Fandom bullsit and random bullshit

[ihgbnmlg]

If I was writing the script for the UK political drama, this is how it would go:

After a rather embarrassing time as PM, Boris Johnson resigned, and subsequently left Larry The Cat as the highest-ranking official at no. 10 Downing Street. Larry immediately signed the country over to an Irish-Scottish coalition that had sprung up overnight. The newly-formed country then joined EU on a technicality someone spotted in the early drafts of an EU forming bill while franticly looking for loopholes and celebrating with champagne.

[hdbdnnf]

so, i don't know why nobody is really talking about it but it's canon that ed can play the piano and we did learn that he sings. so the next logical step would be to give ed a scene in season 2 where he plays the piano and sings a song for stede he composed when stede was gone.

[armandeos]

listen im not saying they SHOULD i just think it would be funny if all of pete’s stories actually end up being 100% true and it just like, didn’t come up before. like once the entire crew is back on the ship and angry at edward for marooning them he’s like, “what? at least i gave you a fighting chance, i left you with thee dread black pete. he was one of my best men, surely he’s told you of the many times he’s saved my hide”

[unwanted-animal]

Izzy Moments I’m Obsessed With - Part 1

[jrrtrek]

Ed: Yeah I guess you could say I like bad boys ;)

Stede: Well, you're in luck! Because I am so bad. At everything.

Izzy: That is obviously not what he meant--

Ed: No, no, I wanna hear him out

[barkilphedros-hat]

Hang on I really think I’m onto something here

[spookshollow]

I wonder what the gentleman would be thinking?

[thunderwhenhepurrs]

I just need you all to know how Vienna Misto acts directly after the ‘bore’ line of Tugger’s song.

[1im-perfect1]

Child Stede and Stede from Ep 8 have really similar outfits aka the scene where he gets bullied and abused for being himself and the episode where he gets insulted, singled out and left for not fitting with the others.......

SHUT UP

[whorrored]

Um. Guys?!??? Help I’m dying

[whorrored]

3 dead, 10 injured as Con O’Neill posts my vaguely horny Izzy fanart in his story

[stil-lindigo]

Blackbeard.

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I need a lobotomy, I can’t stop thinking about this man.

[nunguleum]

cats x ofmd crossover because… …. BECAUSE..

[emmikay]

Macavity: There’s still time to surrender, Mistoffelees.

Mistoffelees: Then feel free to do so.

[headspace-hotel]

thinking about how in ancient times, at least people knew that the lives their children would lead would….vaguely resemble their own???

People have always fondly reminisced about The Good Old Days and complained about Kids These Days, of course. But—and I cannot stress this enough—when my mom was born the Internet did not exist.

[headspace-hotel]

like I’m thinking about how I am a college student and during the pandemic, work, education, and relationships have been almost totally dependent on a network of technology that literally did not exist when my parents were college students.

When my mom was in college, she just wouldn’t have been capable of predicting what college would be like for me. I took a full semester of college from 5 hours away because I can virtually attend class through a pocket sized device that projects my image and voice into a shared virtual classroom where I can interact with my professor and other students. I wrote research papers without physical access to a library because I could read my college library’s books on my computer.

If you’re a Mesopotamian farmer, hitching his oxen to a plow, like…idk, man. I can’t picture myself at 40. I feel like a Mesopotamian farmer, trying to imagine his sons riding John Deeres.

[headspace-hotel]

It’s so persistently portrayed as this eternal, cyclical thing: Get a job, buy a house, get married and have kids, save for their college, send them off to college. This is the cycle of life. 2.5 kids, buy a house, have a steady career. Just as your father before you did, and his father before him.

Except they didn’t. His father before him didn’t do this, and your son will not live like you. This is not enshrined in tradition. This is not life. This is not how things are, or have been, or how they ever been. Look at it. This beautiful, ageless world of saving for your kids’ college and paying off mortgages and nuclear families. There is no way of life to pass down to your children, no tradition, nothing your father gave you that you can give to your son! You were born into a world that is unintelligible and inaccessible to the children you wanted to inherit it, and you and your children will both die in a world that is as foreign to you both!

I don’t envy the Boomer generation, nor do I have some kind of conceited disdain for them for not being able to adapt to now. So, so much of what defines our lives happened for the first time in their lifetime, and the absence of those things cannot be explained to us. Do you remember what it was like before television? Well…what is “it?”

It’s like our generation’s dim memory of childhood before Internet, and the vast, panicky knowledge that our childhoods were mostly full of a quality best described as the absence of internet, and there is no way to transmit that idea to the kids of today or explain it. We remember it, so, so clearly. It was real. But it’s gone. Annihilated.

[meirmakesstuff]

There’s a midrash that before he died, Moses was worried about what would become of the Israelite people after he was gone. God brought him forward in time to the schoolhouse of Rabbi Akiva. Moses listened to the discussion but could not understand a thing, and nearly despaired, until he heard a student ask Akiva, “how did you arrive at this conclusion?” Akiva responded, “it follows from what Moses taught.” Reassured, Moses returned to his own time and died.

I taught this midrash last week to a class of about ten 3rd-8th graders whom I have been teaching since September and have never met in person. I asked them to continue the midrash: if Moses made a second stop in 2021, what would confuse him, and what would reassure him?

The youngest kids had a fantastic time imagining Moses trying to use an iPad, trying to understand that he was in a classroom, that we were doing remotely what he had seen Akiva do in person. The older kids wondered if he would be astonished at our level of literacy, or our coed learning.

When I asked what would reassure him they were momentarily stumped: it wasn’t the first time this group has struggled to identify positives about their lives and experiences, except in a guilty “some people have it worse” kind of way. I reminded them of what reassured Moses in the schoolhouse of Akiva: knowing that what he taught had evolved from rather than superseded the traditions of our ancestors. “Who are we learning about right this very minute?” I prompted.

One of them acted it out: Moses peering suspiciously at his iPad, then exclaiming, “They’re learning my Torah in there!” We are not unmoored, we are evolving. It is easier to see the changes than the things that remain constant, but I think there is value, whatever your cultural tradition, in asking “what would reassure my ancestors?”

[lazaefair]

“The children are using this vast, incomprehensible magical network to mock that damned Ea-Nasir and his terrible copper. Good.”

[vrabia]

i love to think about how my ipad holds vastly more knowledge than was available to sumerians in 2000 bce, but if one of them saw me scribble away on it with my stylus, they would know what it is! from 4000 years across history, they would recognize this object if they saw me use it! and maybe they’d say ‘you know, we use something like this where i’m from’. and i’d say ‘i know. in school we learn that you invented them.’ and in a weird, convoluted, wonderful and very comforting sense, they invented my ipad too.

[ferusaurelius]

The Tragedy of Israel Hands

A play in three Acts. 

Remember how I said I’d write up some Izzy meta? Well here’s the short version. I have a google doc full of 10+ pages of notes and individual scene breakdowns for each episode, but I don’t know if I want to pull all that out and unpack everything with that level of detail just yet.

As a tribute to Con O’Neill, I’m going to stick to the top-level summaries of what I’ve noticed. His acting is brilliant! Go and rewatch OFMD and appreciate his performance, please.

The pure tragedy of Izzy Hands adds an extraordinary level of depth, contrast, and context to the romance between Edward Teach and Stede Bonnet – beyond mere antagonism! – that I’m still a bit overcome with inexpressible awe and admiration. I’ll do my best to stick to the outline to encourage you to go back and rewatch the show with a focus on Izzy’s perspective. :)

I also submit to you David’s tweet (pictured here) about the complexities of the relationship between Izzy and Edward and David’s polygon interview (skip to the end) as further motivation to do that rewatch. 

I made myself unbearably sad about Izzy as a character while also accepting (and acknowledging) the sheer damage he’s doing to himself and his relationships – and now you can join me in a hell of Izzy’s own making, too! :D

Warning this is so fucking long you probably should be sitting down.

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[ihgbnmlg]

The what now? A shark that doesn’t want to shark like the rest of the sharks? Adverse to killing and blood? But still wants to shark all over the place?

[emmikay]

Macavity: (to Mistoffelees) Shall I get you a step stool so you can look me in my eyes when you ‘threaten’ me?

(Macavity was never heard from again)