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Actual line in the script according to samba:
"Artsy outsider was always your thing"
"You were my thing"
"Nah we were just a fling, just like you and Jack"
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Actual line in the script according to samba:
"Artsy outsider was always your thing"
"You were my thing"
"Nah we were just a fling, just like you and Jack"
Time for WIPPIES! Who's got a snippet or a preview for Disastercule Weekend to share? Are Anne and Ed planning sexy pranks on Jack? Mary and chilling at Jackie'z while Anne and Jack fight everyone in the bar? Tell us what you're working on!
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rofl-ing in disastercule real
like we didn't know lmao
many things can be true at once
we know now via statements from both vico and samba that the archie/jim/oluwande/zheng situation was intended to read as a polycule, but for unknown reasons the scenes that would have made it unambiguously clear that they were polyamorous were cut.
in one interview david jenkins mentioned anne bonney and mary read being historically connected to calico jack rackham, and said that he wasn't sure whether, in the world of ofmd, that means ed/jack/anne/mary were a polycule or not - which confirms that he, and probably the entire writer's room, did at least consider the possibility of portraying it that way.
a writing trick that s1 of ofmd really loved was foreshadowing plot beats exactly one episode before they happen. in episode 8 jack mentions being tied to an anchor in a mutiny; one episode later izzy is tied to an anchor in a mutiny. in episode 9 ed mentions making blokes eat their own toes in his younger blackbeard days; one episode later izzy demands that he act like pre-stede-bonnet blackbeard again and ed responds by making him eat his own toe, etc.
in 2x03, hornigold mentions calico jack. the mention is completely unnecessary to the plot and scene it's in, and it's not even explained; if you were a casual viewer who didn't remember jack from season 1 you'd have no idea what he was talking about. it's exactly what you'd expect if it were foreshadowing for jack coming up again in a more substantial way in a future episode.
one episode later, ed meets anne bonney and mary read. bizarrely, at no point in the episode do they mention calico jack, even though this is the episode where he would actually be relevant.
however ed DOES have a conversation in 2x04 with mary read in which mary mentions ed having "a type," i.e. confirming that she is familiar with at least one of ed's previous lovers before stede. the scene cuts off in a slightly abrupt way shortly after this.
the very next scene has anne bonney attempting to kiss stede, whom she realizes is ed's current boyfriend. "they'll be so jealous," she says. it's almost like messing around with ed's boyfriend to tease ed and mary might be something she's done before, perhaps early on after they all met each other, before settling into a negotiated polyamorous arrangement.
CONCLUSION: episode 2x04 was originally going to explicitly confirm that ed/jack/anne/mary were a polycule at some point, and this would have served to introduce the concept of polyamory to unfamiliar audiences and foreshadow archie/jim/olu/zheng ending up forming a similar but much less toxic polycule.
I can't remember if it was the first first or if it was one of the first three because it was a long time ago but I wrote one of the first fics in the Stede/Ed/jack/Anne/Mary tag on AO3 and it centered around Jack Anne and Mary doing a hazing ritual to initiate Stede into pre-existing disaster polycule. I'm so so so so sad that I no longer have fanfiction writing time in my life because I would fuck this event up I'm glad people are seeing the light when it comes to gay mess
Oh fuck yeah, that sounds like an amazing fic! If you post links to it during our event, please feel free to tag us - we would love to reblog the hell out of it!!
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