#stede is sunshine

[iris-in-the-rain]

After yet another awful experience with a doctor, a despondent Ed decides he's tired of living with pain and googles physiotherapy in his area, while lying in bed, sobbing, his knee swollen and hurting. He comes across a place called 'Be Well - The Best Revenge is Living Pain-Free' He makes an online appointment, then falls asleep, tears drying on his face.

The day arrives and Ed, while feeling better, still decides to try it out, but doesn't hold out much hope. The place is welcoming and cozy and instantly makes Ed feel safe and at ease. A receptionist called Frenchie tells him about the place, until a human sunshine, by the name of Stede Bonnet, introduces himself and leads Ed into a treatment room.

'So what brings you here today, Ed?' Stede asks with a warm smile and that does it. Ed bursts into tears. He cries, great heaving sobs, and Stede offers him tissue after tissue, no judgement, just lets him cry.

'I understand, Ed, I do, and it's okay. I am so sorry to see you in this much pain. I'm glad you're here, though.' Stede says, as Ed tries to stop crying and fails. 'It's okay, I promise you, you're safe here.'

Ed eventually stops crying, apologises, but Stede's having none of it. Frenchie brings Ed a cup of tea, while Stede tells Ed about the place, and how he started it, because he wanted to help people live without pain, as much as he could.

And then Ed tells Stede about his stupid, fucked up knee, and his hands, with arthritis and how much it hurts every day, but he's learned to live with it, but he hates his stupid body and why can't he just not be in pain and why do the doctors treat him like shit, and why does his stupid body hates him, too, and he so tired and so alone and he just can't do this anymore.

And Stede listens patiently, and doesn't interrupt him and his face is so full of compassion and when Ed finishes, Stede gently takes his hands and looks at him to really make him listen, his own eyes shining at Ed's distressing story...

'Ed, I am so sorry that you had to deal with so much. My heart hurts for you so much. I promise you that I will do absolutely everything in my power to help you. You deserve to not only not be in pain, but to be happy.' More tears run down Ed's face at that. 'Will you let me help you, Ed? I would really like to help you and make life a bit easier for you. You deserve to be comfortable and happy. And without pain.'

Ed wants to believe him. He wants to believe that there actually is someone in his corner. And something about Stede makes him believe that there is hope.

'Yes' Ed says. 'I'd like that.'

[ofmd-ann]

I adored you. You were so soft, so diabolically angelic looking

~ Henry Miller, Letter to Anais Nin (1932-1953)

[tsuyonpuu]

Izzy is just a little baby 🥺

(yes I went feral for the new ofmd episodes yesterday )

[gentlebeard]

If I could hold you for a minute, Darling, I’d go through it again

For @edsbacktattoo & @stedesearring 💕 Show: Our Flag Means Death - Season 1 & 2 Music: Francesca by Hozier YouTube

[avastyetwats]

Izzy Hands and Stede Bonnet.

[gentle-baby-beard-bonnett]

Me every morning, looking dramatically out the window: *sigh* I hope Rhys Darby is having the best day🥺😭

[lovebunnie]

it really was something to see how tightly ed grabbed stede during that kiss, around his waist and cupping the back of his neck. like he just couldnt wait, like he was dying in the moments he wasnt holding stede because he was safest when ed could cradle him. the world couldnt hurt them, nothing could hurt them because ed wasnt going to let stede go

[neverbelessthan]

Rhys Darby just casually eviscerating me at 9pm on a Monday evening. (x)

[rocketrouquine]

Are you fucking kidding me ?

I’m not ready for the BTS.

[ofmd-ann]

Well, I'd been gut-stabbed 😃🔪

[the-magpieprince]

someone more talented than me PLEASE write a cherik ofmd au

[hang-on-lil-tomato]

putting his weirdness out there and being proud of it…Rhys Darby 😍🥰

”Rhys Darby, one of the stars of HBO Max’s Our Flag Means Death, is a bright and shining point of joy in the world. ”

this got my misty

as did:

Darby said, “There’s nothing offensive to anyone. It’s just about laughter for laughter’s sake, me taking the piss out of myself in awkward situations, me as a human, and me being confident enough, without realising it, over time, to just put my weirdness out there and be proud of it.”

😭😍

[larphis]

It‘s so weird that I got into the Magnus Archives a few weeks ago (I‘m on episode 110 now) and am at the same time in the heights of my OFMD hyperfixation because the genres of both franchises could not be any more different from each other yet they both share an opposite-aesthetics couple with a softspoken sweetheart, tortured by a traumatic childhood that always gets bullied by everyone around them because they tend to be much kinder than expected of someone in their position and their grumpy, stunning poc goth boyfriend with long greyish hair who pretends that he hates them because he is afraid of hurting other people by letting them get to close to him when actually he is crushing hard but at the same time he also has to fight the eldritch horrors of his legacy as a full-time monster.

[shittywriterbrain]

every time jon talked about how annoying martin is i already knew i was going to like him. and then the second martin opens his mouth i'm like yeah. yeah i love you actually

[astro-naut9]

you ever wanna write a shipfic but you doubt yourself writing the characters

the amount of shipfics I could've written</33 I actually did upload one (cough cough jedtavius cough) and im glad people liked it but i felt like i didnt do them justice </33

[krowscrawl]

youthful tenderness

inspired by Sunshine, Sea Salt, and Starlight by TrashCanAce