[fishfingersandscarves]

“you’re a monster. a plague. you defile beautiful things.”

[trashcanniballecter]

Izzy: you're obsessed with stede bonnet

Ed: I'm not obsessed with stede. I like him the normal amount.

[fuckyeahisawthat]

While we like to joke about Izzy being in the wrong genre, I would argue that there are in fact at least five distinct genre universes in the world of Our Flag Means Death, and all of them have different rules.

Stede Bonnet, and his crew when they’re around him, live in a Muppet movie. I didn’t come up with this analogy but it’s so accurate. Insane physical comedy and comedy-action where no one really gets hurt. Mild peril but you know everything is gonna work out. Terrible puns and sight gags, but room for sweet, genuine emotional moments too. The rules of time, space, probability and logic will bend for a good joke.

Izzy Hands is in a grimdark action/drama where if someone gets stabbed in the gut they will behave normally and fucking die. (Probably slowly and painfully, of sepsis.) Crucially I think Izzy also lives in a genre where you can only be subtextually queer, and violence (done for or with or to each other) is the only acceptable form of intimacy between men. This is why being forcibly dragged into Stede’s world, where everyone is busy having silly low-stakes misadventures and being gay and emotionally available all over the main text–and seeing his Subtextual Boyfriend go into this world and love it–sends him round the twist.

The British, Spanish and other imperialist militaries are in a Master and Commander-style naval adventure where they’re the heroes. This is why they all take it completely seriously when Stede (unintentionally) kills Badminton and takes hostages, even though we can see that he bumbled his way into it ass-backwards. This is also why Stede is so shocked to get actually for real stabbed aboard the Spanish ship. (“Did you mean to do that?”) He didn’t realize until that moment that he’d stepped into a different genre. The stabbing is one of the first Surprise Genre Switch moments we get and in retrospect it’s very important for setting up that in this world, the threat of getting hurt or killed is very real–which we need to understand to know that there are real stakes much later, when Stede almost gets executed by the British.

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[hufflcpuns]

sorry i cant work today i have to figure out the best way to ask my psychologist if they’ve watched the pirate show in our appointment today

[hufflcpuns]

its fun coming back to tumblr after years and realising that its likely every single person i follow is an adult bc i haven’t consistently used tumblr since i was 17 and i’m 22 now and i havent followed anyone in that time

[sapphicambitions]

queer books that didn’t disappoint me the way everything else has. please enjoy.

[briefinquiries]

Love, Simon (2018)

[ray-winters-sings-deactivated20]

Love, Simon (2018)

[asciiheart]

The nuclear family is probably the greatest enabler of child abuse, ever.

Putting two people in complete control of another person (who is particularly vulnerable and has few legal rights) and then having no oversight for the whole arrangement is the absolute worst idea.

Families are garbage.

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

Hahaha wtf

[yourownpetard]

I wouldn’t even know where to start with this. omg.

[amal-wa-ahlam]

OP, what would you propose as an alternative to families?

[asciiheart]

communal child raising

less isolated familial structures in general

children being made aware of how they should and shouldn’t be treated

Some form of child protection services that don’t just believe the parents and assume a child is lying when they report abuse

more legal and counselling services made available to children

[tracyalexander-deactivated20201]

I don’t get people that are like “lol, what? that’s so weird, lets laugh at the very notion that traditional families are abusive”.

[itsfridaybutimstillaro-deactiva]

communal child raising is the traditional family. 70-100 years ago 4 generations lived together in the same house, having 4 grandparents, 6 aunts and 15 cousins around every day was normal.

[queeranarchism]

Things that should be mentioned:

- These communities are not necessarily connected by an biological ties. In a lot of these multigenerational ‘families’, including people in the family who are not relatives or married into the family is totally normal. This has always created a lot more space to support people without families, support people who do now want to partner up and to create communities in which couples who can not have children (like some queer couples but not all & other couples too) can be a part of child raising. 

- Having a lot more young people around often means young people learn from each other. In many cultures young people form a non-hierarchial group that learns together and can do a great deal without adult supervision. 

The nuclear family doesn’t just facilitate abuse, it facilitates hierarchy. It’s a training school for obedience to authority. 

Now, which system would push such a training school strongly so it could get docile obedient citizens? Which system whould push the nuclear family. 

I’m not saying it’s capitalism but it’s capitalism. 

And then there’s the fact that the 2 parent, nuclear family can be most easily pushed into the pattern where one adult works an extremely exhausting job many hours a day that leaves that adult hardly capable of doing anything else, while the other adult takes on all the other things that adult would otherwise have done: care for children, clean the living space, prepare food, prepare clean clothing, etc. for free. What we know as traditional gender roles. 

This way capitalism gets one intensely loyal worker who feels ‘responsible’ for ‘supporting a family’ while all the work to keep that worker going is done for free by an unpaid worker in the home. 

And, you know, communities need a lot less stuff. A community of 50 can do just fine with one or two hammers. 25 nuclear families need 25 hammers. The nuclear family demands a huge amount of commodity purchasing. 

[dollsahoy]

(hooboy that last point)

[hufflcpuns]

trying not to feel left out that i wasnt invited to a party with a bunch of people that i consider fairly good friends by telling myself that i dont care but oh boy do i care doesnt help that my boyfriend is there and he's sending me snapchats being all happy and im replying both happy for him but also super sad that i'm missing out bc they forgot about me

[hufflcpuns]

what she says: i'm fine

what she means: the lack of lgbt representation in the harry potter series is honestly a little bit revolting. the only true lgbt character we had to look to was dumbledore, and this was only announced after the books were all released, making it seem like more of an afterthought than anything. why did every major character end up happily and heterosexually married with a neat row of children? where are the same-sex couples? why are we forced to create our representation through headcanons and speculations instead of having it in the books?

[andyouknowitis]

DEAMUS IS REAL.

[wet-hot-american-bummer]

this is the funniest scene I have ever watched

[tacomel420]

this 3:43 is better than all 8 potter movies

[qpocpotter-blog]

this was a wild ride from start to finish

[misscupidturtle]

@hufflcpuns

[hufflcpuns]

do you see why i love this with all my heart

[phoenixcollective]

reblog if you would be fine sharing a restroom with a transgender person

[misfitreindeer-deactivated20160]

the lack of notes on this is depressing

[ashara-deactivated20171021]

ϟ hogwarts houses: hufflepuff

you might belong in hufflepuff, where they are just and loyal. those patient hufflepuffs are true and unafraid of toil.

[themarchg1rl]

so i definitely consider myself bi because i am attracted to men and women. but it’s so weird bc i only ever meet or encounter women that i instantly feel attraction towards. in fact with men i do this thing where i find myself actively looking for a man in whatever room i’m in (seminar, meeting, w/e) that i could potentially be attracted to even if i look at them and feel nothing.

it’s odd bc the men i’m most attracted to are ones that are famous or fictional or detached from me in some way and when i do meet someone irl that i feel something towards 98% of the time they’re women. so. idk what that means

[hufflcpuns]

i feel you! i don’t think i really feel ‘instant attraction’ very often (but i also don’t usually go places that have people that i dont know bc im still in high school) but for the past 3 years or so whenever i have had a crush on someone it has been a girl, but i’ve only dated boys. 
what i mean is, the people who i have harboured crushes on privately, without their knowing, have all been girls. but, i’ve dated boys because they’ve crushed on me first, we go out a few times, then i begin feeling the same for them. 
i’m not working from a huge sample size of people since i tend to hold crushes for a long time, but for the past 3-4 years this has happened (although dating has only happened within the past year)
attraction is so interesting

[afterlaughters]

a fan gave tyler and cheese hat tonight and… I think he liked it

[hufflcpuns]

what the he ck