#the gentleman pirate

[smolbus]

madame de bonnetdour for @stedebonnetzine

after the portrait of madame de pompadour by francois boucher

[mon-ster-chen]

[pillowprincess4logan]

edward, please come home your exes are unionizing

[dean-winchesters-clit]

I need y'all to understand how fucking important it is that their lovemaking song was La Vie En Rose.

Those translated covers you hear on TikTok take their lyrics from a Louis Armstrong cover of the original French version sung by Edith Piaf. The English lyrics are beautiful but there are some things lost in translation, which is why I love that they had Izzy sing the original French version while Stede and Ed are making love.

Edith Piaf's version of the song is all about the intensity of love and finding love after a trying time. Her vocals are incredible and bleed all the different emotions she feels while singing. Izzy starts with the English translation of the song, which goes:

But a closer translation to the original French would be:

"Quand il me prend dans ses bras; When he takes me into his arms/ Il me parle l'a tout bas; He speaks to me softly/ Je vois la vie en rose; And I see life through rose-colored glasses."

Obviously this is fine and dandy, but it's the translation of the original French lyrics used later in the episode that really get me. Izzy sings this:

Which translates to this:

"He speaks words of love to me/ They are every day words/ And they do something to me.

"He has entered into my heart/ A bit of happiness/ That I know the cause of.

"It's only him for me/ And me for him, for life/ He told me, he swore to me, for life."

It's that last verse that the English version just wouldn't be able to capture. The translated version of that verse is about angels and love songs and mentions nothing of a vow to love one another for life.

That's what's so special to me about the French version of the song being used in that moment. Edith Piaf sings as a person who has lived through so much pain and suffering (which she definitely did as a French woman living through World War II) and finally finds comfort and peace in the arms of her beloved.

That is ultimately what Ed and Stede are for one another. Safe harbors, calm waters, peaceful days and nights in each other's presence. They bicker and argue and hurt one another, but they always come back together so easily. Stede was hurt and needed reassurance, needed to prove to himself that he wasn't a whim, needed to feel the security of Ed in his arms. And perhaps they shouldn't have gone all the way that night, but they're both impulsive and obsessed with each other and they needed something.

It's that song that lets me know they're gonna be okay. They're intense and impulsive but they compliment each other. They fit together perfectly, and they find comfort in one another no matter what's happened to them in the past. They need their harbors, their anchors, each other. They'd never leave each other behind. They make each other's lives la vie en rose.

(Edit: fixed a translation error)

[figrollandacuppa]

This was entirely self serving, I hope you love it too though! The reference was insane.

I will post the gorgeous reference in a reblog so you can see what I’m talking about.

[mermaidlighthouse]

Can’t get over the absolute dramatics of Stede *when I plan my own fake death fuckery I have to include me calming a jungle cat before being run over by a carriage and having a pianoforte dropped on me* Bonnet and Edward *I will change under water to be able to emerge on a fuckin beach fully donned in my Blackbeard leathers and boots to begin my murder quest to find the love of my life* Teach

[vlcimor]

The best tummy on the planet in Ed's leather 🥹

[notapiratejustbooty]

[jupiterslifelessmoons]

[where-our-stories-start]

So yeah, I have some feelings about Ed's reaction to being tortured himself versus his reaction to Stede being tortured.

[smolbus]

it’s smooch your husband o’clock

[mon-ster-chen]

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[ourflagmeansqueerrights]

[dean-winchesters-clit]

I noticed a detail in the kiss scene that I need to talk about before I combust

Okay, so, I was scrolling through the Our Flag Means Death tag and saw this pair of gifs by @eddie-redcliffe.

Towards the end of the second one, you can see Ed begin to pull back from what is a very chaste kiss. This is when the shot cuts to the over the shoulder of Stede and his hand moves into Ed's hair, holding him in place and turning the kiss more passionate.

Ed's posture becomes more tense before he reaches up and pushes Stede away gently, asking him if they can go slow.

Stede literally did the middle-aged-gay-man-discovers-he-really-likes-intimacy-after-kissing-another-man thing we've been speculating and joking about for a year and a half! Sweet touch-starved baby boy was given the tiniest bit of physical contact and he grabbed hold of it as hard as he could to keep it from going away again.

And Ed calling their hand-holding "perfect" is just so wonderful and reassuring. Almost like he realized that Stede needed some sort of touch to ground him, something to keep reminding him that they're together and working towards more even if Ed isn't ready to go all the way yet. He meets Stede in the middle, finds a place where they're both comfortable and makes it clear that that kind of touch is welcome. Stede needed reassurance that he wasn't being pushed away and Ed gave it to him perfectly and I just-

(all gifs provided by @eddie-redcliffe thank you so much!)

[nerd-elf]

You're a fucking lunatic and I like it.

Iwtv version here

[mermaidlighthouse]

Stede to Anne and Mary: “I’d been gut stabbed and Ed just **happened upon** the ship I was bleeding out on”

ummmmmm Ed??? Eddie???? Babe???? Sweet jellybean???? Have you never told him you were fuckin following him around cuz you were already fascinated with him…like you were down bad just cuz he one upped Izzy…like……