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Our dates are officially CONFIRMED, deposit paid! Make your plans!

We'll be screening both seasons of OFMD over two days at The Grand Cinema in Tacoma, WA.

MARCH 9-10, 2026 (that's the Monday and Tuesday after ECCC)

8AM-1PM

Suggested cost per person: $35 (covers both days)

No one turned away for lack of funds (but I do have to give the theater $700 one week before the screening, so if you can afford the $35, please help!)

If you plan to attend, please RSVP using this form so that I can get a headcount.

March 9-10, 2026 (the Monday and Tuesday after ECCC) 8am-1pm The Grand Cinema 606 S Fawcett Ave Tacoma, WA 98402 Suggested cost per person

The Grand Cinema is an independent movie theater located in downtown Tacoma and convenient to transit. It's within walking distance of several hotels, one gay bar, several unofficial gay bars, a bunch of good food (including tacos), and karaoke!

Tacoma is about an hour south of Seattle.

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sharktooth-jacket

ofmd has so many great characters but can i just take a sec to say how much i appreciate Pete. he means so much to me!

Pete is a bald, chubby guy with a speech impediment and visible facial scarring. and i'll be honest, when the show first started i thought i knew where they were going with him. i'm also a bigger guy with a speech impediment. i'm used to characters who are like me in these ways being nothing but jokes.

and that...never happens. no one ever mentions Pete's lisp or pretends they can't understand him. he's a fat, bald gay man with a lisp and the show presents him as desirable, attractive, and really just a decent guy. there are no jokes about Lucius "settling" for him or cracks about "really? you're dating him?" and Lucius kind of going "oh beauty's on the inside," there's none of that. Lucius and Pete very obviously find each other sexy, and other characters treat their relationship with respect and feel genuine joy for them.

it's just so, so refreshing. when Pete is the butt of a joke, it's because he's a blowhard and a big ol goofus, not because of things he can't help. he's shown as desirable and attractive because he is, and that's not a joke. he even gets a sweet story about moving past toxic masculinity and finding love, and he's one of the funniest characters on the show with so many great lines! i just love how the writers handled this character so much.

#ofmd

vintage--lilacs

Nathan is the real treasure

piratecaptainscaptainpirates

Need more positivity on my dash, so I wanna talk a bit more about how fucking amazing OFMD's writing for its characters of color is!

Now, I'm a professional historian (phd student 😔🤘🏾) and I read and watch a lot of historical fiction because I love it, right? And I have literally never seen a piece of historical fiction that is so respectful to its characters of color.

Usually, in works of historical fiction that actually bother to include characters of color, they fall into two big camps. The most common one is trauma porn, where poc only exist so White characters can save them, feel sorry about them, or so White audiences can pat themselves on the back for feeling sorry about them. Also popular are works that include characters of color but don't bother thinking about how race impacts their experiences in historical settings (shows like Bridgerton come to mind; they want to include poc but handwave racism). And in general I prefer the latter but it still takes me out of the story.

But OFMD hits just this amazing balance. There are many characters of color, and the racism of the world they live in impacts their experiences and perspectives in realistic ways. Ed remembering how his mom told him that fine things weren't meant for people like him has me by the fucking throat, it's so tied up in race and class and it's the root of so many of Ed's self-image issues into adulthood. But the real kicker for me - poc always get the last laugh in OFMD. Yes, the racism in this show is often very realistic, but this isn't a realistic show at its core and it is so, so comforting to know a character who starts acting like a racist dickhead is a dead man walking.

It's so carefully written, and for me it's such a huge comfort: race in OFMD is never hand-waved away, and it's thought-provoking and realistic and relatable. But the show always feels so safe because we know racism in the show is never excused. They tell us in the pilot that if you start being a racist asshole, someone's gonna stab you. Even Stede, our main character - when he makes a racist assumption in the second episode of the show, the narrative encourages us to call him out for it and has a character directly call him a fuckin' racist! He's held accountable and he fucking grows, because unlearning racist biases is important and he doesn't get a pass because he's the main character!

It's not just that OFMD has a lot of characters of color. It's not just that one of our main romantic leads is an indigenous Jewish man. It's not just that characters of color are consistently depicted as smart, clean, competent, and respected. It's that the show respects them enough to think about how racism realistically shapes the world of OFMD, while at the same time providing viewers with a wonderful fantasy of racists getting what they deserve. In the genre of historical fiction, it stands out because it completely avoids the trauma porn and hand-wavey angles, and I can't articulate strongly enough how much I appreciate that.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2

celluloidbroomcloset

Something about Ed and Stede making love for the first time in the bed where Ed cried his heart out, in the bed where they first met.

celluloidbroomcloset

This. Also the blinds are raised, instead of closed, letting the warm lights of the fireworks in as Ed turns to look at Stede. The longing is no longer turned outward, but inward, to where Stede actually is, and it's not despairing, but fulfilling.

The first time the viewer is fully closed out of that space as well, but it's not distancing; it's saying that what's happening belongs to the characters now.

#blackbonnet #our flag means death #ofmd

sherlockig

eijaksa

I think Izzy would be judt. so fucking pissed off. if he had the hiccups

ambitious-pedestrians

This is such an image in my head now

theenoathee

i need a prequel mini-series about stede finding the crew and convincing them aboard asap bc like. where tf does one happen upon buttons in the wild. how’d he snag lucius. where on gods green one was the swede at. i need answers dammit

#ofmd #our flag means death

asgardian--angels

BTS from Samba's baking class

Samba talked about a lot of cut scenes from ofmd s2 during his baking class today!!

First and foremost, the original concept for Calypso's birthday was for it to be Lucius and Pete's wedding crashed by Ned Low. Roach and Wee John were going to play matchmaker to get Ed and Stede to hook up because there was too much sexual tension on the ship. Ed and Stede WERE going to dance. Roach is a huge Ned Low fan and there's a cut scene where he says this to Ned and in return Ned gives him a little extra torture as a reward. Con was originally going to sing 'At Last' by Etta James

The thumb war was improvised, as well as Con's 'rude' in ep5, and the sandwich throw that hit Lucius was planned between Samba, Rhys, and Taika but no one else knew so that's why you can see Nate laughing in the background

There was a cut scene (or multiple) where Buttons kept trying to go feral and escape to the sea in ep1, this is why he has a rope tied around his waist

There was also a scene in ep 1 where they are first looking at their money jar and everyone pitches in what they were able to scrounge up or steal, and they imagine what their 'dream ship' would be like - Pete dreams of a ship where Lucius is alive, Roach dreams of a ship with a big kitchen

There was a cut scene that confirmed the polycule, with Olu, Archie, and Jim all coming out of the bedroom together wearing just boxers

The post-credit scene with Roach and Fang was going to be longer, and end with them drinking wine at Spanish Jackie's prior to the bar fight

Overall, a lot of Jim & Olu scenes were cut, and Ed & Stede material from ep 6 was shifted around and put in eps 7/8.

If I missed anything please add on to this!

#ofmd #ofmd s2

piratecaptainscaptainpirates

Another thing about OFMD I get obsessed about if I think about it too hard is how much Ed and Stede trust each other.

Even in s2e4, when they're still on shaky ground and Ed is understandably upset, they're tense and awkard with each other at first but that so easily falls back into comfort. Ed accepts Stede's compliment about his beard, because he can't even conceive of Stede not meaning it or being manipulative. It doesn't take long for them to get back in step with each other; they don't blame each other or fall back on misunderstandings for the sake of drama. Even though they didn't fully talk everything out, they understand each other so well.

And the part that makes me absolutely insane is in s2e5, when they're talking about Ed's probation and Stede tells Ed the crew will feel better with him once he "stops doing crazy things." It would be so easy for that to sound accusatory, or for Ed to take it the wrong way, but it doesn't. Ed knows, without them having to talk about it, that Stede isn't blaming him or insulting him. He doesn't feel the need to defend himself because he knows Stede isn't attacking him.

They feel so safe with each other. When they're together, you can tell they feel like nothing can hurt them. They're each other's safe space ship.

#edward teach #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #ofmd #ofmd s2

saltpepperbeard

i've been hyper-focused on the beach kisses for two weeks, but decided to revisit the pre-intimacy kiss and fully lost myself in it again. because like...

the way they move as one and hold onto each other so tightly. the way they share so many different thoughts and words simply through their gazes alone. the way stede doesn't proceed without explicit consent from ed, and the way ed gives him a legitimate little nod to signal his ok. the way they both ease towards each other at the same time, and meet each other right in the middle.

the way ed immediately reaches his hand around stede's neck and tugs him impossibly close, effectively making their bodies just melt into one another's. the way stede's hands drop from ed's collar when their kiss begins, and the way ed's hand follows one of his down—intertwined. the way ed reaches his other hand around stede's back, fully embracing him and holding him in a way he's probably always wanted to, holding him in a way where nothing bad could ever possibly reach stede again. the way stede threads his fingers through ed's hair, cradles the back of his head so tenderly.

the way such touch, intimacy, and love comes so naturally to them. the way they've both been so deprived of it, yet with each other, it's like coming home. the way it just clicks, it just makes sense, it just happens so beautifully...

and the way it chases away the bad—turns poison into positivity.

#ofmd s2

darkshrimpemotions

Why is anyone surprised that Stede has a bloodthirsty streak? This isn't OOC or out of nowhere, people!

The man fantasized about PIRACY.

He brained Nigel for talking shit.

He burned a ship full of people alive just for hurting Ed's feelings last season.

He participated in god knows how many raids with Ed while he was "learning" with him, and wasn't put off by all the maiming at all.

He nearly slit Doug's throat in front of a dozen or more witnesses.

He climbed onto a ship full of bloody bodies and was unphased by it completely.

Also, he's a repressed queer man who spent most of his life being denigrated and bullied for it. You don't think he has pent-up rage? Girl.

Stede doesn't have to be the boy who loved flowers and flinched at the sight of blood OR the steely pirate captain, or throw away one to embrace the other.

People can be more than one thing. Most people ARE more than one thing, many times over. You don't have to kill one part of yourself for another. Stede can have a little violence in defense of those he loves and still be overall very kind, in the show about pirates. As a treat.

#ofmd s2 #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #stede bonnet