with people who love it because of the very messages within the show itself, and it's so unlike any other renewal campaign I've ever seen because of this. It's like the show is asking to be saved with the parallels within it with moments such as: 1.) coming back to life when the moment seems hopeless

2.) finding a community and family to battle together with

3.) having a love so powerful it can't end in an instant, as it was written in permanent ink

4.) knowing your worth, even when the rest of the world (MAX) tells you that you're worthless, because you know you are good

There's just something so beautiful about it that fills me with hope <3