apparently Taika improvised the fucking foot-touch

[this is a sideblog! my main is @much-ado-about-whumping and my more normal posts are at @gutterdiamond] he/they pronouns. I like to try to describe images, but brainstuff makes it tricky sometimes - images with no ID will be tagged "undescribed".

[thatgoddamnfoottouch]

texting my sibling groupchat like "OFMD is something both normal people and cishet people can enjoy"

[cobbbvanth]

On this day, 305 years ago:

“They’ll never forget the eccentric Pirate Bonnet and his savage, insane, vengeful, pirate horde. See? He’s a pirate. A real, proper pirate.”

[mermaidinn]

coconut war

[mermaidinn]

Fishing

[mermaidinn]

They’re about to fall in love

Happy bday show 💙

[tulipseason]

pick one:

Oh look. Running water

They must be really into geometry

I didn’t even know there was piracy happening!

We’re sort of in the pre-revenge window?

What are they? Christ’s Oranges?

That doesn’t sound like you. You have impeccable balance babe

A doggy? With Blackbeard’s face on it?

Birds… love drinking for free?

Nope. I can’t do it. I’ve never even SEEN one of these

Voting ended onOct 16, 2024

[crococriles]

A better ending to season 2, beautifully created by @lonicera-caprifolium 🥺

Loved the end shot of Ed and Stede, but thought it could be improved by not killing my babygirl and including him 🖤

[stedebonnetsbignaturals]

@thatgoddamnfoottouch and I are watching the paralympics and now thinking about the paralympics au

Ed is an olympic athlete, but after repeated injuries becomes too disabled to continue competing in the able-bodied version. He doesn’t want to retire, though, and starts looking into the paralympics. Izzy, his manager, does Not like this idea, worries it will sully Ed’s legendary status with what he views as a step down.

Stede is a fashion designer - he previously was quite successful, but pretty depressed about it - either the monotony, or being constrained by the company he worked for. He discovered adaptive clothing (maybe through his own disability, maybe through a friend’s) and pivoted to making adaptive fashion. He’s now making both athletic clothing for Paralympic athletes and high fashion for promotional events and such, whatever they might need fancy looks for

So ofc he’s doing a consultation for the man the myth the legend Ed Teach, who previously just wore his sports uniform and suits for events, and Stede’s like. But would you like something a little more special? It’s the olympics! Let’s go all out!! And Ed is immediately like 😳🥺

[thatgoddamnfoottouch]

feels important to me (ymmv - there's a special home for Izzy in my heart) that Izzy is fully doing an internalized ableism, too. like, he isn't being a dick about just Ed and only Ed - he's also definitely dealing with his own disability thing that he's shoving down as hard as possible.

back to Ed and Stede - fucking hell, imagine you wear fine things well but with adaptive fashion 😭

[stedebonnetsbignaturals]

@thatgoddamnfoottouch and I are watching the paralympics and now thinking about the paralympics au

Ed is an olympic athlete, but after repeated injuries becomes too disabled to continue competing in the able-bodied version. He doesn’t want to retire, though, and starts looking into the paralympics. Izzy, his manager, does Not like this idea, worries it will sully Ed’s legendary status with what he views as a step down.

Stede is a fashion designer - he previously was quite successful, but pretty depressed about it - either the monotony, or being constrained by the company he worked for. He discovered adaptive clothing (maybe through his own disability, maybe through a friend’s) and pivoted to making adaptive fashion. He’s now making both athletic clothing for Paralympic athletes and high fashion for promotional events and such, whatever they might need fancy looks for

So ofc he’s doing a consultation for the man the myth the legend Ed Teach, who previously just wore his sports uniform and suits for events, and Stede’s like. But would you like something a little more special? It’s the olympics! Let’s go all out!! And Ed is immediately like 😳🥺

[shaneposting]

can't wait until somebody more intelligent than me writes a big post about the ed and hornigold scenes but for now this will do

so uh once upon a time i had therapy which is weird bc i'm completely mentally well and always have been and my therapist introduced me to this theory called transactional analysis where the idea is that as well as your 'regular' adult self you have an inner parent (who acts like your parents/parent figures) and an inner child (who acts like you did as a child) and a lot of how we process what happens to us is influenced by these

and i'm climbing my walls and hanging upside down from the ceiling because to me this was so perfectly shown in those scenes

ed and hornigold are ed's inner child and inner parent respectively

ed wants to play pretend. he wants to play innkeeper with a friend and have fun. he does not want to eat his soup in case it isn't safe. he wants to be told that he's special ('it's not that basic, mine was pretty intense') he wants to gently suggest things ('i think i'm supposed to choose live') and look to an authority figure and have them confirm that he's doing well and making the right choices

and hornigold as the inner parent doesn't let him, because ed didn't get that kind of parental support as a child. hornigold indulges ed in the innkeeper roleplay, but spoils it by not playing 'properly', by trying to change it from a fun game about running an inn to a hard lesson about how in the real world people will be rude to you. he forces ed to eat the soup for his own good. he's unimpressed by ed's various misdeeds and attempts to get the crew to kill him even though ed is showing them to him and asking for approval. he's indifferent and gives absolutely no encouragement when ed is looking for assurance that he should choose to live - in fact, he ends up deciding ed is taking too long and makes the decision for him, literally causing him to fall off the cliff

and then when ed's about to die, when he's chosen death and he's almost at peace with letting himself drown, the person that saves him is stede - who has always seen him and never judged him, who works on the same wavelength with how ed communicates through games and metaphors, who was the first person to ever look past the blackbeard exterior and see ed as a person who is soft and vulnerable and likes fabrics instead of a man so scary he's become a legend - stede who appears as a literal light in the darkness, as a mythical creature, armed with a trident to protect ed from harm

yeah in conclusion ed has childhood trauma and everybody is worse off for it including me :)

[lumiilys]

Ed after having a very big cry with a throbbing headache, feeling extremely fragile and exhausted and overwhelmed. But Stede is there for him. And Stede brings him tea and washes his face with a cool cloth to soothe his puffy eyes. He makes a cosy nest for him in their bed where he can cuddle him and kiss his forehead and stroke his hair. And Ed falls asleep in his arms feeling completely wrung out but knowing he’s safe and loved… yeah…

[userarmand]

Taika Waititi as Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach || Our Flag Means Death Season 2

[bbyteach]

delicious spicy things are now going to be posted up on my patreon! I will start doing a monthly meal that will only be posted there (with crop previews posted elsewhere) including ways to dl my comics that aren't suitable for gumroad and etc

[xoxoemynn]

Right back 'atcha, Pirate Dad. 🥹

[pencilscratchins]

the very thesis of stede bonnet (twitter) [ID in ALT]

[aanakin]

Samson Kayo as Oluwande in Our Flag Means Death (2022-)

[sherlockig]