#deaths head buttons

[aussie-bookworm]

Is this funny?

#itsallmine #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death spoilers #Izzy hands #lucius spriggs #nathaniel buttons #pls enjoy it wouldn’t leave my head all day and it took me five minutes to edit the finger on my phone

[tenthrees]

1.01 / 1.09

#ofmd #ofmdedit #stede bonnet #our flag means death #lucius spriggs #oluwande boodhari #ofmd buttons #ofmd parallels #mine #another day another parallel I cant get out of my head #the day I stop finding parallels in this show will be.. will it ever happen? #*

[missmacfire]

#this entered my head demanding to be made #ofmd #our flag means death #jim jimenez #spanish jackie #buttons ofmd #karl ofmd #she her they them cool hat

[cataclysmic-cathexis]

Buttons and the gravy basket

Ed's facial expressions during this scene are some wonderful shit and yes I will elaborate

We start off with him exasperated with Buttons' shenanigans

Then Buttons hits him with this:

"To love the sea as she must be loved requires change. That's what I learned down in the old gravy basket."

Suddenly, Ed is like wtf. Is this nutjob about to drop some wisdom on me?

Then Buttons puts a bowl on his head and starts chanting and waving a smudge stick, and Ed is like oh. no this dude is just fucking bonkers:

"Buttons, people don't change. Not into birds or otherwise."

And then...

"Fuck yeah, brother. Fly."

You can see it hit him. People can change. Buttons has changed for the one he loves. And if Buttons can change into a fucking bird... maybe Ed can change too.

And when Stede comes back and Ed hears his voice, he's struck by this. He can change. He doesn't have to be Blackbeard. He looks at Stede and this realization comes crashing into him. (I've lightened the next screenshots so you can see the expressions in more detail)

He's almost in tears at the weight of this realization. He quickly brushes one away, smiles, and goes running to Stede.

This like 1 minute scene was a full ROLLERCOASTER and I was not PREPARED. I had not strapped my heart in and made sure my hands and feet were inside the vehicle. It has wrecked me forever ok thank u and goodbye

#im in awe of taikas acting #imagine having to look at ewen bremmer chanting with a bowl on his head talking about turning into a seagull #the man has done the impossible #and you have to keep a straight face #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2 #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #ofmd buttons #the gravy basket #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #ofmd

[lightninginapuddle]

Took me two months to think about this, but when season 2 starts:

- Ed has no idea where Stede is at that point but he clearly isn't onThe Revenge.

- last time Ed saw Lucius alive was right before he pushed him off the ship. Ed probably thinks Lucius is dead.

- the crew aside from Jim and Frenchie were all marooned. I don't think Ed has Stede being with them on his bingo card either.

But then! In episode 3, Ed spends the entire episode in the gravy basket with Hornigold who he hates. He also tries to kill him multiple times but it never takes as he keeps ressucitating. Sounds like a bad trip.

But wait! Ed's between life and death, and he's been talking to himself the whole time. And to conclude his trip in the basket, Stede is here but he's a merman now.

But then! Ed wakes up in episode 4 to :

- Stede holding his hand and standing right above him (just two seconds ago he had a tail! If real Stede with actual legs is here... what the hell is he doing here?!)

- the entire crew being on the ship and Roach offering him a sandwich (when did they get here?!)

- Lucius very much alive (did he ressucitate too?!)

It's such a mindfuck. And not just because of what happened in the gravy basket. I wouldn't know what was real or not if I were him either.

"You're not a fucking mermaid"

Astute, all things considered.

#ofmd #like my dude I get it #I would be sooooooo confused #heck the headbutt could've been Ed trying to pinch himself to see if this was real but only being able to do that using his head instead #can you tell I wrote this instead of sleeping? #I'm afraid of posting this when my brain is leaking out of my ears but who cares #nobody will read this most probably #our flag means death #ed teach #my belovEd #and then Buttons turned into a bird too #Ed is straight up not having a good time bro

[sarucane]

Ed Teach's Stories

From practically the moment we meet him, Ed's identity is unstable. We know who is he (Blackbeard) from context, from the story told by the the room around him, by Izzy and the flag his crew. But the thing is, Ed doesn't fit the story of the Mad Devil Blackbeard. Two of his first few words are "good" and "love" for crying out loud. He's called "Blackbeard," but his beard is grey.

This instability exists because Ed himself isn't sure what story he's telling--or wants to tell. "I shouldn't be bored, I'm fucking Blackbeard!" All through his early episodes Ed is in increasingly desperate tension with his own identity. He's trying to tell stories within stories, wanting all the stories to be true at the same time, yet aware of the reality that the world is constantly trying to wipe one or another of the stories away. And not really trusting that he can tell the whole story of who he is.

In the first season of OFMD, Stede wears a different outfit every episode. Yet Stede remains the same: despite his internal tensions (almost despite himself) there's a stability to his identity. But all through both seasons of OFMD, Ed putting on a new outfit means he's trying to tell a completely different story about himself.

And underneath this cacophony, there's Ed. And Ed is himself a chorus of stories, a living contradiction. A patricidal murderer who was protecting his mother; a paragon of masculinity who longs for softness and fluidity; a man renowned for violence and madness who has in fact carefully cultivated that reputation and is extremely careful with his violence; a killer who doesn't kill, yet who does kill all the time just at a bit of a remove; a half a dozen names and personas and yet always Ed; unloveable, yet deeply loved.

At the beginning of the show, Ed isn't actually good at telling his own story. He's good at listening to other people's stories, and conforming himself to them often without conscious effort. But when he tries to really tell his own story--asking Stede to run off to China, singing his break-up song song, going to become a fisherman--he fails. We don't understand in the first season why his judgement clouds, why he becomes weak when he tries to tell his story. But in the second season after spending half an episode in Ed's mind, a painful truth is undeniable: Ed, like Stede, doesn't think he's worthy of telling his own story.

So instead of telling his own story, Ed let other people tell his story. In the first season, Ed built off what Izzy told him he had to be. But he couldn't lose himself in Blackbeard, no matter how hard he tried. So in the second season, when Ed couldn't face living with his contradictions anymore, he wrote an ending worthy of Blackbeard.

All this, because Ed thinks he can only be "himself" by telling one, single story about himself. By denying his contradictions, rather than embracing them. Splitting himself in two to tell himself a story, rather than telling the story himself.

What Ed doesn't believe or trust is this: For Ed to really be himself, he has to be impossible. Two contradictory things, at the same time.

The second season of OFMD is about learning to embrace all these contradictions. In each episode of OFMD, character look at the same object or situation (a wanted poster, a unicorn, a velvety suit, a relationship, a past trauma) and they tell two completely different stories about it. Sometimes one of those stories turns out to be wrong, but more often than not both are true, and something else--something beautiful-- is born from the place where those contradictions meet. And the characters, Ed most of all, learn to accept and balance this dissonance.

Thematically speaking, I'd argue that's why the second season of OFMD is more fantastical than the first: fantasies are contradictions, real and not-real at the same time. And isn't that what transformation is, in the end? What you are and what you are not, meeting and becoming "you"?

Transformation isn't all good. At first, Ed's fantastic stories hide his pain or invoke despair

But later, the fantasies make their way into reality. The impossible begins to shape reality--and opens a way for hope.

In the last episode of S2, Ed emerges from the waves as the kraken--but there's 3 musical tracks playing, three themes: the kraken, Ed, and Blackbeard. Then he reads a love letter, and has a deeply romantic moment with his boyfriend. He puts on a new outfit to escape the British, yet his personality doesn't change at all. When Izzy first apologizes to him, Ed says "I'm the one who should be apologizing," but then Izzy changes his entire understanding of their relationship. Becomes the first family figure to offer Ed permission to be himself.

Contradictions galore, and yet Ed is still Ed. Both who he was formed into by other people (his father, Izzy, Pop Pop) and yet who he is.

In the final scenes, Ed begins to finally accept the tensions of his life. He tells Zheng that yes, he wants to kill Richie--but he doesn't go on a revenge quest. And while before his forays into being someone else meant changing his name, his clothes and mannerisms, his whole story, he doesn't act like that at all in the last scene of the ep.

And Ed's been able to do all this, to come this far, because of Stede. Stede, who Ed was drawn to because he was a "fancy man who leads a brigade of imbeciles," yet had won a fight with Izzy. Stede, who looked at Ed at his lowest moment, after Ed had admitted that the entire basis of their friendship had been in bad faith, and said, "I'm your friend." Stede who, even knowing Ed wouldn't want to hear from him, poured his heart into letters about how their bond was unbreakable.

Stede is everything he is, all at the same time. And when Ed was drowning in his own contradictions, (a rope tied around him that he could not undo and yet had put on himself) trapped somewhere "inevitable, yet impossible," Stede appeared as a fantastic, beautiful creature and brought him home.

Stede lets Ed be everything he is, and sees it all as true and worthy of love. Even when Ed fucks up, it's all right.

And sometimes, telling two different stories about something doesn't lead to a fragmented self, doesn't drive people apart.

Sometimes, it means understanding. Means acceptance, safety, connection.

From discordance (contradiction), harmony. A gentleman can be a pirate. A man can be a bird, or a unicorn. Izzy can have been one of the good ones and a fucking nightmare. And Ed can tell all his stories, they can all be true--and he can still be Ed.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #ofmd meta #ed teach #stede bonnet #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #okay every single s2 ep has A HEAP OF things where there's one “reality” and multiple stories: Stede's letters; indigo dye... #...zheng the soup lady; a betrayal; wanted posters; a storm; soup in purgatory; life itself; anne and mary to others and themselves; #; pinata and wedding cake; unicorn parts; what happened to buttons; ed's speech; stede's captaining skills; the suit; Izzy's shark #ned lowe's record; ed's treasure and the whole poison/positivity thing; ned's execution; having sex; stede's infamy #that's off the top of my head IT'S EVERYWHERE these writers are unbelievable #long ass post #ofmd season 2 love

[callmekitto]

moonglow on the mizzenmast (2/2) part one here

ed feels betrayed that bird guy killed the mood :(

bonus:

#ofmd #Our flag means death #gentlebeard #edward teach #Stede bonnet #blackbonnet #Nathaniel buttons #I was like is this stede being written as too stupid? and then I remembered that this dude thought blackbeard had a glowing smoke head #and thought doggy heaven was a pirate term #He's not stupid! he's just gullible and willing to learn #anyway that is why I relate to him very much #My art

[madzillus]

Karl we miss ye buddy

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd art #ofmd fanart #our flag means fanart #karl ofmd #buttons ofmd #buttons #illustration #illustrators on tumblr #character study #mads draws pirates #my work #so yeah I decided to draw Buttons next. enjoy! #can’t decide who I’m going to draw now aaahhhh I have so many ideas for pirates in my head #might do a little comic. might draw a pages of Luciuses #I don’t know. what I do know is that there will be more pirates coming shortly #@ amelia hope you enjoy this. you’d better read the tags because I didn’t @ you in my tags for nothing #edit: #also first time(?) drawing a bird with any real intention to make it look good #so Karl I hope I have done you justice my dude #I have always avoided birds because they scare me. in that they are hard to draw

[prettybard]

if i can't kiss him in the next 5 hours i will be having a meltdown

#LOOK AT HIM #LOOK AT HIS SMILE?!?? #JUST LOOK??? #THIS IS GENUINELY BECOMING A PROBLEM #MY BRAINROT FOR THIS BITCH IS NOT GETTING BETTER #I JUST KEEP HEARING HIM SAY WATCH MY BUTTONS IN A LOOP IN MY HEAD #WHAT FUCKING GUY SAYS THAT??? #STEDE BONNET DOES #PLS SIR PLS KEEP SAYING MORE STUPID SHIT #I'M BEGGING #ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #blackbonnet #gentlebeard

[sponge-goblin-art]

They should kiss each other again I think.

#theres not a brain in my head it’s just pirates #the pirates ate my brain #I blame buttons #also I continue to me allergic to backgrounds #very happy w/ his though I like never draw kisses #stede’s hair my beloved and beloathed…. #also this is me coming out as team season 2 mustache Stede #alright time for So Many tags bc we as a fandom can’t decide on a ship name #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #krakhouse #stedward #alright that’s the big 4 I think #ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #edward teach #blackbeard ofmd #*I come up gasping for air* #I’ve had so many more tags on my silm stuff who am I kidding #I could add more but… y’all will manage I have faith in this fandom y’all got me #also hehe I just kinda made up Ed’s tattoos there are easter eggs

[currentlyonstandbi]

thinking about leon and his tenacity to survive, about the fact that at his core, he's a fighter, he's always been a fighter. he refuses to give in even with the odds stacked against him, even pushed to his absolute breaking point, because a part of him refuses to quit. thinking about how that used to be a good thing, how it got him through racoon city, got him through spain and los illuminados and every mess that came after. but now? now leon's biggest fight is against himself, because he wants so badly to just give up, give in, put an end to it all. but he can't. so he spends his time hoping his next mission will be his last, that maybe this will finally be the day that something gets the better of him and he can just rest without the guilt of having simply laid down to die without putting up a fight

#hey what was i going through when i wrote this lmao #anyway you ever look at a post and think 'wow the version of the character i am describing here exists solely in my head' ? #and then you remember you are on the mischaracterisation wesbite and smash that post button #resident evil #re2 #resident evil 4 #re4 #re vendetta #leon kennedy #re death island #resident evil death island #only because i expect them to address this !!! hopefully #re4r

[whump-queen]

begging someone to hold a gun to my head so my brain will finally make me do my dishes, laundry, vacuuming, job applications, emails, messages,, just to get anything done at all without constantly wanting to die

#executive dysfunction is a fucking hellscape and I want out I want out I wantoutoutout #fuck my liiifee #seriously the threat of imminent immediate danger is the only way I can do fucking anything #executive dysfunction #the kind that makes me wanna BANG MY HEAD INTO THE NEAREST HARD SURFACE UNTIL I CANT SEE ANYMORE #death sounds preferable !!!!!!!!! #all those bullshit articles written by nt ppl like ‘MAKE A LIST!!1!1 BREAK DOWN UR TASKS!!!1!’ #THANKS BRENDA BUT ID RATHER PLUCK MY EYELASHES OUT ONE BY ONE #I literally gave my coworker $100 in cash the other day and said #’if I don’t have that report for u by tomorrow you get to KEEP THE $100.’ #because I COULD NOT DO IT OTHERWISE ID BEEN RIPPING MY HAIR OUT FOR WEEKS OVER THAT ONE THING #if u have exec dysfunction and have any tips for me other than putting myself in danger like - pls help ohmygod #legit a cry for help I don’t know what anyone would do but like #god damn a button that lets someone shock me remotely if I don’t do the shit i’m #supposed to do #I ACTUALLY NEED THAT IT WOULD SAVE MY LIFE HHAA #tw mental health #tw suicidality #adhd #tw implied suicidal tendencies #vent #personal

[bromelads]

Forget excusing or condemning Ed “The Love of A Pet Makes A Man Weak” Teach for making his employees put down their animals. Consider where Ed learned that being the source of safety and sustenance for something sweet and vulnerable makes you weak.

Because of course animals befoul the ship (anything that can’t clean up after itself does) but all I’m saying is that there’s something inherently tender about depriving yourself of connection with an animal because you’re worried it’ll make you weak, of all things.

Just—what if Ed’s “no pets” policy is as much about professional pirate decorum as it is about maintaining an illusion of being untouchable?

#edward teach #our flag means death #ofmd meta #ofmd #la meta de mi meta #thinking about Ed stopping on his tracks to gasp and gape at Buttons and Karl #what did he think about Buttons—this tough-looking old-timer—standing around with a bird on his head post-raid? #did he wonder if Karl brought Buttons some measure of comfort after the horrible violence? #does Ed ever marvel at the bird guys’ ability to build trust with their animals? #did he ever love something small and easy for a human to hurt? #does he feel differently about threshold animals that crewmen bond with? #or are they also pets in his eyes? #even tho they aren't really #ed teach meta

[geekyanglophile]

Can we talk about the fact that in episode 201, Ed compares himself to a bird that never returns to land. And the first time he actually returns to land is after he reunites with Stede. And after Buttons transmogrifies into a bird and Ed runs after Stede, this song plays:

(Also I’m sorry “sunsets, full moons/don’t turn you on/like an untied dog/you just had to run” is actually about Stede omg. The full moon and sunset being the two most romantic moments in season 1 followed by Stede running ahsdyjaksjs)

#poetic cinema #this is why I love good song choice in movies and tv #when it’s done right it’s like an exact recreation of what I would imagine when the song is playing and my blorbos are floating in my head #also yes I have been listening to this song on repeat ever since I realized it was in OFMD AND Spider-Man 2 #edward teach #stede bonnet #buttons #*scottish accent* #avian transmogrification #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers

[depressed-writer9000]

I knew it was gonna happen and was still flabbergasted when it did

#izzy hands #i understand why it happend. doesn't mean i have to be any less delusional or mad about it #i didn't even have to get spoiled to know he was gonna die. still pissed off tho #not even sad. just disappointed #it isn't even very rare for me to be disappointed that I'm right #idk what that says about me #either I'm gifted with the ability of prophecy #or just so traumatized that i can see a traumatic event coming from a mile away #this fucking show man #literally just ruined my vacation a day before i went on it #so rude of you for that jenkins #i actually trusted this show. should've known better 😒😒😒/hj #i was literally just speechless the whole death scene i didn't even hear what bro was saying #new headcanon: buttons and izzy friendship #I'm pretty sure this ending just ruined my entire ofmd hyperfixation. not even joking #anyways. imma go jump off a cliff now #and when i say jump off a cliff i mean jump head first into my dcu fixation to cope with this bs

[strixessabre]

Tiny Robert holding a record on big Robert on a record!

( Strixes' Sabre )

#the cure #robert smith #button #anime #head on the door #goth #death rock #dark wave #new wave #kiss me kiss me kiss me #love cats #kutte #pin #bloodflowers #three imaginary boys #badge