#taika

[ourflagmeansbts]

Source (Season 2 - November 12th 2023)

Leslie Jones: Spanish Jackie is one of the best roles i ever played!! Such a great story snd they made me a badd ass with 20 husbands and wives! I loved it!! Its a muthafucking vibe!

#ofmd #ofmd bts #our flag means death #our flag means death bts #leslie #taika #con #samba #nat #lesliejones #2023 #s2 #s2e7

[ijustliketoedit]

ofmd bts pt 6

#ofmd #our flag means death hbo #our flag is death #our flag meets death #our flag means gay #our flag means death #our flag means death finale #our flag means death spoilers #ijustliketoedit #taika #taika waititi #rhys darby #rhys #stede bonnet #blackbeard #jim jiminiez #vico ortiz #joel fry #frenchie ofmd #david jenkins #izzy #izzy hands ofmd #izzy hands #con o'neill #samba schutte #ofmd bts #ofmd behind the scenes #ofmd edits #ofmd edit #behind the scenes

[sunbeamedskies]

I've seen a lot of troubling antisemitism in the Our Flag Means Death fandom lately regarding Taika Waititi. Please hear me out.

A lot of people want everyone to comment about the Israel/Palestine war. It's understandable. What Palestinian civilians are going through in Gaza is a nightmare that no one deserves. They are overwhelmingly paying the price for Hamas' actions- a group they have no control over and are also harmed by. Thousands have been killed.

After October 7th, Taika signed a letter asking for the Israeli hostages to be released. It did not endorse any specific actions taken by the Israeli government- it was simply in support of the hostages.

But you know what he was immediately accused of?

Supporting genocide. Even though what he signed was about Israeli civilians- including the elderly, disabled, and children- who were being held captive by Hamas.

On October 7th, Jews died in a single day in numbers that hadn't been since the Holocaust. Israel contains half the world's entire Jewish population. The majority of its population are descendants of Jews from middle eastern and north African countries who were forcibly kicked out in violent pogroms and had nowhere else to go. Many are descendants of Holocaust survivors as well.

I think most non-Jews would be astounded at how much the majority of the worldwide Jewish community is still mourning and reeling from October 7th. It triggered a lot of intergenerational trauma in many of us, yet I hear barely any non-Jews talk about it.

And yet you immediately accused Taika, a Jewish man, of supporting genocide just because he didn't support hostages being taken and random civilians being murdered. Do you really think he trusts people not to twist his words if he attempts to talk about Palestine too, when you turned a moment of legitimate pain for members of one of the persecuted groups he's apart of into accusing him of being a genocide-supporting monster?

We Jews not only have to deal with the memory of October 7th, but also with people conflating any support for the hostages with support for the Israeli government. When we say that criticism of Israel can at times get antisemitic, this is the kind of thing we're talking about.

Many of us are simultaneously mourning for Palestine and horrified that a right-wing fascist government that has little care for Palestinian lives has taken over Israel. Innocent lives taken shouldn't justify the killing of other innocent lives, and we are watching it happen, feeling powerless.

And it gets worse, because targeting Taika specifically because he's a person of multiple marginalized identities, when you don't attack white members of the crew nearly as much, is ironically racist.

Unintentional antisemitism and unintentional racism is still antisemitism and racism.

Take a deep breath and please reflect on how you have no idea what it's like to be Jewish right now, and how some of your own antisemitic criticism about his signature has likely contributed to his silence about Palestine. If no matter what he says his words and actions are twisted by so many of his "fans", he might think there's nothing he can say that will do any good.

#our flag means death #our flag means gay #ofmd #taika #taika waititi #stede bonnet #ed x stede #blackbeard #lgbtq+ #lgtbq #queer #jewish #jews #jew #judaism #anti semitism #social justice #antisemitism #left #fandom #social issues #gay #bi #reflect #rhys darby #trauma #jewish history #shoah #poc #racist

[sherlockig]

#ofmd #our flag means death #ed teach #edward teach #taika

[dickfuckk]

Same, Leslie [x]

#i fucking screamed fgdhsjakl #leslie jones #taika waititi #taika #ofmd #our flag means death #every time i watch this i laugh my god

[youshouldseemeinadeerstalker]

The Foot Touch - “It was nice” from the Emmy FYC Our Flag Means Death Panel

#it took so long to make those gd gifs #if anyone gifed this scene in the meantime #i'm sorry #x #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd FYC panel #our flag means death FYC panel #ofmd panel #our flag means death panel #the foot touch #rhys darby #taika waititi #rhys #taika #the things they say in this is2g #my gifs

[blumcamp]

same

#introvert #introversion #taika #taika waititi #OFMD #our flag means death #thor #thor love and thunder #Twitter #daily life

[aleksmaximoff]

how many comic book bros do you think walked out of the theater at the mention of Korg's gay dads? and how many of those ended up seething when they went home and found out Korg is also gay?

#hahaha #i hate cbm twitter #love and thunder spoilers #marvel #avengers #marvel cinematic universe #mcu #marvel movies #korg #thor love and thunder #love and thunder #thor #thor ragnarok #taika #taika waititi #thank you taika #jane foster #mighty thor #king valkyrie #valkyrie #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbt characters #lgbt representation #lgbtq representation #lgbtq characters

[wavygrayvy]

Thread by @/vilbbit on twitter

#DONT REBLOG THIS VERSION THERE’S 4 PARTS #i spent way too long figuring out how I wanted to break this up with the photo limit #taika waititi #taika #ofmd #our flag means death

[guydog]

letting you know i will never recover from this

#this made me so happy #and im just crying since i saw him . he's the cutest human being for me at this point of my life #taika waititi #mtv ema #rita ora #taika #🦦

[volkradugiart]

Our Flag Means Death

Ed Teach and  Stede Bonnet

#ourflagmeansdeath #our flag means death #ofmd #waititi #taika #smoke #slash #Hurt/Comfort #lgbt #pirate #gentleman #darby #bun #Blackbeard

[ourflagmeansbts]

Source (Season 2 - November 6th 2023)

ourflagonmax: It's been a pirate's pleasure sailing with you all this season... Don't miss the final episode of #OurFlagMeansDeath Season 2, out now. 🏴‍☠️

#ofmd #ofmd bts #our flag means death #our flag means death bts #s2 #s2e8 #ourflag #leslie #rhys #samson #madeleine #vico #matthew #samba #ruibo #nathan #taika #non bts #s2 promo #2023 #stills

[ijustliketoedit]

ofmd bts pt 4

#ofmd #our flag means death hbo #our flag is death #our flag meets death #our flag means gay #our flag means death #our flag means death finale #our flag means death spoilers #taika #taika waititi #rhys darby #stede bonnet #blackbeard #jim ofmd #evelyn ofmd #the swede ofmd #con o'neill #izzy ofmd #fang ofmd #roach ofmd #wee john ofmd #ivan ofmd #ofmd bts #ofmd edit #ofmd behind the scenes #behind the scenes #mary bonnet

[carsaadi]

Low quality idiot

#carsaadi #art #my art #oc #madness combat #doodle #madness #combat #taika #hate my son #but also love him #IM ACTUALLY REALLY PROUD OF THIS #SO EVEN THOUGH I HATE HIM #he still looks good. #also a friend of mine told me #he looks like if a piranha wanted to be a real boy #and thats kinda scarily accurate #He is so fucked up #madness combat project nexus #madness project nexus #madness: project nexus #project nexus #nexus

[gentlebeardsbarngrill]

Yes, the hate towards Taika and Rita as a couple is soo weird.

I saw so many comments on Fauxmoi Reddit (a miserable cesspool, never going back) about how they're 'annoying, cringe, only PR' bla bla bla. The thing is i genuinely didn't know they were together until a few months ago, so like 3 years later. People who seem to hate them seem the most obsessed with them.

The thing is they HATE her and ridicule her every chance they get (often for something as small as using a wrong word, as if thats not a completely normal thing), but trotted out the BS about 'he just wants someone young now' etc, like WTF. They were adults when they met, she was 30 when they got together (just Googled to check). he wasn't in a position of power over her (im pretty sure she's richer then him but I have no proof ha).

Also (obligitory we don't know them, i'm just going off things she's said) as you said, she's said multiple times SHE made it clear she wanted to be with him and knew she had to take it seriously because there were kids involved. Yet, people infantalise her when they have a chance to shittalk him ugh.

Sorry this is so long, it's been rattling in my brain for a while.

That place definitely does not sound fun. I get so irritated with people when they nitpick at little things. Not only that but she's bi-lingual for godsake she speaks English and Albanian, I get words confused all the time when I have multiple languages I'm working on at once and I'm only beginner level in 1, intermediate in another. That's how our brain works, it's very easy to do. People need to calm the hell down and mind their own business I swear.

You make good points, I mean she's an adult, they met as adults became friends as adults, fell in love, as adults. There's nothing wrong with that. It really is bizarre how obsessed people are with having to have an issue with them. It's also so incredibly degrading towards women in my opinion that they're so obsessed with age. How could Rita, a strong, empowered woman, possibly want a handsome, funny older man that makes her smile and laugh? *eyeroll* She made her own damn decision, no one held a knife to her throat, they need get over it. And no worries on the length, I get it, I've been feeling the frustration rattling it my head today too. I've spent most of the day though looking at BTS photos and videos when not working and that has helped significantly :) Thanks for chiming in on this! I know it's frustrating, you're not alone.

Sending love, enjoy those BTS photos from today! There were a lot!

Take care! <3

#anon #anon asks #anon answer #taika #rita ora

[shiplessoceans]

I always assumed Ed looking at himself in Stede's handheld mirror right after they've introduced themselves was just Taika being funny but even if it was, the symbolism of it just hit me.

Stede asked if Ed worked for Blackbeard and his entire worldview shifted for a second.

'huh...I guess if this guy can look at me and not see Blackbeard, maybe I don't have to be that guy right now... Maybe I can just be Ed?'

And then he picks up a mirror and looks at himself.

Ed is self reflecting.

Literally.

This fucking show you guys.

#ofmd #our flag means death #blackstede #taika #rhysdarby #david jenkins was this on purpose? argh #javid denkins