[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Artuš Scheiner, 1901

[niiv]

[groove-mp3]

our flag means death, stede bonnet and edward teach in season 1.

[dathen]

I fucking love how Our Flag Means death has explicit, unabashed queer romance and character but ALSO has wall-to-wall metaphors and symbolism. We can have the kiss but we can ALSO read into the colors of wardrobes and whether a character wears gloves or not. We can read into the metaphor of Stede’s secret closet and letting Ed in, and ALSO have a fully fleshed-out storyline about a gay man in a loveless marriage telling his wife “his name is Ed.” We have the red silk scene in the moonlight, of gently handling a bit of cloth to represent a heart, and we have “what makes Ed happy is…you.”

We get all the subtle details of brief touches and meaningful glances, but not instead of explicit queerness—it’s that the unabashedly queer characters and story deserve that level of build-up and poetry.

[toktopus-art]

this show is everything i’ve ever wanted

[archrui]

Chain keep us together

[twinkle-art]

oooooooooh someone’s got a crush

[t-800]

Taika Waititi as Edward Teach / Blackbeard OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH - Discomfort in a Married State

[amuseoffyre]

Imagine Stede’s POV:

You have a near-death experience and wake up to find your dream leather daddy who has been soothing your fever and watching over you while you recover. The first thing he does is calm you down, the second is assure you that you’re doing a good job in your chosen career, and the third is to admit he likes the same shiny things as you do. And then you trade clothes and get into roleplay.

There is no heterosexual explanation here.

[hesgomorrah]

our flag means death + text posts (1/??)

[asongaboutpirates]

Another little detail about OFMD that makes me go feral: The song the Swede sings in 1x06, immediately after Ed put the dagger away, is called Voi che sapete. It’s a Mozart aria about a young man who experiences love for the very first time and is dazzled by it. Cut to Stede who says “Oh, this is my cue.”

And then, THEN he says: “The siren song has awoken a beast”, meaning the kraken, and if that isn’t fucking brilliant foreshadowing about Ed’s love for Stede being what ultimately leads him to unleash the kraken again.

*insert ‘I connected the dots’ gif here*

[izzy-hands]

Ed’s “I can’t believe I’m in love with this moron” faces

[amuseoffyre]

I’m having so many emotions right now about Ed and the language of face-touching for him.

Body touching is a different thing. There’s so much of that, I can’t even track it. From the word go, Ed is happy to get in peoples’ personal space, slap them on the back, clasp their hand, squeeze their arm, hug them when a plan goes the right way. But the face? That’s a whole other thing for him.

I’ve been tracking it through the show (as well as in other people) and most touches to face are done in an act of violence or implicit control/threat in the pirates’ experience - Ed’s dad striking his mother, Jackie to Olu and Jim (and Stede, if you include the knife), Geraldo to Jim, Ed to the French captain, Izzy to Ed and Fang. I’m sure there are more I’m forgetting.

And because it got long again, I’ll pop it behind a read-more.

Keep reading

[joeyclaire]

nah man i cant come over tomorrow im gonna listen to songs and think about characters. yeah no its gonna be all day

[nonagethimus]

they claimed stede bonnet is a “smol bean” but idk abandoning your wife and kids to become a pirate, causing aristocrats psychological damage until they set their ship on fire, and breaking blackbeard’s heart so badly he goes insane seems like pretty large bean behaviour to me. 

[avelera]

I do love the unspoken fact in OFMD that Stede is a gentleman in the true sense of the word. He is gentle without regards to class or wealth. He is the type who holds doors for others without any notion of rank and who holds himself to a strict code of conduct and self-presentation no matter how difficult it might be in the moment. Stede is a gentleman who does not wield the privilege like a cudgel to strike out at others, or a pedestal upon which to put himself above others, but rather as a lifestyle and a responsibility that is open to anyone who embraces it.

And I love that this is clearly what drew Ed's infatuation with him. When Stede says, "You wear fine things well," he is spreading a balm on something wounded in Ed's heart and that wound is the idea that certain aspects of the life he wants are forbidden to him by virtue of his birth. And that's because Stede truly, fundamentally believes that Ed is worthy of the trappings of the gentleman because Stede views the art of being a gentleman as a choice, not a birthright, and one that anyone can embrace if they only do so sincerely. This makes him utterly unique within his class in a way that Ed finds continuously astonishing but that Stede doesn't seem aware of at all.

[fishfingersandscarves]

“you’re a monster. a plague. you defile beautiful things.”

[themthistles]

thinking about erik satie's gnossienne no.5 representing ed falling more and more in love throughout the show