#the ofmd Blackbeard vibes tho

[nebula-award]

Took me years but finally made a Bulkhead design I like!

[blakbonnet]

Okok this is the last I'm sending you for now:

Thoughts.

Stede is a qt. Crew is a qt. The guy who has a name like olivewande (I don't know anyone else's name bc I suck at remembering people's names and oh Jim BC that was funny) is a qt.

The guy who looks like he could be from some 80's rock band is kinda mean idk if I like him. His 2 friends are fun tho; they should make a band together if they don't already have one. Like Green Day. But more... Piratey

Red dress nose cutter lady. Wow. Just vibes. I too wish to keep. Mummified version of my murdered husband with me.

And finally, that scene with Blackbeards legs: why does he look like goth anime legs uncle agjsgskshejegjejs. (AND His beard isn't even black. )

These were many scattered thoughts. If you managed to go through them I congratulate you for having patience that only few have. If you didn't. You are not to blame I still love you. It is late I must sleep. Good bye.

There are people I wish would read this no holds barred first time ofmd watcher review so I'm just gonna tag them without saying anything I think: @bizarrelittlemew @asneakyfox @chuplayswithfire @gentlebeard @jaskierx @xoxoemynn @saltpepperbeard @glamaphonic

[lights-at-night]

k so in light of the new ofmd trailer (:DDDD !!! <333) i must yeet my thoughts here

so at some point, stedes gonna be in china. idk how he would end up there, but its before his reunion with ed, which is probably where we pick up that new susan character

ed is absolutely not dealing with the breakup well. hes shown crying (again), states he had a bad night, and the whole “no more booze, no more drugs and no more stede” part implies he absolutely got high and blackout drunk. when did he do this tho? it could have been the night directly after the breakup, which is possible, but what i think is he did thing at 0:26 and went full blackbeard for a day, then had a super-mental-breakdown at night after he did a bunch of piracy. cmon he had it coming dude got abandoned by the first person to value him as he was and after coping well was promptly told by his like oldest friend to act like the media version of himself again and then killed a guy+ and probably more. 

where did the pearls ed is wearing come from? i think hes wearing them at the scene where they raid a wedding and also above picture, idk. he wasnt wearing them in the last appearance in s1 right? i wish for a timeline when did he get those 

anne bonny!! she and someone are here. (lesbians?)maybe stede and ed are reconnecting with the wider pirate community and they accidentally reunite. but thats unlikely considering the “ED!” *slap* part, but that could also be afterwards. Aaaaaaaaaa

why are people fighting at spanish jackies bar 

and someone is yote into the water. i have a feeling its ed bc of the silhouette, but im not sure. It would be fun if lucius like revenge-pushed him in tho 

OKAY MY MASTER CONSPIRACY (not really) 

what with all the british fancy army dudes and “to is the end of piracy” or something, and now “we have one shot to get out of here”, i think they got captured by the english. blackbeard escaped and broke the act of grace contract, which aint a good look for them. so itd make sense if they were to go after the revenge. now they get captured, as its implied in that part that the crew are breaking out of somewhere.

see they are fighting at 1:29

 ALSO KEY THING in 1718 

(https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2022/12/stede-bonnet-and-the-golden-age-of-piracy-part-two/) 

i think the endy bit of ofmd might follow what seems to have happened historically! which…might not be the best thing. 

because the historical stede bonnet dies dec 10, 1718. 

…

i hope that doesnt happen. 

at 1:12: doesnt the guy in white look like the guy ed (tries to?) shoot in the teaser?? something gives me hornigold vibes i think i saw a post about it idk

the only thing my brain came up with for why theyre all wearing garlic and doing the cross at 1:17 was vampires. 

a party definitely happens at some point, love it 

also pretty minor thing but someone does drag in there and i would like to proudly state that i called it a week ago (@queers-of-marybelltownship and @photogenic-strawberry can confirm this) 

someone is swinging between two ships. is this a new way to board ships? man i dont know well just have to see

izzy dealing with the english again is probably going to happen but with the whole “you dont know the first thing about piracy its not about glory its about belonging to something” line i doubt it will be with malicious intentions towards our intrepid protagonists again

i think - i hope - blackbeard dressing in plainer clothing at the end of the trailer as opposed to allllll the black leather is a sign that he and stede have made up and are chill. 

in this season there will be lesbians/sapphics

and may we just admire jims new look 

thats it thank you for reading all 6 hundred and something words of this byeeeeeee

(hope that made sense bc when i copy pasted this from docs all the pictures got removed :’))

[seven-stars-in-his-palm]

hey y'all its been seven hours im not done with the writing lets talk a good omens x ofmd crossover becquse im fucking AMAZING

aziraphale: passenger/medic on a british naval ship. at the beginning of ofmd, he'll be on the Twin's ahip, i forgot what his name was but he's a twib ANYWAYS. aziraphale's the resident Guy, the person you go to for things like advice or medicine and shit. he's kept about because he's useful, and even the other soldiers think he's too polite. but he keeps thr ships blessed, so its okay. his current assignment is to keep the navy in check and make sure they get to heaven, which isssss WOW harder than he expected. he's hanging by a thread. when he becomes part of crew, he starts being the soundboard. like stede but better /hj. he takes turns with telling everyone stories, helps improve the food supply, ACTUALLY KNOWS HUMAN MEDICAL PRATICES, likes watching the relationships aboard foster, looks for new books on raids, etc. just being a Good Vibe. they dont know he's magical, but i feel like frenchie and buttons (or the swede, i always mix those two up, its the one who turned into a bird) would be Onto Him, because they're the most magically paranoid/proficient. he's very like stede, but somehow a more tolerable aura. the crew is wary, especially cause he's british, but they'll be fine.

how aziraphale gets into the story: at the veryyyyy beginning. its during the forced tea party of s1 ep1, as he happened to tag along on the little dingey with the Twin and his men. he REALLY likes the revenge from first glance, and has a good feeling about the group of pirates they've landed upon. but things go awry! the Twin is stabbed thru the eye! but when stede proclaims he did it, aziraphale is ONTO him. the existencial crisis and trama exhude from him. he decides to see this through--and becomes one of the Revenge's hostages semi-willingly. but stede also likes aziraphale--even if he's british--and decides to be chill with him though he' still "texhnixally" a hostage. they bond verrryyyyy quickly, and soon (by like the end of episode 2, when the other hostage is tsken by izzy and the rest) is assimilated into the Revenge's crew. this is good, because heaven can tell that there's gonna be such a juicy moral dilemna with stede hehehe. lets get this bitch to stay good okay?? yeah. yeah this is gonna be fine....

crowley: like with most of these crossovers, crowley happened across blackbeard's crew. he was dayum, they get around and im bored af, lets do this. kinda like with stede (but not strong enough to satiate it) ed thinks he's a breath of fresh air and therefore keeps him around even if he's never seen crowley Kill anyone (they always make miraculous escapes). no one knows he’s a demon but he 100% has that record in pirate community. calling him the devil and the tempter and how he has a silver fucking tongue and shit like that, it follows him EVERYWHERE. not much more about him other than the basics like personality, except it 1000000% has long hair, wears black like the rest of them, and is oddly british. he's not army tho, so its okay. rebel 🙌

WAIT EDIR: maybe crowley can hear on the republic that Izzy’s looking for those naval men and THEN join Blackbeard’s crew. Like solely just to get aziraphale back. hmmm…..

how crowley enters the story: crowley hears about aziraphale's interception when blackbeard and da crew learn about the Revenge ravaging the navel ship. "damn it, i gotta go save my angel." he REALLYYYYYY wants aziraphale back and gets pretty antsy about it because he had no idea what he was ngl, turns out he was on the FUCKING SEA the whole time. (he also hates that he joined the british army but whateva, he dont know it wasnt voluntary.) they meet on the republic of pirates when stede's almost hung and shit, crowley is in Rampage Mode, aziraphale is in Pissed Mode because they're attacking their Fucking Ship, stede is Dying, ed is Doing His Thing and such. thinking about making aziraphale and blackbeard fight and aziraphale wiping the floor with him or smth. aziraphsle would also be the only one to notice stede and cut him down early and protect him during all the chaos, which would probablyyyyyyy get blackbeard on his ass and probably try and kill him which would not work out with ANYONE, anddddd you know. first impressions change shit. the point stands: ed is on, romance is a foot, and aziraphale and crowley are on the same ship. wahoo! and now that ed's on the path to become softer, hell's like AYO KEEP HIM ON HELL'S SIDE and now crowley's got an excuse to stay. i mean, he and aziraphale Could employ the Arrangement, but they were technially different assignments, and this crew looks like they're having the funnest fuckig fun and they feel so genuine. might as well stay...like they say--keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. and by that it means living on the same ship. also it deadass looks like they need miracles to keep together or they'll fucking sink. lol

and the reason why this is important is because that season 2 ends up HELLA different, and season 1's adventures alter a tad, with both crowley/ed's infamy and aziraphale's encouragement for stede to become a real pirate and Miracle Employing. so yay crossover achieved! I THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT THIS CROSSOVER ALRIGHT, SO MANY OTHERS HAVE TOO BUT FUCK

also btw here’s some canon divergences I can already imagine:

- aziraphale and crowley being present during the ‘you wear fine things well’ episode (can’t remember what happens Exactly, but I do know). aziraphale with ed and stede while crowley is helping frenchie and olu with their pyramid scheme. they both contribute wahoo!

- lucius is the ship marriage counselor and he’s onto these guys. he’s watching. Waiting. Advising

- when the whole act of grace shit happens, Aziraphale’s like FUCK IT and before ed can proclaim it he just snaps all of the enemies to sleep. he’s sheepish about it. everyone freaks the fuuccckkkkkkkk out even tho he saved them and shit Happens. it probably results in someone clubbing him over the head in panic and then Everyone Else Panics More. I can see it in my mind. this changes a lot of things canon on. ough

- munity is either much more prevalent or tampered down a lot. no in between. either mutinies left and right or they’re content. hm

okay that’s really it. Back To Writing Hell

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

i dont get why people are being so mean to you its not that serious. but a big theme of black sails is storytelling (as its a prequel to treasure island) and part of that is shown through the deconstruction of tropes and taking apart pirates as big hetero hypermasculine romantic heroes. so when flint comes off that way in the pilot its very intentional, its creating the idea of him as a legend like they do with blackbeard in ofmd

I mean it hasn't gotten that serious so far. I wouldn't call an unserious elmo meme and a marvel enjoyer accusation overly mean considering that this is the internet. but damn they were real quick to come for me weren't they.

Also thank you for the update that's interesting. I still think that the pilot episode gave me nothing tho. The blackbeard scene with the hookers was kind of a vibe and I liked Max but it literally didn't produce any serotonin for me idk. Stede popped episode 1 and has continued popping Flint fell flat. I've been told that you have to get through the first season to get to the good stuff but damn that's a lot to get through isn't it? Stede and company are fun right away. Maybe I'll go back to Black Sails someday but it's just.... IDK I just like mess and fun right now and Blacksails is oops all drama.

Also literally anyone being like "But Black Sails makes anti colonial points" "But Black Sails is a deconstruction of masculinity" OFMD is also those things and continues to be mostly fun idk.

[hugh-lauries-bald-spot]

coming from someone who has never been near or in the ofmd fandom, i believe that stede (bonnet ?) was a real life plantation owner and blackbeard mightve been a slave owner (???) idk

the main issue ive seen people bring up is that the writer (s ?) (taika waititi and maybe others) couldve made their characters anybody including just fictional characters but they named them after real life racists <3 also waititi has quite a few other weird incidents of anti black racism under his belt. and it gets ignored in favor of sweet gay rep ok thats all i think

Man i think it goes further than sweet gay rep what with what its for queer couples of color and middle aged love but god do i see your point and thats so strange ive never eve n heard of taika being anti black (tho to be fair i only know him from like. flight of the concords in that one ep and ofmd) so id appreciate some examples not in a Prove It way, just for my own edification

Also if i had to take a guess i think they kinda just liked the Vibe of blackbeard and stede like on a more "hey that mustve been a weird friendship lets go nuts with that" level but like i do see what ppl mean like Its Free To Make Ocs Who Didnt Own People or just do some rebranding + call them something similar

If anyone wanna join in this convo feel free i wanna get some Opinions

[our-flag-means-death-ao3feed]

Deserve Is A Strong Word (Or, four people that realized Ed can treat Izzy badly too, and one time that everyone realized)

by A_Concerned_Citizen

It's been a painfully and regrettably slow realization, Lucius thinks, but it's also one that has been coming for a long, long time. The realization that the relationship between Edward and Izzy is well and truly fucked. - Izzy is a dick sometimes but Ed is too and that's what this fic is. (Also me pushing my Izzy & the crew besties agenda)

Words: 14516, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of OFMD Fics

Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, Gen, M/M

Characters: Israel Hands, Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Lucius Spriggs, Jim Jimenez, Fang (Our Flag Means Death), Ivan (Our Flag Means Death), Olivia the Seagull (Our Flag Means Death), Crew of the Revenge (Our Flag Means Death)

Relationships: Crew of the Revenge (Our Flag Means Death) & Israel Hands, Israel Hands & Everyone, Israel Hands & Jim Jimenez, Israel Hands & Lucius Spriggs, Fang (Our Flag Means Death) & Israel Hands, Israel Hands & Ivan (Our Flag Means Death), Fang (Our Flag Means Death) & Israel Hands & Ivan (Our Flag Means Death), background Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet, background oluwande Boodhari/Jim Jimenez, Blackbeard | Edward Teach & Israel Hands

Additional Tags: yeah thats right, Every character that doesn't have a pov/is a main character in this fic, gets named under the crew of the revenge tag, except olivia, she gets her own tag., Angst, Israel Hands Has Issues, Israel Hands-centric, Israel Hands Needs a Hug, Israel Hands is Bad at Feelings, Warning: Israel Hands, Fluff, the crew appreciates Izzy, (even if he yells at them when they don't do their work), boy oh boy do they have a funky vibe, how do you tag, fluff between the crew and Izzy, Israel Hands gets support, unfortunately not a hug, he and Jim are besties and this is my truth, he is also besties with olivia, i don't know what to tell you, no beta we die like calico jack, Happy Ending, 5+1 Things except it's 4+1, Hurt/Comfort, Kinda, Emotions, izzy has them, Non-Chronological, Last +1 pov is the last chronologically tho, Angst with a Happy Ending, the toe incident is mentioned, everyone realizes that even though Izzy is toxic towards Ed, Ed is also toxic towards Izzy, For once Lucius isn't carrying the team emotionally, his pov is pretty small and distant from Izzy himself, my man deserves to just hang out with his partners tbh

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/44702629

[our-flag-means-death-ao3feed]

Let us form a circle and dance, let us devour all the unsightly masses.

by plunderheavenblind

Edward (?) wakes up and does his best to make Izzy happy.

(He dreams of eating clouds and the purple sky above him.)

Words: 2446, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of 2022 OFMD Olympian Prompt Challenge

Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con

Categories: M/M, Other

Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Israel Hands

Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Israel Hands

Additional Tags: OFMD Olympian Challenge, Food Metaphors, Food is People, Cannibalism Play, Cannibalism, Kinda?, Depends cause like..., Alternate Universe - Not Human, Human/Monster Romance, Comes Back Wrong, Gore, Amnesia, Kinda, Eating, Post-Canon, Horror, Body Horror, Rape/Non-con Elements, Like not truly cause it's Izzy and it's Edward but the Vibes aren't consensual, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, So much dead dove please I'm begging you, If you watched Fate Stay Night Heaven's Feel II and hated it, Don't Read This, Dreams vs. Reality, Weird dreams, Implied Trans Izzy, Tentacles, Dark Fantasy, Bad Ending, For Izzy kinda, Edward (?) is happy tho :D

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/43162731