#our flag means facts

[whatthefoucault]

This video has been months in the making. It's a genuinely excellent cookie recipe, but it also includes the longest and most unhinged Our Flag Means Facts segment I've done to date. Let's dive into the sticky history of the sticky toffee pudding!

[homoquartz]

a show doesn't necessarily have to be ABOUT queerness to BE a queer show. it's a cultural dialect that cishets don't quite speak.

edit: i gotta clarify that the shows do indeed still have to have actual queer characters in them to count

[hansoeii]

stede bunnet

[camilleflyingrotten]

Headcanon

Crowley was a pirate once bc it was fun 🏴‍☠️

[toastywindow]

THIS SCENE IS TOO MUCH FOR ME ISTG

[bbyteach]

Uhhh sooooo NYC 80’s punk scene AU where ed used to play in bands when younger but not anymore & runs a popular venue and is totally burned out on the scene. Until a blonde weirdo wearing pastels started coming to shows there and he had to understand what is going on with this guy?? And the guy wants to learn more about this world and Ed confused but ends up having more fun than he has in ages??

[your-local-asylum-escapee]

the Blueprint™ for any mlm ship is literally just a dark-haired skinny loser and his himbo light-haired bf

oh and also at least one of 'em has blue eyes... I don't make the rules here

[churchkey]

"You know, I'm starting to think everyone on this show is gay."

- my partner, watching Our Flag Means Death for the first time (right around ep 6)

[maliathewerecutie]

mr jenkins please keep the close ups to taika’s eyes coming

[piratecaptainscaptainpirates]

Another thing I adore about OFMD is how the discussion of masculinity is so nuanced. It's like - the best way I can think to describe the depiction of gender in OFMD is it's like the opposite of the recent Barbie movie, if that makes sense? I thought Barbie was fine but its understanding of gender was very basic to the point of being almost reductive, and the whole movie just screamed "this was written by cis people!" OFMD has the exact opposite vibes, you can TELL there were trans writers in the writing room.

So often, when we see gay relationships in media, there's an attempt to force the characters to be "the feminine one" and "the masculine one" in a very transparent showing of how they're too scared of queerness so there have to be some gender roles shoved in there. Ed and Stede turn that trope right on its fucking head.

Because Ed and Stede both have different and complex relationships with their own masculinity, and they're both feminine and masculine in different ways. Stede worries about being seen as soft and struggles with what a "man's work" should look like, but even in more practical clothes he loves his little accessories and he just adores showy, campy clothing. Ed feels forced into an ideal of hyper-masculinity, but he also loves wearing soft robes, painting his nails, and writing poetry. He painted a bride cake topper to look like himself as an expression of his deepest, most tender dreams and it's never made into a joke. OFMD's thesis statement is that "the things we're taught about being a man are wrong," and it shines through in every angle of the show. The men on the show are allowed to be tender as hell and it's a fucking strength.

It's such a lovely, queer thing, to see both of these characters get to express feminine traits in their own masculine way, without the narrative telling us they're any less of a man for it or asking us to laugh at them.

[madeleinefjall]

wandering back to the ship

[obsidianbit]

I love this gay ass show with its literally life ending injuries that heal immediately, but only when convenient to the plot, and its ridiculous use of modern phrases, and its laughing in the face of historical accuracy, and its kissing the face of the fans instead of trying to outwit them, and the way everyone involved in the show seem to go 'I KNOW RIGHT! I'M EXCITED TOO!' instead of mocking the fans

[therabbitthatpostthings]

Ed slamming the chair against the wall and then going to hide under the blanket is so real. Just to get a love confession and then mocked by two very mean lesbians

[queerly-autistic]

Anyway, Stede yelling desperately across the beach for Ed but not being able to immediately run to him because his sword was stuck in some guy's stomach and he couldn't get it out was peak comedy.

[ratchet]

I object.

[sisalrian]

goodbye ofmd :( you’ll always have a special place in my heart. (It brings me comfort that at least these two got their happy ending.)