#Breakfast in Bed

[crystallinegazer]

I LOVE THESE TWO SO MUCH

[themetalhiro]

[mousesqueaks]

freaking yum lois

[therodentqueen]

Sesame Seed Saturday

[strathshepard]

Nina Simone in France, 1988, by Michel Gangne

[beccawise7]

Tuesday Morning Mood. 💜🖤

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

This is one of my favourite scenes. I think it showcases their characters so well.

How tender Stede is with Ed’s absolute chaos of a breakfast

Stede’s confident body language - he ‘did good’ last night

Ed’s calmness and vulnerability in sharing one of the darkest moments of his life, and how his belief in Stede’s love helped him live again.

I hurt a little that Ed is desperately and poignantly trying to tell Stede he wants to give up the violent way of life, but doesn’t quite have the words… but this will sort itself later.

But the little moment that gets me is the toast.

S: ‘Toast… with a bite already taken’

E: ‘… that was me.’

That was me.

First, it’s Taika’s delivery of the line. It’s so light and subtly funny. Ed’s almost pleased with himself. You don’t make someone breakfast and hand it over with your own teethmarks in it, Ed! But also, thanks for clarifying. In case it was Roach or Archie instead. Like, obviously it was Ed!

That was me.

But it got me thinking about life on ships, and Ed’s Hornighost memories in the gravy basket about Felix stealing food, and the severe punishment for that. Food on a ship would be tightly controlled. And the idea, you would take a bite out of another person’s breakfast, especially your Captain’s! It’s almost an act of insubordination.

Now of course Stede doesn’t run that sort of ship, and Stede and Ed are in an intimate relationship; but fear is long-lived, and Ed has grown up and lived within punitive cultures. I mean, imagine if he’d taken a bite out of his dad’s food!

To be so relaxed that he wanders down to the kitchens, gets food for his lover, but also his Captain, and eats some of it on the way. And openly admits to it with no bother… they’ve rekindled their previous domesticity, and more.

I think it tells much about their intimacy, but also how much Ed is healing from his past. They are just going to be that sort of annoying restaurant couple that constantly eat off each other’s plates.

Perhaps that’s a lot of overthinking about a piece of toast. But I love finding meaning in the minutiae. The little details that tell us so much about the character growth of these two.

There’s a bite in my toast!

That was me

That was me 💕

[galina]

[seabeck]

Egg song time

[lostxguyx]

When you wake her up with your tongue and devower her until she sees stars just because you want her to be the first thing you taste in the morning.

[vintagepromotions]

'Breakfast in Bed Charged Extra'

Postcard from 'Breakfast in Bed' postcard set (1912). Artwork by W. Ellam.

[crystallinegazer]

most dramatic child i've seen in my life

[ink-ling]

xx

[moonandtrees]

[hotwife-fling]

[beccawise7]

Wishing you all a very relaxing Saturday. ~beccawise7 💜🖤