#the widow ellen conroy

[alexibeeart]

ofmd memes i made on my phone for some reason or another that u can have for free 3/??

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[countesspetofi]

Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Jonathan Frakes guest stars in "Ghost of a Chance," episode 2 of the eighth season of Quincy, M.E. (original air date October 6, 1982).

Frakes plays a young surgical resident working under an eminent heart surgeon played by Hollywood legend Jose Ferrer, who is padding his billing by booking more procedures than he can possibly do himself, and then leaving the actual surgery to be done by inexperienced, unsupervised residents without the knowledge of the patients.

Other Trek connections under the cut:

The family of a patient who dies as a result of this arrangement, who request an autopsy from Dr. Quincy, is played by future Next Generation guest stars. The patient's widow is Ellen Geer, who played Dr. Kila Marr, the Federation expert on the deadly crystalline entity in "Silicon Avatar."

And the patient's brother is Nicolas Coster, who had a memorable role as Admiral Haftel, the Daystrom scientist who tries to take Data's daughter Lal away from him in "The Offspring." It wasn't until I was researching this post that I learned Coster passed away just over a year ago. I rewatched "The Offspring" last night because I needed my heart broken again, I GUESS.

"She won't survive much longer. There was nothing anyone could have done. We'd repolarize one pathway and another would collapse. And then another. His hands… were moving faster than I could see, trying to stay ahead of each breakdown. He refused to give up. He was remarkable. It just wasn't meant to be."

Harry Townes, who portrayed the underground leader Reger in the Original Series episode "The Return of the Archons" plays the chief of staff of the hospital where Ferrer and Frakes practice.

The head of the Board of Medical Quality Assurance is played by character actor and Fifth Level Eyebrow Master Philip Pine. He also played Colonel Green, one of the "Evil" historical figures the Excalbians conjure up for the battle between the forces of Good and Evil they stage in the Original Series episode "The Savage Curtain."

Unfortunately we never get to see the face of the surgeon on the left, but he's played by Conroy Gedeon, better known to Trek fans as the agent who apprehends Dr. McCoy and takes him off to the "Federation funny farm" in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

[ourflagmeansgifts]

Rating: T | NAWA | Words: 3,140

For @lnich, by @chaotic-neutral-knitter

Relationships:

Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet

Mary Allamby Bonnet & Evelyn Higgins

Characters:

Mary Allamby Bonnet

Evelyn Higgins

Stede Bonnet

Blackbeard | Edward Teach

Widows' Support Group (Our Flag Means Death)

Ellen Conroy

Additional Tags:

Hijinks & Shenanigans

epistolary (sort of)

Fluff and Humor

Love Letters

Canon Universe

Canon Compliant

the inherent eroticism of stabbing your crush

mary bonnet does not catch a break

Mary's group of widows has a new hobby - deciphering the mysterious letters they keep finding on the beach. Unfortunately, Mary knows exactly who they're from.

[some-anonymity-preferred]

OFMD, racism, and the omission of slavery

TLDR: There's great consensus that Our Flag Means Death knocks it out of the park depicting queer lived experience. That it is a show by queers for queers. There's no such consensus that OFMD does the same for racialized identities. I firmly believe that it does, and that the contention comes from white fans publicly Not Getting It, and fans of color feeling frustrated by that. There's a strain of criticism from viewers of color that wishes OFMD had gone harder on racism (especially wanting it to have named racialized chattel slavery as the source of Stede's wealth), and while I sympathize with that wish, I'm not sure I need to see it in my cozy gay pirate romance, not least because I'm not sure it would do much to change white fans' behaviors. Ultimately, I don't need the extra pain for a reward that is unlikely to materialize.

Writing out my answer to Day 4 of the 30 Day OFMD Challenge/Countdown to Season 2, "Reasons you like OFMD," made me articulate some of my thoughts on the show's ("gently, brutally realistic," in my words) handling of racism vs its near omission of the racialized chattel slavery that defined the economy it takes place in.

I understand and sympathize with the criticism that the show does not at least name slavery as the source of Stede's wealth. At some level I do want the show to at least that do that, and I feel disappointment that it doesn't. Or hasn't yet, and regardless of whether it does so in season 2, that it didn't do it out of the gate. It would have been, weirdly, an easy mention to include.

Take the piano lifters in S1E10. One of them says that they're being "paid" only to lift the piano halfway. I can understand this as an illustration that there were free people of color in Bridgetown, but I don't think the show at that point has addressed the pervasiveness of slavery directly enough to earn that beat, if that's what the writers were going for. Either they needed to have named the source of wealth in the society well before that, or they missed an opportunity to do it here. The line could have been "We don't have to get it in the window, only lift it halfway up. Master's orders," and cut to Stede. Maybe even Stede looking queasy (about something else). That would have done the trick.

The other moments when the show addresses slavery are much less oblique than my charitable reading of the paid workmen: Olu telling Stede he has no alternative to piracy; Frenchie and Roach dipping on "Man for sale!"; the British officer calling Frenchie a slave; Frenchie having been "in service;" the aristos at the boat party having slaves explicitly so-called on board; and Ed punching Izzy partly for buying him (and to Izzy's one great credit, him admitting that was fair).

When it comes to racism beyond slavery, OFMD gives us so, so much. Ed's public image. Every last damn thing about S1E5. Ed's relationship with Izzy. Ed's relationship with Frenchie. Ed's relationship with Fang. Lucius and Fang's first flirtation. Fang, Fang, Fang. Ed's backstory. Jack's gross fucking nickname for Ed. Stede's obliviousness and the ways it evolves. The ways the crew interacts with the outside world, sometimes down to how they are positioned in a shot, or absent from a discussion. The natives on shipwreck island. The ways the show chooses to maintain historical accuracy in casting (a pirate show allows for so much diversity and they use that so effectively) and the ways it chooses to upend them (Taika as Ed, Ashna Sharan as The Widow Ellen Conroy--both of which serve to highlight that British colonial destruction extended well beyond the period when the show is set).

Here's the thing: I don't think OFMD is any less direct in addressing racism than it is in addressing anti-queerness, especially given that racial identity is a secondary theme in the show. The most explicit and physically violent act of anti-queerness we see is young Stede and the rowboat incident. I feel that S1E5 is at least as explicit (it's certainly as breathtaking and nauseating for me) about racism and, to be fair, chattel slavery. We don't see someone killed for their for queerness, and we don't see enslaved people whipped in a field, and we don't need to. I'm glad we don't. We know those things are there, out of frame; we're over here vibing with our escapees and living out their revenge fantasies, and if we feel survivor's guilt, well. Who among us doesn't have experience dealing with that?

What I do think happened is that OFMD's target audience, queers, know to look for all the queer coding and subtext and situations and antagonisms and joys and diversity and lived experiences and revenge fantasies that the show so plentifully offers. It offers very nearly as rich a banquet for those of us who have lacked seeing the lived experience of racialized identity depicted that deeply onscreen--but white queers, who are the bulk of the audience, generally don't know how to see that. And boy, are they vocal about the many, many ways in which they miss the point. And so I can understand wishing that the show had bashed them over the head with the Slavery is Foundational and Racism is Bad sticks just a little bit harder. I just--don't need to watch it in my cozy, gay pirate romcom. I don't need the extra pain, and I don't think me seeing it would change white fans' behavior much at all. There's plenty of other media out there that has as its whole point, Slavery == Evil and Racism Kills. If white viewers of OFMD haven't gotten that message already elsewhere, they're not going to get it here. And I don't need their obtuseness shaping my comfort show to their needs.

[averyhollow]

Genre

Gothic Romance, Gothic Horror

Rating

Explicit

Summary

Five years after parting ways with Ed, Izzy has found a sort of quiet working for Spanish Jackie, even if peace of mind remains elusive. Spanish Jackie has been forced to scale back her operations, not so much that she feels freed from the web she’s spun around herself, but enough that she can breathe easier.

Their lives are upended when Frenchie and a message from Ed land on their doorstep.

At Ed’s behest, and with Frenchie in tow, Izzy and Spanish Jackie set sail in pursuit of Alma Bonnet, who’s run off to rescue kidnapped children from the estate of a powerful noble. Their plans for a quick extraction of Alma and her chaperone, the Widow Ellen Conroy, are hindered when grizzly murders trigger a lockdown until the killer is apprehended.

Relationships

Frenchie/Izzy

Frenchie/Izzy/Spanish Jackie

Izzy/Spanish Jackie

Spanish Jackie/Ellen Conroy

Frenchie/Izzy/Spanish Jackie/Ellen Conroy

[nicnacsnonsense]

I just checked the credits for episode 10 and it doesn’t appear there are any named widows aside from Evelyn Higgins and Ellen Conroy. We do see that the dress store being loaned to Mary for her show is Harris Clothiers so presumably one of them is the Widow Harris, but there’s no indication as to which as far as I’m aware and no first name.

feeling like Boo Boo the Fool because I cannot for the life of me find/remember the names of the other Widows, I know there’s Evelyn and then there’s Ellen someone HELP

[ofmdsource]

Hi, sorry to bother you. In your last gifset, the one about 18th fashion in OFMD, who are the characters in the third and eight gifs? Thank you very much.

Hi! In this set here the character in the third gif is The Widow Ellen Conroy (ep 10, portrayed by Ashna Sharan) and in the eighth gif is Eugenia (ep5, portrayed by Jenna Carley). Not a bother at all 🖤

[our-flag-means-death-ao3feed]

Retail Hell (SMAU)

by GayPirateBard (thetreeswhisper)

Social Media AU, set in present day (Portland area) at a fictional corporate retailer called 1Spot, very heavily based on a real one (tar/get).

Stede, a recent divorcee, is looking for a fun & active work environment, and finds himself applying for a job at a department store called 1Spot. Things don’t go according to plan…

Words: 604, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, Other

Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet, Oluwande Boodhari, Jim Jimenez, Black Pete (Our Flag Means Death), Lucius Spriggs, Fang (Our Flag Means Death), Ivan (Our Flag Means Death), Buttons (Our Flag Means Death), The Swede (Our Flag Means Death), Frenchie (Our Flag Means Death), Wee John Feeney, Roach (Our Flag Means Death), Israel Hands, Evelyn Higgins, Spanish Jackie (Our Flag Means Death), Geraldo (Our Flag Means Death), Nigel Badminton, Chauncey Badminton, Mary Allamby Bonnet, Doug (Our Flag Means Death), Jeffrey Fettering, "Calico" Jack Rackham, Widow Ellen Conroy (Our Flag Means Death)

Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet, Oluwande Boodhari/Jim Jimenez, Black Pete/Lucius Spriggs, Fang/Lucius Spriggs, Mary Allamby Bonnet & Stede Bonnet, Mary Allamby Bonnet/Doug, Evelyn Higgins/Ellen Conroy

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Retail, Co-workers, Workplace, Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Christmas, Hanukkah, Halloween, Things catching on fire, the management is bad and staff is not ok, retail STRESS, The Badmintons and Calico Jack existing unfortunately, they get their comeuppance but I apologize for what it takes to get there, bending of workplace safety rules, Bad Decisions, unionizing, vengeful and justified quitting, Alcohol, Cigarettes, Cannabis, Mean Customers, Christian Holidays, Jewish Holidays

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/41546634