as much as i desperately wanted and would’ve loved to see an anne bonny and mary read kiss on screen, it makes a lot of sense in context why we didn’t.
OBVIOUSLY, anne and mary have been in a relationship for a long time. they have the same attitudes as those middle-aged/old people that think it’s fun or funny to “hate” their spouse, which is really hurtful and toxic to the ones involved, and makes those around them uncomfortable, but they brush it off as “oh you don’t get it, but you will.” we don’t see them kiss at all because the way they “love” each other is by finding new ways to hurt each other (“keeping things fresh”), and kissing is more intimate. their relationship isn’t intimate because they aren’t in that “intimate” headspace—they just view themselves as “stuck” with the other.
it’s not until ed and stede point out how fucked up their relationship is that they finally reveal the real reasons why they’re constantly at each other’s throats: mary hates that they’re cut off from people, living on a random, low traffic island, and attempting (and failing) to sell a bunch of old shit while anne resents that mary doesn’t want to go back to pirating and being adventurous cause she’s afraid she’s too old.
mary and ed both hold on to the same bitterness: that love dies, that there’s no excitement except waiting to see how you’re gonna cark it. they both wanted out of pirating—mary got the “retirement” package ed had wanted with stede in china, and it turns out she fucking hates sitting still (“i wasn’t made for sitting idle”). she has to do a lot of the manual labor (trapping, killing, prepping food) and hates anne’s cuckoo clock; not only is it annoying but is probably just another reminder of her life ticking by without moving.
anne and stede both have an eye for fine things and are collectors, but anne’s antiques are EVERYWHERE, piled up on top of each other, a huge safety hazard and useless since it’s just sitting around not being sold. anne got to keep her “fine things,” but it’s choking out her relationship with mary. anne craves adventure and anything (or anyone) new, so she immediately latches on to stede, someone she can relate to and is another opportunity to hurt her partner.
after their fight, anne disappears and slams the door behind her, much like stede did when he left. i think anne realizes they both want the same thing and they were just doing what they had been doing cause they each thought that’s what the other wanted, but they’ve never actually talked about it. so anne burns her collection, their house, all of the shit keeping them stuck there, and tells mary they’re free, they can do whatever they want.
both anne and stede torched their lives so they could be with the people they loved and wouldn’t have anything holding them down, then came back with a new perspective and more love than they had before. mary looked at anne in awe, like she couldn’t believe anne would really change for her, then acceptance when she realized they could finally move on. (we get that expression of awe from ed later after buttons transmogrified into a gull, then a look of acceptance as he flies away, because ed realized, “holy fucking shit, people do change, and maybe i can, too.”)
hugging is a form of comfort, and i think anne and mary needed the comfort a hug provides much more than the intimacy a kiss gives. they needed the space to ask for forgiveness, and then give and receive it. hugging gave them that space and that forgiveness.
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Ed's speech to the crew though? He's so awkward! That's the guy who used to command crews with his charisma, who charmed a whole boat of aristocrats (at least for a moment). It's like he's so good at playing a role and looking larger than life while wearing a mask, but without it, he's just a guy, and he doesn't even have any idea how to actually be just a guy. He's a stammering mess!
I love that we get to see him trying to find his footing with the crew. Fishing with Fang. Unable to sit still and shut up long enough to catch a fish. Letting Lucius push him off the ship because he thinks that'll help. Talking to the door he's fixing. Jingling his little bell all the time because he just can't be still.
Turning Stede's line back on him. Kissing Stede (while jiggling his little bell!), asking to take things slow because they're both whim-prone and he wants to be patient. Holding hands is perfect though. I love him so much.
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Going off this image, Oh-So-Advanced Eden Academy 6-year-olds have not been taught fractions
AKA how to split imaginary pizzas evenly
…Such as somebody gets a half, or someone can delicately cut each macaron into five equal triangles, times 4 times, so nobody has to fight over them.
But obviously math is too hard for the audience, especially a show that’s supposed to turn your brain off
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So like….. ep 4- theres a claw machine
And the stuffed animal (looks like a fox or something, idk if that’s important) seems to be the one from the OP
And Xixi (the little girl, I hope that’s her name) is theorized to be red eyes. And red eyes appears with this stuffed animal in the OP-
So like is this confirmation? OMG I just realized this as I am typing- the hair style of red eyes in the photo above is the same as Xixi’s- they both have pigtails-
Xixi is red eyes confirmed???
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Anya: “But [the sheep] look the same😐”
Becky: “You can ignore that part for the sake of the story!”
Becky is Wattpad
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