Stede: what is Izzy short for?
Ed: his legs aren't very long

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Stede: what is Izzy short for?
Ed: his legs aren't very long
Ok we all know that I am not the world's foremost Izzy enjoyer but that doesn't mean I'm not happy for him in a vague sort of way. So here are some half-formed thoughts from my morning commute.
You want to fix that old man? Okay. I don't partake because see above I do not enjoy him, but consider:
Edizzy won't fix him. The whole point is this makes him worse. My favorite part of his arc is how he doesn't begin to heal until he releases his fixation on Ed and starts forming his own identify outside of Being Blackbeard's First Mate. Plus, relating to Izzy in the way that Izzy wants is literally traumatizing for Ed and I don't want that for him.
Steddyhands/Stizzy won't fix him because a) see above, b) stede frankly forgets about him the moment he stops talking, c) Ed and Stede are obsessed with each other. While I enjoy giving them a third to play with for sexy times, Izzy would hate this and so would they.
Rizzy, though? Roach would fix him. He's a sadist, he would step on Izzy the way he wants and he would like it. Izzy would bluster and try to manipulate him and Roach would roll his eyes and say "I can always stab you instead" and everyone would have a nice time. Plus I feel like Roach would give great aftercare, and there's plenty of height difference to sexualize. And I think Roach would have a good time also.
Agree with all, except neutral on Roach.
Edizzy makes me feel sick. He's so awful to Ed, so selfish and vicious and violent until Ed snaps and maims him.
Stizzy might as well be on another planet. Steddyhands also. Stede and Izzy go from hating each other to tolerating each other, and as you say, Izzy would hate it. He hates the way Stede and Ed interact with each other.
Re: Roach... I don't think they even interact in the show. It's true that Roach 1) loves torture and 2) has no time for anyone's sass, but I've always found this one a little strange and hard to see. But a lot of people do see it, so maybe I'm missing something. Of course, I don't really look at Izzy that way. I think he made a good villain, but after he finally decided to play well with others, his character still didn't seem open in that way, in spite of the singing and the very low key tears. I dunno. His personality remained very isolated, right up to the end.
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Ugh. Fish.
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Sweet Ed. This is lovely and sad.
On this day, 305 years ago:
“They’ll never forget the eccentric Pirate Bonnet and his savage, insane, vengeful, pirate horde. See? He’s a pirate. A real, proper pirate.”
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i headcannon Paul from Piano Man by Billy Joel as demi ace.
That's it.
That's the post.
It makes sense. He never had time for a wife.
1) any stretching is better than no stretching
2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable
3) statistically you will never be the worst person at anything, there is always someone in the world who is worse at stuff than you are
Well, if that's true, then someone has to be the worst person in the world.
I’m still thinking about how casually Ed invites Frenchie to join them on the boat party in 1x05. We know that Ed has been keeping to himself for who-knows-how-long, holing up in his cabin on the Queen Anne’s Revenge with Izzy acting as a go-between with his crew. He’s been getting more and more bored, lonely, and depressed, and when he tries to engage with Izzy, we see that he tends to get shut down or scolded.
And obviously, meeting Stede is revolutionary for him, someone whose playfulness matches his, someone he can be weird with, someone whose mind hums at a similar frequency. From the moment they meet, he gets to be Ed: he can open up about his feelings on piracy, savor fine fabrics, and explore wardrobes in secret passages.
But I think it’s important that we see Ed finding some level of community on the Revenge too. So even beyond the delight of the pyramid scheme subplot, I really like that it’s not just Stede and Ed who go to the party, and that Ed is the one to invite Frenchie. For a guy who’s spent too long sitting alone in his cabin, it means a lot to me that he takes pretty much the first chance he gets to ask someone else to hang out.
When Ed is in front of the whole crew, he tends to be in performance mode a lot. He is interacting/socializing with them, more so than he has with his own crew—“This is the most open and available I’ve ever seen him,” according to Ivan—but it’s largely as Blackbeard rather than Ed. The friendly but still slightly untouchable celebrity. Admiring the “wild characters on the high seas,” goofing around while keeping his hands on his weapons. Prefacing his ghost story with the detail that he “doesn’t feel fear.” Getting up to the sort of raucous, violent pirate fun he has with Calico Jack. And so on.
So his first steps of showing Ed to the crew come in smaller, more individual interactions. We get Frenchie and Oluwande at the boat party (though Ed and Olu don’t really interact much with each other,) which gives us such gems as, “I like the name Jeff, and accounting sounds fancy as fuck,” "They're such dicks about spoons!", and my beloved, “What’d they do to you, man?” We get Lucius on the treasure hunt, which gives us his great, “You don’t have to be a dick about it,” speech, and he speaks his mind when he drops off the box of Ed’s stuff after Ed leaves with Jack.
It’s the individual connections with these two characters that offer Ed the stepping stones to really drop his Blackbeard persona in front of the whole crew. When he comes back from the Academy, Izzy tries to hide Ed’s heartbreak from the crew, but Ed asks to see Lucius. Not to talk about his feelings, mind you! Just so Lucius can write down his lyrics…about sorrow and despair. But the song’s just about a fictional character…who, Lucius guesses, is struggling.
With Lucius’s gentle encouragement, and Frenchie’s accompaniment on the lute, Ed lets the crew see him as a vulnerable wreck. No “very cool” leather, no posturing, no calculated friendliness. Just a shambles of a man in Stede’s robe singing his heart out about hard life and sad death, in need of love and support. And the crew gives it. They’re a little weirded out and confused, but they’re there for Ed when he needs them. There to help him weather the storm in Stede’s absence.
All of that means so, so much to me. Stede changes Ed’s life in countless critical ways, but it’s better for them both if Stede isn’t Ed’s everything, and vice versa. They both need more than just each other. It makes me sad that things broke between Ed and many of the crew in season 2, even if I understand why, and while I adore Fang’s sweetness and caring throughout their fishing trip, I do wish we’d been able to see more of Ed’s relationships with the crew being mended. I hope they all have such good times together whenever the crew drops by the inn!
I suspect the bookstore thing is a combination of bleedover from Good Omens (especially in the early days there were a lot of people making Aziraphale-Stede comparisons) and the importance of Stede's library/books/reading to the crew in s1
That's definitely probably the case re: the library. I haven't seen Good Omens, so I can't speak to that, but yeah. Checks out on the library front. Also a few where he's a tailor - he does fancy a fine fabric.
I feel like this always misses a beat because when Stede ran away from home he chose to enter this ridiculously dangerous profession with zero experience or understanding of what it entailed and nearly died multiple times as a result.
Stede’s the dude who decides to be a stuntman, buys a motorcycle, and tries to jump a bus.
See, I like these. They kind of mirror the show. What I really like is when Stede leans into things that are dangerous or criminal, when he's unfazed by violence or scandalous conduct, because his character is a little unhinged, and I think that gets missed. He sets out to be a pirate. Sure, he's paying his crew, he's drinking tea, he's the Polite Menace, but he still wants to rob people.
I suspect the bookstore thing is a combination of bleedover from Good Omens (especially in the early days there were a lot of people making Aziraphale-Stede comparisons) and the importance of Stede's library/books/reading to the crew in s1
That's definitely probably the case re: the library. I haven't seen Good Omens, so I can't speak to that, but yeah. Checks out on the library front. Also a few where he's a tailor - he does fancy a fine fabric.
the ofmd fandom is by far the most au-heavy fandom i've ever been in, it's wild to me that 80% of the fics out there seem to be aus. and i think part of it is Ed and Stede love each other but they also really really like each other too. it's just so easy to imagine them having fun in any situation you put them in. you can think up the most niche possible idea and i'm already completely sold that they would be there, doing it weird and having fun together, because above all else they like each other
I really like reading modern AUs, and I can't really articulate why, but you're right... There are a lot of them.
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so fucked up that the ofmd writers did a “character is replaced by an imposter but nobody notices bc they like the imposter more” storyline with izzy in s2. i thought this was supposed to be a kind show
resurrection/faked death theories are out, “s3 starts with the real izzy climbing out of a secret passage in the ship, turns out his imposter trapped him down there and nobody noticed” theory is in
He doesn't know why everyone is so happy to see him. He learns where they dropped off Ed and Stede and reports the location to Ricky Banes, who takes him on as a consort. Stede ultimately kills him with a booby trap. Ed never finds out about any of it and goes on happily with his closure.
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