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izzy: why the fuck are you like that
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frenchie: hey izzy handsome
izzy: why the fuck are you like that
I just think they both deserved a little smooch. With tongue. 🤷♂️
Je t’aime de toute mon âme.
the world simply wasn’t ready for this captain/first mate power duo
the way some people reacted to David Jenkins and Neil Gaiman saying their shows would only have 3 seasons is so funny because I saw so many feeling devastated while I am so relieved and relaxed about it. don’t get me wrong I love getting more content with the characters I love but… normalize cohesive storytelling. normalize ENDINGS. do you REALLY want another s*pernatural????
answer the questions and not tag some people you want to know better or catch up with
got tagged by the awsome @captainrexshusband, thank you pal as always 🤙
last song listened to: shower day by the amazing devil
currently reading: just finished under the whispering door by tj klune, my beloved, and now i jumped into something completely different, the flood of the blackwater series by michael mceachern mcdowell
currently watching: our flag means death, quite obviously, gen v, and oh boi, this rom-com i found on prime very randomly, upload, just to balance the great content with some good trash comedy show
currently obsessed with: my brother, my cousin, my uncle joel fry, been spending the past few days listening to his songs, then, predictably, the gae pirate show, once again they’re ruining my life and making it much better at the same time
i am so unable to tag people, probably an harder task than send my boss emails, sooooo, that’s all
i desperately need to know
how do you pronounce “ouizzy” ?
wheezy
wizzy
oo izzy
other (please explain)???
Someone could tell Izzy that Frenchie doesn’t actually like him and is just messing with him. And Izzy would just believe them. Oh no I’m sad
god this man really has no self worth does he? he’ll believe anyone when they tell him he’s just being used, ‘cause he’s only ever been used.
and he doesn’t know what real affection looks like ‘cause he never had it. so frenchie being with him was easy to mark as just “temporary pleasure” since, yet again, all izzy has been used for.
the mere concept of being wanted is totally foreign to him. he can’t see how much frenchie actually cares.
as soon as izzy is told frenchie is just messing with him, he’ll draw in on himself, avoiding frenchie any moment he can. frenchie’s on deck? oh looks like izzy’s gotta check rations. frenchie is below? ah perfect timing izzy is on watch in the nest (he totally kicked whoever was on out)
but frenchie didn’t stop trying to get to him. izzy didn’t understand why. if it was all just a game why was frenchie still playing? it made izzy angry.
and he doesn’t understand why frenchie keeps chasing him, always trying to talk to him.
when frenchie finally managed to catch up to izzy, getting them both alone in a room below deck, frenchie asks izzy “what’s going on? and why are you avoiding me?”
izzy then blow’s up, yelling about how the ruse was up, that he knew he was just a bet to frenchie, nothing more than a pathetic fuck because there was nothing else. he let’s out everything he made himself believe.
frenchie can only stand there as izzy rants, his frown only deepening with each word out of izzy’s mouth, but let’s him speak his mind.
when he’s done, frenchie let’s izzy breathe for a few seconds, before stepping forward, voice low and telling him, it was never a joke, that izzy wasn’t a bet. frenchie tells him how he really feels, and that’s he’s sorry he ever made izzy feel like it wasn’t real.
he then asks why izzy thought those things.
izzy tells him.
“blackbeard.”
this emotionally destroyed me on so many layers
the way izzy has not even the tiniest idea what being desired and appreciated means, because who the heck could’ve wanted him more than as the plaything he’s always been? please whenever he was needed, serve whatever purpose he was given, and as soon he was used for good, as soon people got tired of him, well, he was disposable and forgettable
i can perfectly picture how he would avoid talking it out because obviously, the fault was just his, he believed what they had was real, so the only solution was to swallow it up and move on
that’s what he’s grown used to
the little rat man doesn’t know how nice it is to be truly appreciated, and that people could genuinely care for you without a second purpose. well, maybe he’s slowly starting to understand it thanks to the crew
this hit me in the same manner the crew quickly accepted ed’s apology because, as roach says “i’ve never heard an apology before so to me it was amazing”
completely unrealistic ofmd season 2 wishlist bc why not:
stede getting white girl wasted at a party on a beach and speedrunning embarrassing teenage party antics i.e. wild dancing followed by a dmc about his feelings on a piece of driftwood followed by chucking up against a palm tree
extremely overdramatic marine fight scene to an abba song with lots of longing looks between the couples
frenchie and olu pyramid scheme part 2
izzy finding closure as one of the girls with anne bonny and mary reed
whole crew drag show (feels like we might actually get this) with wee john feeney serving 100%
fang adopting a new dog
the 'culture of abuse' joke stede makes in 1x01 is returned to in devastating, life altering depth for blackbeard
edward teach earring collection
tearjerk closer to 'come on up to the house' by tom waits
completely now not quite so unrealistic ofmd season 2 wishlist:
ouizzy
thanks for the attention guys, love y'all
WELCOME BACK OMG!
would it be cliché to say “never left”? probably, mostly because it’s totally true that i kinda left
gotta admit i missed the little ouizzy fanclub here on this marvellous place, and i send everyone many many kisses, hold y’all hands just like frenchie did with izzy (i can’t stop bringing this up for five seconds)
season 2 kicked us directly in the face, multiple times, and without any kind of warning and i feel like if i’d told my past self we would’ve got some kind of ouizzy interaction, she would’ve cracked up to my face, even if i’d died to see them having the tiniest something going on
but honestly, i couldn’t ask for a better start
and the love so many people are showing for those two dumb men genuinely makes my day, i guess everyone is happy about it, and who knows, maybe all those new people will get me insanely inspired to write (highly doubt myself) some short story about them because i’ve missed them enough
those past few days, i’ve been thinking over and over about the tiniest crumbs of closeness frenchie offers to izzy in those three episodes
the way frenchie holds izzy’s gloved hand as soon as he starts crying, even if fang is already there, hugging the small man the best he can, giving him warmth and solace. and then, frenchie leans on izzy’s leg in the red flag jail, when, by now, the crew has already accepted their fate with resignation because having a deadline is much better than what they had before. and at this moment, frenchie naturally leans on him to let him know he’s there, his head propped on izzy’s thigh, comfortable enough to do it. frenchie’s not afraid of him. none of them is undoubtedly frightened of izzy, who not so long ago despised every one of them, every one of the useless pirates of stede fuckin’ bonnet’s dysfunctional crew, because now that specific man is the only one keeping them from being swallowed by the kraken
i like to think that despite the locks keeping that box in the back of his head closed, frenchie can’t lock far away the hurt of seeing someone he cares about being abused even more. now, the only comfort he can give is that unspoken intimacy, those untold words, and that warm touch reminding izzy he’s not alone in the pile of shit life reserved for them
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Rated E, Frenchie/Izzy, 45k+. WIP.
ACT II
It’s three months after their parting that providence works in their favour – in the midst of a raging storm, lightning strikes the Queen Anne, and in the ensuing fire they lose one mast entirely and another set of sails.
Ed’s not been well, has been spiralling between good days and bad days, and Izzy’s not really equipped to deal with it anymore, not that he ever was. He doesn’t know how it happens, exactly. Maybe Ed pushes him, maybe Ed grabs him by the throat and throws him overboard – maybe he shot at him, and Izzy fell backward to get away from the shot.
Maybe he jumped. Maybe he walked straight off the side and into the drink, and let it take him.
He doesn’t know.
What he does know is that after six days at sea, gripping tight to a barrel, it’s not Ivan and the lads on the Revenge that pick him up, and it’s not another set of merchant sailors or a naval vessel or pirates, neither – it’s Stede Bonnet and his crew of madmen, naturally.
It’s just what makes the most narrative sense, isn’t it?
“Jesus Christ,” Wee John says as he carries Izzy into the shadows of below decks, and Izzy almost sobs with relief at just how cold it is inside, at the relief of the shadows instead of the sun beating down on his back. “He’s peeling like fucking paint.”
“Get him here,” Izzy hears Roach say, and he grunts as scissors slide under his trouser leg, cutting away the fabric clinging to him – his shirt is already mostly torn away although he’d tried desperately to cling onto his vest, and the pants are a lost cause regardless.
Izzy loses the ability to parse out what’s being said over top of him as Roach starts applying medical treatment – some sort of balm for his burnt and torn-up arms and shoulders, his face, his fucked-up feet where fish have been nibbling at him, and there’s a jellyfish sting, too.
He clings onto consciousness until he sees Frenchie in the doorway looking as if he’s about to cry – Frenchie, alive, healthy, still wearing his black boots and jacket but back in colour underneath it – and then he lets the world go dark.
btw, everyone go read this masterpiece
honestly, last summer was such a fever dream thanks to johannes and many other marvellous artists, and till this day the reality of most of the canon events merge with everything frenchie and izzy had going on in R&F
when everyone thought frenchie would secretly bring lucius food as he hid in the walls, but then we got frenchie sneaking izzy medicines, and something in the universe suddenly shifted.
Frenchie's new outfit is great
i’ve been thinking about this picture all afternoon, literally the six frames that made my day
frenchie’s new outfit is bloody great
Your kinktober was so good, I wanted to ask you if you really wanted to delete the 16th, if not, could you repost it? I really like that one a lot, please
so. ahem. well.
first things first, if the anon hadn’t asked it, i wouldn’t even notice the post was gone, or rather, it’s not really gone but it has been flagged as mature by community labels or something similar, so, it’s there but it’s mature
no shit, sherlock
i mean, when posting the entire (more like 2/3 pfff) of the kinktober mini-series i don’t think there were community labels, and if i’m wrong, well, just didn’t know what those were—
probably tumblr doesn’t like belly bulges too much. damn, very sad about it
i truly can’t believe i’m finally getting out of two months of a flipping writing block thanks to my cat curled as a croissant against me, snoring so fucking loud she woke me up from my funny dreams. my cat is totally getting a 10/10 review for fixing months of problems. if only she’d done it sooner—
anyhoo, back in june, i convinced myself i could embark on the mystic adventure of that cool thing called writing from scratch in english despite me having a troubled relationship with english, like sometimes, what the fuck are adverbs and why there are no diminutives and endearments like in Italian. still, i decided to finally use the prompt for the modern ouizzy au i wrote down as a fever dream one day, but i failed. because english sucks. and now whenever i open the sims 4 and play in the save dedicated to the crew i’m getting reminded of that google document i haven't opened for ages, and go back making my sims having the best lives they could ask for without thinking about that forbidden file
so, since ouizzy is undoubtedly my comfort ship and i can ramble about for hours forgetting all my responsibilities, yeah obviously i’m writing an ouizzy fic. or whatever. have no idea for how long i will carry this writing thing on. helped by the powers of the ancient muses and my thick cat sleeping like a log, i had the most unoriginal idea of the au where izzy’s a cat—yeah, quite unoriginal but I wanted to write about a cat, and it would be boring just having a cat and no izzy so, boom, shapeshifting cat. still unoriginal as fuck, but this won’t stop me. i imagined a setting where frenchie’s an indie musician, struggling with the life of an emerging artist (who knows if he’ll be part of a band, getting more characters into the scene), having a very chaotic but at the same time normal life, and he starts noticing a cat sleeping from time to time outside of his house right there, on the brick wall, staring deeply inside his soul as cats do when he tries to walk by. and frenchie doesn’t truly like it, because he’s frenchie, and he’s frightened by cats, obviously, and a black grizzled cat creepily looking at him is not what he dreamed of, neither what he asked santa for
but having izzy shapeshift whenever he wants would be too easy (meaning i am basically dooming myself into thinking about a real plot) so what if the cat can only shapeshift into a human during the night, making no sense because cats are most active at night, but who cares. and at this point of my brilliant enlightenment, i realised it was becoming the plot of one of my favourite manhwa (“wolf in the house” by park jiyeon if you wonder) with the only difference being the main character is a wolf and not a cat. fuck.
anyway i’m still writing it because i am in need of my regular dose of ouizzy and i’ve been denying myself for too much now
also, i failed the kinktober let’s fucking go
[2022.10.19] 19th day || Stripping + Partial nudity
Before sliding into bed, Izzy has this dragging ritual of undressing, taking his time and not bothering to rush his movements, and Frenchie has no voice in the matter and can only tie to his habits. In reality, the lad has no right to complain, considering it gives such a sense of calm and tranquillity rarely attributed to Izzy.
He’s so meticulous in everything he does that Frenchie can’t dart his eyes off his hands, skating preciously on his linen shirt as he lets each button pass through the slit of the eyelets, unties the black laces bracing his sleeves at the elbows or even sits to slip out of his leather boots, briefly massaging his achy feet after a long and tiring day of work, barely getting the time to sit down and rest. Sometimes, Izzy turns to meet Frenchie’s gaze as if he knew the other would be mesmerisingly staring, a thin smile painted on his lips, and slows his motions, a tease for the lad, who’s patient, but not this patient.
Still, Frenchie hasn’t the nerve to interrupt. He doesn't want to, prefers to taste the wait on his tongue, taste with his eyes, enraptured by his rigour while getting undressed.
Next, Izzy undoes his necktie, the silver ring secured on his writing desk, on top of a satin handkerchief, and passes to undoing his trousers. And as he’s watching him, Frenchie starts feeling his eyelids heavy, much heavier than before, one fluttering close gradually and without his notice, the other following, swallowing a big and wide yawn while covering his mouth with the heel of his hand.
“Oi, sleepyhead,” rudely shouts Izzy, stumbling towards the bed with his shirt open, falling loosely from one shoulder, making it look even more billowing than when it’s buttoned up. Frenchie shakes his head, blinking out of that drifting phase quite dopey and smiles dreamily, just getting the tattoo under Izzy’s left eye to twitch huffily in return. Despite knowing he’s anything but truly angered, there’s something in his glare that makes him slowly swallow, another yawn fading before it's even in the back of his mouth. Hence, Izzy grabs Frenchie’s striped shirt, still gentle, and pulls him up, leaning in to make their foreheads almost touch, hazel-grey eyes fixed on his. Now Frenchie’s sure to be fully awake. “You sure you want to fall asleep like this?”
Frenchie’s mouth opens, then quickly closes as he's unsure what to tell him. “Wasn’t my plan, but you were takin’ way too long stripping. You know, it’s kinda late, Iz.”
Izzy snorts, amused, “Fine. Don’t come crying to me later, Frenchie. It won’t work.”
And as he finishes talking, his voice trails off in a soft kiss, first on his lips, second on his chest, over his shirt, and as he tantalises Frenchie with his knee, on purpose nudging between his legs before dropping by his side, tugging Frenchie closer.