#archie ofmd

[toboldlymuppet]

here in the storm, i found peace in you

[sherlockig]

[skittlestrash]

original pride flag colors for the crew ♡                   ☠️ second season edition!

[connieboldheart]

These are too fun to make :)

[nortism]

jim jimenez and their girlfriend working together to get jim’s boyfriend a girlfriend, truly no one is doing it like them

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Can we just mention Archie for a moment? Archie who was so steeped in violence and death that she thought there was no such thing as hope, and then she heard Jim telling Pinocchio to Fang and fell in love? Archie who took exactly 1.5 seconds of badassery to jump right into Stede's crew and be embraced by them? Archie who never stopped laughing and smiling once she was on board the Revenge? Archie who fell right into her polycule with Jim and Olu and is gonna be fucking thrilled to have Zheng there too? Archie who is definitely the chaos child and adopted Stede as her dad within a few days?

I just...I really like Archie.

[calamarfraise]

I need them to meet.. I feel like Archie would flirt by flexing her biceps (that would work on me)

The other woman is only credited as Roughneck#1 so we need to find her a name..

Edit : the actress name is Jennifer Onyeiwu so as someone suggested we can call her Jennifer/Jen !

[nemoentwhistle]

Things I see over and over in ofmd fics that ring very true to me, because they just feel right, but I haven't analyzed why very closely, so I provide the basics here. They seem to feel very right to others, probably for reasons that would be obvious if I thought about it more, and if you read this list and say "duh, bitch" then I respect that.

1. Soft dom Stede Bonnet. Captain Voice, "stand down", "on ya feet!", "you were gonna burn my face off, remember?", "what'd you do with him?"

2. Modern AU Ed Teach loves Prince. It's in a number of fics. Probably because Prince was fucking amazing (what a loss) and talented and beautiful and masc and femme and told gender to fuck off way back to the 70s and never apologized for it and was still a sex symbol. Also, purple.

3. Bear with me ... Modern AU Izzy Hands is still a dick but less so, due to different societal trappings (and perhaps has more potential to realistically redeem himself without dying). The only way he can be the same level of dick in a modern AU is if they're running a criminal enterprise, something that comes parallel to the pirate thing. Otherwise, he's usually just an angry bureaucrat who's obsessed with Ed. Just without the pirate part.

4. Olu and Jim are in love in every universe, anchors for each other.

5. Modern AU Archie is either a new employee of Ed's or is one of his oldest friends. I like both. Because Archie is so funny and odd, but I think her chaotic personality works with Ed's love of whimsy. Side note, mostly unrelated... I noticed that people make up all kinds of shit about what Archie is short for... Madeleine Sami has Indian ancestry, and Archie is a common nickname for the Indian name Archana, so in my head, that's her full given name.

6. Stede is closer to Alma than to Louis. Makes sense. She's older, and she's sharp like Mary but maybe enough like Stede for him to feel that. She was hurt when he left. Louis was maybe too young to be.

7. Frenchie and Wee John are platonic partners. Like many, I read Frenchie as aroace. But I like them together. They have a similar level of disinterest that isn't really disinterest. They're room people now.

8. Lucius loves Fang. It's not really canon (?), but it makes perfect sense. He did draw him. Fang did develop affection for him. Lucius does like older men (Pete is old enough to be his father).

Things I don't really like to see but are common:

1. Helpless Ed. Ed is sensitive and soft, but he's extremely competent and also resilient. I think that gets lost sometimes when people are trying to write his emotional journey.

2. Extremely low self esteem Stede. Stede is definitely hard on himself, but he's also a bit high on his own supply. There's a nuance there that creates a tough balance to strike. He's not cocky, but he's also not a quivering little mouse man. He fakes it till he makes it. He's also a wealthy white man in the 18th century. Even if he was bullied, he's still used to people doing what he says.

3. Calico Jack and the Badmintons as one-note villains. They're used as stand-ins, I think, when a villain is needed. Canonically, Jack is boorish and mean to Stede, but it's calculated. It's a fuckery, if you will. Nigel B was played as genuinely believing he and Stede were friends, as twisted as that may be. Chauncey B had lost his twin and gone a little mad. They had reasons for their behavior. Sometimes they're written as just being wankers because the plot needs wankers.

6. Izzy and Ed grew up together. Forgetting that they're ten years apart and from different parts of the world, their relationship reads very "we met at work" to me.

Why did I write this? I don't know.