#Dead by Samba

[thepersianslipper]

Right when we regain consciousness after the stiddie attack from yesterday, Samba hits us again.

'My boyfriend'?!?!

'I actually fucking love that'????!!

The 'yeees!!', the eyebrow??? Zazlav when I catch you...

#foaming at the mouth #Dead by Samba #Ofmd #Ofmd bts

[mvfm-25]

" Gone but not forgotten! "

Dreamcast Magazine (UK) n34, the final issue! - June, 2002.

#Sega #Sega Dreamcast #Dreamcast #6th Generation #Sixth Generation #Dead or Alive #Chu Chu Rocket #Ready 2 Rumble Boxing #Power Stone #Samba De Amigo #Shenmue #Sonic #STH #Sonic Adventure #Crazy Taxi #Jet Set Radio #JSR

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"Batala Samba," an all women drumming troupe out of NY, performing in Mexico City in 2019 Day of the Dead celebration.

* * * *

“Up in Illinois, we’ve forgotten what it’s all about. I mean the dead, up in our town, tonight, heck, they’re forgotten. Nobody goes to sit and talk to them. Boy, that’s lonely. That’s really sad. But here– why, shucks. It’s both happy and sad. It’s all firecrackers and skeleton toys down here in the plaza and up in that graveyard now are all the Mexican dead folks with the families visiting and flowers and candles and singing and candy. I mean it’s almost like Thanksgiving, huh? And everyone set down to dinner, but only half the people able to eat, but that’s no mind, they’re THERE. It’s like holding hands at a séance with your friends, but some of the friends gone.”

― Ray Bradbury

#quotes #Ray Bradbury #samba #women #performance #Batala Samba #Mexico City #Day of the Dead #drumming #music #Youtube

[thehappyfeminist-22]

Okay, this is the second time I've spent most of the day away from Tumblr to work on my fanfiction and come back to my feed blowing up because Samba decided to drop us some quality BTS content. The first time it was the alternate take with Ed touching mer-Stede's face under the water, and now it's because of the absolutely heart-stopping, panty-flooding video panning up Rhys' body in the mermaid tail. I mean, ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? I'm dead. I am deceased. But I can assure you, I died a happy woman.

#ofmd #our flag means death #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #stede bonnet #ed teach #ed x stede #samba schutte #rhys darby #i'm dead

[dagamingshelf-database]

SEGA Dreamcast 2024 Wall Calendar

The 2024 Wall Calendar was released in North America on July 18, 2023 by Abrams Books for $15.99. It was released as merchandise for SEGA’s Dreamcast console and features artwork of popular games on the system, highlighting a new title each month.

It’s STILL thinking. This 12-month calendar features cool, original images from legendary SEGA Dreamcast video games. Party like it’s 1999 with this 12-month calendar showcasing the SEGA Dreamcast, just in time for its 25th anniversary. The revolutionary video game console is celebrated with box art, posters, sketches, and other images from the most popular Dreamcast games. Every month, boot up your console and ready your controllers for beloved classics like Sonic Adventure 2, Shenmue, Phantasy Star Online, ChuChu Rocket, and more. It’s STILL thinking.

#North America #2023 #Abrams Books #SEGA #Sonic the Hedgehog #Crazy Taxi #Jet Set Radio #Shenmue #Samba de Amigo #Skies of Arcadia #Space Channel 5 #House of the Dead #ChuChu Rocket #Phantasy Star #Virtua Fighter #General Household

[lovelydollparis]

Se. Ga. doodles

#Sega #Zobio #Zobiko #House of the Dead Ex #Loving Deads #Nights #Nights into Dreams #Linda #Rio #Samba de Amigo #Harpy #Puyo Puyo #Ulala #Space Channel 5 #Sakura Shinguji #Sakura Wars #Amy Rose #Sonic the Hedgehog #Doodles #My Art #August 2023

[medievill]

ZADDY we are BLESSED

#literally was just texting someone lamenting how I didn’t have any smutty one shot ideas and SAMBA HEARD ME #manifesting✨ #Ed’s canon daddy kink #ofmd #our flag means death #dead now goodbye #ed my beloved

[pearwaldorf]

Samba posted the uncut version of the uniform disguise scene and ohhhh myyyyy goddddd. It's only about a minute, but it gives you so much characterization for the entire ensemble. And Ed's gigantic smile! Stede's wink! The boyfriends(!!) are so happy to be doing a fuckery together!

The more things I see from S2, the angrier I get at Max/Zaslav now that we're getting more glimpses of what had to be cut to do... whatever it was the studio wanted. After watching S1 and how carefully and skillfully it was put together, it's extremely obvious S2 had been chopped up to fit the allotted time. They did their best to keep it coherent and focused on the main story, but there are still bits (like when Olu and Auntie are talking about softness) where you can tell a bit of dialogue was a resolution to something previously introduced.

Even with a 40 percent budget reduction they were still making the best show they could. But the studio still wanted them to cut it down even more. How tf do we get the Jenkins cut of S2? I don't care if we just get a zip file of raw clips, we can figure out how to put it together.

#pear watches ofmd #gonna put dead fish in your air ducts zaslav #also i want to see what samba's gdrive looks like #there must be so much good shit in there

[favoritesegacharacterbracket]

Favorite Sega Character Losers Bracket Round 2

#the house of the dead #samba de amigo #zobio and zobiko #amigo

[pwlanier]

1973 VW Combi T1 1500 Samba 23 Windows

The car one offered is the most desirable version of the Volkswagen Bus. This is the Type 1 "Samba Bus" version, fitted with 23 windows and the original sunroof, a very rare option at the time, and the access ladder to the roof rack. This Combi was restored in 2021 by two cousins crazy about the German brand, in 2021. After a complete overhaul of the 1500cc engine, the steering and the entire structure, this 9-seater combi made its first outings in France at the start of the year 2022. Between its perfect combination of exterior colors and its elegant interior, this combi perfectly embodies la dolce vita.

Artcurial

#vw #volkswagen #micro bus #samba #grateful dead

[iamyounicorn]

Completely unrelated and unprompted but and by the way if you have netflix you should watch Emicida: AmarElo - É Tudo Pra Ontem and Ao Vivo

#youni originals #warning for flashing lights in ao vivo. it's a live show's recording so. yeah. Lots of flashing lights. #é tudo pra ontem is a documentary about his influences when making the album and planning for the show #and the history of the roots of the music that inspires it and of the theater where the show was recorded #ao vivo is the recording of the live show in são paulo opera house #and i really like the music. despite not being very into rap or samba i am very into this. #ranges from love letters to day-to-day life to a homage to a dead friend to social protests to celebrating black culture and ostentation #i especially LOVE principia (reason I'm making this post) it's soooo <3 and the speech he makes before it. #dedicating his art to giving back the souls of his brothers and sisters who've been made to feel soulless. #really REALLY good. at around 1:13:00 in netflix if you want to check it out.

[intertexts]

first + current post traumatic stress defenders designs ^_^ misc. notes under cut...

wiwi got the merrell hiking boots hes got the l.l.bean thermal hoodie hes got a big ass backpack with scooby doo shit & a first aid kit in there... outdoorspilled pre-death wiwi so important 2 me.

if i ever draw vyncent not in sweatpants & sambas u can assume im dead and a body double has taken my place.

ashe is wearing one of his dad's old jackets!! big heavy wool dad-who-works-outside-in-the-cold jacket. it's too big on him but it's comfy + i think mark would almost never have time to take ashe shopping and also they wouldn't often have enough money for more than thrift stores. so he just took this one one day n mark noticed and never said anything.

dakota ed elric ass boots.

#prime defenders #jrwi #vyncent sol #william wisp #dakota cole #ashe winters #WAHOO finished these quick. i think the vyncent glowup is so fucking funny. had no idea how i wanted #him to look so i spent a long fucking time thinking abt it & drawing him & im kind of delighted w/ it. #mine #also i bit the bullet and did the fucking character tagging thing arent u proud of me -_- ill nevr do it again

[jaskierx]

if ofmd has a million fans then samba is one of them. if ofmd has no fans then samba is dead

#ofmd #samba schutte #lyse.jpg

[myflagmeansace]

Samba's OFMD BTS Cat Improv video with transcript with dialogue tags

Scene begins in the middle of an ongoing discussion of Zheng's fighting skills being similar to that of a cat

Stede: ...cat

Ed: Just a cat. She looked just like a cat.

Stede: Feline.

Ed: But not a lazy cat. (dramatic pause)

Stede: An attacker cat.

Ed (says sagely): A motivated cat.

Stede (repeats himself because he likes how it sounds): An attacker cat!

Ed (eager to spin the story to incorporate Stede's idea): Uh, eh, it was...it was a cat attack!

Stede: Ooh yeah! And we were there, too.

Ed (adamantly agreeing): And we saw it.

Stede: We were part of it.

Ed: I was part of it. We were-

Stede: We were like...

Ed: -we were also like cats!

Stede (whispers in awe imagining them as cats): Yeah!

Ed: It was like three stealthy cats.

Stede (nods in agreement with his smart bf): That's right!

Ed (loving his bf's hype): Like three humans who had skinned some cats.

Ed (ADHD mode activated): You know there are many ways to skin a cat. You can start at the head and you just peel from the nose all the way down. Or start at the ass and (gestures as if he were skinning a cat) whip it back like that!

Spanish Jackie/Leslie: Jesus wept.

Ed: It was like three cats had been skinned and we just leapt into their bodies, zipped it up...(train of thought switching tracks)...uhhhm-

Stede (trying to figure out what track they're on): It was cat skins.

Ed: -It was actually the other way around. It was like three cats killed some humans and then-

Stede (loyally agreeing with his bf): That's true. It was the opposite.

Ed: -skinned them. So like three cats had sk...caught some humans, skinned them, and then wore their skins-

Stede (quietly pushing his imagination to the limits): Yeah.

Ed: -as little suits.

Stede (proudly agreeing with his bf): Take that humans! Cats are back!

Ed (needing to emphasize the size of said cats): But they're in the big cats!

Stede (happily reiterating Ed's added detail): Yeah, big cats are back!

Ed (switching tracks again into unknown territory): Or it was like a bunch of...it was way bigger than a normal cat. It was like all of us and we are full...are filled with cats! (abruptly ends his brainstorm and silently rests his hand on his hip)

Stede (proudly standing by his bf, nodding, though he's not sure how he feels about being filled with cats): *buffering silence*

*random meow*

Swede (unsure if he's in the gravy basket because of all the poison he drank): Are you sure I'm not dead?

Spanish Jackie (tired): Yeah. Yeah.

#ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd bts #stede bonnet #edward teach #our flag means death #transcript with dialogue tags

[gentlebeardsbarngrill]

05/26/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; Vico Ortiz; Samba Schutte (Tangy & Zangy); TellTaleAwards; Emmy4Taika; Watch Party Reminders; OFMD Big Bang 2024!; Fan Spotlight; MerMay; Love Notes; Daily Darby/Today's Taika

== Vico Ortiz ==

Finally got some of the pictures from the Them Fatale Vico participated in a while back!

Source: Vico Ortiz' IG stories

== Samba Schutte ==

Awww, Samba made an amazing new desert! This time with the theme Tangy & Zangy <3

Source: Samba Schutte's Instagram

== Tell Tale Awards ==

The Tell-Tale TV Awards voting are up! There are several categories with Queer shows so if you have the time please take some time to fill them in! You can vote for up to 3 per category. Not only does OFMD show up, but Good Omens, Deadloch, Dead Boy Detectives, etc.

OFMD Categories Below:

Favorite Cable or Streaming Comedy Series (Round 1) - Our Flag Means Death

Favorite Performer in a Cable or Streaming Comedy Series (Round 1) - Rhys Darby / Ruibo Qian

== Emmy Considerations ==

You asked and they made it happen! Thank you to our friends over at Our Flag Means Fanfiction for more Emmy Consideration graphics, this time for Taika! Here's the Google Drive

Everyone is encouraged to make your own as well! If you do I'd love to see them so please be sure to share!

== Watch Party Reminders ==

Our Flag Means Death Season 2 May 28-31 (we're skipping Memorial Day) Times: 3:30 pm PT / 6:30pm ET / 11:30 pm BST Need access? We're doing a WP on the RhysDarbyFaction Discord server, feel free to hit me up on tumblr @gentlebeardsbarngrill or @ aspirantabby42 on Twitter for access.

== OFMD Big Bang 2024! ==

For all of you who're seasoned OFMD tumblr folks, you probably have heard of OFMD Big Bang before! For our newer members of the fandom check out the description below by OFMD Big Bang Tumblr.

What is the Our Flag Means Death Big Bang? A big bang is a writing and art challenge pairing authors and artists to complete a long work of fiction. The OFMD Big Bang is centered around stories which take place in the Our Flag Means Death universe with a minimum word count requirement of 10,000. 

Interested in joining? Author and Artist sign-ups open on June 1! Here's the upcoming Schedule. Visit the @ofmdbigbang tumblr for more information!

== Fan Spotlight ==

= Cast Cards =

Today's Cast Card is Stephen Papps, aka an English Lieutenant from "Mermen". Thanks @melvisik!

Source: @melvisik's Twitter

== Big Gay Energy Podcast ==

Our crewmates over at Big Gay Energy Podcast have a new episode out! This time they're discussing Season 1 Episode 10! Listen in on your favorite podcast platform via their Linktr.ee.

== Mermay ==

= Snejpowa =

Day 26: Teal More Mermay! I love that some folks took Teal and did something with Stede, and others with Oluwande! Thanks @snejpowa for this iconic Stede scene, you can feel the wobble!

Source: Snejpowa's Tumblr

= blueberreads =

Wow! Check out this gorgeous rendition of Oluwande and his Teal earring for Day 26 of MerMay by @blueberreads! That is gorgeous!

Source: @blueberreads' Tumblr

= GooGooGoJob! =

As usual @googoogojob has some more stunning work for MerMay! Day 18: Calypso's Birthday / Day 19: Rowboat / Day 20: High on a Rocky Ledge

== Stjernegaupe ==

Our friend @stjernegaupe has so many more MerMay fun submissions! I love how they interpret the various prompts! I want the Revenge for a flag!

== Love Notes ==

Hey Crew! I hope the weekend was kind to you and you got to do something fun!

I'm a bit off today. I hope you can forgive me for not saying much. Please remember that you are such a gift to this world. I think about you all a lot, and I hope you know you're doing great. Just a little love note from someone else today. Have a good Monday-- whether it's a holiday or a workday. Take care <3

Source: AlexaAubreyPoetry on Instagram

== Daily Darby / Today's Taika =

Tonight's theme is just these two giving each other hugs cause I need more of it in this life. Gif Courtesy of @usersukuna

#ofmd daily recap #ofmd #our flag means death #save ofmd #long live ofmd #adopt our crew #tell tale awards #samba schutte #vico ortiz #ofmd big bang 2024 #e #emmy4taika #Instagram

[meddling-in-horror]

Giving Them the Moment: How Our Flag Means Death and it's Portrayal of Black Men is the Most Important Thing on Television Right Now

Note: written April 20, 2022

Media is an incredibly distinct way of communicating. It has a wide reach, and each person has their own interpretation of what they see. That’s the beauty of the medium as a whole. However, there are often downsides, especially when it pertains to the West. In the US in particular, there is a trend within popular media to lean towards propagandization. Whether it’s the idea that communism and socialism are products of the ‘Evil East’ or the lingering effects of the Motion Picture Production Code - also known as the Hays Code, the media monopolies have a firm grasp on what we as a society watch and enjoy. 

When you begin to play close attention to how the media portrays Black men, this becomes abundantly clear.

It is a rare thing when we see Black men whose characters aren’t portrayed as being the object nor the perpetrators of violence. In fact, only one mainstream popular show comes to mind: The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. But even then, the given circumstances of Fresh Prince revolve around Will’s escape from the violence of the ‘urban’ inner city. This vilification of Black men dates back to the 1910s with D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, and continued into the 1930s, where Black people were often personified as the monsters, representing the ‘exciticism’ of the world beyond the West. It is the ‘exoticism’ that has played a huge part in the dehumanization of Black men as a whole. But as a Black Queer person watching Our Flag Means Death, it is breaking that mold in an incredibly important way.

The Black men in the show are allowed to have fun.

This show is breaking barriers left and right. Of the major recurring cast of 15, over half of them are people of color. It’s overt and unflinching portrayal of Queerness when so many of its older viewers - myself included - have lived through the Bury Your Gays and Dead Lesbians tropes time and time again is overwhelmingly refreshing. Nearly all characters are Queer until proven straight and represent all parts under the umbrella, including Leslie Jones’ polyamorous pirate queen and Vico Ortiz - a non-binary actor - playing a non-binary character. 

But in a world where the narratives of Black men are so often framed around violence and brutality, the Black crewmates of the Queen Anne’s Revenge - Frenchie, Oluwande, and Roach - are allowed to be funny and vulnerable. Each one of them is starkly different from the other with identifiable characteristics that allow the audience to humanize them. The trio quickly became my favorites among the crew, with Roach being the stand-out amongst them. Samba Schutte’s often deadpan delivery never fails to draw a laugh from me, in particular the assertion that “meat is meat”. Frenchie, played by Joel Fry, is the quickest on the draw where his intellect is concerned, being posited in the show’s fifth episode as having had a hand in inventing the pyramid scheme while spouting the wildest of conspiracy theories and being afraid of cats (they’re witches, they steal your breath, and have knives in their feet, you know). The softness and constant vulnerability of Samson Kayo’s Oluwande may be one of the most important aspects of the show, as it establishes him as a reliable and trustworthy confidante to not just Jim, but to Rhys Darby’s Stede Bonnet as well.

They exist in their own separate spheres on the ship, going about their own separate business completely unbothered. While it is implied they lead violent lives as pirates, this violence isn’t used to define them as characters. In fact, Oluwande stated that both he and Jim engaged in piracy because they “had no choice”. The brief mention we get of Frenchie’s backstory implies that he lives a life of servitude, though whether that was as an enslaved person or a freed Black domestic worker is not mentioned. While there is little known about Roach so far, it is implied that his culinary skills are far beyond the levels of what is needed aboard a pirate ship.

The friendships and relationships they form within the crew aren’t built on violence either, but on open and honest communication. Most notably, the friendship of Frenchie and Wee John Feeny, played by Kristian Nairn. Fry and Nairn are an impeccable comic duo when their characters become ‘room people’, and the scene where they begin to design their new space is a personal highlight of the episode. Oluwande and Jim’s romance - played to perfection by Kayo and Ortiz - is one that revolves around both characters being almost devastatingly open with each other. Both actors play the emotional vulnerability of the characters well, and it is important to emphasize that it is Kayo’s Oluwande that moves to meet Jim where they are. 

While the show allows all its men to show varying levels of emotional vulnerability - an exception being offered to the emotionally constipated Izzy Hands, played by Con O’Neill - there is something so special about seeing that luxury afforded to Black men. This show has, in just ten episodes, has become a game changer for the television industry. It has proved that a show with explicitly Queer characters can become a massive sleeper hit, and that sometimes the best kind of historical show is one that is historical fiction. But it has also proved that you can create a narrative with Black men that doesn’t include their stories being framed in violence or brutality, that they can be funny, charming, witty, vulnerable, intelligent, complex characters with their own narratives that serve a purpose outside of a device of exoticism. It is this rare thing that makes these characters, and indeed the show as a whole, so important to its viewers. 

We deserve more vulnerability, more humor, and more humanizing content from these three men, and this show is one that is truly deserving of a glorious second season.

Sources:

Donaldson, Leigh. “When the media misrepresents Black men, the effects are felt in the real world.” 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/12/media-misrepresents-black-men-effects-felt-real-world.

Kumah-Abiwu, Felix. “Media Gatekeeping and Portrayal of Black Men in America.” 

Opportunity Agenda. “Media Portrayals and Black Male Outcomes.” 

https://www.opportunityagenda.org/explore/resources-publications/media-representation-impact-black-men/media-portrayals.

Our Flag Means Death, (2022-). HBO Max.

#not horror but its relevant #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd s2 #roach #frenchie #oluwande boodhari #david jenkins #black men in media #let black men be silly in things!!!!!! #our flag means death season 2