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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

asneakyfox

ed stalks majestically out of the waves in his rainbow wig

djarin

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.

#this beautiful show

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.

#kudos to my husband though for not making fun of me for Feeling Things about a tv show #and taking on the heaviest parenting duties this evening #and bringing me wine and ice cream while i binge s1 #ofmd #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.#womp womp

piratecaptainscaptainpirates

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.

#The most gutting part is how blindsided i was

merryfinches

asneakyfox

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.

asneakyfox

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.

shaneposting

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

kiwistede

Fuck you, HBOMax.

bloodraven55

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

bloodraven55

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

insufficiently-advanced

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

eddie-redcliffe

#the victory lap line might be my favorite of the whole season?#ofmd s2 spoilers

short-king-enthusiast

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