#mary read x anne bonny

[natowe]

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[burnt-scone]

OFMD s2e4 Spoilers

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I love that Anne Bonny & Mary Read were so toxic that it fixed Ed and Stede.

They literally went, "Oh, we're better than that..."

And Nathaniel Buttons became a seagull.

[lesbian-in-leather]

Based on this post and this tweet

[edscuntyeyeshadow]

it really was such a high. knew we were about to win so bad

[queerly-autistic]

One of my favourite things about S2 was that we got to see so much in terms of Ed's relationships with women, and it just made me love him even more (if that's humanly possible). We didn't see him interact with many women at all in S1 (I think it was only the posh ladies at the fancy party which was...yeah, not a good experience), so S2 actually giving us a glimpse into his friendships with all these (very different) kickass women was so, so special.

I love that, as messy and fucked up as they all are, and even with the 'well we're pirates, we're not normal and we will fuck with each other' threat that hangs over everything, Ed's relationship with Mary and Anne is still so affectionate, and they both thrown their arms around him the moment they see him. Even though Ed is incredibly tactile, I don't think we've actually ever seen him be hugged like this, and it's just so lovely to watch him be embraced and clearly feel very safe being embraced by these women (and I can't with the way he clings to them, as well). I also love that this is a wlw/mlm friendship; yeah it falls apart later and turns into delicious gay-on-gay violence (and I wouldn't alter a note of it), but I love seeing this sort of affection between queer women and queer men, there's not nearly enough of it.

Don't even get me started on the BFF handshake he has with Anne - I want all the history there, give me six spin-off films about their adventures please.

And then we finally get a glimpse of his relationship with Jackie, which is similarly just lovely, but in a different way? You get the sense that they could sit there for hours, talking shit about the world, all whilst casually ripping the shit out of each other (but affectionately). You also know full well these two have talked extensively about men and know pretty much everything about each other's sex lives - we didn't see it, but I'm absolutely certain that Ed went into full gushing details about sleeping with Stede, just like Jackie did when she talked about The Swede fucking like a jackhammer (historical accuracy ftw).

And, again, whilst they're still pirates, and it's messy, the entire thing feels incredibly...safe, particularly from Ed's perspective? He feels more comfortable around Jackie than he is around most other characters (apart from Stede), just like he was with Anne and Mary.

And then, just to hammer the point home even further that Ed has, generally, fantastic relationships with women, and connects with them, and feels relaxed and safe with them, you have Ed and Zheng becoming instant BFFs literally minutes after meeting each other. Ed goes 'ooh, very cool woman kicking ass and killing people, she shall be my best friend, immediately', and Zheng is automatically incredibly relaxed and open with him, too (suggesting she feels as safe and comfortable with him as he does with her).

All I want in life is to see Ed and Zheng get silly-drunk with each other (and this is why we urgently need a S3).

And none of Ed's relationships with these women are a fetishistic 'I love women because they're fabulous' thing, or an overly patronising paternalistic 'I love the women and I must protect them' thing - all the relationships he has with women are very equal, very comfortable, fully believable, just fantastic friendships to watch play out. I feel like, given everything we see on screen, Ed generally feels a lot more comfortable and safe and open with the women he knows than the men he knows (Stede is the only other person he is this physically affectionate and comfortable with). Which is probably very understandable? Yes, the women he's friends with are all violent pirates too (that's part of the joy of it - none of them are lovely demure morally pure women, they're all violent pirates), but Ed has a lot of experience with specifically overtly abusive men - right back to watching his dad abuse his mum. And that's a distinction that matters: the show treats the violence of normal piracy and the violence of abuse very, very differently. Ed is not used to being treated softly or affectionately by men, as we saw in his shocked reaction to Stede holding his hand. I don't think it's any wonder that he gravitates more towards friendships with women (or that the men he feels the most open and safe with, such as Stede, Fang, even Frenchie, are very pointedly the opposite of the abusive men he has experience with). I just love love love that being friends with women is such a core part of Ed's character, and that we got to see all of these fantastic relationships in the show.

[appleteeth]

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[maeofthedead]

[goodoldfashionedengineer]

[weepynymph]

I was thinking about the inconsistency between Ed say he doesn’t have any friends in season 1, compared with running into two of his friends in season 2: Mary and Anne.

And yeah, the show itself is acknowledging that Ed does have friends:

‘A lot of your friends are troubled aren’t they?’

‘Well yeah they’re all pirates so.’

But I don’t think this is an actual inconsistency in the writing.

I think what Ed meant that night, curled up in the bath and afraid, when he said ‘I’m not a good person Stede. That’s why I don’t have any friends.’ Was not literally ‘I have no friends’ but more in the vein of how calico jack describes pirate friendships:

‘What kinda pirate has a friend? We’re all just in various stages of fucking each other over.’

And I think Mary and Anne (as much as I love them) fit pretty squarely into that category with the game they play of Ed and Stede and the way they laugh at their vulnerability and project their own relationship troubles onto them.

Ed has friends but not in the sense of people he can rely on, people he can be truly vulnerable with, people he can trust.

I think that’s partly why Stede leaving him triggered him so badly. Stede was the first person to say ‘I’m your friend.’ and really mean it. The first person with whom he felt he had the kind of friendship, the kind of trust he’d been craving: ‘I trusted you. I trusted us.’

[dizzy-izzy-in-a-tizzy]

ofmd s1: fuck conformity, fuck queer respectability, be who you are, repression is killing you

ofmd s2: but also maybe let's cut all the poly couples (garlic soup; fang) and have the queer-coded kinksters get murdered (izzy hands, ned lowe [whose kink was a core part in his villainy, and had zero positive contrast]) unless they're femme-presenting and coded as insane lesbians despite being historically bisexual because that's hot (anne bonny, mary read) and keep in mind we're cutting poly rep there too (calico jack)

[libertyeveningsun]

I only make textposts for Willow why am I suddenly making textposts for OFMD?

[m-o-o-n-f-i-r-e]

my favorite type of ship is 100% the ones where they have unending love and devotion and trust for each other. would do anything for the other. would do whatever the other said without question because they know that whatever it is, their partner knows what they are doing and they would trust them with their life. they could move mountains with their love. they would kill for their love. they would do anything for their love. everyone in the room can see that they are connected on the deepest level and will never be separated. nothing can break them apart. they are always on the same level, they know every thought that goes through their lovers head. when they are in a room together they control everything that happens. when they are apart they would tear up the earth to find each other. they would kill god for their love and give gods throne to their love. that kind of love is the best shit

[andithil]

Yeah, flick it. (ooh) How's that? (ow, ooh) How's that? (*moans*) Six inches of silver (arghh) in your scapula. (uhn~) Ooh, it's inside, lovely and deep that is... ... .. .

[edscuntyeyeshadow]

one of the most important things about ofmd to me personally is just the age of the queer characters represented. seeing older/middle-aged queer people on my screen after years of the queer community being portrayed as mostly young people makes me feel a lot of things. I hope the creators know how important this is to so many people ❤️

[toastywindow]

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