Fuck you, HBOMax.
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@normalaboutpirates
Fuck you, HBOMax.
at the request of @asneakyfox
gif of ed dumping the blackbeard leathers in the ocean but they're labeled "clown makeup," followed by a screenshot djenks liking the tweet about possibly getting picked up by other services, followed by gif of ed retrieving the clown makeup out of the ocean. imagine i did this because i can't actually edit gifs yet
ed stalks majestically out of the waves in his rainbow wig
OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2
I know we're not through. A love like ours can't disappear in an instant. We're joined to one another. Intertwined. We wrote our names on each other in permanent ink.
i wish i'd had the energy to be On Here the last few months. i wish i had the energy to write the paragraphs i want to right now. i have a lot of words in my brain about my fandom experience with ofmd, and my historical fandom experience but i just can't get anything out. boo.
Man, I genuinely was not fucking worried. OFMD did amazingly well, and they gave us such a fucking good season on a 40% budget cut? It makes no fucking sense to cancel when they only wanted one more season.
It sucks, that they fought so hard to give us a fucking awesome second season, and this is the reward they get for it.
if you're wondering why it's pretty obvious. remember after the merger there was all that stuff about how hbomax's new strategy was they were interested in 2 kinds of properties, (A) reality shows and (B) evergreen franchises that could be milked endlessly, like game of thrones and h*rry p*tter and the dc universe?
remember how during djenks' interviews about this season there was suddenly a lot of very odd talk about how excited he was for the prospect of spinoffs about characters other than ed & stede?
that was an attempt to convince them that ofmd was in category B, because that was the only way it ever would have been renewed. when you say "we only wanted one more season," well, that was the problem. max doesn't want a self-contained story that's over after 3 seasons. max wants an IP they can milk forever, and if ofmd isn't that, they think it's a waste of money that could be going toward something that is.
it literally did not matter how much money s2 made, or how much money s3 was projected to make, unless they thought it would keep making money for a theoretically infinite stretch of time after that.
as angry and as sad as i am
it's a real privilege to have a story that i care this much about. it takes a lot to create something that makes me feel like i'm dying when it gets cancelled lmao
and it's nice to have so many people to feel devastated with
thank you david
thank you writers
thank you cast
thank you crew
thank you fandom
Fuck you, HBOMax.
i feel like all fandom spaces would improve dramatically if more people learned how to enjoy non-canon ships which were never written as romantic without acting entitled to official validation or throwing a hissy fit over not getting something that they were never promised
like i promise there’s nothing wrong with shipping characters together while accepting that they won’t ever be a canon couple or with choosing to interpret their interactions as romantic while acknowledging that the writers clearly didn’t intend for it to be read that way
fandom having such easy contact with casts and writers and stuff was a mistake
leave them alone lmao fandom isn’t about changing canon, it’s about playing with it like barbies
The most irritating thing, is that if you watch season one and then immediately watch season two, everything makes perfect sense. It's a great story. Characters that are vessels for very real emotional storylines and symbolism, but at their core, are silly pirates on a silly pirates show.
However if you watch season one, then spend a year obsessing over the characters, obsessing over characteristics, traits, relationships that are not actually canon but convincing yourself they are. Getting so wrapped up in fanon that your version of the characters and the actual written canon characters are two completely different things. Yeah of course you're gonna be pissed.
Most of the backlash from season two is because people have been reading fanfics for a year and had wildly unrealistic expectations. It's actually fucking fascinating and should be studied. It just keeps happening over and over again in every new fandom and nothing changes
theyre so real for showing zheng fix her hair after fighting. pigtails dont fucking stay that good looking without work
Jim, treetop assassin 🔪
he's so bitchy, I love him <3