#soon to be ofmd

[ashercries23]

i blame @killerqueen-ofwillowgreen for this 🫶

istg if one of us likes something, the other will get into it. our brains are so 🤝. it’s legit wild

[blakbonnet]

emerging from a 100k fic battered and dehydrated like what day is it

[bizarrelittlemew]

calling it right now that season 3 starts like this

[xxlumos]

Let me look at you 💖

[ohtangerines]

Of course we'll go on a couple of ship raids! But first: a spa day ✨

[greykolla-art]

I’ve been brushing up on my anatomy for…reasons….🖤🙏

Man that teaser! I won’t be right in the head until October!

Im also reading just an ungodly amount of smut while I wait. Send help.

[kkintsugi]

Very funny to me how Stede faked his own death and then just.. continues to use his real name?

Ahh yes, Stede Bonnet the Gentleman Pirate, no relation to the other, recently deceased, Stede Bonnet, rumoured to have run away to become a pirate.

[meluli]

Ok so I don't know how to draw digitally but I have been trying and although this is far from good I felt like sharing it because I clearly have no shame it's at least 15% cute

[still-a-morosexual-help]

this year really isn't letting me be normal

[diesel-punk]

More of these old face studies of Stede & Ed I did back when s1 came out and never posted over here.

[edsbacktattoo]

part of me understands why they cut the boyfriend line. imagine if we heard “i love you. i love you” “i know. i know that” AND “i mean i just got back together with my boyfriend” in the same episode. we all would have fucking expired. like there would be no fan base left after that. they did it to save us i think

[figmentof]

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH 1x01 \\ 2x06

[chocolatepot]

(This has been in my drafts for over a month [<- written in the summer of 2022 lol], let's just finish chewing this thing ...)

Part of the reason I'm obsessed with Our Flag Means Death is the magic of hyperfixation, but there's also something about it that just ... certain scenes, certain gifs, I see them and I absolutely melt. And I'm no stranger to romantic media, especially historical romance, so I had to ask myself why this, so much?

And I think the thing that really gets me about the romance in OFMD is that it's so entirely different from mainstream het romance (and again, especially historical romance) and that mainstream het romance is so often lazily written.

How often do you go to read/watch something where the protagonist and love interest immediately have a positive rapport, understand each other, smile at each other, admire each other, have fun together? And in contrast, how often is the love interest marked out by having immediate hostility with the protagonist, sniping, irrational disagreement, disapproval?

I watch Sanditon and Bridgerton mainly just to be aware of what's going on in them, because like it or not I'm kind of a Regency historian of sorts, but I can't really stand them. In the first season of Sanditon, the heroine, Charlotte was presented with two potential love interests, Sidney Parker and James Stringer. The former was the classic "we act like we hate each other because of our sexual tension," the latter was really adorable and full of smiles and care for each other. And ... Charlotte barely seemed to realize that Stringer was a real possibility, all narrative heft was given to her plotline with Sidney and of course they turned out to be in love. Then the second season rolled this back and brought in two new love interests, again with one having a positive relationship with her and the other constantly arguing and criticizing; the apparently positive one turns out to be a creepy Wickham while the one she initially dislikes turns out to be a good Darcy with manpain to deal with. (Same thing with her sister's love triangle.)

And there are loads of other examples where a potential love interest who is immediately pleasant turns out to be deceptive/meh while a potential love interest who spurs fights is endgame. Basically, this is because you need some kind of obstacle to stop the characters from getting together immediately. In historical romance written in the present day, social class and money aren't acceptable obstacles unless there's a pressing need for them written in (hence the prevalence of "father gambled away our fortune and you must marry well, my dear, to save us from the poorhouse" plots), and "we met in an awkward way and will not get over it" works, narratively, as an obstacle.

In contrast, what goes on in OFMD s1 is so much more complex - the characters liking each other but having internal reasons not to recognize their feelings or act on them gives more room for showing why they actually are good together.

[girlbossblackbeard]

how are we feeling besties

[offline-crowbot]

[bizarrelittlemew]

wake up babes it's Stede go get your man Saturday!