#The Revenge

[gay-cosmic-consequences]

Guys, help. I'm picturing Stede finding the cake toppers and being so impressed with them that he puts them on the little toy model of the Revenge together. So they can "co-captain."

[dimity-lawn]

[deeteacup]

Stede Bonnet ✨

He looks so determined to find his hot emo boyfriend 🖤

[sherlockig]

[millandraforever]

Since OFMD was CANCELED, books and the cats are all I've got right now.

[rhysdarbinizedarby]

When bad pirates go bad. A few set shots from that day that Blackbeard had a real tanty and decided go dark on Stede’s cabin. I have to admit I always find it hard to vandalize a perfectly nice set but this is what one must do when method dressing! Last two pics show Stede’s dedicated handiwork when trying to make things all nice again. #piratelove

Source: Megan Vertelle's IG stories and post

[psychicpuppyarcade]

Stede: where's ed??🥺🥺🥺

Everyone that just came off the revenge:

"Um... he.. he went to a farm upstate"

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

it’s actually so sick and twisted that there’s only ever been one scene in ofmd that takes place in the auxiliary wardrobe. like that feels wrong but it is in fact. factually accurate. the scene where stede shows ed his auxiliary wardrobe is the only time in the show that we see it. what the fuck.

[clairegregoryau]

Ahoy friends! I've been thinking a lot about my old pal the Revenge recently while working on a few art projects, and I suddenly remembered that we have the website of an art director from S1 of Our Flag Means Death, Samantha Avila, where the specific paint colours used in the exteriors were given.

Decided I'd track down the listed paints from the original companies (Benjamin Moore for most, Sherwin-Williams for the Glitzy Gold) and make myself a Procreate palette, then thought I should share it with everyone! Here's a link to a Drive folder that includes this image, the downloadable swatch/palette for Procreate (edit: and now for Illustrator, too!), and a PDF of the key colour diagrams of the Revenge (see below).

These colours are for the exterior of the ship, but I'm pretty confident they're repeated inside Stede's cabin as well (you can see more cabin details in the submission to the Art Directors' Guild Awards in 2022/23, which they won!)

The first 13 colours in the palette are the specific colour swatches, and the rest are light or dark shades of those, per the light/shadowed examples in the images and the delightful digital dollops that the Benjamin Moore website provides. The only colours missing are the custom stains for the unpainted wood. Only one of those (Rich Mahogany from Minwax) is listed with the number #225- that corresponds to Red Mahogany, which is here:

Here are the key colour diagrams used to put this together, available on the website linked at the start and in the Drive folder also linked.

I hope this helps! I'm looking forward to incorporating some more specific and deliberate Revenge colours into my art going forward, too.

[edsearring]

HE KEPT THE MODEL SHIP IM GONNA BE SICK

[confusedraven1]

“don’t cry bonnet. we’ve just redecorated.”

“actually, i think the knives bring the place together.”

said without an ounce of his usual bite and sarcasm. izzy thinks stede is upset and angry over the state of his ship, of the cabin, of ed’s heart… and, sure, he is. but not towards ed—towards the world (that doesn’t want anything to do with edward teach, that only wants blackbeard) and himself. he knows some of those knives are because of him leaving ed, for leaving him to deal with this on his own.

stede simply acknowledges ed’s pain and destructiveness and loves him for it.

stede likes that ed threw knives and processed his emotions and grieved and threw his tantrums and was destructive. he likes it, because that’s what stede built the Revenge for. he built it to house his family, for them to live their lives on the sea, for them to laugh and scream and cry and play. the Revenge is meant to be lived in, not to be kept pristine and pretty, as much as stede likes pretty things.

ed could’ve left. could’ve burned it down and let it sink, gone back to the Queen Anne. but he stayed! he saw the Revenge as home, as a place he could live even as he was actively trying to die. the Revenge was there for him when he felt no one else was, and that was all stede ever wanted when he built it: for his family to feel safe and welcome to be themselves, knives and all.

stede’s dealing with a lot of complicated emotions about the state of the crew and is trying to figure out what happened to ed, but i imagine underneath all of that he’s feeling a bit of bittersweet joy and pride that ed felt safe enough in the home stede had built to express his deepest, darkest parts of himself.

stede loves all of ed, and, no matter what, will always be there after the storm to gather up all of the knives thrown, even the really deep, stubborn ones.

[sophsun1]

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH ⇢ The Revenge + Flags

[our-flag-means-death-killed-me]

Stede: Would you be my boyfriend? *Ed kisses Stede* Stede: Yes or no?

[daydreaming-realist]

The Kraken takes over The Revenge while Karl's ghost and Olivia watch and report to Buttons.

Finally a good print of my linocut!

Turns out using different paint and paper does the trick.

[xoxoemynn]

Feel like shit, just want her back