#ofmd nathaniel buttons

[athenashaw]

Ok so hear me out (sorry if this has been done :) )

Buttons takes Olivia to Mary's Widows Support Group

Olivia is obviously distraught about Karl, and Buttons has noticed. So he takes her to see the group and acts as translator.

He tells the story. The widows are confused but eventually just accept it. Olivia is a regular and valued member. The Widows appreciate her wit. She goes to all of their outings. Buttons always accompanies her to translate. The Widows help him with his grief over Karl.

There's even comic potential with Buttons not mentioning he knows Stede, and thinking Mary is referring to some other Stede if she ever mentions him. Buttons would 100% describe his job as High Moon Priest and Husband of the Sea or something like that. They're just peacefully co-existing. It takes a full year to realise they're talking about the same guy. After that they just shit-talk him (affectionately).

[mwagneto]

JUST NOTICED BUTTONS IS ON A LEASH LMAO

[soapbubbles511]

WHY IS ED WEARING BUTTONS' SHIRT?!!??! WHAT IS HAPPENING!!??!

[edscuntyeyeshadow]

buttons and ed

[tallowfallow]

Broke: Izzy died and is not coming back

Woke: Izzy will be resurrected through sea magic

Bespoke: Izzy reincarnates as a seagull and he and Seagull-Buttons spend the rest of their bird lives terrorizing Stede

[pinimi]

something something about buttons and izzy both being first mates and their existence somehow reinforcing both stede and eds roles as pirate captains, something about how that means that they both needed to go for ed and stede to truly leave piracy behind, something about that above all a first mate should always be loyal to their captain and that even though they have both left this world, izzy and buttons are still there with their captains at the end of it all

[bizarrelittlemew]

AND CHEERS TO THAT 🥂

[mexibrenes]

Pirate ship? More like love boat! . . . The funny pirate show gave me lots of feelings, HBO give us season 3 pls.

[stitchologist]

An encouraging love letter all the fanfic writers and artists-

Don't stop.

I don't care if Canon has gone off the rails or given us lore that directly contradicts your ideas. I want to read it. I want to see it. I want to know where you'd take these characters. I want to know what inspired you to create in the first place and I want to go on that journey with you. I want you to finish.

I want you to make it better. I want you to make it worse. Make it silly and heartbreaking and amazing. Make it everyday life and what ifs and 5&1s.

I'll be there with kudos and likes and ❤️❤️❤️ comments since this is the most articulate I've been in months.

Keep going. You loved an idea so much you've spent who knows how many hours writing and editing and drawing and posting.

I see you. Don't stop.

❤️❤️❤️

[magniloquent-raven]

that second batch of episodes tho 👌👌

✨here be memes✨

[poison-into-positivity]

OH FUCK OFF someone on tiktok just pointed out that the final shot of Bird Buttons on Izzy’s grave is both of their first mates. Ed and Stede have forgone their captain identities but their first mates are still looking after them. i need a fucking second

[our-flag-means-love]

i just need to talk some more about one of my favorite sequences of events in the entire season.

stede says he'll be right back and runs off into the woods, directly paralleling him leaving ed alone at the dock in s1e9.

buttons says "to love the sea as she must be loved requires change."

ed says "people don't change, buttons. not into birds or otherwise."

buttons seemingly successfully transforms into a bird and flies off.

within seconds, stede returns, tells ed he couldn't find his way back to the ship, and asks ed to come with him, in direct contrast to s1e9.

it's such a simple sequence, but such a perfect one. people do change. both into birds and otherwise.

[jeffa--cakes]

idek

[girlbossblackbeard]

i genuinely love how buttons wastes NO time in assuming his first mate duties again and directing frenchie and roach to start preparing the ship for sailing. it's just a nice reminder that stede chose him as his first mate for a reason beyond his propensity to attract a motley crew of unique characters - buttons is a genuinely highly skilled, highly competent, and extremely dedicated and hard working sea farer. who may or may not actually be a sea witch that has taken on the form of a humble man

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

remember in e6 when they were brainstorming fuckery ideas and buttons said “i yearn to make sweet love to the sea” and stede responded with “woah! way too personal!”

anyway who’s excited to see Stede Hypocrite Bonnet overshare about every single romantic and sexual thought he has about his beloved edward in s2

[casmick-consequences]

not enough people talk about this scene lmao