#Louis Bonnet

[saltpepperbeard]

Stede + His Babies

#OFMD #Our Flag Means Death #Stede Bonnet #Alma Bonnet #Louis Bonnet #Rhys Darby #ofmdedit #ofmdaily #ofmdblog #ofmdgifs #Edit #...Do y'all randomly get emo over Stede and his babies #BECAUSE I DO LMAO #I SURE DO #The little interactions we get absolutely gut me #Because like #Had the circumstances been different I'm sure he would have been an amazing father #And I'm sure he wanted to be way WAY better than HIS father #So I'm sure not being able to be fully present because he was so pained was horrible for everyone involved #But I'm still glad he tried to play with them and share a little piece of his world with them #A little bit of what was going on within his heart with them #And then I'm so glad that a little piece of his heart stayed with them always #I'm really just glad he reconciled with his family PERIOD #But man the bit with Alma and the orange #Because she was mature enough and old enough to resent him for being absent #But maybe some part of her recognized that he cared #And that it just...couldn't work out #But that they'd still be in each other's hearts regardless #Like MMMMMMMM :)))

[sherlockig]

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #mary bonnet #alma bonnet #louis bonnet

[fishfingersandscarves]

i can now release the piece i did for the @theartoffxckeryzine! such a pleasure to work on! 

#my art #fishfingersandscarves #ofmd #our flag means death #edward teach #stede bonnet #mary bonnet #louis bonnet #doug (ofmd) #illustration #art of fuckery zine #zine

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

one thing about me is that i do enjoy a good Dad Stede fic or fics where stede’s kids (and mary and doug) are important figures in his life and he has a great relationship with them, i like reading abt stede trying so hard to be a good dad

but at the same time i do not consider this to be stede’s canonical characterization. canon stede is an incredibly subpar dad to his biological children. not only does stede not know how to interact with said biological children when he’s not sharing his interests with them but also it has never once occurred to him that he should do other stuff with them. stede probably doesn’t even realize it’s possible to do anything with his kids aside from play pirates. he also does NOT have the emotional maturity necessary to handle when a toddler is throwing a tantrum, and thank fucking god he got out of there before they reached their teens. in s1 he mostly felt guilty for leaving them bc he did it in the middle of the night without saying goodbye but also because he still felt tied to the social obligations enforced on him by society. he still felt like he had a responsibility to be a Socially Acceptable Man, which includes being a husband and a dad, even tho trying to be a socially acceptable man made him fucking miserable. when he realizes at the end of the season that his kids and his wife are legitimately better off without him he leaves again without looking back.

and mark my fucking words he is never seeing those kids again. he said “two messed up kids, probably” so he’s at least somewhat aware that running out on his kids like that will most likely cause lasting psychological damage, but by god his children’s abandonment issues are not his problem. doug and mary can worry about that, he left them plenty of money to afford ye olde therapy if they need it down the line. and louis might’ve said “who are you, again?” but the truth is that stede only knew louis was his son bc he was sitting for breakfast inside stede’s house. that man could not pick his kids out of a lineup if his life depended on it. to quote @jaskierx, stede said “two messed up kids, probably” as in “my kids are messed up. and i think there were two of them”

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #stede fucking bonnet #alma bonnet #ofmd alma #louis bonnet #ofmd louis #txt #j #mine #og #s1e10 #s2e02 #stede being a bad dad is one of his funniest traits and i’m sorry not everyone can appreciate it #i mean in stede’s defense he was pressured into having those kids against his will so it’s not like he willingly signed up to be a dad #and THEN dropped the ball in a spectacularly mediocre and unremarkable way #raising kids is a job stede is terribly suited for. they should not have made him do that.

[ask-louis-bonnet]

i know a lot of people are really sad right now, so i’m gonna share some moments from the inn visit that i forgot to share.

i saw mom and stede sitting outside talking about something important. i dunno what they were saying but it looked really pretty so i drew it.

here’s wolf and stede the 16th.

sorry i stacked them. but it might make you smile.

here’s alma fighting off the ghost from our closet. that may sound bad, but sir unicorn seemed like he was actually having fun.

here’s alma cheating winning at cards. Doug was laughing.

and finally, me. the reigning champion of stede-stack.

i have more moments that i can share so feel free to ask me about them.

I hope this cheered you guys up a little,

And remember, art has always been something that keeps on growing. Even as we lose moments together, we gain a new path to make more. bouncing ideas and growing closer to ourselves, our community and our species as a human by creating and coming together. making art, no matter how much we have to sacrifice, will always be worth it.

… idk what that has to do with anything, and idk why i said all of that, but it’s true.

#ask louis bonnet #louis bonnet #ofmd #our flag means death #talk it through as a crew #stede bonnet #edward teach #blackbeard #alma bonnet #mary allamby bonnet #the askverse #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #ooc: ignore the tags this took a while let me live #izzy hands #israel hands #ghost izzy hands

[ofmd-ann]

S01E10 - Wherever You Go, There You Are 🍊

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #alma bonnet #louis bonnet #my edits #ofmd gifs #ofmdann edits #S01E10 #wherever you go there you are

[chuplayswithfire]

no one ever loved stede before ed, really and fully and deeply and in a my life won't ever be the same without you kind of way and thats not a knock on alma and louis, but they're kids, they adapt, and stede was kind of absent as a dad.

but stede grew up so unloved, so uncared for, so brutally shut down on every social level, that even when he irks me and irritates me and i demand that he do the work of self-improvement i understand that he is coming from such a lonely, hurt place. stede's spent his whole life sans the kind of love that comes from acceptance and understanding and being wanted not in spite of yourself but because of yourself, and it's why he finds it so easy to take himself out of people's lives - because he is convinced, deep down, that he is so inherently wrong and unwanted and ruinous that surely he can't be missed.

alma being furious with him was probably a shock, because he never imagined anyone would miss him. mary and louis' reactions were what he expected but they still cut to the quick.

ed's reaction? stede isn't going to be anything close to ready. no one's ever loved him enough to be destroyed by his absence.

#stede bonnet #alma bonnet #mary allamby bonnet #louis bonnet #edward teach #ofmd #ofmd meta

[stedelovemail]

these pics side by side are kicking my ass

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #louis bonnet #like side-eyeing father like side-eyeing son!!! #courtesy of ofmooshd and buumbaby_ on twit #mine

[sweet-little-goldfish-stede]

Thinking about Stede building the Revenge for him and his family. How he knew he was unhappy and so was Mary and probably so were the kids, but his first thought/plan A was for them all to go live at sea together instead of running away himself. A stupid plan based on a self-centered idea of what might make things better? Absolutely, he clearly had a monkey playing symbols in his brain listening to Mary talk about her hatred of the ocean. But he built the Revenge as a home for his family, with a room for the kids (Jim and Olu's room?) and a library which contained children's stories and secret passageways for fun, for playing games.

Having listened to a lot of true crime podcasts with shitty-father villains, it strikes me how the idea that Stede could have just taken the kids is literally never touched on. Yeah, he probably knew he couldn't take care of them on his own, maybe didn't want to (we only really see him interacting with them by playing pirates), but Alma and Louis remain the only people Stede has canonically said the words "I love you" to (yes yes he loves Ed he was about to say it to him in s2e4 and switched tactics, but putting them in a similar category with Ed is pretty telling imo). Like...it probably never once occurred to Stede that another man might have taken the kids with him to spite his ex or to live their happy life of playing pirates on the high seas. Mary said I don't want a boat, I don't hate our lives, and Stede went welp, guess I'm on my own then.

There's a lot that can be said about Stede as a distant father who abandoned his family. I'm not saying he's the bastion of perfect fatherhood. But he's so clearly torn up about leaving them because he knows, morally, that was wrong, and even after he sets things right, he still talks about them ("two messed up kids probably/ didn't fit in with Mary and the kids") which tbh, I thought we were never gonna mention the Bonnet family again after s1e10.

Idk. I think Stede loves his kids as best he can for someone who probably never wanted them, and ultimately helped them out in the long run by not having them have to grow up in a miserable household with unhappy parents and an emotionally distant father who simply couldn't do better than playing games with them.

Also, thinking about how a lot of OFMD is thematic rather than verbally explicit...I think it's incredibly telling how upset Alma was when Stede came back, and that she wanted split the orange so they would still be connected no matter how far apart they were. That in a show with pretty heavy-handed symbolism of physically/emotionally abusive fathers and cycles, the kids are never, ever shown to be afraid of Stede, that when they play together they're all happy, that Stede says he loves them even though they were asleep and didn't hear it, and that the one time they physically touch, it's Alma reaching out to tug Stede's hair in a playful way, and he responds in kind. That Stede breaks the cycle of emotionally distant and abusive fathers by A. Not belittling them ever and B. Leaving when he realized his presence was making things worse.

Tl;dr Stede Bonnet is objectively a bad dad, but he still loves his kids.

#idk im having feelings #and im very willing to be wrong on this and hear other opinions #but yeah stede as a dad gets to me #ofmd #stede bonnet #alma bonnet #louis bonnet

[ekezable]

Eventually Mary agrees to let the kids visit Stede!

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd fanart #ofmd fandom #blackbeard #edward teach #stede bonnet #alma bonnet #louis bonnet #mary allamby bonnet #she isn’t there but you could feel her presence #the gentleman pirate #blackbonnet #steden #gentlebeard #stede x blackbeard #ofmd meme #stede isn’t the best father #ofmd olivia #buttons ofmd

[sky-fire-forever]

I have been thinking about Stede and his children lately. How he never wanted them and struggles to engage with them. How he used to play pirates with them and tried to participate in conversations with them. But he could never connect with them and how he just left them entirely. Without a word

I think about how his daughter resents him. How we see her be angry with him, as is her right. And how his son barely knows him

Does that stick with him? Does he ever look at his half of the petrified orange he shares with his daughter and miss them? Does he ever wonder who they grow to be?

#i dunno. i wish we saw more of his feelings for his children #does he love them? does he want to see them ever again? #stede bonnet #alma bonnet #louis bonnet #mary bonnet #ofmd #our flag means death #queue-no steel

[saltpepperbeard]

༻❀༺ Happy Mother's Day to Mary Bonnet ༻❀༺

#OFMD #Our Flag Means Death #Mary Bonnet #Claudia O'Doherty #Mother's Day #ofmdedit #ofmdaily #ofmdblog #Alma Bonnet #Louis Bonnet #Edit #Queen #Absolute QUEEN #I don't talk about her enough #But I love her your honor #I hope she's having a good day #I hope she's painting and spilling tea with the widows and enjoying herself #Loml tbh #SORRY DOUG SDJKLS

[sherlockig]

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #rhys darby #darling honey light of my life #alma bonnet #louis bonnet

[dimity-lawn]

#meme #created by yours truly #ofmd meme #our flag means death meme #our flag means death #ofmd #episode 10 ofmd #mary bonnet #stede #stede bonnet #the bonnets #alma bonnet #louis bonnet #doug ofmd

[ask-louis-bonnet]

What was it like meeting Blackbeard??

he’s nothing like the books.

he’s way better.

#ask louis bonnet #louis bonnet #ofmd #edward teach #ed teach #eddie valiant #also wolf

[roxyrondell]

I just finished writing a chapter that has Stede, Ed, Alma and Louis investigating strange noises and the doorbell ringing in the middle of the night. Is it ghosts? Is it a friend needing help? Either way both Louis and Ed are clinging to Stede and huddling behind him as they make their way downstairs. Meanwhile Alma is out in front next to her dad!

#our flag means death #stede bonnet #edward teach #alma bonnet #louis bonnet #ofmd fanfiction #my fanfiction #ghosts? 👻 #ed x stede #gentlebeard #gods i love them so much #ofmd my beloved #long live ofmd