#but about gay pirates

[immabitqueer]

Someone said the opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Something about that and Stede just walking away when Izzy says "Give me your worst, Bonnet." And Izzy seeming so hurt. (Besides, of course, his mixed feelings about Edward)

Then somehow we get THIS

Paired with THIS

Ed and Izzy finally acknowledging there past and feelings towards each other.

"I have love for you"/"I loved you as best as I could"

Immanent blackbonnet/gentlebeard reunion and getting back together.

Sharing the delusions until your just as unwell as I am <3333

#i will forever be the president of the delulu steddyhands club #ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #izzy hands #edward teach #i am the equivalent of a crazy old man yelling about the end times on the side of an abandoned highway #but about gay pirates #ofmd izzy #our flag means death spoilers #our flag means death season 2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #steddyhands #gentlebeard #gentlehands #blackhands #stizzy #edizzy

[yellowistheraddest]

are they wrong?????

no.

#sorry zorobros your fat tiddied man is gay for this canonically dude had my jaw drop when he started acting like a kid about this #one piece #fanart #myellowart #strawhat pirates #zoro #roronoa zoro #zosan #<- implied so sad no kissing men on your tl today #f slur #that too ig

[akans-dead-at-sea]

It's alright

30 second timelapse:

#ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd fanart #our flag means death #“I am a brave boy and will NOT cry while getting reference screenshots of Ed” he said. #*barely manages to hit Win+Shift+S through the fucking tears* #I'm sorry but this is the only decent OFMD fanart I got in me for now #I'm shit at drawing people with faces/head and I still gotta learn and find a style but god knows the gay pirates are gonna help me practic #I still need to recover from this scene- this episode- this season- this show goddamnit #ngl at first I liked how I drew Ed's hair but the more I look at it now the less I like it >:C #did I forget to post this? no nope nuh uh I don't know what you're talking about #this absolutely blew up on twitter- lowkey hope tumblr dot com likes it too :> #ed teach #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #ofmd s2e8 #tw blood #blood #akans art

[hansoeii]

the steard is making a return!

#I painted this and suddenly i check instagram and see rhys posted a story of him with a beard #great timing on my side lmao #rhys can you read my mind #or can i read yours? #anyways hot stede making a return #hope i get anons again telling me i draw him too hot #and they were mad about it for some reason #it only motivated me to draw him even hotter #anyways #enjoy #ofmd #our flag means death #steard #stede bonnet #rhys darby #stede bonnet fanart #our flag means death fanart #ofmd fanart #gay pirates #my art

[naartjie-hijabi]

Can I just say something really quick?

Ever since that damned "Our Flag Means Death" was cancelled, mind you was this show even popular outside of the US because I legitimately have never even heard of it before, a lot of you so called "allies" have been showing your true colours.

The fact that you can raise $20k, create and sign petitions, even go as far as organising a billboard for a freaking show that has KNOWN zionists in its crew, but you couldn't spend even a portion of that energy for people who are actively facing a genocide says a lot about who you are as a person. The fact that you have the nerve to go into Palestinian spaces and try to justify your actions when they call you out, really where do any of you get the audacity?

These people are grieving. They have family and friends dying and fighting for their right to even exist and you have the damn nerve to go to their inboxes and whine about a fucking gay pirate show. If you felt offended by victims calling you out for your bullshit and made statements about reconsidering your stance on the on-going genocide, then guess what? You're not as great a person as you think you are.

Standing in solidarity with Palestine isn't some sort of trend or community project that you can just opt out of. Standing in solidarity with Palestine isn't something you can brag about or hold over the heads of actual Palestinians as if having basic human decency is something to be proud of.

If your allyship is that fragile, you're not actually an ally, you don't actually care about Palestine, all you are is an opportunist looking for some way to show off your white-savior complex.

Your opinions, believe it or not, does not matter more than the opinions of the victims of a 76-year occupation. If they tell you they're uncomfortable, you LISTEN. If they call you out for your bullshit, you LISTEN. No Palestinian owes you any explanation for their pain, so can you please stop looking for validation by leaving your shitty explanations in the inboxes of Palestinians? It's really not that hard to not be an ass.

The world has bigger problems than your pirate show, so get your head out of your ass and actually do something constructive.

#palestine #free palestine #our flag means death #vent #really sorry but i needed to get this off my chest #like seriously where y'all even get the nerve #there are people literally dying and you're whining about gay pirates #be so fucking for real right now #important

[frogcabbage]

#im so normal about this middle aged gay pirates #im so so normal #(I'm UNWELL) #they mean so much to me #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #ofmd season 2 #ofmd #our flag means death #our flag means love #ed x stede #stede bonnet #edward teach #blackbeard #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #rhys darby #taika waititi

[edscuntyeyeshadow]

I’m obsessed with how queer culture is woven into ofmd so well. whether it’s ed’s full leather get-up, wee john in drag, even tiny moments like frenchie namedropping fanfiction. all of it makes the show really feel like home 🥺

#ofmd #god I’ve never been this sappy about a show #somebody sedate me #our flag means gay #our flag means death #gentlebeard #wee john ofmd #frenchie ofmd #blackbeard #ofmd s2 #gay pirates

[celluloidbroomcloset]

“He’s from my world, not yours.”

The resonance of this in a queer context. Chauncey tries to reclaim Stede from Ed and gives himself the right to execute a gay man for daring to depart from the straight world—which he also tries again later on, explicitly telling Stede that he’s going to die for being an inhuman plague and defiler. And Ed hangs onto Stede and says that no, he’s mine, a part of my world now, you can’t take him back. Then it’s Lucius, the most explicit representation of queerness without shame, who stands up and starts declaring Stede a “real pirate.”

It’s this remarkable and defiant reclamation of Stede for the community that has embraced him and that he has defended and loved, telling the straight world that they can’t take him back and destroy him: “He’s ours.”

#ofmd #our flag means death #gif #stede bonnet #edward teach #lucius spriggs #the crew of the revenge #lgbtqia #queer community #getting emotional about the dang gay pirates again #ofmd meta

[stranger-awakening]

One Piece Episode 102 / Episode 377

"I might not have the same bounty on my head as Luffy at the moment, but I swear to you that I'm destined to become the greatest swordsman the world has ever known. Surely that must be worth something."

#one piece #zolu #i've been thinking a lot about how zoro's dream and luffy's are intertwined in his head and have been for a long time #like he's going to be the world's greatest swordsman For the king of the pirates and those two things will happen relatively simultaneously #and how he absolutely thought he was going to die in thriller bark for realsies but he'd rather that than the alternative #he'd rather give up his own dream Permanently if it meant luffy didn't have to lose his #that alabasta conversation lives in my head rent free btw that was so gay of him #anyways please ignore where you can see that i painfully tried to spot heal all the netflix stuff out of the screenshots lmao #i had to chop up the thriller bark conversation a little to make it fit in my four panel format obviously its longer than this #oh and quotes taken from the dub specifically which i know varies just slightly from the manga and probably the sub too #a:one piece #ship:zoro x luffy #mine

[edwardteachswombtattoo]

Going insane over the fact that Stede always thought he was unwanted, only to literally wake up from a nightmare half-dead to find a kind man with beautiful eyes lovingly tending to him and trying to keep him alive.

Ed thought he was unlovable, only to meet a man who loves him so much he literally brings Ed out of a coma with the power of Love.

They both woke up to the one thing they'd given up on finding.

#ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #god i thought i'd be less deranged about this show by now #season 2 just increased the hyperfixation tenfold i think #these gay pirates are going to be the death of me i swear to calypso

[attractive-nuisance-esq]

do you guys ever think about wee john teaching izzy how to do his makeup, the tender but inviolable bit of love that goes into sharing your queer self with someone who is coming into their own, the permission we give one another to be our authentic selves simply by being loud and proud about who we are, and

fuckin CRY ?????

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #izzy hands #israel hands #wee john feeney #wee john ofmd #lgbtq #queer community #drag #con o'neill #con o’neill #kristian nairn #pride #calypso’s birthday #the feelings I have about what must have happened off screen #please cry with me fellow gays #I have not been well for 24 hours and I foresee no quarter #gay pirates #brain rot

[snake-snack-stede]

mary: do you know I hate the ocean? I said so just the other day

stede: what, when?

mary: WHEN WE WERE STANDING BY THE FUCKING OCEAN

one of the best lines in the entire show. the way she says it. and the fact that stede has clearly been hinting at living on a boat for god knows how long

#I bet she finally understood his dream when she found out about ed #like she couldn't picture him as a pirate at first but then ahh yes pirates are always getting gay married that makes sense #ofmd #our flag means death #mary bonnet #stede bonnet #<3333 my loves

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

not to undermine the emotional significance of the title on probably dozens of blackhands spotify playlists but tbh. imo. if i may.

to me, izzy’s “you told me that above all else is loyalty to my captain” reads exactly like how fang saying “you told me that the love of a pet makes a man weak” in e6 reads. which is that Blackbeard is ed’s worksona, a front he puts on to portray himself as a badass legendary masculine caricature, so sometimes ed says some random shit that sounds kinda ominous and edgy just to keep up appearances.

like in e6, ed barely even remembers saying that shit about loving a pet. the reason he gives for not letting fang keep the dog is that pets make the ship dirty. but disliking mess is not cool/badass/manly enough for The Legendary Blackbeard, so what he said to fang at the time was some bullshit about how having pets is for pussies or whatever. and you know that what he said is bullshit bc he barely remembers saying it. the dialogue and the acting in that scene all imply that the whole “the love of a pet makes a man weak” thing was literally just ed talking out of his ass.

so like. to ME it seems really likely that ed telling izzy “above all else is loyalty to your captain” was ed finding a way to say “a big part of your job is not betraying me” but in a way that sounded cool. and he wasn’t invested in it sounding cool bc izzy’s promotion was a particularly important moment to ed, he wanted it to sound cool for the same reason he needed his “no pets allowed” policy to sound cool. the facade of The Legendary Blackbeard wasn’t just for ed’s enemies, ed needed his crew to believe in it, too.

in the very first episode, buttons tells us that traditionally, pirate captains maintain the respect and obedience of their crew by successfully portraying themselves as tough, badass, manly. ed’s done this by building his reputation as a genius sailor and bloodthirsty killer, and for years he’s most likely had to interact with his crew in a way that supports that reputation.

tl;dr “above all else is loyalty to your captain” was most likely ed making up some manly-sounding bullshit to keep up appearances in the same way that “the love of a pet makes a man weak” was clearly just him talking out of his ass

#please for the love of god nobody get mad about this stupid post about silly gay pirates i am begging you #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta #edward teach #ed teach #edward teach born on a beach #txt #meta #mine #og #s1e01 #s1e06 #s1e09

[youhalfwit]

Nothing's going to stop us

@sonicmarinermay Day 12: Tavern

#nothing gay about doing a jig in a rundown tavern with your captain #Nothing's going to stop us now- Starship #i was too lazy to do a background lol #sth #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sonic fanart #digital art #shadow the hedgehog #art #artists on tumblr #sonadow #procreate #MarinerMay #sonic au #pirate au #pirate #au #pirate sonic #pirate sonadow #fanart #prompt list

[chickenoptyrx]

anons hc: turles is gay bc his dub va is?? thoughts??

So I'm completely opposed to that line of reasoning- the real life person is an actor who can act in various roles, and suggesting that the details of their personal life should inform our reading of a character they play seems.. problematic. For a lot of reasons.

However

I also dont see anything wrong with interpretting Turles as gay (or any of the characters as any brand of queer for that matter) and do think this particular line delivery is uuhh..

#eng dub turles says guuuurrrlll frequently and unironically #also. a gay pirate?? idk man that seems like a reach /s #turles soundin gay in english dub is ack-chu-allie problematic cause it reflects stereotypes about gay people being villians #and going after children from the days of the hays code /still sarcasm btw guys #ask

[edscuntyeyeshadow]

so in love with ed’s stubbly short beard. don’t know if I want to make out with him about it or have one like it. who knows. probably both. definitely both.

#I want him #I want to be him #I will literally never stop talking about this look btw #our flag means death #gender envy #ofmd #edward teach #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #our flag means gay #gay pirates #blackbeard #taika waititi #gentlebeard #ed x stede #ed teach #loving edward teach hours