#Taika

[ourflagmeansbts]

Source (Season 2 - November 12th 2023)

Leslie Jones: Spanish Jackie is one of the best roles i ever played!! Such a great story snd they made me a badd ass with 20 husbands and wives! I loved it!! Its a muthafucking vibe!

[napswithcat-blog]

Do you ever just get lost staring at perfection?

[carsaadi]

Y'know, killing him is free, right ?

[weirdlookindog]

O Filho de Satã #1 - Taika, Brazil 1976.

Cover art by Nico Rosso.

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[taikaspamaccount]

Calm down, Mr Wavy Blade

[sunbeamedskies]

I've seen a lot of troubling antisemitism in the Our Flag Means Death fandom lately regarding Taika Waititi. Please hear me out.

A lot of people want everyone to comment about the Israel/Palestine war. It's understandable. What Palestinian civilians are going through in Gaza is a nightmare that no one deserves. They are overwhelmingly paying the price for Hamas' actions- a group they have no control over and are also harmed by. Thousands have been killed.

After October 7th, Taika signed a letter asking for the Israeli hostages to be released. It did not endorse any specific actions taken by the Israeli government- it was simply in support of the hostages.

But you know what he was immediately accused of?

Supporting genocide. Even though what he signed was about Israeli civilians- including the elderly, disabled, and children- who were being held captive by Hamas.

On October 7th, Jews died in a single day in numbers that hadn't been since the Holocaust. Israel contains half the world's entire Jewish population. The majority of its population are descendants of Jews from middle eastern and north African countries who were forcibly kicked out in violent pogroms and had nowhere else to go. Many are descendants of Holocaust survivors as well.

I think most non-Jews would be astounded at how much the majority of the worldwide Jewish community is still mourning and reeling from October 7th. It triggered a lot of intergenerational trauma in many of us, yet I hear barely any non-Jews talk about it.

And yet you immediately accused Taika, a Jewish man, of supporting genocide just because he didn't support hostages being taken and random civilians being murdered. Do you really think he trusts people not to twist his words if he attempts to talk about Palestine too, when you turned a moment of legitimate pain for members of one of the persecuted groups he's apart of into accusing him of being a genocide-supporting monster?

We Jews not only have to deal with the memory of October 7th, but also with people conflating any support for the hostages with support for the Israeli government. When we say that criticism of Israel can at times get antisemitic, this is the kind of thing we're talking about.

Many of us are simultaneously mourning for Palestine and horrified that a right-wing fascist government that has little care for Palestinian lives has taken over Israel. Innocent lives taken shouldn't justify the killing of other innocent lives, and we are watching it happen, feeling powerless.

And it gets worse, because targeting Taika specifically because he's a person of multiple marginalized identities, when you don't attack white members of the crew nearly as much, is ironically racist.

Unintentional antisemitism and unintentional racism is still antisemitism and racism.

Take a deep breath and please reflect on how you have no idea what it's like to be Jewish right now, and how some of your own antisemitic criticism about his signature has likely contributed to his silence about Palestine. If no matter what he says his words and actions are twisted by so many of his "fans", he might think there's nothing he can say that will do any good.

[beautitudes]

sensational! taika waititi showing hole 🙀

here it is

[sherlockig]

[dickfuckk]

Same, Leslie [x]

[youshouldseemeinadeerstalker]

The Foot Touch - “It was nice” from the Emmy FYC Our Flag Means Death Panel

[gentlebeardsbarngrill]

Why is there no push to get Taika an Emmy nomination too? 🥺 He deserves one for the whole of Ed's kraken spiral. Some of the best acting I've seen in years, that.

I was also asking the same question! I was asking about it but didn’t hear back before the recap went out :) Id like to do one for him too personally!!! Gonna see what we can cook up 😉

[ourflagmeansbts]

Source (Season 2 - December 20th 2023)

filmstillsacademy: Ed and Stede.... Our Flag Means Death S2 What a privilege to photograph these two actors and friends in this show.

[carsaadi]

This just in : Local dumbass eats glass.

[cloudberrybunny]

OC-tober Day 19: Palette Challenge

...Taika is literally wearing one of the color palettes... :'D

[ofmdfanpage]

"Always ready to play, always ready to slay"🖤🏴‍☠️

(Quote from Samba's shoutout 😌)

[shiplessoceans]

I always assumed Ed looking at himself in Stede's handheld mirror right after they've introduced themselves was just Taika being funny but even if it was, the symbolism of it just hit me.

Stede asked if Ed worked for Blackbeard and his entire worldview shifted for a second.

'huh...I guess if this guy can look at me and not see Blackbeard, maybe I don't have to be that guy right now... Maybe I can just be Ed?'

And then he picks up a mirror and looks at himself.

Ed is self reflecting.

Literally.

This fucking show you guys.