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No but, imagine if in S2, once the crew has been reunited and things have more or less gone back to normal, someone jokingly tells Edward that Black Pete always goes on about having sailed with him. And Edward's just like "Oh yeah, I didn't tell you? I must have forgotten. Hey Pete, you told them about that time where you managed to slice the throats of three Frenchmen at once? Pretty badass" and everyone just turns to Pete totally stunned and he's like "I fucking told you!".

cononeillbreastingboobily

He might be a middle-aged man to you. To me tho? That's my 💖✨babygirl ✨💖

ephemeralgalaxies

OFMD is peak "surrounded myself with a friend group then they each started coming out until eventually we realized that we were all queer" and I love them for it

nat-20s

God I fucking love things made by people that are friends

fadedlovemp3

changing your sheets is the hardest thing in the whole world who the fuck cares about sisyphus and his stupid rock i have to take the sheets off my bed and then put new ones on and then in a little bit? ill have to do it again

sleeplessandstubborn

I love you vegan teletubbies who made Europe sing about eating pussies.

leithianxx

Ed has this annoyingly relatable tendency to swing SO overly hard in whichever direction he's nudged. They're captured and they could apparently very easily simply walk away on foot from the Academy with no consequences but Ed won't even entertain it he's just full on "there is no escape :) :) i'm a professional folder now :)" Then he kisses Stede ONCE and in practically the same breath he's asking him to assume new identities and run away to CHINA. Not go back to the ship together, not even start a new life in like, Canada. Has to pick the most extreme far off destination he can think of. He doesn't even take a beat to plan further, he immediately runs off the beach to get started and wants to leave TONIGHT. Poor guy sets himself up for failure at the docks because now he's not just lost Stede, he's lost this entire new life he's constructed all in his head because he's got so far ahead of himself.

He does it in his break up too like he puts on Stede's robe for comfort and all of a sudden he needs to channel this exaggerated version of the parts of Stede's personality that he loves or wishes he could have. Then the MOMENT Izzy tells him he wants Blackbeard back Ed just fully kills a man, severs toes, and rebrands himself to be the most evil version of himself yet. And by doing these things he just breaks his own heart over and over again because he's constantly mourning these false identities and fantasies that he builds up in his head and has to abandon.

All or nothing thinking makes you feel like such a failure because nothing in life is all or nothing, including the ability to stop thinking about things as all or nothing, so it's hard to even begin to start approaching things with caution or moderation because if you fuck up even once well then that's it, I'm a lost cause I won't even try to regulate myself any more and i'll just make giving up & getting my hopes unrealistically up my full time job. We make (deserved) jokes about Edward "Guess I'll Die" Teach but that's exactly what this kind of behaviour is: I'm bored with my life so maybe I'll just DIE ABOUT IT like jesus dude maybe there's something in between "trying dying" and trying to become a completely new and different person either by literally assuming a new identity or metaphorically through intrinsically weaving his sense of self in with Stede's companionship.

I struggle with this so much like i make the most wild impulsive dramatic life decisions sometimes because they feel like the easy solutions to big problems, and measured responses are boring, and boredom is intolerable.

Stede has the exact same problem I just think he's at a different stage of learning how to break this pattern. He seems much more willing to bounce his ideas and impulses off of other people which can give you a lot of valuable outside perspective. He still makes dramatic unilateral decisions like running away to become a pirate and then running back home, but by the end of the latter I think he's realized that there's always a third option. I guess the lesson when you find yourself between a rock and a hard place of 2 extreme options is to remember (ironically) that there IS always an escape.

wistfulrat

it’s jokes on here but rly truly genuinely the thing u like abt taika’s core affect has always been his māori-ness. what ur perceiving in his comedy and writing and emotional beats and exploration of masculinity and general clown shit is peak pasifika. not that islanders have the monopoly on his tone but. since 2 cars 1 night, eagle vs shark, flight of the conchords, boy, hunt for the wilderpeople, what we do in the shadows, our flag means death etc. he has never not been a māori eccentric making distinctly happy-sad dramedies born out of māori boyhood and the cadence of nz aoteoroa village kid humor like. that is an islander doing bits at ur aunty’s funeral if i ever saw one

thenwedied

omille

no words. many thoughts.

izzy-hands

Ed + wearing Stede’s cravat

dathen

I fucking love how Our Flag Means death has explicit, unabashed queer romance and character but ALSO has wall-to-wall metaphors and symbolism. We can have the kiss but we can ALSO read into the colors of wardrobes and whether a character wears gloves or not. We can read into the metaphor of Stede’s secret closet and letting Ed in, and ALSO have a fully fleshed-out storyline about a gay man in a loveless marriage telling his wife “his name is Ed.” We have the red silk scene in the moonlight, of gently handling a bit of cloth to represent a heart, and we have “what makes Ed happy is…you.”

We get all the subtle details of brief touches and meaningful glances, but not instead of explicit queerness—it’s that the unabashedly queer characters and story deserve that level of build-up and poetry.

bookshelfdreams

oh but I adore how everyone in this stupid pirate show is just a guy

I haven't seen ppl talk about it much but. the absolute lack of shredded abs. people show tummy and cleavage and there's not the barest hint of muscle definition anywhere

obviously some of them are very fit but it never leaves "works a physically demanding job and happens to be naturally thin" territory

and guys are fat! guys have bellies and rounded shoulders and chubby cheeks and imperfect teeth and thinning hair and are styled weirdly (that's a whole different post but the crew especially look so unprofessional styled it's great)

and they are still all hot! they are hot and desirable and find each other hot and desirable and I love that

I love to see it! nobody in this show looks like they had a personal trainer. and not just the side characters, not just a token fat guy - obv Taika Waititi is the most beautiful man you've ever seen and that little bit of tummy pudge spilling out of his crop top made us all lose our collective minds. but it's everyone else too; and it's not the extend of it either. no other show would have let black pete within 10 feet of a romance arc, much less been this sweet and sincere about it

this show is so comfortable with the human body in all it's glorious imperfection and I am in love with it