#ed's face will be the end of me

[ashpkat]

i can’t believe octavian died like… that. of all things in a middle grade kids books series. and everyone was chill about it. literally no one gaf octavian died so horrifically even if it was ‘just’ —and as the readers… we were chill with it too

[izzyhandsy]

me when i wanted to make him worse but not THAT much worse :(

[edspeleerscock]

stop sleeping on death do us part 😔✋ ed was so babygirl in that it’s unreal. got to see him cry pretty too.

[dirtytransmasc]

Loving the vibe of Izzy and Stede... I won't say their necessarily getting along quite yet, I don't want to jinx it, but like... they're getting along and it's fucking great.

the way he actually tries and help Stede out, in his own way (which is aggressive but very real and upfront, and it clearly shapes Stede), he helps him with the crew and the curse, gives him that little 👌 when he manages to scare the guy with the wanting shot, he stands behind him with the rest of the crew, showing his support of the new captain.

I think he genuinely gives a shit, if even a little one for Stede, and a massive one (though he'll never admit it unless his hand is forced, which I see coming in the near future) for the crew, and isn't just acting like a good dog/right hand. like I think he's genuinely healing, in the best way? absolutely not, but, it's definitely something and I love that for him.

also, him and Lucius getting along, in there own fucked up way, and Izzy giving him the shark and the advice, it's great. (loving the nickname twatty, it's killing me)

[chibi-scone]

Still can’t wrap my head around how Izzy shooting Ed was supposed to symbolize him “breaking up with Blackbeard” and have them go through that whole thing at the beginning of the season, to have Izzy be the one who tells Ed to follow what makes him happy, and have Izzy’s whole arc be about who he is without Blackbeard just for the finale to turn around and say that Izzy had to die because he was half of Blackbeard and that Ed couldn’t fully let go of Blackbeard otherwise.

[neverbelessthan]

I just read someone’s hot take on ‘the mermaid scene’ being ‘peak cringe’ and I just-

Sweet, sweet human. That’s Ed’s psyche you’re taking about. My dude is having his life flash before his eyes in the most beautiful little heartbreaking s1 montage, and if that’s how he wants to picture Stede coming to redeem his lonely fucking soul - as a glittery goddamn tits-out merman, then that’s HIS GODDAMN BUSINESS.

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

So you know this party banter between Aveline and Carver?

Aveline: I don't like some of the people you've been associating with, Carver. Carver: Talk to my brother/sister. He/She's the one in charge.

If you're on the rivalry path with Aveline, she says:

Aveline: Who says I don't mean him/her too? This city's full of people who are dead set on ending badly. I don't want to see you end up the same way.

I just- Aveline, you- you're so- hhhhnnnngggggg

I always rival Aveline when I play a mage, and if you think Edgar Aristide Hawke, who practically raised Carver and Bethany after Malcolm died and Leandra became a distant mother in her grief, wouldn't stop dead in his tracks at Aveline heavily implying he's a bad influence on his brother and Carver shouldn't hang around him so much since apparently Ed's someone set on ending badly...? Absolutely not.

This is another case of me wishing Hawke had the option to jump in during party banter with different options, because Ed would've chewed Aveline out for that.

Oh, and then there's:

Carver: Would asking you to stop spying on me help in the least? Aveline: No.

Aveline...................stop it.

[candied-cae]

I’m gonna be so real, babes, when I saw that storm looking so ROUGH at the end of episode 2, I was real worried The Revenge was going to capsize and completely break to splinters and just sink to the bottom of the ocean. And I was DEVASTATED!

I was legitimately about to cry for that big ol’ boat bc she’s home and she's a part of their journey, and she can’t rest until her captains have been reunited! She deserves to see it happen on her deck, or so help me-

[icelogged]

what is ur fav or couple fav go-to foods? (:

a couple of my go-to foods because of course i couldn’t just say one……….. you know i love to yak yak and blah blah <3

♡ 1 ♡

i am a fruit bat first and foremost ! i’ll have fruit prepared any way, any time

♡ 2 ♡

my favourite source of protein… bag of mixed nuts…. peanut butter…. 🫀

♡ 3 ♡

not so noodles !!! my game changer ! the colours are so fun and pretty :333

♡ 4 ♡

OLETA WUV C🍪🍪KIE !!! OLETA WUV OATMEAL C🍪🍪KIE !!! OLETA WILL EAT ANY COOKIE >:3cc🍪🍪

♡ 5 ♡ last but not least…

meeee <333 there’s so many delicious combinations!!! but plain is just as nummy imo :3

[saltpepperbeard]

I’m watching catching fire and remembering all the times we laughed at the noises Jen and Josh made while cleaning themselves in the water after the fog 😂😂

SJKDSHDLJKS HOLY SHIT. What a throwback on this night, Bonnie,,,

The way there was a wholeass audio post with JUST their moans like shdjkhsdjklhsjkls P L E A S E 😭

okay but no it's legitimately so sus and for what like there's a buildup a climax and a recovery stage from both of them and i remember us just tossing that post around again and again and again like hahaha pool sex but like nO FOR REAL

[soggypotatoes]

I hate being an artist lmao, the process for me is always

'oh fun!! I get to put down some colours in a vague shape, can't wait to see how this turns out :)'

*two to three hours of screaming in agony and doubting whether I'll ever make anything good ever again*

*sitting back after finally hitting a point where I cannot do it anymore* oh shit. this is good! how fun :)

it's like.. yknow how women giving birth forget how painful it is so they can have another baby.... yeah it's like that

[vigilantejustice]

disordered eating content in the tags skip it if it’s no bueno :-)

[elessarwanderer]

My best friend is 26. I’ve known him for a year. We’re both at very pivotal parts of our lives. I’ve watched him switch from a shitty job to a job he loves and he’s talking about moving in his 30s because where he lives isn’t too great. I remember when we first started talking he said he would love to work in a museum.

I’m 22 and I just graduated college. I have a summer job and I have plans to move at the end of the year if I have money for it. I can’t decide what I want to do and I want to do everything. But to think far enough into the future where my realm of “everything” is possible, I can’t do it.

I am living on borrowed time. I wrote a letter to my future self five years ago and I opened it two weeks ago and I wrote another one for 2028. I don’t know if I’ll open it. I’d like to open it. I’d like to see my life five years from now. But my mindset has never been to think about things that far out. I can’t fathom having a job for five years or wondering what I’ll be doing when I’m 40. I don’t feel like I have all “the rest of my life”, as they say, to find love.

It’s mindboggling, how different we must view the future. I would like to see him love this job for several years. I would like to see him get a job at a museum. I’d like to see him go to grad school. I’ve been haunted by death my whole life.

[spottedmischief]

You can also tell it’s not just about avoiding the consequences in regards to Scar or Janja or even making them proud. Cheezi genuinely does not care what they have to do to take the Pridelands back. This used to be their home once as well and he would never apologize to any Pridelander or feel bad for what they have to do in an attempt to roam that place once more, even if that involves hurting the only person who actually cares about him in that place because he also doesn’t understand why he should drop everything just for her? His clan comes first, no matter what.

[insteading]

I adore Rhys' acting in this scene (and honestly, in the whole episode): watching his face and seeing shock, grief, regret, guilt, hope, and love in varying permutations is A LOT.

I volunteer for a hospice, and am deeply grateful that we got to see Stede sitting with Ed's body at all in the first place. US Americans in particular have a reputation for being skittish and squeamish about death, and particularly about post-death care- which I think is relevant given that this is a show created for a US American platform. But most people in history have died at home. "I'm used to death, but not your death" may be a Pete line, but anyone in the crew could have believably delivered it. (Historical Stede Bonnet, who, yeah, bears only the vaguest resemblance to our guy, lost a child shortly before leaving home and becoming a pirate.)

Stede sitting with what he assumes is the body of his beloved is part of the post-death care he would offer someone important to him. So is saying what he didn't have an opportunity to say earlier, in a way that is recognizably his own. Stede assumes Ed is dead, so "Why'd you have to go and get yourself killed?" is more about his own closure, but ... we have learned from people who've had near-death experiences in controlled settings that a nontrivial percentage of people retain some level of awareness of their surroundings, and particularly their loved ones, until the very end. People who are dying may retain the ability to hear, smell, and feel the presence of those who are near them, even if they are non-responsive. (This is why you should sing your dying loved one's favorite songs and tell them you love them and won't forget them, despite them appearing to be unconscious, and it is also why you shouldn't say anything you don't want them to hear.)

As a model for how you might approach post-death closure, or sitting vigil with someone you love who is near the end of their life? Stede does a lot of what I would encourage clients' family members to do, and he does it with the same practical love with which he just rescued the crew.

The sheer bravery Stede had to even go and sit with Ed's body absolutely blows me away.

Yes, there was nothing else he could do. There was no way he'd be able to leave Ed's body alone down there. That doesn't mean it wasn't still hard to do. The way he hesitates at the top of the stairs, looking down-

And Ed looks so small. Broken and hurt and tiny and very, very still. This is a man who, as we know and as Stede's brain is no doubt screaming at him, is very rarely still. Ed, at his baseline, is a cheerful, bouncy person. He fidgets and has trouble sitting still when he's not deeply engaged with something. And now all that playful, easily-excited energy, the curiosity, the life - it's just gone.

Because Ed is, as far as Stede knows, dead. He was hurting so, so deeply that he forced people who care about him to kill him. Stede would do anything for him, but he's too late. The entire world has changed, because Ed is no longer in it.

"You nut," Stede says, "why'd you have to go and get yourself killed?" Affectionate. Stede is in so much pain, you can see it on his face, but it's like he's expecting Ed to respond to the almost-teasing words. It's like he's hoping Ed will just sit right up. "Not all plans are gonna be winners, man," he can imagine Ed responding in the pause. "What did you think I was supposed to do?"

Of course, Ed stays still and quiet and, by all appearances, dead. Stede has to take several fortifying breaths before he can remove the shroud from his face, he actually has to fully look away a few times. And the noise he makes, horrified and somehow almost shocked - gets me right in the chest, every time. It's like he's surprised that, now he and Ed are together again, this could happen. They're with each other; they're supposed to be invincible.

In conclusion: give Rhys Darby an emmy please

[reminem69]

they call me the oyster