#rocky ledge

[douwatahima]

thinking about episode one of our flag means death ending with "high on a rocky ledge"; a song about taking a leap of faith, dying and being reborn, in order to make a new life with the person you love

thinking about ed, crying in a blanket fort, clinging to a life that's been ripped away from him, thinking he'll die if he doesn't, being asked by a friend, "what if it's not a death? what if life just begins again?"

thinking about stede, spending all of season one stuck between the life society told him he should want and the new life he's created for himself, devising a plan to kill his old self completely so he can go find the man he now knows that he loves

thinking about ed drowning in the gravy basket, fighting against the rock he himself tied around his own waist, getting saved by the sound of stede's voice and the vision of stede that comes to meet him where he is, that stays with him until he's ready to open his eyes

thinking about anne and mary, stuck in a cycle of sadistic games, not communicating how they really feel, finally showing real love to each other when anne burns down the life that's suffocating them and sets them free

thinking about buttons, telling ed "to love the sea as she should be loved requires change", performing seemingly impossible acts of magic to achieve his goal and turning into a seagull before flying off towards the sea

thinking about lucius, stuck in a cycle of reliving his suffering, being told he never talks about how he lived, being told "not moving on is worse", choosing to change and marking that change by asking pete to spend the rest of his life with him

thinking about ed trying to constantly reject parts of himself, to cut out the pieces that keep him up at night, hearing the echoes of stede's screams in his own mind and choosing to embrace his darkness for love this time, rising from the depths of the sea (edward teach reborn on a beach) and immediately coming across a letter from stede echoing back that he is loved he is loved he is loved

thinking about ed and stede waving goodbye to a ship as it sails away and choosing again to change, to try for a life of their own making but this time together as one, starting from the bottom, unsure where to begin, but smiling anyway; "it's got good bones"

thinking about that constant cycle (death and rebirth, death and rebirth), about how it's never too late to become who you are, about how change can seem scary, near impossible at times, but knowing on the other side there is the potential for freedom, for happiness, for love

"dying to be with her wasn't any sacrifice" indeed

#tv: our flag means death #ofmd #wrote this at one in the morning and made myself cry #anyway the point i'm trying to make is ''high on a rocky ledge'' should play in the series finale thank you for coming to my ted talk

[soupbtch]

Thinking about High on a Rocky Ledge and how it serves as the thesis for the show. How the main themes of OFMD are about accepting yourself, accepting that your trauma and difficulties don’t make you unlovable. How to accept that you are multi-faceted without running away from any one part of yourself; of instead being brave enough to face and embrace it. How you are lovable despite and regardless of it all. When you think you are difficult to reach and difficult to love, someone is climbing and fighting to see you and love you. Thinking about the theme of finding love and learning that the best way to cultivate that love is to change and be open to change. Suffer an ego death (or a literal one), let go of what’s holding you down or back, and change so you can grow in love with the one you have waited for to be mated with. How dying to be with the one you love means you can regrow together. How change is a leap of faith or a push off a cliff, but it is worth doing because you understand deep down that you are not alone. You are reborn and returning to something worth fighting for, worth changing for. On the other side, you will push up through the snow together, intertwining your roots in the dirt. Death and rebirth and acceptance and love.

#I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about this song choice #high on a rocky ledge #ofmd #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #edward teach #stede bonnet #our flag means death #I love these gay pirates so much #danny.xls

[didderd]

me and @skelekins have been tossing Snaps and sea bunny Kelek back and forth on our rb blogs, so here's a doodle of one of the scenes from it! :3

(here is a link to the thread so far)

#i will probably b drawing more scenes from this #i love it sm #wanna draw flustered snaps :3 #i was sitting criss cross drawing this n my foot was bouncing in a continuous tic so i decided to add that as best i could #idk if i drew th movement vry well tho #i do like th water #i would hav drawn mor of a bg but idk if i could lmao #i could hav drawn seabun's expression better i feel like :'> #messy render. but i wanna get mor comfortable being messy so 's good #din't know exactly what kinda spot snaps is sitting on so i jus drew vague rocky ledge lmao #kelek #sea bunny kelek #snaps sans #killer tourette's sans #snaps x kelek #snaps x seabun #undertale #undertale au #didderd art #the thread is probably ending with th next update or two but no promises lmao #we got so carried away. n could easily continue to get carried away (or 't least i could. i can't talk for kins)

[gntlbrd]

SOMETHING ABOUT HIGH ON A ROCKY LEDGE

#when i first got obsessed with the show #i listened to this song NON STOP FOR THREE WEEKS #rewatching ep 1 rn if you couldn’t tell #ofmd #high on a rocky ledge #our flag means death #edward teach #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #blackbeard #ed teach #stede bonnet

[cahootings]

of all the needle drops in ofmd none are quite as cathartic and manage to absolutely jack up my heart rate and make me feel so… joyous, victorious, quite like Miles From Nowhere. God what a way to end a season. Unbridled radiant optimism in the face of tragic heartbreak it’s so fucking potent

#ofmd #high on a rocky ledge comes close for sheer emotional impact #actually it’s impossible because every song on this soundtrack hits so goddamn hard. #but every time I hear miles from nowhere I feel like I’m about to launch into space

[devoursjohnlock]

I keep forgetting that this happened this summer

#Rufus Wainwright #David Byrne #High on a Rocky Ledge #ofmd #our flag means death #soundtrack #playlist

[alexibeeart]

High On A Rocky Ledge hits different after season 2 promotional content

#ofmd #our flag means death #fully crying in my car this morning listening to this xx #ofmd s2 spoilers #Bridebeard #Gentlebeard #high on a rocky ledge

[elliart7]

“High on a Rocky Ledge” - Moondog

The way this show is also about breaking cycles of abuse by finally finding the people who love and understand you-

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#yes those are edelweiss flowers #ofmd #our flag means death #blackbonnet #stede bonnet #Edward teach #Blackbeard #high on a rocky ledge #lgbt #art #fanart #digital art #elliart post

[bugwillbite]

"are you ok" no im crying bc "if you would win your lady love, there's only one way: fall to your death from high above, you will begin to grow in snow beside the one you have waited for to be mated with"

#ofmd #ofmd season 2 #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd 2 #high on a rocky ledge

[forestofsprites]

#Those are edelweiss on his shoulder there!! I was gonna caption with High on a Rocky Ledge lyrics but then I realized #if folks don't recognize them then it'll sound really rather odd. So I've landed on a resounding: no caption! #this was just a lighting sketch- but I have some pressed edelweiss in an antique frame across from my desk- so I got #very tempted and then... the sketch received the edelweiss treatment #and now here we are! I'm adding this to my queue so I am unsure when it'll post!! #ofmd #our flag means death #my art #ofmd fanart #our flag means death fanart #stede bonnet #stede bonnet fanart #artists on tumblr #myart

[manforsale]

Then spoke a spirit, "If you would win your Lady Love There's only one way: fall to your death from high above"

#thanks for your help on this z!!! #ofmd #first love/late spring #high on a rocky ledge #billy.txt #🕸🧺 #web weaving

[edenradio]

#high on a rocky ledge #moondog #our flag means death #mp3 audio #mp3 #h'art songs #1970s

[po-1-yb-1-us]

ofmd fans dont talk about high on a rocky ledge enough

#ofmd #its even more tragic considering. recent developments. #i think about this song on a regular basis it makes me crying throwing up sad #dying to be with her wasnt any sacrifice #high on a rocky ledge

[prydeparade]

Under the cut you'll find a few OFMD weekly planner pages. This was a 100% self indulgent project, but then I thought they were pretty cute so I figured what the hell, might as well share them. Keep an eye out for a second batch soon. Enjoy!

#our flag means death #ofmd #edward teach #stede bonnet #izzy hands #lucius spriggs #jim jimenez #buttons and karl #because I'm me and extra there's flower symbolism in this #lucius has chrysanthemum for longevity fidelity joy and optimism amongst other things #stede has edelweiss for strength courage bravery and love also my heart flips over High on a Rocky Ledge SO #and izzy has gladiolus for loyalty strength and infatuation #someone pls talk to me about flowers and pirates #samedits

[chocolatepot]

I've been meaning to sit down and write out all of my thoughts on "High on a Rocky Ledge" because that song does something to me and every time I listen to it my brain is like !!!!! and I grin hopelessly.

I totally get why this song isn't a Big Deal in the fandom, because it's used before Ed comes on the scene at all. But I'm going to ramble on now about why it affects me so much, because I keep thinking up these points and not jotting them down.

So the context where it's used in the first episode, when Stede is reading to the crew. It sounds a lot like a lullaby, positioning him as their father (along with the fact that he's ... reading a child's story to the crew), for all those found-family feels.

He's also dressed in blue and in bluish moonlight which just makes for an excellent image.

Moondog sounds like some kind of traveling pre-modern singer who travels from village to village, and we all (we are peasants in this scenario) gather around him at the fire at night and listen to him sing his strange stories. This one has an otherworldly edge to it, there is a truth behind it that we can't quite reach.

The tune is quite lonely. Stede has always been lonely. He's definitely a lot less lonely with his crew, who are finally on his side at this point in the episode, but he's still alone. He doesn't really have a second-in-command the way (we will find out) that Ed does.

He doesn't even know that he has a SOULMATE out there, just waiting for him to come along! He thinks he's about as happy as he'll ever be - away from his marriage and boring life, on a ship with a crew that finally seems to accept him. He doesn't know what we know!!

The song itself! Man!

High on a rocky ledge lives a Mädel Edelweiß Shy as a shadow, lovely as lace, and cold as ice High on a rocky ledge, I pledge my love to her Ev'ry time I climb up to Paradise

How many times I've been up to see her, goodness knows Huffing and puffing, dressed in the warmest climbing clothes How many chances would be taken in my Hopeless pursuit of the Schnee Mädel Edelweiß

Then spoke a spirit, "If you would win your lady love There's only one way: fall to your death from high above You will begin to grow in snow beside the one You have waited for to be mated with"

Now, I'm an Edel vice to my Mädel Edelweiß Dying to be with her wasn't any sacrifice We're so deliriously happy on our ledge Where I pledge my love to my Lady Fair

You who are climbing breathless to see me and my love Snow flowers growing fonder on Lover's Ledge above If you've the yen to pluck, then pluck us both For we who have lived as one wish to die as one

So like it's all about a love that's hopeless on the face of it - a man is in love with a flower. He wants to be with the flower but he's a human and she's a flower so it won't work. Some kind of magical being tells him that if he falls off the mountain, he'll be reincarnated as a flower as well, so he does it and it works. That's DARK and weird.

It parallels himself and Ed, who are born to such extremely different positions that they might as well be a human and a flower.

In some ways, Stede is the narrator of the song - he has to die in order to be with the one he loves. This happens multiple times: he's said to have died when he leaves his family to be a pirate (a transformation), he gets stabbed and hanged and nearly dies of the fever as well at the time of his meeting Ed (very liminal), he fakes his own death to be said to have died more truthfully and get closure so that he can be fully with Ed.

At the same time, Stede is the flower. Stede loves flowers (and he has been treated like shit his whole life for it); he's picking flowers in the flashback where he's tied to the oars of a rowboat. He is definitely a figure of beauty to Ed, and kind of a damsel in distress - this guy who doesn't know what the hell he's doing as a pirate, who needs to be rescued from himself. (And "lovely as lace", something definitely associated with Stede.)

And that ending: "If you've the yen to pluck, then pluck us both / For we who have lived as one wish to die as one." Hooooooo. A definite parallel to the ending of the season - Ed tying himself to Stede rather than allowing him to be killed.

#high on a rocky ledge #ofmd #our flag means death #okay I think I'm done now #ed x stede #ed/stede #blackbonnet #ofmd meta

[ineffabeatlemindpalace]

How today(‘s run) has been, in short form: The sunset on my run was beautiful, the sky had no business being this many colours. Then my thoughts might have wandered to a particular Tumblr post and I tripped and fell flat down on my knees. It didn’t hurt so bad, not as much as the bad news anyway *pauses dramatically*. Again, the world had no damn right looking this bright. Songs from a certain soundtrack came on and I stopped for a moment to take in the familiar view of the wide open field. Nature radiating hope despite life’s challenges.

#we’re having minus temperatures atm which is so good #running #nature is healing #ofmd #our flag means death #personal #seabird #the chain #high on a rocky ledge #just stuff in my head #couldn’t take a picture because i’m on running with my watch on and the camera wouldn’t have captured it #<3 #my mum had a serious accident before nye where she fell so i shouldn’t be laughing about this x