#ofmd gif

[run-like-hellfire]

I love these nerds

this was so fucking cute, I love olu's reaction lmao

[ofmd-ann]

Kitty catching fishies 😺 🐟

+ Face scrunchies

[meluli]

[suzat]

{{rage vs fear}}

Finally gaining approval and popularity in a world you always craved being a part of vs. watching the other person enjoying the very thing you're trying to escape

One difference:

[goayda]

So about Fang and Izzy and The Hug...

Well, if there was any doubt about it before, episode 2x01 made it clear: Fang cared about Izzy and was worried about him. Not only that, my favourite part of this scene is the fact that Fang, sweet brave Fang, made a move to comfort Izzy even though at first Izzy rejected it.

It would have been easier to just ignore Izzy's distress (the poor Fang was himself worried, sad and traumatized, nobody would have blamed him) or just retreat after Izzy's 'unhand me' comment, but Fang didn't give up and kept offering him a bit of comfort, the best way he could. And oh, boy, that little angry man needed some comfort, that's for sure.

Izzy needed a hug and Izzy got a hug and when this scene dropped even before the s2 aired I was so happy to see the old fandom tags turned into an actual live-action scene that I almost couldn't believe it.

[gentleranium]

First time I watched Dead Boy Detectives, I thought, someone should really do an OFMD fusion with Lucius and Izzy as Cat King and Edwin, respectively.

Like:

Is this not the same picture

[goodsirs]

Our Flag Means Death 2.06 "Calypso's Birthday"

[djarin]

#he got the Izzy Stamp of Approval™!!!

[bizarrelittlemew]

#he's just a kitten your honor ⌊ for @saltpepperbeard

there's nothing better than reading Jodi Tags™️ on a post, and nothing lovelier than having you as a friend 🥹 love you so much, happy birthday Jodi 💖

[nicostiel]

#The nod of consent is so important to me 😭

[peanutbutterex]

This mirroring of Ed and Stede as queer characters is also not surprising, as there is a long history of queerness being depicted as monsters (just look at Dracula) and queer people seeing themselves in monsters. On my laptop i believe I have an article that goes into this downloaded since I used it for my thesis on Dracula.

But the main thing to keep in mind is that being feared and reviled in the face of society is what links monsters and queer people together. This is especially true for humanoid monsters, as like them, queer people appear to be humans that don’t perform humanity in the way society thinks is the correct way. So in the eyes of society, they are in this liminal space of being human and inhuman. This goes along with what you were saying about the human hybrid Stede is portrayed as in the Gravy Basket.

So not only is Our Flag Means Death an incredibly queer show on the surface, but it builds on traditionally queer themes and motifs in order to make the show richer and more beautiful in its displays of queerness. And I could not love it more.

Chauncy’s character assassination of Stede Bonnet in 109 is brutal. I want to explore the imagery and connotations of monster. Typically, we think of monsters as grotesque, ugly and something to be feared. Monsters are deemed anti-normative by the majority who set the standard for what is considered desirable, normative.

Stede has been ‘monstered’ by everyone his whole life. His father others and bullies Stede for being a gender nonconforming boy; Mary cannot understand Stede’s desperate need to ‘break the monotony’ in their marriage; the Revenge crew can’t initially comprehend this new, life-affirming approach to piracy and consider mutiny. To the likes of Nigel Badminton, Stede has been a ‘monster’ since childhood with his gentle, crying, flower-picking ways. Ed is the first person to see beauty and worth in the monster. When Ed attempts finally to shed the costume of toxic masculinity worn as protective armour for so long, he is accused of being a monster too: ‘This…you’ve become’. This. Unnamable. A whatever. All because Ed isn’t performing masculinity to Izzy’s expected standard. Effeminate behaviour will not be tolerated. Emotion outside of anger is weakness.

But this show loves to confound and it confounds well.

In 203, Ed’s mind subverts the trope of the monster into something transcendental. And by doing so rescues his own self from the Kraken-monster imagery that has imprisoned him, the stone falling from his waist, albatross-like.

Because what is more monster than a human-hybrid. A scaly, underwater-breathing, half-man, half-goldfish. Merstede is a monster. An effeminate one. And a beautiful one! Ed reclaims the word from Chauncy, rehabilitates it, and allows the wonder of Stede Bonnet to blaze across his dying consciousness. This enigmatic man, frequently reviled for being unashamedly himself, turned Ed’s world upside down and inside out. Who challenges Ed’s own perceptions of self again, and again, and again. Whose anti-normative qualities are not grotesque, but rather exquisite. This undefinable, miraculous creature who left Blackbeard completely and utterly undone.

Stede mirrors Ed. I am you and you are me. Let’s be anti-normative together. Let’s redefine the trope.

Here be monsters, both.

[ofmd-ann]

Performing a (brave & sexy) Stede Bonnet maneuver by abandoning my current life and running away to sea to be a pirate sounds like a great idea right now

[ayo-edebiri]

#Literally wlw on mlm violence

[warmhappycat]

Well NOW I will

do you ever rewatch this kiss and end up rewinding it 15 times because you're completely mesmerized by their hands?

[izzy-hands]

#i’m not crying, you’re crying