#our flag means friendship

[donkussy]

Twilight says friendship is magic so you better listen

[p4nishers]

ed trying to get over a guy he only kissed once while sobbing on the floor every night about him is literally queer culture thank u for the accurate rep david jenkins

[changelingirl]

"you are HARASSING A CRIPPLE" ".....foot." "a shark ate it." for some reason this genre of humor (making everyone else vaguely uncomfortable by joking about your disability/bringing it up on every occasion a la "the weather is homophobic because it's inconveniencing me") is my favorite fucking thing. god i hope it continues. i hope izzy tells everyone he meets a different story about how he lost the leg (fought a lobster, cannonball incident, cursed by a witch, "what do you mean? my leg's right h--OH MY GOD"). i hope he has a spreadsheet entitled "jokes i can make now that i only have one leg". he's completely deadpan and no one knows whether they're allowed to laugh or not. it's great.

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

My dad's lack of media comprehension serves as a fascinating litmus test for gay subtext. He "didn't pick up on any gay breadcrumbs" between Stede and Ed until the moment they kissed, but he knew that Will Byers was gay just from "it's not my fault you don't like girls" in series 3. It took him way too long to realise that there was something fruity going on in Killing Eve, but he fully believed that Sherlock and John ended up together

[piratecaptainscaptainpirates]

Front door: *opens*

Ed, shouting from the bedroom: oh thank FUCK

Ed: Stede man I have been waiting for you for FOREVER

Ed: do you know how LONELY I've been! I could've starved to death!!! I need COMFORTING!!

Ed:

Ed: why aren't you coming to fuck me Stede!!

Ed:

Ed: you're not Stede, are you

Lucius, there to deliver the message that Stede got held up at work and he's there to pick Ed up so they can all have lunch together: nope

Ed: alright you're gonna. you're gonna have to give me a minute

Lucius: how naked are you right now

Ed: oh. very.

Ed: and i need to. uh. i need to clean up some stuff

Lucius: what kind of stuff - no, wait, don't tell me -

Ed: i lubed myself up and tied one wrist to the bedpost, this might take a sec

Lucius: nah man take your time

[edwardbabygirlteach]

I’ll always find you.

As pirates.

As creatures of the night.

As life long friends.

I promise that I’ll always find you, in any reality.

[alpinelittlecow]

Pens and paper 🖤

[follows-the-bees]

Ed and Stede love each other. But you know what's even better? They like each other! They are best friends! They bounce off each other and come up with increasingly ridiculous scenarios!

It's easy! Just like breathing. They understand their idiosyncrasies. Finds them charming, even. They expose each other to new things, new ideas. And laugh a lot. They just...pass the time so well. That's love and friendship!

[goayda]

No Hesitation

(Short fic for Jim's Week)

Izzy had been acting strange and of course Jim had been the first one to notice it.

The first mate had been shifty and nervous, acting more unsure than Jim had ever seen him before. He hadn’t been yelling at them as much as usual, not even at Lucius, and he tended to disappear into the captain’s cabin at weird times. The whole thing had been very suspicious and Jim hadn’t liked the feeling of it.

Then one afternoon, Jim had been walking below deck when they had seen Izzy and Edward just outside the captain’s cabin. The ex-captain had been towering over Izzy, much closer than the asshole had the right to be and then Izzy had shaken his head and said a barely audible ‘no, Ed’, but Edward had grabbed his arm and tried to drag him inside the cabin.

Jim must have made a sound because then Izzy had turned and had seen them. He had looked surprised for a moment before he had lowered his eyes in shame. Edward had turned to look at Jim with a smile on his face and had put a hand on Izzy’s shoulder.

And Jim had seen red.

By the time Olu and Roach had managed to drag them away from Edward, Jim had already thrown a few well-aimed punches and a vicious kick to the groin that had sent him to the floor. Yes, they knew how to fight dirty and they weren’t ashamed to do it if it was needed.

“Don’t you dare fucking touch him ever again!” Jim yelled as they were restrained by Olu and Roach.

The rest of the crew was already there, attracted by the commotion and Stede had walked out of the cabin immediately and was now crouching by Edward’s side, trying to comfort him.

Jim was ready to throw a punch at him too when a hand grabbed their arm lightly.

“It’s-it’s nothing like that, Jim,” Izzy said calmly, looking seriously at them.

Apparently Jim had got it wrong, very wrong.

As it seemed, the captain, Edward and Izzy were in ‘the early stages of a romantic relationship’ as Stede cheerfully explained to the crew once things had calmed down. They had decided to keep it a secret at Izzy’s request because he was uncomfortable with the crew knowing about it for now and what Jim had witnessed was simply Edward playfully trying to convince Izzy to have an ‘improvised romantic moment’ in private.

“Just say ‘sex’, man,” Roach said with a grimace as Izzy groaned and covered his eyes in embarrassment.

They had gathered on deck and were sitting on the floor as Stede explained the whole thing with his usual flowery language. Edward looked a bit uncomfortable, but Izzy looked as if he was ready to jump overboard and Jim could totally understand him.

“But I’m glad that now it’s all in the open,” Stede finally said after his lengthy explanation. “That means that now I can hold Izzy’s hand on deck and give him a kiss if I feel-“

“No, you absolutely can’t!” Izzy stopped him immediately.

“But why not?” Stede replied, barely containing a pout.

“I-I do not- it’s not professional!”

“Don’t push it, mate,” Edward whispered to Stede. “It’s too soon. Baby steps, remember?”

“Why didn’t you want us to know, Izzy?” Frenchie asked, looking a bit hurt by it.

“It’s because you thought it wouldn’t last?” The Swede asked. “That’s the reason?”

“No, that’s not-”

“You don’t trust us?” Fang asked, looking teary-eyed.

“No, it’s not that, alright?” Izzy replied, blushing lightly. “I’m just not… good at this and a first mate has to be professional to be respected and… Well, it seemed easier that way.”

“Aaww, Izzy, I’ll not respect you less now,” Lucius said with a big grin on his face. “I’ll respect you as little as before.”

“Fuck off, twatty,” Izzy replied with no heat behind his words.

Then it was time for Jim to apologize for beating Edward repeatedly and they did it curtly, but sincerely, as usual. Edward accepted the apology gracefully and seemed actually pleased by the whole thing.

“I’m happy that Izzy has someone that would look after him, aside from me and Stede,” Edward said, smiling.

“He doesn’t just have Jim, mate,” Wee John replied. “Any of us would gladly kick your ass if you ever tried to hurt him, right?”

A chorus of agreements answered Wee John’s question.

“That’s-that’s great, guys,” Edward said, his smile only fading slightly.

The gathering dispersed after that and only Izzy and Jim stayed there. They leaned on the railing side by side and stared at the sea without saying a word for a while.

“Thank you, Jim,” Izzy said eventually. “For having my back.”

“I know you would have mine,” Jim simply replied, looking at him.

“I would.”

They nodded at each other and then turned to stare at the sea again and didn’t say a word for a long, long time.

[fandomsupporter]

i’m sure it’s been said before, but i keep thinking about how if stede had had a genuine friendship in his life before meeting ed, he would have most likely realized his feelings for him were more than platonic way sooner

[saltpepperbeard]

Taika and Rhys + Lie Detector Giggles

[youshouldseemeinadeerstalker]

Is this anything

[l0vecrim3]

it’s happening again…

[violetwolfraven]

I know I’m dreaming here but I really want Jim and Frenchie to have a weird little friendship this season. Like they were both kidnapped and as far as they know everyone else is dead so I’m just imagining them trusting each other out of necessity and then eventually getting just attached enough that they go a little out of their way to watch each other’s backs. I mean they still both have their own interests to protect and if Jim got a chance to escape and it meant leaving Frenchie behind or vice versa I think they’d still go for it but like checking after they raid a wedding to make sure they both made it out alright. Trying not to let each other out of their sight because they let the others out of their sight and now they don’t know what happened to them. That kind of thing.

[alpinelittlecow]

Pens and paper 💜

[buck1eys]

literally one of the most beautiful and quietly subversive things about ofmd is that everyone, consistently, is saved from doing terrible things by the presence and intervention of others. again and again and again, stede tells the crew not to kill the hostage, olu talks jim out of killing geraldo, ed stops olu throwing izzy overboard, stede wakes up and saves mary from killing him. even and especially when it's accidental (waking up, showing up at the right time), the presence of other people is what makes these characters, who are to a person all shown to be capable of murder and are often not 'good' people by mainstream comedy media standards, better. and it's established right in the first episode wrapped in a joke! stede says traditionally piracy has been a CULTURE of abuse, and dares to question why. no man is an island in ofmd. it's a profoundly communal show where people exist only in relation to each other in a world obsessed with the toxic masculinity of the lonesome macho outlaw. this is also why it is so devastating to see ed transform into blackbeard, because the person who could step in and stop him isn't there.