#our flag means death s2

[cliopadra]

Apparently it’s #IzzyIsThriving day, so excuse me while I pause my mental health break to throw a tipsy doodle of a crew cuddle pile at you guys

#our flag means death #our flag means death s2 #izzy hands #fang #jim jimenez #roach #archie #oluwande #buttons #wee john feeney #frenchie #lucius spriggs #black pete #cliopadra blabbers on #my art #izzy is thriving

[ohmyglobwhatthefrickamievendoing]

the way we've reached a point where somehow izzy's the healthiest person in this dynamic

#he's actually talking it through! with everyone! #and you two are out here acting like 14 year old boys?????? #ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death season 2 #our flag means death s2 #our flag means death #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death spoilers #ofmd stede #ofmd izzy #ofmd edward teach #ofmd ed teach #stede bonnet #edward teach #izzy hands #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #steddyhands #edizzy #blackhands #stizzy #gentlehands

[themistymountainscold]

izzy crying when he is given the leg is just so fucking meaningful

he saw the note, he saw the leg and he realised the crew actually care for him. enough to make him a new fucking leg. he realises he isn't alone anymore, he has people in his corner now.

like this cute ass mother fucking smile, like fuck you can see how much it meant to him. and he literally stops drinking, he stops isolating himself, he hangs out on deck showing off his new leg proudly because others had done something for him.

#i am not normal about anything on this show #ofmd #our flag means death #izzy hands #ofmd s2 #our flag means death s2 #ofmd spoilers

[raggedy-spaceman]

Spare a thought for Con O'Neill who, for months, went to comic cons and had to listen to people telling him how important Izzy is to them, how they see themselves in him and how, if something bad happened to Izzy, they would be absolutely devastated. Man deserves an award.

#ofmd #ofmd 2 #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death #our flag means death 2 #our flag means death spoilers #ofmd s2 #our flag means death s2 #izzy hands #con o'neill #poor guy #he could do nothing but nod politely KNOWING #how did he do it #mine

[church-of-lilith]

an eventful january 9th

#our flag means death #our flag means death s2 #destiel #supernatural #matpat #game theory #stede bonnet #ed x stede #blackbonnet #izzy hands #YouTube

[abirdsnest]

me when Lucius showed up alive

#ofmd #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s02 #lucius spriggs #ofmd lucius #lucius ofmd #our flag means death #our flag means gay #our flag means death spoilers #our flag means death season 2 #our flag means death s2 #I WAS SCREAMING #imi

[dean-winchesters-clit]

I need y'all to understand how fucking important it is that their lovemaking song was La Vie En Rose.

Those translated covers you hear on TikTok take their lyrics from a Louis Armstrong cover of the original French version sung by Edith Piaf. The English lyrics are beautiful but there are some things lost in translation, which is why I love that they had Izzy sing the original French version while Stede and Ed are making love.

Edith Piaf's version of the song is all about the intensity of love and finding love after a trying time. Her vocals are incredible and bleed all the different emotions she feels while singing. Izzy starts with the English translation of the song, which goes:

But a closer translation to the original French would be:

"Quand il me prend dans ses bras; When he takes me into his arms/ Il me parle l'a tout bas; He speaks to me softly/ Je vois la vie en rose; And I see life through rose-colored glasses."

Obviously this is fine and dandy, but it's the translation of the original French lyrics used later in the episode that really get me. Izzy sings this:

Which translates to this:

"He speaks words of love to me/ They are every day words/ And they do something to me.

"He has entered into my heart/ A bit of happiness/ That I know the cause of.

"It's only him for me/ And me for him, for life/ He told me, he swore to me, for life."

It's that last verse that the English version just wouldn't be able to capture. The translated version of that verse is about angels and love songs and mentions nothing of a vow to love one another for life.

That's what's so special to me about the French version of the song being used in that moment. Edith Piaf sings as a person who has lived through so much pain and suffering (which she definitely did as a French woman living through World War II) and finally finds comfort and peace in the arms of her beloved.

That is ultimately what Ed and Stede are for one another. Safe harbors, calm waters, peaceful days and nights in each other's presence. They bicker and argue and hurt one another, but they always come back together so easily. Stede was hurt and needed reassurance, needed to prove to himself that he wasn't a whim, needed to feel the security of Ed in his arms. And perhaps they shouldn't have gone all the way that night, but they're both impulsive and obsessed with each other and they needed something.

It's that song that lets me know they're gonna be okay. They're intense and impulsive but they compliment each other. They fit together perfectly, and they find comfort in one another no matter what's happened to them in the past. They need their harbors, their anchors, each other. They'd never leave each other behind. They make each other's lives la vie en rose.

(Edit: fixed a translation error)

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[aziracrowsgf]

rip izzy hands you'll be missed

#ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2 #ofmd #ofmd spoilers #ofmd 2 #our flag means death spoilers #our flag means death s2 #our flag means death #izzy hands #ofmd izzy

[a-sassy-bench]

wee john and izzy are cuddling in the back

i will never get over this

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[thebootstrap-paradox]

Last shot of Ed in s1 and last shot of Ed in s2

#Ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death s2 #our flag means death #our flag means death spoilers #blackbeard ofmd #ofmd 2 #ofmd season 2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 spoilers #ed teach #edward teach #blackbonnet #ofmd blackbeard #blackbeard #gentlebeard

[kjthenbee]

god stede’s fruitiness got cranked up to 1000 as soon as he started wearing that red suit. that was the real “curse” (and I loved every second of it)

#rhys really hammed it up in so many of his ep 5 scenes god bless him #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death spoilers #our flag means death s2 #our flag means death s2 spoilers #our flag means death season 2 #ofmd s2e5 #stede bonnet #rhys darby #gay pirate show #our flag means death season 2 spoilers

[cliopadra]

Out of all the wildly unrealistic things to happen in OFMD, I still think Ed managing to put on leathers under water is probably the most ridiculous.

#our flag means death #our flag means death s2 #ed teach #blackbeard #cliopadra blabbers on #my art #my art crap

[existential-queeer]

Having Lucius aboard that ship and having his first line this season be "Hey Queen" while doing his signature strut into that room was not the entrance I wanted, but it was exactly the entrance I didn't know I needed.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #our flag means death s2 #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death spoilers #lucius spriggs #black pete #nathan foad

[themistymountainscold]

GUYS LOOK AT THEIR HANDS

FRENCHIE AND IZZY ARE HOLDING HANDS

FRECHIE IS COMFORTING HIM BY HOLDING HIS FUCKING HAND

YALL IMMA GO FUCKING FERAL

#i know izzy is crying but imma still freak tf out about ouizzy #ofmd #our flag means death #gay #frenchie #frenchie ofmd #izzy hands #ofmd s2 #our flag means death s2 #ouizzy

[bumidoodles]

Blackbeard's season 2 crew

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #our flag means death s2 #our flag means death season 2 #jim jimenez #frenchie ofmd #fang ofmd #ofmd gifs #my gifs

[ridleymocki]

(seeing so many bad faith interpretations of the argument, y'all are really going to make me do this, okay HERE WE GO)

.................................

What Ed says: "I think last night was a mistake. I'm not ready for... Whatever this is."

What Ed means: "I didn't want last night to happen so soon or under those circumstances. Things are changing rapidly, which makes me feel out of control and scared."

What Stede hears: "I regret sleeping with you. I don't want the sort of relationship that you're after."

.................................

What Stede says: "It was a fine fish. It was... whatever. I was just trying to make you feel good!"

What Stede means: "I only cared about the fish because you cared about it, and I care about you. I liked the fish because it made you happy. Ordinarily, I'm ambivalent about fish."

What Ed hears: "I lied to you. I didn't care about your achievement I was just placating you to get what I wanted."

.................................

What Ed says: "Here's the news: I'm leaving. I got a job on a little fishing boat and I'm leaving. I'm a fisherman now."

What Ed means: "I think I need to be away from you to figure out who I am, because I haven't been able to do that while we're together, and your lifestyle now is the life I'm trying to leave behind."

What Stede hears: "I've made a decision to leave you and have a life without you. I don't value what we have enough to work with you to find a solution, I'd prefer to end it."

.................................

What Stede says: "Oh, Ed. Seriously? You're not a fisherman."

What Stede means: "I think you're using this plan to escape and avoid your problems. It sounds like you're pretending to be someone else. It seems to me like an impulsive decision and I am concerned."

What Ed hears: "I don't support this ambition. I think you're incapable. I don't think you can be different from what you have always been."

.................................

This is the kind of analysis done in therapeutic environments. When I put what they mean, it's not just a rephrasing but a boiling down to the core issue. I could go on to the rest of the dialogue but do you see the continuing ship-in-the-night miscommunication?? It's tripartite:

failing to express one's current emotional reality with the most accurate and clear language, often because that reality is not fully understood to oneself,

misinterpreting the other's language, due to preexisting sensitivities and defensiveness about one's own understanding of the situation,

increasing frustration and sense of personal attack that results from those misinterpretations, which perpetuates and worsens the poor communication.

Importantly, this kind of pattern means you miss the best and most important kernels of communication in an exchange because you're reacting to the more inflammatory parts.

Stede: "This can be whatever we want it to be." (I am willing to make changes to our arrangement so that you're happy). Ed: "I don't even know who I am! Alright? I know I don't want to be a pirate. And you, you're blowing up, you're the toast of the town." (I think we want different things. You're just starting a journey that I've already finished).

With those two bits alone they could've sorted this out. The first is the answer to the second. But they didn't -- couldn't -- latch onto it because all their other baggage was getting in the way.

And I'm being proven correct that this is what is happening, because I have seen next to nothing on here about the above two lines, only reactionary takes of fans also focusing on the inflammatory parts because of their predispositions. You're doing an encore performance of what they're doing.

Point being, there are no bad guys in this scene, just repeated system failure!

#our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #blackbonnet #ofmd #edward teach #stede bonnet #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death s2 #ofmd meta #something something cracking up on the rocks #cocktail name? my mental state? who knows!