#young blackbeard

[humans-are-tasty]

[perpendicularpotatoes]

Maybe day number eight was when he had finally lost it [Fic]

Young Ed and Jack during the Hornigold Era. I suppose you can pretend it's someone else if you prefer to block out that particular part of Ed's history (it being Ed's business and all). 😉

But if you're not scared off, you can check out the accompanying fic on my AO3. (link to profile since it's explicit, mind the tags)

A becalming robs young Edward of all his usual coping strategies to deal with his brain when it becomes unbearable. With Jack's somewhat accidental help, he discovers a new one and learns some things about himself along the way. [Jack is pretty okay in this and doesn't really initiate any of the inadvisable behavior even if he is a bit over-enthusiastic once given a direction, but it is well received.]

It was originally conceived as a part of the longer fic I'm working on that is exploring the question of why you'd get a "Trust no one" tramp stamp, since that kinda feels less like a reminder to yourself and more like a message to the people topping you...

And which is ending up being a character and relationship study, exploring amongst other things the learning and unlearning of (internalized) toxic masculinity through seven times Ed had sex with various people and the history of his tattoos spanning from Hornigold's ship to Post-Canon Era.

But this part ended up not really fitting so I'm posting it as standalone one-shot that's more unapologetic smut.

And I'll obviously post again once I start actually uploading the more serious fic (and the accompanying fanart!)

Should be soon, since the first three chapters (and most of the art) are basically finished, but I want all seven properly planned out before I start uploading.

[scary-flag]

A quick young Ed sketch for Follow The Tides.

[nortsauce]

To go along with baby bonnet here are some young ed and young stede doodles i did months ago :P

Is it everything you ever wanted, Stede Bonnet?

[lyoneve]

The new crew member on Hornigold’s ship gets real flirty when he drinks and Izzy has finally stopped pretending to be annoyed by it

Young!edizzy anyone? 👀

[sweet-bazzle-bean]

Ed listing "Orgasms" as one of the pros of living is of course hilarious, but him knee-jerk answering "Warmth" is going to haunt me to my grave.

[nerd-elf]

Please give me suggestions, I’d love to see more sweet couples ❤️❤️❤️

[sleepystede]

Something I spent way too long thinking about during my 56382944th rewatch, in regards to a very specific line that Ed says in episode 1 of S2:

I'm the fucking devil and these are the kids.

I've always casually thought it might be song lyrics that went over my head (we see Ed using lyrics a lot - like the whole, "here I go again on my own" sequence), but it's not--

Ed craves death. He wants the crew to kill him. And despite Ed never stepping as fully into a parental figure with his crew, he sees that modeled from Stede and no doubt he thought about it.

If the crew are Ed's kids, and if the first person Ed ever killed was HIS DAD for being horribly abusive (devilish behavior)--

Ed is embodying qualities he saw in his dad in hopes of the crew finally killing him.

This adds another layer of reasons Ed experiences so much guilt when he comes back from the gravy basket. He deeply UNDERSTANDS the pain the crew feels, the agony that led them to make that decision.

He gets it because he lived it.

Forgiving himself for these horrible deeds also means forgiving little Ed for what he did to protect himself and his mother.

There's also the more surface-level meaning of "son of the devil" archetype, with the crew being presented as just as devious as the devil himself. But this analysis doesn't sit with me as deeply as Ed=embodying his dad.

[loren91]

The little gay shoulder wiggle might be my new favourite thing ever

[moongothic]

...I... I do not know what on earth compelled me to make this nor why, but I will not be taking criticism at this time

[guyeatingtomatos]

I’ve been reading too many “Childhood friends” Aus, so here is Ed and Stede making a flower chain. :)

[lyoneve]

Nothing to see here! They’re just taking inventory…

[sibmakesart]

First act as Captain

[theogem]

Ed in his early twenties was the type to break your heart and not even realize it. Absolute fuck boy that you know is a bad idea but you go there anyway.

(Also hey!! My first time drawing that fucking ship tattoo I hate it but will probably keep doing it now that I've started)

[thetidetakesmehome]

Wanted to draw a young(er) Edward Teach cause we all know that he made everyone drop to their knees. Also Ofmd has been my brainrot for the last couple months and it need to get out of my system ✍️🏼

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

wait hold on...

(also by @/luuuna-rambles tumblr's gif search is a nightmare)

Ed, the greatest pirate captain of all time:

And then of course we have Stede who wanted to be captain so bad he paid his way in

And Izzy who wanted to be captain so bad that the only way to placate him was to promise he could be captain and who had a tantrum when Ed didn't kill Stede in order to retire and leave Izzy the captaincy like he said he was going to, a tantrum which lasted 4 episodes and almost got stede killed twice and everyone involved killed once: