#White Yardie

[mstmitchell]

Game changer. Plantain waffles.

#white yardi

[28dayslater]

great to see your mum’s music career taking off

#white gal yardie ?

[celluloidbroomcloset]

If I may, I think the issue of this discussion might be the “A vs. B” of it all. It appears to me that this is more about how it is very possible for a person to simultaneously enjoy AND dislike both their abuser and the things they do together, especially before a break from the abuse patterns has been made.

Sometimes a thing can be fun as an experience and also not a thing you want to inflict on the people you care about. I know I have had experiences that were bad and damaging, both to me and the people around me, but also fun, and reconciling that is hard; but that is a balancing act everyone has to manage in life. It’s about how willing you are to notice other people’s comfort and/or safety (as well as your own) and prioritize that over your own desires.

People are messy and internally contradictory, and maybe part of why it was becoming more upsetting for Ed to do those things with Jack throughout the episode was that he was finally starting to notice the dichotomy and conflict between how much fun they were for him to experience, and the regret he feels for how not-fun their outcomes are. He spends the whole episode oscillating between those two perspectives, which is why he both leaves with Jack and comes back. I think, for me, it is a more meaningful growth for his character if he does genuinely enjoy at least some of those activities (like yardies and coconut wars,) and even Jack’s company some of the time (and the experiences they have shared over decades of knowing each other,) but chooses to reprioritize them because of the context they hold in his life and effect they have on the people he cares about.

OK, I think a few things are being missed here. First, the thematic use of Jack, which is to expand on what we know of piracy and toxic masculinity outside of the Revenge and to provide a clearer insight into Ed's past, and therefore his current moment. Jack also acts as a progression in Ed's life, from his father, to Hornigold (I believe this episode is the first we hear of him), to Jack, to Izzy. I don't think Jack occupies exactly the same position as the other three (because he's Ed's peer, not a father figure), but he is another member of the "violent white men who punish Ed for being or wanting to be soft" gang. Jack really should not be removed from either of those functions, because he's not really an important character in his own right; he's an insight into Ed and especially into Ed's very complex relationship with what he has been and what he feels he truly is. I have written before about how Stede reconciles Ed's past with his present, and that episode challenges the viewer to do the same. Ed, however, cannot, because he sees Jack and how he behaves with Jack as the monster that he is and cannot escape from.

The other thing that's being missed is that Ed tells us whether he's having fun. In the beach scene with Stede, when they are both removed from piracy and from the Revenge, he says:

I don't know if I want to go back to the old days. Just...drinking all day and biting the heads off turtles and making some poor bloke eat his own toes for a laugh ... Right now, I just want to do what makes Ed happy ... These past few weeks have been the most fun I've had in ages...years...maybe ever.

Now. We see very clearly that the things Ed lists are things that are associated, thematically at least, with the "games" that he and Jack play in the previous episode, and by extension what we learn was normal life on Hornigold's ship. None of those things are associated with fun or what makes Ed happy. These are not things that Ed thought were fun but that he doesn't want to do anymore, as he explicitly says that he's had fun with Stede. The fun and what makes Ed happy is not Jack, and it is not anything that Jack represents, nor is it the games that Jack plays that Ed once had fun doing—the implication here is that Ed recognizes that those things were never fun and never made him happy. It is Stede.

We can argue that Ed is lying, but why would he? He's working up to kissing Stede. He has no reason to lie about his feelings at this point. There is no one that will punish him for expressing them. Seems to me that deciding "oh, yeah, he likes Jack! He's just settling down in a little marriage with Stede now!" takes away a lot of Ed's right to self-knowledge and understanding that the things that he has done and has had done to him are not....FUN.

So I suggest that we believe Ed when he says what makes him happy and what he understand fun to mean, and don't assume that that includes his frat boy abuser.

#reply #ofmd #edward teach #calico jack #ofmd meta

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

I thought Calico Jack was just supposed to be kind of racist/ignorant. I'm pretty sure they did that on purpose.

yeah I don't think they did because even if Jack's kinda racist, which I'm not writing off, it would be A Bit Stupid to write off a white man in the Caribbean in 1717 being a bit racist (yes I'm side eyeing certain portions of the fandom with that statement, Stede and Iggy guys both), the context of it doesn't make it a very clear to the point where it feels unintentional. The intent of Jack using that name for him was very clearly revealed through dialogue to establish that Ed once upon a time hat a phase that is actually somewhat typical of rock stars with stage names where nobody was allowed to call him Ed/Edward and Calico Jack is the kind of guy who says brekkie and whippies and yardies so with all of that context it was a play on the name blackbeard, so white people who aren't captial R racists (but are probably lowercase r racists because lbr) and so don't use that word and don't hang around white people who use that word are largely not gonna even register it as a slur because they're picking up on that context and they don't have strong associations with that word. and POC who have had that word used against them are going to be wildly uncomfortable with him walking around using that word in a way that the show generally has tried to shy away from, for the purpose of... what? making him seem bigoted? something they already accomplished by having him open with "who's the big gal". And then Ed (who is not black so while I know racists aren't often picky about their slurs when it comes to poc it would still strike viewers as kind of a weird pull if he were to be called that with no plausible deniability) and all the black men on board are just not even having a reaction to it at all and are being fully on board with whatever Jack says because Jack's so cool which feels objectively weird if it's supposed to be a slur.

So when you combine the fact that it mostly flies over white fan's heads, makes non white fans uncomfortable in a way that doesn't really add anything other than discomfort, and is treated as a normal nickname unfailingly, and then in season 2 they took it back by having characters who would have been around for the "don't call me Edward" phase calling him Eddie, I think all of that combines to a blunder that's in the same vein as Izzy saying all you people look the same fully 2/3rd of the way into his redemption arc.

[ladyluscinia]

Something I've been thinking about for at least a month now... The statement that "the show clearly doesn't expect the viewer to sympathize here" is grossly overused in the OFMD fandom, even moreso if followed by some version of declaring x character "only deserves violence or ridicule"

I'm not even just talking about Izzy. Practically every single non-Revenge crew character is a prospective target for this, often due to being the butt of a joke or a moment of slapstick violence at some point. There are a lot of meta takes and interpretations that seemingly hinge on this idea that the show is always punching upward at oppressors of various kinds, therefore anyone who gets punched - literally or figuratively - can inherently be written off as deserving it 100%. This particular flavor of moralizing is rather aggressively black and white, and while some fans might enjoy it, I'm not sure it actually exists in the fairly redemptive and growth focused framework of the show. Especially not as something so obvious you can just declare "well x is not meant to be sympathetic because this funny mean thing happened to them" without feeling the need to back that up any further

Like, yeah, I think there are definitely characters you aren't ever invited to sympathize with - Nigel Badminton and Geraldo come to mind - but also Lucius has the whole finger thing, the Swede experiencing a scurvy speedrun is a running gag, and Roach slamming into the side of the ship during "yardies" is shrugged off with a punchline. So maybe being the butt of a mean and potentially violent joke is not the defining factor here? Or inherently contradictory to the notion a character can be considered as a person and not just a narrative punching bag?

#our flag means death #like people don't spell out that this is what they are doing but it does seem to be the logical throughline of some meta collectives #and it just bugs me sometimes when 'well x is meant to be unsympathetic' is the whole argument. no support needed i guess? #and like part of it is going back to genre again (something that probably counts as one of my main ofmd fields of study by now) #in that in a comedy laughing at a bad thing happening to someone often ISN'T precluding them from sympathy #comedic butt monkeys and villains are constantly ridiculed and hurt AND treated as characters you are meant to care about #anyway i have a lot of thoughts on this but also i have practice exams to take so this is all you get for now #ofmd meta #genre #fuck it i'll tag #izzy hands ofmd #but this is really about a lot of characters #ladyluscinia

[ask-calico-jack]

Completely OOC post not even the cabin boy level of ironic ooc fully this is me just talking:

So, on Jack's nickname for Ed, which I just got an ask about so I'll address it.

I'm not comfortable with publishing asks that use the word just because I want to keep this blog relatively comfortable for people. Obviously not too comfortable because he's a dick and not terribly politically correct but I'm not gonna publish slurs outside of the gay ones that Jack and Stede call each other as a joke.

I also am not playing Jack as capital R racist (I acknowledge that a white guy in the Caribbean in 1717 is gonna have a level of baseline racism) because I honestly think that Jack calling Ed that in the show was an oversight. Now what do I mean by that: Jack calls Breakfast Brekkie and jumping off the Yard Arm Yardies and playing with the whip whippies because he's a man child, so what is he going to call Blackbeard if Blackbeard will snap a person's neck for calling him Ed? I really just think that they gave him a nickname for Blackbeard and didn't think about it too hard. This theory of the nickname was more or less confirmed for me when they basically retconned it by having Hornigold, Anne and Mary call him Eddie. As such i have pointedly been using the latter nickname on this blog and I will continue to do so

#ooc

[disyahreggaemusic]

So...why call yourself 'White Yardie'? Or is this a misnomer? Your whole persona is based around your title. Are you actually ethnically Caucasian or 'Jamaican ' white? Are your parents 'white'? None of these questions were answered. 'Fair / brown/red skin' Jamaicans have,since slavery times, sheltered under the umbrella of 'whiteness' to separate themselves from black skinned Jamaicans. George William Gordon was not ethinically white as you confidently stated. He was a 'fair skinned' black man of mixed ethnicity and was born a slave. His white SCOTTISH father gave him, his son, freedom at the age of 10. GWG mother was an enslaved African. To describe Indians (0.8% of the population) as more authentically Jamaican is dispicable and is divisory. Afro-Jamaicans form over 90% of the population and 10% is everyone else. It is a tragedy that the original inhabitants of the island - The Tainos were wiped off the face of the earth by the Spaniards. And it is a further tragedy, that enslaved Africans who toiled the land for 400 years with blood sweat and tears, never once tasted the abundant fruit of their relentless, enforced, barbaric labour and their children today,at home & across the diaspora are barely surviving on the bitter fruit discarded by the colonialists in 1962. You really are a comedian because listening to you was a huge joke!

#Youtube

[walshball]

Therapist: White Girl Yardie Keira isn’t real, she can’t hurt you

White Girl Yardie Keira:

#girl you are so lucky this was before woso got big #cancellations would have been FLYING #and I would have been forced to stand ten toes down behind your white ass #lionesses #engwnt #keira walsh

[x-b-s]

White Yardie - Who Is White Yardie, Life Growing Up In Jamaica & Chet Ha...

#jamaica #white jamaican #a wha a gwan #Youtube

[akoyaslove]

they call her the white girl yardie 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[mesclaaa]

"DJ culture in those days wasn't what it is now," adds Lavelle. "It was working class, it was hardcore. On the white front it was tied to football and on the black front it was the yardie and soundsystem lot. It wasn't as refined and intellectualised as it is now." As tough as it was, the overarching mood in the shop was one of acceptance. "The environment was socialist and anarchic and spiritual," Lavelle says. "It was beautiful and strange. You had people of different sexual orientations, people with different religious and social and ethnic backgrounds. The thing with Mark and Alan is they are incredibly intellectual but the music was never intellectualised. It was just music for listening to."

#socialist #anarchist #spirutual #honest jon's #record shop

[threeweekz]

my grandma treats white yardie and tuggawar as her own personal wigga minstrel show and i love that 4 her <3

[ibogard]

#Yaaaoooo I stepped on stage, at Live Aid. All the people gave and the poor got paid lol! Been around the world, and i i i!! C. ‘02 in Capetown, South Africa; was on a World Tour wit P Diddy my mann haha!! Rockin the Vintage Cooperstown variation of the 1934 Chicago White Sox Baseball Club Wool Jacket. Surprisingly it was pretty chilly around that time of the year in CapeTizzy! - Shot fired by @JustinJay aka @ClickAndMove_ ( do your homework) • #BOGARD Building Organizations Geared Around Real Deals • #BeenAroundTheWorld #LiveAid #Capetown #SouthAfrica #PDiddy and da fam, who you know do it better?! Lol! #BadBoy #ThinkBIG #FlyFisher #PrinceOfFashionMikeB #914representative from #Greenburgh #Yardie #RoyalFlyness #Swaganomics #Hustlerinstyle #Catchmeifucan https://www.instagram.com/p/CoM33JMuuXN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#yaaaoooo #bogard #beenaroundtheworld #liveaid #capetown #southafrica #pdiddy #badboy #thinkbig #flyfisher #princeoffashionmikeb #914representative #greenburgh #yardie #royalflyness #swaganomics #hustlerinstyle #catchmeifucan

[voidbeomgyu]

7:06AM: ive been so inactive bc classes just started again, but ive come back to release my anxiety ab this man at the bus stop. im literally in the bus rn but at the stop i was waiting and then some man ive never talked to before pulls up and starts talking to me. ((for context my class starts at 7:15am and i take the 6am bus bc the next bus is at 7am and id be late by a few right but sometimes idc ab being late cos im tired so i take the 7am bus, like today))

so ive seen this fool like mayb two times before ,i cant remember but he never talked to me until today when he walked to the stop and asked me "arent you cold?" cos all i have on rn are my sweatpants and a tshirt over a white longsleeve cos my first class is a body conditioning class im gonna warm tf up right. but i was like "uh aha a little" and he laughed or whatever and then just kept talking like bro im literally trying to text my "more than friends" friend rn leave me alone. he asked if im going to school rn and BRUH MEN MAKE ME BLANK OUT LIKE MY MOUTH GOES ON AUTO PILOT SO MY DUMBASS SAID YES.

ive had some not good at all experiences with men and boys around my age before so idk, ig over time my axiety just got worse? anyway he was like "college? [state] state?" and i omg i was like "no just college ahah" and the nearest one is like the ONLY ONE SO HE CONNECTED THE DOTS TO WHICH SCHOOL I GO TO OBV. i even told him my name bc im DUMB. but like im wearing my bracelets rn right (i make and wear kandi ((pony bead bracelets))) and the one on my wrist has my name on it and so does the phone charm thing i made. so i like noticed him eyeing it and was like FUCK I CANT EVEN LIE ARRGRGRHHR COS LIKE I COULD SAY IT WAS A FRIEND OR FAMILY MEMBER NAME RIGHT BUT WHY WOULD I HAVE MY PHONE CHARM SAY SOMEONE ELSE'S NAME RIGHT GRRRARRGGRGSGR

after he would finish a thought id turn to look forward to the road again and look down at my phone to text my friend right so it would be silent for like 2 second and then BOOM HE STARTS TALKING AB HOW HE GOT HIS LISENCE SUSPENDED FOR THREE YEARS BC HE KEPT BREAKING THE LAW AND GETTING TICKETS IM LOSING MY MIND WHY WOULD I NEED TO KNOW THIS??!??? he was like yea thats why im taking the bus now and have to wake up so early and im sitting there like 😀👍

i had my mask on bc paranoia yardy kno (tmi i have the covid vaccine and two boosters and i still got sick but i didnt die so cool it did what it was supposed to ((tmi tmi my body is so weak when i was in 5th grade i almost died from an infection spreading up my arm to my heart from a PLAYGROUND WOODCHIP SPLINTER IN MY FINGER...))) so like i wear masks bc i dont wanna get sick by ANYTHING EVEN JUST A COLD OR SOMETHING IDC IDC im happy for that tho cos 1. man does not know what my face looks like and 2. face warm

OKAY ANYWAYS when he found out my name he paused for a second and asked who my dad was and i was like ...what so he said something like his ex's brother had a daughter named [MY NAME BRUH] and i was like 😀👍 aaahawggagwggs so he thought i was her or something. i was like oh okay haha and then turned back around like ive been doing to try and end the conversation right, but like we are waiting at the bus stop yk so theres gonna be cars that pass by and its gonna get loud especially rn everyone is going to work. but since it was loud ig i didnt hear him?? cos suddenly his voice is like way louder than before right so i turn and hes like A FOOT AWAY FROM MY FACE IM AARGRHEGR WHY. he said his name i forgot what it was i wasnt paying attention cos i was like 😦 but it think it was michael, so michael if u ever see this ur weird.

anyway then he said something like "you know what's cool?" and bruh i literally saw my life flash before my eyes. why? idk but that sounds so ????? like scary ???? but i was like "uh sure" and then he went on this tangent about being in the navy and that he got to travel the world like three? idk how many times but he was telling me wheres hes been like naming the countries right

i was just sitting there being my polite little self bc i was raised to no matter what respect when someone is speaking to you in a conversation even if u dont wanna be there. like for when someone older than you is speaking to you i mean and this guy was OOOOOLDER THAN ME faded brown hair covered in grey, brown grey fluffy stash, he looked like maybe early-mid fifties but could pass for being like 70 im being so fr. anyway yea im being polite even tho im like so uncomfortable bc thats just what i do idk😭 it was def obv how uncomfortable i was tho i was fidgeting SO much like shaking both my legs, picking at the skin around my fingers, and trying to end the conversation multiple times. but he just kept going😭

but after that whole idk how long tangent ab navy stuff he suddenly asked (after i turned around to stop talking to him ofc) how old i was like "how old are you if you dont mind me asking?" and so i was like scared but also kinda relieved cos i get comments a lot about how much younger AND how much older i look bc ig i just present myself more mature??? even tho my style and stuff isnt like super mature or anything ppl ive talked to like teachers/parents/classmates who are older than me, like mid twenties to late thirties tell me that they thought i was so much older when im actually like a baby. its only ppl my age that say i look younger right, so i was like oh maybe he thinks im like way older or something?? like im wearing a backpack and a little tote with stuff so it looks like im going to school, but he asked if im attending college or a four year uni meaning he thought i was a little older (or at least he just didnt mention a thought of me being in high school? mayb cos im taking the public bus and not a school bus idk). i said the truth bc I HAD HOPE IDK BRUH LIKE IKKKK I RLLY SHOULD NOT HAVE HAD ANY HOPES BC A MAN IS A MAN AND IF U GET WEIRD VIBES THEN THEY ARE PROB VERY MUCH CORRECT BUT IDK😭😭😭

anyway i told him like yea im 18 and when i tell you his face lit up like LIT UP. i was gonna be sick like why are you smiling so hard at me being so young like he was giddy ab it too like STOPPPP. he was like "woww getting your education earlyyy thats awesome" and tbh idk how to take comments like that bc idk hs at least in my state is like "go to college or university immediately after highschool" and during senior year we have stands up to help us apply for schools and stuff so i dont rly see me being 18 at college early or anything so i just sat there like "😀👍 thanks" IM USING THAT EMOJI COMBO A LOT BUT DAWG ISTG THAT WAS LITERALLY ME THE WHOLE DAMN TIME IM SO FR

i was thinking to myself like WHY IS THIS BUS TAKING SO DAMN LONG PLEASEEEE😭😭😭😭😭 but it arrived eventually and he got on first and sat allllll the way at the back. i always sit near the front bc its just easier ig idk but i was like so relieved bruh while i was sitting there listening to him i was thinking like oh my god P L E A S E do not sit next to me to keep our conversation going i want to sit in silence and be CALM. IM LITERALLY A BROKE COLLEGE DANCE MAJOR STUDENT IM SO PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY TIRED AND I CANT EVEN DRIVE SO IM TAKING THE PUBLIC BUS AT 6AM EVERY MORNING SO I WAKE UP AT 4:30AM TO GO TO MY 7:15AM BODY CONDITIONING CLASS.

maybe i am overreacting and it was one of those things thats like a fatherly kind of thing. like how sometimes you might meet a nice man who works at a shop and you see him as like a father figure of sorts yk. but like i really REALLY was not getting that vibe. like at some points i was 'like yea cool okay mayb im wrong and ur just a wise man talking life to a kid you met at the bus stop', but then he'd just keep talking. and yk how theres like a line of where something is like too much to say right. like its a common sense thing to know when you're a GROWN person and you first meet someone who is damn younger than you and could pass as a minor, you dont ask like where they live what highschool they went to, (i forgot to mention but yea he asked me that) or dump a bunch of your life on them. like he told me what highschool he went to, what elementary school he went to, what state it was in, and how he was born and raised there, where he used to work, how he had a motercycle and went 160mph coming off the freeway like an idiot, what car i should get when i decide to start drive instead of taking the bus, how cute it is that my name is so similar to a brand (like a one letter difference so he noticed it right away and was like "ohh thats so cool, you're so unique thats cute"), and that whole ex's brother thing was weird too like idk i feel like you wouldnt ask "who's your dad?" but rather ask like "does [name] happen to be your father?" or something yk. NOT TO MENTION THE LISENCE SUSPENDED FOR THREE YEARS NOW ONE YEAR LEFT THING TOO LIKE 😭 OKAY WHY WOULD YOU TELL ANYONE YOU JUST MET AB THAT😭😭😭

anyway yea i just didnt get the friendly older man you see in those heart touching movies kinda vibe. more like grown man finds a young girl sitting alone at the bus stop and dumps his life story on her to hopefully rush into some sort of relationship with her kinda vibe. (like those situations ((a lot of the time in fiction lol)) where you meet someone for the first time at a bar or something and you talk the whole damn night and either go home knowing everything ab eachother and planning on meeting again or having fucked in the backseat of one of your cars kinda rush i mean) IDK MAN it was like a scary unsettling kinda vibe yk. it was obv he had so much more he wanted to say bc he was like ig stopping himself?? idk how to elaborate on that but when the bus finally arrived he sighed like "aw the bus is here" so i feel like he wanted to talk with me more.

TL;DR im never taking the 7AM bus instead of the 6AM bus again because of a man i met on a cold wednesday morning 😀👍 happy day everyone

#voidbeomgyu #void's life updates

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White Yardie After Party

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After Party

Friday Nov 11 th 

Caribbean Cultural Center

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