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Ignore my new display name I’m going through something

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I think the worst thing about the izzcourse was a subset of pro-ed/anti-izzy people insisting that irl queer actor Con was homophobic because he portrayed a character they didn't like.

This is making me laugh out loud because isn’t he married to a man 😭

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I think most people seem to see Mary’s confidence in standing up to Stede as her just being an awesome girlboss which love that for her but I really really REALLY also like thinking of her having the flavour of autism where you are incredibly blunt all the time… I think I just enjoy projecting autism onto my favs but socially struggling Mary who can’t not speak her mind even when not fully appropriate is so real to me

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jilted wives

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I think I’m gonna become a Mary Bonnet yumeshipper. That’s wifey right there.

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The Widow Mary in Art Nouveau

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This is so edizzy coded to me actually

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Fang/Ivan/Izzy is lowkey one of my fave pre-canon ships

I feel you…I have headcannons about Ivan that could make this so interesting actually…not ready to share them because they’re incomplete but

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noticed Fang helping Izzy down the stairs in this cut scene…I’m gonna be SICK!!!!!

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Hey, it’s “different anon.” Not sure if you’re still up. I got to looking at my message on your blog, and even though I didn’t mean to be, I was biased in my message and I feel like I did the gentlebeard fandom at large sort of a disservice. A lot of the stuff I listed was from a few loud individuals and not the majority. I also worry that I aired a lot of grievances, and I don’t want you to get flack for it. You don’t need to get pulled into discourse nonsense. Please feel free to delete that anon I sent earlier if you’re worried about people’s responses, okay? It won’t hurt my feelings. I feel bad that I hit you with all that. 😖

It’s ok annon!! Dw about it really

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The best advice I can give you as someone who joined this fandom weeks after the first finale dropped and saw it all hit the fan is to remember that when people talk about the Canyon/Izzy antis/Izzy stans/Gentlebeardies, it’s actually, like, such a small group of people actually saying the stuff that the majority of the fandom is being accused of saying or believing. We don’t all hold the same extreme this-or-that polar opposite opinion. So don’t be afraid that there’s hundreds of people out there who are waiting to attack you for being wrong. Just, you know, be prepared to moderate your experience.

Ok thanks annon this actually made me feel. A bit less intimidated…. I rlly like the show and the characters but I’ve been sooo scared to really try get into the fandom..

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Different anon. The homophobia thing really has made a bit of a mess. The problem I saw over the years that I’ve been here as a fan of all the characters is that at first we all agreed he had some internalized issues, but while some of us saw it as interesting storytelling and a chance for growth in the upcoming second season (that hadn’t been released when this all started, keep that in mind), others touted it as part of a larger list of terrible, unforgivable traits that should make us all hate him. That we should love to hate him. That he’s meant to be hated and defeated as the ultimate irredeemable villain and symbol of toxic masculinity and heteronormativity. The few who shouted loudest about it also painted his every action towards others as racist (because the cast is diverse so almost every character he interacted with was non-white even if he was equally biting toward everyone), said that he had obviously been abusing Ed and the whole Queen Anne crew for years and had power over Ed as another “cishet angry white man like his father,” that he was “trying to enslave Ed when the navy handed him over,” that his character probably isn’t even meant to be queer so the homophobia isn’t internalized (including accusing the actor of not being queer after coming out), and that anyone who liked him should take a look in the mirror because they might be queerphobic or racist or abuse apologists for liking him. This came in replies, callout posts, vague blogs, and vicious anons. All of this led to a lot of fans leaving this space entirely while some Izzy fans instead retaliated by trying to refute these claims—all of them, including the toxic masculinity. Which only frustrated the people they were arguing with. The back-and-forth escalated over the years and really twisted things up so of course it’s all convoluted and seems ridiculous now to anyone just coming into it.

As someone who watched it all happen, I’m very tired. 😞

Just. Don’t really know what to say to this 😭 good LORD

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