#ed says a thing

[boyohazard]

Honestly, one of the things that Terry Pratchett got absolutely correct when he wrote the Discworld books is that wizards are exactly like people who have worked in various niches of academia for 30+ years. Every single person who has spent more than 15 years in niche academia is completely batshit insane and ready to fight you to the death about increasingly ridiculous bullshit. Mustrum Ridcully is literally like if you took a man who had only researched a specific translation of a single book for 40 years and made him the Dean of a university.

#ed says a thing #i mean this with no ill intent #people in niche academia are some of my favorite people #terry pratchett #discworld #mustrum ridcully #unseen university

[dallonismysavior]

Zaddy

#the way rhys gets all flustered trying to explain that's what [stede] was gonna say if ed said zaddy #him flipping his arm around #taika losing his shit #this is the funniest thing ever #ofmd #our flag means death #taika waititi #rhys darby #gentlebeard

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

ed is absolutely panicking in 2x7 bc he’s seeing stede having the time of his life being a famous pirate and he’s genuinely happy for stede but also he wants out of this life and he’s afraid stede will choose piracy over him and so he’s leaving first before stede can leave him again, all of which is bc deep down ed still thinks he’s unlovable and he’s scared to get hurt by stede again and he’s handling everything very badly

all that being said

the fact that ed has already decided that he can’t choose piracy for stede’s sake is so important to me

piracy was slowly killing ed long before stede entered the picture. and now that ed’s decided that he wants warmth and food and orgasms and he wants to live he’s not going to force himself to do a job that makes him fucking miserable. he still might not think he’s worth love and not worth choosing, but he’s at least moved past thinking he deserves to die. he’s past making himself so miserable that he wants to die. ed still has a lot of work to do but he’s making good progress and i’m proud of him.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #ofmd spoilers #edward teach #ed teach #edward teach born on a beach #blackbeard #txt #meta #mine #og #s2e07 #idt it’s likely but i guess it’s POSSIBLE he’ll end up doing piracy a little bit longer w stede before retiring #but it’ll be like a very watered down version. they’ll make it their own thing #anyway ed’s mental health shit this season is hitting very close to home #not gonna get into it on tumblr dot com but let me just say. Oof.

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

My dad's lack of media comprehension serves as a fascinating litmus test for gay subtext. He "didn't pick up on any gay breadcrumbs" between Stede and Ed until the moment they kissed, but he knew that Will Byers was gay just from "it's not my fault you don't like girls" in series 3. It took him way too long to realise that there was something fruity going on in Killing Eve, but he fully believed that Sherlock and John ended up together

#my friends were making wagers on when he would clue in to ofmd and I would send them updates like: #“we just got to calico jack saying “ed and I have had our dalliances” and dad called it “an accurate depiction of complex male friendship” #ofmd #our flag means death #gentlebeard #stranger things #byler #killing eve #villaneve #bbc sherlock #johnlock

[theindiscreetbookworm]

So, on my [redacted] rewatch of OFMD, I noticed that the cadence when Ed says "and tonight I'm supposed to kill... you" and when he says "what makes Ed happy is... you" is the same. The movement of his head is the same, the moment when he looks at Stede is in the same place in the phrase.

DJenks talked that one time about how he actually thinks the bathtub scene is the most intimate scene in the show, how these two people who are so closed off from others sit there and open themselves up to each other for the first time, and how beautiful that is. And I think Ed is confessing the same thing in both these moments.

Now, hear me out. They sound like opposite confessions, right? "I was trying to kill you" vs "I love you". But they're both saying "I love you". It's just in different ways.

"Love of a pet makes a man weak."

"You don't belong in doggy heaven."

I couldn't do it. I was weak. I love you and it made me weak.

By episode 9, by "what makes Ed happy is you", it's changed, but it's not the opposite. It's not 'I love you and it made me strong'.

It's 'I love you and it set me free'.

In the bathtub, Ed is confessing it like a crime. On the beach, he confesses it like a truth. It's such a beautiful development.

#ofmd #ofmd meta #the different ways everyone says i love you in this show make me dizzy #because i don't think anyone ever says it outright #i think stede says i love you to his children #and i actually think that's it #i don't know how cognizant ed is that that's what he's saying in the bathtub #just like stede doesn't know that's what he's saying with you wear fine things well #but regardless i think that's what it is

[royalarchivist]

Everyone this week: *lore, conspiracy theories, long conversations with Cucurucho, multiple attempts to summon the Binary Monster*

Spreen when lore:

#Spreen #ElSpreen #Cucurucho #Osito Bimbo #QSMP #(THIS IS A JOKE) #Spreen and Rubius have both been getting a lot of annoying fans / harassment the past few weeks #Spreen for not being a dad and Rubius because ??? people just don't like his Angel / Demon character. and because of dumb shipping things #But seeing Spreen leaning into the ''nope no lore for me'' joke cracked me up LMAO they've all got such a good sense of humor #Look at that smile he knows EXACTLY what he's doing #NO HESITATION #anyways he logged back on after like 2 minutes and talked to Cucurucho #I'm PRETTY sure he said ''ok guys I'm gonna order some food'' at the end there but not confident enough to write that in the description #Man really just ''NOPE''-ed outta there lmfao #He's also saying ''who's placing blocks?'' at the beginning

[areyoudoingthis]

I am SO grateful that ed and stede exist as characters exactly as they are. I'm so grateful for these two men who are traumatized and messed up and struggle to even like themselves, who are terrible at communicating, who make enough mistakes between the two of them to fill an entire ocean. I am so grateful to watch them struggle and be seen and be loved and reach out for the things they want and are maybe starting to believe that they deserve. I'm so grateful that the show lets them fall in love and get together exactly as they are, that it doesn't say they need to wait until they've become some unattainably perfect version of themselves before they have permission to have that. i am so grateful for ofmd

#ofmd #there are no other shows like this one #I'm so tired of media that repeats the same idea that you need to hit a list of predetermined therapy milestones (determined by who???) #before you can fall in love #I'm honestly tired of fic that does this with ed and stede too #because guess what #you can live in the 21st century with access to therapy and dsm diagnosis and a bunch of different medications and you can be doing all the #right things and still be a trainwreck!!! #putting in the work doesn't mean you're gonna become perfect and never have problem again any more than falling in love doesn't mean you'll #never have problems again #I'll forever be crying on my knees levels of grateful for the unique writing on this show #for saying that it's okay you can be a mess you can take one step forward and three steps back and you'll still always be deserving #of love and grace and forgiveness #you don't have to do anything to deserve you deserve it just because you exist #i love this show with my entire heart #alex watches ofmd

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Something I do really enjoy about Our Flag Means Death is that the central romance actually...makes sense? So many rom-coms fall into the tropes and plot beats without considering what makes them work. The leads fall in love because that's what leads do in romantic comedies, not because of anything intrinsic to their characterizations, external or internal, or the chemistry of the performers.

With Our Flag Means Death, you can see the progression of the love story. You see who Stede is at the start, his emotional and psychological makeup and how he's already beginning to change by the time Ed shows up on his ship. That character arc is already begun before they become friends. Then we get the bits and pieces of Ed's background and relationship to his own legend, and the desires he has that exist independent of Stede but that Stede's presence helps him to express. We see them playing together and laughing and having fun, and the relief in both of them to have someone who truly gets them. And we see that friendship morphing into romantic love, and how that love is complicated because of who they both are and the worlds in which they live.

When they get to the first beach kiss, it's a payoff of everything that has developed over the previous episodes. It makes sense of all the moments and scenes, and not just the big ones - the times that Ed puts his arm around Stede's shoulders or pats his back, the conversation about marmalade, how Ed takes his tea, the conversation about spoons and passive-aggression.

I love that the divide between them is never about them personally overcoming class or race prejudices—though those things are not insignificant to the story or the characters. Where those things come into play, it's the big villains grabbing them and trying to pull them apart because "he's from my world, not yours." And that outer conflict fuels their inner ones, and also gives them both something to push back against that is not each other.

The whole relationship works because the relationship arc is intertwined with their individual character arcs. Stede has to deal with his guilt and sense of inadequacy. Ed has to face his self-hatred. They both have to break away from the people and systems that are trapping them. They have to change in order to love each other better. And how they change makes sense to who they are, together and apart. None of it is forced.

It's just a really good show.

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #edward teach #ed teach #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #gif #taika waititi #rhys darby #ofmd meta #sorry i keep thinking of more things to say #and cannot say them briefly #i hope we get a season 3 but if we don't #dang what a show #they did so much

[saturnaous]

Accidently cooked up a silly little au the other day that I am very much enjoying gonna. talk about it under the cut because4 the FUCKING WORMS

OKAY so basically. literally everythign is the same except for the fact that. Ed got entirely yoinked instead of Alphonse. I dunno why that happens but. It does because I say so. Anyways. So this basically mean that Ed gets bonded to an armor instead of Al, and because I desperately wanted the secondary set of Armor to see some light I thought it would be funny to bond Ed to that instead. I haven't fleshed everything out, but as I'm working on that I wanna add a few of the different things in here just because. And I still might tweak things if I think it doesn't make sense. - Al lost his arm first, then traded his tongue and his eye to bond Ed to the armor, making him effectively mute. He's learned ASL and Ed has to translate for him a lot. Although in my hcs Al is a foodie so like. major bummer for taste buds. He likes fun textures and stuff though. I gotta figure out what problems this poses though so we'll figure that out. - Al most likely is going to go into being a state alchemist just for the fact of staying somewhat close to the storyline and stuff. and I don't know, insert random reasoning in here. Yeah - just a little design note. uhmmmmm I thought the cross thing on Ed's head/helm was cool and I had the bright idea of like "hey what if I put the emblem like. through the cross yk" and I might not do that. But at the moment it looks cool to me. so yeah. I'M STILL TOYING WITH THINGS. . . I have to figure out what happens and designs and stuff. but yeah. I think that covers. what I have for now. p sick. scuttles away

#uhmmm. fuck I'm not entirely sure which things to tag bc I've been referencing the manga for a lot of this. but fuck it we ball #fmab #fma brotherhood #fma manga #fma #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fma au #alphonse elric #edward elric #yeah lets go with that #Spenxer Lou Art #lou is an artist #Honestly this is. kinda like a role swap a little but. But not entirely. and probably not too original but I'm having fun #Anyways. I have to say that the first time I realized there were two sets of armor #It literally never left my mind I've been constantly wondering like what would happen if al was put in the other one idk #But then I accidentally made this AU in the shower where Ed gets yoinked instead of Al #so then I was like HOLY FUCK I CAN YSE THE EXTRA SET OF ARMOR #which. holy fucking hell. I've literally have two single fucking panels to reference from. which is hell. but I fucking love it #anyways. uhm. yeah teehee

[sonnetforbonnet]

Thinking about the "Stede crossed Ed's boundaries" discourse from Calypso's Birthday, and how it's mostly not true? I won't deny that Stede was attempting to initiate sex at a high stress and, by most parameters, inappropriate time. It probably didn't fall under the definition of "taking things slow," but that's also not a clear boundary. No one defined what taking things slow actually means; however, they *do* establish how that boundary should be respected.

Stede kisses Ed, Ed wants to take things slow. Stede holds Ed's hand, asks if it's okay. Ed confirms that it's okay. So the guidelines for taking things slow is this: things are okay if Ed says they're okay.

What does Stede do at the end of the episode? He pulls Ed into the room and pushes him against the wall. He silently waits for permission from Ed. Ed nods and confirms that it's okay.

No, it wasn't really a good time for all this, but I think Stede can be cut some slack after what had literally just happened. He still respected Ed's boundaries based on what happened when Ed first asked for the boundary to be instituted in the first place.

#our flag means death #our flag means gay #edward teach #ed teach #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #ed x stede #ofmd s2 #calypso's birthday #taking things slow is a horribly vague boundary #but stede still adhered to the rules that were set up #perhaps stede took things slow when he was making sweet tender love to ed #or maybe he railed ed into the mattress #who can say

[windandwater]

Ed + being a whole adhd mood, part 2 (part 1)

note: first, this isn't a diagnosis, only a very familiar pattern. also I know that we have contextual clues to hint that breaking the record was about more than boredom, but. that is such an adhd line.

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmdedit #ofmd season 2 #my gifs #made by me #ed teach #blackbeard #we will not be discussing how boredom/under-stimulation intersects with depression when you have adhd #how you do impulsive self-destructive things and lie to yourself about why #we will not be doing that #the picture looks like me and I will not be looking at it #in funnier news the number of times I've gone 'I should get a job doing this' after enjoying one (1) thing is absurd #I'm looking in a fucking mirror is what I'm saying

[boyohazard]

Happy TDOV!!!! First year of celebrating it with our lovely fiance, @almasystem!!

(Their pronouns are they/them, mine are he/him or they/them)

#tdov #tdov 2024 #trans day of visibility #transgender #ed says a thing #i promise i will do image descriptions eventually

[carnirat]

I love the fact that fma is jam packed with disabled representation. Like the main character is a double amputee, his brother has only like 2 of his senses (don't try and say Al isn't disabled cuz cmon), main character's boss loses his vision, boss' subordinate becomes paralyzed from the waist down, main character's kinda friend ig collapses on occasion due to fatigue from hunger (again dude Ling is disabled you can't tell me otherwise), main character's teacher is (this is the only way I know how to put it) chronically ill, and others that aren't as important to the story. And they're all epic as fuck.

#fma #fullmetal alchemist #fmab #fullmetal alchemist manga #fma brotherhood #fullmetal #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #edward elric #alphonse elric #roy mustang #jean havoc #ling yao #izumi curtis #disability #edit: yes a good few of these are only temporary but i think its still great rep cuz they arent ridiculed for it #and theyre all still badass in spite of it #and i guess theyre a bit ridiculed for it but its generally portrayed to be a bad thing #i still get the yikes tho when ed says to ling 'its bad enough when you collapse in the street but here?' #but otherwise i think its portrayed really well #edit: IM SORRY I FORGOT LAN FAN SHES ONE OF THE BEST CHARACTERS AND I FORGOT HER IM SORRY #i shouldnt have considering IVE FUCKING MET HER

[bayleymania]

It’s unbelievable how wrestling fans judge wrestler’s bodies: “Adam is too skinny”, “Eddie is too fat”, “Jade is too muscular”, “Orange is too small”, “Bayley is too thick”, “Alexa looked better when she was thicker”, “Claudio used to be more muscular”, “Bryan has a weird body”, “Kota gained weight”, “Kevin is too fat”, “Charlotte looks too skinny and muscular”, “Deonna needs to lose weight”, “Jordynne looks like a man”… all of these are things I’ve actually read on social media and I feel DISGUSTED by it. No one is enough.

These people put their bodies through so much in order to entertaining us and THIS is what people actually care about. FUCK IT.

#wrestling #I am so angry #as a person who STILL deals with the consequences that two ED’s did to my body #the fact that every meal is still a fucking challenge #reasons this shit angers me bc you have no clue how much these things can affect you #and also people who look at them and say ‘hey they have my body type’ just for then read someone calling them names and insulting them #FUCK THISSSS UGH #lexie speaks #tw bodyshaming

[gentil-minou]

Someone said the ED was about Anya being Loid and Yor's light but that's not true, because Anya is in darkness too. She needs them too

We see them all alone for a reason, and that's because without each other it's darkness. When they go into their own rooms they have to be alone again, focusing on the mission or on their past or what have you

But the moment the sun comes up and a new days begins, they finally feel hopeful

And that's when we see the light. The OP and ED really aren't being subtle here. They are each others light. And even if it is "for the mission" clearly it's not. Because all we see are things that are clearly not for the mission.

The mission doesn't require hugs or laughs from friends, it doesn't require family cooking and dinner. It doesn't need any of this

The people who need this are Loid, Yor, and Anya (and Bond of course).

And when the day ends and the mission begins again, we see the toll it takes on them. Because for there to be light, there needs to be a little bit of darkness. But the Forgers know, maybe subconsciously, that their light is always waiting for them at home.

#i initially wasnt going to say anything abour this episode but my feelings got in the way #sjkdkgkskf i have things to do but yeah this ED is my fave #spy x family #spy x family spoilers #loid forger #anya forger #yor forger #yor briar #twiyor #bond forger #bushy rambles

[astranauticus]

a helpful graphic

+ one more entry i have in the black/white doomed yaoi category (and also an orv spoiler)

#orv #joongdok #lc #sgdlr #shiguang #alnst #ivantill #vnc #vanoe #yes i reused that joongdok/shiguang joke. what are you gonna do. sue me #the they should be at the club is a reference to like. cxs is 21 and i think ivan's 22? #both kdj and yjh are 28 they should be getting 8 hours of sleep. (???? #not even joking halfway through making this zero by lmyk came up on my spotify #as in. the vnc ed that i got that exact image from #if you wanna be a pedant i think vnc is more doomed yaoi than tragic yaoi tho cuz we just know noe's gonna kill vanitas but we havent #gotten?? there???? yet?????? #i love how much that sounds like a spoiler its literally the first thing he says in the fucking show LMAO #asto speaks #in a better timeline i wouldve typed this out instead of writing it by hand