#ofmd foreshadowing

[amuseoffyre]

Since I put together a rather massive thread about the probable S3 final fuckeries on the dead-parrot site, I figure I'll bring it over here as well :) This is bearing in mind that the show loved using history when it was useful or funny.

Blackbeard's death was in a battle and afterwards, his head was cut off and hung from the bowsprit of the ship, then later as a warning by a harbour. Urban legend said that his headless body swam around the ship, trying to find the head. Stede, meanwhile, was executed by hanging after being captured and tried in Charles Town.

My theory is a giant faking-their-deaths fuckery and this is the collection of extensive foreshadowing in sequential order.

1x01 - He's holding his own head! That's terrifying!

The Swede's flag with a skeleton holding his own head. Given Ed's flair for the dramatic and the urban legend that BB's body swam, headless, around the ship, this feels like a very him thing to do. (also ties in with Blackbeard's flag with just the skeleton in S1)

1x01 - Stede's first fuckery

Stede using mannequins as a diversion so they can escape from the British Navy and the British Navy fall for it. Also, significantly, one of the fake heads falls off.

1x03 - Stede hanged

I facepalmed so hard when I realised that we had already seen Stede get hanged and survive it. Also, the fact that the person who intended to kill him by hanging is the one who dies first? INCHRESTING.

1x04 - "People just see the flag - I don't even have to be on the boat. I'm a ghost"

And he won't be on the boat in the end :D (@wastingyourgum reminded me of this one :D)

1x04 - "He's wearing Blackbeard's clothes. He's on Blackbeard's ship".

Combining this with Stede's fake-heads-to-escape idea, Blackbeard's official 'death' is tied up with a bow :D They just need to find a suitable person to sub in *coughHornigoldcough*

1x06 - "Over here, child!"

HOOBOY this entire episode is basically emphatically pointing at Ed's skill in the art of misdirection. Ed is an expert at fooling people into seeing what he wants them to see. The Master of the Theatre of Fear.

1x06 - The crew fuckery

Stede, the Swede and Black Pete literally holding heads that aren't theirs And once again the allusion to swapping faces/places. "Are those supposed to be the same guy?" "But with very different hairstyles, ja?"

1x06 - "I'm supposed to burn your face off and take your identity"

Stede getting another layer of "how to get away with dying/disappearing" added to his arsenal of knowledge.

1x08 - The Unicorn's head

Oh look. A mythical creature's head is removed by the English, when Ed has been compared to a demon, devil, vampire and kraken. I wonder what that could be foreshadowing 🙃

1x09 - "You've kept the clippings so we can make fake heads and escape"

When in doubt, Stede turns to arts and crafts.

1x10 - "Now that's a fuckery"

Stede has already faked his own death not once, not twice, but three times in ten minutes. Now that's overkill 😂He's done it before, he'll do it again! In Stede's town, wearing Stede's clothes.

2x01 - "He can't possibly look like this"

The S1 propaganda pics are all full/half body, but now, he's reduced down to a head with very snaky looking hair. "He can't possibly look like that" (and this ties into something from 2x04 as well)

In related things, there is one historic piece of art referring to Blackbeard like this, as a disembodied head and I feel like there's a bit of a resemblance going on.

2x02 - "There's some beheadings on here"

Okay, yes, this one is a stretch, but head removal, people. We have more head removal :D

2x03 - "I'm not me, I'm you"

Yes, I know, in the context of the Gravy Basket, but there would be some poetrical vibes if Hornigold's body was the one left in Ed's place so Ed can live a long and happy life. (And yes, fully convinced he was an S3 villain)

2x03 - "I knew they killed him"

Will fully admit I yelped a bit when I saw this scene in higher res than a stream because with the drape of cloth over his head matching the colour of the surroundings, it's gives the illusion of a headless body.

2x04 - "He can't hear you. He's got no head"

Again, the symbolism of the mythical creature without a head. Especially when we see Izzy yelling at it as if its Blackbeard, his own personal figurehead.

2x04 - "Pulls his entire fucking face off. Turns out this one had stolen the face off some Brit and come to my rescue"

Of all the specialist skills for someone in Ed's old crew to have, disguising themselves with someone else's face? :D (That's romance ;))

2x04 - The Head of Medusa

Buttons' transmogrification bowl is under a painting of The head of Medusa (Caravaggio). In the story of Perseus, he used Medusa's severed head to defeat a terrible sea monster (hello, kraken :D) and a King.

And I mentioned earlier Ed's wanted poster had a connection to this episode and look at these images side by side:

Coincidence??? I THINK NOT XD

#ofmd #ofmd meta #ofmd foreshadowing #our flag means death #blackbeard #ed teach #stede bonnet

[tampire]

"We're merely humble wanderers passing through."

#Our Flag Means Death #ofmdedit #ofmd spoilers #OFMD #ourflagmeansdeathedit #Our Flag Means Gay #Nathaniel Buttons #Izzy Hands #Butthands #Ivan #Fang #Ewan Bremner #Con O'Neill #Guz Khan #David Fane #My Gif #LGBT #lgbtedit #They deserved better #also the foreshadowing

[o-wild-west-wind]

there’s something about how Stede crossing out DEAD and circling ALIVE on the wanted poster like the silly little lover he is manages to be, like…the heart and thesis of the show all in one.

it’s baffling. it’s goofy. it’s a bit sad. it’s optimistic, despite. it’s love in action. it’s earnest beyond belief.

and—quite literally—it’s choosing live.

#it’s foreshadowing it’s a parallel it’s a metaphor it’s got me chewing drywall again!! #there’s like. so much one could unpack here and I don’t have time rn but. I will be rotating it in my brain a while #if this has already been said I’m so sorry I’ve been gone a while and I’m the king of reliving epiphanies #anywho. did I mention this is a really good show yet— #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta

[edwardteachswombtattoo]

Well Ed I have some great news for you.

#ofmd #wow so much foreshadowing

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#Marriage Foreshadowing

#foreshadowing at its finest #the writers were insane for this #like what? #ofmd #ofmdedit #our flag means death #ed x stede #stede x ed #edward teach #ed teach #stede bonnet #taika waititi #rhys darby #gif #gifs #gifset #2x2 #2x8

[urproblematicfav-arsonk]

Vox is the homophobic despite being bi gamer bf to Velvette's trans goth furry gf

Val is the domestic abuser car salesman husband to Vox's 1950s housewife who's on so much fucking cocaine while trying to keep this household together

and Alastor and Vox is just is Fleetwood Mac

#i don't actually know anything about fleetwood mac #my mom said that their whole thing is that they were married and then got divorced but stayed in a band together #literally no one understood that ofmd using break the chain was like really on the nose foreshadowing #anyway hc that Al played a lot of divorced mom rock after he and Vox broke up #also vox is such a 1950s housewife on so many drugs and making jello meat puddings #hazbin hotel #hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin hotel valentino #hazbin hotel velvette #staticradio #staticmoth #voxval #voxvel #proship

[nathaniel-buttons]

You know there's a bird that never touches ground? It's born in the air, never once lands... Never going back to land. We're going to sail, rob, and raise hell forever... and ever.

#YOU GUYS THE BIRD WAS FORESHADOWING #ofmd #our flag means death

[luciuscodedswedeboy]

“I never thought the pirates would throw ME overboard,” sobs man who voted for the Pirates Throwing People Overboard Party

#foreshadowing? i don’t know her #lucius spriggs #izzy hands #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd meme

[outlanderalien]

Okay, so I wasn't really into the whole "Izzy's going to die next episode" theory but during episode 6 credits all the crew chant "ONE MORE SONG!" before Izzy finally replies "I've got one more song!" then everyone cheers but then the credits fade to a somewhat discomforting silence...

#ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #izzy hands #FORESHADOWING???? #SWAN SONG? #FINAL SONG? #ONE MORE EPISODE ALIVE? #GHHHHHHH

[saturnalia-shebang]

Started watching ofmd a few minutes ago

is this foreshadowing

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd stede #foreshadowing

[harrylovesspaezle]

The "Fun and Games" episode and potential foreshadowing for S3

Obviously the main point of the Mary and Anne scene was for Stede and Ed to argue and then make up, but i noticed another theme that is more in the background. It is very very normal to see a couple in a show and ask yourself "but what if they get sick of each other?" and this scene/episode eradicated any sort of doubt regarding that.

Anne and Mary portrayed a couple, just like Ed and Stede, who settled down after piracy and have an antique shop(just like Ed and Stede later with the Inn). They have very different personalities; Stede gets along with Anne, Ed gets along with Mary. They love each other dearly but they bicker and prank one another on the daily, to keep their life interesting. Ed asks Mary: "What's up with all the stabbing?" and then Mary says "It's what we do, keeps things fresh".

But it's not keeping things fresh, is it? Mary says at some point "fun and games are all that's left" because she thinks that the magic is gone and fun is the only thing that is keeping their 'boring' life and their relationship alive. All that bickering is actually hurting each other("i bet Anne really loved that piece of shit clock" and "i have to do everything around here") and eventually they snap. And what Mary originally said contradicts itself when Anne sets the shop on fire and they decide to live a different life, a life more true to themselves that doesn't include having an antique shop.

So i think the plot of S3 regarding Ed and Stede would be an exact mirror to Mary and Anne's relationship. They will be so in love that they don't realize that the inn isn't for them, and they will eventually start bickering. They will get sick of each other. But as Mary and Anne proved, they will find other ways of living that will satisfy them both and that will make their relationship healthier than it was before so that they can keep loving each other as much as they did from the start.

(just a theory but i thought it was interesting)

#they will obviously be bad at having an inn #so this is a fun theory for me #also because it would make sense as foreshadowing #ofmd meta #ofmd #our flag means death #edward teach #ed teach #stede bonnet #ed and stede #ed x stede #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #anne bonny #mary read #ofmd s2 #ofmd s3 #be a lighthouse #adopt our crew

[amuseoffyre]

I was rewatching S1 the other day and remembered how much of it had struck me as "huh, that seems a very… specific thing to focus on" and my foreshadowing spidey-senses started tingling back when it first aired. And then more turned up while I was watching S2.

Ones that have come to fruition:

The nose jar It got a lot of focus for a one-scene moment. Why specify that someone causing trouble would get a nose cut off and then not show someone getting punished with their nose getting cut off? Chekov's nose-jar was used in 2x01 and is a trigger point for the entire villain arc for the second season.

The recurring threats to Lucius's life Honestly, the amount of times he was threatened and harangued and nearly killed by Jim. It really would have been bad for the vibe around there, so when they 'killed' him at the end, Naaaaaaah. Didn't believe it for a moment. (Speaking of, Izzy has a similar run of near-deaths all through S2, so HMMMMMMM)

"Captain Hornigold! There's a blast from the past!" The second they brought up his name, I was ears pricked up and staring and going oooooooo, because there's no way you mention a significant figure from both pirate history and Ed's department of backstory when we know he's Captain of the good ship Daddy Issues without having a plan for one of the major male influences in his life, especially knowing the history that Hornigold takes the act and turns hunter and is instrumental in tracking down Blackbeard.

The wait staff exchange in 2x06 It seemed like lot of dialogue to not be leading somewhere. Behold, the Revenge crew as Wait staff in 2x01:D

The escalation of the British enmity We started out with Captain Badminton and levelled up to Admiral Badminton with the British as recurring villains all through the season and the thread of royal influence popping up here and there, which got me thinking next stop would be either their elder brother or someone even further up the social pecking order. Enter Ricky.

Secret passages built into the ship So I, like many others, assumed Lucius would be the dead man hiding in the walls. We were halfway right XD There was a dead man hidden in there. Twice.

We'll go to China Was left with a "why China?" vibe from that and it wouldn't stop niggling me that there was some specific reason that the writers would have chosen China of all place. Turns out if you can't go to China with your boyfriend, China will come to you and kick your ass.

Still to come:

"You saved the clippings so we can make fake heads and escape" I maintain this is the big one for S3. We have no less than 10 separate references to heads/faces being removed and fake heads. Stede even uses three different fake heads as props (rowing boat, the skull in the fuckery and the corpse head in the triple-fuckery of his death) and given Blackbeard's death famously involves his head being strung from the mast of the ship, it feels prescient.

"I thought that when I did marry, it would be for love" "Peasants marry for love" Not. Subtle :D Our man has already made himself a peasant and has his boyfriend, so he's part of the way there.

"I always hated you" Ed saying this to imaginary Hornigold has me absolutely foaming at the mouth for what the real Hornigold is like and absolutely 100% certain this is the plan for S3. As mentioned earlier Hornigold became a pirate hunter but also it would tie in with the S1 foreshadowing as well - we've had him mentioned, we've seen what he looks like, we know what he's done so the second he shows up in S3, we need no introduction. Plus Ed's processing his history so having his history roll up to hunt him down? *chefkiss* YES. And if (as I'm convinced) Stede was in the Gravy Basket like Ed in 1x04, then based on how Mary and Father Teach behaved, the way Hornigold is acting in the Gravy Basket is completely out of character, which would track since he's being pally and nice and taking care of Ed at different points. The few facts we do know from Jack and Ed's recollections include stabbing them, beating them down, treating them like dogs, the Felix story and him threatening to flay Ed's skin off and feed it to him. This means that outside of the basket he's gonna be SO. MUCH. WORSE.

Crossing the Darien Gap We got the glimpse of Zheng's crews bringing ships through the jungles across the Darien Gap and saw the queue of ships lined up on the Pacific side on the map. Ricky may have taken out the ships that were in the Republic, but that wasn't all of Zheng's fleet and he has no idea more are on the way because everyone knows no one can cross the Darien Gap. He'll never see it coming ;)

A Royal Hostage Given how petty a little bitch Ricky is, I get powerful vibes that he would be the one to specifically unleash Hornigold on Stede and Ed. Stede especially, since he's the one who recommended taking him as a hostage, and he already blames Stede for leading him a) to the Republic and b) for his nose getting the chop. Him using Daddy's fortune to settle a vendetta by privately commission a famous pirate hunter doesn't seem like a stretch.

Our spirit will outlast your whole fucking empire Izzy's definitely not gone for good. He's gonna be back and he's going to be a glorious little bitch about it :D (Supporting foreshadowy evidence: shot in the left side, indestructible little fucker who has been shot-and-believed-dead twice before, existence of the gravy basket, canonical resurrections, a known seawitch with ties to purgatory at the grave)

There are some more, but it's getting late and I am sleeby, so will post 'em another day.

#ofmd #ofmd meta #ofmd foreshadowing

[vidapomefanart]

jim omg jim jimenezzz

#jim jimenez #fanart #our flag means death #ofmd fanart #ofmd #i started this wip last year and at this point i may as well call it #the perspective pose was supposed to be silly that's the excuse i'm using for it being wonky #anyhow #jim jimenez will become real in THREE SECONDS #my obsession with this character was foreshadowing for my top surgery last month #can't wait for season 2

[thealogie]

I totally thought izzy was going to die heroically to protect gay love or something I didn’t think he was going to get shot in the most rando way possible hakslclpcoc

#I thought the opening montage of stede’s dream was going to be foreshadowing for Stede causing his death inadvertently or him dying #to protect Stede I did not see This coming #ofmd #spoilers

[saintravioli]

I really, really need people to understand that while it is extremely fine and often good to criticise media you like, the idea that a show morally should not kill off a character just because the character means a lot to the fans is a deeply unhealthy way to engage with media.

It’s really important to be able to have a critical relationship with media, but what that means is that you NEED to be able to differentiate between ‘I think that this part/writing/narrative/pacing/the way this issue was handled is bad’ vs ‘this makes me sad and I don’t like it so therefore it is bad’.

I know that shows can provide a lot of comfort to people, but it is EXTREMELY important to remember that just because something upsets you doesn’t mean that it’s inherently bad storytelling. Shows where everyone lives and everyone is happy and lives happily ever after are often not particularly dramatically interesting.

Sometimes things are both upsetting AND bad storytelling, but you still need to actually reflect critically in order to get to that conclusion, rather than using buzzwords to describe what is essentially a knee-jerk emotional reaction.

I know a lot of people are really upset and that is an understandable reaction, but demanding that creators bend to the fans’ will purely because a character is loved is not a healthy relationship to have with those creators, or the media itself.

#izzy hands #ofmd s2 #also that shot of buttons at the end is definite foreshadowing #ofmd #ofmd spoilers

[nisabaismymistress-blog]

This is so silly I love it...

#foreshadowing #foresploding? #foreblowing? #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #omfd #our flag means death season 2 #ofmd season 2