#JUST FUCK LUCIUS IZZY

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

incomplete list of excellent canon ofmd scenes/elements to incorporate into your normal-ass modern au fanfic, in no particular order:

ed and stede swapping clothes for no reason within 10 minutes of meeting each other

buttons talking to seagulls

ed quitting his job to be a fisherman and sucking so bad at fishing

calico jack engaging in horrific urinal etiquette as a power move

calico jack peeing on stede as a power move

izzy calling the cops on stede

izzy fully trying to kill stede and thinking ed will just get over this and move on

jim keeping lucius locked in a box for at least a full entire day

jim having the same exact edgy protagonist backstory with the nuns and the revenge quest and everything

ed giving weapons and a bag of cash to some random children

stede lighting a guy on fire and laughing

stede lighting a party on fire and laughing

stede accidentally killing a badminton and not really caring

stede picking up severed human body parts with his bare hands

stede straight-up abandoning his wife and kids in the middle of the night with no warning

stede crashing garlic soup’s first date and starting a fight with zheng

stede losing in a fight with zheng very publicly and very embarrassingly

[winterstaryu]

WHERE IS. THE RELEASE DATE. WHERE IS THE FUCKING RELEASE DATE?????

[hellsquills]

Someone mentioned in a post some time ago how it's likely that Izzy might call Stede "captain" out of spite for Ed

BUT NOW I can't stop thinking about Lucius, the oldest sibling one betrayed by both of his captains, being the first one to call Izzy "captain" in front of everyone

(Also considering how much OFMD likes parallels, this would be a good one:)

Gif by @lamberts

[arsenicflame]

i think the reason izzy can be so blasé about his relationship with ed is not because hes taken to blaming a shark instead, but because hes actually already done a lot of the processing in the previous episode.

hes mourned his leg, hes had his drunk crying rants. hes gone through the five stages of grief. and then? the crew reaches out to him, offers him their support. they make him a new leg, they nominate him their new figurehead. when he stands there on the prow of the ship, leg on, letter in hand, thats his acceptance, thats his moving on.

[something-about-sunflowers]

Begging, literally begging, people to stop tagging characters when they aren't relevant to the post. If the post is about Ed and Stede and it doesn't mention Izzy or Lucius then you should not be tagging Izzy or Lucius. Stop spamming the tags for a wider reach. It's literally against TOS.

[aucoba]

It's the fact that every messed up thing that happened before is actually addressed now that everyone's back in the ship. The story feels so freacking compelling to me because the characters remember what they've been through. Never do they just "move on" no, they work their asses off before they remind everyone how they got hurt before going on. There's no traumatic experience that's just shove off to come back later in a petty way : it's immediately put out in the open and dealt with. And yet it's not dragged on and on for ever. The healthiness of those pirates gets me

[idiolex]

any time lucius accidentally thinks something even halfway nice abt izzy he has to immediately insult him like 10 times in a row in his head to make up for it send post

[just-an-enby-lemon]

There's refusing to believe your fave died because he is your fave and there is refusing to believe your fave died because your other fave "died" in season one and he is fine now.

[polyamoryprincess]

I know people are upset about Izzy being killed (I am too) but the truth is I don’t think it was bad writing or even them diminishing Izzy’s character, I actually think everything about the last episode has to do with production and I think Izzy lovers will feel a little better about it if they see it like that (it helped for me).

Basically, if you look at it like this, I think 2 important things came into play. Budget and how the showrunners assumed this would play out. Which is to say that they probably assume HBO will either renew them for season 3 and cut their budget again or they’re going to be cancelled.

Both are very likely, so assuming they had this in mind, removing Con, who I’d guess is the 3rd highest paycheck after Taika and Rhys was probably their best budgeting move, especially if they’re thinking of having an all out war in the final season that they probably want to be a visual spectacle, so each season feels like it’s getting consistently larger in scope.

On the other hand, if they do get cancelled (which they probably will because the HBO CEO is a weird little conservative goon), they left the ending in a way that could be considered an ENDING while still being prepped for a 3rd season. So in the time they had left (which was 2 episodes less than their first season) they gave Izzy an entire completed character arc.

I 100% understand the sadness and anger, especially after all the shit he went through during the beginning of the season, I felt gut punched when I learned he died and was bitter as hell through my whole first viewing of the season even though I’d had more than a month to process it. But after having thought it through, I genuinely don’t think it’s simply them treating Izzy as just an extension of Ed’s character growth and I sure as shit don’t think it’s because they wanted to conform to Izzy haters.

I think if they had all of the resources and episodes they wanted, had a guaranteed season 3, I think we would have gotten the character growth we got with better pacing and he probably would have at minimum made it to season 3 (I also think he would have had a love interest, but that’s just what I wanted for him tbh).

I think they did the best they could with what they had, allocated a lot of budget and screen time towards his character despite having less of those 2 things than the first season, and at least let Izzy have a completed story and arc, even if the ending was deeply disappointing.

[lilyvu1234]

I didn't expect them to make up so fast but well... next step is make out I guess

[theindiscreetbookworm]

Chapters: 2/3 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Israel Hands/Lucius Spriggs, Past Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Israel Hands - Relationship Characters: Israel Hands, Lucius Spriggs, Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Jim Jimenez, Frenchie (Our Flag Means Death), Fang (Our Flag Means Death), Ivan (Our Flag Means Death) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Selkies, Selkie Israel Hands, Lucius Spriggs Lives, but we definitely start with him drowning, Lucius Spriggs Lives in the Walls of the Revenge, Canon Related, Post-Season/Series 01, Edward Teach is the bad guy, (kind of), (sorry), Bittersweet Ending Summary:

“What are you?” Selkie. The word sounds like a bell’s chime in his head, and Lucius knows. He’s heard the stories, the legends of seal women from the north that folks told back home. He’d never taken them for truth, not once—not even when Jenkins came back to town from the sea with a dark-eyed new wife in tow and the whispers had swirled throughout the autumn of the reticent new bride and how she lingered at the edge of town some nights, staring back towards the coast. Slowly, Lucius’s mind catches up and he processes what the selkie first said. “There’s a selkie on the ship?”

~~~

The only reason Lucius survives when Edward throws him off the Revenge is the selkies who pull him back to the surface of the water and give him time to breathe. They bring him back to the ship with one piece of information: one of ours is on board. Living in the passageways hidden in the walls, Lucius has to find out who it is; who's been a creature of legend hiding in plain site the whole time and, more importantly, what they have to do with his survival.

[naranjapetrificada]

not me thinking about how Stede thinks he ruined Ed when even if they never saw each other again after episode 10, their connection showed Ed what love could feel like and marked a watershed in how he'll think about the possibilities of life going forward

[youmagnificentbeast]

also who do we ship izzy with????

[smokedanced]

@survivoirs said: ❛  i’m sorry, i can’t do this. i’m going to give them what they want.  ❜ - my Lucius to Izzy

🌙  *  ―   𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄    /    ACCEPTING ↷

Izzy’s breaths come laboured and shallow. Hunched, yet stubbornly sitting up against the wall of their cell, his head is reeling so hard it takes him a moment to process what Lucius is saying.

❝ Fuck  ⸺  no, you’re not, ❞    he growls, more alert now, sounding more aggressive than he means to. It’s difficult to control his tone when he’s scared; he instantly berates himself over it internally, tries to force the anger out of his tone, yet the urgency still sounds as such.    ❝ I can take it. I’m not betraying Edward, and I’m not letting you make me do that by your hand. You talk, it’s on me, so keep your mouth shut. You understand? ❞

It’s bewildering, that Lucius would talk for... Izzy’s sake? They haven’t touched the boy. It’s Izzy they drag out several times every day, Blackbeard’s First Mate. Lucius being there, to them, has been just collateral damage, so far. And if it’s up to him, it will fucking stay that way. The boy isn’t getting touched on his watch; he will rip their throats out with his bare hands if they try. Lucius wouldn’t... They’re creative, with their methods. Today, they’d half drowned Izzy.

But it doesn’t, as much as he feels protective over the younger man, make sense to Izzy that those feelings would be... reciprocated. Just because they fuck, doesn’t mean Lucius cares about him. The very thought is pathetic; Izzy doesn’t expect to be the subject of anyone’s care. Doesn’t mean he won’t protect Lucius.

❝ That’s not how it works, ❞    he says, calmer, but still gruff, staring the younger man down.    ❝ You talk and they kill us both, us keepin’ shut up is the only reason we’re still alive. I’ve escaped worse situations. It’s gonna be fine. ❞

[twinknote]

not rbing the post bc i dislike the language used, but in my mind lucius was 100% a swer. he uses his sexuality and promiscuity like a gun. he fully knows that he’s a hot commodity and he acts like it. his weapon of choice against izzy is flirting. he’s getting dicked down by black pete in the supply room and draws everyone naked. you cannot tell me this man wasn’t selling his goods before stede recruited him

[erinthesails]

The Izzy that people on Twitter are talking about is a fundamentally different animal from the one I watched on my television. This man is simply from a different show luv