my favorite romance trope is like. you dont want to hurt me but i am asking you to hurt me. i need you to stab me. i need you to carve this out of me. i need you to cut something off of me. this will hurt both of us in incredible ways. yours are the only hands i trust enough to weild this knife. you do not want to hurt me. i am asking you to hurt me.
I cannot express to you people how much I want to see Stede trip and faceplant into the romantic hero trope. I want that man backlit by a sunset, shirt billowing in the wind, confidence and love coming off him in waves, etc. I want him to woo the shit out of Ed all over again simply by existing and maybe by yelling sonnets at him from the brig after Ed tosses him in there so he can bite his knuckles in lust in peace.
can’t wait for the day where I can reblog a gif set of stede saying ‘I just thought that when I did marry it would be for love’ from season one next to a gif of him marrying ed for love