#auntie

[noneedforjoy]

Does everyone go by their human names?

"They all have names the chose for themselves, but don't mind being called by the names of their toys since they understand the confusion."

#poppy playtime #auntie #no need for joy au #kickinchicken #mega art #poppy playtime au #smiling critters #bobby bearhug #craftycorn #picky piggy #foxtrot #sleepy sheepy #hoppy hopscotch #cat #chanyeol #bubba bubbaphant #wakeful wolfy #huggy wuggy #kissy missy #mommy long legs #poppy #boxy boo #meg mod// good lord all these tags...

[saltpepperbeard]

You'll never know which way to turn, which way to look, you'll never see us

#OFMD #Our Flag Means Death #THE NEW AND IMPROVED VERSION #OFMD Season 2 #Edit #Gentlebeard #Blackbonnet #Lupete #Swackie #Edward Teach #Stede Bonnet #Spanish Jackie #The Swede #Oluwande Boodhari #Auntie #Zheng Yi Sao #Lucius Spriggs #Black Pete #Archie #Jim Jimenez #Izzy Hands #Wee John #Roach #Frenchie #ofmd gifs #ofmdgifs #ofmdedit #ofmdaily #ofmdsource #ofmdblog

[myflagmeansace]

me when OFMD doesn't get all the accolades it deserves:

#ofmd deserves all the awards and a season 3 😤 #ofmd #our flag means death #auntie #anapela polataivao

[eddie-redcliffe]

Don't you wanna kill the fucker who did this?

#our flag means death #ofmdedit #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #stede bonnet #edward teach #zheng yi sao #auntie #mine #plot for s3 right there

[starlithumanity]

I'm having a fascinating time rewatching Our Flag Means Death with the knowledge that Ed sees Izzy as a "safe" mentor/family figure ("safe" because Izzy is Ed's subordinate aboard the ship, which creates a more balanced power dynamic) upon whom Ed projects his many unresolved daddy issues. That stated interpretation from David Jenkins does work, even in season one!

Most of the fandom conceptualized season one Izzy as a power-hungry subordinate to Ed and a "co-parent" to the crew (paralleled with the Stede/Mary marriage) who has an understated masochist lust for the Blackbeard legend. All of that is true too, because Ed and Izzy's relationship is incredibly complex and fucked-up. I know from personal experience that this kind of layered toxic relationship is completely possible, though it might seem contradictory on the surface.

In season one, Ed considering Izzy as a mentor/family explains more why Ed let his first mate be so insulting to and controlling of him and still kept wanting Izzy to stay beside him. It adds more meaning to how Ed veers super hard into the violent Blackbeard role after feeling cornered and threatened by Izzy at the end of the season. (This also has further weight for those of us with family members who have disapproved quite loudly of our queer relationships.)

There is a strong parallel that I noticed previously between young Ed's reaction to his father abusing his mother and season one Ed's reaction to Izzy dueling Stede. Stede is linked to Ed's mother through the red silk and through the fact that Stede and Ed's mother--and Lucius--are the only people we see treating Ed with compassion/softness in season one. It thus makes sense for Izzy to be mirroring Ed's father.

Then there's another parallel in how Ed responded to Izzy mentioning Stede in a mocking way ("pining for his boyfriend") by choking Izzy, like how Ed had once responded to his father threatening his mother by strangling his father. In this moment, Izzy touched Ed's face with an intimate kind of familiarity and said, "There he is." Ed clearly found this unnerving, which some people read as sexually harassment, but it makes just as much sense for it to be his daddy issues getting triggered.

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I think part of why this dynamic was unclear in season one is because the writers wanted us to see that, even though Izzy is a mentor figure who taught Ed certain skills, Ed is a grown man who is fully competent on his own. He had likely started building the Blackbeard legend by the time Izzy met him, he has a clever mind that's constantly coming up with new plans, and when Izzy himself was left as captain, Izzy proved to not have the necessary charisma and compassion to lead the crew. Ed is the star power; Izzy is the manager, so to speak.

However, Izzy overestimates his importance and often talks about himself like he's a martyr to the Blackbeard legend, working so hard to keep both Ed and the crew in line. He claims that he's been "clean[ing] up [Ed's] messes... my whole life," which feels like a very parental complaint to me.

Ed fuels this martyr complex some in season two by physically harming Izzy, but notably, Ed doesn't threaten this kind of harm to the rest of the crew (though he isn't very careful with them either) until he's in the suicidal spiral of driving the ship into a storm. Before that, Ed threatens Izzy specifically, both because Izzy threatened him and Stede in season one and because Ed's trying, in his own fucked-up way, to prove to Izzy that he's following Izzy's guidance and "being Blackbeard." The toe-cutting also has some metaphorical weight: Izzy demanded that Ed "cut off" the gentler pieces of himself to be Blackbeard, so Ed starts cutting off literal pieces of Izzy in return. When it becomes clear that this isn't satisfying Izzy either, that's when Ed really goes off the deep end. ("I loved you the best I could," but I never could be enough to fit your expectations.)

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Meanwhile, we see Izzy starting to question things specifically in response to Ed saying that Izzy could be replaced as first mate. Izzy thought his place, as a mentor/family and self-professed "martyr", was more secure than that, and it challenges his whole identity.

Throughout season two, the mentor/family dynamic is further emphasized via the parallel between Izzy/Ed/Stede and Auntie/Zheng Yi Sao/Oluwande. Others have discussed this more, but there's so much meaning in the similar ways these characters carry themselves, in the tension of Auntie disapproving of Zheng Yi Sao's feelings for "soft" Oluwande, and in the way Oluwande finally teaches Auntie to soften herself some for Zheng Yi Sao.

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Additionally, in episode five of season two, we see Stede turning to Izzy for mentorship, proclaiming that Ed himself had recommended Izzy as someone who "made him into the captain he is today." People have questioned that as being a false manipulation from Stede, but I think there's a good chance that it was true! (Ed probably said this to Stede sometime during season one, when the two of them got to know each other so well.) "Taught him everything he knows" is definitely a flattering exaggeration, but hey.

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Throughout this and other episodes, we see Izzy continuing to take on a mentor-like role with Stede and the crew (and eventually Ed) as he tries to recenter himself after the darkness of the first three episodes. It's clear that Izzy is most comfortable playing the gruff and politically incorrect old fighter who offers guidance, but now he's letting himself branch out more and connect to the crew in new gentler ways. He even metaphorically "gives his blessing" to Ed and Stede's first time having sex by providing the musical accompaniment, which is the perfect amount of weird for this show, haha.

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Izzy's transformative arc in season two also involves a steady pattern of reversals, corrected new versions of his treatment of Ed in season one, as Izzy start coming to terms with the harm he did to Ed. Other people have discussed this in more detail, but I think the pace of this change is realistic to what you would see in such a situation. Ed's responses to this, too, are consistent with him seeing Izzy as a mentor/family.

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I should further note that Izzy and Benjamin Hornigold (another abusive father figure from Ed's past) are two characters mirrored by the fact that they call Ed "Eddie" in season two. I can imagine that being the nickname Ed used when he was younger, before growing out of it. Izzy seems to start feeling the echo of that memory of younger Ed when Ed comes to him scared, asking for Izzy to "fix [his] mess" by shooting Ed like Ed "dreamed" about.

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Right before Izzy's death, there's a scene where Ed is triggered super hard in his daddy issues by the fisherman "Pop-Pop." I think the writers wanted to remind us of the parental trauma Ed has been through before giving us some catharsis through Izzy's deathbed confession and apology. In that moment, Izzy takes full accountability for what he did, while Ed cries and says, "You're my only family." Izzy redirects him in a final bit of mentorly guidance, telling Ed that the crew is there to be his family if Ed will let himself be loved, truly, in the way Ed has often rejected and distanced himself from being loved.

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Now, I do think Izzy's death was the right choice for this show. I like that DJenkins went with the classic mentor death trope, and he did a similar thing with Buttons, the other old-timer first mate! I agree likewise with those who have discussed Izzy's loss as being a necessary step for the narrative to move forward both from Ed's darker self/parental trauma and from the older age of piracy that Izzy represents. Izzy was always meant to be a dark reflection of and a narrative support/conflict for Ed, and this is the natural culmination of that. His complicated legacy will continue to be something Ed has to reckon with, however, although Ed is trying to compartmentalize that right now.

I very much hope to see, in season three (🤞🏻), how Ed continues to process his past, especially now that he's trying for a domestic life that will likely lead into marriage. Marriage, from what I've seen, often acts as a staging ground for whatever parental trauma you had growing up, because you look to your parental figures as an example of how to do "adult" things. This is going to be a huge conflict for both Ed and Stede, who has his own personal negative marriage experience. I suspect Izzy will continue to represent this problem in some form or another.

(GIF Sources: kiwistede and yenvengerberg)

#our flag means death #ofmd spoilers #izzy hands #edward teach #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #benjamin hornigold #nathaniel buttons #zheng yi sao #auntie #oluwande boodhari #my stuff

[jenjen4280]

Celebrating our niece’s sweet sixteen. All the kids were in fancy dresses, so I had to butch it up and represent in a three piece suit while the Hot Wife wore flannel.

#gay aunts #butch #dyke #wlw #sogay #lesbian #queer #wives #this is love #lgbtq #fun aunt #auntie #cute couple

[kiwistede]

Rhys with Anapela Polataivao

[ via Samba Schutte IG ]

#rhys darby #anapela polataivao #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 bts #ofmd #our flag means death #blackbonnet #auntie #ofmd cast

[summerbeachcrush]

In the tub with her💕💕💕💕🔥🔥🔥💦💦💦💦💦

#crush! #auntie

[herigo]

#barbie 2023 #barbie movie #greta gerwig #barbie #the barbie movie #stereotypical barbie #margot robbie #picture #original character #pink blog #pink and white #glitter #pastel #pinkcore #pink aesthetic #pink #pink moodboard #aunt #auntie #hot aunty #aunt may #desi aunty #grandmother #homemade #mom #funny stuff #lol #jokes #funny content #humor

[nicxxx5]

y'all need to stop and look at the hat i knitted for my nephew

#knitting #hand knitted #yarn #knitted hat #hat #winter hat #crafts #arts and crafts #handcrafted #auntie #aunty #nephew #he's only a month old so use that to picture how small this is #blue and yellow #crafting

[starbramble]

Want more time to draw everything from the new season but have had limited time :( , here’s some Auntie sketches because I love her

#OFMD #auntie #ofmd season 2 #my art #sketchbook #Anapela Polataivao #our flag means death #auntie ofmd

[gentlebeardsbarngrill]

Samba BTS Set Shoutout: Spanish Jackiez Stills 03/18/24

"Today’s Set Shoutout: Spanish Jackiez🏴‍☠️ So many crazy beautiful details everywhere, even when destroyed. And yes, Roach was roasting a real pig☠️ #OurFlagMeansDeath #ofmd #ofmdseason2" Src: Samba Schutte's Instagram

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #edward teach #rhys darby #save ofmd #renew as a crew #blackbonnet #taika waititi #kristian nairn #spanish jackiez #roach #samba schutte #auntie #con o'neill #izzy hands #wee john #nat faxon #the swede #spanish jackie #leslie jones #nathan foad #lucius #matthew maher #ofmd cast #ofmd bts #black pete #zheng yi sao #ruibo qian

[smudgeandfrank]

Kitty Auntie looks soft, but she doesn't do soft... But, she's doing her best to learn how to be soft from Olu for Zheng. ❤️🐈‍⬛💙 You can pet her... at your own peril!

#our flag means death #ofmd #auntie #kitty #cat

[edandstede]

also can we appreciate the mirroring of auntie and zheng with izzy and ed? auntie looking out for zheng and trying to protect her from olu the way she has with other men, but realising olu is soft and zheng needs more softness in her life - exactly like izzy coming to terms with stede being good for ed, that they balance each other out, where previously izzy had tried his damnedest to keep them apart. and when auntie says she doesn’t do soft, it immediately cuts to izzy, who talks to ricky about the crew being family. auntie is assumed to be dead by zheng, but she survives the injury and lives because of the crew’s help, and she’s able to start being softer and kinder with zheng as a result - just like izzy surviving his amputation because of the same crew and becoming softer with them (but we can also see this as foreshadowing that auntie’s mirror character here, izzy, won’t survive the next injury like she did). auntie tells zheng she’s proud of her and they share a hug, and we can infer that their relationship hasn’t been that way until now but they’re going to be better to each other, and it’s happening sooner for them than it did for ed and izzy - they’ve learned the lesson faster, because of stede’s crew helping them to, and they can benefit from that for far longer. i just thought it was very clever and i appreciated these details a lot.

#ofmd spoilers #ofmd meta #ofmd #auntie #zheng yi sao #izzy hands #edward teach #quill to paper

[lenavaleites]

#sissi femboi #dress #auntie

[daria-meoi]

Some sound affirmations and advice from parent figures.

#ofmd #ofmd gifs #nana #izzy hands #auntie