#damn these gay pirates

[nauticallygay]

thinking about how silver is in every way a combination of all of flint’s partners: thomas, miranda and gates. 

he is gates because he’s the quartermaster, he is his second-in command, he speaks on behalf of flint, and he protects flint amongst the crew (from billy, from israel hands, etc) even though his duty is supposed to be for the good of the men, not for the good of the captain

he is miranda because flint lets himself be vulnerable with silver behind closed doors. conversations about life, loss, and love; conversations about the future, of peace, and of possibilities. he is flint’s tether, making sure to let him know there is a life beyond war and rage

he is thomas because flint props silver up, makes him feel invincible, and makes him king. they both have opposing opinions, but that’s exactly why they are good for each other; a good leader needs someone close enough to collide with because it ensures the best outcome of every decision silver makes. men like silver, need men like flint. and flint knows that silver is the best of all men, like thomas

but silver is not a “good” man like thomas, silver is not angered by the past like miranda because it is irrelevant to his story, and silver has followed flint's every word and every action without question unlike gates. he is all three of them combined, but at the same time, he is different from all of them

but what flint feels for all three of them is culminated within silver: he trusts him, he believes in him, and he loves him; that much is clear.

and silver predicted this from 3x10. so the moment silver steps out of that role as flint's ultimate partner, and began to defy him even after everything; it breaks flint's heart, and that ultimately became flint's undoing. 

silver is the point that makes flint at his most vulnerable

#im rambling again #black sails #silverflint #my post #my text #just some food for thought #damn these gay pirates #and their feelings #of course this all goes downhill in s4 #because silver is kinda dumb

[edscuntyeyeshadow]

i’m too bisexual for this shit

#see also: frenchie in his emo outfit #hottest cast ever I’m not even fucking kidding #every single person so damn sexy #ofmd s2 #bisexual #ofmd #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death #our flag means gay #gay pirates #edward teach #anne bonny #zheng yi sao #jim jimenez #loving edward teach hours

[ingravinoveritas]

OFMD/GO crossover where Aziraphale and Crowley are invited to celebrate Calypso's Birthday and Aziraphale teaches Stede and the crew of the Revenge how to gavotte. Ed and Crowley watch while drinking wine.

Ed: "That one yours?"

Crowley: "Yeah. What--no, he's not actually mine. So to speak. He's an angel."

Ed: "Angel? Oh, mate, you've really got it bad, don't you?"

Crowley: "Do not."

Ed: "Do, too."

Crowley: "Not like I ever fantasized about him as a mermaid. Man. Mer-being."

Ed: "Fuck off."

(Crowley smirks while Ed looks annoyed as they both take another drink at the same time. Ed and Crowley's gazes drift back to Stede and Aziraphale respectively as they continue to watch them dance.

Fin.)

#ofmd #our flag means death #good omens #good omens 2 #ofmd 2 #aziraphale #crowley #stede bonnet #ed teach #i just want Aziraphale and Crowley at Pirate Gay Pride damn it #and Izzy and Jimbriel can sing Everyday as a duet #please universe make this happen #yes #the crossover i never knew i needed #calypso's birthday #writing #random writing #fanfic #sort of #discourse

[beanghostprincess]

law really is the best pirate to have an alliance with because if all of your crew is trans (the straw hats) they have safe top/bottom surgeries for free

#all the mugis looking at torao with big trans eyes #'torao your ability is really helpful please' #and torao is like 'damn pirates really are all trans and gay' #one piece #trafalgar d water law #strawhat pirates

[chaoticmannamedoliver]

Flesh!Marius sketch!

#the mechanisms #the mechs #@chaotic man named oliver #gay immortal space pirate band my beloved<3 #them🧡 #digital art #own art #the mechanisms art #flesh!marius #baron marius von raum #marius von raum #the fear mechs au #fear mechs au #tma fears #tma the flesh #hes blind now and so so so damn pissed about it #Marius my sweet sweet boy--

[gabichanwrites]

Imagine you have a character, a broken, vicious man who bites and spits venom even at a person he loves the most, who pushes the buttons of his love just because this toxic familiarity is all he knows, just because it's all he feels safe doing. And then his love finds another person who brings out such a different part of them, a part this character never could or maybe just long forgot how to do. He drowns in jealousy, in his bitternes, he hurts his love, he hurts his love's beloved, their crew... And finally gets what he wanted. Finally has his Blackbeard back, finally can forget about the part of Ed he can no longer reach... But suddenly Blackbeard is unpredictable even to this character.

And suddenly everything changes as he slips and can no longer even enjoy the familiar toxicity because he saw something better and kinder and selfishly wishes for it too, despite it all. And suddenly he understands people around him, people who never saw the evil in Edward, and suddenly he realizes it's his fault. All of it, just a part of it - doesn't matter. He caused this and nobody is happy, not even him.

And then, despite everything, others start to care for him. They tell him "We think you're in a toxic relationship" as if they didn't know it was him who brought Blackbeard back and they hug him tight as if he wasn't the once to sentence them to this horror and they hold his hand when he panics. They experience kindness and hope in a miserable place, maybe a glimpse of what made Blackbeard so soft for a moment there. And when everything falls apart, when he takes the final tumble in this horrible dance he has with Blackbeard, somebody is there to hold him up. Somebody is there to criticize his drinking and make him a new leg and call him their unicorn. The character is "their bastard", he is part of them. He is part of something kind and accepting and he shyly embraces the new familarity-that-might-be, even when he still insults and retreats and bottles stuff up because maybe if he seems fine he can help others, maybe in the end he can be loved in a way as kind as theirs. Maybe he can have a family.

So once they are again in danger he takes the chance and speaks boldly and captures the ominous attention of the enemy. He takes a risk for them. He takes a bullet for it. He rests in the arms of his love and tells him he's sorry even when he could never accept the other's apology. He never gets the chance to try more and forgive more and try to be forgiven more. He can only ever serve as a tool for another character, can never evolve to existing on his own, to healing on his own.

You are Izzy Hands. You are drowning in your mistakes and the toxic familiarity you're too afraid to get out of. And once you dare to try...

The show would rather have you die than give you a chance at healing and happiness.

Your death doesn't prove a point and it doesn't mean anything. It's just cruel.

#Izzy hands #yes i am dramatic #yes i may be a spoilsport #whatever i am is also so incredibly bitter #because the way this story ended is disrespectful to us all #because even if we never fell as low as Izzy #this is still Our Flag Means Death #the show which never gave a damn about historical accuracy or brutal reality #a sit-com about silly gay pirates who get to joke and adventure and open up to each other and heal #so why does a character who has only just begun healing in any way has to die #what is the point? #why can't he leave the stage with the rest of his crew-family #finally opening up to them? #why does Ed and Stede deserve a happy ending but not Izzy? #ofmd #ofmd critical #i wish it wasn't

[harpersbizarresketchbook]

Urm... yeah, I made another one.

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd s2 #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #izzy hands #stede bonnet #edward teach #taika waititi #rhys darby #con oneill #david jenkins #those damn gay pirates have me in a choke hold #sticker #sticker shop #shop update #new sticker #our flag means death merch #ofmd merch #ofmd fanart

[sherlock-is-ace]

Not that anyone cares but, in order to avoid spoilers I'll disappear when ofmd comes out until i can watch it.

I will be tagging my posts and reblogs with "ofmd2" (no space) so be sure to block that if you need 👌🏻

#i have a stupidly busy weekend so i might be away till monday lol #my damn birthday is on Sunday and i need to bake cookies on saturday for it lol #and clean the house on friday... #so i'm fucked ahgnjsf i just want to lay in bed and watch my stupid gay pirates PLEASE #ahfnjsf #angel talks #personal #ofmd #ofmd2

[plagued-by-visions]

my take? the people celebrating and being bitchy about ofmd being canceled are being just as annoying as they accuse the fans of being

#I wasn’t to big into the fandom. like I enjoy it and all but I’m not big into fandom culture or talking to people in it #but it was still one of the few shows with gay people in it especially older ones #and they were talented actors #yeah pirates were shitty people. take it up with fucking ten year old boys and Disney if you want to #it’s the same damn people who like Percy Jackson and shit too. all modern media based on history is taken out of context and made better #you all need to get a damn life

[kazoologist]

man if i had a nickel for every time some fucking overconfident weirdo decided to position themselves as an authority on a historical topic and then proceeded to not just do bad history but then PEDDLE LITERAL FUCKING CRANK SHIT AND MISINFORMATION i would have like. a quarter.

#i realize academic education is a privilege and whatever and also history is not the most welcoming of disciplines #but have some of you considered that perhaps you should simply just Not Be Fucking Historians? #kazoo noises #this shit about the pirates has me BOILING #PIRATES WERE NOT GOOD PEOPLE!!!! YOU CAN STILL LIKE THE FUN PIRATE TV SHOW!!! THATS FUCKING FINE! PIRATES DID NOT GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNIT #god you people get on my fucking nerves. #and do not even get me fucking started on the goddamned nazi shit. oh my GOD if i hear about gay nazis one more time im going to fucking #suffer my joker arc and i will be going out for blood. #doing history is fun and more people should consider doing it! begging you dorks to at least try and do it well and give a fucking damn #about accuracy. the horrors of the conquest of mexico do not make the aztec empire a saintly and ingenue type of empire. the aztecs were #also very notably bad #like guys. a lot of shit people say no one knows about is shit we can check now. you have the ability to learn. why do you all keep fucking #doing this shit? #and while im swinging a fucking bat at the hornets nest. if i see one more fucking person peddling real ass blood libel i will also fucking #S N A P!!!!!

[otterknowbynow]

Listen, I may have lost my mind a little bit when I saw @the-moon-loves-the-sea mention this concept about a month ago, and I may have re-learned editing software in a mad frenzy to try to make it happen. After some delays (primarily because I have a day job and am not made for working), here it is: the Mary Bonnet edit Em, at least, knew we needed. Cheers, m’dears!

#our flag means death #ofmd #mary bonnet #stede bonnet #shout out to my ex #little mix #-> it's time #IT'S TIME!!!!!! #couple of weird side effects making this one #1st as should have been expected: absolutely floored by claudia's face like damn #2nd learned it's actually like. REALLY easy to read Rhys's lips? the man enunciates I guess #honestly pretty happy with how this turned out!! there's one (1) clip I think might have been better shortened #and one (1) clip I ended up not using but so many of the moments I thought would work DID and When I Tell You I Giggled Every Time #ANYWAY!!!!!! hopefully everything works and nothing is broken pls enjoy #el watches the gay pirates #oh and HAPPY RENEWAL EVERYBODY it's ALL HAPPENING

[triflesandparsnips]

the fact that I can't use a gay pirate as my profile icon on HBOMax feels borderline malicious

#they literally have characters from shows I've never heard of #and yet I #who wish to switch between different gay pirates on a daily #if not hourly basis #and who would surely log into the damn streamer more often just to do so #am being denied this simple human right #it's like they don't WANT my money #what sort of capitalist nightmare are they trying to live over there #and how can I get out of it

[unethical-gender]

"You can't just say a character is trans because theyre voice acted/played by an actor of the opposite gender" fucking watch me

#yeah this is 100% about jay jrwi #jrwi #aces gay pirate adventure (jrwi) #she is trans you can fight me on this #jay ferin #oh shit thats how you spell her last name?? damn i was way off

[chaoticmannamedoliver]

"The aurora strikes" and Nastya in there gives me such incredible joy and i don't fucking know why- why does Nastya give me such joy?? Nastya makes brain go brr!!/vvvpos

#the mechanisms #the mechs #@chaotic man named oliver #gay immortal space pirate band my beloved<3 #them🧡 #nastya rasputina #nastya #Nastya or their actor- its really doesn't fucking matter- both made me happy as hell and i cant explain whyyy #Nastya appreciation post hehehe #god damn it here i go drawing her again♡

[casmick-consequences]

thinking about the sheer contrast between potc where we have *insert crew* finding out there's a woman on the ship and enthusiastically and perversely start looking for her/making her VERY uncomfy by sexualizing her VS ofmd where we have the revenge crew finding out there's an afab person on the ship and asking them respectable questions from the get go, not ever sexualizing them once.

#i mean this is mostly probably bc everyone on the ship is gay but still #it's very damn nice. #ofmd #our flag means death #potc #pirates of the caribbean #jim jimenez #elizabeth swann

[navysealt4t]

mmmmm i love multi shipping <3

#swordfish and fish n chips and pistol whip and navyseal and poly pirates and wtv the fuck caspian n chip had going on #like god DAMN these bitches rlly do be gay