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i love you. you made a mistake? i dont care i love you. you made a wrong choice? love you. you don’t think you’re good for anything? guess what you’re good for loving i love you

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Izzy when Ed is signing the Act of Grace document:

"Think about what you're doing, Ed. Do you really want to lick the King's boots?"

Meanwhile Izzy literally earlier that week:

Plotting with the English Navy (essentially the sea police) to get Stede killed just so he can have Ed handed over to him, in exchange for his services to the King.

I'm sorry to break it to you Iggy, but isn't that also licking the King's boots? But for an entirely selfish reason that disregards the feelings of the person you're supposedly doing it for?

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what the hell why am i not underneath someones desk rn sucking them off while they play videogames

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Like, look at this man.

Are you telling me he does not deserve to be gently but firmly seized by the lapels of that red dressing gown and have the sorrow fucked out of him by a burly but tender Maori rugby coach?

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The "captain’s voice" scene is something of a corollary to the stabbing scene, where Ed is ostensibly teaching Stede something necessary to surviving as a captain, but his own needs and desires are unlocked by Stede reacting to it differently than expected.

In the stabbing scene, Stede's concern for Ed and his lack of awareness of the homoeroticism (the point being that he doesn't see anything erotic in hurting Ed) is the major thing that Ed recalls with fondness. The captain's voice expands on that: the authority of Stede's voice is melded with his inherent gentleness in both requesting that Ed obey him, and in ordering Ed to do things that will benefit everyone (fix something, stop pissing people off).

The stabbing scene develops that Ed can trust Stede with his body, and the captain's voice scene reinforces that Ed can trust Stede with his heart. Both episodes end with Ed allowing himself to be more vulnerable to Stede—the bathtub scene, where Ed confesses to the murder of his father, and the second "fine things" scene, where they have their second kiss and Ed requests that they take things slow. They're part of Ed's growth as he learns that he can be vulnerable with Stede and know that Stede will not abuse that trust.

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Anyway, I think about how Ed tries to gush over the teeny tiny Revenge and Izzy keeps pushing him and pushing him until he finally goes off about being bored and how maybe he should try dying and then he…goes to sit and look at Stede. Listens to Stede’s hallucinations. Wonders who Mary is. Tells Lucius to bring him a cold cloth to bring down Stede’s fever.

Ed is upset and unmoored and the place he goes to be safe and calm is sitting on Stede's bed, taking care of Stede.

(There's also something very powerful in the fact that we immediately get to know Blackbeard as a gentle person.)

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It's Ed's touch that wakes Stede up.

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ed read the words “i long for you” written by stede. he read that. like holy shit imagine someone telling you they long for you via message in a bottle? that you’re intertwined? stede is getting his dick sucked and fucked good and proper every night for months i’m telling you

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I’m a teacher assistant for spanish grammar and the professor was explaining epícenos (single gendered words that encompass masculine and feminine beings) and he was using iguana as an example and he said: “there is only one gender… iguana” and i had to mute my microphone

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Imagine Anne pulling her shirt down whenever she feels like jumpscaring Ed with her titty spider

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I'm a simple person, but this small moment of physical comedy makes me cackle like a gremlin. (I blame growing up with the Marx Brothers and Three Stooges — no regrets of course.)

I mean just look at the shoes!!!!

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💕 🧁 🎀 🐇

(via Ritas tiktok)

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~~the kraken is hunting~~

#love the strategically placed wave #and the booty #and the eek

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get you a man who can do both

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Smol Ed Teach is two inches tall. He has never done a thing wrong in his life ever.

Don’t worry he’s not crying this time that’s just his big wet eyes.

If you find him in the wild please take care of him and hold him gently in your hand (or Stede will hunt your ass down).

Thank you.

Inspired by previous tiny Ed post

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I do think the reason why “take things slow” breaks so quickly (though I am not of the opinion that Calypso’s Birthday immediately follows that conversation) is because they both realize that taking things slow almost meant that they never made love at all and that they both nearly died without experiencing that with each other. It’s not heat of the moment but “I almost lost you without ever knowing what you felt like.”

And that’s a facet of the life they were living and yet another reason why they both needed to stop. Would it have been better if they’d been able to wait, especially since Ed was so terrified Stede was going to leave again and badly needed to know that he wasn’t? Yes. But they also realized that waiting almost meant never.

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hi everyone how are we doing i'll go first i am absolutely agonized over corporate greed robbing us of stede getting to marry for love and ed getting to be the beautiful bride he's always dreamt of being