#ofmd musing

[cahootings]

just thinking about how wee john used to make dresses with his mother. 😌

#rewatching s1 and HE USED TO MAKE DRESSES WITH HIS MOTHER!!!!! HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #ofmd #ofmd s2 #wee john feeney #ofmd musing

[nordarknessdimsthesky]

the amount of sheer GENDER stored in these images should frankly be ILLEGAL

#im vibrating out of my skin #im shifting physical states #season 2 is gonna melt my entire fucking face right off #ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #our flag means death season 2 #edward teach #jim jimenez #frenchie #speaking and musing

[avastyetwats]

Izzy Hands.

#Izzy hands #OFMD #our flag means death #con o neill #Izzy hands musings #resting at the inn (ooc)

[artsyhamster]

Madness

#ofmd #ofmd s2 #edward teach #izzy hands #ofmd s2 spoilers #at which point do you stop tagging as spoilers idek #and yes. i hope you have the Muse song in your head now

[johannestevans]

the doylist explanation is that fang hugs izzy from behind so that we can get both of their faces in shot at once. the watsonian explanation is that fang has learned to hug izzy from behind because otherwise izzy's instinct is to go for his throat

#musings #fangizzy #fang ofmd #izzy hands #our flag means death

[ofmd-ann]

Happy New Year to my followers, mutuals and all the incredible people in this fandom ☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 💜

Lots of love x

#thank you for the love and support #and helping me to feel less alone with my hyperfixation! #im glad we can muse over our silly little guys together #i see you and i appreciate you #i couldnt resist caspers countdown! #midnight in the uk #rhys darby #ofmd #riftf #ofmdann rd edits #ofmdann edits

[fxckin-blackbeard]

#mobile ooc. #randy dandy'oh (musing) #our flag means death #ofmd #ed teach #edward ofmd #ofmd edward teach #ofmd ed teach

[sunnibits]

slowly getting back into drawing that old man (not that I ever really stopped, but still)

unnecessarily lengthy art thoughts under the cut

started with that more realistic portrait in the corner but then I tried doing this new exercise where I just drew him as fast as I could without really thinking, trying to just be really quick and confident with my strokes, and I actually really love how those couple doodles turned out!! they have this really fun stylized quality that I enjoy a lot, like as someone who tends towards a more realistic style?? I feel like I don’t really allow myself to experiment with more cartoony/dynamic styles but this was a really effective way of forcing myself to make it happen naturally. anyways, I highly recommend trying it if you’re like me and maybe have a hard time stylizing faces, or if you just wanna do a fun exercise! just don’t overthink it and see what shapes you naturally chose to exaggerate :)

sorry for rambling sghshsh I just had a lot of fun with these doodles and izzy has always been so fun to stylize for me :) he just naturally has this sort of silly cartoonish quality to him, it’s so easy to exaggerate all his shapes <3

#like he’s just… he’s just so shaped #i love him #i love exaggerating his nose and his goatee #and I especially love exaggerating his hair poof of course #and the flowy flicks at the back of his neck #he’s so so fun to draw it truly never gets old <3 #izzy hands #ofmd #art #my art #doodles #my little guy <3 #i love that even after like a year and a half I’m still drawing him and having fun with it #truly the muse of all time

[bougiebutchbinch]

can't decide if I like calico jizzy in a 'Jack is a gross pig who cockily refers to himself as Izzy's daddy in the third person right from the start and spanks him with 0 warning and does bad BDSM with him because you just know he's one of those fratboy types who THINKS he's a great dom, but luckily Izzy is a Capital-F Freak who is Really Fucking Into All Of That' sort of way, or in a 'Jack is possibly the only person in the universe who Izzy flat out refuses to call daddy when they fuck, and it is DRIVING JACK INSANE' one

#calico jack #ofmd izzy #izzy hands #ofmd #our flag means death #you're all so welcome for my musings x

[our-flag-means-ducks]

Izzy and Ed are pirates who should be buried at sea but Ed ‘dies’ and Izzy insists on keeping his body on board in the same room they had their last conversation with a shroud lovingly placed over his face and Izzy dies and Ed buries him right next to his house with his ring displayed where Ed can keep watch over him they’re both unable to let the other go so intrinsically wrapped up in each other even in death I am foaming at the mouth

#coming through numbness right into the deranged musing stage of grief #Edizzy #blackhands #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd

[cahootings]

Man shoutout to Stede fucking Bonnet I am so proud of him. Going from having to ask his wife what being in love feels like, to writing the most earnest and saccharine love letters in bottles. Every day. “I long for you.” “Intertwined.” “We wrote our names on each other in permanent ink.” Kissing them before throwing them into the sea. Every day. He became the world’s biggest romantic dreamboat and he is exactly what Ed “I’m afraid I’m unlovable” Teach deserves. The classic Stede move of “I don’t know how to do this, but once I learn how to do it my own way, I’m going to completely reinvent what it means and it’s going to change lives for the better”

#ofmd #ofmd musing #ofmd meta

[ticcitavvi]

I've been musing abt OFMD instead of studying and realized that, for me at least, the death of Karl (Nathaniel button's best friend who also happens to be a seagull) is one of the largest indicators of the tone shift within the last few episodes of s1.

I mean, feel free to disagree but from my pov. Karl is one of the first members of the crew to actually DIE, (yes, I consider him part of the crew) and whose death is felt by the entire crew.

even Nigel Badminton's death, which is arguably pretty horrible, has a certain comedy and light heartedness to it.

idk, I just feel like throughout the show death and murder is more or less some distant afterthought, not actually tangible in any really way-- at least, until Karl dies.

once he dies, everything is more real, more dangerous, and death is not only more tangible but imminent. I also feel like the last few episodes are when we really start seeing the consequences of previous episodes- Izzy being kicked off the ship, Stede's abandonment of his family, hell even Stedes decision to raid the fisherman's boat.

I'd be surprised if no one else has ever talked art this but thought I might as well share my own musings lmao

#ofmd #our flag means death #thoughts #theories #musings

[avastyetwats]

Stede Bonnet.

#im funny sometimes #Stede Bonnet #OFMD #Our Flag means death #Rhys Darby #resting at the inn (ooc) #about Stede Bonnet #stede bonnet musings

[johannestevans]

personally if i really wanted a third season of my already low budgeted show about multiply marginalised and oppressed sections of the community that are hugely underrepresented in media and television, i personally wouldn't do my best to alienate the audience on which i rely

but what do i know. i'm just some working class disabled homo. maybe i should die in the last few minutes of said tv show to absolutely 0 narrative or emotional gain whilst victim blaming myself for my abuse

#musings #izzy hands #ofmd spoilers

[blackbeardsemophase]

The thing is, Stede has never liked piracy for the same reason that Ed despises it.

It's just that Stede believes it's a matter of skill and experience that he needs to obtain in order to be a "real pirate" and that once he gains those things, he'll be magically okay with the gore-y bits. The soul crushing bits. The poison.

Stede desperately wants to belong and to have friends because more than anything he wants respect and love - things he has never had before. He's interested in the idea of community and team work and communication - it just so happens that he has made these interests pirate flavored because it facilitated the latter. Own a big cool ship, get a bunch of crew who were basically hired friends, and do something stereotypically masculine in an attempt to feel like a success.

We see Stede haunted/guilt ridden even by his involvement in the accidental deaths of the Badmintons. Yes, part of his guilt is due to feelings of inadequacy stemming from his failed marriage/domestic life, but the other half is feelings of inadequacy at being a pirate aka committing acts of violence. The whole reason Stede pushes back against the whole "traditionally piracy is a culture of abuse" is because it makes him uncomfortable to do violence. This is well established within the first episodes of season one, and during Stede's reaction to raids, or to Calico Jack, or Chauncey's death.

Episode 2x06 was a great culmination of this point about Stede. When he had Ned at swordpoint, he had to decide whether or not he was going to kill him. Ed, who knows extremely well how bad it feels to kill from his own firsthand experience, cautioned Stede against it in an effort to spare Stede these awful feelings of guilt and trauma (which I think Ed knows Stede would feel because he can tell how Stede handles violence and it isn't well). Stede is therefore torn between performing the violence that is expected of him as a pirate captain (there is so much to say about how this relates to masculinity that I don't have the words for) or saving himself the trauma of killing. In the end, Stede kills Ned and we immediately see in his expression that he is upset, so much so that he flashes back to his childhood; one scene of himself picking flowers and being soft and the other of him watching horrified as his father slaughtered the goose. He also retreats to his quarters to isolate where he sits on the sofa in much the same way as he did after Nigel died in s1. It was a perfect setup to illustrate that at the end of the day, Stede is never going to be okay with killing in the same way that Ed isn't. Their relationship to violence runs nearly parallel, and once Stede realizes this completely I think he and Ed will come to a compromise about how they want to spend the rest of their lives together and what they really want to do.

#ofmd s2 meta #ofmd spoilers #ofmd speculation #sorry it's 7am and I've not slept so I am drinking a coffee and musing about this #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet

[cryptix23]

Okay listen I've seen a few people criticizing Ed for still feeling 'unlovable' despite Izzy's confession, but like, of course that means nothing to him?

Ed is afraid no one can love Edward. All of him. The parts of him that aren't all myth, the parts of a real and complex person who loves satin and fine dining and lavender soap and goofy outsider artists. The parts of him that aren't retold in hushed, awed voices. Izzy literally said to his face that he loves Blackbeard and hates Edward. That he hates all the softness and comfort and frippery and care and appreciation. That he wanted back the man who laughed while people burned. (And later realized that was a Huge Mistake but that's beside this point.) So when Izzy says "I have... love for you," what Ed hears is just a reaffirmation that he loves Blackbeard -- the myth up on the pedestal, the terror of the seas, the Kraken. The monster with no use for fine things like love.

And Edward is still unloved, because Edward is not worthy of fine things.

(yes he is, but he was not in a place to hear that and especially not from Izzy.)

#cryptix musings #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death #media analysis #izzy hands #edward teach #blackbeard #suppressing the instinct to add a million qualifiers to the end of this #i love ed i love izzy i think ed has a lot to answer for i think izzy fucked up but didn't deserve what happened #i think they both deserve care and love and healing and growth