#S1E09

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…so anyway there’s definitely like, deleted footage or a still shot floating around somewhere of ed sneaking in another quick kiss in this moment, right????

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jamie + claire = home

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House of the Dragon, episode 9 + text posts (x)

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S1E09 The Time Traveler's Pig

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Date: June 17th, 2024

Episode S1E09: The Time Traveler's Pig

Ha ha, this guy. Alright, alright. I got a job for you two. I printed up a bunch of fake safety inspection certificates. Go slap one on anything that looks like a lawsuit.

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preview — episode 9 📷

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not to undermine the emotional significance of the title on probably dozens of blackhands spotify playlists but tbh. imo. if i may.

to me, izzy’s “you told me that above all else is loyalty to my captain” reads exactly like how fang saying “you told me that the love of a pet makes a man weak” in e6 reads. which is that Blackbeard is ed’s worksona, a front he puts on to portray himself as a badass legendary masculine caricature, so sometimes ed says some random shit that sounds kinda ominous and edgy just to keep up appearances.

like in e6, ed barely even remembers saying that shit about loving a pet. the reason he gives for not letting fang keep the dog is that pets make the ship dirty. but disliking mess is not cool/badass/manly enough for The Legendary Blackbeard, so what he said to fang at the time was some bullshit about how having pets is for pussies or whatever. and you know that what he said is bullshit bc he barely remembers saying it. the dialogue and the acting in that scene all imply that the whole “the love of a pet makes a man weak” thing was literally just ed talking out of his ass.

so like. to ME it seems really likely that ed telling izzy “above all else is loyalty to your captain” was ed finding a way to say “a big part of your job is not betraying me” but in a way that sounded cool. and he wasn’t invested in it sounding cool bc izzy’s promotion was a particularly important moment to ed, he wanted it to sound cool for the same reason he needed his “no pets allowed” policy to sound cool. the facade of The Legendary Blackbeard wasn’t just for ed’s enemies, ed needed his crew to believe in it, too.

in the very first episode, buttons tells us that traditionally, pirate captains maintain the respect and obedience of their crew by successfully portraying themselves as tough, badass, manly. ed’s done this by building his reputation as a genius sailor and bloodthirsty killer, and for years he’s most likely had to interact with his crew in a way that supports that reputation.

tl;dr “above all else is loyalty to your captain” was most likely ed making up some manly-sounding bullshit to keep up appearances in the same way that “the love of a pet makes a man weak” was clearly just him talking out of his ass

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tbh i don’t think it matters whether ed chose to shave off his beard at the academy and then lied and said it was regulation or whether it was actually regulation bc either way the point of the losing the beard was to visualize the significance of ed taking the act of grace in the first place. signing away his life to protect stede and giving up the title of blackbeard was the REAL decision he made, and whether or not the staff at the privateering school told him to shave off the beard or not, he had basically already decided to get rid of it when he chose to give up blackbeard for stede.

personally when it comes to the 2.04 scene i interpreted ed’s “i had the crazy notion to shave it off” as just… lying to mary and anne. bc even if he decided to shave it off with no input from the privateering academy, playing it off like a random crazy impulse and not part of a very clear-headed series of decisions involving getting rid of the blackbeard mantle and going all-in with stede was definitely downplaying the circumstances around shaving his beard. and he can’t tell the girls abt how down bad he was for stede without getting bullied for all eternity.

also summing it up with “crazy notion to shave it off” and following it up with “immediately regretted it” was definitely part of ed being passive aggressive towards stede. downplaying the decision but also being like “yeah that was a mistake. not that it was like a huge moment or anything like it wasn’t a big deal. it meant nothing. i wasn’t that invested in it or anything. but yeah i shouldn’t have done it, immediate regret for sure. it’s whatever tho. i don’t even care” is 100% meant to make stede feel bad

also smthng abt how for ed this was a decision to get rid of a title he’s been tired of for years to pursue happiness with a man he’s fallen in love with and it’s not rlly much of a choice for him, obviously he’s gonna stop being blackbeard and by extension shave the damn beard. but like everyone else (stede, izzy, probably anne and mary if they knew abt what rlly happened and that’s why he lies to them abt it) thinks it’s this huge sacrifice and it’s this huge source of guilt for stede especially. but ed’s literally like “it’s just a beard” bc rlly the beard/blackbeard means nothing when stede’s life is on the line

I've been wondering about this for a while. We know that Ed said at the Academy that 'the beard wasn't regulation, so it had to go', but to me it always sounded like an excuse. Meanwhile, in Fun and Games, Ed says he 'had a crazy notion to shave it off, immediately regretted it' Of course, he was incredibly hurt there, so of course he lashed out, but was it the truth? Which would then of course make it even more heartbreaking, because he showed Stede himself, his face. Ed. And Stede had run away.

But, was he actually made to shave off his beard and he was just relieved that he had an excuse to get rid of it, or did he shave it off and then found a perfect excuse??

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He said "Mabel"! Either that or "doorbell." Did you say "Mabel" or "doorbell"?

he definitely said mabel <3

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episode nine

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these are great!

OFMD WEEK – Day 1

Favorite Crew Member: Lucius Spriggs

(definitely didn't forget to do this yesterday)

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Alicent Hightower's Costumes in Season 1 of House of the Dragon requested by anonymous