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Happy Birthday Calypso!!! 🏴☠️🌊🎂
But we're not really at the revenge step. We're sort of in the, like, pre-revenge window.
Truly:
Big of Ed to not be a little bitchy to Izzy after Calypso's Birthday. So lovely that Izzy was able to express himself in front of the crew and not be threatened over it. Would have been lovely if Ed had that.
I’ll kill for you, darling ❤️🗡️
Just had a realisation thinking about the latest bts and how naturally they just come up with silly little songs on the spot when they're bouncing it off each other. What if this was something they already did during their time together in s1, and Ed composing sad songs in the blanket fort was him trying to recapture some of that magic, and calling Lucius in because doing it alone just doesn't work, it doesn't feel right, but it still wasn't the same as with Stede🥲🫠😭
I think what really gets to me about the depiction of love on the show is that it's not a trade-off: it's not fantasy vs. the mundane, more complicated reality. It's both.
Ed and Stede's relationship is a love story for the ages--a sweeping, larger than life fantasy of adventure and romance. A love that changes and transforms both of them. And it's a complicated human relationship between two pretty fucked up people who met later in life, each thinking they were broken, and who now have to do the hard work of coming together, messing up, and trying again.
It's not a story of anti-climax or losing your rose-tinted glasses; of the real thing being smaller but more meaningful or authentic than the fantasy. It's a story about what happens when the fantasy is real--when you wake up and find yourself suddenly inside the love story you'd given up on, but never quite managed to stop wanting. You got your fairytale. And...you're still you. You still have all the same flaws, same bruises. The same ugly bits, and the same soft bits. Wherever you go, there you are. So now you have to navigate the fairytale with all of that baggage still strapped to your back.
I just...I think that's so achingly beautiful. And I'm so grateful this love story exists.
Izzy Hands singing "La Vie en Rose" in OFMD 2x06
