#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

[bizarrelittlemew]

calling it right now that season 3 starts like this

[xxlumos]

Let me look at you 💖

[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.

[ohtangerines]

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

[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.

[still-a-morosexual-help]

this year really isn't letting me be normal

[fuckyeahisawthat]

So people have already talked about how Stede’s “what does it feel like to be in love” montage doesn’t include one of the most explicitly romantic moments of the series, the moonlight scene. But you know what else is not in there? Anything from episode 9. Not just, y’know, their actual kiss, but all those moments that to us read as grand romantic gestures. Ed signing the Act of Grace. Ed confessing to the murder of some dude he’s never heard of in the hope of sparing Stede. The wedding veil blindfold moment. Ed stepping in front of a literal firing squad to protect Stede.

I do not think that Stede has parsed at all that Ed did all those things out of love. To us the answer to his question on the beach--“How are you taking this so well?”--is obvious: because Ed has been wanting to drop the Blackbeard persona for years, yes, but also because I’m with you. But I think the whole thing is so tangled up with guilt for Stede that he can’t even begin to think of it that way, even by the end of episode 10. It’s still something he did to Ed, dragging him into Stede’s own mess with the Badmintons, costing Ed his freedom, his reputation, even his beard! He agrees with Chauncey that he’s brought history’s greatest pirate to ruin. That’s why he leaves! And even after he’s figured out, oh, I’m in love with Ed, I still don’t think it’s hit him that Ed did all those things because Ed is in love with him.

[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

[girlbossblackbeard]

how are we feeling besties

[offline-crowbot]

[bizarrelittlemew]

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

[jesuschristt-thatsaprettyface]

david jenkins really said fuck everyone who called our ship a bromance

[saltpepperbeard]

No because, the way Stede keeps his eyes blissfully closed well after the kiss ends, and the way he looks so fondly at Ed when his eyes finally open, and the way you can see Ed’s cheeks tilt upwards with the start of his own smile, and the way Ed keeps his hand gently on Stede’s face, and the way they stay so impossibly close together, and the way Ed’s nose brushes against Stede’s because they’re so close together, and—