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jaskierx · 5 months

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Honestly, I really admire (and am thankful for) the way you manage and handle those back and forth with some Izzy stans, I don't think I have the mental strength to entertain them myself.

I wasn't part of the fandom after season 1 aired, I watched it without engaging much and then kind of waited for season 2 to come out, so I had no idea such a divide had happened between Izzy stans and the rest of the fandom (glad I was oblivious to it ngl). All I know is that I hated Izzy’s guts and wanted him to get his just desert.

So yeah, I wasn’t a fan and I struggled forgiving him when season 2 started because the show was trying so hard to make him sympathetic (which I honestly couldn’t give two shits about at first, I wanted revenge), plus you’re right, Izzy got way too much screen time (which gave Izzy stans ammunitions to say “SEE!! Main character!!!”), but I did end up warming up to him by the time he died. I can even say I genuinely liked him.

BUT the journey to that point was sooo conflicting because some Izzy stans were also doing the absolute most in the main tag, painting Izzy as this angel who never did anything wrong and was terrorized by the monster Ed, and I was like????? Did season 1 happen??? Did I dream the whole season??? Did I watch a version from an alternate universe??? I was BAFFLED. I don't know who is that Izzy they're talking about, but it's not the one on my screen, that's for sure.

Then, Izzy died and the hardcore stans lost their shit (you know what I'm talking about) and they have seriously soured me to Izzy again. I want to like the character we had on screen, and I want to like his redemption arc. He was a great antagonist even if I hated him, and we owed him so much for all the shit he pulled in season 1, but the OTT takes and behaviors from stans I’ve seen have made me give up on him, which sucks. Maybe I’ll feel better about him in a few months, but right now, I can’t stand him, and I’ve blocked his tag everywhere (ao3 included, because, truly, fuck fanon Izzy, fuck him).

Hope it’s not too draining for you though, just writing this felt like screaming into the void, so I can’t imagine dealing with this on the daily. Take care!

hi anon i'm so glad you sent this bc i felt very similarly about izzy in s2. i didn't find him sympathetic at all. i didn't give a single shit that he was suffering from ed being in his kraken era bc he's the entire reason ed ended up like that in the first place. izzy was reaping what he sowed. seeing ed feeling so miserable broke my fucking heart and i can't stand any bullshit takes about 'izzy was protecting the crew from ed's abuse' or 'edizzy invented love confirmed' or whatever other nonsense his stans chose to take away from episodes 1-3.

i truly do not see izzy as a victim. i truly do not see ed as an abuser. sometimes i will start reading a post in the ofmd tag that refers to an 'abuser' and a 'victim' and i get halfway through the post and realise that the op has a completely opposite view of who is who than i do.

and as s2 progressed i just felt worse and worse about it like he was getting so much screentime and popping up all over the place and he'd absorbed a load of traits (from other characters that i'd have rather seen more of) bc the writers had to speedrun making him semi-likeable. i still haven't done a proper rewatch since the finale aired and i'm pretty sure i'll feel different watching it knowing he dies in ep8, but when eps 6-7 dropped i fucking hated every scene he was in and felt like he ruined some otherwise really lovely ed/stede moments like their breakfast in bed. izzy being cheered on for wearing drag and singing - the exact acts that caused him to threaten ed - feels exactly like the very common queer experience of seeing the homophobic kid who bullied you for being queer getting loads of support when they come out themselves.

and the takes that were coming out of the canyon at this time were absolutely wild, especially in relation to ed. people absolutely baying for blood, wanting to see him suffer, wanting his relationship with stede to suffer, wanting him to have to crawl across broken glass to repair his relationship with the crew, all while treating izzy as a protagonist who never did anything wrong.

so ngl i was delighted when he died. but mostly i was relieved that it was going to be over. i walked out of my circus tent with my clown makeup on believing that the canyon would yell for a bit and then slowly quiet down as people who claimed they'd be leaving the fandom if izzy died made good on their promise and fucked off.

and if anything they've got louder and more unhinged and are out here reinventing tjlc and harassing the writers and churning out the most rancid racist posts and writing obituaries that caused multiple people on twt to mistakenly think Actual Human Person con o'neill had died.

and on one hand i'm kind of glad that more people know what they're like now but god i really do feel for any izzy fans who have had their enjoyment of him ruined by the canyon. i really do think it's not the character that's polarising, it's the fandom response, in that most people who come in liking izzy end up either aligning with the canyon or getting so fucking fed up of the canyon that they don't like him anymore. and both of those are a shame tbh because he is very well acted and well written, especially in s1, and i wish i could've enjoyed his scenes and felt the emotional payoff of his death

anyway. sorry for writing you 1 billion words. ily ❤️

#asks #anon #the izcourse #izzy critical #absolutely no sarcasm - i really love that my askbox has become a Place For Screaming over the past few days #it ticks all my boxes bc i love attention and i love talking about my opinions. win win

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tempblogforrpads · 6 months

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Well, no more omegle rps that I accidentally lose through internet problems...

Anyone up for RPing some Izzy ships? Sprizzy, ouizzy, bellhands, you name it. (Feeling a little iffy about edizzy at the moment because I'm still recovering from how bad episode 8 was but I'm not completely against it if we come up with something fun!) I'd even be down to write Izzy getting with multiple ppl from the crew if you want to switch characters 👀

About me:

- I'm over 18, so please also be an adult if you'd like to rp smut.

- I do advanced lit, depending on how motivated I am that's usually 2-4 short-ish paragraphs. I'm flexible though!

- I have a lot of experience with Izzy since he's my baby boy, but I'm down to try playing agsinst him too!

- I adore trans Izzy and would love to include that unless it's something you're not at all comfortable with. We can discuss terms beforehand if it helps!

- I'm really really into angst, but mostly in the hurt/comfort realm, as in there needs to be a happy ending or I'll cry. I'm fine with going fairly dark with themes too as long as things get better, and I'd prefer the shipped characters to not be violent towards each other unless it's for plot reasons.

Dm me if interested!

#ofmd rp #our flag means death rp #izzy hands #sprizzy #ouizzy #stizzy #bellhands #fangizzy

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arsenicflame · 2 months

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serangela, edizzy, ouizzy, and Jim/Archie (can't recall specific ship name for them, sorry to Jim & Archie for that 😅❤️) for the ship grading ask game?

oooh !!! many to fill.... thank u iz :)

Send me a ship and I will grade it:

SERANGELA

A+: OTP

oh you already knew my answer to this. 100/100 perfect score absolutely no notes. if serangela got more consistent content or i at least had people to talk to about them i would literally never look at another ship again. theyre just so,,,,,, my dear girls,,, im gonna be thinking about them for a while now thanks for that

EDIZZY

A+: OTP

Not as high as my girls im afraid, but if i had to pick one singular ofmd ship, this would be it! just,,, the depths of their dynamics consume me!!! sometimes i dont even ship it, i want to get them restraining orders and make them never see each other again*, but no matter what the vibe is with them, theres always something there with them for me and thats what draws me to them!

(*and other times i want to lock them in a room together anyway and see what happens. just for fun)

OUIZZY

C: Not a bad ship (positive!)

ha i went back on forth on the answer for this one for a Minute- ouizzy's sorta a weird one for me! its not a ship i have many original thoughts about usually but i do think its cute! ill read fics when the concept interests me and look at fanart but i dont often seek it out if that makes sense? but i have absolutely no qualms w them as a ship, and i think id have liked to see canon give them a few more interactions :') (still think about the leaning in the cell tbh....)

JIM/ARCHIE (i dont know their ship name either ''''''':) )

B: It’s really cute

im only rating jim/archie so low because i specifically love them as part of jim/olu/archie (& zheng also!) i do like what the two of them had together as part of the kraken crew specifically, but the moments with the three of them after are where i think the jim/archie element gets to shine, getting a chance to breathe and discover who they are together without circumstance forcing them together :)

#i think the thing i am realising. is i quite like every ship honestly #i think about some more than others but. i generally like everything actually #maybe i just love everything and everyone. u ever consider that huh #nyxtalks #ask #ask game

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marsvioletsixtyfour · 1 year

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I'm really enjoying edizzy and stedeedizzy smut in fanfics and fanart and whatnot but I just cannot get into any type of romance between these two. Like I'm honestly more likely to read some kind of romantic stizzy (it still has to be fucked up though) than e+i

Because naturally people write maybe not sweet but soft and passionate stuff for them and I always feel that it's ooc. These two don't have canon soft or passionate moments that would sway me into believing in it idk maybe it's because I don't know enough about marriage. The yearning is always one sided only and not very self aware and if I'm meant to imagine that they were a couple before it went sour (or almost grew up together - my least fave fanon out there) then I get a sprain in my imagination

The way ed is with stede there's no fucking way he had a functional romance before... And I really don't see him in edstede reversed dynamic where someone has romantic feelings for him and he's totally clueless we're just just good friends guy, the one post that imagines ed saying the fine things line (slightly changed) to izzy at some point before. I'll never buy it 🫠 the kind of deranged fanon I blacklist

The ones where ed wants him carnally but casually and objectifies uses etc him tho 🥵 (with consent and devotion from the interested party to make it tasteful)

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