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Izzy Hands is my Captain. Gentlehands/Stizzy is canon. Steddyhands (albeit with a canon divergent Ed) is my ideal endgame.

[theunicornsfreedom]

Hi!

I am Di, she/her, a twenty-something creative disaster, and this is my blog dedicated to, well, I would have to say primarily Izzy and Con-related things because my love for them is very intense and probably unparalleled even though I do love a lot of characters from OFMD and the beautiful humans who portrayed them ❤

My loves:

Izzy Hands (kinda goes without saying 😁) and Con O'Neil

Stede Bonnet and Rhys Darby

Edward Teach (although not the canon version of him from S2 onward)

Gentlehands/Stizzy (I shipped them since S1, so you can understand my state when S2 came out, especially Ep 5... it's like most of my dreams came true))

Steddyhands (when S1 came out, this was my endgame... then S2 seriously messed things up and soured the image of any relationship that has Ed in it for me, so I still love the idea of Steddyhands being endgame, but with an Ed who is seriously canon divergent when it comes to how he treats people and how he goes about finding himself and making ammends etc)

Edizzy (see the note beside Steddyhands)

Blackbonnet (see the note beside Steddyhands)

Ouizzy

Sprizzy

Jim's and Izzy's BrOTP (as with Steddyhands, I dreamed of it since S1, and S2 made it canon, if not in as much as scenes as I would love to see)

to think of it, Izzy' and the crew's BrOTP (the qfound family 🥺)

Anton/Viago from WWDITS the movie and Nigel from Jumanji/Antwan from Free Guy

a whole bunch of Con's roles, more on that I'll post at a later date

What I do:

make gifs (mostly, open for requests that concern OFMD and Con O'Neil's works)

make moodboards (mostly, open for requests)

make edits/fanvideos (open for requests)

write fics (not only always accepting but actually actively encouraging you to send me prompts! your own or from my "prompt list" tag)

Important Note: When I speak of Joe Meek, Heinz etc, I mean only the characters from the 2008 film and by no means do I claim to know anything and/or make judgements about the real life people.

Fun fact: I made this blog about two years ago but for some reason never posted anything and then forgot the email and password I used to set it up 😅 but now my resurgent love for Izzy and Con and the fact that I decided to gif this beautiful human being as I go through his filmography made me dig it up, so here we are)

[theunicornsfreedom]

Violet is Donna to Joe's Doctor, I said what I said 🤷‍♀️

[theunicornsfreedom]

[theunicornsfreedom]

So, you want to tell me that in season 1, they had a whole ass ceremony (albeit comical but acknowledging the burial at sea tradition) of committing Lucius' finger to the sea...

...and in season 2, they didn't think to give Izzy the burial at sea, which would be the appropriate and honorable way to lay a lifelong sailor and pirate to rest?

That's what you want to tell me, David Jenkins? Seriously?!

[warrior-of-storms]

Very stupid that I can't take the muscles out of my neck & upper back & beat them with a meat tenderizer. I think that would fix me

[gydima]

File name: izzy-approves-most-sexily.gif

[theunicornsfreedom]

Can you believe that after more than one gifset of The Kiss from Vengeance is Mine that I saved in my drafts to see how they would look on Tumblr before I post them, the gifset Tumblr did flag down as mature and forced me to add a Content Label to is Harry remembering his wife and pulling away?

Like, you see passionate kissing and then you go crazy on the one gifset where nothing sexy is going on, are you alright, Tumby Dumby?

[samuelroukin]

CON O'NEILL as dci ferguson in LIFE OF CRIME (2013) 1.01 + 1.02

[theunicornsfreedom]

In other news, I'm trying to make gifs from Vengeance is Mine and the yellow tint, while I do get the usage of it, I do, is killing me 😓🥺😭

[theunicornsfreedom]

Con's response to anything that involves leaving the house that he doesn't have to do being "No, because it means leaving the house" and I feel him so much with this

[frooogscream]

[mylittleredgirl]

thank you all gif makers everywhere, yes i WOULD like to live inside that half a second when my otp looked at each other forever on repeat, lovingly color-adjusted to make them even hotter than ever

[theunicornsfreedom]

Izzy antis make me feel meh, especially when they ignore half the canon just to support their desire to see Izzy as the Big Bad Wolf of the show.

Izzy antis who are also in the "Ed is an innocent baby girl who has done nothing wrong ever and who was only ever provoked into being mean by that Evil Little Dude" mindspace and claim gentlebeard is the healthiest, most fitting relationship, which is far superior than possible relationship of either one of them with Izzy or Izzy with other characters (like Frenchie) make my skin crawl and make me not only annoyed or angry but severely disturbed because... if that's what you see in fiction, what would you see in a similar real life situation?

[ritalacochona]

I just need a show where Con O'Neill is the main character and he gets a happy ending. That's all.

[theunicornsfreedom]

It's not about either Ed or Izzy being the brains of the duet.

It's more on the lines of Ed having the Vision™️ and Izzy following it through, because Ed doesn't have the patience for that (and doesn't need to since he has Izzy) and Izzy is good at details and mapping out plans.

It's not the question of who is better than the other, it's each of them having their own thing they are very good at and thus working great together.

[theunicornsfreedom]

Also, health & safety, which, especially with time, is more something Izzy is concerned with than Ed.

Not because Ed doesn't care about health and safety of his crew, mind you, it's just that there are usually other things taking priority in his mind + with time he grows less concerned with his own life-preservation, hence the crew's.

[theunicornsfreedom]

It's not about either Ed or Izzy being the brains of the duet.

It's more on the lines of Ed having the Vision™️ and Izzy following it through, because Ed doesn't have the patience for that (and doesn't need to since he has Izzy) and Izzy is good at details and mapping out plans.

It's not the question of who is better than the other, it's each of them having their own thing they are very good at and thus working great together.

[pilotlala]

Remember when Izzy handed a hand-carved shark to Lucius and said, “Not moving on is worse,” when what he really meant is, “when you all made something for me, showed me how much you care, it saved my life. Here. I made something for you.”

Those who watch this show at a surface level come away from this scene thinking that the message is, “bury your trauma.”

I don’t think the show actually has a message about how to heal from trauma. It knows that it’s a 30 minute comedy. But I do think it suggests we should all at least try to be open to accepting love and help from our community. It’s at least a starting point.