#sfrop

[xxprincess1x]

I've just been at the Starfury con Q&A and I love that Rhys said (something along the lines of) he wished Taika could be with him at a con so he could experience it, and so he could talk with him about what went into playing their characters. I think that would be something so special not just for us but for him as well ❤️

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

Rhys today. He's being a condor coming out of a volcano in the last pic... Beautiful man.

[ofmd-ann]

I went ahead and improved the toning in this ✨

via Starfury Conventions

[jessystardust]

Oh, they're too cute. (From Con's instagram!)

[ofmd-buys-boats]

Sorry Babes! Tumblr is being difficult, have a link!

As promised, please enjoy our #TinyCrewBigRaffle prize winner draw by our lovely Princess Izzy - Skye (cheenii.art ). (See thread for winners!)

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

Rhys said he didn’t deliberately play Stede as autistic-coded. I was at a fan meet earlier though with him and he skirted around his neurodiversity. He said he didn’t need to get diagnosed as he felt it didn’t affect his life and that it would make him feel self-conscious to analyse himself too closely, and what makes him, him.

So, I think from that we can take that Stede is played as autistic-coded, not because Rhys plays him that way deliberately, but because a) he is written that way and b) Rhys Darby is really the only person who could play the part convincingly. Rhys is a neurodiverse person playing a neurodiverse characterisation. It’s why it didn’t work with other actors. Rhys is coming from an idiosyncratic place of knowing without actually ‘knowing’, and it’s why the performance is so emotionally authentic and unself-conscious.

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

These guys have a message. Keep fighting. Keep the love alive. Keep community alive. We are the future. We can do this.

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

‘Stede is fearless.’

~ Rhys Darby, 24 Nov ‘24, Heathrow SFROP.

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

Just to clarify what I think Rhys meant by this. Not that Stede is never scared because he obviously is, but that he feels the fear and does it anyway. Someone also asked why Stede isn’t scared when he realises Ed is Blackbeard, and Con gave a really good answer, actually - ‘that vulnerability recognises vulnerability’. I wouldn’t quite have phrased it like that, but the idea of synchronicity and reciprocity… yep.

‘Stede is fearless.’

~ Rhys Darby, 24 Nov ‘24, Heathrow SFROP.