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| hi i'm katie and i want to be a gay pirate |

[do-you-have-a-flag]

the way that this taskmaster fanedit by tiktok user poggers8002 has taken over any associations i might have for the song casual by chappell roan. just greg davies and alex horne holding hands and spinning around in my mind while miss roan sings KNEE DEEP IN THE PASSENGER SEAT AND YOU'RE EATING ME OUTTTTTTT

[consultingfujoshi]

some thoughts re: real life stede bonnet using "captain edwards" as an alias - I am absolutely convinced stede is gonna do this in season 2. like logically....he can't exactly go around announcing he's stede bonnet anymore, can he? he's dead!! he has to keep a low profile, at least for long enough that people will stop believing theres a chance he's still alive. he's going to have to come up with an alias for the first few months of his new pirate career AT LEAST. and you simply cannot deny naming himself "edwards" (the invisible possessive apostrophe is DEAFENING) is just the perfect level of pathetically cheesy shit this newly awakened Romantic Hero Stede Bonnet would pull. I can just imagine his smug little grin now as he announces his new identity to the crew as every single one of them rolls their eyes and groans. he's so embarrassing <3 it's literally perfect

[hcnnibal]

🍰✨✨✨✨

[heartmis]

THIRD WHEELING™ OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH (2022-)

[prettierodds]

i could talk for hours about everything i love about this show, but honestly i can’t stop thinking about the way ED is in love with STEDE?? like let me explain what i can’t get over, it’s the way that stede is the softer, more feminine, ‘weaker’, more stereotypically queer coded one and it would’ve been so EASY for them to make it stede who had an obvious crush on ed. like play it up that he’s a fool in love and everyone sees it except ed but they wrote it the opposite way!!! ed meets stede and it’s love at first sight!! this scary, masculine pirate captain falls so hard and so fast for stede fucking bonnet and stede has no clue!!!!! ed knows he has a crush the whole show and he just embraces it!!!!!! fuck i just love this show so much and i love that ed loves stede it’s literally the best possible thing they could’ve written

[smooth-crimminal-deactivated202]

ED HAVING HIS BEARD TOUCHED BY STRANGERS VS. BY STEDE

[piratemadi]

i dont "ship" anything i just understand .

[tehtariks]

“I didn’t realise how deep the queer baiting thing goes. Being made to feel stupid by stories… ‘Maybe that’ll be me in this story’. And then at the end of it feeling like, ‘Aw. No. No, it’s not me. I’m not in this one’.” -David Jenkins | OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH

[onlylostphysics]

Everyone is worried, all of time, whether they’re interesting or adventurous enough for you. And that bizarre little man likes you very much, and you like him.

Our Flag Means Death | 1x07 This Is Happening

[apple-bottom-jeansx]

I am a WHORE for “the love is requited, they’re both just idiots”

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

“They are STUPIDLY competent at EVERYTHING except each other.”

[ernest-shackleton]

The thing that really gets me is that Stede is already doubting stuff way before Chauncey gives him that one final push. Throughout ep9, he asks if Ed is sure about this and he is noticeably distraught at Ed's clean shaven face.

It comes to a head during their whole conversation over folding socks, when Ed is so uncharacteristically (in Stede's eyes) domestic and gentle, and that results in Stede running away, and then the Kiss and Stede isn't just inexperienced and insecure, but also Plagued By "Fuck, did i ruin him? What have I done?" because Izzy had 'warned' him and these things make Stede believe it:

Stede believes he ruins every semblance of family he has, since he is plagued by guilt over abandoning his wife and kids throughout the season.

Stede got to know (and used to) Ed in his discontent and agitated state, that gradually settled, as Ed fell in love and started to like himself better: only Stede believes the former to be the 'real Blackbeard', as supported by Izzy.

Ed losing his beard, an attribute so heavily exploited in his general image, so mythologised and in turn so revered by Stede in his looking up to Ed, shocks Stede so much because to him it physically manifests his fears - that he ruined Blackbeard.

And then, Chauncey says those exact words to his face. Of course he didn't doubt them. He already believed them before.

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

@fuckyeahisawthat YEAH THAT.

[ofdreamsanddoodles]

i keep seeing that scene where ed & stede switch clothes on my dash and everytime i do it gets so much funnier because you can see stede limping and clutching his side, clearly struggling just to remain standing, & ed saw this, and was like “hey i need you to get undressed so i can make you wear my tight leather pants” and somehow stede goes “yeah ok”

[gaytaikawaititi]

izzy wants blackbeard to fuck him so bad it makes him look stupid but he doesn’t realize ed is actually a bottom 😔😔

[dr-whitaker]

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH 1x08 - We Gull Way Back

bonus:

[hansoeii]

*starts aggressively crying and throwing up*

[fuckyeahisawthat]

fkjdfjkgksjgfkjgkfucking FUCK

THIS FUCKING SHOW

In the process of writing a Very Serious Meta about episode 6 and the Kraken story, I was replaying the bit where Ed almost kills Stede behind the curtain during the play and I’d always sort of assumed that the thing that interrupts him, that stops the (metaphorical) Kraken from coming out, was Stede stepping out from behind the curtains to introduce the (fake, but literal) Kraken in the play BUT NO

the thing that actually interrupts him, that makes him halt the knife strike

IS LUCIUS

Lucius and his fucking gross-ass finger!! That’s what interrupts him!! Lucius’s entrance and subsequent self-amputation surprises and distracts both Stede and Ed enough that they pause to watch it, and then Stede steps out from the curtain and the moment of opportunity is gone and Ed starts to process what he came very, very, very close to doing and has a breakdown about it.

Of course Lucius doesn’t know he’s doing any of this; he’s half-delirious because of his gross fucking finger. But we the audience get to see the symbolism of Lucius, the metaphorical heart of the ship, being the thing that stops Ed from committing an act of violence he would have deeply regretted.

And in the end, when Ed needs for there to not be anyone who can stop him from becoming the Kraken again, the first person he has to get rid of

IS FUCKING LUCIUS

[dcriangray]

Ed not being able to watch when Stede and Izzy are dueling and instead just turning his back and grabbing onto the ship's ropes is so so sad it's such a childlike action, which seems to be echoed in a lot of ways that Ed deals with big feelings - like he's never had them before, like he's used to Not Feeling and this is so new for him and he's SO scared it's gonna be taken away from him