#izzy: dont take it personally

[who-the-fuck-knows-blog]

mentally, i’m still here

#the spurned lovers are bonding #izzy hands #stede bonnet #ofmd s2 #the rebound sex was fantastic i just know it #izzy: eds kinda a weirdo about love confessions #izzy: dont take it personally

[arsenicflame]

i Do Not Trust people who make Mary the bad guy in their stories when the show went out of its way to specifically show us how she was suffering just as much as stede was in their marriage and that shes, yknow, a good person

#mary is specifically framed in a sympathetic light in all of her appearances. the show switches to following her narrative so we can see #how much better her new life is for her too!!! like yes she tries to kill stede but we are shown in the narrative WHY she makes that choice #and that she struggles with it and we see stede understanding this too! he supports her decisions and her new life and is happy for her!!! #at no point are we shown anything that makes mary a bad person or bad mother- honestly i generally like mary far more than stede anyway #but even if you dont you should be able to acknowledge... that if u make her the bad guy??? w. what did you take away from the show?? #idk it has the vibes of. the girl character all the fans hate because she gets in the way of their precious little gay ship #or whatever. you know what i mean #ofmd #our flag means death #mary bonnet #mary allamby bonnet #everyone whos a mary hater is also an izzy hater bc theyre coded the same character type. betrayed wives my beloved #(this is a joke.) #uh. this might be one to add in the tags on again sorry gang i have too many thoughts

[fluffyballme]

so here’s my take on this meme but main couples in TMI

jace and clary

magnus and alec

simon and izzy

#this is my take #well ig this is book canon for their personalities #anyways dont get mad its just for fun #the mortal instruments #shadowhunters #city of bones #city of glass #city of heavenly fire #city of ashes #city of fallen angels #city of lost souls #clary fairchild #clary morgenstern #clary fray #jace herondale #jace and clary #alec lightwood #alexander lightwood #magnus bane #magnus x alec #isabelle lightwood #izzy lightwood #simon lewis #simon lovelace #simon x izzy #clace #malec #sizzy #incorrect quotes

[fastidious-and-a-mess]

if ur not at least a little bit parasocially in love with every dropout cast member. are you even a dropout fan

#this post is a joke and i don’t seriously mean it #im also saying this as an aroace person #so dont flip out on me #dropout #dropout tv #i don’t wanna tag this with individuals bc this post isn’t Specifically ab anyone and i dont wanna clog tags #(< dropout fans take note. some of yall win tag Anything ‘brennan lee mulligan’) #But. off the top of my head im thinking ab #lou wilson. emily axford. brennan lee mulligan. rashawn scott. brian murphy. zac oyama. ally beardsley. jess mckenna. ross bryant. #aabria iyengar. erika iishi. izzy roland. jacob wysoki. vic mckenna. #and almost certainly others who im forgetting in the moment <3

[deoidesign]

Are you slowly going insane over your OWN ocs?

No, I've been infected by brainworms the entire time. Nothing slow about it.

But honestly, no... It's not really about my characters to me. I love my characters, of course, and I love telling stories, and I hope to keep making art of my characters every day until I die.

But it's not about them! They're not REALLY what I love, what I love is people! And I hope I can leave the world with a hundred different love letters so my readers can feel how much I love them for even one day longer than I am here.

My characters are a conduit through which I can give that to people. I want nothing more than to make someone feel a little more loved, a little more seen, and a little less alone. And my characters are the best way I know how to do that.

So for that, they're incredibly important to me... But they're not for me. They're for you!

So I hope you enjoy them

and I hope you can feel that I love you through them.

#personally I dont like to use the word insane to describe myself or others #I struggle with many things but when it comes to my characters #I am nothing but concrete #determined #and absolutely positively headstrong through and through. #I don't take myself too seriously #And I don't hold too much sacred that I do #I really just want to make the world slightly better #for even one person #anyways. #asks #izzy-fishy #oh this is also why I hate like... advertising #and locking anything behind a paywall #and just. all of that stuff #I wish I could just make money drawing whatever and everything I do were free with no issues #but the best way for me to pay my bills and make more art is for some of it to be for money... so. #unfortunately I dont get to truly live my dream #where I spend all day teaching people how to draw and making them art they love #ALAS!!! #capitalism

[inthebeginning-rebellion]

i do think people are taking djenks 'izzy is a father figure!!' comment a little too literally

ED saw Izzy as a mentor/'father' figure, a safe, codependent, but also deeply toxic and volatile bond. 'I loved you, as best I could.' he could never love Izzy in a way that was... better, because it was dependent on violence and repression of the true self. I don't think he really saw Izzy as a DAD, it was more that he was a sort of... amalgamation of a lot of things that Ed never had and wished he had but were still not what Ed dreamed of. Lucius says to Stede 'maybe the time with you is the best he was ever gonna get'. Izzy was... the best of a lot of bad relationships, but still not a relationship where he could be his true self. He had to be Izzy's ideal.

Izzy loved who he and Ed were together, the infamous notorious brigand of the seven seas Blackbeard and his loyal, deadly first mate. He loved this concept and this ideal and this comfortable niche they built together after a lifetime of not belonging, but he spent all of season 1 HATING Edward, pushing Edward down, wishing Edward would die. He loved an idea of a man that did not exist anymore, and Izzy knew that about Ed, he knew it long before Stede came around and was refusing to acknowledge the fact that he was beating a dead horse. 'I have... love for you.' I have love for who we are together. I have love for the idea of us as a pair. I have love for what we built. But not you, not what's in your heart.

They're still and always will be family, there still is and always will be love, but love that was unequal and dependent on things that did not match up to what the other loved. I think when Izzy comes back, in whatever way they bring him back 'cause look I'm sorry he's not staying dead if we get a season 3 are you kidding me? Buttons is a bird. Ed was dead long enough for the crew to resort to eating raw seabird. Magic is real and love is true and varied and comes in many many forms, and witches turn into seagulls, and widows paint lighthouses, and soup is good, and whim-prone men open inns, and to be loved is to be changed. I think I'd be a lot sadder about Izzy if I wasn't so 100% sure of the fact that he'll be back. I just don't see a world where Izzy isn't there in season 3, I really don't.

I don't think Stede and Ed are going to be staying as Innkeepers for very long. I think they're going to miss the sea and they'll have to get back out there in the great wide open sooner rather than later, and I think they're going to end up bringing Izzy with them in some form or another. I don't think they'll necessarily be pirates, but I do believe The Revenge is home and I do believe they'll find a place to meet in the middle. (I'm saying, Dinner Theater on the Revenge, docking in Nassau, Barbados, and the former Republic of Pirates.)

Anyway the point is. Ed and Izzy felt vastly different types of love for one another and it was tainted by experience and aggression and pain. They brought out each others poisons and when Ed got tired of the poison, Izzy demanded it continue. And by the time he got what he wanted, Izzy, too, had changed too much to want that poison. But he did ask for it, he demanded it. And it nearly killed them all- it did kill Ed. Imagine that, demanding your oldest friend, your family, to be their worst self, regretting it, and then killing him for it. And yes, he became a unicorn and came out of his shell and grew. But there's still... more, for Izzy to become.

His death will be his rebirth, I think, in a way that goes far beyond the unicorn. He is the spirit of piracy. He became that, in season 2. If we get season 3, fuck it man. Give me ghost pirate Captain Hands, the true and literal spirit of piracy.

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd meta #meta #long post #takes a massive hit from my vape #its just like #he's the spirit man #he's the thing that saves you from a cutlass swing you shouldn't have been able to dodge #the thing that makes an impossible shot ring true #the indestructible little fucker you cannot get rid of because there will always be indestructible little fuckers #running around the world and saying fuck you not today #fuck you i was awful to a person i was supposed to care about but now im here to stay and keep an eye on all of them #and you can't kill that which is already dead #man i dont even care about izzy that much #but everybody's got such wild takes and im like uuuugggh guys #it's cool relax don't worry

[treasure-goblin]

*deep breath*

Please

I'm begging you all

If you are going to reblog something about writing and interacting with creators

Please don't do it from the person you hardly pay attention to and definitely don't interact with their stuff

#this is to one person in particular btw #im not even mad #you're well within your rights #just baffled #ok maybe hector is a little salty but hes not even up front rn so he can take a seat #just #please #we understand if we dont make content you like #just dont reblog stuff about engagement on art/writing when you dont even follow us #again #absolutely not mad #it just stings a bit #reyes #izzy🌺

[sixstepsaway]

#i'm tired #it's been thirty seconds #just block me that's all it takes #block me on tumblr #block my name and or the tag meta on ao3 #this was a request #i'm archiving because it was a request #i posted four things because i didnt want to clog the search #also this was on the ed meta not on the izzy meta so ffs #me: contributes to fandom with thoughts and analysis #this person: it's frustrating to scroll past all your stuff #like this is how fandom works? we all add to it? if we didnt all add to it there'd be nothing in it #that's how fandom works #i do not enjoy THIS part of modern fandom #i do not enjoy it at all #(if the anon who requested i post sees this please dont feel bad (i know i would) and dont worry i plan to finish posting my frustrating #metas on ao3) #also my bullshit is fully baked thanks #i spend hours on it

[kotenokk]

happy pride kill all the parts of yourself that no longer serve you

#mush rambles #dye your hair red change your name have a gender experience #lean full tilt into being the court jester friend make weed a personality trait #do a backflip idk #be free have fun #whatever it takes #world is a fuck i could get hit by a bus walking to work today #might as well make my discord un my new name #kin dave strider recklessly and publicly #drink a canned malt beverage give yourself a new stick and poke talk about your fanfiction on your public twitter account #who give a shit! #anyway yeah i dont fuckin know #is it time to rebrand the ramble tag? maybe #izzy rambles has a nice ring to it #not as nice as mush but nobody calls me that now #but when have i ever been known to let a dead thing lie #i live my life in a haze interrupted only by violent reemergings of uncomfortable memories

[unnonexistence]

does every fandom have a character who acts as a lightning rod for bad takes?

#personal #note the gusto #i feel like the answer is 'probably' but like #the number of bad izzy hands takes ive seen is just. unprecedented lmao #not something i can recall seeing in any other fandom ive been in #or with any of the other ofmd characters #at least not to this extent #i dont want to get into specifics because at the end of the day it's just my opinion & i dont want to step on any toes but. god #people are SO weird about him #and in such a variety of ways!

[arsenicflame]

since we all appear to be talking about izzy 'calling the police' on stede id like to offer my silly little two cents:

its not like the navy wasn't actively looking for him anyway??????

at most, izzys actions sped up badminton catching up with stede, but its made very clear that badminton wanted Stede dead well before this, and was willing to use whatever he could to find him- whos to say jackie wouldnt have cut a deal on her own? that any other pirate thats seen them being unsubtle in a port wouldn't take the opportunity to make a quick buck over a guy who is Nobody and holds no influence that could lead to any consequences for them?

in reality izzy is probably the only person who would receive negative repercussions to selling out stede, given his personal connection with ed- any other pirate would probably have gotten away unscathed, anonymous. they likely wouldnt have even been present like izzy was. izzy had personal stakes, anyone else would have taken the money and ran

the way i see it, with or without izzy the events of episode 10 probably would have happened in some degree, izzy just expedited the timeline

#like ok. i dont exactly support izzys actions but i honestly dont see it as that big of a deal??? to our characters i mean #idk i just. its a dick move!! but i struggle to see it as any more than that #its the actions of a desperate man who made a stupid decision to get his.... ed. out of what he saw as a bad situation #whether it is or not i cant say! but you cant deny ed drastically changed in the time he was on the revenge #in a way that could be concerning from the outside #(i saw a good post kinda comparing it to your friend ending up in a cult and. yeah. excellent description from an outside perspective) #idk theres a lot of. undertones in the way people say 'calling the police' and also they always say ed too and its like. no! izzy tried to #get ed out of there! he set the navy on everyone BUT ed. and its not like the navy really cared about the crew. only stede #i am not the person to talk about why 'calling the cops' is a bad take but the posts are out there. ive seen them. #izzy did what hundreds of pirates did to save their own hide- including hornigold himself (but honestly that was worse because he actively #turned hunter. not just a guy with a tip) #also side historic note that uhh. the navy was casually in Nassau. what exactly was the situation there??? was shit occurring. w #we know it did in history #idk #nyxtalks #ofmd #izzy hands #israel hands #spanish jackie 🤝 izzy: girlbosses for selling stede out to the British/Spanish for their own gain #idk i think thats the one thing he did 'wrong' but ita still very sympathetic to me #its not like izzy dibbed in a guy nobody cared about #'hey hey ill sell you information about this pirate please let me sell you information' ' i mean i guess we are supposed to be doing that' #badminton had an active vendetta against stede and kinda seemed like. he would stop at nothing to get him??? #given. the whole 'id rather let blackbeard go and kill Stede than take a huge pirate into custody' thing

[miami2k17]

i genuinely did enjoy ofmd in the end but killing izzy was so fucked up man. u cant spend 8 episodes giving someone that kind of beautiful character development and then just kill him with an offhand random gunshot. or at all. it's giving 15 seasons just to die on a rusty nail

#like i hate to be like this cause i know what i sound like. i dont wanna sound like those mfs who dont get conflict or character arcs or #why sad endings have to exist. yk #I Have Media Literacy i promise i can comprehend it. i just think it's so unfair that they took a character who was so #discarded. pushed to the side. picked last or completely ignored #showed him he was loved. let him learn who he was as a person and not as ed's lapdog. give him a family #AND THEN KILL HIM TO A RANDOM GUNSHOT? HELLOOOO? #and ALSO also. after him and stede had finally started to get along. stede brought out the best in both of them and izzy obviously knew thi #him saying he wants to die like cmon man #ur gonna kill the suicidal psychologically tortured gay guy just as he learns hes worth sth and is loved #like idk doesnt sit right with me just saying. maybe this is a bad take and im missing something but #he was just starting to grow n had so much left i think. idk #even if they dont make another season it just isnt fair

[dumbkiwi]

rotating them once again but this time, it is calico jack

#sel speaks #thinking about how cj is an absolute menace to everyone #it's so fucking funny in fic whenever hes fucking either ed or izzy or both #he is the only one aware of the feelings involved (either one-sided or mutual depending) #but instead of doing the normal thing and oh idk helping them communicate #or even feeling jealous about it #he just takes the most glee in being the biggest douche about it to their faces #any time jacks like hey you can call me izzy i dont care or anything like that i lose my mind it's so funny #not in a character breaking way but #while jack is surprsingly percepetive and eveyrone else around him is incredibly oblivious #he will use these powers Only For Evil >:) #hmmmmm it's 4 am but maybe im following in jen's footsteps in becoming a calico jack person

[blow-me-a-kis]

I just think ofmd is a fandom that is gunna have a lengthy legacy, and I feel sorry for you if you are apart of the history of this fandom that is worthy of shame.

It's shameful to treat others poorly because you disagree with how they enjoy a character.

A character that, btw, is well loved among the cast and crew of Our Flag Means Death. Vico loves Izzy. Taika loves Izzy. David Fane loves Izzy. The writers love Izzy. No one on that entire team has suggested they feel anything but respect and appreciation for the effort Con has put into Izzy and Izzy's role as a foil.

If you are seeking an example of how we should treat one another as fans, you need look no further than the love and respect demonstrated among the cast and crew of this beloved show.

This show is rife with queerness and so many layers of the queer experience explored. David J even suggested fans pay attention to the love story happening between Izzy and Ed upon a second watch.

So I feel sorry for you that you choose not to be apart of that, if you choose to reduce your capacity for appreciating queer experience to just Stede and Ed's romance.

I feel sorry for you that your prejudice against Izzy puts you at a distance from enjoying this fandom and the show fully.

I feel sorry for you if your needless hatred of Izzy puts you at a distance from some of the best art and writing in the fandom, and may even undermine your own creativity, as judgmental attitudes often do.

I feel sorry for you if you are a person who has chosen to make other fan's experience harder based on your reduced capacity for the variety of queer experiences, especially when we turn off this show and must face a world that wants us as queer ppl dead.

I know the bad actors agree that their behavior is shameful, because they don't direct their cruelty at the highly visible cast and crew who celebrate Izzy. Just his fans, who, in their logic, do not matter.

It takes emotional maturity to change your mind when you no longer have a valid reason to stick to a belief. None of these characters are real, we don't have to hold them accountable to anything.

If you no longer believe you have a reason to hate Izzy and his fans, you are welcome to stop and move on to something else.

I dont think it makes you happy. I don't agree that ppl "love" to hate Izzy. Most ppl who hate Izzy seem demonstrably unhappy to me, and that feeling of unhappiness is what they tend to spread to others. Especially when their hypocritical bullying tendencies isolate them from one of the most accepting and non judgmental corners of the fandom.

I want you to know, you can always change your mind. You don't have to like Izzy, but you can let go of hating him, free yourself of all that needless anger. Even if you're not ready to let go of hating him, you can set boundaries with yourself about how you will engage with the fandom, to remain respectful and carry yourself with integrity.

You can distance yourself from other bad actors if they put pressure on you to engage in behaviors you know are shameful. If you want to have a different, more peaceful experience, you have the power to create it.

You can change your mind and reject being apart of the shameful side of this fandom's legacy.

Most of us will be happy to have you when you ready to be done.

#izzy hands #our flag means death #ofmd

[kijosakka]

Thoughts. okay so the total drama drama drama drama island special is interesting mainly bc of team e-scope but im going to take a moment here to ramble about his dynamic with other people here,,

(oh and i didn't have anywhere really to slot it into the other post or segue into it here but dodgebrawl as a Moment demonstrates how [this AU] noah can play the social game, just in a very very different way than how it's normally seen.

he knows what he's doing is going to bother his team and incentivize them to vote, i'd say in this au he even plays up the cockiness and makes veiled personal slights against specific people

(mainly those who would be annoyed enough to vote him off, see: heather, justin, leshawna, cody/trent to some extent if he said smth about gwen? < and gwen herself in that scenario. and to another extent beth, since hes playing up his outright mean traits, which would make lindsay vote with her. i dont think he would do anything specific to/with owen or izzy, since he may see izzy as too volatile and owen too genuine)

in the opposite way of whats expected, sure, but it is a social play. he can pick apart what these people are and what they show and push at it to achieve his own ends (and maybe its even some sort of way for him to regain control in this fundamentally uncontrollable situation he's found himself in; he can be the punishment in foucalt's imagining, to a much smaller degree))

so his teammates,,, do not like him tbh. his flagrant display during dodgeball and everyone being pissed at him after the fact is true in this AU, just coming with different motivations. even after the fact when the frustration of everyone fizzles out, hes still majorly offputting because of his detachedness, and deliberately makes his shown traits very unpalatable to experience in person combined with that.

the only two exceptions are izzy and owen respectively: owens mostly coming from a place of genuineness and im going to say while he wouldnt be able to verbalize it, in some manner owen would clock noahs behavior as a defense mechanism. maybe in the sense of 'hes just scared to open up to people!!' or something similar, but he definitely has a lot more faith that noah really isnt that cold and flat.

[*]izzy feels much the same -- except maybe it comes off more to her as strategic. izzy can act, and might recognize that in noah. if you wanted to you could write this in as to why she was eager to swap teams in the first episode, but it wouldnt change that he does get eliminated and thats all she sees of him until the special -- which, her intrigue in his lacking and the fact that it apparently wasnt strategic to get him further in the game, could help explain why she picks him in the team-up.

[*i have soooo much to say about izzy in this au actually. but ill save it for a diff post]

and speaking of the team-up: team e-scope!!!! :0

my au my rules eva and izzy became really good friends on the playa; izzy isn't afraid of eva (and curbing her anger before it reaches a boiling point) and eva is physically adept enough to restrain izzy from Shenanigans that might be a little Much. but eva doesnt really?? know anything about noah?? but izzy insists on teaming with him for the special (and unbeknownst to her noah wasnt even planning to participate initially) so he must be some level of Not Too Bad if izzy wants anything to do with him that doesnt seem to be related to tormenting the guy

and she thinks hes Fine. apathetic and detached and unpalatable (but then again, everyone in their little trio really is to some degree), but can kind of understand izzys intrigue: hes still A Guy, hes just hidden behind 20 layers of non-substance that are so offputting from the first meeting it makes people steer clear of him.

now with tddddi comes two other pertinent details: the justin line, and the Thing With Duncan.

i personally thing noahs 'he's the anti-me' line is really funny in the context of canon but if you squint it kinda works here? wherein justin is non-speaking yet flaunts himself to be the center of attention and clearly shows intent and capacity to scheme (underdeveloped or no, see: awakeathon), whereas noah speaks a lot yet lets himself fade into the background, showing vague hints of the capacity to scheme but no intention or palpable ambition behind it.

^ am i reaching? maybe. the other option here is noah somehow has seen him in-person before on a modeling or red carpet kind of gig and dislikes him on principle because of it/its a jab at it (smth smth they are both opposite ends of the same industry? justin is the face of it in a manner where noah stays behind the scenes and out of sight)

and the thing with duncan,, hear me out here okay noah does his whole song and dance, goes up to him and patronizes him, and duncan retaliates. however, he curses like a sailor and in noah's head has ruined the footage, therefore instead of further retaliating and potentially invoking actual physical harm he just. doesnt react. at all. duncan looks up at him and hes just dead-eyed staring down at him -- and then he leaves.

^ the scene has been ruined, and everyone else is doing so much that theres no reason to play it up any more. duncan and him arent plot important like how heather and lindsay were, theres no reason for the crew to painstakingly edit his swearing out. they just wont let it reach the final cut. duncan is understandably very confused by this, but at that point noah was already gone to find eva and izzy again (< this is when the cast having a running bet that noahs and android becomes Not a Joke)

but life goes on!!! and in the worlds worst comedy of errors (for noah), izzy ends up dragging him along into the lake, thereby leaving him as a confirmed member of the next season.

^ noah is so angry at this. popping blood vessels. he argues with chris endlessly, straight frothing at the mouth at only having two days of real reprieve before he has to deal with the Same Shit again. and chris gets this, to some degree, but also knows that if theres no explanation for noahs non-appearance to hand the producers, theyll be pissed (since all things considered, noahs pretty damn popular among the fans)

luckily for him, courtney just filed a lawsuit against the show!! and since chris is busy running said show, the producers do not want to deal with it and are willing to hand off the case to anyone else -- hence, chris officially signs noah on as his PA, and noah takes over the court settlements and whatnot.

< though i do imagine the producers would see it as a 'get out of the show' scheme, and thereby push way harder for his involvement in WT as a result

but noah does get a break!!! for now, at least.

#formal thanks to ophe for the cast having a running joke about him being an android #that was Not my idea #before-bed rambling. again #wrote this post eating a sleeve of saltines it was an Experience #soooooo much to say about izzy and her dynamic with noah. sososososo much #is the justin thing reaching? yeah probably idc #character analysis #total drama #td noah #dramaturgyAU #if someone wants to takw this idea and run go ahead im begging someone to share my fascination for the concept of panopticon

[edandstede]

izzy anon here - he’s a character we all headcanon as trans so shouldn’t you as a trans guy be more compassionate about him?? don’t use being trans as a gotcha and then throw izzy under the bus for ed and stede like they matter more somehow. your takes are rancid and i sincerely hope your transition fails because you dont respect

ed and stede are literally the main characters. of course they matter more. not even up for discussion. cope.

izzy being trans is a headcanon. i am a real trans person and you’re hoping i can’t transition because i said i don’t want a dead character as a ghost in the show. do you fucking hear how absurd that sounds??

i can’t get over the fucking BALLS of asking me to be compassionate towards you and your cult’s headcanon, whilst simultaneously making actual real-life trans people the subject of your anger because your favourite character died.

i am being 100% serious when i say you need help. you need to log off and go outside and speak to people who aren’t other fans sharing the same echo chamber. there is someone with rancid takes in this conversation and it isn’t me, and the fact you can’t see that is troubling.

i’m not responding further. get well soon.

#i hate it here and every instance of shit like this makes me more glad they killed him off #message in a bottle #anonymous