#Ofmd missing moment

[fidisart]

Potential 02x06 spoiler? Slightly suggestive content too

I know this season has ✨issues✨ but I still had a great time.

Had to get the Gentlebeard wormies out of my system before getting back to work 😭 I'm so soft

(Ed gets the twink treatment, sorry I don't make the rules)

[saltpepperbeard]

you ever think about how ed echoing “you wear fine things well” to stede was probably him being like “that compliment has stuck with me all these months and has nestled right next to my heart just like the red silk did—just like you did. and i was so overcome by it and so touched and so shaken and anyway i think we should kiss about it actually, because you have no idea how much I wanted to kiss you about it the first time around, and standing here in the moonlight with you now brings me right back to that desire, and i feel as safe and warm with you now as i did then, so my lips against yours is a thing that’s kinda long overdue.”

yeah. Yeah.

[ofmd-ann]

Wake me up again when S3 of Our Flag Means Death is announced

[mjulmjul]

[arsenicflame]

so. anyone else think this moment was gonna lead to rebound sex? just me???

[pilotlala]

The Missing Inn Scene

I’ve been thinking about the missing scene where Ed and Stede decide to open an inn together. Of course I wish we had that scene! But I’m going to argue that it would be extraneous and completely unnecessary. Perhaps I’m just trying to convince myself. But hear me out. 

I had a great acting and directing teacher who emphasized that the most pivotal moment in a play, the moment that must be highlighted, is when the main character makes the most important decision they’ll make. It’s a useful lens of analysis. In the first season, this moment is, “His name is Ed.” Stede realizes he is in love, and decides that he is willing to take the scary unknown road to fight for this love. 

In season two, don’t we need to see Stede make this decision to give up pirating and open up an inn with Ed? No! Because of course, Stede is not really the main character in season 2. As Pirate Daddy Jenkins has discussed in interviews, Season 2 is much more about Ed’s journey. And Ed’s journey is a bit less straightforward than Stede’s. I thought for a moment that Ed’s pivotal decision was to retrieve his leathers. But no, that was a decision made in anger and resignation. This whole Ed thing isn’t working out. Better bring back Blackbeard, he gets shit done. It is an important moment, because he does realize that he can’t truly rid himself of Blackbeard. Blackbeard is a part of him, a useful part of him. When the shit hits the fan and he needs to fuck some people up and find Stede, he needs Blackbeard. 

But. Of course. The pivotal moment is not retrieving the leathers. It is, “YOU WROTE ME A LOVELY LETTER!” This is the moment where Ed fully allows his walls to come down, believe truly that he is loved by Stede as Ed and Blackbeard, that he was always loved by Stede, that this love is real. Even though Stede has tried to show him that he will always be there, that he won’t leave again, that Ed is safe with him, Ed still felt unstable in his shifting world, thinking he needed to change more to be loved for real. The letter revealed what Ed wanted to believe, but was too wounded to internalize. Stede’s love was there, was always there, unwavering. 

Both Stede and Ed need to remove themselves from the fast-moving intensity of their relationship to understand what they have in each other. They needed to see that their vision of a safe, comfortable life-back with Mary and the kids, or working as a fisherman-was never real. It was a place to hide when the uncertainty of trusting another person with all your vulnerabilities and hopes and dreams became too scary.

So back to the missing scene of the decision to open the inn. Where’s the dramatic tension in this scene? We all know that Stede would move heaven and earth to be with Ed. And now Ed knows it too. Perhaps for a moment in episode 7, Stede gets a bit carried away by the fame and admiration. But he learns quickly that this is all fleeting. There was never a question of whether Stede would follow Ed to the place Ed needed to be. We don’t need the scene. (But of course I still want it.)

[scariercnidaria]

i know theres no overlap between the ofmd and the metal gear fandoms bc the izzyhaters would all kill themselves if they caught a glimpse of the revolver ocelot fanbase. i promise you izzy is not nearly the evillest old queen getting scrunklified and babygirled despite crimes against therapyspeak twitter out here. literally my last war criminal boyfriend hypnotised my other war criminal boyfriend into commiting rpf identity fraud of his own, separate war criminal boyfriend. Among Other Things.

[sweet-bazzle-bean]

Familiar Places

Crowley/Edward Teach | 17,000 words | Rated E

After watching Aziraphale leave him, Crowley decides to try to sleep off the grief. A terrible nightmare makes his powers go haywire and he accidentally travels back in time to 1717 where he finds himself in a bar in Tortuga. He shares a drink with a man named Ed who he seems to have a lot in common with. A lot in common with. The easiest way to comfort each other and distract themselves is to spend the night together.

“Why are you miserable?” Ed asks sharply.

“Now that’s not fair,” Crowley points at him over his glass. “I asked you first.”

Ed blinks at him.

“Why would I talk to you about it?”

“Because I’m here,” Crowley shrugs, “and no one else is.”

keep reading on AO3

[sandinthepipes]

No but hear me out. Because good omens and ofmd are fulfilling basically everything that they need to, I’m LOVING aus.

I’ve never liked alternative universe or headcanons that were too far out of the canon compliant because i needed the basics to be fully accomplished first. I needed fiction to fix and complete what canon didn’t so I read mostly canon compliant, but that need was never getting filled because canon still wasn’t fixed, no matter what.

Now? Oh baby I’m having the time of my life. For the first time in my life I get what you all saw in flower/coffee shop au long ago. IT’S EXHILARATING. I feel like this is too much power, I’m never gonna stop.

[marblenarwhal]

there is a sadness that permeates ofmd s2. it feels post apocalyptic in an uncomfortably real way. there are a lot of beautiful, painful moments. it reminds me of my early 20s and the friends i had, who eventually moved or drifted away.

like, there was a golden time when things are simple and you were there but you missed it. you didnt stop and appreciate it. or maybe it was never that simple, and it's just the nostalgia making you feel that way. but youre different now or maybe youre the same but everyone else is different, and youve all been through so much, youve lost people and youve hurt each other in ways that were casual and careless but caused ripples that shifted things in a frustratingly, achingly imperceptible way you dont even know how to fix. and now you have new people, and maybe some of the same people, and you keep trying but you cant recapture those golden moments of the past because it was lightening in a bottle. so you just have to keep going and in five years you'll look back at this moment right now and think, man. those were the good times. and everything is different now.

[edwardbonnets]

oh my god i've had such a shitty weekend that in order to cheer me up, my dad fixed my computer and now i've been distracting myself with baldurs gate 3 to feel better

BUT NOW THAT I ACTUALLY CHECK SOCIAL MEDIA YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT OFMD S2 TEASER IS DROPPING TOMORROW?????????? HUH???????????? WHAT NOW?????????????? OH MY GOD???????????????????

[louisinart]

Yall I continue to have such complicated feelings about the start of season two

Mainly that it was well articulated, funny, beautiful television that provided a grounded and realistic perspective on life and heartbreak and also that was REALLY INTENSE and I would have liked a WARNING Jesus CHRIST

[arsenicflame]

i need someone to make me a cut of the second half of ofmd s2 but only with the bits i want to rewatch so i can simply pretend the other sections do not exist and that i enjoy the show again

[jacobglaser]

Struck with the sudden urge to make gifs for the first time in MONTHS but I have no idea what I want to do.

[wingstobetorn]

Somehow, my dad never fails to miss obvious gay moments unless they're fucking or making out or something

[latinkraken]

THAT'S HIM RIGHT THERE

No fear, no self-doubt, no nonsense. Just his heart pouring out from his eyes, giving himself directly at Ed.