#ooc stede annoys me but not as much as. well. go a few posts back on my blog and you'll see lmao

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hey, i don't mind! if u spend like a minute scrolling through the "mine" tag on my blog you will find me replying a LOT to ppl on my posts, bc i genuinely love discussing this show! (and u will also find that it would be very hypocritical for me to be annoyed at ur response for being "too long")

overall tho i agree with what u said! character count is limited in the replies so i was simplifying my stance a lot, and the "bullying" part especially came out wrong. someone actually @'ed me on a separate post abt that part, so i did elaborate on what i meant here. the short version: izzy doesn't bully stede, but he would agree with stede's childhood bullies abt how soft and unmanly stede is. so when steddyhands fic make stede be really nice to izzy with no character growth on izzy's part, not only is it wildly ooc but it also just rubs me the wrong way.

(obviously tho the real reason izzy doesn't like stede is bc stede is stealing ed's attention and ruining the edgy pirate lifestyle izzy's been enjoying for the past several years)

anyway, i said in another post that my take on steddyhands is "not my thing but i respect it," bc i DO see the appeal. im personally a big fan of characters having Difficult Conversations and growing as people, deconstructing toxic thought patterns and learning to get along. but so much steddyhands content... Doesn't Do That!!! they're just indulging in their fanon fantasy of giving izzy nice things, which is fine i guess. but I dislike izzy hands as he behaves in canon, and i don't want him to get nice things without some good old-fashioned character growth. and i LOVE reading or watching or writing that kind of character growth, so even for fans who don't hate izzy as much as i do, i just... don't see the appeal of just pampering him in fic with no actual analysis of his character. imo it feels like such a waste of a very interesting character

but i can at least see a fanfic plotline where the three of them end up together in a way that doesn't have one of the characters acting insanely ooc. (i am actually. writing a reblog on this post. with the synopsis of such a fic). when it is ooc, that's when it really looses any potential appeal for me.

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(ps. i'm not entirely sure if your prediction for the next season is how i think season 2 will go. for starters, i don't think ed was actually all that "erratic" at the end of the season. from the perspective of the other characters who don't know the whole story, yeah, but all of ed's behavior pretty clearly came in response to the things he was going through. he got left at the dock (essentially getting dumped), so he stayed in his room crying for a full day (several days? the timeline is kinda wonky). lucius encouraged him to open up and let go, so ed came out of hiding and started talking to people and cleaning up his room. izzy threatens to kill ed, makes ed think about all the people who've abandoned him and how this crew might be the same, and ed retreats into Blackbeard again, the version of himself that nobody fucks with. but even at the end of the episode, he's still in control of himself; he's very calm and collected as he goes about intimidating izzy, hiring jim, and getting rid of stede's stuff/crew.

so like, idk how much izzy will be regretting his actions in s2. considering his reaction to the toe thing, i don't think he has a problem with the Kraken. after almost getting thrown overboard by stede's crew, izzy knows he needs ed/blackbeard to stay alive. and izzy needs ed to act like Blackbeard, or else izzy is of no use to ed (like, it's not as if izzy was gonna participate in the talent show, lol). the only thing that could make izzy unhappy next season is if ed decides he doesn't need izzy anymore, and considering that izzy is the one who pushed ed back into being blackbeard, i don't think ed's gonna come to that conclusion on his own.)

once again, cannot stress enough how much steddyhands is not my thing, but i'm once again thinking abt how all the steddyhands content i see just does stede so dirty and it literally. almost makes me want to write my own steddyhands fic just to show y'all how it's done fhjkfhgjdfk