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[xray-vex]

Ed Teach tattoo sketch page

8.5 x 11 in sketch page of Ed Teach's arm tattoos done in sharpies & pen

drawing/doodles by xray_vex

i started this w/ no pencil pre-sketch, no plan, a spontaneous journey w/ a few fuckups along the way (look closely & you'll see where i used wite-out 💀)

but no erasing, no ctrl-z, just sharpies & white pens. obvs not accurate to scale or placement, made it up as i went along

[wilhelmjfinkbs]

Accidentally bought my husband front row seats to see his hero tonight

[ballion]

RACHEL HOUSE AS MONY 🐊 PART 3/? ⌙"SUNNY NIGHTS" S01E02

[llamasocks-lou]

rewatched some OFMD last night and restarted She-Ra today, I am returning to my queer roots this pride month and loving it ☺️☺️

[faejayy]

finally watched our flag means death. doodled this between seasons so it does not quite fit my current mood but nevertheless

[elby3000]

ROFL!

[preachersellie]

feeling feral

[googoogojob]

[elby3000]

I kept waiting for that silk to reappear in Season 2. Maybe Season 3...

[iamadequate1]

Roach: It's okay, CJ. I'm sure it wasn't personal. Calico Jack: Yeah, well, when they tie an anchor around your leg and throw you overboard, it feels pretty personal. Stede: How could I have known his crew mutinied? I mean, in hindsight, I probably could've guessed.

S1E08: We Gull Way Back

Bitchy Stede 1/?

[elby3000]

Bitchy Stede is sublime.

[tmdotdf]

Having an art fight moment, might delete this too who knows. But to celebrate Pride month, I thought to try and draw Stede x Ed for the first time! So here it is! Unfinished but got too excited to post anyways. But if at some point I delete it, it will be reposted again when I get to finalize it seriously. In the meantime let's gaze at this piece like its in a museum. I based this off TLM when Ariel saved Eric, but make it Gentlebeard!

[edwardyouinhere]

[fuckyeahworldoftaika]

@rachelteaomarama: Love this Māori. Even when he shows up for three hours...

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Stede's not stupid for thinking Ed is his friend and not his would-be boyfriend or sexual partner. Stede recognizes the emotional attachment he feels for Ed. He wants to keep Ed with him. He adores Ed, and he understands - or starts to - that Ed adores him.

Stede's also pretty much demisexual. He's not experiencing sexual attraction to Ed at first. That doesn't happen for a long while. The way they meet, the way they interact...it's deep and it's real and it's friendship.

I'd love to see more exploration of that, not from an "oblivious Stede" standpoint, but from an understanding that Stede is not experiencing that desire until he comes to understand he's in love.

[lostakasha]

Yes!

And the tags from @careful-knives shouldn't be skipped:

I love demisexual Stede reading and I'll defend that hill and win#but also we're speaking about a guy who was never loved by anyone - not by his father not by his wife and he's even surprised his own#children are upset because he went away - because Stede has feelings and he loves them but also he knows having feelings is one sided#that's all he knows so no wonder he's overjoyed to even have a friend when everyone else seems to either hate him or wants him dead#I think I'm repeating myself here but this facet of Stede the emotional neglect he was subjected to is often overlooked but to me it's the#most relatable thing about Stede along with the demisexual reading of his queerness#knives has opinions

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Yes, and I think @careful-knives is entirely correct. But I’m talking about the sexual aspects as well - Stede isn’t be oblivious during the stabbing scene, for instance. He doesn’t register that as sexual, and not because he’s oblivious or repressed and has to be fixed/educated.

[celluloidbroomcloset]

I thought I'd encountered every brand of media illiterate dingbats during my tenure on Film Twitter, but God in heaven, Tumblr dingbats really do rival film bros for their inability to read simple sentences and process simple concepts.

Some of y'all need to shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down.

[sparklywaistcoat]

Yeah, it's ... interesting.

[sparklywaistcoat]

Like, this isn't even media illiteracy. It's just an utter lack of reading comprehension.

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Granted, it's very hard to argue with someone when the main issue seems to be "that's not what those words mean."

[sparklywaistcoat]

It's basically

me: ursula le guin couldn't resist writing about sex

them: why are you demanding that ursula le guin resist having sex

[iamadequate1]

I am amazed at how universal aphobic talking points are. Aphobic meltdowns during pride month, are we being real.

[celluloidbroomcloset]

We are about two steps away from them saying that aces are not queer, I'm just waiting for it.

[pangur-and-grim]

Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

[pangur-and-grim]

if you'd like to show support, here are some upcoming queer books:

When Life Gives You Corpses is a brilliant YA about a cursed praying mantis who falls for a young witch. Yield Under Great Persuasion is a raunchy, but surprisingly sweet story about two men repairing their relationship. Fabulous Bodies is a horror story about a queer rockstar rising from the dead.

This is Where the Future Bleeds is a fantasy set in a vividly imagined land, where two women (who happen to kiss) are the key to healing the broken sky. You're No Better is a story about a teen struggling in the shadow of his murderous parent. Oil on Canvas is about a woman who finds disturbing paintings in the home of her dead mother.

and then here's a list of 26 queer books by Black authors set to publish this year, and a 10 upcoming books by trans authors. if you want to fight back against queer censorship, use your wallet! or (if that's not an option) you can contact your local library and ask them to stock a copy.

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Can I just say that I really love that we never get a "cheating" plot in OFMD? Like, there's no attempt to shoehorn in that kind of jealousy or drama, especially in the main relationship? The closest we come is Mary and Doug, but it's a big stretch to call that "cheating." They could have gone a jealousy route with Jim and Olu, but they are actually honest with each other instead, they talk about their feelings and relationships with other people, and they make choices based on what everyone wants.

There's never anything about Stede cheating on Ed or Ed cheating on Stede; Stede even seems to consider himself in a relationship with Ed from the moment he understands what he's feeling is love. And whatever their relationship looks like from that moment on, it will be a choice they make honestly and together. So without elevating monogamy as the only legitimate kind of relationship, the show does away with the manufactured drama so often connected to cheating plots because the characters are all honest and open with their partners.

I just really like that.

[celluloidbroomcloset]

I really do think some people just don’t pay attention to things they watch, because the vast majority of complaints I’ve seen about Season 2 seem to be around things that the show very clearly explains?

[sherlockig]

Rhys Darby for The Maybe Dids Cameo