#so. many. fucking flags

[daftmooncretin]

you may be entitled to emotional compensation

#WHY THE FUCK DID I MAKE THIS #i think momentarily my body was inhibited by an otherworldly force #but also i have many thoughts about stizzy #especially the izzy hands hand placement ™️ #anyway they cute yall they so cute #stizzy #gentlehands #steddyhands #ofmd #gay #our flag means gay #our flag means death #izzy hands #stede bonnet #ofmd spoilers

[bizarrelittlemew]

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2 | BLACK PETE favorite lines/moments (all of them)

#or like. as many as i could fit #and manage to make before i got too exhausted aksjdhjsk this took hours #i love black pete so much and matt is fucking hilarious #ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #ofmdedit #ofmdsource #ofmd gifs #ida.stuff #black pete #pete ofmd #matthew maher

[summerlinenss]

here’s the thing.

if you’re one of the people celebrating our flag means death’s cancellation for whatever reason right now, i need you to realize that this is just a sign that whatever you love is next.

and i’m not saying that out of spite. having your favourite show cancelled is awful, i wouldn’t wish it on anyone. but if our little-gay-pirate-show-that-could can’t get its third and final season, the future of queer media is extremely grim.

ofmd was the definition of a sleeper hit. hbo max had no faith in it when the first season came out. it gained popularity purely through word-of-mouth. but it became one of max’s biggest shows, and it’s since been marketed as their flagship series.

it was the #1 most in-demand series in the world for 8 weeks (7 of those weeks consecutively). it’s currently in the 99.7th percentile of the comedy genre, meaning it’s in higher demand than 99.7% of all comedy series in the u.s. it has a 94% audience and critics score on rotten tomatoes. it’s the most in-demand hbo original series even above euphoria, succession, and the last of us.

it was nominated for 16 awards for the first season alone, including a GLAAD award and a peabody award. the second season was just nominated for an art directors guild award, which it was previously nominated for and won in the same category for season one.

besides awards, ofmd is critically-acclaimed and praised for its representation (including a cast of majority queer, bipoc, and disabled characters) and themes of anti-colonialism, challenging gender norms/toxic masculinity, and self-discovery/acceptance. it also has a diverse team of directors and writers consisting of several bipoc, women, and queer/trans/non-binary people.

on top of all of this, the plan for the show all along was only ever for three seasons. david jenkins only wanted three seasons for the full romcom structure to tell ed and stede’s story. that’s it. nothing more.

this isn’t an attempt to make you care about the show. but ofmd’s cancellation isn’t just a loss for the fanbase and the cast/crew. it’s a sign that it does not matter how successful or profitable shows highlighting lgbtq+ (or otherwise inclusive) narratives are or how many big names are involved. ofmd would not have been cancelled if it were a straight romcom. they would’ve magically found the budget. but corporate greed doesn’t care about us. they have no respect for queer people or queer media. and in the age of streaming, it’s only a matter of time until we lose all of it.

#also if you’re happy that ‘taika waititi’s pirate show got cancelled’ because of baseless accusations against him #1) it’s not taika’s show. it’s david jenkins’ show. #taika is just an actor/director/EP #2) even if you don’t like him celebrating the cancellation of a show because someone was falsely accused of zionism #especially when that person (like it or not) is a huge voice for minorities and is the reason so many of them get to tell their stories #is gross and makes you a gross person! #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd season 3 #save ofmd #renew as a crew #fuck david zaslav #queer media

[naranjapetrificada]

Just a small thing I noticed while being totally normal about the gay pirates:

I've watched The Kiss™ way too many times a normal number of times and my favorite moment is the series of microexpressions Rhys cycles through while Stede is reacting to "what makes Ed happy is...you" because it's just so lovely and masterfully done. While trying to find a good gif of just that moment (no luck so far!) I noticed something that happens while Ed is pulling Stede in.

Stede, darling honey light of my life, clueless useless "oblivious" gay that he is, tilts his head a bit and leans into the kiss too. Before it's even started. On some level he registers that This Is Happening in time to react in a positive way, even before their lips have touched.

Our boy is a creature of instinct, and when he acts on his emotional instincts without thinking too much he knocks so much shit out of the park. Instinct is part of why "you wear fine things well" hits as hard as it does. Instinct is how he can woo Ed as easily as he does. Instinct is how they were able connect so deeply so quickly, because his instinct is to be open and non-judgemental to this beautiful man waiting beside his sickbed and asking about fine fabrics.

Stede's thoughts are still too clouded by his trauma and self-loathing to be useful for him, and he can end up thinking too much about what he "should" do or what other people do. Thinking is part of the reason he's so quick to believe Chauncey in the woods. Thinking means succumbing to beliefs about his perceived worthlessness, which leads to his biggest mistakes. Thinking tells him to adjust what he says about Blackbeard in that tavern of townies, when his instinct was to say how "absolutely lovely" Ed is.

Obviously man cannot live by instinct alone, like he definitely should have thought for a minute about making a deal with Geraldo to fence the hostage. Stede needs to learn to balance the two and when to listen to either/both of them. But I was just so excited to see him leaning in the way he does because it underlines a feeling I've had for a minute, which is that Stede's instincts are those of someone crushing and then falling in love, and that never wavers.

He lacks the context and vocabulary to identify what's going on without outside intervention, but he also deeply gets it in a way that's extremely queer and that I hope starts showing up more in the fanon. I do a little happy dance every time I see this in people's fics and I just need so many more of them! Give me more eager Stede who is Ready To Go once he's given the right context for his feelings about Ed!

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta #our flag means death meta #meta #no but for real Eager Stede Bonnet is a fucking delight to encounter #no thoughts detected in that well-coiffed little head of his #and when it comes to emotions at least things work out better for him #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #stede bonnet #I think I've also written meta before about how Stede Bonnet Sex God™ isn't a joke and it's his instincts! #it's why so many fics have him lacking in previous experience but not in creativity or enthusiasm #his relationship to instinct also feels autistic to me for relatable reasons but that's a whole other thing #ofmd spoilers #The Kiss™

[antichrists-plus1]

Watching the dynamic between bonny and read vs stede and ed in s2 ep4 was such a rollercoaster cause it went from me thinking "oh no they're just like stede and ed but if they actually ran off to China together and had a loving happy relationship" to me getting further into the ep and thinking "oh no they're just like stede and ed but if they ran off to China together and their relationship turned fucked up and toxic cause that's what happens when two traumatized pirates run of to live in isolation with eachother on a whim".

#I love the dynamic between those four it was so awkward and fucked up #They are literally parralells of eachother its driving me insane #It's also kinda nice in a way cause it offers a sense of closer knowing that them running off would've been a bad idea #And now that they've seen that first hand they're trying to work on their relationship slowly #I have so many feelings and thoughts that my brain has yet to process #And probably won't until maybe my 4th rewatch #Also bonny and read were so hannigram but that's another conversation #Ok rant over onto the fandom tags #ofmd 2 #ofmd #our flag means death #gentlebeard #ofmd spoilers #blackstede #anne bonny #mary read #antichrists thoughts

[fleshadept]

the love story being so central to our flag means death really is mindblowing. i haven’t stopped thinking about it for months. it is, to its core, a romance. that was the point. the queer romance wasn’t written in in the second or third season because the fandom picked up on the homoeroticism and made a ship popular. it wasn’t added in because the fans demanded it or because the actors pushed for it later on it wasn’t forced into slowburn by a network it was there the whole time.

when stede showed ed his secret closet that was on purpose an allegory, when they shared the marmalade bread that was romantic intentionally, when they rowed away from the burning party boat and ed was looking at stede that was him FALLING IN LOVE . that's how it was WRITTEN. ed really actually leaned in and almost kissed stede in the moonlight scene. and then. they actually kissed! like i know this is months old news now but i can’t get over how fucking different this feels to other queer romances i’ve seen. it is the core and central plot of the show and it’s beautiful. it’s funny it’s cute it’s heartwarming it’s GOOD. they did it.

#i cannot emphasize how good it feels to have a queer story #at all first of all #but also a queer romance that didn't require the writers/network to be held at gunpoint for several seasons before allowing it to happen #comparing it to hannibal is interesting because hannibal was very much trying to be an openly queer story it was just airing on NBC #from 2013-2015 #so they couldn't #but even that wasn't planned until later on like it wasn't MEANT to be queer from the beginning #i have said before this show healed a part of my soul #sorry guys i'm emo today! #cricket chirps #just like. i knew they kissed when i STARTED the show and even then i refused to look at the obviously romantic scenes as romantic!!! #because so many fucking shows play it off as a joke or use it as queerbait or WHATEVER #ofmd #our flag means death #5k

[keeperofthebees]

being a pirate is kinda gay. what are you plundering? men?

#ofmd #our flag means death #because so fucking many of you use this comparison it's stupid and i love it #stede bonnet #blackbeard #edward teach #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #ofmd izzy hands #izzy hands

[asoulwithadream]

if only we fucking knew about the new goth uniforms

THEY WERE SO OBVIOUS ABOUT IT

and we said nothing

#THE HAIR #WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN #and the black clothes #plus one earring #and the earring looks like the dagger on stede's flag #parallel with oluwandes? #parallel with stede/ed's new pearl earrings? #so many fucking clues #and we were none the wiser #we're going to get a cutlass this season i tell you #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 speculation #goth uniforms #goth pirates #jim #jim jimenez #jim jimenez new hair #ofmd spoilers

[spirker]

Stede made this instagram post for Ed today.

#it took him fucking ages too #and he used so many hashtags #ofmd #our flag means death #happy two years everyone #ed teach #stede bonnet

[theofficialpresidentoftheusa]

God truly no one is doing it like Ed and Stede. Met, became besties, fell in love, kissed, broke up, got back together, kissed again, fucked, broke up again, kissed again, said I love you, and moved in together- all within a year. Every other ship is like, yeah we’ve known each other for over a decade, yeah we’ve known each other for thousands of years, and we’re definitely in love but severely repressing our feelings. Just not going to communicate one bit thank you very much. Yes it’s detrimental to our relationship and we’re both suffering. No we’re not going to do anything about it.

#ofmd #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #this is specifically @ #aziracrow #nandermo #but applicable to like destiel and so many others obviously #our flag means death #git good everybody else they’re speedrunning this shit and they’re fucking killing it

[lydiajoypalmer]

27 - Calico Jack “give him the ole fuckeye”

#calico jack #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd art #notethegusto #i hate calico jack so much you guys #you know how so many of you feel about izzy THATS how i feel about calico #izzy can stay but FUCK this guy

[animatedzephyrus]

Nah... someone explain to me why our brain just goes “He's hot” or “She's hot” at a fictional character that you know very well, if they existed in real life, you would stay the HELL away from.

Is there some sort of scientific effect that little lines and circles on a screen, voiced by different people, talking a different language has on us?

#anime and manga #be fucking for real with me #I'm obsessed #it's just sad #moriarty the patriot #mtp sherlock #mtp william #sherlock holmes #william james moriarty #louis james moriarty #albert james moriarty #yuukoku no moriarty #yuumori #bungou gay dogs #bungou stray dogs #dazai osamu #chuuya nakahara #gojo satoru #geto suguru #and so many others... #so many red flags.. #yet somehow #everyone is just hot.

[calciferstims]

“you don’t know the first thing about piracy. it’s not about glory, it’s about belonging to something.”

– our flag means death (2022 - ?)

sources: 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 | ☠️🏴‍☠️☠️ | 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

#LISTEN. LISTEN. I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT THIS QUOTE AND THIS SHOW RN BUT IM SO ARTBLOCKED SO I HAD TO EXPRESS IT ALL SOMEHOW. #SO NOW YOU HAVE THIS. PLEASE TAKE IT. #UNFORTUNATELY THE CONCEPT OF ‘queer joy and community but specifically for pirates’ IS A BIT OF A TRICKY THING TO CONDENSE INTO A FEW GIFS #BUT I TRIED MY BEST GODDAMNIT #*grabs you forcefully by the lapels* I HAVE SOOOOOO MANY FEEELINGGGGGSSS. I LOVE THIS SHOWWWW. WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK BABY. #ok ok let me tag things properly before I explode #stimboard #ofmd #our flag means death #queer #lgbtq #ocean #water #guitar #instruments #sunset #kiss #kissing #stim board #my boards #personal boards #orange #pink #purple #rainbow #yes literally only one character plays an instrument. yes I still put the guitar in. #I couldn’t find any more rainbow gifs I liked for this ok #also the Jim + olu gif cropped horribly but I could NOT fucking resist putting it in there I’m OBSESSED w that clip 😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺🥺 #they…

[her-soliloquies]

What, a handshake? Fuck you, just hug already!

- Me watching mota part nine waiting with bated breath for the bucks to hug

#there was so many things about this last episode of mota that I'll be thinking about #rosie in the concentration camp #buck running and bucky having to stay behind #buck coming back to his stuff untouched bc bucky insisted he was coming back #the lucky duce #bucky and the flag #john at THE FUCKING TOWER CALLING BUCK GALE #‘STONE IN MY SHOE’ ‘OH I'M BACK’ #the absolutely happy smiles #and not even one hug? #boy was I delusional for expecting a hug #masters of the air #mota #mota spoilers #clegan #gale cleven #gale buck cleven #john egan #bucky egan #john bucky egan #bucky x buck #buck x bucky #buckbucky #robert rosie rosenthal #imma go camp in ao3 #oh wait I meant deuce

[crownspeaksblog]

How the hell does ofmd manage to give me everything i love about tv shows, in one show?!!

It's funny, silly, stupid but somehow at the same time it's serious, deep and well thought out!

Characters change and develop in prominent ways, characters have arcs, what they go through affects them, things aren't stagnant. (1x01 stede is a coward who's trying to hide from the English, 2x08 stede throws himself over 2 soldiers, he's brave despite the fact he's out numbered. 1x04 ed wants to quit piracy but doesn't know how, 2x08 ed quits piracy a second time with stede even when the first time doesn't work out)

It's a beautiful romance, a queer romance between two people who have insane chemistry, a love story that has ups and downs, but in the end they're right there for eachother because what they have is True Love!

The show is shot so beautifully, it doesn't look boring, so many shows I've watched (although entertaining) are shot in the most boring/basic ways possible, ofmd has so many gorgeous still shots, a couple of fun one shots! (The bar fight one shot in 2x07 deserves more attention! Mer!stede and ed looking at eachother while floating in the water is genuinely one of the most beautiful shots I've ever seen!)

The outfits characters wear changes with their arcs and it makes sense story wise and the outfits are just so fun looking, it's interesting and different and so, so not basic. (Stede going from aristocratic silly little outfits to pirate shirts with deep neck openings and leather pants!! Hot! Also can't wait to see eds s3 outfit.)

The song choice is fun, the lyrics, beautifully add another layer to the story (I'm still not over the "I've loved him since he was born" lyric!)

The women in this show, although few and not main characters, they're interesting, different and not basic "normal" women, so many shows and movies I've watched, the men get to be weird, kooky and interesting while the women are just painfully normal, but in ofmd, the few women we got are either insane, wild, weird, violent or just not fucking "normal"! (the most "normal" woman we have is probably mary who was gonna stab her husband with a skewer through the earhole!! Also the addition of archie, former snake cult member is just amazing!)

The action we get every once in a while is just so fun! I love a fight scene and for the most part, they look good, it looks well done (again the bar fight and ed killing motherfuckers left, right and center in 2x08 is just so goddamn fun to watch!)

I know so many other shows have most of these things, but the fact ofmd has all of these things, that i just fucking love in one show is amazing, it's appreciated and on top of all of this, the show just makes me happy whether I'm watching it or watching people's reactions to it or even just thinking about it! I love this show even with the criticisms i might have, i love it!

#just had to talk about what i love about this show maybe I'm forgetting some but I'm pretty sure I'm not #but like seriously how many shows actually have all of these things?! #alot of shows have most of these things except for the female characters being wild/not normal and the queer love story aspect. #recently i watched nope and a thought i had was why is the kooky crazy character thats gonna die to get the perfect show is never played #by a woman. why is the calm collected cowboy who saves the day is never played by a woman?!! why is it that most times men play them?!!! #anyways i love ofmd. it's unique and just so fucking fun! #ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #ofmd spoilers #blackbonnet #tv shows #👑

[egberts]

I'm just gonna start blocking people who send me essay length asks trying to argue about stupid shit because their personal experience was different

#the person who said american schools dont brainwash kids and proceeded to go on a 700 word rant about all the cool stuff their school did #like dude im sorry your lived experience isnt universal #and learning about the history of countries like mexico and france =/= learning about modern cities in 'third world countries' #so many places dont even offer world history until high school as an elective #like no fucking shit we learned about other countries in school but teaching us the the history of egypt does nothing to help us understand #parts of it are just as modern and lively as like. new york #they literally make us pledge allegiance to the American flag but you're gonna argue kids are taught american idealism because your friend #in texas had mexico DAY in school. like let that sink in. mexico day is your argument against mine #*arent taught