the sirens of the rocks, they beckon me

Rita ~ she/her ~ bisexual ~ Jewish sapphic pirate wench I love Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden and Our Flag Means Death. MsLovelyRita on Pillowfort and AO3 ritalovett on Dreamwidth sirensoftherocks on Bluesky

[sirensoftherocks]

Welcome To My Blog

Hello and welcome to my Tumblr blog. My name is Rita.

I write a lot of classic rock fanfiction, mostly about Iron Maiden and Led Zeppelin, my two favorite bands of all time. A good chunk of that fanfiction surrounds Robert Plant, who has held my heart hostage for the past three years. But I write about other members as well.

Non-RPF fandoms that I am part of/write fic for include but are not limited to:

Our Flag Means Death - I have permanent pirate brainrot and have fallen ridiculously in love with Taika Waititi’s Blackbeard (as well as just with Taika himself). Steddyhands enjoyer.

MCU - and by that I mean mostly Loki. I have been in love with Loki since I was 12 years old.

X-Men - Erik Lehnsherr apologist. Magneto was right.

This blog is mainly for me to thirst over my favorite band members/fictional characters.

I have too much fic and art to back up here and since I have lost count of how many times I have impulsively deleted and rejoined here, I'll just leave the links down below:

AO3

Pillowfort

Dreamwidth

Newgrounds

Deviantart

My YouTube channel

Pinterest

Cosmos

Bluesky

TERFs, radfems, neo-Nazis, and Hamasniks will be blocked on sight

The owner of this blog is Jewish, and unequivocally supports the Jewish community. Jews, whether those in Israel or the diaspora, are safe and welcome here. Antisemitism will never be tolerated on this page. With that said, I also will not tolerate Islamophobia, anti-Arab, or anti-Palestinian racism. This blog supports co-existence and two-state solution. If this is an issue for you, do not even bother looking at my blog.

[stedesparasol]

baby, baby, baby...

[distorted--mermaids-blog]

Say it with me kids:

A 👏BISEXUAL 👏 PERSON 👏 SHOULD 👏 NOT 👏 HAVE 👏 TO 👏 PRESENT 👏 THEIR 👏ROMANTIC 👏HISTORY 👏TO 👏PROVE 👏TO 👏YOU👏 THEY 👏ARE 👏BISEXUAL

[sirensoftherocks]

HELP I JUST REALIZED STEDE SMACKED IZZY'S ASS WITH HIS SWORD 😭🤣

[blackbirdcreek]

Reminds me of this, which, I don't know who made it, but everytime I see it I can't stop cackling.

[sirensoftherocks]

I love Izzy Hands. He’s probably my second or favorite character in the show (it’s a toss up between him and Jim; Ed is my favorite for obvious reasons), and his character arc is one of the most satisfying, and I was deeply upset about his death because it felt so unnecessary.

But I’m by no means an apologist for him. I know and acknowledge that he was a terrible fucking person and that being a terrible fucking person is what made his redemption arc so satisfying and earned.

And like there’s this common take in the canyon that he was actually acting in Ed’s best interest the entire time in season 1.

And yeah, I’m sure Izzy genuinely believed that he was because he had a twisted definition of love and loyalty, but like… THAT’S KIND OF THE FUCKING PROBLEM???

[olive-ia123]

I love how we all inevitably fall in love with Izzy sooner or later

[merryfinches]

Ed is/isn't bisexual, Stede is/isn't demisexual.

Literally nobody in the show turns to the camera and announces their sexuality.

All the show says is that there are a million different flavours of queer, and that's great.

Labels are all headcanon, and you can choose whichever ones you like for the characters.

[sirensoftherocks]

I need an EdIzzy Divorce Court AU. They remind me of this gay couple that made repeated appearances on the show during the Toler era because they had broken up and gotten back together multiple times and were constantly yelling over each other in the courtroom. But instead of the usual problems these couples had, Ed and Izzy arguing over stuff that make the judge as well as the audience progressively more horrified especially with how casual they talk about it as if promising to murder Ed’s new boyfriend or Ed mutilating Izzy is something that’s just a “marital spat.”

[willgrahamscock]

some of you need to realize that your faves would be having unsafe bdsm sex because they don’t actually know what bdsm sex is, they just want to fuck and also kill each other. you must understand this.

[willgrahamscock]

you don’t have to write safe practices and contract agreements. your audience knows not to apply any of this in their real lives, sasuke doesn’t know what a safe word is im begging you please write the toxic yaoi

[merryfinches]

You can ask for all the analysis of WHY someone thinks that Ed is bi that you want, and what that means for his identity, but sometimes people ARE just bisexual, and there's nothing inherently traumatic about that. It doesn't have to have anything to do with his gender presentation, they're completely different things, and there has been SO much meta about the latter.

Like, MY meta here would be that being bisexual isn't a big deal to Ed at all, he's had sex with Jack, he'd probably had sex with Anne, he's got drunk and fooled around with multiple people at once. Maybe been to an orgy- maybe he loved it, maybe he got a bit bored and went and made a sandwich, idk?

The thing is, it's hard to write meta about it because, at the end of the day, it's just headcanons, and its not really THAT important to who Ed is. Because, from what we see, he's very comfortable with his sexuality (whatever that is) from when we first meet him. He has MUCH BIGGER ISSUES that the series deals with. Stede is different, the whole first series revolves around his sexuality and the reveal (to himself as well as us) that he's in love with a man, and he would be happier not to be married to a woman. But Ed? All that *really* matters is that he is in love with Stede. And no amount of sexual farmers affects that.

Anyone can headcanon whatever they like, but you can't constantly demand that people justify their ideas with a thesis, nobody needs to do that. And there's something really disheartening in the way that bisexual people are often accused of faking it, and have to prove that they're not just gay, but in denial, or straight but just looking for attention. So maybe when you demand that they ALSO justify WHY exactly they think that this fictional character might be bi, think about how that might feel to people who have to do that with their own sexuality in real life already.

[merryfinches]

*PARTNERS, sexual PARTNERS. Although maybe Ed has had sex with sexual farmers, too? If so then good for him. Whore (affectionate) ❤️

[the-oracle-of-the-lost]

fan 1: i think this character is a lesbian because of xyz reason!

me: cool! definitely adopting this into my headcanons!

fan 2: i think this character is a lesbian because she would never be sullied by gross icky men 🤮

me: i am making her bisexual as we speak.

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

*gently touching the ground of my tumblr dash and feeling the vibrations* someone I have blocked is saying weird shit about bisexual people again

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

saying that people are being biphobic bc they interpret a fictional character as bisexual in a way that doesn't fit into your narrow ideas of Unproblematic Bisexuality does not, in fact, make you some valorous defender of bisexual people.

saying that a bisexual headcanon is only acceptable if the bi person remains monogamously devoted to your favorite character and never experiences attraction to anyone else past or present, because you think it would "ruin their love" if one of them was bisexual, makes it pretty clear that you don't give a single solitary fuck about the lived experiences of bi people or the unique challenges and stereotypes that bi people face. instead, you saw something that made you feel yuckyyy and you reached for a tortured moral justification to try and bully people into not making things that make you feel yucky anymore, bc god forbid bi people make things for themselves and not you.

[stedesparasol]

it might sound crazy but it ain't no lie baby, bi, bi, bi

a gift to the bi ed girlies (gn) from a gay ed girlie, in celebration of samba's tidbit 🩷💜💙 peace and love on planet earth 🩷💜💙

[sirensoftherocks]

Gene was so ridiculously attractive in this movie, why do I never see anyone else talk about this-

[jellybeanium124]

blondish longish hair ✅ (ok this is just stede) nose ✅ attractive but kinda funky lookin ✅

he is his generation's rhys darby

[sherlockig]

Touch me I'm just as human as a human can be Please touch me

[edwardyouinhere]

[grievingwithnoreason]

THIS HAS ABSOLUTELY MADE MY FUCKING DAY

BRO WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE HES ABOUT TO BURST INTO TEARS 😭😭😭

[jedipirateking]

Here, have the whole comic.