Can I just say how fucking confused I am at how I went from ‘I love gentlebeard/blackbonnet, I think Izzy needs to die, and I’m glad Jack got cannonballed to death’ to ‘ok but steddyhands tho, I think its funny if Jack was sweet on Izzy, and Izzy probably feels bad about getting Jack killed’ to ‘Jack is alive and coming back to help Izzy and if we don’t get cjizzy endgame I’m killing everyone in this fandom and then myself. I GUESS Stede and Ed can be there too tho. If they play nice.’
Like don’t get me wrong, I’m having a blast but like. How did I get here? Why am I always confused at the directions I wind up taking in this fandom?
i will never shut up about how one of the most brilliant and beautiful lines in all of fiction is 'you are a monster. a plauge. you defile beautiful things.' and how the entirety of OFMD is a response and rebuttle to that. queer people do not defile beautiful things. we only want them, and we deserve them. we are beautiful things. we can wear fine things well.
Screeching my way back onto tumblr to yell about the fact that Ed is clearly devastated by Izzy's death but he chooses queer joy and peace with the man he loves over running off to sea for vengeance and that's an im-fucking-portant sign of his healing and recovery.
When Zheng offers him revenge, he sort of half-heartedly agrees with 'yeah I suppose I wanna kill that guy', and that half-heartedness comes from the fact that he's not feeling it. He's feeling SAD, he's feeling GRIEF, but rather than quashing them under the boot of anger and violence, he's letting himself sit in those emotions and FEEL them, properly.
ED IS SAD AND HE'S SITTING WITH HIS SADNESS AND ALLOWING HIMSELF TO BE SAD AND THEN HE CHOOSES LOVE AND AN ATTEMPT AT SOME SORT OF PEACE RATHER THAN BLOODSHED AND VENGEANCE I DON'T THINK YOU UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS.
If I had a nickel for every gay couple that had one person leave causing the other to be emotionally destroyed I would have- no, y’know what? I’m too fucking devastated over this why does it keep happening why can’t they just communicate???
who does it quite like izzy hands.... swanning into the room The Morning After, looking his ex-lover (who he's still got a weird, mutual, 'In Lesbians' sorta situationship with) up and down, saying "Damn you got railed good, congrats" and leaving again
I think David Jenkins should showrun a new show in a modern setting with no connection to anything else that was ever created before about an inn run by two gay lovers called.... Steve! and...uhm...let's say Ed, short for Edmund, yeah that works, and they keep in touch with their coworkers from their former job and get into all sorts of shenanigans at the inn and the season eventually ends with them getting married. Also just coincidentally they are played by Taika Waititi and Rhys Darby, pure coincidence (I mean New Zealand has like 5 actors I think, so pure coincidink). Like I said, completely new idea no connection to anything whatsoever.