#mary allamby bonnet

[girlbossblackbeard]

btw. if u even care.

#ALSO: MARY DIDNT GET THAT PEARL NECKLACE UNTIL AFTER THEY GOT MARRIED JUST SAYIN!!!! #our flag means death #ofmd #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #edward teach #stede bonnet #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #mary allamby bonnet

[our-flag-means-love]

ofmd as text posts | part 15

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#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meme #ofmd memes #our flag memes death #lucius spriggs #stede bonnet #izzy hands #mary bonnet #mary allamby bonnet #edward teach #ed teach #ofmd as text posts

[miistermee]

I love her, my god

#mary allamby bonnet #my art #our flag means death #ofmd #digital art #doodle day #digital painting #procreate #illustration #mary bonnet

[nortsauce]

WATCH OUT FOR THAT CONVENIENTLY PLACED UNSTABLE HANGING PIANO, STEDE!!!!!

#ofmd #our flag means death #our flag means forever #stede bonnet #mary allamby bonnet #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #everyone is in here in spirit #don bluth style #don bluth #fake screenshot #fake screencap #avenge ofmd #rhys darby #rhys darby faction

[biceratops7]

Guys… guys.

As hilarious as all the “how oblivious ARE you?” jokes about Stede are, I think we’re missing the big picture. This isn’t about obliviousness, it’s about trauma.

Stede isn’t ignorant of the fact he’s in love with Ed. he’s been abused his whole life for his queerness and is having trouble conceptualizing that he’s allowed to be.

Notice how Stede immediately has the instinct to walk back his comment of Ed being “lovely”? This is the same man who didn’t even pick up that his very obviously mutinous crew was planning a mutiny, that shit was learned behavior. He’s speaking as a little boy who was tied to a boat and stoned for picking flowers, and as someone who was told mere days ago a man falling in love with him was “defiling a beautiful thing.”

Homophobia/ heteronormativity is alive and well in this world and Stede, being forced to live in the conservative circles he does, would’ve absolutely been painfully aware of it. The fact that he feels the need to ask a woman what it’s like to be in love with a man speaks volumes after he’s already been happily kissed by one and has roleplayed being married to him when lonely. He’s not just casually making conversation then has a eureka moment when he happens to notice the description applies to him and Ed too, he asked specifically to compare them.

It’s him testing the waters and thinking that maybe “they” were wrong. Maybe he’s not broken or pathetic, maybe he never deserved to be treated as such. Maybe he didn’t “seduce” Edward, or “ruin” him, or “defile” him. And maybe his feelings for Ed are just as loving and romantic as Mary’s feelings are for her boyfriend.

It’s such a beautiful moment when he slowly smiles, let’s out that little breath like a sigh of relief, and tells his wife of an arranged marriage with nothing less than wonder in his voice that what he’s found at sea is in fact love. Fuck, it gets me every time.

There’s an absolutely gorgeous through line of queer liberation in Stede’s half of episode 10 after this scene. How he refers to Ed as his “newfound love”, confidently says they’ll “all be great”. He smears the blood on his face himself, breaks his own flowers, all to reach someone who sees him as perfect and beloved exactly as he is. What a fitting ending to his days of crying himself to sleep because he cannot be what everyone’s failed to beat him into.

#ofmd #our flag means death #meta #analysis #Stede bonnet #blackbonnet #his name is ed #my meta #1x10 #episode 10 #homophobia #queer trauma #mary allamby bonnet #ofmd parallels #biceratops

[amuseoffyre]

Something I love about OFMD is that when they introduce Mary properly, they let her shine. Like we could be given entirely Stede's POV of their relationship, but when it comes to them giving each other gifts, we get to see hers first.

Look how excited she is to share her art with him! She's so excited and then he completely cuts the legs from under her.

And it's so critical that we see him do this to her first, so it's not her being petty and shrewish about his boat. It's showing how perfectly unsuited they are to each other. He's so oblivious to her, he has no idea she's been painting and assumes her exciting new art was done by the kids. He has zero interest in her interests.

So when we cut to the next scene and she does the same to him, it's only further emphasis about how disconnected they really are. Not only does he show no interest in what she cares about but he straight up doesn't listen when she talks to him.

And I find it especially interesting that he keeps up the pretence of trying to act appropriately excited about the painting (even though he's obviously not), Mary doesn't hide her confusion and anger that he's been ignoring her again. Stede is so used to masking to behave 'correctly' that he does it on autopilot.

So when Mary actually expresses how she's really feeling, instead of following the socially acceptable script, and actually shouts at him, you can see him emotionally shut down. "I'll get it stopped," he says at once. Course-correcting so he won't be shouted at.

And what I really, really love about the whole scene is the fact that when they receive a negative reaction to their respective exciting gifts, both of them use exactly the same body language.

It also strikes me that this may be the first time Stede has really expressed something he's wanted to her. We know he hides away to cry on his own at night and lies about it. We know he fake-smiles his way through things and pretends everything is fine, so him actually saying "what if we did something that would make me happy" and having it shot down in front of him?

"I'll get it stopped".

Because as Rhys said in an interview, Stede never expects to get a happy ending. After all, with all we know of him, he's never had a happy beginning or a happy middle. Of course he would never expect he would be allowed to be happy.

#ofmd #ofmd meta #ofmd thinkie thoughts #stede bonnet #mary allamby bonnet

[hey-there-hunter]

You should avoid the lighthouses

#arty party #our flag means death #ofmd #blackbeard #blackbonnet #blackstede #gentlebeard #stedeward #all of the names if this ship i will get them like pokemons #edward teach #stede bonnet #izzy hands #mary allamby bonnet #nigel badminton

[spookyfbi]

Stede may never have been in love with Mary, but he does really value her opinion of him. Her little smile and hug after he told her about Ed really does seem to have been his closet key. We talk about how season 2 Stede is different to season 1 Stede, but he is already season 2 Stede immediately after that scene.

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #mary allamby bonnet #gentlebeard

[arsenicflame]

i Do Not Trust people who make Mary the bad guy in their stories when the show went out of its way to specifically show us how she was suffering just as much as stede was in their marriage and that shes, yknow, a good person

#mary is specifically framed in a sympathetic light in all of her appearances. the show switches to following her narrative so we can see #how much better her new life is for her too!!! like yes she tries to kill stede but we are shown in the narrative WHY she makes that choice #and that she struggles with it and we see stede understanding this too! he supports her decisions and her new life and is happy for her!!! #at no point are we shown anything that makes mary a bad person or bad mother- honestly i generally like mary far more than stede anyway #but even if you dont you should be able to acknowledge... that if u make her the bad guy??? w. what did you take away from the show?? #idk it has the vibes of. the girl character all the fans hate because she gets in the way of their precious little gay ship #or whatever. you know what i mean #ofmd #our flag means death #mary bonnet #mary allamby bonnet #everyone whos a mary hater is also an izzy hater bc theyre coded the same character type. betrayed wives my beloved #(this is a joke.) #uh. this might be one to add in the tags on again sorry gang i have too many thoughts

[itswhatyougive]

Since Izzy is paralleled to Mary in "Uncomfortable in a Married State", he deserves to get his own Doug.

#someone who supports his passions #stands up for him #and is willing to rock his world in a way that his ex could never #that's frenchie btw #if you even care #izzy hands #justice for izzy #ouizzy #frenchizzy #izzy ofmd #izzy our flag means death #frenchie ofmd #ofmd frenchie #frenchie started wearing the dark green kinda like doug in late s2 also #frenchie x izzy #izzy x frenchie #mary bonnet #mary allamby bonnet #doug ofmd

[ask-louis-bonnet]

i know a lot of people are really sad right now, so i’m gonna share some moments from the inn visit that i forgot to share.

i saw mom and stede sitting outside talking about something important. i dunno what they were saying but it looked really pretty so i drew it.

here’s wolf and stede the 16th.

sorry i stacked them. but it might make you smile.

here’s alma fighting off the ghost from our closet. that may sound bad, but sir unicorn seemed like he was actually having fun.

here’s alma cheating winning at cards. Doug was laughing.

and finally, me. the reigning champion of stede-stack.

i have more moments that i can share so feel free to ask me about them.

I hope this cheered you guys up a little,

And remember, art has always been something that keeps on growing. Even as we lose moments together, we gain a new path to make more. bouncing ideas and growing closer to ourselves, our community and our species as a human by creating and coming together. making art, no matter how much we have to sacrifice, will always be worth it.

… idk what that has to do with anything, and idk why i said all of that, but it’s true.

#ask louis bonnet #louis bonnet #ofmd #our flag means death #talk it through as a crew #stede bonnet #edward teach #blackbeard #alma bonnet #mary allamby bonnet #the askverse #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #ooc: ignore the tags this took a while let me live #izzy hands #israel hands #ghost izzy hands

[edsrosetattoo]

I want Stede to tell Ed that Mary was planning on murdering him when he showed back up, but I want him to frame it as a fun story, like, see??? She also wanted to kill me! You have that in common! No need to be jealous of her, she loves you already for taking me off her hands and I really think you’d get along great!

#edward teach #stede bonnet #ed x stede #mary allamby bonnet #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd s2

[our-flag-means-love]

ofmd as text posts | part 7/?

(alternate version where they're all one image for easy saving)

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meme #ofmd memes #stede bonnet #edward teach #blackbeard #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #ofmd frenchie #oluwande boodhari #ofmd oluwande #lucius spriggs #ofmd lucius #izzy hands #calico jack #ofmd calico jack #(is there a consensus on ed x jack ship name? and if so then how do i not know about it??) #mary bonnet #mary allamby bonnet #ofmd as text posts

[thats-rough-marci]

Just.

I refuse to be normal about this.

#i will not can not he normal #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #ofmd #our flag means death #stede and physical touch #edward teach #mary allamby bonnet #there's so many examples but these two spoke to me

[chuplayswithfire]

Maybe this is because my default is Supporting Women's Wrongs, but occasionally I see people mentioning that Stede and Mary both did things wrong and I won't lie I am always like , wait, what did Mary do wrong??

#ofmd #mary allamby bonnet #genuinely quite curious about this btw #maybe its Just that I see a difference between doing something genuinely wrong #and doing something a bit bitchy but understandable

[biceratops7]

I just-

the way that queerness actually is shown fairly historically accurate in the show but not to the point where the lgbt community feels like 1-dimensional victims instead of people. The world is still the same as ours, Homophobia is there, it’s just… quiet. It’s not constant aggressive action, or violence permeating every moment of their lives… it’s the background noise.

It’s in the bullying Stede endures for not performing the ideal masculine, but it’s also the simple expectation and eventually enforcement that he’ll marry a woman. It’s in “anything goes at sea” and the calm, almost practiced defensiveness that prompted such a statement. The small confirmation that Hornigold would lose his mind at Ed having breakfast at a table every morning with Stede.

It’s not just seen in queer sorrow but community as well, even joy. How Lucius looks after Jim, Stede, and Ed once their queerness is known to him. How Ed kisses Stede in a quiet place away from expected public, the refusal to discuss Blackbeard further when the truth of being “lovely” to another man garners unsavory looks. In the best circumstances, protecting one another in a world that isn’t built for us is like breathing.

It even comes from people with no ill intentions. Mary doesn’t mean anything by “what’s her name?” but it tells us something anyway, about the world these characters inhabit. About which ones can step comfortably through it, and which ones must think carefully before even revealing they lack such luxury. The quiet understanding in tossing a stone in that perfect path by saying “his name is Ed.” It means something that she reacts in surprise, pleasant surprise, but surprise none the less.

It’s not a show without homophobia, but it’s not a show about it either. It manifests in the narrative the same way it does for most of us day to day: the white noise of heteronormativity.

#just when I think I’m done talking about queer theory in ofmd #my brain whirls around and goes “AND ANOTHER THING- #our flag means death #ofmd #Stede bonnet #Blackbeard #Edward teach #blackbonnet #lucius spriggs #Jim Jimenez #mary allamby bonnet #meta #analysis #my meta #biceratop #1x10 #his name is ed #calico Jack #1x08 #1x02 #1x04