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[lisahafey]

You know. For some reason I think the thing that made me melt the most when watching ofmd for the first time was seeing the bows in Ed's beard and flowers in his hair in ep 5. Like. Ofmd really took big bad pirate blackbeard and made him cute and put him in pretty outfits and let him have flowers and bows in his hair just cause he wants to look nice??? There's just something about it that's so sweet to me idk...

[lisahafey]

You know. For some reason I think the thing that made me melt the most when watching ofmd for the first time was seeing the bows in Ed's beard and flowers in his hair in ep 5. Like. Ofmd really took big bad pirate blackbeard and made him cute and put him in pretty outfits and let him have flowers and bows in his hair just cause he wants to look nice??? There's just something about it that's so sweet to me idk...

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Ed took one look at Stede that morning and went "I...have to...leave..."

[lisahafey]

Screw terfs n all but are you normal about transgirls who don't want to medically transition? Are you normal about transguys with boobs who don't wear binders? Are you normal about the trans people who only want to socially transition because that's what's right for them? Are you normal about the transgirls with beards? Are you normal about the transguys who love their curves? Screw terfs, but are you normal about trans people?

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Ok, but another reason the first “fine things” scene is so good is that Ed goes from “oh God, he’s seducing me” to “oh GOD, he doesn’t know he’s seducing me” in less than a minute.

First, because it’s funny that Stede has incredible game and doesn’t know it, but second, because how often do we think men have pulled a line on Ed? And now there’s this guy who looks like he’s pulling a line and is really being so incredibly sincere to the point that he doesn’t even know Ed might want to kiss him about it.

And it hits home even more when Ed recalls it to him and shows how much he really does want to be kissed.

[lisahafey]

I do wonder if Ed finally sees that the person he is with CJ is not the person that Stede knows. So much of what’s happening in “We Gull Way Back” is Stede seeing facets of Ed that he’s never seen before. Ed’s repetition of “this is who I am” has to hurt him even more because it says that the man Ed was with Stede up to this point just wasn’t him—their friendship and connection was not really Ed (which of course isn’t what Ed even means; he thinks he’s not good enough for Stede because of something intrinsic to him). So Stede has seen elements of his childhood bullies in Ed and is being told that that’s who Ed always was.

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Thinking about how Stede truly does not care that all his stuff has been destroyed, except insofar as it indicates Ed’s pain.

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You ever think about how Ed almost definitely never said Stede’s name in Archie’s presence so she likely heard about him from the rest of the crew? So the impression of him being taller and more muscle-y likely came from them, not Ed?

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Also props to Ed Teach for spending his time in purgatory relentlessly psychoanalyzing himself in the form of arguments with Monstrous Father 2.0, who at one point tells him that he has daddy issues.

Edward Teach inventing Freudianism as he hovers between life and death.

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The way Rhys’s face goes full circle squee when Taika’s foot touches his.

#our flag means death #ofmd #stede bonnet #save our flag means death #edward teach #gentlebeard #rhys darby #taika waititi #Youtube

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my new favorite critical review of ofmd s2 is the one i just read that complained that ed had an arc about coming to realize he's not necessarily a good person but didn't do enough grappling with it

i'm not sure how you could possibly come to the conclusion that this is what his s2 arc was supposed to be about. there is no way he could have possibly come to the realization that he's not necessarily a good person in s2, because he started out already thinking he was not a good person when we met him in season 1. we knew this because he literally said the exact words "i'm not a good person."

and then he went on to say "that's why i don't have any friends," communicating that his belief that he is not a good person is connected to his belief that he is unlovable. and then in s2 he reminded us of this by repeating out loud multiple times that he believed he was unlovable, and spent the whole season gradually coming around to the belief that he can in fact be loved and have friends. that was the whole thing. i'm literally trying to think of a way this could have been made less subtle

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it’s kinda fascinating how dedicated some people are to interpreting every aspect of ofmd as disturbingly as possible. “buttons is stede’s slave” “stede assaulted ed in calypso’s birthday” i’m starting to think you guys don’t know you’re watching a romcom 🤨

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Man shoutout to Stede fucking Bonnet I am so proud of him. Going from having to ask his wife what being in love feels like, to writing the most earnest and saccharine love letters in bottles. Every day. “I long for you.” “Intertwined.” “We wrote our names on each other in permanent ink.” Kissing them before throwing them into the sea. Every day. He became the world’s biggest romantic dreamboat and he is exactly what Ed “I’m afraid I’m unlovable” Teach deserves. The classic Stede move of “I don’t know how to do this, but once I learn how to do it my own way, I’m going to completely reinvent what it means and it’s going to change lives for the better”

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You there! Boy! Have you heard? Edward Teach called me Zaddy!

#our flag means death #ofmd #stede bonnet #save our flag means death #edward teach #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #rhys darby faction #rhys darby #taika waititi #adopt our crew #muppet christmas carol #scrooge #ebenezer scrooge #michael caine #zaddy #100% certified zaddy #yes zaddy #our flag means zaddy #our flag means fanart

[lisahafey]

But Ed is so hopeful when he kisses Stede. His expression is so gentle and he wants to treat Stede so gently. His voice shakes when he suggests "starting over." He wants so badly to just be able to leave their old identities behind and remake themselves with each other. He completely puts himself on the line, he shows every vulnerability, he's entirely without the protection of Blackbeard or even being at sea, and he desperately wants Stede to say yes and fully expects him to say no.

It's that elation when Stede does say yes that's heartbreaking.