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protagonist bias is a funny thing bc if you look at what izzy and stede's first few interactions are like from izzy's perspective it's like:

you bought some nice british hostages with your own money from a tribe as a way of supporting local businesses. when out of nowhere some stupid british aristocrat jumped out of the bush, broke your friend's nose, and stole one of the hostages that you paid for

moving on from this, your boss doesn't say much other than mock you for being bested at swordplay (even though it was an ambush and completely unprofessional) before telling you to go invite the little asshole onto the ship. presumably it's to kill him (the uszh) for fucking up his business, but honestly you just wanna wash your hands of the whole thing and move on

your boss, god rest his half insane soul, insists though and that you specifically need to go when you'd rather just send one of the boys. so you go out to a bar that you fucking hate and find the obnoxious man from before to let him know that your boss wants a word

everybody knows who your boss is. he's fucking blackbeard for fuck's sake! except for stede fucking bonnet apparently who immediately responds to your polite invitation by accusing you of stealing his hostages (which you paid for!) and calls you iggy

so fuck this guy, right? blackbeard's gonna kill him anyways, and if he wants to make it worst on himself by not having the manners to even listen for two seconds to explain who your boss is, then that's on him!

"so i'll tell my boss you're declining then"

"tell him he has terrible tastes in flunkies and that he can suck eggs in hell!"

well fine then! you will!

once again, you just want to be done with the whole thing, and maybe you omit a few facts as you relay the news to your boss. did stede know that your boss is blackbeard? well, it seems like stede fucking bonnet knows everything in this entire fucking world so yeah you suppose he did

you don't understand your boss's orders most of the time, but in the end you still follow them so when he says attack the spanish you attack the spanish. he must have it in real bad for this guy if he wants to kill him personally, and honestly it doesn't seem worth the effort to you, but who the fuck are you to complain?

and when things are all done and set, you're ready for this whole ordeal to be over. you know the steps from here. repair the ship, kill the crew, move the fuck on until your boss gets some other insane idea in his head and makes you track down another random bloke for the fun of it

but no... you're going through the motions, but your boss is fucking around and playing with toy ships and screaming about being bored and wanting to try dying. you wait for as long as you can, coaxing him into thinking of a plan and moving on, but it seems he's finally snapped and is really set on you all dying

also he's playing dress up. for some fucking reason he's playing dress up while you're only hours out from certain death because it's too late to run now. even as you try to explain the seriousness of the situation your boss continues to brush you off because he's definitely truly actually crazy now! this is it! the man has snapped and think he's an aristocrat running around in tights and waiting to die!

and maybe you're a bit rough when you ask stede how the ship is stocked, but now isn't the time for niceness. unfortunately, the man's a fucking idiot and has no idea about any of the basics of running a ship because he's the worst pirate captain you've ever met (and that's including calico jack for fuck's sake) you are surrounded by incompetency and it's all stede fucking bonnet's fault because the man couldn't honor a fucking business transaction

and then things are fine. because yes, your boss is crazy, but no, not that crazy (yet.) you're embarrassed for snapping and slink off to resign like you said. you even apologize for the harshness of your words, but you get that you acted out of line

but you don't go. because your boss asks you to stay. the only reason why you don't go is because your boss asked you to stay. because he's depressed and he's tired and he can't keep doing this pirate shit anymore and you know that. so when he says he has a plan to 1. leave piracy and become a wealthy aristocrat 2. make you captain once he's gone and 3. kill that fucking twat. yeah, you're all in baby

and you know what your boss does instead?

he fucks stede bonnet right on deck out in the open because stede bonnet is a menacing, seductive, slut

brightwanderer

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

ofmdaily

our flag means death + reductress headlines (1/?)

Working on my WWDITS Viago cosplay= freaking out the neighbors.

#wwdits #wwdits cosplay #wwdits viago #viago von dorna schmarten scheden heimburg

The crossover no one asked for.

Our Flag Means Death x The Boat That Rocked (Pirate Radio)

#ofmd izzy #ofmd #our flag means death #the boat that rocked #tbtr #pirate radio #ofmd fanart #izzy our flag means death

coldwarcynicide

The world is ready for a comedic gay sex scene and Our Flag Means Death is the show that should do it. gimme fumbling middle-aged men trying to figure out how to kiss like they actually care about each other while overly-aggressively shoving each other into furniture and exchanging banter in a storm on the sea with things flying around the room and hitting them

perfectlysensiblenonsense

why would you leave a gem like this in the tags?

mistysblueboxstuff

another quick one, sorry i love he

nicostiel

Our Flag Means Death + Text Posts

fleshadept

taika enjoyer masterlist

hi hello here is a dropbox folder with the films taika has written/directed and here is one with all of our flag means death

youtube links:

tama tū (2004 short film)

two cars one night (2004 short film)

what we do in the shadows: interviews with some vampires (2005 rough draft of the concept)

The Art of Creativity | Taika Waititi | TEDxDoha

WWDITS promotional content with taika in character as viago

Dating 101 with Viago

Viago’s interview

Vampire’s Guide to Vellington

Behind The Lid - Vellington Sign

Viago feat. Hurricanes - Poi E

Getting a good soundbite

Devil in a Swan Outfit

some of my fave interviews :-)

The Rogers Revue Intervues Taika Waititi

Tipsy Talk with Taika Waititi (personal fave of all time)

Falling in love with Jemaine Clement and Taiki Waititi

Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi - Say That Again?!

Taika Waititi: NZer of the Year 2017

vivalski

I love that robe Stede rocked on ep 7/8 🥺💕

mindgames-and-logicpuzzles

@bertoltblecht 😭😭😭

izzy-hands

Ed + wearing Stede’s cravat

foreveriallyzombified

brushie brushie brushie

valtsv

no one like literally nobody at all:

me: what if angels emit ionizing radiation

valtsv

this is probably just going to be a bunch of pseudoscientific bullshit but hear me out anyway:

angels are often described as appearing to glow, either being surrounded by light or even made of it. (according to wikipedia) “sufficient quantities of strongly radioactive materials” can glow bright blue when they come into contact with the air.

several accounts of encounters with angels describe them as being difficult or even painful to look at. while this is often related to the intensity of the light they emit, those exposed to radiation often describe how they experienced what felt like ‘pins and needles’ and similar uncomfortable sensations.

angels are also sometimes described as giving off a scent often likened to burning metal or ozone. a common observation in the accounts of many people who experienced contact with radioactive materials is a metallic taste in the air

while the ability to strip the flesh from your bones and/or vaporize you in seconds is pure hollywood sensationalism unless you’re in the immediate vicinity of an incredibly high level of ionizing radiation (ie: a bomb), it’s not an impossible logical leap to assume that angels couldn’t manipulate the focus and intensity of their own personal auras to have that biblical ‘smiting’ effect. similarly, encounters with angels leading to the subjects of such encounters being aged rapidly or even dying within days or weeks afterwards due to mysterious wasting illnesses (usually attributed to shock) could be describing symptoms of radiation sickness.

following from the above, since it’s also used in small doses for medicinal purposes (particularly in cancer cases), it could be used to explain angels’ ability to heal mysterious illnesses

it can also be used in sterilization processes, which could link to how angels are often associated with cleanliness and ‘purity’

in conclusion: