#because i think it would have been hilarious to see izzy trying to be all professional and ''hes my captain pls save him''
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Back 2 You (Kim Sunwoo)
Too @o-onikix : happiest birthday to my ride or die, my Monica to my Rachel, my everything 🥺. I love you so so much and even tho I was not able to write for Wonwoo or Seungcheol I hope you like this little something I wrote for Sunwoo (which is totally not based on your character. Nope 👎). Again thank you for always being there for, you were literally there through it all (the days I was down, the time I was balling my eyes out and also when I was the happiest girl. It was truly only possible to be that happy because you were there by my side and it means a lot to me). I love how you’re always so protective of me and taking care of me through out all that has been happening nowadays:( I will always love you and cherish you. Thank you for always listening to me rant on and on about Chanhee and the detective from Revenant. I am definitely NOT gonna stop doing that anytime soon haha. Again a happiest birthday babes <3
Warnings/Genre: situationship to lovers, they make out even tho they’re ‘enemies’, Sunwoo is a football player (pls don’t make me say soccer. I will never say that) while the reader is a cheerleader, it is said that he is toxic but he didn’t really show it, reader very much day dreams about Sunwoo, fluff, mentions of alcohol, they make out in the night sky, angst (a bit), hurt comfort
Word count: 2,407
Sana: hellooooo, back with a Sunwoo fic because it’s my besties birthday. Wasn’t able to write much because of lack of motivation but got some energy on Friday and was able to finish it till Saturday so yay me lol. A huge thanks to @deobienthusiast @sohnric and @jinnieboosworld for beta reading (and thanks to bar for helping me with the grammar and stuff). Sincerely sorry to @from-izzy for not letting her beta 😂 but here it is <3
Taglist: @cloverdaisies @kimsohn @mosviqu @a-dream-bookmark @deoboyznet
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It’s not like you hated Sunwoo (you did)–it’s just that most of the time that guy was just so full of himself, when in reality no one really cares about what he was saying (it was mostly him trying to flirt).
Sunwoo just had his own way of getting on your damn nerves just by a single smirk which makes its way to his face whenever he sees you in the hallways, in the class or even on the turf.
Typically, you wouldn’t mind his presence or anything. It wasn’t like you would be able to avoid him even if you wanted to.
Being the captain of the cheerleading team meant that you’d be practising on the ground while Sunwoo would be playing football (I mean, it’s not like you would steal secret yet frequent glances at him just to take a small look at him while he was busy playing. Of course not!).
I mean…of course, it’s kind of embarrassing (for you) if someone got to take a look inside your brain and all they would see are the fantasies you have about Sunwoo.
You find the fact that you’d like someone who’s just sooo cocky for their own sake that he just thinks that anyone who stares at him would go down on their knees, begging for attention or at least a glance from him, hilarious and hard to believe yourself.
But no, you were not like that. You were none of that, you were anything but that. You knew just how twisted Sunwoo was—I mean, of course you would… you were the one who was in the backseat of his car, making out with him when everyone was inside the house partying.
No matter how much you deny yourself, you cannot help but blush at the fact that you had made out with Sunwoo on numerous occasions.
Despite all of that you know that Sunwoo isn’t the one. Like the amount of times he had picked someone else over you made it clear that he is not someone who would be committed in a relationship (it’s not even like you were looking for a serious relationship yourself, but the thing is, deep down, you knew that whenever he would not prioritise you, you were of course hurt).
It's not even like you want to settle for the bare minimum, no! That is not who you are, but the times Sunwoo had taken care of you while you were drunk, the times he was there while you were at your lowest, really proved to you that he could be the one.
Only if you both were mature enough (and less egoistic) to realise your feelings for each other sooner, than maybe, maybe, you wouldn’t have been in this situation of push and pull anymore.
-x-
Heaving out a long sigh, you take your heels off as you sit on the footpath with regret and embarrassment.
Regret because you let some dumb fool take you out on a date a day before your birthday, and embarrassment for getting stood up like that.
If you would have known it would turn out like this, you wouldn’t have even agreed to this pathetic date. You knew he was just gonna use you like any other guy. That’s what guys do! But then again, you only agreed to this because your friends were forcing you to ‘live your life’ and to also move on from Sunwoo.
Their exact words would be: ‘Just get over Sunwoo.’ Like, when were you even under him to even get over him was the first thing to come to your mind; but then again…you did make out with him… maybe once? Or like twice (it was more than that for sure) but that’s not the case!
You were never even in love with Sunwoo to get over him or move on from him– they were just being ridiculous as always, was what you said to yourself.
But you knew better. You knew better than that, because of course, you always found yourself going back to him, no matter what the situation or state you were in.
And he was always there to cheer you up, or even just to make you laugh– even if it was just for a little while, that smile lasted you for a whole day.
That’s how Sunwoo was to you. Yes, he was an annoying jerk who was always full of himself and very much selfish, yet, he was also the one who was there for you when you needed him, no? I mean, yeah, he might have ditched you a couple of times, but what’s that gonna do when the amount of times he showed his support to you weighed more than the times he was being ignorant?
As a human, of course you would rather look at the bright side and the times where it was better than the ones in which you felt heartbroken or just…unwanted.
Now, that was also the exact reason why your fingers were automatically dialling Sunwoo’s number. Were you scared that he wouldn't pick up? Yes, but you knew he would. Because it was a rare occurrence for you to call him at this time of the day so he always made sure to pick up the call no matter what– that’s what you observed from him.
It was like an unspoken rule he had for you and only you. Maybe in that way you felt like you were special to him, because you both knew that he wouldn’t come running like that in the middle of the night for anyone but you.
“Can you come and pick me up? I will send you my location,” was all you said as you hung up on the call and sent him your current location.
You did not have to listen to his answer to know that he’s gonna come and get you, because you were more than sure that he will. That’s just how he is.
You stop looking down when you feel a presence standing in front of you. Slowly lifting your head up, you sniffle when your eyes make contact with the one who was standing in front of you, almost breathless.
“What’s wrong, hmm?” He asks gently while kneeling down, taking out a handkerchief from his back pocket and gently wiping the tears which were unknowingly flowing down your cheeks.
The tears were not there because of being stood up, but because of the fact that only now did you realise that you love him.
“Why are you so nice to me but you’re the same person whom I hate from the bottom of my heart?” You mumble quietly as you get up from the floor and hand your heels and purse over to Sunwoo, who held them without asking any questions.
Leaving him behind, you walk towards his car which was parked hastily, maybe because he was bad at parking (that’s a lie and even you knew that.). Entering the passenger seat, you look ahead with no certain thoughts circling your mind.
You just waited for Sunwoo to come in and drive away from here– and that’s exactly what he did, no questions asked. He knew better than to ask you anything about what happened.
With silence engulfing the two of you, you stare outside the window with some soft music playing in the background.
You could see Sunwoo’s reflection through the window– the way the night sky was shining its bright light on him andhis oh so fluffy hair which was a bit messy giving you the slightest urge to fix it for him, but you stopped yourself from doing so.
You stay quiet when Sunwoo stops the car by a small convenience store and leaves you by yourself to get something from there. You didn’t havethe slightest bit of energy in your body to even ask him what he was doing, so you just waited for him to come back.
The only thing which was on your mind right now was to go back to the comforts of your house with your favourite tub of ice cream (and a warm cup of coffee), laying in your bed as you watch your comfort film to ease your mind.
You snap out of your thoughts when you hear the door opening and see Sunwoo getting back into his seat with a plastic bag in his hand. You don’t pay much attention to him and just continue spacing out when you hear his soft, honey like voice again.
“Here.” That was when you realised Sunwoo was handing you chocolate ice cream.
Unknowingly, a small smile creeps up your face as you happily accept it with no further questions asked.
Just like that, Sunwoo started the car again as he drove off from there.
“You’re not in a hurry to go back home, are you?” He asks with his eyes solely focused on the road (with the occasional glances he was stealing at you, but we don’t talk about that).
“Why? You wanna take me out?” You ask teasingly as you take a bite out of your ice cream happily.
“Something like that… I wanna show you something.” You just stare at him when he says that and slowly nod your head. You trusted Sunwoo enough to know that he won’t do anything wrong, especially if you were there with him.
“Lead the way then, I guess.” You reply softly while finishing the rest of your ice cream.
“We’re already there, actually. Come out,” he says excitedly as he gets out of the car and goes to the front., Standing there, he waits for you to join him as he stares up at the night sky.
“The night sky is beautiful…” you say with amusement lacing your voice as you look up in awe.
“Right?” He replies back with a small laugh as he steals a small glance at you, “Do you… want to sit on the hood of the car? I can help you,” he questions softly while turning back to look at you.
Giving him a small nod, you yelp in surprise when Sunwoo lifts you up effortlessly and places you on top of the car.
After a moment of silence, you open your mouth to speak only to close it again, not knowing how to form the right words.
“Say what you want to say. I am all ears,” was all you hear from him as he keeps on contently staring up at the sky.
“Why are you doing all this?” You finally find the courage to ask him as you look down at your fingers, too afraid to look at the expressions he had on his face.
“Doing what? Being nice to you and only you?” He questions you back. There was no hint of teasing or mockery in his tone, yet, you kept on shyly playing with your fingers.
You stop playing with your fingers when Sunwoo gently grabs a hold of them. Looking up at him, you could feel your heart taking a small leap at the way he was so close, yet so far away from you.
He immediately turns around and points up at the sky, “You notice that one star over there? The most still and the clear one?” He asks before looking back at you. When you slowly shake your head, he looks back up again and continues. “That’s a North Pole star. It’s called Polaris and it’s known to be the constant star. It was used in navigation in old times,” he tells you before he hops on top of the car and sits beside you.
“What do you wanna say?” You ask softly as you stare at him in confusion. You did not know why he was talking in riddles like that, but it slightly amused you .
“I don’t want to be someone who is only there when you need me I want to be there when you’re happy, sad, or just… there. I want to be as constant as that star, Y/N. I might be ready to commit again,” he says softly as he takes your hand in his and kisses the back of your hand.
“What if you leave me?” You question him back. You were afraid that he might get bored of you and leave you– maybe that was one of the reasons which was stopping you from expressing yourself fully to him.
“What if I don't? I have been there for you even when we were sworn enemies… but then what if I am there for you not as your enemy, but as your boyfriend?” He explains himself before slowly inching closer towards you. “I want to be there for you Y/N, as your boyfriend and not just some guy you call when you’re in need.”
He says that as he slowly grabs a hold of your jawline,caressing it gently with his fingers while staring into your eyes. “Can I be your boyfriend?” He asks softly while stealing a small glance at your lips before quickly locking his eyes with yours.
When he sees the small glimpse of you nodding your head, he wastes no time and pulls you closer towards him, one hand still caressing your jaw while the other slowly creeps its way up your cheek.
You smile in the kiss when you sense the way he was being soft and gentle– unlike the times when you both had kissed before. This was different.
This kiss held everything which the others lacked– the soft, yet slow movements of his lips against yours as you slowly bring your hand up to his hair to entangle your fingers with the strands.
Pulling away from you, Sunwoo looks at you with a huge smile creeping up to his cheekbones. He goes back to his original position, licking his lips.
“You know what, Sunwoo?” You ask softly while your hands find his bigger ones to hold onto them.
Moving closer towards him, you place your head on his shoulder as you both look up at the sky, “I somehow always seem to find my way back to you,” you tell him with a gentle sigh escaping your lips.
You could hear a soft chuckle escaping his lips, which made you smile in return. “We are both on the same boat, then,” he whispers while placing his own head on top of yours.
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Total Drama AU/Headcanon: Where everything is the same, except Noah is just as crazy/insane as Izzy and Eva, but he's much better at hiding it (with a sarcastic calm personality) ... Only Izzy, Eva and Owen know his true unhinged colors (and that's why they get along with him so well) .../// Duncan briefly saw it during the Total Drama Island Special Finale, when Duncan grabbed Noah's leg, but Noah escaped, and we didn't see HOW Noah escaped... In this AU, Noah bit Duncan's hand then gave Duncan a silent psychotic grin, which shocked Duncan and gave Noah time to escape (Noah basically pretending the bite and grin never happened) ... In TDWT, imagine if Alejandro ever found out that the sanest one on his Team is only PRETENDING to be sane! 😅
I've seen that one Scary!Noah AU floating about in the main tag lately, and I love the concept. There's so much that could be done with having someone like Noah (scarily smart, mostly motivated by either spite or The Bit, nerfed by his own laziness/apathy/hubris) have the added bonus of Going Apeshit sometimes. Either as a treat to himself, or as the natural consequence of his hidden nature.
It's like that "Izzy Isn't Crazy" theory, but in reverse. "Noah Is Crazy, He's Just Good At Masking".
In this AU, he and Izzy would get on like a house on fire.
Like recognises like, after all; Izzy would clock him as just as unhinged as herself at their first meeting, and probably confront him about his 'game plan' at the first chance she could (maybe that's why she was so quick to swap with Katie? A bid to get herself on the same team as Noah?). Noah would try to deny it at first, because he's supposed to be the 'lazy genius'- slipping from his allotted persona this soon into the competition would jeopardise his strategy!- but Izzy would reassure him that she can practically smell the crazy on him.
He'd live up to his title as 'The Schemer', by means of plotting pranks and other such events with Izzy. She'd use her status as the overt crazy girl to pull them off, and Noah would either help behind the scenes to abate his hunger for chaos, or live vicariously through Izzy's blatant mania whilst revelling in the fact that their plan(s) play out perfectly every time. Imagine how much better Izzy's bear suit prank would've been with a man on the inside- and now imagine how much better it would've been if Noah pretended to get eaten/mauled by bear!Izzy (using smuggled ketchup packets and A Lot Of Screaming to convince the Gophers of his demise)! (He'd play off the incident by blaming the whole thing on Izzy- saying she was the one who used the ketchup, and his screaming was just him being Rightfully Terrified of being eaten. Gotta keep up the charade!)
No one would suspect him either! Who would ever assume that slothful, apathetic Noah who complains about the trials and tribulations of 'hard work', 'effort' and 'physical activity' could be a friend and an accomplice to the unstoppable force of nature that is Izzy? He's always too busy shoving his nose into his book to ever consider befriending the crazy girl, there's no way Noah would even tolerate her! (/s)
I think he'd eventually reveal his true colours to Team E-scope plus Owen once their friendship is cemented off-screen. Noah isn't the trusting type (I'd clarify, but I'd end up writing a whole unrelated essay- maybe another time) and he's habitually secretive- his non-answers in the WT Character Interview and his Sierra-given title of "The Man of Mystery" attest to this- so he'd need to know that his friends are really his friends before letting himself be vulnerable/transparent with them, since any 'friendships' made on Total Drama always run the risk of being a ploy/fake. It is a social game, after all.
As for the Duncan Incident. Having Noah bite people is going to turn into a running gag for me at this point, because it's so fucking hilarious to imagine him in a scenario where he's forced/pressured into violence and immediately starts chomping down on someone. This weasel boy wasn't built for punches and kicks but On God can he use those pearly whites to cause some damage. (The human jaw has a surprisingly strong bite force. Noah absolutely knows this.)
I'd also like to suggest that Noah rips himself out of his cargo shorts after biting Duncan, leaving the punk with a bleeding handful of nerd shorts and an open wound for his troubles. He'd already let go of Noah by that point too; it's hard to maintain your grip on anything when you've got a manic bookworm tearing away at the tendons in your hands. So he's just sat there, terrified and concerned, nursing the throbbing, sluggishly bleeding bitemark on his hand and wondering how Noah managed to contort his usually stoic facial features into a grin so wild and feral.
And Noah races back to Izzy and Eva, face and teeth splattered in Duncan's blood, sans cargo shorts. Neither of them question it; Izzy has an idea of what he's done, since Noah's smugness levels have risen at least three tiers and he's smiling almost contentedly to himself, and Eva has learned how to Mind Her Own Business when it comes to Izzy and Noah's eccentricities (though she often shoots inquisitive looks towards Noah's red-painted face).
Then in World Tour? Alejandro is suffering. Noah's the only person on his team who isn't lacking braincells and/or completely unhinged (or so he thinks), and as such he's the latino's only lifeline to sanity on the forsaken jet. So when Duncan returns in London and seems scared of the harmless bookworm? That's concerning.
Assuming that Noah's a wee bit more savvy in this AU thanks to his subterfuge experience in Island, he probably wouldn't be as outwardly apparent in his distrust of Alejandro during the challenge- either that, or he'd be enjoying torturing Tyler too much to think about how much of an eel Alejandro is. So Alejandro wouldn't have any reason to want to eliminate him, if anything he'd be motivated to keep him around, if only to act as a buffer between himself and the idiocy of Team Chris.
Duncan's re-introduction and allocation to the team would be Alejandro's first inkling into the fact that Noah is more than he seems. When the delinquent is ushered to stand next to Alejandro and Noah, his pupils contract into pinpricks or terror, and his attention flickers between the aloof cynic to his side and an oval-shaped scar on his hand. The cynic shoots Duncan a friendly smile (Alejandro ignores how the smile doesn't quite reach Noah's eyes) and the punk turns sheet white.
Alejandro doesn't know what to make of it.
#something something a higher iq correlates with higher levels of crazy?#it got a little fic-y there at the end but i ADORE the concept of an unhinged dangerous noah playing coy with the cast#like a cat toying with the doormouse in it's claws instead of eating it#this noah would pin all of his actions on izzy and she'd gladly take the credit#in world tour he crashes the plane twice (whilst chef's on break) and izzy takes the fall both times#they enable each other in their mania and that's beautiful 😌#listen the idea of having alejandro play detective against this noah in WT is interesting but i'm so caught up in the--#euphoria of an izzy🤝noah chaos combo that i'm not gonna dive into it (yet)#total drama#td noah#td izzy#td duncan#td alejandro#silly ideas#others' ideas#psycho!noah au#(that's what i'll call this AU. i know 'psycho' is an iffy term but i'm using it lovingly. also it reminds me of psycho teddy so-)#tw violence#tw blood mention
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I know this blog has kinda devolved into bitching about the canyon which is fair because fuck those guys for ruining Izzy for so many people and ruining the ability to engage with OFMD online for so many more (you won't believe the number of people who like OFMD but are too scared to talk about it online it's insane).
But this blog was made to talk about Izzy as he exists in the canon show (since fanon Izzy is so prevalent) so let's talk about that.
I think that Izzy is actually quite inconsistent because the writers cared sooooo much more about him being an avatar for Ed's daddy issues than they cared about him having a personality, which makes analyzing him as his own character separate from Ed completely impossible. He's like if Tyler Durden wasn't a figment of the main characters imagination but was a whole separate guy that somehow did all the exact same things for the story. It's amazing. Like he has a clear arch as a character so on the outside he looks like he's consistent but when you get closer to him and you analyze who he was in season 1, which was actually quite consistent, and then compair it to what was going on in season 2 and ask who is this guy? You just get fragments. The only person I've seen have a take that makes him look like a concrete character is @batsarebetterthanpeople compared him to your grandpa who was a homophobic shit head and you're pretty sure used to hit your mom but then inexplicably becomes a nice and chill guy when he starts to go senile, but that can't explain it because Izzy's not old enough to be going senile. He just has insufficient motivation for the redemption arc, had pre established stubbornness that would imply that it should have been much more difficult to make him redeemed than it was.
And to be clear I don't care about him being horribly inconsistent because all of his redemption arc was there to serve Ed and Stede, it's just fucking hilarious from the perspective of the writer's room they were like "we should try to see what this guy is like without his obsession with Ed." And then someone else raised their hand and was like "wouldn't that be taking away his only personality trait?" And Jenkins said "yeah but no one cares about him to notice, we'll just cover it up with chunky glitter eyeshadow and gold paint, it'll be fine"
#421.
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1992.11.11 – RAW Magazine Interview with Izzy
Music
"Yeah, music is partially my saving grace. It's been part of my life every day of the week since I was a kid. It doesn't have to be a specific type of music, it can be any type because the whole of it takes you away from the mundane, every day sort of thing.
"Being on tour, I find it like a luxury item because when I'm on tour I don't have a big stereo, I have a Sony player that cost 50 bucks, it's mono and it has this tiny speaker. For the first couple of days I only had my walkman which is fine for airplanes, but otherwise they're a drag. I found myself looking in the window of these shops at these stereos and there was this one in Chicago which was four and a half feet long and three feet tall. It was this boom box with neon lights inside it. It was really freaky looking, but I ended up getting this small Sony because it would fit in my bag, it plays cassettes and it records so I can write songs on it too. I find that if I hear a stereo now, even if it's a PA at gigs and they're playing a tape, it's a luxury and I really enjoy it."
Food
"Indian food and pizza are my favourites. I stopped eating meat a few years ago. I don't eat red meat or chicken, but I eat fish. I stopped eating meat shortly after I stopped drinking and using drugs. I think it was a case of wanting to heal myself a little quicker rather than objecting to meat, plus there were some cases on the West Coast where people were dying after they'd eaten bad meat. I'm big on salads. Salads in America are just a couple of bits of dead lettuce, but over here people are a bit more conscientious.
But Indian food and pizza are my favourites and that's why Chicago is like heaven to me because you can get a pizza delivered at 5am and it's damn good pizza. There's a place there called Mama Mia and they deliver all night long. They've got pizzas that are two inches thick with like a cracker crust with fresh tomatoes on top. "
Drink
"I like mango lassi and sweet lassi from Indian restaurants. My second would be fresh squeezed orange juice. Those are the only things I drink. I gave up drinking because I just had enough of waking up in my own vomit and not remembering who I was hanging out with the night before, getting arrested and all that stuff. Waking up in jail, and that sort of thing became old for me and I finally realised that I had to stop this and figure it all out. It wasn't easy and it took a while. I feel a lot better for not doing it."
Hate
"It's destructive in nature. Sometimes you can get angry, but it usually doesn't help fix anything. If I hate something I just get hung up on it and dwell on it. I find it easier to try and dismiss it. Otherwise it's extra baggage to be carrying around. You see hatred every day on the TV and some other places and that's enough for me, I don't need to live with it anymore."
Rock 'N' Roll
"It's that life blood. You can't put your finger on it. For me it's that other thing that only people who listen to it or love it know what it is. To the rest of the world though it probably doesn't mean shit!(laughs)
" The funniest thing I ever heard in Guns N Roses was from this guy in Canada called Gabe. God, he was hilarious! He said he saw something on English TV once that said no matter how many records Elton John sold in 1976, there were still 40 billion Chinese people that don't give a fuck and that rang so true to me- this was back in '86 so I've always kept it in mind. It's true. If you look at the globe and spin it and put your finger wherever it lands there's people there who don't know what Rock 'N' Roll is. For people who do love it, though, it's their whole life. For me it's very special.
" We used to have Rock 'N' Roll bands come to play at our house when I was a real young kid. My dad used to have these parties and me and my brothers were beer runners. The bands were always downstairs and I always hung out with them. When you're a kid and these guys would show to play stuff on the drums, it was great. They'd play stuff like (Credence Clearwater Revival's) 'Proud Mary'. I was lucky 'cos I got to grow up with that. I've been hooked on that ever since."
Drugs
"It's up to each person. It doesn't do any good to tell people not to do it. If people want to do 'em then they're gonna do 'em. All I can say is for myself they stopped being a good thing. It became a complete pain in the ass. It was destroying me as a person and I got to the point where I decided to give up. It wasn't like I didn't know 'cos you go through a peroid where you know you're tearing yourself up. I knew I had to stop or everything was gonna go down the tubes."
Sex
"It's pretty important, but to a lot of people it's hard to understand that it doesn't mean much unless you care about the person you're with. I'm lucky, 'cos I do."
Love
"It's a great thing. Everybody needs it and wants it. Life can be pretty bleak without it. I've got a German shepherd and I've had him since he was a puppy, ya' know. I bought him when he was just a twerp. He's three years old, he's healthy, he's big and he can run 40 miles an hour and he's great. I love my dog!
"I've had a steady girl for a few years and it's a great thing. Love makes life a lot easier."
Work
" I worked in a car wash when I was 15. I worked where the cars come out and you have to dry the cars off. In the winter time with the wind chill it can be 10 or 20 below zero, and that was real work getting up at five or six in the morning. It was cold and you've got these towels that are freezing and you're washing these fuckers off. Music is more something that you love to do so it doesn't seem like work. The thought of having to get a real job is difficult. I was never that good at keeping a straight job and getting enough money to do what I wanted to do. At the same time I had to work as a kid. If you gotta do it you do it.
" I've had different jobs. I worked in pizzerias and I actually enjoyed that. That was one job that didn't feel like work unless there was a gig or concert that I wanted to go to. In that case I'd leave work early anyway. I actually liked cooking pizzas, flipping the dough and stuff was cool.
"If I had to get another real job I would probably work in a pizzeria, or I'd work in the car wash and I'd be on the front end. The front end is where the guys would pump gas and vacuum the cars, and these guys were always the envy of everyone else who had it rough. This was back in the '70s when people would drive around with big joints in their cars. They'd smoke half a joint and leave the rest so that when one guy pulls up with half a joint in his ashtray, what happens to the joint? It ends up in the pocket of the guys who are up front who'd smoke them! I think I'd rather work in a pizza place though where it's warm and there's music."
Photo © Paul Jendrasiak, 1993
#izzy stradlin#izzy#jeff isbell#jeffrey dean isbell#izzy stradlin and the ju ju hounds#gnr#guns n roses#gunsnroses#gunsnfuckinroses#80s rock#rockstars#80s#90s rock
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dang-orange makes a list of characters he'd shake inside a glass jar:
i decided to be insane while i wait for the Methylphenidate pill to hit (i was thought to have adhd and still have some leftovers from trying to treat that) so i can study. so i made a list of what i think are kins? i refuse to look up what that actually means so im going by the context that a thousand years of reading tumblr posts on pintrest gave me.
Okay! so:
Kinger is a new one, he seems like such a funny silly guy who is kind of out of it, something i absolutely get! so he goes there.
Izzy Hands has been a cause of insanity for me since season one, but season two got me worse. what a funny fellow. i get the whole being a tryhard thing, and sort of losing it a bit over having to change your ways. havent had to eat own my toes, lost a leg or done drag while singing in french, so those things i just find amusing.
Peter B. Parker! what a funny guy, i didnt expect him to actually come back on the second spiderverse movie. being a cool mentor is something admirable i think, and the scene with aunt may made me spend way too many hours on ao3 as i thought that could have been more of a thing (in my head the movie would have done well as a series, more time to explore the really cool characters they had). Also: him being a version of spiderman ''were things didnt go well'' that doesnt go in a morbid direction is very baller.
Doctor Twobrains i only know of from fandom osmosis. i did watch the series as a kid, but i really cant remember shit. the rat brain is funny, and i love anything involving inventors with a theme (i had to fight myself a few too many times to not include doofenshmirtz). the manerisms and vibe are very silly, the excentricities vibe with me.
Agent Stone was the only reason i watched the sonic movie. i saw a trailer and thought, huh i dont think i remember ever seeing this fellow on anything sonic. turns out, he was a new character and very, very funny. what a guy! i can imagine going that far being a henchman. i, however, do have a deep hatred against the guy that does robotnick, so i havent seen much else other than the first film (that i very much pirated).
Pyro is such a mistery. they just burn things and act jolly, the whole pyroland thing is also so stupid. i mained him when i played tf2, but for now i just save fanart of her burning shit and think about how cool it'd be to have a full body suit, be unintelligible and get to burn stuff. absolute 10/10.
Hazel from The Umbrella Academy was fun while he lasted. The idea of being a time traveling mercenary and still getting shitty hotel rooms is hilarious to me. made me really want to get suspenders, but i dont think that'll happen.
Scar (from Hermitcraft) is such a chaotically silly guy. i wish i could pull that off. going from scam, to huge incredible creations, to changing allies on a dime, to playing games by any other rules than the ones stabilished? i wish i could do that! btw the fanart is by reddit user dead_cricket_ (i didnt want to use a minecraft skin but wanted to make sure that I AM TALKING ABOUT THE FANON CHARACTER NOT THE REAL DUDE THAT MAKES VIDEOS)
Elliot Gussman from The Umbrella Academy was also fun while he lasted. i also have some really, really weird paranoia problems and would act the same if i had alien strangers in my house. there isnt a lot of fandom stuff on him, as he's such a minor character, so i just juggle a few too many head canons on this silly guy.
Aziraphale. hehe. haha. im absolutely normal about this guy. being an angel and having the ideology of heaven hammered into your head, and complying with things you know you shouldnt because you know the consequences and that theres someone all-seeing always watching you? i get that 100%. Two other things: the constant forced smiles that are clearly unnatural and doing silly things you know you arent good at are also relatable.
i really like Abner Krill. this is so long already, but i just, really like him. i wish he didnt get killed, that movie is my favourite and i wish it could get a sequel. i'll be short on the whole thing by saying that being the weirdest one on a bunch of batman villans is very funny, and his powers are very fucked up in a cool way.
Oswald Cobblepot was the only reason i saw Gothan. him going from just a guy to.. The Penguin?? absolutely crazy. i really got the whole bit where he was getting higher on the crime scene by biting small bits and getting big results.
I could write 20.000 words on each of these, but this formatting is ass and i think the Methylphenidate is working (it's been a bit more than 40 minutes between writing and looking up images that werent so bad), so i should go study/work. if anyone wants me to go insane again, dont worry! i absolutelly will. i made an account here for a reason.
#tadc kinger#izzy hands#peter b parker#dr two brains#agent stone#tf2 pyro#hazel tua#gtwscar#elliot gussman#elliot gusman tua#aziraphale#abner krill#oswald cobblepot#jesus my eyes are burning but i feel so happy getting this out of my chest i have never written or talked about fandon with anyone#my hands are tingling with joy#kin list
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TDI23 Season 2 ep 7 and 8 thoughts and theories. Spoilers ahead.
Ep 7: Put in teams by Chris, gather ingredients from a barge floating on the lake, choose a remote that could help you and/or hinder your opponents and bake a cake for the judges that looks like Chris. Fun episode and I enjoyed most of the references to movies and TV shows throughout the episode. Owen as the guest judge was great. That chicken cracking its eyes was hilarious.
- Cornucopia Bloodbath from The Hunger Games
- This is Sparta! from 300
- That escalated quickly from Anchorman
- Paint me like one of your French girls from Titanic
- Seductively shaping clay from Ghost
Ep 8: Carry a giant coin up a mountain, put it in a slot, enter the play area and gather the most points to win. The fish delivery lady was funny. This ep had its issues but I liked most of the references.
- Immitating the twins from The Shining
- Courtney
- Duncan
- Scary Girl and her jackhammer
- The Canadian Goose from last season
- Izzy
Owen:
He looks the exact same and thought that Cake Chef was the real Chef and had died 😂. Still goofy, friendly and obsessed with food but even he thought MK's cake tasted bad. I laughed when he ran away with Cake Chef.
Chris:
Sounds like he's still mad at MK about the hairdryer when he called her team greasy lol. I laughed at him talking about physical money as if it's extremely old, like prehistoric times old. I want to know which secret he stopped Zee from saying. Him pelting Priya with marshmallows was mean.
Chef:
It's sad that no one in universe thinks he can cook after all these years. Got calf implants for some reason and it looks kinda gross tbh.
Eliminated contestants:
16th: Lauren/Scary Girl - she's "shown up" in ep 4 and ep 8 so my theory that she's going to appear in ep 12 (fear challenge) is looking extremely likely at the moment.
15th: Chase
14th: Millie
13th: Emma
12th: Nichelle
11th: Bowie
10th/9th: Axel/Ripper - Both of their development came to a halt after they got together and it was annoying to watch them constantly make out so I'm not really sad to see them go. I did feel bad for him being upset about her leaving but I didn't expect him to just grab onto her like that. And Chris just decided to count it as a double elimination, wtf?
8th: Zee - Didn't do much in ep 7 tbh. I didn't enjoy watching him put his shorts in his mouth/being in his underwear for most of ep 8 but the squirrel was funny. He should have told Priya the truth when she talked to him before the challenge, that would have been the perfect opportunity. Spilled the beans about Caleb after he kissed Priya which was bad enough but then he kept talking and exposed a few secrets about the others. There is no way he should have been voted off over Caleb who is clearly the bigger threat in every way but because he still has a plot to be resolved he gets to stay. One of the most forced eliminations in the history of the entire show I swear to god. It should have been a tie in which Caleb would probably still win but at least he would have had to fight to stay in the game instead of just getting lucky with the voting. At the very least I hope the friendship between Zee and Priya isn't ruined for good, I liked seeing them talk to each other and stuff.
Merge
Priya:
She shouldn't have tried to use natural yeast, just let the cakes be flat. I'm not ok with 99% of PDA so I didn't enjoy watching her and Caleb try to kiss while people were around. They finally kiss and then she runs off crying after hearing what Zee said and doesn't talk for the rest of the episode. I don't want her to get back with Caleb even after the misunderstanding gets cleared up but I don't think that'll happen.
Caleb:
I don't like him and he should have been voted off instead of Zee no question about it. It's going to be annoying to watch him stick around.
Damien:
It's awesome to see that his confidence has grown and that he has found his footing in the game. The squirrel doing the finger guns back at him was cute. I can't believe he found the immunity idol by accident while the others were actually looking for it and he did the Family Guy knee gag 🤣. I hope it doesn't get stolen from him. It looks like he's still terrified of Scary Girl. Change your undies my guy. He'll probably comfort Priya in the next episode.
Raj:
It's lame that he and Wayne decided to work with Julia in the cooking challenge instead of against her. Hopefully that changes soon. Also seems to have lost some IQ points but not as bad as Wayne I think. I don't even want to bring up his secret 😨.
Wayne:
He seems to have gotten dumber at some point? It took forever for him to get to the pinball challenge and then he was knocked out of it right away. I don't know what to think of him.
Julia:
I laughed at her getting chest bumped by the hockey bros and the two of them slowing her down unintentionally. Of course she knows how to bake and mill raw ingredients, why am I not surprised? 🙄 She sicked Owen on MK and sounded upset about it enough that she's avoiding her at the start of the next ep. I didn't like her trying to pry the secret out of Zee. I'm not surprised that she stole from her own grandma. Her plot armor is ridiculous jfc.
MK:
I enjoyed her suffering in the cake challenge. I'm disappointed that her monstrous cake didn't come to life, could've been a funny reference to some SNL sketches. Isn't mad that Julia betrayed her in the cooking challenge apparently. Struggled to carry her coin up the mountain and then got crushed by it lol. She's a gamer and was able to figure out how to get more points quicker than the others. Bit Caleb's leg which was funny to me. Sleeps with a stuffed unicorn, awwww.
Five episodes left and I really hope Julia doesn't win. I procrastinated typing this because of the holidays and Zee's totally BS elimination but still got it done before 2024, woohoo!
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OK SO
technically this is currently two vaguely different ideas, and ill probably only make one in the foreseeable future bUT
waistcoat !!! or pinafore !!!!! (technically three options because im unsure if id go tailored waistcoat or an almost corset style one)
my goal in this project would be to fill in some gaps in my wardrobe, so im thinking black (obviously honestly, i only wear black) and quite plain, but maybe with some embroidery or cording or something, something subtle to add some texture and detail, but still fit in with any outfit i might make.
im split which way yet!
ive wanted to make a waistcoat for a while, but i guess im a little worried that i wouldnt wear it so much? i tend to dress very femme and very. like fluffy? flouncy? lace and flare and delicate fabrics and im not sure a waistcoat would fit into that? but i do really want to make one, i think itd be so fun! i think i would learn a lot of techniques even from a simple waistcoat, pockets & tailoring and buttons (for real this time) (OH i could use some of the buttons i rejected for the black coat) i plan to add boning to it either way, but i also this a corset style waistcoat could be real cool! not like the kind of things that come up when you look up corset waistcoat, but like, a lacing back and more structured pattern cutting? this one would require some development to see through but.... fun!!! i also have some scrap fabric (brown) from a skirt ive been wanting to turn into a waistcoat- it wouldnt work for this specific project but depending on which way you spin it, it could be a practice run at this project (already having coat 'wearable mockup' flashbacks) or it could be a downside, having two similar garments in my wardrobe
part of me feels like making a pinafore is kind of a cop out- its a far simpler project, and i have a preeetty similar project in the pipelines (though in a completely different aesthetic- heres the inspo for that one), and a lot of my other ideas are similar to a lolita jsk. but also i want jsk. i want to make some for myself some day sooo... i think id would probably get more wear out of a pinafore- but thats just in my head (i wouldnt have to match blacks). i probably wouldnt be learning much new with this one, but it would be a much quicker project! less likely to get stuck in the middle of it because i run out of motivation. i feel like i havent said much pro pinafore but wearability is Super important to me! i have a terrible habit of picking projects that are fun and interesting and then are not actually something i really wear. sometimes an easy project is really good- i like to try and learn things with every project but sometimes i back myself into a corner with things i dont know.
decisions!!!!! i cant make them :(
as i mentioned earlier, this isnt in the immediate pipeline- i still want to finish all my current projects first, i dont think i have any fabrics that'd work for these and im trying to not buying anything right now, and really i shouuuuld make things ive already planned + bought things for. but i think itd fill in some areas of my wardrobe so i might more it before some other things....
below the cut is some very initial inspo, i ripped it all from pinterest (thats basically how i start any sewing project plan fhdbdn)
if youre interested on the brain tangent it was: (start a little unclear but i was thinking about izzy) > izzys sleeves. me too i love a shirt with puffy sleeves > i could make IZZYS shirt (this one is still on the cards btw) > thinking about my wardrobe in general i guess > i own a lot of white puffy shirts but i dont wear them, i tend to wear black things > what might make me wear them short of dyeing them? i love these shirts but theyre too. white for me. maybe something i can wear over them > waistcoat.... i want a waistcoat.... ( i think its hilarious this tangent that started with izzy + ended with waistcoat never went near izzy's waistcoat )
#i tried to format this so it was a bit easier to read the wall of text uhhh idk if it worked#welcome to another edition of girl (gn) shut the fuck up#project planning#sewing
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ehehehehe time for fic writer asks! R, Z, AN, AP, BC, BV, and then BW, BX, and BY for carlita <3
GIRL THIS IS SO MANY
Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process? How do you come up with titles?
fuck titles, all my homies hate titles, etc etc. I don't think I've ever come up with a title first, but I can't say never for sure, so: sometimes during, often after. occasionally it'll be a significant line from the story itself, sometimes it'll be the classic thing of looking for a song lyric (and sometimes that means you are pitching me TMG lyrics), and once I just ended up with the dumbest description and couldn't think of anything else. (Looking thru the first page of my recent works, I swear there's one of every possible methodology, and actually I think Commit to the Bit I had the title either before or very early during the writing!)
Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?
Carlita help (ie, for the benefit of all the broken hearts) - I say this both as a writer and about the story itself, the whole process has been a kind of extended madness, and also it's just a very odd piece altogether imho.
If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?
we were talking about this on the phone yesterday! there is a scene in the next chapter of for the benefit of all the broken hearts that I would actually make good art. I also think there's some good visuals in the boss battle scene of The Reckoning Arrives that would be fun to have as art. (oooh, or Lucretia sitting at Taako's bedside after?) Oh, and Ed and Stede in the auxiliary closet in nice either way.
What’s the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?
I just read the second chapter of Respawn and it's very good. This AU gets something about Stede that I really appreciate, and Izzy's intro is fucking hilarious.
Of the characters you write for, which is your favorite? Has that choice been swayed at all by your followers/readers’ reactions to certain ones?
Is it possible????? that the unnamed wife (aka carlita) of for the benefit of all the broken hearts???? has supplanted my other faves??? Which is tricky because she is more or less an OC, so I don't know if that counts.
Honestly, even though it's been ages, it might still be Lucretia, if only because I am fairly evenly split in my enjoyment of writing both Ed POV and Stede POV.
I don't think? reader reactions comes into it much, except maybe specifically your obsession with Carlita lol.
You’ve posted a fic anonymously. How would someone be able to guess that you’d written it?
THIS IS A FASCINATING QUESTION THAT I HAVE ACTUALLY THOUGHT ABOUT. (I'm not digging it up now but I wrote a long rumination about that in re that collaborative Choose Your Own Adventure project, and trying to recognize writers I know.) Here's what I would say is particular to my unbetaed work: punctuation pokemon (gotta catch em all!), excessive parentheticals, "and then", and "is verbing". (I cautiously tag @gaypiratebrainrot who is by now exceedingly familiar with all my writing tics)
Thematically? idk. I'm pretty sure it's there, but I often don't notice those things until someone else points them out.
These three were requests about for the benefit of all the broken hearts specifically:
What scene in [Fanfic Name] took the longest to write? What was difficult about it?
I don't know about the longest, but I'm pretty sure this most recent chapter (13) took the most drafts and the most reworking and rethinking.
There's so much going on, and all of the characters are finally "on deck" as it were, which means there's both a ton of conflicting emotions and motivations to keep track of AND "I am bedeviled by the matter of the pronouns" AND there's important action that takes place entirely off-page, and deliberately so, which meant I was resisting the need to write what that was because it was going to be throwaway writing, but it turns out I had to in order to make it work. The bit where Mary and Ed first meet backstage I probably ended up with four drafts altogether, including once where I threw out a huge chunk and just rewrote from scratch.
(oh plus I had a real life experience that necessitated a handful of little setting tweaks)
All of which is fair, because it's a big turning point and needs to be both surprising AND make sense in context. Which means I also had to go back to earlier points in the story and adjust in order to get some sense of foreshadowing, or at least plausibility. So thank you for pitching me on the idea for what turned out to the most difficult thing I've ever written in my entire goddamn life, I guess.
Did you have any ideas that didn’t make the final cut of [Fanfic Name]?
I had this idea for something where Mary and Carlita would be painting together, maybe in the style of Jackson Pollack? (this may have been based on one of your pitches) And I can see it in my mind's eye but it just didn't work in context at all!
Do you have a favorite scene you’ve written from [Fanfic Name] story/chapter?
I have two favorites, and one of them is the painting scene that I did write. I love the tension and the physicality of it. The other is in chapter 17, so a few chapters from now (YOU know the one), and I'm not going to spoil it but I like it a LOT.
[fic author asks]
#ask games#my writing#my fic#I wrote about 5000 goddamn words that were just to help me figure out a bunch of little adjustments to make to chapters 13 and 14#but it took me that much thinking out loud to be sure#it's such a weird niche bullshit project and I have poured so much into it#I continued to be baffled at my own brain
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@tyrannuspitch tagged me to share the opening sentences of my last ten fics and see if there are any patterns.
Let's jump right in, from newest to oldest:
It is rare that a day passes without the voice of a pal in need calling on young Bertram, without the shadow of an Aunt or some rummy circ. in need of fixing. (Jeeves and the Fox Hunt)
In the days after the cat leapt out of the bag, I found myself rather shaky. (On Touching Sunlight)
It was the end of the whole Gussie-Madeline-Angela-Tuppy tangle, and the young master was tired, half frozen through, and on the downswing from being nigh incensed. (Of Pine Trees and Earthworms)
Status? ART said in our private feed. (Redacted Parameters)
Izzy’s open eyes stared, blank and unseeing, at the blue sky above. (la vie en rose)
Izzy Hands wasn’t dead, though he wasn’t sure yet whether or not he was happy about this development. (as a crew)
Edward was dead, or as good as, but the moon was out, Zheng Yi Sao’s ship was disappearing on the midnight blue horizon, and everything, Izzy reflected, was not as utterly fucked as it might have been. (talk it through)
Outside, the rain was falling down. (and the rain came falling down)
Blackbeard, it was widely accepted, was one of the best thieves in the world. (paint your face like you're the mona lisa)
When Professor Minerva McGonagall showed up at the Grangers’ door one sunny day in the middle of July to tell Mr. and Mrs. Granger that their child was a witch, Hermione nearly cried. (Harry Potter, except everyone is trans and JK Rowling can die by my blade)
Interesting. One thing that stands out to me is that several of these are very chatty. Partially that's because I've been writing a lot of Jeeves fic recently and trying to match Wodehouse's style, but it's still interesting. I think I have a tendency to try to cram as much establishing information into a first line as quickly as possible, which is helpful for fanfic, which tends to skip over lengthy buildups and introductions (we don't need 'em) and right to the action as quickly as possible (especially important for shorter fics). It can get bloated or clunky without care, however.
The shortest sentences are from Redacted Parameters (which makes sense, since that's from Murderbot's POV and it is fairly terse and laconic) and and the rain came falling down (which is hilarious, because that's a Silmarillion fic from Finrod's perspective, and he is most certainly Not.) and the rain came falling down also makes a nice mirror with the last line, which is also the title of the piece, and I find that pleasing.
My four most recent fics have all been 1st person POV (Bertie, Jeeves, Bertie, and Murderbot in that order), though you wouldn't know it since both of Bertie's POVs open with him talking about himself in the 3rd person, haha. But I've been enjoying branching out into 1st person POV more often recently; I enjoy trying to match the voice of the original, it's a fun challenge in characterization and style.
All four of my OFMD fics start with someone's name, either Izzy's or Ed's (or both, as in mona lisa, "Blackbeard" is technically both of them)
There's also a lot of talk about someone being dead haha, though again I think that's a product of the way that OFMD s2 went.
All are past tense, which I was surprised by. A few years ago, my list would probably have included some fics in present tense as well. There's a lot of description/narration, and only one line of dialogue.
I think the sentence I'm most pleased with is from as a crew; it's short, it's punchy, it sets the scene immediately and gives a lot of information and character work in a short amount of time. (And it makes me laugh)
Overall, I think it's interesting that most of these sentences are doing a good amount of establishing work, though in slightly different ways.
Open tag! Anyone who is interested, feel free to join in! This was a lot of fun
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Wednesday, November 30 -- SWYNRP Character Wishlist: A list of 10+ characters you’d like to see in the RP (for you to play or someone else!)
Remy Bones! Listen, more Hauntley fam! More foodies! A cook with terrible secrets and who is trapped in an immortality they never wanted! There’s *pats his head* so much room for exploration with this guy! And also actually I think he should be Stanley Tucci.
Izzy Hawthorne! The weight of family obligation/ambition, the wanting to help! Perhaps... perhaps another member of the firefighter fam?
Clio (of Hesiod) Just shining some light on another of the Muses who hasn’t already been listed. Someone else hunting for Merlin’s artefacts? An amazing historian? Part of a weird secret order organisation? Whats not to love!
Erato (of Hesiod) Think how much chaos and angst and drama could be caused by having a muse who can inspire and affect love and affection! Could you imagine? And the inner turmoil of having that power and never knowing if someone genuinely felt love for you?
Dr Doofenschmirtz! Not just for all of the excellent reasons already laid out by our resident Doofenschmirtz afficionado Anya, but also because A - MORE chaotic ‘baddies’ they bring utter joy to the RP with the chaos and the shenanigans and the complicated social and familial relationships. B - because I have a very specific pitch for Norm (Yes the robot) that I would want to pitch to anyone bringing in Doof, hmu ;)
Phoebus - who doesn’t love a tortured soul! One with a crusade, a mission, an all-consuming thirst for justice! (Who is he chasing who is he trying to bring down, ooooh could be neat, no?) How about a ... Bradley James? Or a William Moseley?
Maximus! - Is this because I think it would be hilarious to see more of Sheriff Clayton and how he would handle his officers and how his officers would handle him? You bet your arse it is! How does one handle being a police officer in a town like Swynlake, would he get sucked in by Clayton, would he grow tired of the politics of it all? Much room to explore!
David Kawena! I seriously considered David when I was looking at getting a third character. A half-merman! Amazing! Hardworking, chill, supportive, all things we LOVE in a man. Plus his fancy hair and his nice butt.
Cornelia Hale! Plant magic makes my eyes go <3 <3 She has been my crush since day 1 as a kid, and I love every part of her. Her passion, her hard-headedness, her selfishness, her unashamed femininity.
Hook. Who doesn’t LOVE a retelling of Captain Hook (where are my OUAT people at eh?!). But listen, him washing up with amnesia? It’s so spicy! Who might he have met before and not remember? How DID he get there? What stories might he weave for himself about who he was and maybe in his version he was always the hero not the villain? How would that collide with reality at different points.
A random selection of FCs under the cut. I just think they’re neat.
Leah Lewis (Chinese American, 25)
Barrett Doss (African American/ White, 33) (Sings like an angel)
Danny Griffin (White British, 25)
Alex Tarrant (Maori, Samoan, Niuean, 32)
Jonathan Daviss (African American, 23)
Brenton Thwaites (White, 33)
Aisha Dee (African American / White, 29)
Javicia Leslie (African American, 35)
Mandip Gill (Indian British, 34)
Archie Renaux (Anglo-Indian, 25)
forgot to say. Barbara Lopez. LOOK AT HER FACE
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ET FINALE:
Transcribed:
....Izzy's bitchy "I'm going to destroy you with like five words the second you stop talking" face is. fantastic.
(.....ugh, now that there's been a Parallel though, now I'm worried about Izzy's fate)
(though not permanently. not for the author's Special Beat 'Em Up Boy)
though hey this show is actually one where you can see the body and it doesn't matter! still might not be dead!
eat your heart out, X-Files
"You're not a pirate, lad"
FIVE WORDS LOL
CALLED IT
lad
He's elaborating, but I stand by my nonsense, hooray
"because... we're good." WAIT HAS IZZY LEARNED THE POWER OF STORIES
"And you... are a rancid syphilitic cunt."
Thank you Con O'Neill for your service
wait, time for another pic, this is beautiful
Figure 2. Not sure how to end your heartfelt speech about the power of love and the stories you choose? Try this one easy phrase
[phone picture of Izzy looking heartfelt and teary-eyed as the closed captioning reads "are a rancid, syphilitic cunt"]
now let's see where we are in the timeline here, I'm betting this is getting a bit too close to the middle of the last third
oh no, the BEGINNING of the last third OH NO the last high point
Avast you scoundrels omg Stede can you never enter Jackie's normally
LOL POISONING
BYE BOYS
"is that us doing that" lol
EVERYBODY IS POISON-TRAINED
"yeah baby"
Jackie takes the best care of her husbands
"good job. I am proud of you" AWWWW
(That's why she was so pissed at Jim, I bet. Jackie has a reputation of care)
ALBUM COVER SHOT
"It's only suicide if we die"
STEDE
..........
oh my god
hot
also hot with the kissing
oh shit this music is GREAT
LOVE all our actors of color also "in disguise" as British soldiers, no fucks given
ahhhhh hello, Izzy who is shot
"I'm fine, fuck off" baby
"Izzy you okay" so good tho
HE WENT BACK TO HELP
FRENCHIE DID TOO
oooo, that's some GOOD death makeup
wait omg is THIS how we get the kiss
You're my only family
awwww Stede's crying
awwww dead blorbo
.....okay so yeah, they buried him POSSIBLY that means he's dead for real
UNLESS we get season 3 zombies
"He was a good one. Intense. Very intense."
awwwww THE MARRIAGE
ED LOOKING AT STEDE
............you know what, I actually think it's actually hilarious that season 3 is---- WAIT HEY BOYS
INNKEEPERS
omg I love them and their shithole inn
THEY'RE LIVING WITH DEAD IZZY
SEAGULL
HI BUTTONS
Buttons who is magic
...........AS I WAS SAYING... you know... if I was a writer who wanted to be kind of a bitch about people hating on my blorbo... I too would manage to have an entire final season somehow fucking revolve around him anyway
Stede and Ed with his grave, the Revenge out to get the motherfucker who killed him-- IT'S ALL THERE
and the sea witch who now knows where the body lies
............lol
HEY FOLKS GUESS WHO FINALLY WATCHED THE FINALE
it's time again for "is it really a good idea to post your uncensored thoughts hahaha just kidding FUCI IT WE BALL" screenshots of my episode livetexting.
Transcribed:
okay so I'm in the AD now
I like the "gong" sounds during the "last time"
then BOOM
also ugh I gotta rewatch the prev episodes on the BIG screen, there's so much happening
oh baby omg the sweet music omggggg
FISH
omg so much NATURE he HATED nature in his previous vibes
awwwww his monologue is PRECIOUS
FISHSCALES that's what FAKE PEARLS are made out of
whoooo the fuck are these PEOPLE
ommmmg lololol
"SIMPLE LIVES" "SIMPLE WAYS"
LOL PUNCH OMG
"I said I CAUGHT a fish ONCE" omgggggggggg
you PRECIOUS BABYGIRL
...........................okay hey omg tryin to be a housewife Ed, ilu
"If you were EVER GOOD AT ANYTHING go and do THAT you bum" -- "YOU GUYS ARE DICKS"
I love him so much
.............oh DANG the republic
wait-- pausing
Ricky is REVERSE STEDE here-- he's "become a real boy" with the praise of his superiors-- except he's the MONSTER Pinocchio from Jim's story
...okay unpausing
"NEVER BE SLAVES" o i see
some CHOICES are being MADE here
YEAH THEY ARE
OH WAIT
PAUSING AGAIN
NO BUT REALLY
HE'S THE REVERSE PINOCCHIO
HE DOESN'T HAVE A NOSE
..........while i die about that a little i'll unpause
"THE MAN I AM TODAY"
You are going to be insufferable about this, I can tell~
YES I AM
WOOOO
awwwwwww oh no, oh no, Auntie
"Did you? Well, don't want to split hairs" STEDE U DICK
awwwwwww he's saying the failure line to ZYS!
STEDE IS WEIRD ABOUT TOUCH
OH MY
FUCKING
GOD
HE SAID IT
HE ACTUALLY SAID TI
HE SAID IT WAS WEIRD
YOU WANNA TALK INSUFFERABLE YOU HAVE NOT EVEN BEGUN TO EXPERIENCE THE AGONY OF MY TOTAL ANNIHILATING RIGHTNESS
I SAID WHAT I FUCKING SAID
HOLY MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST
.........................so anyway, about those curtains
they sure look great
I should climb them
see what the world looks like from up there
..............................................................I'm going to rewind and watch myself be SO GODDAMN RIGHT all over again
"IT WAS WEIRD"
HELL YEAH
omg he jumped on them!
"oh no!"
....pausing just to say, the closeup of his hand against the stone bridge was. unnecessarily.
good.
....for reasons.
whoops I accidentally rewound to him BEING WEIRD ABOUT TOUCH AGAIN
lololol
I fucking love that he jumped on them, such a delight
I'm checking to see if there's a closeup of his ring on that. very good. um. hand. pressed against the--- YEAH THERE IS
"or is it?"
"that went as well as I planned it" BABE
"to skin a prince" she says as she fixes her hair
#our flag means death#our flag means death s2 spoilers#our flag means death season 3 rampant speculation#and now it's time to actually *look* at tumblr and behold what I imagine might just be#AN ENORMOUS GODDAMN TIRE FIRE#(but I am Cringe)#(and I am Free)
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so like. ed never actually intended to kill stede right. im not the only one who thinks this? like, he 100% pulled that plan out of his ass on the spot to placate izzy. you can see his face fall the second izzy can't see him, he was totally putting up a front about the whole thing. and it's as he's walking away that the what the fuck did i just get myself into starts to sink in
and i just...kinda. think that's really interesting. because izzy was leaving. he could have just let izzy go and hung out with stede and everything would've been fine, except. he seems to, on some level, genuinely care about izzy. it's not just some one-sided fanatical devotion on izzy's part, they have a rapport. he couldn't just let him leave, because he actually likes this little fucker. or values his loyalty at the very least
idk it just makes the end of the season regression that much more depressing to me, because it's not like....ed getting bullied back into blackbeard mode by some asshole coworker or whatever, it's someone he's close with being openly hostile about his personal growth, and that shit hurts.
#ofmd#ofmd spoilers#our flag means death#edward teach#izzy hands#ofmd izzy#not really sure where im going with this i just have thoughts#idk#this is part of the reason i don't think killing izzy off is a solution tbh#his physical presence isn't the obstacle it's ed's insecurity and vulnerability when it comes to the people he loves#and how a lot of the people in his life take advantage of how much he cares#lookin at you calico jack#''how dare you not immediately abandon these good and caring people for my annoying ass remember how i saved your life??'' stfu#the guilt tripping makes me mad ok#leave my boy alone#SIDE NOTE it just occurred to me that izzy was the one who sent jack to get ed outta there and#what would that conversation even look like#more specifically. does jack call out EVERYONE who has it bad for ed or did he just do that to stede because he was tryna drive a wedge#because i think it would have been hilarious to see izzy trying to be all professional and ''hes my captain pls save him''#while jack goes all 👀👀👀😏😏😏😏
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My Our flag means death hot takes 🥵🔥
(Except most of them are frankly not very controversial and I’m really not looking to argue lol)
All Izzy Hands discourse would be solved if people online started analyzing him like he was an interesting plot component that serves ofmd’s themes and not a real person who needs to be held accountable for his actions
Additionally, all Izzy Hands discourse is stupid and exhausting
Black Pete is criminally underrated in the fandom despite being a very prominent character in the show. He’s absolutely hilarious, I can name so many moments with him that made me bust out laughing. We need more Pete appreciation.
Its a big pet peeve of mine when ofmd fan content has the characters talk/think about their sexualities and gender identities with modern language and sensibilities. One of the reasons I think everything is so normalized and no big deal on the revenge is because they have no concept of what being “lgbt” is. It’s just, “I only like to fuck guys” and “I don’t like being treated like I’m a guy or a girl”. Trying to put these characters into boxes and label them with labels that they would have never used just feels awkward to me. It’s much more interesting when people explore how Ofmd’s queer characters would rationalize and explore their identities without having any technical words to describe themselves. It’s really comforting to me as someone who often times gets stressed over not being able to properly label myself.
I think Jim is in a different genre just as much (if not more) than Izzy. Every time it cuts to one of their subplots it’s like being transported to a cowboy revenge movie. I totally get the “Izzy is in the wrong genre” meme, I find it absolutely hilarious, but it just seems kinda weird to me that Jim is frankly the much better fit for that type of joke and I’ve literally seen no one recognize that. We need more “Jim is in the wrong genre” content, pretty much
I don’t want Stede’s character development in season two to be him becoming a badass more competent and rugged pirate. I’ve seen a lot of people who really want that to happen and the idea of it actually makes my skin crawl. The only time we’ve ever seen Stede behave the way we’d expect a pirate to behave (the “unhand me or bleed” scene) was because he was feeling trapped, lonely, and unlike himself. I am definitely down to see Stede spiral down a path similar to that, where he becomes more violent and pirate-y out of desperation or something, but I REALLY don’t want this to be presented as necessary and positive character development. The theme of ofmd is that “there’s more than one way to be a man”, and piracy and the expectations around it are often times used to represent manhood. Stede being an unconventional pirate who wears fancy outfits and doesn’t like blood is essential to this theme, and if he were to subdue or grow out of these traits to fit into the more standard mold the literal villains of the series want him to fit in it would be a betrayal of his character.
All of your “OFMD Season 2 sound track predictions” playlists are wrong I’m sorry 😭😭 guys theirs not going to be any mitski, MCR, or Billie Eilish songs in s2 two please take a walk ✋🏼
Additionally, the only ABBA song I want in season two is SOS. It fits the tone and the plot perfectly, gimme gimme gimme or lay all your love on me would just seem out of place.
While we’re on the subject of season two, you guys know that ofmd isn’t just a show about representation, right? Our flag means death obviously has fabulous queer and poc rep, and that’s great! But just because those things are a part of the appeal doesn’t mean thats the entire purpose of the show. People often criticize ofmd by saying things like “there weren’t enough women, there should’ve been more women characters”. Our flag means death is a show about (and I’ll say this again) masculinity, and the many ways someone can be a man. So of course, most of the characters are men. Just because ofmd is a show known for its positive representation doesn’t mean it’s obligated to include every minority that could possibly benefit from that. And I would totally understand if the critic was “Ofmd’s female characters aren’t well written”, but no one’s saying that! The few women characters in ofmd are adored by the fandom and amazingly well written. So I don’t see what the problem is, there are stories about queer women and women of color that focus on the unique experiences and struggles they face, but ofmd isn’t one of those stories, nor did it ever claim to be.
I don’t think Izzy hates Calico Jack like a bunch of the fandom seemed to decide. They obviously have very similar world views and motivations, and at least some history (jack calls Izzy a sentimental bastard, ffs). It’s more likely to me that Izzy sought out Jack’s help trusting that he was putting Ed in good hands then as a begrudging last minute “which one of Ed’s exs is most likely to agree to this” kinda thing.
All of the canon couples in the show got a partially on screen sex scene (even Mary and Doug, c’mon now). When Stede and Ed patch things up and become an actual couple they are 100% going to be at least implied to have had sex, I bet on it
This isn’t a hot take tbh, but it’s pretty funny to mention that my “omg they’re not queerbaiting” moment wasn’t “you wear fine things well” or the ep6 opening monologue or this is happening, no, I was absolutely certain that they weren’t playing around because of the pee scene. You heard me, THE PEE SCENE. The pee scene was my heart stopper
Anyways that’s pretty much all I’ve got at the moment, ik I have more spicy hot smoking takes somewhere in my deteriorating brain but I can’t find them rn, so stay tuned for a part two if I ever decide I want to break tumblr again with my epic never before seen opinions
#our flag means death#ofmd#stede bonnet#izzy hands#black pete#jim jimenez#blackbonnet#gentlebeard#stede bonnet x edward teach#edward teach#calico jack
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Okay, so I just finished watching the last episode of OFMD for the thousandth time and I just remembered a review I read before it came out that teased Stede getting a more comedic story in the episode while Ed got a darker one, and having watched that, it's actually not 100% true, but it is super interesting because I thought the same thing until this rewatch. The first two thirds of the episode, Stede is 100% the dramatic crux of the episode. After everything that happened in the last few minutes of episode 9, where his guilt completely overpowers him and we see him at his lowest so far in the whole show, it's devastating to see him trying to force himself back into those strict social guidelines that we know he hates so much for the sake of two people who would clearly have been happier if he didn't (Ed and Mary.) Seriously, this is probably him at his darkest. He pulls a knife on an innocent man. His family painted him out of their portraits. His wife wants to keep pretending he's still dead. His daughter hates him and his son doesn't know who he is. It's depressing as all hell. Meanwhile Ed is comparatively pretty lighthearted. He's clearly heartbroken, but it's not anywhere near as devastating as any of the stuff happening with Stede at that point. The crew are still supporting him in his awkward song-writing and crying in blanket forts. His talk with Lucius shows that he has an actual support structure for the first time in his life. And most importantly, for a while he actually seems to be getting better. He doesn't immediately lose all his development from throughout the series. He gets genuinely excited about the crew putting on a talent show and seems like he wants to be a part of it. Most vitally, he asks them to keep calling him 'Edward,' which is as we all know the name he uses when he's willing to be open and vulnerable with people. The beauty of the episode is the switch we get in two consecutive scenes; Stede coming out to his wife, and Ed killing Lucius. The coming out scene is unironically beautiful. It walks the line between being a revelation which was incredibly brave of Stede to do, and him just casually admitting a fact that he now knows to be true. When Mary hugs him, it's really the apex of his character arc. He can finally let go of the guilt he feels about abandoning her, knowing she has a better life without him in it, and he's no longer confused and tormented by his feelings for Ed. He finally lets himself be driven wholly by his heart and not by what he thinks is expected of him. By the end of the episode, this is probably Stede at his best emotionally. So from here, he gets a comedic arc where he gets to go all out faking his death. And it's hilarious. The last impression we get of him in the series is him finally free, ready to return to his love, something unambiguously happy. And all of the comedy of the last few scenes with him is still present in the viewers' minds, so we naturally associate his story now with all the lightness and brevity associated with the show's humour. In the meantime, immediately after the scene that gives us Stede at his best, we get the scene that gives us Ed at his worst. Him killing Lucius hurts so much, not only because it's Lucius and we all love him, but because it's so counter to everything Ed has shown himself wanting to be until now. He claims he doesn't kill people in spite of evidence to the contrary, and out of the entire crew, he's probably the closest with Lucius out of everyone minus Stede. He's the one who convinces Ed to tell Stede how he feels about him. He's the one who sees Ed crying in his blanket fort. He's the only one who snaps at him when he's making bad choices. So the sudden shift in their relationship portrayed so beautifully by Edward just smiling as he pushes him overboard is devastating, because if Ed doesn't care about Lucius anymore, who does he care about? The scene with Izzy immediately afterwards only makes it worse, because right now, he agrees with Izzy, but he's still willing to mutilate him to prove a
point; he doesn't care about anything anymore. And Izzy understands that. His glee immediately afterwards is proof that he's won, and he knows he's won. Blackbeard is himself again. From there, it's all downhill as he kills off every part of Stede he has left, from taking his ship, to destroying his books, to leaving his crew to starve. Our last image of him is him alone in his room, after adding a bloodied heart to his flag as a literal way of expressing to the world that he will never love anything again, crying at a picture of Stede's lighthouse, a parallel to the closing shot of Stede stood on his boat with one hand raised, emulating a lighthouse as he prepares to lead his crew away from danger, proving that even after everything he did to close himself off, he's still fundamentally broken. Symbolically, our last shot of Edward is a man who has driven all of the light out of his life, and our last shot of Stede is a man who is returning with a newfound light in himself. This structure was so well-done here, because honestly, giving all of the comedy to Stede and all of the drama to Ed would have been a disservice to both of their characters. Their arcs in this episode oppose each other perfectly, and the weight of comic relief is passed evenly between them, which is so much more satisfying on both a narrative and character standpoint This is basically a longwinded way of saying, I love this show, we need a season 2. Also I refuse to believe Lucius is actually dead. #LuciusLives.
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You do realize that Izzy is THE series villain, right? He's not sticking around post-reunion. He's not part of Stede's crew, he's not Team Revenge, he was actively gleeful about them being marooned and left for dead. He's not a good guy. He's not a protagonist. He's not going to be around being a toxic abusive piece of shit forever. Quit trying to normalize & downplay the horrible way he treats other characters. I know as a fetishizer you're predisposed to abusive white men, but this is idiotic.
(Since tumblr cuts this off from what I can see; this turned into a big Izzy Hands meta! So read on if you want!)
Let me try and word this in a way you might understand, nonny, since you clearly have some issues with the definition of things, and while I'm here I'm going to turn this into another meta post, this time about your favorite character: Izzy Hands ♥, rather than just posting this as a mean anon or deleting it outright.
(That said, anon, I really think this is the second message you've sent me now. The first time it was because I mentioned Izzy during a meta about Ed, and the second time is because I mentioned Izzy (and Lucius, and Jim, and Fang) during a post about Ed and Stede gettin' it on in season 2. If you really hate Izzy this much, I truly recommend blocking those of us who enjoy him, and using the blacklist feature to remove any posts mentioning him. I think your fandom experience will be truly improved if you do that, and at the end of the day that's what we all want here, isn't it? A good fandom experience.)
Firstly, Izzy is the singular Real Pirate trapped in a muppet comedy, which makes him hilarious and fascinating.
Secondly, as the only Real Pirate, he's the only one that can see the dangers of being weak and not being a proper pirate. Do you think that the English are going to let Ed just walk away? He signed his life over to them for ten years then bailed the first night. Do you truly believe the English aren't currently looking for Blackbeard specifically to finish him off or take him to Charlestown to make an example of him? Do you think they aren't currently tying nooses in his honor to say, "Look what happens if you take our offer of an Act of Grace then bail out"?
They absolutely are.
Now, ask yourself; what happens if the English rock up on the Revenge, crewed by a group of terribly bad pirates who couldn't defend themselves against the Spanish, or the English, or-- actually, any battle they've had so far. Jim is the only truly competent pirate on that crew, from what I've seen.
So what do you think Izzy is imagining when he sees Edward return from bailing out on the Act of Grace and not only once again letting the ship return to Muppet Comedy, but also actively trying to stop them being pirates?
I think back to what Oluwande said in the first episode, being not only a man of color like Edward is, but potentially being an outlaw for more than just the color of his skin: him and Jim aren't being pirates because they just woke up one day with a fun little idea and more money than they can shake a stick at, him and Jim are pirates because neither of them have any other choices. Do you think even if Ed hadn't taken the Act of Grace, he would've had other choices? Do you think the man who murdered his own father in what would likely have been seen as cold blood (not a defense of himself and, primarily, his mother; especially since he and his mother are not white and his father was) ever had any other choices?
So what happens to them when the English come? What happens to Edward when they board the ship and he's wearing the breakup robe and singing songs? Do you think they'd look at him and go, "Oh, no, he's so sad. Let's let him go."
(I mean, they might, in the context of muppet comedy, but as previously stated, Izzy's world is not a muppet comedy. In Izzy's world, when you get stabbed you die. In Izzy's world, when you duel a pirate with thirty years of experience on you, you lose.)
Now I want to run down the list of what Izzy Hands has done over the course of the 10 episodes to make him horrible and abusive. I'm not going back to reference the episodes because I don't have the time to sift through every one, but I'm pretty sure I remember it well enough. Replies can totally correct me with extra citations if I miss stuff.
Episode 1: Wasn't in it
Episode 2: Ignored the vulnerable crew on the beach, cut Stede's shirt open, stole a hostage.
Episode 3: Suggested the 'normal' course of action to be murdering the inept pirates and slinging them to the sharks, implying that's what they usually do. Went to Spanish Jackie's and invited Stede aboard, but didn't mention his boss by name. Told Ed what happened, but didn't say he didn't name him by name. (Open to interpretation as it's possible everyone worth their salt knows Izzy is Edward's right hand man, it doesn't need speaking). Helps Edward save Stede and co.
Episode 4: Asks if they're going to kill the crew 'as usual' (Edward doesn't say no). Calls Edward a twat and yells at him for being completely erratic, wearing Stede's clothes and pretending to be someone else. Says he's leaving. Follows through on leaving until Edward coaxes him back. Apologizes sincerely for all of the things he said. He may not have said, "I'm sorry," but I said some things I regret, I don't think you're a twat etc is definitely an apology. Not all apologies have to include the word sorry to be an apology.
Episode 5: Spends the whole episode trying to get the Revenge crew to actually be a crew. Gets mad at Lucius and Pete for actively not doing their jobs when he tells them to do their jobs. He wasn't pissed they were fucking, he was pissed they weren't working. Tried to get Lucius to do actual work. Got pissed when Lucius seemed like he was potentially cheating on Pete and hitting on all the crew. (Which is why "We don't own each other." disarmed that attempt to control him.)
Episode 6: Demands that Edward follows through on his promise to kill Stede, referencing Edward's own rules (that he's made Fang follow through on in the past) re: killing/not having pets as a reason why. Offers to do it himself if Edward can't. Tries to make it easier for him, knowing how hard Edward finds it to do any killing himself. Challenges Stede to a dual after Edward seemingly chickens out of doing the kill himself (and usually outsources the kill, presumably to Izzy himself). Leaves the ship angrily when he loses.
Episode 7: He's not in this episode until the end, where he's ranting at Spanish Jackie and works with the English to deal with Stede and solely Stede.
Episode 8: He isn't in this episode.
Episode 9: He does a lil wavey-wave. He also specifically fought for Edward to not be killed alongside Stede. He makes sure Edward has his freedom with Izzy. He's still following through on the plan from Episode 6 (which... fascinatingly, I don't think Edward ever actually told him the plan was actively off, just that Izzy wasn't dueling Stede? I- Communication, people!) because that plan makes the most sense to him: kill the pet. Is an actual Captain telling the crew to actually do their jobs and run an actual pirate ship. I do not know how the Revenge ever sails the rest of the episodes. Nearly gets flung overboard tied to an anchor for it.
Episode 10: Sends Lucius to look after Edward, or at least try. Messes up the deck so the crew (who have actually done all their work) has something to do. Has the group do their jobs, again. Finally snaps and calls out Edward for no longer being the fierce pirate Blackbeard or a pirate at all and calls him a namby-pamby still using Blackbeard's name. I've seen people say 'namby-pamby? they might as well have just used the f slur' but Izzy has proved time and again that he's not homo or queerphobic (using Jim's correct pronouns, not, idk, having Lucius's balls cut off for partaking in gay sex just trying to get him to actually work, sending Calico Jack (aka Ed's old lover) to retrieve Ed), the implication of his words here is, as the dictionary describes, "lacking energy, strength, or courage; weak or ineffectual". Yes, it's a term used against gay men, but that isn't all he's saying there. He's basically accusing Edward of being the equivalent of a whiny teenage girl on the phone with her friends because her crush didn't text her back.
I would now like to list what Edward has done to Izzy (and others, where applicable to this conversation):
Episode 3: Not much to say here aside from bossing him around, but he is his boss.
Episode 4: Manipulates him. Lies to him, mocks him and then manipulates him into staying by promising him a dead Stede (with no real intention of following through) and a ship of his own.
Episode 8: Unrelated to Izzy, Edward is a complete tosser in this episode lmao. He wrecks Stede's shit (it's Stede's ship), he lets Jack run roughshod all over the crew, take Stede's seat at breakfast. He's pretty awful in this episode, as much as I love him. But he does come back, so I give him that one.
Episode 9: Izzy tries to talk to Edward and Edward punches him in the face. Izzy says that's fair.
Episode 10: He choke slams Izzy into a wall, cuts off his toe and forcibly feeds it to him, then forces him to get back to work without any kind of first aid etc.
So, the tally here:
Violence against Izzy: Punched, choked, toe cut off, nearly thrown overboard and drowned.
Violence from Izzy: Cut Stede's shirt, told the crew to actually do their jobs as pirates, stabbed Stede during a fair duel, ???? turned them over to the English, with very careful safeguards in place so only Stede is going to die (none of the crew were harmed. Only Stede. He didn't even turn all of them over!)
Violence from other characters for the sake of contrast: Jim's entire arc is murder and knives, either Fang or Ivan knocks over a hostage and laughs in episode 2 (I don't remember which), Roach expresses a desire to torture the hostages for fun, the entire crew leaves two human men tied to a mast to marinade in the sun for days on end, Edward throws Lucius overboard (presumably killing him, though I believe muppet comedy laws will win out and he will likely be fine), Stede sets fire to an entire ship with his words, presumably killing everyone on board, the entire crew go off in episode 1 murdering and stabbing everyone in the first episode. Oh! And Edward tells one of his crew to skin someone alive with a snail fork, which we can only assume is followed through on off-screen as we never see that guy again and it seems likely.
Following on from this, you say he seemed gleeful that the crew were marooned and left for dead and sure, yeah, I can see that. I don't disagree. But, uh... do you think that was Izzy's idea? 😅 He might have been pleased by it, but it was absolutely Edward who did that. Once Blackbeard came back, Izzy is following all of Edward's orders, not making up his own on the fly. Edward has everything thrown out (in fact, that starts before Izzy even makes it back from tending to his toe, I think), Edward has the crew marooned.
That is all Edward's doing.
I mean, sure, Izzy is the driving force behind Edward reverting to the Blackbeard Kraken, but if you tell me I'm a little twerp and I need to go be a boss and I go become a boss and abuse all my employees and fire a bunch and basically be awful, that's all me. Just because you called me a twerp, that doesn't mean I'm not the one doing those things.
So, following on from this, I want to answer a few points here:
He's not a good guy.
No one on this show except maybe Oluwande and Lucius is a Good Guy. No one. Stede sets fire to a ship. Roach wants to go torture someone just because he can. Frenchie does murders. Jim does murders. Pete wants to kill people. Buttons is a cannibal waiting to happen. Edward does horrible things all the fucking time. Spanish Jackie collects noses. Mary was going to kill Stede until he woke up.
You are absolutely correct that Izzy is not a good guy. You got that right.
He's not a protagonist.
He's an important part of the show and is, currently, in an antagonist position. That's just as important as a protagonist, actually. It helps push the plot along. We wouldn't have any of this plot without Izzy. None of it.
He's not going to be around being a toxic abusive piece of shit forever.
Correct, I think he's going to be redeemed! But we'll see.
Quit trying to normalize & downplay the horrible way he treats other characters.
I'm not downplaying how he treats anyone, but I'm also not exaggerating it like you are. And also please look at your own faves, before casting stones from a glass house.
I know as a fetishizer you're predisposed to abusive white men, but this is idiotic.
Again, as I said above, I think you're a) in the wrong askbox considering this is a response to me mentioning him in passing while gushing about Blackbonnet and b) using a word you don't fully understand. I get it. It's a good buzzword.
Edward is much, much worse (though he is actively trying to be better, which is what I hope for Izzy's future once he too finds a reason to be) and I love him too with every fiber of my being.
Izzy is only the antagonist because he isn't the one in love with Stede Fookin Bonnet. If Edward and Izzy's roles had been reversed in episode 1?
Stede would be long-dead and god knows what would've happened to Izzy in the process. Edward would've gone to town on him for being weak and having a pet. He would've forced him to kill Stede, if he didn't do it himself, and the worst part is Izzy might have done it where Edward faltered.
thanks for coming to my TED talk
#ofmd#ofmd meta#izzy hands#edward teach#blackhands#a little?#blackbonnet#a little.#our flag means death#thanks for the prompt to write this meta anon!#ask#anonymous
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Had a power thought
(to my fellow Cody Ko enjoyers hello sorry the joke had to be made)
So we’ve all covered how Izzy’s a terrible captain once he finally gets the role and how the crew mutinies in like three hours and how funny that is, because it is hilarious, but the more I think about it, the more I become convinced that Izzy was attempting to sort of combine Ed and Stede’s captaining styles into one person in order to lead the crew best, he was just doing horrendously at it.
I mean think about it, Izzy has shown no particular desire to have fine things or food but when we see him as captain he’s sitting in the middle of the deck at a table covered by a fancy table cloth, eating something that he demands needs more salt. It’s Stede’s love of fine things mixed with Ed’s (well, Blackbeard’s, in this case) determination to get exactly what he wants. It feels out of character because it is out of character. Because Izzy is trying to be some sort of fusion of Ed and Stede.
We see it again later when he’s being thrown overboard. He begins to ask for suggestions for improvement, saying he’s open to discussion. When has Izzy ever been open to discussion or suggestions? That’s Stede’s thing. And, while it’s a bit of a stretch, he calls out for his first mate, Black Pete, to get him out of this situation, which, as can be reasonably assumed, is Ed’s thing, i.e. calling on Izzy to get him out of bad situations.
So I’m not entirely convinced we’ve seen what Izzy would really be like as a captain. Like if he was given a new ship and a new crew in a vacuum and just told to captain them. Izzy noticed that for all he hated it, Stede and Ed’s co-captaining style was working with this specific crew and tried to copy it, he just failed miserably.
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