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fuckyeahisawthat · 2 years

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the f’ing white outfit

I don’t think I can possibly pick a favorite costume from OFMD, but when it comes to visual storytelling, I deeply love the white outfit. That stupid fucking white fit gets to blaze through so many layers of joke/symbolism/subtext in its brief one (1) episode lifespan.

It starts out as a sight gag. We see this rough, grubby environment where people are vomiting blood and getting in fights in the mud and then we see Stede and Lucius step off the ship in these pristine white outfits. (Stede has even dressed his hostage to match!) And you’re just waiting for the payoff. Which we get immediately with Lucius getting some dude’s bloody hands smeared all over his jacket, which is funny and also a sort of visual foreshadowing of what will happen to Stede at the end of the episode, although we don’t know it yet.

So at first the white outfit is a joke waiting to happen. It’s a symbol of how out of touch with the rules of the pirate world Stede is, insulated as he has been by his privilege (both his wealth and his literal whiteness). And they keep the gag going by having two people in white outfits that Stede chose, and having Stede repeatedly dodge the payoff. Lucius gets the bloody handprints on his jacket; Lucius is the one who gets splattered with what we think is wine but find out is blood, again (foreshadowing #2).

So there’s this running joke of Stede being able to sidestep the negative consequences of a bad decision, at least for himself. And this continues with Stede being (delightfully) rude to Izzy, out of obliviousness. And not only does Stede not get immediately stabbed for it, but Geraldo overhearing this conversation is what gets Stede out of his involuntary nose job with Jackie! And all of this serves to make the payoff of Stede very much not being able to avoid the consequences of his naivete at the end of the episode work even better.

Stede sashaying through the Republic of Pirates in his white suit is ridiculous, but you can see the logic of a lot of his choices once you realize that he is treating this like a rich people social gathering. He says “it’s time for the wider criminal community to meet the Gentleman Pirate”--in his mind, this is his formal introduction to pirate society. He’s making his regional debut--not in a theater way (although yes) but in a societal-norms-of-rich-people way.

And the way Lucius formally announces him from the top of the stairs in Spanish Jackie’s? He’s a debutante. The white suit is his fit for his own self-produced debutante ball.

You know, the social ritual where wealthy young women are introduced to society as being available to be courted. An event also referred to, in an old-fashioned use of the term, as coming out.

And lo and behold, he does receive a formal invitation to meet a potential suitor that night! An invitation that Ed specifically sent Izzy to deliver because he wanted it “done right,” in a way this fancy man would understand. (Great work there, Izzy!)

And then, once they are captured by the Spanish Navy, the white outfit shifts again. As David Jenkins said, the clown gets stabbed. And not just comedy-stabbed, he gets stabbed stabbed. Visually, this is the payoff that was set up all the way back when Stede stepped off the ship--that spotless white outfit getting fucked up, and this time it’s not just blood but his own blood. Consequences!

But also, given the symbolism of red on this show, you can read this as Stede’s heart showing through. He wore something that would show his heart most clearly, and Ed saw it right from the beginning. And I think this fits with how Ed immediately sees Stede not as a naive, bumbling idiot, but as someone who’s clever and interesting and brave.

And then we have Ed and Stede meeting face to face, Ed in all black and Stede in all white, and in this context it’s impossible not to think of the white outfit as a wedding dress. (Especially if you imagine Ed carrying a passed-out, mostly-dead Stede over the threshold into the captain’s cabin on the Revenge, which is a scene we didn’t see but absolutely, 100% happened.)

And I think there’s a connection to the other time Stede gets almost-executed by an imperialist navy, which is episode 9, which also has a lot of wedding imagery. (The signing of a contract together, the way Badminton looks like an officiant standing over them during the trial, the bright white and weirdly visually prominent blindfold that Ed lifts off Stede’s face like a wedding veil.)

I think the connection is that both of these moments are important turning points in Ed and Stede’s relationship. The first is their meet-cute and the second is the moment Ed realizes he is willing to give up everything for Stede. And I think it’s a cool subtle way of saying love at first sight. Even if the characters didn’t know it yet.

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #costume design #long post #visual storytelling #the white outfit #i've been thinking about this stupid white outfit for AGES #happy not everything on hbo max is canceled day fam

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bigfatbreak · 5 months

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How would’ve Sabine reacted if the peacock curse claimed Tom instead? Would she have gone down a similar path of vengeance?

yea probably

#I tried to put her into a traditional chinese mourning outfit the sangfu #but references are hard to find #apparently a lot of it has to do with the quality of the clothes and them being white most of all? so I leaned on that #because otherwise its a very plain outfit #my art #nooroo #butterfly miraculous #trauermantel #sabine dupain cheng

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cattnipt · 5 months

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Princess Tutu and (her) Knight

#princess tutu #princess tutu fanart #ahiru #ahiru arima #fakir #Something took over me man #anyway Fakir's outfit being this white one doesn't really make sense #but his other fits are so.... how do I say this #this was the only good one I'm so sorry #catt art

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arabellas · 1 year

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WEDNESDAY ADDAMS + Outfits Wednesday (2022)

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catmanbowser · 6 months

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Quick doodle of the twins who are several years apart

#tim drake #cassandra cain #dc #catman's art #speedrunnign my exam but i i wamted to draw them #w mathcing outfits..#k bye #fyi my tim is half white half seasian so this is like the asian sibligns #minus damian bcs he’s in the littlest brother category.

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egophiliac · 10 months

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IT'S BUNNY TIME EVERYBODY

(feat. Dilla)

(bugle accompaniment by Yuu)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #white rabbit festival #ah...the eternal dilemma of 'is it hair dye or whimsical anime hair'. and so we roll the dice again.#so it's canon now that yuu is inexplicably great at bugling. everybody get ready to incorporate that incredible trivia into your characters #anyway HELLO THERE madam spade #i think we have enough evidence now to say that you're not allowed into nrc unless you have an absolutely smoking mom #(riddle's mom has a smoking crater where her heart should be but we digress)#dilla likes two things: BIG VANS and also telling her son's friends all about how he used to literally refuse to not dress like a bunny #and yet now he does not wish to dress like a bunny. :( deuce what HAPPENED #meanwhile epel is too polite to whine at his best friend's mom so he's just hoping vil never finds out he wore a bonnet #silver is like 'i'm the handsomest little marching band boy. i'm taking this outfit back to show everyone.'#and ortho put all his points into POWERFUL THIGHS #he minmaxed leg day and is going to go kick a tree in half #can't wait for part 2 to see if they resolve the exciting cliffhanger of whether or not silver finds an alarm clock

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crowrelli · 4 months

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Imagine your fruity ass cousin has a mental breakdown one day and disappears? And then after YEARS of you assuming he’s dead, he shows up with a literal king on his arm and more money than you even can begin to imagine? Then after he finally stops yelling at you for taking his silverware (which he will remember till the day he dies) he just makes fun of you any chance he gets?? Tbh lobelia deserved it 💅💅

#the hobbit #bilbo baggins #bilbo baggins fanart #thorin x bilbo #thorin oakenshield #thorin oakenshield fanart #bagginshield #thilbo #fanart #doodle #Bilbo is sassy and has attitude!!!#and everyone forgets that 😭😭😭#digital art #my art #art #also ignore these hobbit wedding headcannons bc I picture it way different I just wanted an excuse to draw them in pretty white outfits #and flowers 😭😭😭

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easyaesthetics · 5 months

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Shuake & tweets - Happy 11/20!!!

#I am an unapologetic prince outfit hater LMFAO #it did grow on me & I like it for its symbolism but I will nvr forget how excited I was to see his thief outfit when we entered the casino #and then saying ‘oh. that looks awful.’ ALOUD TO MYSELF IN MY ROOM HAHAHAHHA #I love him so much that I’m willing to overlook it tho <3 #IT NEEDS MORE RED!! the white looks so unbalanced 😭#anyway YEAH happy 11/20!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾 my second 11/20 in the fandom :)))#persona #persona 5 #p5 #persona 5 royal #p5r #mine #akeshu #shuake #goro akechi #akira kurusu #ren amamiya #sae nijima

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trashcatsnark · 4 months

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feel like every laundry night at the tadfools camp just becomes a game of who's black shirt is this and the only thing anyone can confidently say is it's not Gale's

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mumblesplash · 1 year

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unfortunately for cleo they accidentally met all of the criteria

#my art #limited life #zombiecleo #goodtimeswithscar #before they made him put on a shirt he was out digging in nothing but those white boxers w red hearts 😔 deeply irresponsible behavior #and yes i did figure out exactly what outfit cleo’s wearing thanks for noticing :)

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voidsentprinces · 7 months

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Shadowbringers is about two old men trying to out dramatic each other and failing while wearing the most frilly of robes. Grandstanding, trying to win over the heroes' heart and trying to out old man each other while everyone else is trying to fix the Post Apocalyptic Hellscape.

#{ also Emet and G'raha have inverted outfits }#{ G'raha has red overtones while Emet's red is more of a maroon subdued beneath the black }#{ Broken up by the white obvious symbolism of light #dark the blood they've shed to get where they are and the golden gleam of the future they believe in }

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prettiestplatypus · 2 months

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