#our flag means death preview

[raggedy-spaceman]

Finally living their best life!

[alexisnoir]

When I see this scene from the preview for episode 6 and 7, this makes me so nervous. Because you can tell he's in pain, besides the glowing thing is a dead giveaway. Someone IS HURTING STEDE and I won't stand for it.

Earlier in the same preview we have this:

I promise you what we see in the end of the preview is before THAT scene on the deck him being hurt with the violin bow.

Besides the crew gets tortured and so does ED

I wonder who is THIS guy, this violin player? What's his name? Why does he want to destroy REVENGE and its crew?

I think this is going to be like this:

Lucius and Pete are getting married so the whole dancing, colorful scene we have on the Revenge are their wedding. This guy with the violin poses as a musician but in fact is THE VILLAIN with a grudge against Stede and/or Blackbeard/Ed.

So he does as he promises, tortures the crew. The question is how are they going to escape HIM?

We can tell they're going to escape with their life because:

Stede here has a wound on his left shoulder, collarbone. That is AFTER everything bad happens. Yeah, it's better if they avoid all near death situations. No truer words were said and Ed says them in the preview.

So what you guys think of my theory?

[jacobglaser]

Use your words instead of slamming the love of your life into a wall challenge. (failed x3)

[alexisnoir]

THANK YOU!

Since @bizarrelittlemew requested it, the preview for the next two episodes!

[laceratedlamiaceae]

get you a man who can do all three

[bizarrelittlemew]

genuinely thank you so so much for the beautiful gifset of Lucius and Pete <3

i love them so so so so so much and being able to stare at them staring lovingly at each other is such a gift

"I love it, I love all of it" 😭😭😭

literally they're the cutest sweetest most precious how dare they 😭

[asoulwithadream]

EXCLUSIVE FALL PREVIEWS

Mates. LADS. BRETHEREN.

I think I'm going to die now. AAAAAAAAAAAAH—

BUT OF COURSE WHAT WOULD BE THE SENSE OF MY EXISTENCE IF I DIDN'T SHARE MY OWN PERSONAL THOUGHTS ON THESE BEAUTIFUL THINGS BEFORE THE MEDICINE KICKS IN.

The Crew — I think this is where they see LUCIUS!!!! I'm so very convinced this is where they meet Lucius. As we can see, they're all in the same clothing as the Vanity Fair first looks, where Black Pete is visibly overjoyed. But can't you see that he is missing from this shot? Probably snogging Lucius' face off or hugging him or doing something as such.

Lucius probably popped around the corner in the Vanity Fair one, and now they're sharing an intimate moment (keeping it PG) on deck while the rest of the happy crew watches on (as visible from Roach's, Oluwande's, and Wee John's faces). Of course, Buttons has no interest in human adoration, and instead looks on towards his own lover, the sea.

Stede is looking quite perplexed, or maybe contemplatively—perhaps as a result of Lucius telling Stede what happened to him. He doesn't look directly all that happy, does he?

(OMG OMG OMG WHY DO THEY ALL LOOK SO HAPPY EXCEPT STEDE BUT OLU YOU DEAREST MAN AND THEY'RE LOOKING SNAZZY AND I LOVE THEIR SOCKS I'M AHHAHASIJDHKAE)

Stede — That's the floor of the Revenge guys. I know it well since the last time Stede was pushed onto it. (Solidarity for the harm that the foot touch caused in these trying times) He is wearing what looks to be ye olde fencing gloves, and this means that was just handling a sword. (Though, he could have been using the cannons; we all know Stede would probably confuse fencing gloves for heavy artillery)

There are a few scenarios I can find at the top of my head: he's either training with Izzy (though would that explain his terrified expression? maybe)—we also see the lack of the red ribbon, which I think he removed when he teams up with Izzy, for whatever reason—or he's been duelling with someone else, someone who is extremely better at swordsmanship, someone we know to have been excellent at both maiming and receiving stab wounds. Has he been fighting with Edward?

I think it's the former, but who knows? The best part of theorising is being wrong, after all. I guess we can just gang up and say "calm down mr wavey blade" to whoever is behind this. Plus, do I see traced of some fuzz on his chin? Confirmed baby steard, guys???

(He's such an ICON I WANT TO BREATHE HIS HAIR AND SEE IT BEHIND MY EYELIDS. In the wise words of Rhys Darby, "I wish I had his hair". BUT LIKE HONESTLY WHAT'S GOING ON HERE WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE HE'S SEEN A GHOST)

Frenchie and Ed — This has me on actual alarm bells mode. I can't tell whether or not this is Blackbeard or post-Blackbeard era—he's not wearing any dark chunky make-up, and has his hair up in his classic, beautiful half-up half-down, and we finally get a more close-up and clear shot of his earring, which we first spotted from the Vanity Fair first looks?

A detail I spotted for Frenchie's new goth uniform, which he is still wearing in this shot (further confusing me on the timeline of this image)—I think that his jacket is the very same from the "The Best Revenge Is Dressing Well" episode, which is so incredibly sweet and a beautiful little detail to connect back to season 1. I'd like to think he customised it himself, since we know Frenchie can "sew like the wind."

That's also still the Revenge, in fact the very spot where Lucius was about to get his finger cut off in "The Art of F**kery". But what intent Ed has with this confrontation with Frenchie, who seemingly looks like perhaps he wasn't even doing anything wrong, escapes the depth of my theoretical mind. What contributes even less to this is that Ed is smiling? Rather maniacal, might I add.

(WHAT. THE. FUCK. help me why is this happening. I LIKE AM SO ANGRY AND SO HAPPY AT THE SAME TIME THAT I CAN'T FIGURE ANYTHING OUT FROM THIS PICTURE. NOT EVEN WHAT STAGE OF GRIEF ED IS IN. HELP ME)

Edward — That chair looks like it's from Stede's room, from one of the desk-like tables in the corner next to his bed, and perhaps even the only chair which Ed kept in the room after his rather ill-tasted renovations. What's he doing there without his make-up on? Perhaps this is still during the early stages of new Blackbeard, and he's just in the transit period between washing and re-application.

BUT, if we look at the background, does that look like the Revenge? Not really... There is what seems like a fireplace or some sort of stone plate in the background, with a painting on it with a man on the left side of the composition, who seemingly looks to have lighter coloured hair. So what I may be thinking, is that Edward is visiting MARY ALLAMBY! The painting in the background may be the one from Stede and Mary's wedding, and Mary might have kept it as memorabilia in ode of her now good friend. (Stede is on the left in that painting). Plus, where else would Stede get his furniture and taste for his bedroom than his own former house, which Mary currently lives at?

Even though I think David Jenkins said that Mary wouldn't be present in the season, do I believe him? No. I think I have the right for me to be delusional without external interference at this point.

(Please let me be right please let me be right I NEED A MARY / ED INTERACTION AT SOME POINT TO HEAL MY HEART. I need Mary to realise that fucking Blackbeard is the Ed that Stede was talking about, I NEED ED TO THINK THAT STEDE DIED, FOR EVEN A MOMENT. I think my brain has stopped receiving oxygen.)

Send hopes and prayers

[5queerducksinatrenchcoat]

im just saying, it would be SUCH a waste for them to cast laurence olivier award recipient, tony nominated, critically acclaimed musical theater actor con o neill and NOT have him sing a lil song! and one of the few ways to make it even better would be to PUT THE OLD MAN IN DRAG! THEY GOT HIM AN OLD TIMEY BUMPIT AND EVERYTHING!

[dreamgirledward]

Well, did you miss me?  Walk on water just to kiss me? Oh, come and get me  Drag me out, destroy me  I've been expecting you, I'm ready  Deliver me that bad news baby

DREAM GIRL EVIL | blackbeard 🏴‍☠️ ofmd

my amvs | watch on yt

music: dream girl evil by florence + the machine

[megamixsmania]

Do not interrupt them!!!!

[alexisnoir]

Interesting, VERY interesting!

[i-hate-everything-except-fandoms]

"Kill us all. Our spirit will last throughout your entire fucking empire!!"

TELL 'EM BABE

[starofhisheart]

No but this was so cute. I am so here for Jackie and her husband no. 20 the Swede

[naranjapetrificada]

Hey! You there! Yes you, OFMD fic enjoyer!

Do you like tropes? Unusual AUs? Historical detail? Fictional quotes from historians as a framing device? The prospect of an accidentally revolutionary Stede Bonnet and Horse Girl/reluctant war hero Edward Teach? You might enjoy the longfic I'm working on, which I posted the first chapter of several days ago!

It's set in a world inspired by our ancient world, where Stede is a blue-blooded patrician from a Not-Roman Republic about to enter an arranged marriage with famed nomadic steppe warrior Ed, to end a war that's been going on between their people for over a century.

Stede is a wannabe polymath with "an ex-wife, two messed up kids, probably," and canon-typical daddy issues; Ed is a secret softie carrying the compounded burdens of his own reputation as a warrior and those of his father and grandmother, also with canon-typical daddy issues. Not to mention that *slaps roof* this fic can hold so many reflections on masculinity, clashing cultures, imperialism, trauma recovery, historiography, and what it means to leave a legacy.

I know WIPs are scary, but I love this world more than any other fictional world I've ever created (and speaking as an experienced tabletop DM that's saying something). If any of the above appealed to you at all, this fic is probably worth the risk.

[knifeturtlelives]

just sat up in bed because I remembered this interview with Nancy Hennah from a while back, in which she discusses Ed's new tattoos this season:

We...we have not seen that chest tattoo yet this season. That is a thing that will be happening at some point. For some reason.

[carrotcakecrumble]

Wait so d’you guys think Ed’s out on his little fishing boat next episode, all excited because he thinks he’s caught a real fuckin big one this time, one that’ll really show Stede that he’s a real proper fisherman. and then it’s just his. Blackbeard leathers.