#ofmd problems

[theindiscreetbookworm]

my partner, who has not watched ofmd, is listening to The Chain in his shower

there is no sane way for me to explain why i'm about to fucking sob

[cobaltaugustao3]

My constant struggle when writing PWP

[bizarrelittlemew]

calling it right now that season 3 starts like this

[reynoldsnbauer]

our flag means death season 2 is going to be incredible because how often do you get to see an enemies to lovers story where only half the couple knows they are enemies

[annannjay]

was starting to forget how to draw them, so have these redraws of fluffy references i’ve found on pinterest

also i still have exams left, kill me or pray for me either would be appreciated🤲💕💕

[temporal-discounting]

Can you imagine living your whole life believing down to your very core that you are not meant to have fine things? That soft things, beautiful things, are simply not for the likes of you.

And as the decades pass you accumulate more wealth than you ever could have dreamed of. And yet you still don't allow yourself fine things, because you know deep down you are not good enough for them.

So you carry around a scrap of silk as a reminder of all of the beautiful things out there that you would never dare to sully with your touch?

And then... well then, under the light of a full moon, the most beautiful man you have ever met tucks that silk against your heart. He assures you that you have as much right to fine, soft, beautiful things as anybody else.

He looks you straight in the eyes and tells you that you wear fine things well.

Can you fucking imagine?

[sailorsruin92]

The wi-fi signal at the Republic of Pirates is sh*t!

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

"it's bury your gays" they're all gay one of them just died "well it's bury your gay elders" Fang is older than Izzy and he's still kicking, "it's bury your disabled gays" Lucius, Ed, and Spanish Jackie, still around. "What about the people who come out late in life???" Stede divorced his wife at the ripe old age of 48, he's living in a seaside cabin with his boyfriend. "It's saying that people who are repressed/struggle with internalized homophobia deserve to die" *Regina George* so you agree, he's homophobic, but also, once again, Stede's still breathing. "But-"

You know you can be upset about your favorite side character dying without making up reasons the show is secretly bad

[alex51324]

Another round of thoughts on the "Izzy died like a queer-coded character from a pre-gay-lib era" theme:

Every time I check into the Izzy tag or the main OFMD tag, I see people talking about how they liked/weren't shocked by the finale because it always kinda seemed like Izzy was going to die:

The reason it seems that way is because Izzy is the kind of gay character that has, historically, gotten buried.

He's the queer-coded sidekick that has to die to make way for the straight romance, and the queer-coded villain that has to be vanquished to make room for the happy ending (which includes a straight romance).

This time, he died to make way for a gay romance. Diversity win!!! I guess????

And it isn't that anyone thinks--well, probably someone somewhere does think it, but it isn't that I think that DJenks did this because he secretly loves homophobic tropes.

I think--I mean, he's pretty much said, in the interviews--that he did it because he just kinda felt like Izzy had to die to complete his arc. And he's also said he didn't intend to write a homophobic show, what I conclude from that is that he didn't fucking notice that the reason he, IDK, just kinda always felt like Izzy had to die was because of this trope.

That's why, as of the actual filming of the fucking episode, he convinced himself he was doing the "mentor dies" trope, even though he'd never done anything to establish that kind of relationship between the two characters. Because he didn't fucking know why it just kinda seemed right for Izzy to die.

And that, my friends, means that this show is just not as smart as we built it up in our minds to be.

I wasn't even expecting it to be the show where That Character finally gets a happy ending of his own. But I was--because it is a fucking sitcom--expecting it to be one where he ended up somewhere we could imagine a happy ending for him, rather than leaving him bleeding out on the fucking pavement.

[areyoudoingthis]

I am SO grateful that ed and stede exist as characters exactly as they are. I'm so grateful for these two men who are traumatized and messed up and struggle to even like themselves, who are terrible at communicating, who make enough mistakes between the two of them to fill an entire ocean. I am so grateful to watch them struggle and be seen and be loved and reach out for the things they want and are maybe starting to believe that they deserve. I'm so grateful that the show lets them fall in love and get together exactly as they are, that it doesn't say they need to wait until they've become some unattainably perfect version of themselves before they have permission to have that. i am so grateful for ofmd

[edandstede]

do you think ed found stede’s explorer outfit in the auxiliary wardrobe and cried? do you think he remembered stede making that treasure hunt for him, and wondered why stede could do that but not show up when it really mattered? do you think he thought about lucius telling him stede liked him, how he was encouraged to play along and follow stede’s whims just to see him smile? how they sat and dreamt up their little snake snack story, or how they’d shared brandy afterwards in stede’s cosy cabin and agreed to be co-captains together? i think he saw it hanging up before he ditched all of stede’s things and wondered when stede decided their adventure was over.

[soapbubbles511]

Called out by the murder wives

[lavenderspriggs]

this is so funny to me... izzy really said these gay ass motherfuckers did something nice for me and i hate it

[lumiilys]

Baby Stede who is a picky eater being made to sit and finish his plate of food in the school cafeteria while everyone else gets to go and play outside :( and he can’t stop crying cause he feels humiliated but the idea of actually eating the food is even worse

[babykittenteach]

This post (suggestive) came along the dash and I had to use those knee tattoos.

[piratecaptainscaptainpirates]

Very silly modern AU premise:

When my dog was a puppy, I had a little snag with socializing him because I realized he was afraid of white people. I'd been focusing on taking him to family events, to visit friends, stuff like that, and when I took him to dog-friendly spaces open to the public he'd be really scared because most people he knew were black. I had to take him to pet stores and dog-friendly events and stuff and hope white people would ask to pet him so he could learn to exist in public dog-friendly areas without constantly being jumpscared by anyone without some melanin

So, Ed takes his dog (who he's been socializing with Ivan, Fang, and their families) to a puppy play date event with the express purpose of finding white people willing to pet his dog. He sees Stede across the park and he goes Yes Perfect