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"a vague disclaimer is nobody's friend"

4x07 The Initiative

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not even JRR Tolkien, who famously developed the concept of the Secondary World and firmly believed that no trace of the Real World should be evoked in the fictional world, was able to remove potatoes from his literature. this is a man who developed whole languages and mythologies for his literary world, who justified its existence in English as a translation* simply because he was so miffed he couldn't get away with making the story fully alien to the real world. and not even he, in extremis, was so cruel as to deny his characters the heavenly potato. could not even conceive a universe devoid of the potato. such is its impact. everyone please take a moment to say thank you to South Americans for developing and cultivating one of earth's finest vegetables. the potato IS all that. literally world-changing food. bless.

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one of the things i love about ofmd is that it recognizes that the world is fucking magical when you know how to look and you let it be. the full moon during the fine things scene is so huge not because it actually is but because it feels that way, it feels that significant. stede can be a mermaid who will find ed and wait for him in the depths and keep him safe because it's just a fantasy. buttons talks to karl and olivia but in almost the exact same way i talk to my dog. the characters can find each other in the middle of the ocean because we too can find each other in the middle of our busy lives.

ofmd looks at our reality and how hard things are and how beaten down we can be, made smaller, boxed away, and says, what if it weren't like that? what if it were more? what if it were gorgeous and camp and raw and vulnerable and what if love is real and it exists in so many different ways and what if people can break free of expectation and stereotype and what if it's not too late, it's never too late, to really live? what if all of that is possible right here and right now for, for you and me and all of us?

it is. it is.

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I'd come to your restaurant

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lips a sweet surprise

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Good morning!

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i need a hundred more episodes of them just doing stuff

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Happy 2 years to Our Flag Means Death!

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i love how Gandalf invested in Hobbits in year one and has been pushing them ever since. Thorin, i hear you need help with a breaking and entering. Can I recommend one of these little cunts? Silent as fuck, trust me. Elrond my dude i know you're skeptical but these four chucklefucks just transported a weapon of mass destruction all the way here. Theoden, you've gotta get yourself a hobbit man, I've got a spare one here. Denathor you big prick, take a hobbit - literally this is the bottom of the range but listen to him sing. Beautiful little bastard.

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The original pride flag and the sewing machine it was sewn on

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Source (Season 2 - March 11th 2024)

kay_buchanan: Spanish Jackie’s boot dagger sheaths 🏴‍☠️

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This is my attempt on making Blackbeards knee brace. All is leather, the braces themselves are hardened with beeswax. All is put together with buckles and rivets.

Functionality wise i was surprised how actually really great it is to wear. I have a problematic knee myself and it got to bend so much lighter and easier and at the same time its greatly supported. The middle strap is very important for it all to work well too tho and its not that visible on the show so thats an important bit. Overall 12/10 🏴‍☠️✨

If you want to see the whole making process, you can head over to my Twitter

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something that makes me nuts about the jenkins cut btw

ok one thing that was almost universally predicted by the fandom, and did not pan out, was ed keeping stuff hidden in the auxiliary wardrobe during the kraken era. never happened. in fact the auxiliary closet never gets mentioned in s2. well, whatever, that's not the only thing we were wrong about. we all thought lucius would be in the walls too.

but. we do know ed was hiding some stuff somewhere. that blue robe he's wearing for the morning-after scene is, according to gypsy taylor, one of stede's that he kept.

and, ok, they presumably never had to explain that, it sounds like just a headcanon on gypsy's part. but there's also the lighthouse painting, which we never saw, but was supposed to reappear, the set dressers actually put it back in place as they patched up the cabin and they've shared the bts images:

and having the painting just reappear with no explanation of where it was seems much weirder. given how carefully ed hides the cake topper and his general trust-no-one attitude it seems very unlikely he'd have had this painting that is very meaningful to him out anywhere it could be seen by others. especially when the painting seems to be completely untouched while every other visible possession of stede's has been vandalized. it sure wasn't there in that spot over the mantle earlier, we get a very clear shot of it in impossible birds:

the other thing is weirdly someone made a specific effort to disguise the lever that opens the auxiliary closet with something more on theme for the kraken's ship than stede's little mannequin:

so yeah i think he must have had this stuff in the auxiliary wardrobe, and i do think probably it was going to come up. not as a significant plot point or anything, but my guess is maybe the scene where ed's on his bender at the start of red flags playing with his wedding dolls was supposed to take place in the aux wardrobe like we all thought and then someone was like hey our budget got slashed and we're spending all this money on a mermaid tank and a rainbow pride market, do we really need to build this set that'll only be used in one scene.

so like not a big deal. probably the right call on budget honestly. but i really would have liked to see the concept for how they were going to decorate ed's little hidey hole with the painting and everything.

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Source - x

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ok actually I'm not done