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getting incredibly tired of westerners responding to firsthand accounts shared by palestinians in gaza with the reflexive demand to see a "source"

because by source, they always mean a western news report

never mind, of course, that international journalists are banned from entering gaza; the word of the western journalist, writing in passive voice about a genocide 6000 miles away, is still deemed more 'reliable' than the firsthand accounts shared by the victims living through that same genocide

a palestinian shares a video of an IOF solider brutalizing civilians in gaza? not good enough; they still need a ''source.'' the video in question was posted by a palestinian journalist? okay cool, but does someone have a more reliable source? can we get a word in from the esteemed fact-checkers over at the new york crimes, or the iraq-has-wmds-post? we just don't want to spread misinformation...

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time itself has slipped away

now you are mine

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Making gay porn fanart of fictional characters is perfectly fine, but let's remember not to cross the line of actual sexual harassment of the Actual Actor who is a Person with Feelings.

I see this a lot with male celebrities where people think it's okay to comment sexual (or just weird) things on their social media, tagging them in fanart they aren't comfortable with, and just generally being disrespectful. Pedro Pascal and Harry Styles come to mind. Just because they're men that doesn't mean they're comfortable being publically sexualized!

I too am glad that people are empathetic to Rhys. It must be weird seeing your likeness in That Kind of Art. Draw your drawings, write your fanfics, just don't be weird about it!

for me personally I would have the time of my life looking at gay porn art of myself

#ofmd #ofmd fanart #rhys darby #costa rhysca

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Stede doodles

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #ofmd season 2 #ofmd fanart

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THIS IS SO HONK SHOO MIMIMIMI!!!!

First night out after saying goodbye to Revenge crew 🔥⛺️

#ofmd #ofmd fanart #stede bonnet #edward teach #gentlebeard

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If I have to gesture to Ed one more time when you write "waaa Jenkins killed off the disabled suicidal character" the canyon are gonna start having to pay for my fucking physiotherapist

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i also find it funny when people use “izzy died for ed’s character development” bc yes. that’s exactly what happened. i’m not even being sarcastic, he literally exists to be the antagonist and a narrative foil to stede. he got a bigger part in s2 bc hes close to Ed and s2 is Ed’s season.

he’s never portrayed as an actual love interest for ed. he’s also not a woman, nor the only queer disabled character in the show. he’s also not real, so no actual person is being harmed by his death

his death hurts to some people bc it was MEANT to. you weren’t tricked. it means he was a tool but a very well written one. if you want a story where izzy is the main character, you’re going to have to imagine and create it yourself bc that’s not the show that actually exists

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olu and the three bad bitches he pulled by being soft and tender as hell

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while you're misusing bury your gays, Ed is getting woken up by Stede kissing him lovingly and looking into his eyes and telling him he's the most lovable person in the world on the planet in the entire universe, and Ed is making him blush first thing in the morning, and they're badly running an inn together and pda'ing all over the falling columns of their shaky shack, and overcharging customers for salmonella stricken fish, and they're deliriously happy, by fucking the way

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I want to eat this painting

Bbygirls be kissin again

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd art

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Give me Stede absolutely falling in love with inn keeping. He was confident in choosing Ed over piracy, but perhaps less confident in opening an inn. Even though Ed is the most important thing to him, he secretly fears that he'll get bored, that his new life may start to resemble his old life.

But then that doesn't happen. He has so much fun running the inn, decorating all the rooms, wearing whatever clothes he wants, meeting all kinds of different people and hearing their stories and their adventures, and all of this with Ed by his side. He was drawn to piracy because it was so opposite of the life he was living, but he realizes that he didn't need the adrenaline of adventure, he needed to be doing something he enjoyed with someone he loved, someone who loved him in order to feel fulfilled. The contentment he feels with Ed by his side is what he was actually looking for.

(and maybe the crew still kidnaps him from time to time for a short adventure, but at the end of the day he knows he would never go back to that life)

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....someone cooked here

appalled but also not surprised at the amount of people who think ed is textually izzy’s domestic abuser and their problem with this is that in the season two izzy dies and apologizes to ed in his final moments. but they apparently are fine with the entire premise of the show being a relationship between a white man and an indigenous man and the indigenous man is written to have had a violent and abusive father and who then continues the “cycle of abuse” with his first mate/subtextual wife. i can’t imagine watching and supporting this show while thinking that the entire foundation of ed’s character was reinforcing such shitty racist stereotypes abt poc.

if we wanna talk about ed and being an abusive boss to his crew that’s one thing. but when it comes to izzy, from 1x10 to 2x02 we are not seeing an old, routine pattern of behavior from ed where he uses violence to control izzy. we’re seeing izzy’s attempts to push ed back into being blackbeard (we’re seeing izzy’s attempts to control ed) backfire on him, we’re seeing izzy feeding this poison and then getting the poison turned back on him. and it has been sooooo incredibly predictable to watch a huge chunk of this fandom reframe the intended reading of this show to victimize the white side character and demonize the indigenous protagonist.

#ofmd #ofmd meta #edward teach #izzy hands

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i understand why everyone wants stede to talk about the kidnapping with ed cause its his trauma and it gives an explanation to what happened. i get that. but i dont expect us to see that and i dont think its a bad thing. the watsonian explanation of what happened to stede in ep 9 is that -yes- he was kidnapped by another person, held at gunpoint, told he defiled beautiful things, and then subsequently witnessed a man die. but the doylist explanation of why thats even a story beat in the first place is that this is the emotional climax of stede's guilt. we've gotten the buildup for it all season. outside of comedy, the reason chauncey and nigel are identical twins is because stede is still haunted in some way by nigel's death. stede thought he found closure with that and with leaving his family, but he didnt. and when hes at the barracks and faced with his feelings, thats the real interruption to the plan. even though we know that the kidnapping thing happened in a literal sense, it was symbolically a summation of stede's guilt and fears, and not very different to the nigel ghost from ep 2. that's why the deaths are parallels. it reinforced to stede that his own feelings are ultimately selfish and that he shouldnt pursue what he wants. if our stede was a real person then it absolutely would be important for him to tell ed about the kidnapping, because that would be a significant external trauma that impacted him and his relationship. but stedes is a fictional character in a show that heavily uses metaphor and fable to tell its story. trauma only effects characters to the extent of which the writer feels its necessary. i think stede telling ed "everything was moving so fast for me, and i got scared, and i didnt know how to tell you i was scared" IS stede talking about the kidnapping, because hes communicating what the kidnapping represents metatextually. i think for stedes character and for his relationship with ed, stede overcoming his fear and guilt "matters" more than the external event of being kidnapped.

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THIS IS BEAUTIFUL THANK YOU

Can someone please draw old Ed and Stede being domestic in their Inn please and thank you

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd art #gentlebeard #sleepy innkeeper and his husband

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Can someone please draw old Ed and Stede being domestic in their Inn please and thank you

#ofmd #gentlebeard #our flag means death #stede bonnet #edward teach

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OK I absolutely adore Stede as a character, but I'm disappointed with how they handled him in season 2.

Achieving fame and respect as a pirate was his main goal throughout the whole show, and once he got there by murdering Ned, it's painfully obvious he regrets it (or at least feels badly about it). And then he chooses to have sex with Ed instead of talking about it, going against his whole motto in season 1--talk it through as a crew. It makes sense, it's much easier to avoid hard feelings, but they didn't even talk about it the morning after.

Instead, Stede doubles down and gets drunk at Spanish Jackie's and lights a man on fire as a joke. We never see how this affects Stede. He murdered Ned and lit a dude on fire and it's just...not addressed? And then he finds Ed (who doesnt know that Stede LIT A MAN ON FIRE), and they break up again. He literally calls Ed a coward. Which like, true! Ed has commitment issues like a bitch, but like are you really not going to run after him?

Like damn, Anne and Mary were right. They don't know how to love without hurting. They are fucking 14 year old boys. Just imagine this:

"I think Anne and Mary were right," Ed mutters.

"What?"

"Anne and Mary were right. We don't know how to love each other, Stede."

Stede takes Ed's hand.

"Then let's figure it out."

But instead, the next time they see each other, Ed says he loves Stede, and he's sorry for being a dick. And Stede says life's a dick. I think with the constraints on season 2, this was a pretty good concise way to tie that issue up. But there's still so much that's going unsaid.

Ed didn't leave to become a fisherman. He left so he wouldn't be hurt by Stede leaving again. He left because Stede killed a man, and he can't become a better person if Stede is fucking killing people.

And Stede didn't kill people because he's a killer at heart. He killed because all he wanted was to be respected. To be a man. From childhood, he was taught that violence was synonymous with masculinity. But in his heart, he liked picking flowers and walking in nature and rowing out onto the lake.

That's who Stede is. He's gentle. And I'm kind of heartbroken that that part of his character is gone.

He doesn't need to be sexy, dominant, violent, masculine to be a man. To be loved. Ed fell in love with the silly, sensitive, gentle Stede who had a secret closet full of frilly fabric and summer linens. He fell in love with the Stede who told him he wears fine things well. He fell in love with the Stede who swapped his clothes with him just for fun.

If I wrote season 2, I would have the first half of the season stay pretty much the same. But, when Stede kills Ned and achieves infamy as a pirate, I would have him discover that he is deeply unhappy even though he has everything he thought he ever wanted. I would have him realize that he doesn't know who he is, and who he wants to be. And THEN I would have him and Ed TALK ABOUT IT.

Stede would day something like "I thought I'd be happier." And Ed would say, "I told you so" only in a nicer way. And then Ed would tell him about why he fell in love with Stede in the first place. And Stede would shake his head in disbelief and Ed would keep going. He would say how alive he felt with him, and how enchanted he was with Stede. He would tell Stede that he'd love him even if he wasnt a pirate. And then Stede would start to feel like himself again, and say the same back to Ed. And then they hug!!!

Anyway TLDR: I love Stede but bro is not a murderer and they should have explored his identity crisis much more.

Also: I know that there were a lot of constraints on season 2, so I'm not directing blame at any one person. I'm still disappointed though. They deserved much more time to properly tell their stories.

#ofmd #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death #ofmd meta #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #bro is NOT a murderer. bro has an IDENTITY CRISIS. #anne and mary