When Izzy first walked out I was worried that he would be made into a joke that the crew would laugh at
but then he started singing and the dancing began and I realized that he wasn’t meant to be a joke at all. This is the most open and happy we’ve ever seen Izzy and the show treated it that way. Not mocking him but instead celebrating this moment.
When we talk about queer representation it’s usually just focused on queer relationships, but what I love about this episode is it shows other sides of being queer. That moment where Izzy saw Wee John doing his makeup and had a realization that he wanted that too? That is what being queer means to me. The crew singing along and cheering for him? That is what being apart of the queer community means to me.
What i love about this show is that it shows queer joy, not in a sanitized way, but in away that is messy, beautiful, and without any mockery or shame.
♠️🐙Modern( kind of, let's say modern pirates?) EdIzzy, because I realized that the only time I drew the two of them together was for the capybara drawing and I don't know how to feel about it :B
Stede is such a fundamentally kind person, and it's one of my favorite things about him. Yeah he's SUCH a bitch but he's just so kind.
He seems genuinely sorry when he makes Calico Jack pretend to cry, saying he didn't mean to do that. He checks in with Ed so easily and frequently when he notices Ed is upset. When Chauncey's men have to tackle him, he says "poor bugger" and is clearly sympathetic. He loves the crew even after he learns they've just beaten the love of his life to death, because he knows Ed well enough to know they didn't have a choice, and he can't blame them. He tries to genuinely help Lucius even when Lucius is (justifiably) pissed as fuck at him. He is just the type of guy to extend others grace so easily and effortlessly.
And it works all the better because life could have so easily turned him cruel. Few people have ever given him that same grace. But Stede Bonnet still gets up every day and decides to better to the world than the world has been to him, and I love him to death for it.