Isn't it funny how the man the town called a satanist and a demon, made everyone who knew him smile.
His friends at school always had a place to sit and eat and laugh.
The kids had a place to feel protected and play.
Robin had someone who matched her on a level of weird the others couldn't understand.
Nancy had an equal in a planner and a helper.
Steve had someone who had his back, who would pass him a flashlight, a vest, a shield, who made him laugh when he was in such pain.
The town wanted dead a man who's only crime was trying to make a young girl's night not suck just once. Who was punished for being different, a person who would've thrived if he'd just been given a chance, or had been born in another place or another time.
Steve visited Eddie's grave only once.
"Sometimes I'm glad you're dead, Eds, this town didn't deserve you anyway."
Boys wanting to write poetry is a metaphor for boys wanting the freedom to make out in the back of old bookstores and to wear lipstick while reciting Shakespearean sonnets without having to hear the constant disapproval of others
Men running away to become pirates is a metaphor for men running away from the safe, heteronormative lives society forced them into in order to start a more genuine, albeit more dangerous, life for themselves
Nerdy teens fighting monsters together is a metaphor for teens who were once outcasted by their community for being different helping each other to confront their trauma and to become the heroes of their own stories
And women playing baseball is a metaphor for women reclaiming their femininity after spending most of their lives being told they’re “not real girls” because they don’t fit the mold the patriarchy wants them to fit into
But ultimately all of them are just metaphors for a friend group being gayer than the fucking fourth of July
Leap year, February 29th, the Morton House. A tragic day. A day of souls bound in torment, of lives held in cruel balance. But the Ghostfacers, they did the best that they could.
THE FOOL: innocence, freedom, spontaneity, new beginnings
so i know it's incredibly unlikely, but if any of y'all are in South Australia, these are available to be tattooed (non-repeatable, a one-and-done situation.) bookings via Panko Tattoo. B&G, best suited to thigh and calf. 10% of all proceeds will be donated to the entertainment community fund to support the writers, actors, and creatives currently on strike. come get stabbed, sluts.
thank you so much to everyone, especially @transgenderpirate, who helped with these alignments!
gnawing on my arm because i think there's something to be said about how stede not only dreams about himself with a beard, but ed with his full beard back too. like, the dream seems to be riddled with imagery that he thinks ed would want.
and i say this especially because of how stede reacted when ed had to shave his beard. he freaked out on his behalf. he shrieked in horror whereas ed was entirely unbothered. he feared he had ruined him, had dragged him down to some despicable level, when in actuality, ed was completely content to shed that part of his persona.
and then there he is dreaming about ed with that part right on back.
so there's very clearly still a part of his mind that's convinced that's what ed wants. because why wouldn't he? everyone else seems to. and why would he want the softness and femininity stede had been bullied for his entire life?
which in turn plays into his own imagery too. bearded, masculine, fiercesome, rugged...
because how could someone love what everyone has hated him for? how could someone want what everyone has tried to quite literally beat out of him?
uhm i guess this ship is sinking (get it) so i better get all of the fanart out the way huh. call it blackbonnet pt.2 christmas clearance. please pleeeeease let this post not be flagged.
also bonus: something i think about constantly
it was an honor to be on this ship. will never forget the naked ass ed i drew that got 4000 notes. thank you
I could be misreading the moment, and I’d be curious if anyone else has mentioned it already. But. In ep 4, after Stede has gone to look for the ship and Buttons is performing his full bird ritual. Ed tiredly says “Buttons, people don’t change. Into birds or otherwise.”
It’s such a specific line and I love it. I think he’s thinking about himself. I think he’s thinking about whether he is able to change, maybe into someone deserving of love, or maybe into someone who knows they always have. And he’s quiet and a little sad as he says it. People don’t change.
But then he’s surprised, because Buttons changes. And his eyes are wide and he watches him fly. And then Stede comes back.
OK, yes, “wrote our names on each other in permanent ink” is god-tier love letter writing ESPECIALLY to a man he knows is covered in tattoos. But… “Dear Ed, I long for you” as an opener?! Jesus, bro.
Also hits harder when it becomes clear that Ed thinks Stede has been killed and one of the last things Ed said to him was "fuck you."