a gayneral history of the pyrates

joe. he/it. 18+ only icon and header by me follows from allgoldenelite

[leensor]

[orangeandradios]

something just came over me and i feel like rewatching all of our flag means death. do i have any fellow ofmders in the building

[middleagedflag]

something short and sweet, mostly. modern au

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[edwardyouinhere]

[middleagedflag]

no actually fuck keeping this in the tags i'm not done. djenkins in that one bof talking about how they closed the set for this, frontloaded by an infodump about how heat is one of the greatest yaoi classics of our time almost entirely against the movie's will (amen), and then barely being able to contain his excitement and glee as he recounts how nervous his 2 ken dolls were for the scene and reiterating how theater tricks the body into believing it's real (amen), is the EXACT same energy ppl (me) have when they go apeshitt about the blurring line between real and fake. like, he gets it, the way you get a disease. he has the disease (this is a compliment). he'd fucking LOVE ntbts can anybody hear m-

[middleagedflag]

for the most part the german localization of the episode titles is ass bc it takes away a lot of the themes communicated in those titles (straight up erases the mermen in the last ep for example lol), but "möwe die macht mit dir sein" for "we gull way back" is kinda cooking

("möwe" (seagull) sounds kinda like "möge" (may); the sentence "möge die macht mir dir sein" is the german version of "may the force be with you" from sw so the title roughly translates to "may the seagull be with you")

[middleagedflag]

it's tiiiiiiiiiiiime to be mentally ill about rhys' acting choices in the 1x09 kiss again because mama oooooooo that lil inhale he does right before he gets smooched is perhaps? among my favorite things? in the entire show? when he starts believing and his face does the ghibli bloom into genuine happiness for once? (and by the way....when this comes back later when ed says in s2 he only hangs out with cool pirates and stede is literally smiling....he's bound and about to be tortured and he's literally smiling..........leave me in this cellar to rot) it's such a small moment and it doesn't even really mean anything beyond "he genuinely, truly had no idea ed was gonna hit him with that earth-shattering 'you'" but it means the world to ME

[zulizenz]

5.5 x 8.5 inch, conte crayon drawing

This piece was made for the OFMD craft fair to benefit the American Immigration Council. It will be one of the later drops, likely available March 8th. https://fandomcraftmarket.carrd.co/

[jam-etc]

[campurri]

Might we see other reunions between you two for other projects?

[middleagedflag]

i really liked uproar (2023). it's not completely competently made and i wish it would've been slightly longer so it could've elaborated on some relationships and characters more (gimme the 4 hrs director's cut /hj), but i found that when i had finished watching i wasn't bothered by these things as much as i thought i would be. it's got several nice messages and the heart in the right place, and i enjoyed that above whatever nitpicks i had. driver is a mom, quite the complex character and she plays her expertly. dennison was very convincing as a young man trying to find his place in life. rolleston knocks it out of the park yet again, i'm really impressed by how versatile he is. and as a bonus you get rhys as a cute teacher who has a nice and wholesome relationship with the protagonist. what's not to love?

[middleagedflag]

you know the spiel by now: bsky → auberginenglanz

[middleagedflag]

idk how to describe this but it feels like every taika movie ends with one fine day by david byrne

[middleagedflag]

god when ed's fingers start twitching. that fucker wanted to LIVE. not just for food, orgasms and warmth. for himself. like, he knew that, at that moment underwater, finally. and that sound they make against the wood??

you ever been down there like him? not a pretty cliff but THE rock bottom? where everything sucks and you're a hair's breadth away from the only thing that's worse than living? yeah, and then imagine if you give the world the middle finger and say fuck it i'm adequate, and then you untie the rope and go live. with the shit and the pain but also the coconut juice you don't pay for and the fireworks and the little house on the beach with someone who understands who you are.

[fallenrocket]

The show offers hopecore, but not just in a happy-shiny “everything will turn out all right!” way. It’s the hope that comes out of the depths. It’s someone clinging to your hand when the only shred of hope is your hand knocking against the wood, it’s someone swimming down into the dark to meet you, it’s being the lowest you’ve ever been and still wrestling to untie the rope around your waist that’s dragging you down.

[blackbirdcreek]

I was told by numerous people to watch OFMD when I was at rock bottom. Someone at my town's pirate festival told me to watch it after seeing some blackbeard and other piratey things I bought to sell along with my artwork. I was at rock bottom but barely keeping myself going. The other girl my mom helped take care of when I was a toddler had just died of an alcohol overdose. My grandfather, the only one who ever tried to protect me, had just died of health issues that were a result of alcoholism. I was passively suicidal and one bad night of drinking away from death and I knew it.

This show literally. Saved. my. life.

[middleagedflag]

god when ed's fingers start twitching. that fucker wanted to LIVE. not just for food, orgasms and warmth. for himself. like, he knew that, at that moment underwater, finally. and that sound they make against the wood??

you ever been down there like him? not a pretty cliff but THE rock bottom? where everything sucks and you're a hair's breadth away from the only thing that's worse than living? yeah, and then imagine if you give the world the middle finger and say fuck it i'm adequate, and then you untie the rope and go live. with the shit and the pain but also the coconut juice you don't pay for and the fireworks and the little house on the beach with someone who understands who you are.

[middleagedflag]

i could prolly get away with this on here cause it's not explicit but i've seen posts get nuked for less so once again follow the rainbow road to bsky → auberginenglanz

[middleagedflag]

i'm having a bad month, or several bad months atp, and all the nice comments on my art genuinely make my day! i'm very glad ppl seem to enjoy my lil scribbles sm on here and on bsky.

at the same time, i feel like the guy standing slightly to the left at a party lmao. one mindfuck coming from the lil niche i had carved out for myself in pro wrestling, to a gigantic (to me) fandom like this one, is that everything's kinda already been done. it's not imposter syndrome but idk what it's called when you feel like you got nothing to contribute (art wise but also spreadsheet wise; i have the spreadsheet autism and haven't really found an outlet for that here so far other than for my own private purposes). i know it doesn't matter and i don't let that keep myself from creating my art and my writing, but i would be lying if i said it wasn't intimidating a lot of the time.

also it feels like everyone is already friends and sharing a 4 y long history of memes and jokes and copium inhalation with each other, and coming into that from the outside is harder than i expected. in fact, i find it exhausting to constantly slide into people's mentions and try and make friends but ig there's no other way.