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[arsenicflame]

It's a time-honoured tradition- every time Sam comes across Izzy (and Ed) in their travels, he asks Izzy to marry him. And every time, Izzy turns him down.

At this point, Sam is asking more for the sake of it than any belief Izzy will ever say yes, a remnant of childhood dedication touched with 30 years of heartbreak and regret- though even now, a small part of him still holds out hope. Sam's promises have only got more extravagant over the years, from a job as his first mate, to a captaincy, a fleet at his command, a whole fucking island if that's what Izzy wants- but he knows it isn't though, not really. If Izzy was ever going to agree to marry him, to leave his life and go with Sam, it wouldn't be for anything Sam could offer him. Izzy never did care for flashy shows of wealth, for a ship or to be captain. The only thing that ever mattered to him was loyalty given, and loyalty shown in return. 

It all comes to a head after Stede left and came back, after Izzy lost a toe, lost his leg. Sam hasn't seen him since before things with Ed started to really slide off the rails, before stress permanently set into the lines of Izzy’s face. So, when he sees a dishevelled man with a hoof for a leg in a no-name port, he doesn't even consider the idea that he might know him. It's only when he turns towards him, and Sam catches a glance at those oh too familiar tattoos, he realises this is Izzy, his Izzy, that stands before him.

Knowing Izzy's discomfort with pity, he doesn't treat him any differently than he would in years gone by, positioning himself in Izzy's line of sight before approaching and sweeping him up into a bone crushing hug. 

“Israel-goddamn-Hands!” he exclaims, as Izzy grumbles back a begrudging “Samuel-fucking-Bellamy”, a tradition almost as old as their friendship itself. Izzy might not hug him back, but he can’t keep the corner of his mouth from twitching, just for a second.

(If Sam holds Izzy a little tighter and a little longer than usual, well. That's his business)

By the time Sam lets go, most of the crew has appeared in the town square, drawn in by the commotion. They may have given Izzy his leg and welcomed him as one of them, but still there’s an underlying tension, with nobody quite ready to set aside everything that happened before the Kraken. Seeing him cosying up to an unknown man sets everyone on edge, unsure whether to come to their first mate’s aid, or to assume that they've been betrayed once again.

When Ed sees that the yelling was Sam, his hand goes tense where it's held in Stede's. He knows the routine, has seen it more times than he can count, but as he watches them part he realises that this is the first time in a long time he's unsure of what Izzy's response will be.

Knowing that something’s different, knowing that Izzy's feeling vulnerable already, Sam doesn't go for the same flashy proposal he’s been giving for years. He doesn't promise Izzy the world, he doesn't cause a scene (or, any more of a scene than he already has, anyway). He looks at the fractured man in front of him, takes his face in his hands, and says the exact same thing to him he said when they were little more than boys. “Israel, I have to ask you. I know what you'll say, but I have to try. Come with me. Marry me and sail away with me. I'll keep you safe”

And Izzy… hesitates. He glances over at Ed, at Stede, and says to Sam “...We’re staying in port for a week. Ask me again then”

That's the moment Sam knows there is something deeply, horribly, wrong. He's not just looking at an Izzy who got seriously injured in a fight and is struggling to cope, this is something so much bigger than that- and that Ed has something to do with it. Izzy wouldn't even be considering leaving if he didn't. Whether it was negligence or something more sinister, Sam doesn't yet know, but he intends to find out.

[judeiscactus]

Tragic Gay Men Tournament

Stay Tuned…

UPDATE: NEW BRACKET INCOMING: EVIL TWINK BRACKET

ROUND 1 RESULTS

Jayvik/Jayce x Viktor (Arcane) vs. Skippy x Hawk/Tim Laughlin x Hawkins Fuller (Fellow Travelers)

Stizzy/Stede Bonnet x Izzy Hands (Our Flag Means Death) vs. Jegulus/James Potter x Regulus Black (Harry Potter/Marauders)

Curtwen/Agent Curt Mega x Agent Owen Carvour (Spies are Forever) vs. Quierrelmorts/Professor Quierrel x Voldemort (A Very Potter Musical)

Edizzy/Ed “Black Breard” Teach x Izzy Hands (Our Flag Means Death) vs. Ivantill/Ivan x Till (Alien Stage)

Whizzvin/Whizzer Brown x Marvin (Falsettos (2016)) vs. Wolfstar/Remus Lupin x Sirius Black (Harry Potter/Marauders)

Poolverine/Wolverine x Deadpool/ Wade Wilson x Logan Howlett (X-Men) vs. Payneland/Edwin Payne x Charles Rowland (Dead Boy Detectives (2024))

First Prince/Alex Claremont Diaz x Prince Henry (Red White & Royal Blue (2023)) vs. Black Bonnet/Ed “Black Beard” Teach x Stede Bonnet (Our Flag Means Death)

Ineffable Husbands/Aziracrow/Aziraphale x Anthony J. Crowley (Good Omens) vs. Hannigram/Hannibal Lecter x Will Graham (Hannibal (2013))

ROUND 2

Jayvik/Jayce x Viktor (Arcane) vs. Jegulus/James Potter x Regulus Black (Harry Potter/Marauders)

Curtwen/Agent Curt Mega x Owen Carvour (Spies are Forever) vs. IvanTill/Ivan x Till (Alien Stage)

Wolfstar/Remus Lupin x Sirius Black (Harry Potter/Marauders) vs. Payneland/Edwin Payne x Charles Rowland (Dead Boy Detectives)

Black Bonnet/Ed “Black Beard” Teach x Stede Bonnet (Our Flag Means Death) vs. Hannigram/Hannibal Lecter x Will Graham (Hannibal (2013))

ROUND 3

Jayvik/Jayce x Viktor (Arcane) vs. IvanTill/Ivan x Till (Alien Stage)

Payneland/Edwin Payne x Charles Rowland (Dead Boy Detectives) vs. Hannigram/Hannibal Lecter x Will Graham (Hannibal (2013))

[immabitqueer]

Someone said the opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Something about that and Stede just walking away when Izzy says "Give me your worst, Bonnet." And Izzy seeming so hurt. (Besides, of course, his mixed feelings about Edward)

Then somehow we get THIS

Paired with THIS

Ed and Izzy finally acknowledging there past and feelings towards each other.

"I have love for you"/"I loved you as best as I could"

Immanent blackbonnet/gentlebeard reunion and getting back together.

Sharing the delusions until your just as unwell as I am <3333

[courtjestermerlin]

"Blackbeard, it was us. You and Me."

[heytheredeann]

let dead dogs lie - silas denver melvin (insp.)

[justsalpals]

Any time I picture Ed giving Izzy his little X tattoo it's just

[black-stede]

after stede recovers from the heartbreak and they regroup and he sees that somehow there is peace, happiness between jim, archie, olu and zheng yi, that somehow something that should have been by society’s standards convoluted and messy and painful turned out quite lovely actually, he thinks

he thinks of ed. it’s always been ed, since the day they laid eyes on each other as stede laid bleeding out on the deck of his ship. it was ed when they crashed the party and watching the ship go up in flames and saying he wore fine things well and as he was stabbed through his stomach after not going to doggy heaven and through acts of grace. through the shaving of beards and miscommunications and backslides to old habits

it was ed when he threw love notes in bottles into the salty waves and when two women were poisoning each other and the house went up in flames and buttons turned into a fucking bird. as they celebrated calypso’s birthday and they were being tortured and when stede killed the man who hurt his crew and insulted ed. when he slammed him into the wall and ed nodded and they slept together under the fireworks. even when he left, it was still ed

except now there’s a man with a horse leg who he kind of loathed for months but now is something like a friend, a confidant even? who has trained greats and might even have something to teach stede. who slaps his ass to get him to rope swing and tells him like it is and guides him to be the captain he can be. who commiserates with him about falling in love with the same broken man. who sings as he and ed make love and congratulates them in the morning. who is there after ed leaves. who stays by him, watches over him when no one else does.

and the thing is, stede had never anticipated ed. even on his whim of piracy there was never anything beyond that. except then there was ed and maybe he is capable of love after all. and then there’s this annoying man that he doesn’t hate anymore and then ed leaves him and he is lost.

there is a way out, he knows. this can’t be the end for him and ed he is sure. except izzy is the only one at his side when he challenges zheng yi and he is grounding him when the attacks happen and suddenly if ed is his ship, izzy is his anchor. or something like that in this weird analogy he thinks up.

and then he sees archie’s arm around jim who is leaning on olu who is holding zheng yi’s hand gently and they are all covered in soot and blood and panting with exhaustion but together. he doesn’t know exactly how it will work, but apparently they do because they all seem content, happy to simple be in the others’ presences

and he thinks

and he thinks

and he lets himself hope

…

maybe this isn’t the end

maybe it’s the beginning

[crustose]

Back in the Hornigold days, Jack made up "the rigging game". The gist is that you'd get blackout drunk and race a partner up the rigging on opposite sides of the netting. Anything goes, you can try and throw the other person off or slow them down but pushing them/shaking the rigging etc. (Sidenote: Sam Does Not approve of this game). Usually Izzy wins--he's small and fast, and doesn't get as fucked up beforehand as Ed and Jack.

One day, they're all drunker than usual on good liquor they got in a raid, izzy included, and Jack suggests the rigging game.

Everyone goes a couple times before it's Ed and Izzy up together. They get about halfway up the ropes and are pretty evenly matched--izzy halfheartedly tries to push Ed, but doesn't really mean it. His usual strategy is to just book it up instead of fighting dirty and wrestling between the ropes.

In retaliation, Ed takes him by the cravat and pulls him closer, kissing him through the gaps in the rigging. It's a soft kiss, and izzy is too shocked to even kiss back. Instead, he falls off and breaks his wrist pretty badly. Ed feels AWFUL about it, and tries to apologize but izzy pretends to have been so drunk that he didn't remember how he fell. He thinks Ed was just messing with him, trying to get an advantage in the game. They don't really ever really talk about it.

Present era, the rigging game comes up in conversation--maybe stede asks about the scar on Izzy's wrist or something, and they explain. There had already been some edizzy/steddyhands vibes at this point, but nothing overt has happened. Later on, izzy asks ed if he "meant it" that time when he fell.

Ed says he did. And that he still does. And izzy finally kisses him.

[starofhisheart]

Ok but edizzy

[sinfulsunni]

*bats eyelashes* hiiiii hello I’ve never done anything like this before but. send me an emoji combo (ex: 👀+ 💦) and I’ll try to write a little nsfw Izzy drabble for you! also feel free to specify a pairing if you want, or leave it up to me if you don’t care :)

emoji prompts under the cut:

🪢 bondage

🥾boot worship/stepping

😳 humiliation

🔪 masochism

🌸 sex pollen/aphrodesiacs

‼️ overstim

👔 daddy kink

🐶 collar/leash

🕯️wax play

💖 praise kink

💦 coming in pants

🫁 choking

🦵leg humping/thigh riding

⏳ age gap

🎀 lingerie

👀 public/semi-public sex

🍆 sex toys

[happyandticklish]

ok writing out my thoughts is a lot harder than i expected because there’s just so little scenarios that izzy would Let himself be vulnerable in.

but say there’s been a raid, and izzy’s been injured. nothing huge, but his hand’s a little messed up. he knows he should go to roach for anything like that but that would mean admitting to a weakness, no matter how small, which he just won’t do. he won’t do that! so he makes a bandage out of spare rags and continues with his duties fine enough, but then stupid fucking stede bonnet comes along always caring about people and fussing over something minor like that, and izzy would never willingly accept help from him of all people but apparently everyone is against him today and ed’s ordering him to let stede at least take a look and he can’t just. refuse. he’s a dick but an order is an order and he’s going to follow it. so he agrees (with tons of complaining and rolled eyes), and finds himself hours later in the captains shared cabin, sat on a chair that’s far too soft with a cup of tea on the table that’s far too hot, stede’s on some rant about how “silly” he is for risking an infection for his reputation, and izzy considers leaving, slamming the door in his face and going to bed because 1) they hate each other and 2) he’s FINE. but ed is sat opposite to them, because he knows izzy and stede well enough that there’s no way in hell he’ll leave them alone together or they’ll be duelling in less than 20 seconds, and izzy knows ed well enough to know that upsetting his little boyfriend is a one way ticket back to square one. so he stays, uncharacteristically quiet save for a few complaints here and there. he’s thankful that stede also doesn’t want him there any longer than he has to, because it goes by quite quickly. but somewhere between cleaning and redressing his hand, stede’s being too gentle. he hisses and yanks his hand back, and bonnet looks up at him almost sympathetically, muttering something about knowing it hurts but he needs to get it over and done with, so izzy places it back onto his lap and turns away, biting his gloved knuckle to stop himself making anymore embarrassing noises. and apparently he can’t have any peace today, because ed’s clearly caught on, and the stupid smirk he’s wearing hasn’t been seen since they were younger, before blackbeard and first mate hands, when it was all muffled giggles and late night tickle fights, and for some odd reason his chest aches a little, but he has no time to think about it because it really tickles, and stede’s gotta be stupider than he looks because there’s no way he’s not realised between all the scuffed boots and huffs and slightly red face, but he seems … oblivious? and izzy’s never been so happy for something to finally be over.

“come back tomorrow mate, yeah? just to make sure, can’t risk you being out of duty.” ed says innocently enough, but the shiteating grin he has makes him more nervous than he cares to admit, so he nods and leaves without even a thank you. and when he’s finally out of earshot, the first thing stede says once he stands is “ticklish?”, and ed cackles.

Dude

DUDE

This is such an incredible concept you can't just casually drop this in my inbox!!!

This flustered me a tad more than I'm willing to admit lol. Because as stated before, Izzy absolutely has ticklish hands, and I can completely see this scenario happening. And the bit about Izzy reminiscing on past tickle fights I am going to cry you cannot just bring shit like that up

And Stede's innocent little, "Ticklish?" at the end is so cute too. Because you know Stede would never use it against him but Ed for sure will and absolutely rats out the fact that Izzy doesn't mind it later on. Not that Stede isn't still hesitant for fear of Izzy killing him asjgjhjki

Thank you so, SO much for this, this is actually my new favorite thing in the world <3

[judeiscactus]

Tragic Gay Men Tournament Round 1 Results

RESULTS

Jayvik/Jayce x Viktor (Arcane) vs. Skippy x Hawk/Tim Laughlin x Hawkins Fuller (Fellow Travelers)

Stizzy/Stede Bonnet x Izzy Hands (Our Flag Means Death) vs. Jegulus/James Potter x Regulus Black (Harry Potter/Marauders)

Curtwen/Agent Curt Mega x Agent Owen Carvour (Spies are Forever) vs. Quierrelmorts/Professor Quierrel x Voldemort (A Very Potter Musical)

Edizzy/Ed "Black Breard" Teach x Izzy Hands (Our Flag Means Death )vs. Ivantill/Ivan x Till(Alien Stage)

Whizzvin/Whizzer Brown x Marvin (Falsettos (2016))vs. Wolfstar/Remus Lupin x Sirius Black (Harry Potter/Marauders)

Poolverine/Wolverine x Deadpool/ Wade Wilson x Logan Howlett (X-Men) vs. Payneland/Edwin Payne x Charles Rowland (Dead Boy Detectives (2024)).

First Prince/Alex Claremont Diaz × Prince Henry (Red White & Royal Blue (2023)) vs. Black Bonnet/ Ed "Black Beard" Teach x Stede Bonnet (Our Flag.Means Death)

Ineffable Husbands/Aziracrow/Aziraphale x Anthony J. Crowley (Good Omens) vs. Hannigram/Hannibal Lecter x Will Graham (Hannibal (2013))

ROUND 2

Jayvik/Jayce x Viktor (Arcane) vs. Jegulus/James Potter x Regulus Black (Harry Potter/Marauders)

Curtwen/Agent Curt Mega x Owen Carvour (Spies are Forever) vs. IvanTill/Ivan x Till (Alien Stage)

Wolfstar/Remus Lupin x Sirius Black (Harry Potter/Marauders) vs. Payneland/Edwin Payne x Charles Rowland (Dead Boy Detectives)

Black Bonnet/Ed “Black Beard” Teach x Stede Bonnet (Our Flag Means Death) vs. Hannigram/Hannibal Lecter x Will Graham (Hannibal (2013))

[arsenicflame]

teacher student edizzy au but theyre literally already married, its just Izzy as a history teacher or something and Ed as a forever student (they can afford this because of a youth of crime & family discounts) studying something different every few years. he never pursues something all the way to PHD, just has a ton of different degrees. but every time they have some freak psychosexual teacher/student roleplay about it. like, Ed's studying for a chemistry degree, why is he taking a history class? (to fuck the professor)

[jellybeanium124]

I'm losing my mcfucking mind ed and jack have near matching tattoos. yet another example of how calicobeard has everything certain edizzy people want edizzy to have. I love canon edizzy. if you follow me you know that I think their dynamic is juicy as fuck. the toxicity. the inability to communicate. the rancid horrible vibes. the way they make each other worse. but calicobeard? the have matching fucking tattoos. that's the young love lost. that's the old friend betrayal. that's the you and me forever until they drift apart. AUGH ohmygod more people should be into calicobeard.

[sunshineonashelf]

"oh but it was satisfying! izzy went on a healing journey and got to die happy!"

again i'm very sorry for being feral about an old man named izzy hands. but i am NOT SATISFIED

(1) the whole point of izzy's healing journey is that he learns to be okay with being himself and being queer and being a part of a community that genuinely loves him. and learning who he is outside of who he has to be in a toxic relationship. he doesn't have to bear ed's burdens anymore and he SLOWLY learns that's okay and that he doesn't have to stay that same person.

only to die when he FINALLY internalizes all of it!! the whole point of his healing was that he learned to change and be loved for who he is!! and then he died after only getting to experience it for maybe 20 minutes!! i don't care that him sailing off into the sunset with the rest of them wouldn't have been closure, because it would have been a much better ending to his story.

(2) it is NOT SATISFYING that his LAST WORDS were basically to further ED'S story arc. he literally dies reassuring ed that his found family loves him when the whole point of the story was that the found family loves IZZY. it was a very sweet moment and yes ed deserved to hear it and yes i did cry over him calling them ed's family but damn. he STILL HAD TO CARRY ED'S BURDENS. his death scene was not about him at all.

it's very sweet that ed and stede stayed with him but the whole point of izzy's journey was that he doesn't have to be a piece in ed's story and now he has to be just a piece in ed's story forever??

(and yes i'm a slut for edizzy so i did appreciate what they were doing. yes it was very special. yes i sobbed. but JESUS was it upsetting now that i'm actually thinking about it.)

(3) he could have lived and it would NOT have undermined anything else. he could have been dying and telling ed the same things and it would have been just as meaningful if he had lived. imagine an ending scene where he's almost dying, says all that stuff, then is brought to a bed to recover. it cuts to the exact same wedding scene and stede/ed scene with the house and the crew being happy. then it cuts back to izzy waking up and smiling or something and that's the last shot.

stede and ed would still have their happy ending and it would have been JUST AS meaningful if izzy had lived and gone off on the revenge. if not MORE so because then there's the aspect of izzy finally being happy with himself and being okay with stede and ed's relationship and being okay with distancing himself from them!! when he says dying is what he wants it's literally that same sentiment, just cheap and rushed and UNSATISFYING.

(4) the entire beautiful fucking unicorn metaphor they spent the whole first part of the season developing is totally tossed out the window!! izzy becomes the literal figurehead and protector and guiding light of the revenge in a metaphor that could not have been more obvious. and he is HAPPY ABOUT IT. he GENUINELY SMILES and CRIES about it. it is what he WANTS TO DO and it made NO SENSE that he said he was ready to go. what was the point of all of that if they were just going to kill him and not let him actually do that duty in the way he wanted. he only got to be the figurehead when it meant protecting everyone from ed.

(5) this is maybe a silly argument but it literally would not have been unrealistic if he survived. like a week prior he got shot then got his leg cut off then shot himself in the head, then walked upstairs in the middle of a hurricane hours later. and was fine. by the show's logic he could have been fine from ONE bullet wound to the side. what the hell happened to "indestructible little fucker"!

tl;dr izzy was very special to me for reasons that would constitute another 700 word post and he was done so FUCKING dirty by that literal TEN MINUTE scene that went against everything we've been doing the entire season (AND SHOW AS A WHOLE) so far