#OFMD the kraken

[funnyifwebothgotitwrong]

David Jenkins: "Ed is a guy where you're like, “Wait a minute, you're invulnerable. You’re Blackbeard,” but then you see he's hurt, he's not getting up. To me, those are the natural journeys for those two characters. Then you see Ed come back, and he has to wear a bell around his neck, and he's gonna fix a lock on this door, and he's gonna learn to fish and just be a three-dimensional human as opposed to just a scary drawing." (Source)

Sooooooooo... is this how the Trauma Crew™️ will be dealing with Ed being still alive and onboard? Like "ok, but only if we always hear him coming from now on"!

... and why do I think this is hilarious? 😂

[thecoolestcowboy]

girls be like “i’m fighting demons” and the demons are some little rich dude who wears a little striped night gown with a matching nightcap and snores ‘HONKK shooo HONK shooo’

[merricatblckwood]

After months of work (and mostly procrastination) i finally finished Ed's *kraken era* earring. It was a challenge as I had to base myself on a bunch of moving pixels but I think it turned out nicely. It's made in gold plated bronze, with mother-of-pearl.

It's available on my Etsy shop, you can get yours! (It's made to order btw)

[celesmaxwell]

Whatcha been up to the last week or so, OFMD fans?

[vlcimor]

[pennybunpirate]

✨I finished it✨

The Lighthouse and the Kraken, my silly little idea for something to do with a damaged ceramic lighthouse I had that turned into one of the most labour intense art projects I've ever done. I poured so many hours and love into this thing, and posting the progress on here and having you guys cheering it on kept me motivated to see it through❤️ (even when I had to take a break for a few weeks because my shoulder got worn out from working on it)

More closeups and a video under the cut ❤️

Check out #pennybunpirate's lighthouse for all the progress posts if you're interested 🙃

Thank you for following along, it's been a fun ride❤️

[fright-designs]

throwback to the Our Flag Means Death embroidery i made last year 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️

[nefariousbee]

listen to the wind blow / watch the sun rise

[smudgeandfrank]

The Kraken Crew jam session ✨️🎶🏴‍☠️ 11x17 Prints of this Kraken Crew piece are now on my Etsy! Link in my bio! ✨️🎶🏴‍☠️

I love this trauma-bonded family SO MUCH 🖤😭🖤 I had to make some piece of fan art in their honor! What do you think they're singing? ✨️🎶

[lydiajoypalmer]

The Kraken 🐙

shop / sticker club

[funnyifwebothgotitwrong]

Ok, my favourite line deliveries from Taika (unhinged Ed alters my brain chemistry) in the first 3 episodes (actually just 2x02) so far:

"And some maniac got rid of the wheel!"

"Take the fuckin' leg..."

"Panto!"

"You indestructible little fucker!" (the "fucker" part especially)

"... to the death!"

"finally"

And then there are of course the lines where Taika's delivery is still spot-on but what makes them insane is simply the content:

"You think I wouldn't know the smell of my rotting former first mate?"

"I loved you ... best I could."

"It was good for me. Just what the doctor ordered." (So fucking sexual...)

[derekstilinski]

something something frenchie's jimi hendrix mcr welcome to the black parade emo goth marching band breakup boat kraken era dark days fit will always be famous

bonus:

[stinkyeggbow]

''I could fill oceans with what I feel for you''

[eefaevie]

what’s he looking at

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

Chauncy’s character assassination of Stede Bonnet in 109 is brutal. I want to explore the imagery and connotations of monster. Typically, we think of monsters as grotesque, ugly and something to be feared. Monsters are deemed anti-normative by the majority who set the standard for what is considered desirable, normative.

Stede has been ‘monstered’ by everyone his whole life. His father others and bullies Stede for being a gender nonconforming boy; Mary cannot understand Stede’s desperate need to ‘break the monotony’ in their marriage; the Revenge crew can’t initially comprehend this new, life-affirming approach to piracy and consider mutiny. To the likes of Nigel Badminton, Stede has been a ‘monster’ since childhood with his gentle, crying, flower-picking ways. Ed is the first person to see beauty and worth in the monster. When Ed attempts finally to shed the costume of toxic masculinity worn as protective armour for so long, he is accused of being a monster too: ‘This…you’ve become’. This. Unnamable. A whatever. All because Ed isn’t performing masculinity to Izzy’s expected standard. Effeminate behaviour will not be tolerated. Emotion outside of anger is weakness.

But this show loves to confound and it confounds well.

In 203, Ed’s mind subverts the trope of the monster into something transcendental. And by doing so rescues his own self from the Kraken-monster imagery that has imprisoned him, the stone falling from his waist, albatross-like.

Because what is more monster than a human-hybrid. A scaly, underwater-breathing, half-man, half-goldfish. Merstede is a monster. An effeminate one. And a beautiful one! Ed reclaims the word from Chauncy, rehabilitates it, and allows the wonder of Stede Bonnet to blaze across his dying consciousness. This enigmatic man, frequently reviled for being unashamedly himself, turned Ed’s world upside down and inside out. Who challenges Ed’s own perceptions of self again, and again, and again. Whose anti-normative qualities are not grotesque, but rather exquisite. This undefinable, miraculous creature who left Blackbeard completely and utterly undone.

Stede mirrors Ed. I am you and you are me. Let’s be anti-normative together. Let’s redefine the trope.

Here be monsters, both.

[vlcimor]

The kraken A timelapse video for you all as an apology gift for my lack of activity.. :´)