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[gentlebeardsbarngrill]

04/16/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; Samba Schutte; Outtakes; Weekly Calendar; Fiber Arts Auction; Some Nonsense in Bristol; Glad Ranker; Fan Spotlight: Never Left Podcast; Cast Cards; Our Drag Means Slay, Our Flag Means Fanfiction Minisode; Our Flag Makes a Difference Fundraiser; Schadenfreude; Love Notes; Daily Darby/Tonight's Taika.

= Samba Schutte =

The big sighting today was Samba and his Outtakes BTS post!

== New Weekly Event Calendar ==

New event calendar is up! Check out the new Fiber Arts Brigade info below!

= SOFMD's Fiber Arts Brigade =

Some cool stuff is going on in SOFMD's Fiber Arts Brigade! There's an auction to benefit Sage, a US organization that provides amazing support and advocacy for queer elders! The Auction will be held June 14th . You don't need to be a member to donate items to the auction! Message @saveofmdcrewmates if you'd like to join in! sageusa.org

Jeff Art by @snejpowa

== **Big Sigh** in Bristol ==

I don't even know what to label this section. I'm just flabberghasted. The good news is they are not a member of the SOFMD team since there was a rumor going around that SOFMD was somehow involved. Link to the Bristol Post and SaveOFMD's Statement Below:

== Uproar Update! ==

Digital release moved up to April 23!

== Calls to Action ==

== GLAAD ==

Last day to vote for GLAAD!

Vote Here

Img Src: @AdoptOurCrew Twitter

== Ranker ==

Still looking to help OFMD stay up on Ranker? This is their main page and yo can choose from lots of different rankings going on and vote up OFMD and down other shows you think should be lowered.

== Fan Spotlight ==

== Never Left ==

Never Left Podcast has Hugo Pierre Martin on the show this week! Give them a listen on your choice of podcast platforms by visiting their Linktr.ee

Artwork was created by Amy Gleason, you can see more of her art @/AmysBirdHouse on IG.

= Cast Cards =

Our dear crewmate @melvisik has spotlighted one of the fisherman from the pilot episode that Stede pillaged the plant from! Ted Heyck!

== Our Drag Means Slay ==

For those of you not in the Chicago area, you can now sign up to see Our Drag Means Slay on livestream! Tickets are $5 for the Apr 27, 2024 7:00 PM show! All proceeds go to charity!

Ticket Link

Our Drag Means Slay Twitter

= Our Flag Means Fanfiction =

Our friends over at Our Flag Means Fanfiction have put out a minisode this week:

Minisode: Izzy Hands Ring Lore Fics Check it out on Spotify!

== Our Flag Makes A Difference ==

Great news! The eSIMS and Sanitary Products for Gaza fundraiser has finally reached it's goal! Thank you so everyone who shared links or donated, it makes a serious different in folks lives! For more info: Check out the campaign

== Schadenfreude ==

Thanks @seven_sugars on Twitter for spotting this 30% loss YTD!

== Love notes ==

Today was a tough one lovelies. I really want to thank all of you who reached out when I was struggling, it meant a lot to me. I know some of you said we didn't know each other-- but I just wanna throw out there that you're part of this crew, and even if we haven't talked or interacted much, your love means the world to me and everyone else you send it to. Every single one of you who's willing to reach out-- to a friend/crewmate who has asked, or hasn't asked and just looks like they need it, or you're just spreading a bit of joy-- you make this world such a better place. You take sadness and you turn it into solace and comfort. You share a little piece of yourself to make someone else's missing pieces start to be whole again.

I just want you to know how powerful that kindness is. It can mean the absolute world to someone when they are truly down, to know they are seen and cared about, even by the briefest of acquaintance. Seriously, thank you. You are a glimmer of sunshine on hard days and the impact you make is immense. Tonight, I just want to say thank you so so much for your kindness. Love you crew, I hope you're well.

== Daily Darby / Tonight's Taika ==

Tonight's theme is Freemanji, I don't know why, just felt like a Freemanji night. Look at Rhys in his little mustache and hat, and Taika in his goofy ass coat <3 Gifs courtesy of @neonpigeons and @ihadaweirdname

[cuddlytogas]

there was some Twitter madness recently where someone left a comment on someone's art to the effect of, "Ed shouldn't wear a dress, he's a man!" which I do disagree with on principle, but unfortunately, it brought out one of my least favourite trends in the fandom

so, naturally, I had to write a twitter essay about it. and I already largely argued this in a post here, but the thread is clearer and better structured, so I thought I'd cross-post for those not on the Hellsite (derogatory). edited for formatting/structure's sake, since I no longer have to keep to tweet lengths, and incorporating a couple of points other people brought up in the replies

so

I want to point out that the wedding cake toppers in OFMD s2 aren't evidence that Ed wants to wear dresses. Gender is fake, men can wear skirts, play with these dolls how you like, but it's not canon, and that scene especially Doesn't Mean That.

People cite it often: 'He put himself in a dress by painting the bride as himself! It's what he wants!' But that fundamentally misunderstands the scene, and the series' framing of weddings as a whole. I'd argue that Ed paints the figure not from desire, but from self-hatred; it's not what he wants, but what he thinks he should, and has failed to, be.

(Yes, I am slightly biased by my rampant anti-marriage opinions, but bear with me here, because it is relevant to the interpretation of the scene, and season two as a whole.)

The show is not subtle. It keeps telling us that the institution of marriage is a prison that suffocates everyone involved. Ed's parents' cycle of abuse is passed to their son in both the violence he witnesses then enacts on his father, and the self-repression his mother teaches, despite her good intentions ("It's not up to us, is it? It's up to God. ... We're just not those kind of people. We never will be."). Stede and Mary are both oppressed by their arranged marriage, with 1x04 blunty titled Discomfort in a Married State. The Barbados widows revel in their freedom ("We're alive. They're dead. Now is your time").

But even without this context, the particular wedding crashed in 2x01 is COMICALLY evil. The scene is introduced with this speech from the priest:

"The natural condition of humanity is base and vile. It is the obligation of people of standing ... to elevate the common human rabble through the sacred transaction of matrimony."

It's upper class, all-white, and religiously sanctioned. "Vile natural conditions" include queerness, sexual freedom, and family structures outside the cisheteropatriarchal capitalist unit. "The obligation of people of standing" invokes ideas like the white man's burden, innate class hierarchy, religious missions, and conversion therapy. Matrimony is presented as both "sacred" (endorsed by the ruling religious body), and a "transaction" (business performed to transfer property and people-as-property, regardless of their desires), a tool of the oppressive society that pirates escape and destroy. That is where the figurines come from.

When Ed, in a drunk, depressive spiral, paints himself onto the bride, he's not yearning for a pretty dress. He's sort of yearning for a wedding, but that's not framed as positive. What he's doing is projecting himself into an 'ideal' image of marriage because he believes that: a) that's what Stede (and everyone) wants; b) he can never live up to that ideal because he's unlovable and broken (brown, queer, lower-class, violent, abused, etc); c) that's why Stede left. He tries to make himself fit into the social ideal by painting himself onto the closest match - long-haired, partner to Stede/groom, but a demure, white woman, a frozen, porcelain miniature - because, if he could just shrink himself down and squeeze into that box, maybe Stede would love him and he'd live happily ever after. But he can't. So he won't.

The fantasy fails: Ed is morose, turns away from the figurines, then tips them into the sea, a lost cause. He knows he won't ever fulfil that bride's role, but he sees that as a failure in himself, not the role. It's not just that "Stede left, so Ed will never have a dream wedding and might as well die." Stede left when Ed was honest and vulnerable, "proving" what his trauma and depression tell him: there's one image of love (of personhood), and he'll never live up to it because he's fundamentally deficient. So he might as well die.

This hit me from my very first viewing. The scene is devastating, because Ed is wrong, and we know it! He doesn't need to change or reduce himself to fit an image and be accepted (as, eg, Izzy demanded). Stede knows and loves him exactly as he is; it's the main thread and theme of season two!

(@/everyonegetcake suggested that Ed's yearning in these scenes includes his broader desire for the vulnerability and safety Stede offered, literalised through unattainable "fine" things like the status of gentleman in s1, or the figurine's blue dress. I'd argue, though, that these scenes don't incorporate this beyond a general knowledge of Ed's character. Ed is always pining for both literal and emotional softness, but the significance of the figurines specifically, to both Ed and the audience, is poisoned by their origin and context: there is no positive fantasy in the bride figure, only Ed's perceived deficiency.

Further, assuming that a desire for vulnerability necessarily corresponds with an explicit desire for femininity, dresses, etc, kind of contradicts the major themes of the show. OFMD asserts that there is nothing wrong with men assuming femininity (through drag, self-care, nurturing, emotional vulnerability, etc), but also that many of these traits are, in fact, genderless, and should be available to men without affecting their perceived or actual masculinity. It thematically invokes the potential for cross-gender expression in Ed's desires, especially through the transgender echoes in his relieved disposal, then comfortable reincorporation, of the Blackbeard leathers/identity. It's a rich, valuable area of analysis and exploration. But it remains a suggestion, not a canon or on-screen trait.)

Importantly, the groom figure doesn't fit Stede, either. Not just in dress: it's stiff and formal, and marriage nearly killed him. He's shabbier now, yes, but also shedding his privilege and property, embracing his queerness, and trying to take responsibility for his community. In a s1 flashback, Stede hesitantly says, "I thought that, when I did marry, it could be for love," but he would never find love in marriage. Not just because he's gay, but because marriage in OFMD is an oppressive, transactional institution that precludes love altogether. All formal marriages in OFMD are loveless.

So, he becomes a pirate, where they reject society altogether and have matelotages instead. Lucius and Pete's "mateys" ceremony is shot and framed not like a wedding, but as an honest, personal bond, willingly conducted in community (in a circle; no presiding authority, procession, or transaction).

That is how Stede and Ed can find love, companionship, and happiness: by rejecting those figurines and their oppressive exchange of property, overseen by a church that enables colonialism and abuse. Ed is loved, and deserves happiness, as he is, no paint or projection required.

ALL OF THIS IS TO SAY: draw Ed in dresses! Write him getting gender euphoria in skirts! Write trans/nb Ed, draw men being feminine! Gender is fake, the show invites exploration, that's what 'transformative works' means! But please, stop citing the cake toppers as evidence it's canon. Stop citing a scene where a depressed Māori man gets drunk and projects himself onto a rich, white, silent bride because he thinks he's innately unlovable and only people like her can find happiness, shortly before deciding to kill himself, as canon evidence it's what he wants.

(Also, please don't come in here with "lmao we're just having fun," I know, I get it. Unfortunately, I'm an academiapilled researchmaxxer, and some of youse need to remember that the word "canon" has meaning. NOW GO HAVE FUN PUTTING THAT MAN IN A PRETTY DRESS!! 💖💖)

[bizarrelittlemew]

you don't understand how much i need these clips in 4k

[mon-ster-chen]

💫 outtakes / ofmd2 🤭😅

Source: Samba Schutte -> IG

[zo1nkss]

so who else literally Can't Wait until we get the beach sscne where Ed is touching Stede's chest so tender (and also his hair)?

[madbiscuitlady]

Shit man, he sure is.

[shades-o-grey]

✨Zaddy✨ would go into Stede's growing list of mistaken Pirate lingo, right next to "doggy heaven"

Zaddy

[queeraspirates]

an outtake of Ed and Stede running toward each other, posted by OFMD writer Simone Nathan

[chocolatepot]

I had a realization the other day. Years ago, people in fandom with me used to say "no fic is ever truly IC because we are not the original writers." And that used to get a bit under my skin because I was a baby and I was like, I've read fic as good as canon, that feels like a real outtake or continuation from canon! This isn't true!

But now I am the middle-aged person, and I am the one who looks at fandom and says: every fic is OOC to some extent because we are not the OFMD writers' room. Okay, this fic is pushing too hard on one character as a woobie so another character can comfort them. This other fic is focusing on the humor and losing the characters' depth. And I just don't care anymore, and it's so awesome. If I like the fic I like it, and if it's not of interest to me I just don't read it. I am free.

[dolphinsapphire28]

Bless you, Samba. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I need these like I need air.

Samba S2 Outtakes 04/16/24

Another outtake for you🏴‍☠️ Trying to keep a straight face around Nat Faxon was impossible☠️ #OurFlagMeansDeath #ofmdseason2 #ofmd #bts

Source: Samba Schutte's IG Reels

[bizarrelittlemew]

i want all the possible ofmd bts in existence but more specifically:

BLOOPERS

timelapse of styling Stede's hair

timelapse of applying Ed's wig and beard (and leather outfit tbh)

outtakes, deleted scenes, the improv that didn't make it

at least an hour with the costume department. i want to know every thought that went into the costumes, every fabric struggle, every piece in Stede's wardrobe (aux and actual)

cast members followed around by a camera and showing off their/each other's trailers mtv crib style

so many commentary tracks. david j, writers, directors, actors

Stede Bonnet interactive dress-up game

set design tour of the Revenge

explain to me every single tiny prop!!

a general documentary (diary style) about filming the show

training for and filming stunts

special effects before/after

just. the actors bored/waiting on set. shenanigans (like that video of Taika dancing in full Ed costume)

footage from Taika's tent-thing on set. just him and Rhys hanging out watching the olympics on mute and coming up with the alcohol-on-set prank

also generally actors discussing and rehearsing their scenes, the thoughts that went into it

Stede Bonnet interactive dress-up game part 2 auxiliary boogaloo

[ferusaurelius]

I'll throw my hat in the ring here, since -- and this is a truth universally acknowledged -- my brain is a bit weird and I didn't find the use of flashbacks jarring or disturbing at all.

And this is maybe my weird brain talking?

But to me, 'old' information is easier and faster to process than 'new' information. Flashbacks fall under the category of old things I have previously seen and are more like a quick gracenote, a tonal reminder, or a quick mental redirect of something I've more or less already digested. They are only critical insofar as they remind me of relevant information or help to guide my brain back into a particular mindset.

Also because I have a weird brain: I know this and I rarely need them. They are courtesies done for other people who do not have an encyclopedic visual memory to draw upon or who perhaps process information in different ways. S2 is already composed of half-hour episodes! This is extraordinarily dense for needing to introduce new characters while at the same time developing old character arcs in very dense, emotionally-relevant ways. And while normally one might have expected to have the time to do callbacks to previously impactful moments (for the characters/for the audience), I believe as a stylistic choice the number of flashbacks was necessary to achieve maximum development and accessibility to the key points of the plot while sticking to the running time ... and also giving us very lovely improvisation 'outtakes' at the end of each episode. I can GUARANTEE you the amount of editing and cutting here was nothing short of miraculous and that they filmed A Lot More Excellent Stuff that got cut due to time constraints -- and the need to still give the cast room to do beautiful work and then just use the best bits there.

And I don't remotely work in television! I'm fairly confident in this assessment just because I caught a (for me) distracting continuity error early on in the season, went ???, and then moved on with my life because I could see why it was necessary and I could understand the reasoning.

I don't follow enough ofmd fandom blogs (and my dash is excellently curated to avoid discourse), but I haven't seen anyone else casually mention said incongruity ... so I'll keep it to myself as well lol.

In summary: my theory is that our team planned an ambitious season, went ham, and had to make tradeoffs -- and I respect the hell out of them for it.

Do you have any thoughts on the constant use of flashbacks in s2? It’s genuinely my only criticism apart from the rushed feeling (Max’s fault ofc). A few well placed ones were great to illustrate PTSD, but they had them in EVERY episode and I cannot fathom why they’d waste what little time they had on so many. They show Lucius get pushed off the ship in 2x02 AND 2x04, Olu and Zheng’s convo in 2x02 is shown again in 2x07, etc. Idk maybe I’m missing something? I hate how much its bugging me:/

anon i owe you an apology because this is SUCH a good question i took a couple days to answer it and my answer got much longer than i would have liked, without reaching a good conclusion. you are absolutely right that the amount of flashbacks is weird, especially considering the time constraints, and you're not the only person to notice; i remember some of the reviews before the season came out mentioning it. and i don't have a good answer. i have a couple hypotheses that explain SOME of them but none of them are all that satisfying.

some of the flashbacks are attempting to cash in on our nostalgia for season 1. like, the little gentlebeard's greatest hits reel that plays in the middle of the mermaid sequence clearly works that way. (and you can tell it's targeted to us fandom weirdos because it ends not on the kiss but on the gay foot touch, a moment a lot of casual viewers probably genuinely never noticed.) this makes perfect sense given the reaction to s1 was as overwhelming as it was; they know they struck gold and they're probably not sure they can top it so they want to remind us. but that doesn't explain all the flashbacks, i don't think anyone felt that way about seeing ed push lucius overboard.

you've got some flashbacks that clearly come from being nervous about how much this show relies on continuity. most half-hour comedies aren't so character driven and don't rely as much on remembering plot beats from last season. and they're in a weird position because they're writing both for us fandom weirdos who have all of s1 committed to memory and for the casual normie audience who watched s1 one time a year and a half ago and haven't thought about it since then. you can tell this was a concern because the s1 recap was more than three minutes long.

so the "wear fine things" reprise in 2x05 works super well for us, who all had an instant pavlovian response, but a lot of the casuals probably do not specifically remember that line, and without remembering the callback it's a little weird. so they address this by putting in that flashback at the start of 2x02 where stede's reminiscing about the scene so that the casuals can recognize the line when it comes back. this doubles as a character beat for stede - it's setting up a throughline for his arc through the season, that he's recontextualized all the stuff he was oblivious to last season and he does actually understand now that ed loves him - but mostly it's about reminding the audience of the line.

but the weird thing about this in some ways is that they don't do it MORE. there's a number of plot beats in s2 that really only make sense as calling back to stuff from s1 that they didn't remind you about. as i mentioned extensively while the season was airing, they never remind you about what izzy did to make ed go kraken - despite the fact that izzy's arc culminates in apologizing for that exact thing! the whole arc would be strengthened by reminding you about that at the beginning! and we could speculate about reasons for that, but then you've also got the fact that ed's arc culminates in him breaking his rule against direct personal killing with his own hands. and it's clearly meant to be a big weighty moment, triggered by thinking stede might be dead - he whispers "stede" and appears to dissociate for a long moment and hallucinates stede's voice calling for help and THEN the murder spree starts - but this season never mentioned that ed normally doesn't kill like that at all! it wasn't even in the recap! i honestly had a moment of wondering if maybe they'd just forgotten when i watched the episode the first time!

and then you've also got stuff like the olu/zheng convo, where they flash back to something that happened WITHIN THE SAME SEASON. my best guess there is maybe it's got to do with all the obvious cuts that had to happen to save time, maybe there would have been a lot more moments where olu and zheng were thinking about each other and they had to cut a bunch and they thought throwing in the flashback would help cover it?

idk, i'm not really persuaded that any of these hypotheses or even all of them together explain the whole phenomenon very well. weird stylistic choice. if any followers have theories i'd love to hear them!

[purplespacecats]

Izzy Hands + Sue Sylvester quotes

insp: [x]

+ bonus Stede:

[madbiscuitlady]

It's all about the little things for Ed.

Unfortunately I could see him breathing in people's faces about it...

Like "Check this out my breath is so fresh! *breathes directly in Izzy's face* and Izzy just looks at him like he's insane and goes "Why are you such a fucking weirdo?"

I need to double down and find a down hair style for him that's just the right amount of wavy/curly, but doesn't look weird on him. It's surprisingly difficult.

[charstiel]

Welcome to Emo Summer (2022) 🖤

- The Batman

- New MCR song & reunion tour

- Dracula Daily

- Blackbeard OFMD

- Inside outtakes

- Tumblr cultural revival

- WWDITS new season

[whatsnewalycat]

idk if this has been done yet but