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[thedarkcaustic]

You all know me as Jim, si? So keep calling me Jim.

Version 1 Ed / Stede / Izzy / Frenchie / Revenge / Oluwande / Lucius / Roach / Ivan / Fang

[elinordash]

Break the silence Damn the dark, damn the light

[spirker]

Thank you Meow @blakbonnet for the inspiration

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[mirien3]

Objection.

[babykittenteach]

Some nonsense based off one of the posters for Errol Flynn as Captain Blood and today's BTS photos, because like, truly.

[bizarrelittlemew]

Five Birthdays and a Funeral

When Ed and Stede's friend groups merge, they meet at a birthday party, and Stede's life is turned upside-down. As they collide again and again, he not only has to figure out what Ed means to him, but what he means to himself.

Or: The five times Stede wasn't ready, and the one time he was.

6 chapters | ∾58k words | E | modern au | COMPLETE

this has: 5+1 things (kind of) ◈ slow burn but they fuck ◈ right person wrong mental state ◈ pining while fucking ◈ canon-typical (lack of) communication skills ◈ dealing with depression and anxiety ◈ found family ◈ Nova the Cat ◈ ketchup bottles

[erostheartist]

trans rights are human rights.

p.s. commissions and pre-made wallpapers are available on my #kofipage.

[toscrollperchancetomeme]

[krystal280791]

Just a quick Izzy's sketch to try out some new brushes!

[trulynothingatall]

izzy screwed up a line of la vie en rose in the most on-point way

Izzy mispronounced the word "coeur" in the song. (Even though he correctly pronounced the rhyming word, "bonheur." Interesting.) It's probably just because the actor doesn't speak French, but the resulting sentence seemed very on-point for the events of the episode:

Coeur means heart, and it's in the line "il est entré dans mon coeur" which means "he entered my heart" or "he came into my heart."

But Izzy mispronounced that vowel sound and instead pronounced coeur like the word like "corps," which means "body."

(And of course the song is playing over the making out scene.)

I just thought that was a funny little mistake (or was it a mistake?).

[thedarkcaustic]

There is no clean way to enter the heavy machinery of the heart.

Just jagged cutthroat questions. Just the glitter and blood production. //This is the Nonsense of Love // Mindy Nettifee

[skittlestrash]

9:28 ↳ there was something on twitter when s2 was airing, where one chose an episode and a timestamp and we posted screencaps of those times. i decided to go with 9 minutes, 28 seconds, and decided to do ALL the episodes, because 9/28 is my birthday so why not. tada~

[piratecaptainscaptainpirates]

I have made a first pass at a flowchart for my fics! This one only has multi-chapter fics on it (because I don't want to put 100 fics on there, fifteen took long enough). It'll be more legible if you open it in a new tab and zoom in!

Thanks to @blakbonnet for suggesting the flowchart idea, I had a lot of fun making it. Give it a look and find the fic you should read on my ao3 here!

[destinyandcoins]

ALSO the show draws a very clear line between how Ed acts when he's upset and processes his emotions and how Blackbeard acts when he's gone off the deep end.

Ed repeatedly retreats, hides himself somewhere safe, and tries to process his feelings of inadequacy and hurt. we see it when he hides in Stede's bathtub, when he hides in the blanket fort, when he leaves dinner at Mary and Anne's to curl up on the sofa under a blanket. FURTHERMORE we see Ed post-Kraken turn in s1 and in the first episodes of s2 crying alone in the captain's cabin, sighing wistfully over the wedding cake toppers, and just generally being a sad little lump of a man who is hurting

the violence Blackbeard displays is only ever in public, performative. He cuts Izzy's toe off in s1 to announce his return to this aggressive, violent persona that Izzy has demanded of him. He pushes the crew to violently raid ships and gets in Frenchie's face to intimidate him and shoots Izzy and makes Archie and Jim fight each other. and part of that is him pushing them to kill him in a way he can't bring himself to do (he always outsources the big job), but it's very important to remember that the way Ed reacts to being left by Stede and the way Blackbeard is being violent and traumatizing the crew are two different things entirely.

one is a reaction to being left by the man he loves and feeling unlovable, and the other is the direct result of being told he needs to be a monster and an extended performance of being that monster (and way of shielding himself from the threat to himself Izzy presents at the end of s1).

Ed and Stede are both men desperate to be seen and understood for who they are and not what people have told them to be. Stede tries to create a pirating environment that embraces softness and talking about your feelings, but he's still so caught up in running from himself and his problems that he has to go home and fix things with his family before he can truly live that way. Ed is suffering and feels like a monster because he's been told his only worth is being this fearsome pirate persona, and being that thing hurts, so he makes sure everyone else becomes that thing and hurts along with him.

it's not until the final episode that Ed realizes being a fearsome thing doesn't have to hurt, being capable of violence doesn't mean you are a monster, sometimes it's a thing you are (a thing you do) to protect the ones you love. you're not a dick, life's a dick; you're not your father just because you're capable of violence, you're a man who has something worth fighting for

[goayda]

Those your tags, @ izzymarksthespot:

This my pic:

Izzy already putting on his clothes, ready to leave right after and Stede sitting on the bed staring at him.

"Are you-are you leaving already, Izzy?"

(tell me Izzy doesn't drop his shirt immediately and goes back to bed with a sigh and I won't believe you)

[saltpepperbeard]

ed really swam all the way back from the dinghy with weapons, leather, and hair weighing him down huh

ed really swam away from an escape and jumped into the hands of the british huh

ed really swam without a second of hesitation and did all of that just to be at stede’s side again huh