#ofmd s2e8

[thisflagmeanseverything]

Happy 1 year anniversary to "Mermen" and the series finale (for now 🤞) of the show that means everything to me ❤️

I'm alternating between crying that it ended and being happy that we got s2 and got what we did.

The beach scene, "I love you!" "I know, I know that" 🥹 BABE! Pete and Lucius marrying! Alex Sherman's ass! Fishing! Ed thinking Stede's dead. THE LOVELY LETTERS. We got sooo much and it's beautiful and lovely.

This post is a lovely letter to OFMD and how important and special this show is to me (us) still, even a year after it ended. Seeing these two older men find themselves and love after having rough lives is very special to me and gives me hope for the future.

But this lovely letter isn't just to the show but to all of you amazing, wonderful, passionate and caring and dedicated and talented artists, writers, fans and enjoyers of OFMD that helped carry the love of OFMD through two cancellations and to this special anniversary.

I adore all of yall and I'm glad you are still here ❤️

I'm going to tag a few people but this is to every fan of OFMD out there, it's been the best time sailing with you and I hope to keep going 🫡

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@gentlebeardsbarngrill Abby, thank you for everything you've done, I appreciate you! @xoxoemynn you are one of the sweetest people I know @stedesbonnets thank you for accepting me and talking to me @romcomtelecom @follows-the-bees @celluloidbroomcloset I really enjoy all of your meta and ideas @lunarcryptidz you know 💜 @blackbeardsslutstrands thank you for being there to talk to after "Merman" last year @blatterpussbunnyfromhell @areyoudoingthis @saltpepperbeard @thescarvedinsect @spirker @soupbtch @merryfinches @xray-vex @piratecaptainscaptainpirates @bizarrelittlemew @blakbonnet @funforahermit @finethingswellworn @jellybeanium124 @naranjapetrificada @carmillas-girlfriend @teeny-tiny-revenge @jaskierx @scribophile @call-me-frosting-or-not-idc @forpiratereasons @ofmd-ann-main @captain-frenchie

I wish I could tag and give personal lovely letters to everyone (I have a bad memory and can't remember @ names) but just know yall are all appreciated and thank you 🥹🤗

[thetardigrape]

HEY.

Feel however you want to feel about the OFMD S2 finale but DO NOT make claims about a "straight white man" ruining the show. The writers room was mostly queer POC. Don't erase their skill, hard work, and representative voices just because you're upset. Show some respect.

[red-sky-in-mourning]

i know it was mostly played for laughs, but did the scene with ed and pop pop make anyone else just desperately sad? like here's this guy trying to start over again in the next best way he can think of because he feels like he's on the verge of losing his shit again, and he's grasping at a thread of something that seems to make sense in the moment (trying to hold on), and he still can't do anything right and gets screamed at and bullied about it by the very person he thought had taken him under his wing and would help him make sense of the chaos. (doesn't matter if ed's not a very good fisherman; he wanted to try to be!) i just felt so much for ed in that moment. and when he dropped the fish on the fire i knew it was supposed to be an lol cue for the audience but i just felt like crying. i guess that's one way ofmd is so amazing - it can make you want to do both at the same time.

[youshouldseemeinadeerstalker]

[unhingedpirates]

Guys, guys

Remember the new still?

The letter he’s reading is the first one we see Stede writing on episode 1.

But the letter we heard Stede reading left something out.

You can see the letter says:

“Dear Ed. The crew and I are safe and thriving. Still a bit unclear whether you intended (?) to leave them for dead? Or perhaps that was an oversight? As I’ve renounced my wealth, [we’ve] been forced to take up [temporary] residence on the [Republic of] Pirates…”

Stede, being Stede, is asking his classic ‘did you mean to do that?’ on whether he marooned the crew and left them to die or not 😂😂😭

[bearblues]

buttons landing on izzy’s grave to use his sea witch powers to raise him from the dead

[ianmalcolmptsd]

If anyone wants to see a satisfying season/series finale with a character played by Con O’Neill, I’m once again recommending BBC’s Uncle.

[piratesmyass]

Yeah, I'm normal about them. And I'm totally normal about Izzy leaning on Wee John in this scene. I'm so fucking normal about it. Can you see how normal I'm being?