#procrastination is going to be the death of me

[dennisboobs]

i need to be put down

[theminecraftbee]

posted my two favorite of the limited life ficlets i did to ao3: the bad boys wolf metaphor and the first three to die talking to death. if you haven't read them before, or just want to read them again, or just want to bookmark them or comment - go check them out!

[asoulwithadream]

ANALysis and THEORIES- OFMD EDITION #1

Objective: PROMO GIFS

Time to analyse these bad boys, because I think I may have figured out what they are. They're lines from the show. Each individual little subtext to the official gifs are something which someone will say in the new season, and I'm determined to find out what, when, where and who (I determine that 3/4 would equal success).

I) "I've never seen Blackbeard like this."

This is the same shot from the trailer, possibly either before or after the infamous "Fuck you, Stede Bonnet." However, there may be a Clue in the second shot which may be able to somehow place this on a timeline (not by myself—this has drained my powers). I can't really tell, because of the low quality and high contrasting shadows, whether or not the side of the Stede topper has been smudged with Ed's make-up yet.

It was clear in the teaser when Ed played with the toppers that he'd caressed fake-Stede against his cheek as if he were some rather exquisite cashmere because of the smudges, but we couldn't tell during the teaser if this has already happened by this point because of the angle of the toy. But if anyone manages to get a better picture or spots something I missed that may contradict or strengthen this little thought, do let me know.

I'm pretty sure though that the person who says "I've never seen Blackbeard like this," is someone who has seen Blackbeard enough to know how he was. Someone that perhaps served by his side? So I think that the speaker in this context may be Izzy. There are two options of who he's saying this too: either Stede, once they team up, or to the crew of the Queen Anne's Revenge, this being the old Revenge crew (Frenchie, Jim, and we count Fang). Maybe even Lucius in the walls.

II) "I should have just told him how I feel."

I just want to take a moment just to appreciate the fact how much this gif resonated with me personally. This was the entire basis of all stages of grief I went through after the season finale, the bottomline of all my thoughts: "why couldn't he have just told him how he felt?". Brilliant delivery and shot planning from the designers of OFMD.

Anyways, let's get on with it. This gif is similar to the first one, in it having the potential of being also shot before or after the Vanity Fair picture with the crew (minus Swede) standing under the bridge(?) in the rain. I do think it's before the scene where Stede takes Blackbeard's poster and very confidently elaborates on Ed's goodness. He has his red cravat on, and is looking so pathetic in the rain looking at a wanted poster of his ex-boyfriend, that the scene is loveably laughable in it's entirety.

It's a bit obvious as to who is the speaker for this line: our very own Stede Bonnet. He's regretting on his actions back at the sailor academy, where he chose to keep quiet about his own opinions on Ed's willingness to leave to China, fast, because of his own deep-rooted issues with speaking up about what he thinks about serious, possibly life-chaning topics. Or maybe he's thinking of why he didn't tell anyone, especially not Ed, about the happiness he felt around him, how great he felt in his company, and how much love he felt for the man.

I can imagine this pretty early on in the season (as we know they reconcile or at least get a long decently early, from the leaked promo), and for some reason I have a picture of Stede laying slumped down on some form of furniture, ragdoll-style, whining about this to someone he knows: either Oluwande (probably the most probably option) or, hear me out, Spanish Jackie. I think she's going to become better friends with the Genital Pirate this season, and be a prevelant character to the narrative.

III) "Feel's like a storm's coming."

This happens during the rapid, quick scenes which we were just able to catch from the teaser. Where Jim is half submerged in water trying their best to reach for someone which I may think might be Ed, and Frenchie working the capstan for whatever purposes needed to hoist something heavy in a storm (don't look at me, I don't sail 18th-century ships). But look, Edward has his cravat on, the cravat given to him by Stede. Why he's kept this eludes me, since this should in theory be before their reconciliation, but we all know that Ed still loves Stede, and perhaps this is his way to hang onto him close to his heart while still matching his new aesthetic.

I would like to think that Ed is the one saying this. After all, he is an expert navigator and weatherman, proving his skills during his first appearances in the previous season. (However, I don't particularly trust his date-keeping skills. He messed up the first one, and then let his other date be held at gunpoint and scared into leaving. Tut tut tut) Another reason as to why I think this is because there is no pronoun indicating that he actively feels the storm, but more passed as a backhanded quip just thrown onto the crew and/or Izzy to alert them.

This could also be interpreted as a metaphor: symbolism for something, foreshadowing to the main plot or villain of the series, which will most likely result in some form of cliffhanger at the end, I tell you that.

I wonder if they're going to have another cloud scene though, talking about how they might show signs of storm. However, instead of shape I'd assume that they'd be commenting on a rather large-scale, dark rain-cloud, and connecting it to perhaps winds stronger than usual.

I also saw someone saying that it was possible that Edward, when he falls off the ship, looses the cravat amongst the waves, and that is why he doesn't have it to what I'd assume is after this scene.

IV) I love a good pirate's tale We can see from this scene that Stede is currently fighting on the beach in the same outfit which he had during the teaser, and if one looks closely you can see that he's excellently accessorised with a beautiful looped earring. However, what we've also learn is that the shot where Ed washes up on the beach is probably in the same scene as this, and by the look on Stede's face (probably augmented by the surrounding chaos) this may be the first time that he's seen Ed in a long time.

I think, as I've said before in previous posts, that Ed has been thrown off the ship in the storm mentioned above. He's been thrown off, and has happened to wash up on this same beach where Stede is fighting, which we know to be possible because of the automatic gaydar in OFMD. (What would be funny though is that he spotted Stede off the shore and decided to make his entrance super dramatic and kraken-like, but ends up just swallowing a shit ton of sea-water and gets his leather ruined, which is why he gets new clothes.)

Why he's fighting? I don't know. But I'm still sure that it's Ocracoke that they're on, because I'm convinced that it'll make an appearance this season—it has too, or else I will send in a formal complaint with our dearest Mr Jenkins.

Now, back to the main bit. The text. Who is it that says "I love a good pirate's tale?" I think that it's either said genuinely, but by someone like Stede, eager to hear about the adventures of experienced and famous seafaring pirates, OR flirtatiously, to insinuate something directed as a romantic quip to get Stede or someone else (a pirate) to talk more about himself. By who, I can't be sure, but I have a list of possible speakers:

Edward Teach

Spanish Jackie

Anne Bonny

Anne Bonny's campy friend

Lucius Spriggs

Stede Bonnet

If there's anything I've missed that you want me to add/change, which I find suitable, do tell.

I'm not sick at all. I'm a normal functioning member of society. I have a life.

[a-polite-melody]

Wheeeeee

No but actually I realize that this is an actual fucking Real Version of the kind of nightmare I have which leaves me feeling the most disturbed once I’m awake

The type of dreams where Something Bad Happening, usually to an animal, and me trying to stop what’s going on, but I can’t physically stop The Bad Thing but if I could just communicate properly then I could get The Bad Thing to stop and save the animal

In the dreams themselves it’s usually actual physical animal abuse I’m stopping but can’t move fast enough to get to the person to stop them and also can’t yell because I have no voice for some reason

Which maps eerily neatly onto me trying to communicate how bad a condition the dog was in to both my dad and especially the owners who were and still are hours drive away—the owners to let them know that what I was seeing was Extremely Concerning Stuff and my dad to see if using An Older Adult Man to tell them how bad it was would make them understand the gravity of the situation better, and my dad not really understanding until hours before her death even though he was here with me some of the time and the owners I guess not understanding literally up until the moment of her death because I cannot imagine that they were seeing the behaviour I was and thinking that was “a dog being stubborn about moving because she gets very tired” when to me it looked like a dog that needed euthed immediately because of extreme respiratory distress

I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it

I wish I could have done more for her. I wish I could have prevented her suffering for so much longer than she needed to. I wish she hadn’t “died naturally” because it didn’t just suck for her owners and us but for her in a way that euthanasia before this point wouldn’t have.

I’m trying so hard not to blame myself because ultimately I did was I was Able to Legally and that feels shitty as fuck but also I Cannot afford to be sued for “killing someone’s dog” if I Had taken measures into my own hands and had her euthed (if I could even find a vet who would do it without proof of ownership because they’d also be legally on the hook). I still feel like there had to have been Something More I could have done. Anything. This dog was suffering

(Also I swear to FUCK if anyone asks if I tried recording what I was seeing—I’m sorry but I felt it more important to act to help the dog which tended to require my hands rather than hold a phone to record a video, and like I said, I didn’t really seem to have my dad understanding Quite that she Was Literally Dying until maybe hours before it happened so like… yeah I could call for him to film but do you think a 60+ y/o man is rushing over fast enough to catch what I’m seeing when he doesn’t understand the severity? Or really even if he did because the most concerning stuff wasn’t like… drawn out stuff.)

[emiliemaria]

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[s1x-foot-deep]

AN OLDER THAN ANCIENT FORCE

THAT SLAYS THIS LIFE WITH NO REMORSE

[acaciapines]

back on that owl house daemon au editing grind (ive been busy + writing other stuff so after editing one i sorta. stopped for a month or two lol) and. oh god i knew 2 was gonna be bad but its BAD yall. like not content-wise a lot of the actual writing + plot is totally fine and will stay but. i wrote this before i got into my grove of episode, inbetween, episode (ie 1 -> 1.5 -> 2) SO. THAT MEANS. THIS ENTIRE 30K THING IS GETTING SPLIT INTO 1.5 AND 2.....

and obvi i'll have to write a LOT bc the parts going into 1.5 and 2 are spread across the entire fic :) so uh. um. this is gonna be fun.

[maddiefriendlovesbilly]

Writing Challenge: how long can you go without looking at the ugly ass wiki for vital lore info to avoid burning your eyes out? my record is currently years long

[freedthedark]

// Thinking about how Freed mastered, trained and improved his Dark Écriture is all well until you stop thinking about the self-enhancement spells such as teleportation and wings and go over to the mental and physical torture and direct death spells. I mean... he had to test the efficiency somehow, right? He had to train this somehow. Oh, people suffered. People died.

[get-the-medjacks]

Actually working on my final assignments for the degree I'm weeks away from finishing (nah)

Starting a Sonya-centric Group B origin fic (definitely)

[jyuanka]

"his lips tasted like ice and sin"

[nomairuins]

ooo once i get my laptop back its gonna be so spreadsheet

[malachitezmeyka]

I’ve written myself into an angst hole so fucking deep that I’m immensely glad I won’t be the one who’ll have to get the characters out of it

[touchlikethesun]

i don’t wanna packkkkkkk all of my stuff should just magically appear in my bag

[ursa-arrowbreaker]

Why does everything remind me of them

[pharaohbean]

to everyone who is annoyed at the out-of-order call and response masterlists: hi im also annoyed and theyre MY masterlists LOL