#10 & 2 crew

[qtubbo]

here’s the actual quote of Fit talking wanting to live near Pac and Tubbo, he and Ramon are talking about their base.

Fit: But it should be here because I know Pac is living near by, I like being near Pac so… and I know Tubbo’s not far away either, just to keep an eye on him.

#qsmp #Morning crew #qsmp fit #From Fit’s Day 321 Stream - 2:10:30

[darkfire359]

What could have been: sympathizing with Ed in season 2

I've talked before about how much I love Ed and all his complexity. I've written more fanfic about him and Izzy than any other characters, in my entire history of fandom. And unlike many people, I wasn't unprepared for the dark direction his arc took in season 2; I wanted him to commit MORE atrocities, and I happily made comparisons between him and another one of my favorite characters, Hannibal Lector.

But one of the key things I wanted after he committed atrocities was for him to feel bad about it. And I thought we'd see that! After all, S1 Ed was so tormented about killing his dad (who was abusive and violent towards) him that he never killed (directly) again! He was so broken up about trying to kill Stede in s1e6 that he ended up crying in a bathtub. Just like he cried in the window sill after committing all the kraken horrors in s1e10. It seemed like this was a guy scared of his own inner darkness, convinced he was a monster, who would go around saying things like "I'm not a good person" and "You were always going to realize who I am."

And so even when s2 went darker than anyone expected—when he cut off more of Izzy's toes, and shot him in the leg, and made crewmen fight to the death for experiencing love, and sailed the entire ship into a storm to murder-suicide his crew—I was still ready to accept all that moral ambiguity and give him a hug afterwards. Because of course, I figured that after Ed was brought out of that dark place and those suicidal urges, he would feel horrible remorse. How could he not?

I was looking forward to seeing him break down crying, convinced he was an irredeemable, unforgivable monster. (Which of course, would make it all the more touching when people inevitably did forgive him, and when he did redeem himself). Maybe Ed would even go too far with trying to atone, like in Mercy, one of my favorite post-s1 fics. Probably, I figured, Ed's quest for redemption would be one of the main themes in the second half of season 2.

So it was strange to watch e4, when Ed looked nothing but annoyed at everyone for chaining him up and banishing him, and then he went to hang out with his old friends like he'd done nothing wrong. When after the crew unanimously voted him out, Stede brought him back to the ship literally that same evening, and Ed saw no problem with that. Okay... maybe he's still processing?

Then e5 came, and that episode was about Ed's redemption. Yay! Except... Ed didn't seem to care? Other people made him wear the bag and the bell. He asked how long it'd take people to get over it, guessing "like a day." He gave an influencer-esque non-apology to the crew. He said "I took a man's leg" rather than calling Izzy by name. He literally doesn't remember the circumstances of pushing Lucius off the boat. He does ultimately give a real apology to Fang—for tormenting him years ago, rather than anything from his actual kraken era. I love e5 for the Izzy+Stede dynamic, but watching Ed be an unrepentant asshole here is painful. There is nothing about this that convinces me Ed wouldn't slide right back to being evil if Stede were to leave again.

And the thing is, it didn't have to be like this! We could have gotten Ed breaking down crying with guilt like in s1e6, and it would have made him much more sympathetic—not to mention the fact that Ed really is just an adorable cryer. Alternatively, we could have had some real deep diving about why Ed never apologizes (is he afraid of seeming weak?) or why he's so uncaring about others' pain (has he seen too many friends die over the years, to the point of going numb?)

By episode 6, it seems like most characters have moved on. Stede says something about Ed turning poison into positivity, which feels completely unearned. He pays for the party—but he'd previously tried to make the crew throw their cut of the loot into the ocean. He makes some attempts to best Ned and protect Stede, but Stede ends up saving the crew instead—from a pirate who only showed up in the first place because Ed was intentionally trying to piss him off. Ed is sad that Stede kills someone, and this would be a great time to again make Ed sympathetic! To have him talk about how he doesn't want that for Stede, because his own violence has weighed on him so deeply. But nope.

E6 does see Ed actually apologize to Izzy—and he's terrible at it. He's just like, "Sorry about your leg," makes no eye contact, and flees immediately afterwards. We do see some hints that this shitty apology isn't really indicative of Ed's true feelings, given how he has those flashbacks to the scenes of hurting Izzy seemingly haunting him; but it's very brief. It would be a great time to address Ed's horrific tendency towards conflict-aversion and avoiding awkward conversations in relationships—the same tendency that made s1 Ed never inform Izzy that the plan to kill Stede and the Revenge crew had changed. This would be another great opportunity to help us sympathize with Ed again—to have us see how it's not that he doesn't want to communicate these things, it's that these conversations are terribly stressful and anxiety-inducing for him. But nah, why would OFMD need to include those things for Ed?

E7 happens, and still nothing. If anything, there was a great opportunity for Ed to at least show himself to be a kind person to Stede—maybe nobly stepping in to save the day, even though he's annoyed that Stede's getting all this attention now. You know, like Stede did for him back in s1e5, when the situation was reversed. But nope, Ed runs off to be a fisherman, not having learned any of the earlier season's lessons about whims. He only stops being a fisherman because he's bad at it.

I was still hoping for something big in e8–some huge selfless, gesture that Ed would do to cover for all of his inability to do the little gestures. Ed is good at grand gestures! Swimming back to the ship after he left, then taking the Act of Grace in s1 was HUGE. Very selfless, very sweet! He could have done something like that for Izzy, Lucius, and the traumatized crew. Some kind of heroic gesture to help others more than himself. But nope. In some sense, Izzy dying is one of the greatest indications of Ed's wasted potential, because we narratively had a great opportunity for Ed to be able to save someone... but he didn't.

(Admittedly, Ed is not a complete dick here—he helps Izzy when he's limping, he says some genuinely apologetic stuff when Izzy's dying, and he finally gives Izzy his attention and care. But then after the funeral, he's still like "Well, that's that.")

It's so frustrating. It's not that I don't want to like Ed, or that I don't want to sympathize with him. I really, REALLY do! I don't even need Ed to successfully do anything to earn forgiveness! I'd take Ed trying and failing. I'd take him wanting to try, but being so convinced of his monstrousness that he never makes the attempt. But give me something. Anything other than the unexamined apathy that he has so much of the time.

The thing is, s2 lost the ability for Ed's mistreatment of people to be just another "of course he's violent, he's a pirate" quirk. They were pretty explicit about how abusive Ed was (Jim's comment in e1, the joke in e4 people assumed Ed had hit Stede) and how much he traumatized people (Lucius and the whole crew very clearly have PTSD in episodes 4 and 5). This is serious stuff, which he did to other main characters, which is going to make a lot of viewers look at him pretty harshly.

And that's manageable—Hannibal Lector managed to be most textbook-abusive asshole in the world, committing atrocities and generally being unrepentant left and right, and viewers STILL found him lovable and sympathetic. You can do that! But you need to:

a. make it clear that anyone with the relevant information calls them out for being awful, even multiple episodes later

b. make it clear that they care deeply and genuinely about their wronged loved ones

c. make them willing to actually make REAL sacrifices

I watched so many people start to dislike or outright hate Ed in season 2. It made me really sad. But I couldn't blame them for feeling that way. For all that Ed is supposedly one of the two protagonists in OFMD—a character whose mistakes should be the most understandable, whose mental state should be the most resonant—the show seemed to entirely drop the ball on writing him as such.

#edward teach #ofmd critical #ofmd season 2 #ofmd season 2 spoilers #ofmd #our flag means death #izzy hands #arguably the writers' mistake with Izzy is easier to fix in fanfiction #just undo the last 10 minutes #but now I feel like Ed fics after s2 have to fix huge chunks of his characterization #I also think it'd be more reasonable to make Ed not give a shit about the crew if the show just like... admitted that directly? #but we've got Stede making comments about Ed turning poison into positivity #we've got Izzy saying the crew loves Ed and is his family #and while it's not OOC for either of them to just be delusional and overprojecting their own love for Ed #it's weirdly unexamined #same thing with Ed's “I don't kill people thing” after he murders British officers left and right in s2e8 #was Ed's whole talk with Stede in s1e6 just a lie? #obviously Ed was stretching definitions / using it as a coping mechanism but I thought he was at least telling the truth as he saw it

[persephones-poet-blog]

Let’s be clear:

Any blame for the season and finale goes to HBO for cutting the season to 8 episodes instead of 10 (where we could have gotten more content, fleshing out of character arcs etc).

I also blame them for each episode having 10 minutes for commercials etc, so really each episode was 20 minutes.

The writers, actors, and editors did a fantastic job even still!

#give us our 10 minutes back you bastards #what the fuck hbo?!?! #commercialism was the only winner #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death season 2 #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #renew as a crew #izzy hands

[mastersoftheair]

from bailey brook's instagram

#the original post has 10 pics but 2 of those were old news #masters of the air #hbo war #behind the scenes #stills #bailey brook #jake wardle #kai alexander #daniel briggs #samuel jordan #raff law #jack myers #kieron moore #jon paul bell #ben segers #crew

[bumblebyfan]

What would have been V9's epilogue, man, the feels, it is absolutely great, even if some stuff is missing from it (Kerry said it wasnt the full epilogue), and Kerry himself said that due to some constraints, it had been moved from V9 ending to V10 beginning, I really hope we get to see it in its full animated glory, and V10 is greenlighted and worked on soon!

#greenlightvolume10 #rwby #rwby spoilers #rwby vol9 #rwby volume 10 #rwby vol 9 spoilers #rwby volume 9 #rwby vol10 #Youtube #please just give us vol 10 #greenlight it #the crew is already working on it #if after DC-RWBY part 2 its still not greenlighted I'll freak out #pls

[ablog]

I'm making more people watch Ofmd let's go!

Spreading gay Pirates wherever I go!

#i made AT LEAST 10 people watch the show with me #and watched it many more times after season 1 was out #i was even on a trip with my family and rewatched twice #and kept again and again i love this show #absolute crime I can't be home more so i could have wifi to rewatch season 2 like my heart--- #save ofmd #renew as a crew #adopt our crew #ofmd #our flag means death

[raayllum]

Literal (?) name meanings in S5

#raydiaedit #raydia #raylaedit #claudiaedit #tdp spoilers #s5 #5x01 #5x09 #love me a pair of foils #me for seasons: haha thank God the crew confirmed the painting is a placeholder otherwise i'd be So Nervous #about rayla as a sacrificial lamb figure!' #me less than 10 minutes into s5 seeing That Framing: o h #arc 2 #it's about the Framing #click for better quality #tdp rayla #tdp claudia

[hearties-circus]

I have been slacking on the demolition crew so bad when they're so fun im so sorry besties

[Skye: ze/hir, cerys: he/they, sonya: no pronouns]

#al art #al ocs #tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 oc #tf2 demoman #tf2 engineer #tf2 heavy #do i tag the pokemon? guess i will #crawdaunt #crustle #klawf #i still cant draw pokemon without heavily copying my references but i wanted to draw the crustacean crew so bad #anyways there are digital drawings of sonya more recent than the lineup! so yay! #sonya -alone- is a voice of reason. coupled with either of the other two however.. #also the crustacean tower is their 'sentry position' #mind you theyd be like 10 feet stacked on eachother like that thats scary if it came toward you- thankfully they wont lest you get in range #skye #cerys #sonya #pmd au

[malcolmreeds]

gonna make a list of my comfort vids but uhhh theres gonna be 4 rlm vids on there soz i cant choose between my children xx

#hitb: moneyplane / botw spotlight: ben and arthur / the nerd crew: episode 2 / 10 things you didnt know about darth vaders suit =my beloveds #moneyplane feels like a really random one bc ive basically seen nobody talk about it but ive probs seen the ep over 50 times at this point #personal #rlm

[keep-this-all-in-mind]

UAF Gwen should have been paranoid beyond belief. downright Twitchy. i know, i know, they were trying to make her "the responsible one" and succeeded, but like. she should get to be More feral. as a treat.

#ben 10 #(can u tell i am writing gwen pov rn. can you) #have not rewatched much of classic in a while but i remember her being a lot more cautious generally #i think it'd be interesting if 2/3 of the UAF crew were as alert as rabbits and ben just keeps bulldozing them bc he can get out #of most situations he can get himself Into #(instead of Kevin being the only paranoid one)

[nekohrine]

being a fan of alien (1979) is amazing because there are at least three more films Exactly the same as That One

#it's like reading the same sentence written in a different font #i'm not really a fan btw #so it's not amazing for me #i am a fan of Ripley and Jonesy though #but like i mean #1. an idiot does something stupid #2. an idiot doesn't listen to a smart woman #2.5 who is usually Ripley #3. an alien escapes #4. a shot of a head from above-ish. the head is destroyed by an alien afterwards #5. let's kick the alien out #6. whoops too late let's destroy the whole fucking ship instead #7. something incredibly disgusting #8. the alien doesn't like the ship and would love to escape with the crew too #9. we're in space but there's no space for you lil dude #10. the alien dies #oh and the whole fucking thing is incredibly misogynistic #alien 1979 #alien franchise #ellen ripley #aliens 1986 #alien 3 #alien resurrection #sigourney weaver

[mejomonster]

All right I did it I checked out the one piece live action. I've never seen one piece. This might drag me into the huge ass anime. (I might read the manga in japanese but that's more a For Practice reading choice thing)

Anyway koby is my guy. Koby paralleling and contrasting Luffy is <3 and it's gonna hurt I imagine

Much more to say later lol. I still have a couple eps to go

And of course. Obviously but. Either Netflix is gonna have to Not Cancel or another studios gonna have to buy this right cause like... I doubt the creator is gonna want a dead end 1 season live action when the manga and anime are still ongoing for Over A Decade

#opla #rant #lb #also like. dude koby is just <3 on my screen #morgan davies is like. what i wish i looked like. i kinda do look like that just 40 pounds heavier and curvier #i heard morgan uses they them and like idk. my mom saw koby and just automatically went with koby #and kobys got pink hair and a haircut ive had many times actively. ive had that haircut 3 times this year and in pink twice this year #and its just nice idk seeing a world full of people seeing koby how i wish the world saw me #and luffy! luffy is great. idk im a Big live action acting fan its why i watch cdramas and not donghua #i actually think the show could do with at least 2 filler ish episodes. and would do better with 16-20 ep seasons (maybe 40 minute eps) #because so far the scarcest thing in the plot is those silly filler moments that BUILD character bonds #so u care about their relationships and closeness to each other #i liked the nami and zoro touching moments. but i think theyd work better if wed had a Few More crew #just socializing or being silly together or drinking or eating or lost together scenes #like an extra 10-20 minutes total is all thats needed. but i think its needed

[opens-up-4-nobody]

hi so so sorry if this sounds genuinely deranged but I need to know did you write a fanfiction in like 2014 that was set during ww2 where zoro from one piece was sent to a japanese internment camp and sanji went to conversion therapy I remembered it recently because it blew my mind at age 13 and I had to reread it + need a kind of where are they now with the author so if that's you 1) what's your stance on the fic today 2) how much of the research was done during writing and how much did you just know beforehand and used as inspo 3) did you have any ideas for where the other characters ended up because I did always wonder if like idk chopper overcame the trauma of being in the war and also just what usopp's situation would be in general what with the political climate. once again. if you didn't actually write this fic so sorry this must look like the ravings of a crazy person. godspeed

Hi. Uh, yeah I did write that fic. I would have been like only 17 at the time. I did do A LOT of research, like the fic was basically an excuse for me to research Japanese internment and WWII history in general bc I thought it was super fucked up. I was absolutely hyperfixated on the topic and my parents probably thought i was nuts for my ability to talk at length on this particular area of history. I just finished skim reading back through the fic and woof. What a bleak fucking story. I was very cruel to everyone. It's frustrating bc I think it's an interesting and compelling idea for a story. But to me it feels like: here is all the research I did and also characters talking in what feels like a too modern way. Plus, I was 17 and didnt understand people very well. I wish I had the energy and motivation to rewrite it. Although, I forgot I used to do song lyrics at the start of each chapter and the tonal dissonance of Owl City lyrics at the top of a chapter of harrowing events around the time of WWII is unfathomablly unhinged.

#as for where r they now? i forgot the last chapter was like fuck u nothing matters life goes on sanji probably died of lung cancer #like jesus dude calm down. i think now id give them a bit of a softer ending #like i mean sanji still prob dying of lung cancer but he lives a long life with zoro and thry make the most of the time they have together #and i mean when u see horrific things in war i imagine its something u never really get over but i think the crew members that became #soldiers go on to live fuffilling lives and usopp finds a stable and relatively well paying job. gets married and lives happily ever after #god. its so frustrating to me that ill probably never rewrite this. it could habe been so good #but i just dont have thst kind of energy. i do think abt this fic more than almost all my other tho #im glad u liked it anon. its a fucking unhinged fic just from the perspective of: rural ohio teen wants to research a fucked up aspect of #ww 2 history and decides to write a fucking fanfic abt it. like bro what why. but idk weird weird times #there could have been themes and exploration of trauma and adversity. complex relationships. but no u get cringe written by a child #and now at the age of nearly 26 i am old and tired. christ thst was almost 10 years ago. i was a whole different human #weird the fanfics that stick with u. i have many i think abt from hs. wonder where the authors r now... #unrelated #i also forgot that in the authors nots i was like: if u r a n4zi fucking kill yourself. #which i standby but i was not expecting to see thst in the notes of a one piece fic i wrote as a kid good god

[zerothisnero]

Having issues with drama club rn got inspired to make this

(I am part of backstage crew btw and there's literally only 2 of us working back)

#literally wtf is the instructor doing #might quit drama idk yet #This is mostly based off the fact that my amazing actor of a friend got only a singular role which contains like 4 lines of dialog #while some dude with no experience what so ever before hand gets a major role with 6-10 pages worth of dialog #also back stage crew gets ignored alot #she won't let backstage crew come to rehersal practice #which is odd because you can't rlly have a play with out backstage crew #Btw theres only 2 main crew members #me and a friend's gf #please tell me how this woman expects backstage to just magically know what we're supposed to do #i have prior experience working lights and shit #but the other crew member doesn't #Idk #I lowkey feel like and ass for making this post but oh well #This play probably gonna flop like the last one (chirstmas play) #Doesn't help alot of the actors plus the instructor don't take constructive criticism very well #blud thinks we like Hamilton #nero blabbing

[vanosslirious]

Delirious: There's no evidence of me trying to shoot you, what the hell?

Bryce: I just...what do you mean no evidence, you shot a gun!

Delirious: Zero evidence. *shoots the gun* Oh God, I really needa...

#h2odelirious - no dogs were harmed in the making of this video! #time stamp: 2:10 #banana bus squad #vanoss crew #h2odelirious #brycegames #g: generation zero #text #words

[fuffylove]

This new campaign has so many ties to Vox Machina and The Mighty Nien's stories. Now this is a late campaign thought but imagine if we get multiple team ups towards the end of this campaign. This Ruidus thing seems like it could be a global catastrophe so it only makes sense that the old parties would be working on the problem too. Like there could be whole episodes where VM are helping Bells Hells but on their own story thread. The M9 is also on a separate but interconnected path that has them run into the Hells, and then we get a full M9 episode or two. All the parties are working toward stopping whatever is going on with Ruidus in their own ways.

OH! And maybe all the groups get scattered and we get a party member mashup. 2 or 3 from each party are teamed up and all the groups have to find their way back to their own friends. Like "oh no this big magic thing separated us" and now you got:

Team 1 (aka Team Their power level is over 9000!) - Beau, Caleb, Fjord, Pike, Scanlan, Ashton, & Imogen.

Team 2 (aka Team oh no Percy needs another adult around cause he can't handle this chaos, also that bitch who killed his family is in this dead lady's head!) - Veth, Jester, Grog, Percy, Laudna, & Fearne.

Team 3 (aka Team high af wisdom except poor Yasha who is probably already mind controlled) - Yasha, Cad, Keyleth, Vex, Chetney, FCG, & Orym.

And each team up gets a couple episodes together! I dunno man I just think it'd be epic. Also I miss the Mighty Nien so much and seeing them again would be wonderful.

#critical role #no real spoilers just an idea i had #but fuck if i don't want Matt to do this #Team 1 with everyone lvl 15 or more straight decimates the bbeg #Team 2 is chaos crew times 10 when you add Grog and Fearne in the mix. also the Percy Laudna drama! #Team 3 is gonna get shit done and be back home by supper time