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Ugh I can’t wait. Usually with second seasons or sequels or whatnot I get so scared they’ll ruin it, but I just find it hard to believe they will. Everyone who works on this show is so talented, and honestly I’m confident that whatever direction they choose to take in season 2, it’ll be the right one

My wishes for a possible season two are so utterly varied!!

I want them to reunite with gusto within the first three episodes, yet I also want a tantalizingly slow escalation of near-misses and stolen glances! I want Stede tracking Edward down with unbounded love, singing sonnets the whole way; but I also want Stede tracking Edward down with anguish, spurred by love but with a burning desire for answers- perhaps even retribution. I want that journey to ground Stede- bringing him down to earth and forcing him to start from scratch. But then again, I also want that journey to spur his unabashed flights of fancy- exacerbating all that makes Stede Bonnet so utterly bonkers.

I want Edward to sail as far away from Stede Bonnet as he can geographically muster, forever pushing forward until the physical distance matches the metaphorical one that Stede initiated. But I also want Edward tracking Stede down, thinking that he's with the navy, thinking that he returned to his family, thinking 101 different thoughts that have him ceaselessly searching for the man that fucked him over. I need him to hear of Bonnet's death on the mainland- I want him to believe it, to genuinely think that the man's dead; but equally I need him to clue in on the fuckery, to uncover the story of Badminton #2 and piece together the bizarre puzzle from that fateful night. I need him to hear of Captain Thomas and his bizarre domination of the Carribean; I want Ed to brush it to the side, a mockery of Bonnet's name. Yet I want him to realize, to recognize who exactly this Captain Thomas and his peculiar pirating style is.

When they do reunite, I want Stede to alternatively mirror season one, with him coming in to save an Edward who's gotten into a frightful altercation with the British; subsequently spending days sitting at his bedside as wounds tentatively begin to heal. Yet I also crave for their reconvening to be utterly novel- something that forces the two to work together before they even get the chance to speak. When they lock eyes for the first time in months, I want Ed's world to crumble at the sight of Stede Bonnet, his knees thunking the floor and eyes welling with unkept emotion. Yet there's an undeniable appeal that comes from an on-deck duel, emotions funnelled into a physical altercation. I want Stede to respond with emotional maturity, facilitated by lessons from his arduous journey at sea! Yet I yearn for the clueless, tone-skewed Stede Bonnet who goes about reconciliation in an entirely convoluted manner. I want Izzy to support the reunification, having realized that the Kraken was not the monster that he had called for, realizing that people are multi-faceted and healing is paramount. But I also yearn for him to be a little shit- desperate and repressed- protective of the image of Blackbeard and disallowing Stede's return to their lives.

I want the healing to take mere days, routine returning with the softness of the rolling waves outside. Yet perhaps even more so than that, I need this to be a months-long process of Stede proving that he's here- he's not going, he doesn't want to, he accepts Edward as a whole, never for individual parts. I want Stede to wipe the paint from Ed's face, gentle and soothing with every stroke. But I can't dissuade the idea of Edward doing it himself, sitting in front of a basin, scrubbing at the sensitive skin until he recognizes the face before him; until he believes that healing is attainable.

crazy to me that theres ofmd discourse. i thought everyone just saw blackbeard and went AWOOOOGAAA tongue and eyes pop out bc thats what i did like thats what really matters here

Upon rewatching wwdits, I’ve caught myself several times making that sound Nandor makes. Y’know. Eeeescch.

This makes a lot of sense to me. I’ve haven’t had the chance to fall in love yet, that’s just not been a part of my life, but I think the reason I love this show so much is because even though they’re pirates it still feels like a realistic love story. It’s something that I can see in my future, unlike other romance shows/movies. And it’s queer!

I've been trying to tease apart why I've gone so terminally feral for this show in particular, and I think a big part of it is because it captures the feeling of falling in love so accurately that I feel like I'M falling in love. Butterflies in my stomach, nauseous when I think about it, can't STOP thinking about it love.

As much as we all love a classic rom-com/love story flick, they have wreaked havoc on our expectations of romance. The purpose of those films or shows are to play out our most grandiose fantasies of love and relationships, a level of drama we could never actually attain, as a form of escapism. There are no manic pixie dream girls whose sole personality is a brand of quirky that fits your interests and saves you from your disillusionment in life. In reality, pursuing someone so intensely without ever giving up or taking no for an answer until they finally win their love interest over has become a trope so pervasive that its bled into the insidious romantic imagination of Nice GuysTM world wide. In the real world, you probably will never have that spinny camera kiss in the pouring rain after you've beaten the odds and live happily ever after, and you might feel like nothing you can experience will ever live up to that feeling. Not to mention they're all heteronormative as fuck.

In OFMD the friends to lovers journey is tentative and slow. There's no moment where one of them takes their glasses off and they suddenly see the other in a whole new light. There's no one sided whining and pining, where there's no real interest in friendship and they only stick around hoping to someday get in the other's pants. They deeply care and fret about not ruining their friendship, about not making the other uncomfortable or pressured. Most of my personal long term relationships started out as friendships, and it was a delicate drawn out testing of the waters before it naturally evolved. And this is particularly common in queer relationships where the lines between platonic and romantic love are often blurred because there are no models of courtship to look to for guidance.

I've seen people talk about how their kiss was too awkward, but that's how real first kisses are. Confessing your feelings is mortifying and nerve wracking, and hearing it makes you blush and stammer. You miss their lips and knock your heads, you don't know where to put your hands. You're nervous. It's not perfect but it's sweet.

And hats off to Taika for absolutely nailing true heartbreak. It feels like your world is ending and your life has come crashing down like they show in the movies but it also makes you feel small and soft and scared. It's the squeak in your voice when someone asks you how you are and you can feel yourself trying not to cry but you can't stop it. It's feeling so emotionally exhausted that you can't even bring your self to be angry, you'd just rather curl up into a ball and die. It's thinking you're moving on until something small reminds you of them and you ugly cry until snot is running down your face and you can't catch your breath. It's hiding under your covers and writing shit poetry in your notes app.

OFMD isn't "I wish I could experience this love story." OFMD is "I have experienced this love story." Falling in love can be the most huge, overwhelming, transcendental part of the human experience. It doesn't need exaggeration. It's the little things, it's like Mary says. It's them understanding your idiosyncrasies and finding them charming. It's exposing each other to new things and new ideas. It's laughing a lot. It's passing the time well.

It's mundane and it's amazing. It's easy, it's like breathing. This show has made me fall in love with the idea of falling in love all over again.

okay but the thing is we don’t talk about the moonlight scene ENOUGH. like yes, it’s obviously one of the most romantic scenes of the show but the L A Y E R S

first you have the red silk. stede’s never seen it before so he has no idea how much meaning it holds to ed, but he treats it so fucking gently and with such reverence that ed is quite visibly stunned. like that is ed’s heart!!! and he just hands it over!! and stede, without fucking KNOWING, takes it from ed’s hands, smooths it out, and tells him it’s LOVELY

and ed’s FACE when stede hands it back. he’s in AWE of him, this gentleman who treats him like a person and not some disembodied evil or mythological monster. idk how the fuck taika is able to put so much emotion in his eyes, but jesus cHRIST

AND THEN ED STEPS FORWARD AND LEANS IN TOWARDS STEDE. HE WANTS TO KISS HIM RIGHT THERE BUT DOESN’T. HE SETTLES FOR A PAT ON THE SHOULDER BECAUSE HE JUST WANTS TO FUCKING TOUCH HIM

and then they part ways but both look back, and ed carefully traces his fingers over the red silk, now carefully folded and tucked into his breast pocket on full display, not crumpled and hidden deep on his person

there’s so much in this scene and it’s only a minute and a half long. THAT is how you set up a romance. istfg this show is a literary masterpiece. if this shit doesn’t make you fucking feral than get the fuck out of my sight

Rip to Izzy Hands he would’ve loved the don’t say gay bill

I needed this drag. Let’s change guys and not look back

WHAT

White and grey coloured pencils on black paper, A4.

Assistant Manager Guillermo De La Cruz pictured here in 2009. Currently he is checking out a customer 🏳️‍🌈.

ok crew, i want to talk about myth and meaning making

(and originally petrified oranges but since i've already spent 2 hours of my life going red strings and thumbtacks about how that may actually be a possibility lets change course from steering to port and head starboard instead)

first, when i say myth i'm talking the foundation stories of social groups. religions have foundation myths, but so do governments, nations, companies etc.

"this is who we are, and why we do things the way we do."

and history is a myth too, albeit one reinforced by governments and scholars. and it usually focuses on people with the resources, power and affluence to order it to be recorded. which gets echoed in how Lucius was ordered to record everything,, except for, you know, mutiny and normal mundane things that have no bearing on Stede and his exploits (there really should have been some inventory done to check the orange supply at some point, like inventory and ship's logs are actually pretty well recorded if the cargo breakdowns in Black Flags Blue Waters 2018 are anything to go by).

but between massive english illiteracy until very very recently, and the bias of what gets preserved and copied down or thrown out, it's easy to see how the great man of history model was so easy to perpetuate. we don't really have examples from anyone BUT the "great men" of history, at least not easily accessible or widely distributed. (museums are trying with the massive document uploads, but this is also what makes Anne Lister's diary such a treasure for queer history).

if you've never heard of Jane Elliott's blue eyes/brown eyes experience i highly recommend looking it up. in essence, school children's ability to do timed math flash cards is directly linked to whether their teacher and classmates are telling them they are superior or inferior humans based only on the color of their eyes. (their self esteem also took a massive hit but the flashcards were actually trackable). basically, authority figure and peers say ur bad at ____ enough, u can't perform at ____, even if you're actually pretty good at it.

and this applies to friend groups too!

are you a mom friend because you are naturally that category? or because someone has labeled you that and you fill that role for them?

now! party time!

the amount of self-policing and pageantry and snobbery rolling off these rich people. who decided dining required a week of personal tutoring so you don't get laughed out of the room? brutal. i'm with Ed here, these social customs make no sense and are designed to mark out who is wealthy, idle, and in-the-know from everyone else. as if to say 'you will never be one of us you can't even eat properly'.

it further underscores the flashback to Ed's mom giving the 'people like us don't get nice things' speech. she's parroting what's been drilled into her until she believes it. now it's her reality and her child's too. but something in Ed wants to wonder...

hold that thought a moment.

there's some awesome meta floating around about how Ed is a genre chameleon, or how his personality changes to fit the people around him. and if you listen, everyone wants to tell him who he is. what it means to be blackbeard. how blackbeard behaves. especially Izzy and CJ. they seem to think they have the difinitive take on who he really is.

and none of these versions have room for nice things as anything beyond something to horde or trade. a prize, but not one u can enjoy. they are constructing overlapping cages of identity for him, when humans are more of a constellation of traits influenced by emotions and circumstances. a galaxy among galaxies, all feedback loops and multidirectional gravities. to stop changing is death.

then there's Stede. "you wear fine things well," said so gently and without scorn or sarcasm. is there another option? when you have told yourself that you're a monster, been told you're brilliant when you're feeling at your worst,,, no wonder it takes his breath away. maybe. just maybe. to be worthy of something fine.

stay with Stede a moment. because he says something late in the series that bears unpacking. "it's a stupid idea. I only have stupid ideas"

who told him that?

was it his dad? badminton? did he decide it himself after the 300th time someone gave him a weird look when they couldn't follow his logic? when did he lock himself away into "i only have stupid ideas"?

because Ed never thought so.

just like Stede never thought Ed should be deprived of fine things.

and Stede has never really had friends to tell him who he is to them. he's had parents, wife, responsibilities. expectations. He has run away from those expectations to try to be the version of himself he wants to be. Stede never figured out how to ask what other people actually want or if their interests can be made to align. Ed may be the first person to visibly and consistently enjoy his company. no wonder he's willing to overlook a little half-attempted murder.

maybe. just maybe. to be worthy of warmth without the weight of impossible expectations.

to find a little understanding. to just pass the time well.

i think ofmd might be a queer myth we've been needing. because it asks what happens when we let the myth blind us to the people in front of us. but even more so what happens when we let their myths blind us to ourselves, our possibilities.

it says:

if you cannot bear the weight of roles assigned by outsiders, there is a place for you. if you cannot live up to ridiculous customs, there is a place for you. if you long for a little comfort, a little adventure, a small section of deck to lay your head when the sea turns rough, there is a place for you. come take a turn at the wheel, at the rigging. there is work to do and all talents are needed. and later i will tell you how a little wooden puppet became a real boy, how a boy became a pirate, how a pirate became a myth, and how a myth was only human after all.

I fixed it

It worked /:

putting this gif under a box propped up with a stick in order to capture bisexuals

Buttons and Izzy are BFFs I don’t make the rules

How does Taika Waititi (and honestly every single person who works on more than one film project, like, ever) have time for all that?? I have to read one (1) book within the span of a month and absolutely lose it

*Nandor voice* Guillermo, get ready for something VERY ell bee gee tee to happen to you

Knowing that taika based viago on his mum makes it so much funnier

the krusty krab literally needs spongebob

I’m just like misha collins. I, too, came out and un came out as bi within the span of three days

If someone just kissed Izzy ONCE when he does that creep move where he angrily pulls someone close and stares at their lips, I think a demon would fly out of his mouth and the curse would finally be broken.

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Headcanon that Guillermo always purposefully walks faster when he’s on those little moving sidewalks at airports because the speed makes him feel just a little closer to being a vampire

I can’t believe guillermo and nandor are in love

Mad I didn’t say this first because…. Yeah pretty much yep

current gender is whatever the fuck taika waititi’s characters have going on

So we have some shots of what we can guess is Stede’s father… but what about his mom? Was she not in the picture for whatever reason? Maybe he’s a person who tries so hard to be nurturing because he never had a person like that?