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Perhaps it’s a combination of my own life experiences and reading The Vampire Lestat but I keep thinking about how in Our Flag Means Death where Ed gets told he “wears fine things well” just really fucking hits. What a line! All I can think about is how Ed felt like a stranger looking in to this world of class that he wasn’t able to be part of. He puts himself down when Stede compliments him at first.

There’s a certain aspect of poverty that I fear many don’t understand. That even if you have the “amazing” journey of being able to escape poverty and escape abuse (like how Ed kinda did) that there’s this strange feeling emotionally that you must convince yourself that life can be enjoyed and that you deserve good things because when life throws that much shit at you so young and you exist in a system that perpetuates that. You begin to think that YOU are the problem and other wouldn’t understand why you place value on these ‘meaningless’ items but that’s mostly a result of not understanding the value of said item. They say you can tell when someone didn’t grow up rich because they move about life in a mild extravagance. They know the value of the things they have because they know what it was like without.

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