hey, neil! my sister didnt realize that crowley and aziraphale were in love until the last episode and the scene where he confesses. then she asked me why you went "the gay route" what do i say to her? i love crowley and aziraphale a lot btw
You could perhaps suggest that she watches it all again, and it may make more sense to her.
I believe Nick Offerman recently said it best.
what's your favourite crowley look?
You ask me to choose?? Top five’s the best i can do. And even that hurt…
Let’s count down from five.
5.
Yes yes i know it’s thee basic bitch crowley look the crowley we think of when we think of s1 crowley but. Look at him! Optimal hair length for combing your fingers through. And he’s dressed to… Well to convince an angel to go along with his plan while looking extremely casual but also. Also.
Am i illustrating my point???
4.
Ah yes it’s female presenting crowley looking extremely somber and kind of widow-y mary magdalene channeling at the crucifixion be real with me if even jesus couldn’t resist i mean what am i holier than jesus??
Also…. That subtle show of ankle. I rest my case.
3.
French revolutionary crowley. A blink and you miss it look. Only a few precious minutes of airtime. But the costume department really put their whole costumussy into it. Incredible. If i was aziraphale i’d have kept the cuffs on because i meannnn
At least he tried to match. What a pair. (Also…. Buttons. All the buttons. My weakness…)
2.
Again this look is barely onscreen. It’s crowley reporting to hell about warlock growing up. Just a quick pop-out-of-nanny-ashtoreth casual genderfuck silver chain hair tied back fuckmewitharake look
No but truly. That hair??? They didn’t have to go that hard but they did and i am grateful
1.
Be serious. Was this ever going to end differently?
This is some graduate level posting right here
Completely self indulgent thoughts here and going to ignore the fact that you cannot and should not attach your entire well-being to one person but oh my god how Ed got to have sex with his beloved Stede Fucking Bonnet...
I mean yeah shit timing and this is still kinda the proverbial honeymoon stage, but jeezus this isn't just some tumble with a fling that Ed's probably had dozens of times (or a familial obligation like Stede's had to fulfill in the past), this is some goddamn love-making with someone Ed truly desires and loves, and who adores him just as much.
Stede doesn't even have to touch Ed to make him feel good...
Like, just the sound of Stede's voice is enough to bring Ed back from the grave(y basket)...
This is a person Ed wants to protect...
...and who wants to protect him.
Ed was constantly giving Stede those sweet shoulder pats in the first season (plus that frickin foot touch), like he was blatantly advertising his wish for physical contact with him.
Now Stede has the emotional freedom to reciprocate, and he treats Ed with such tenderness and respect even when the desire for him is overwhelming.
I mean, look at the switch here - how Stede roughly grabs Ed, slams him against the wall and then immediately becomes so gentle cradling his head like that, like Edward Teach is the most precious thing in the world.
Ed holds onto Stede tight here, but by god does he also want to treat his sweetheart just as tenderly...
Even without the sex part, just thinking of they way these two touch each other -- or how they want to touch each other -- is so sweet and sexy.
Fuck, lookit Ed...
He is literally trying to get as close to Stede as he can here within the boundaries he's just set. He's caressing that hand like "These beautiful fingers clasped in mine belong to the person who gives me butterflies in my stomach and brings light into my life." As innocent as it is, he wants that touch. And it's there, he is right there.
From Ed's point of view, Stede is the one who plays games with him.
He calms him down.
He gives him comfort.
He defends him.
He avenges him.
He loves him. Everything about him, beyond just the physical.
This outrageous, ridiculous, bizarre man makes the dread pirate Blackbeard, scourge of the seven seas...
...go all him...
And this guy can cut Ed's heart to shreds, but Ed still misses him like hell.
Stede can be Ed's despair...
...but he's also his hope...
...his happiness...
...his joy...
All of that and more wrapped up in a tangible warmth that Ed can cherish, kiss, hold close, and in return be cherish, kissed and held close.
So yeah that sex/love-making must have been absolutely mind-blowing even if they probably were fumbling around awkwardly in the dark for a while.
Anyone looking for some awesome, hot fics of that scene, highly recommend this and this by darkshrimpemotions (jujubiest)
Applause for this entire post. Off to read the fics.
gentlebeard + hands
Give the hand acting an Emmy.
Title: A Treatise on Treasure Or: The Observed Effects of Risk and Romance on the Dread Pyrate and a Gentleman Scholar by S.M. Bonnet Author: unencryptid [AO3] [Twitter] Artist: vicoyote [Twitter] Beta reader: LalaLovesCakes [Twitter] Characters: Stede Bonnet, Edward Teach, Wee John Feeney, Doug, Mary Allamby, Louis Bonnet, Alma Bonnet, Izzy Hands, Crew of the Revenge, Blackbeard's Crew Relationship(s): Stede Bonnet/Edward Teach (Gentlebeard) Rating: Explicit Additional Tags: Canon Era-Alternate Meeting, Slow Burn, Canon-Typical Violence, Homesteading, Fake Science and Medicine, Blood and Injury, Illnesses, Recovery, Alcohol Use/Abuse, Recreational Drug Use, Minor Character Death, Choking (brief), First Time, Inexperienced Stede Bonnet, Developing Relationship, Explicit Sex, Bottom Stede, Top Ed, Unsuccessful Sexual Coercion, Bathing, H/C, Desert Island, Verbal Abuse (minor and brief), Attempted Kidnapping, Angst with a Happy Ending, Caretaking, Competent Stede, Life-Affirming Sex, No Stigma of Homosexuality or Divorce Warnings: None Summary: Armed with a library's worth of blank journals and more marmalade than experience, Stede happily sets sail for a year's worth of blue sky research--but all Stede's meticulous planning for his expedition to a small, unnamed aisle in the middle of the ocean failed to account for the presence of one of the Caribbeans fiercest natural predators.
Pirates.
Blackbeard is equally shocked to find an interloper on an island after Queen Anne's Revenge anchors to take care of a torn sail. It's not unheard of to stumble upon some poor marooned bastard after rowing a shore, but they're usually half mad with hunger and meaner than a snake-- not impeccably groomed gentlemen that shouted him for disrupting butterflies.
Priceless discoveries abound. Wordcount: 116k Link to art masterpost Link to story
The sweetest.
#that inn is gonna be horrendous
#The reviews are in (source)
on one hand I don’t particularly think that the coat was cursed. on the other hand, I do Wholeheartedly believe that buttons turned into that bird. hope this helps :)
David. Hey. Hey David what the fuck. David.
CON O'NEILL as Izzy Hands in OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH (2022— ) Episode 2.08
Omg he was literally telling us I'm going to go cry forever now
Ed having to lose Izzy to properly shed the “Blackbeard” persona because it was them and there was no one without the other. It’s amazing writing, especially paralleled with what Auntie said to Oluwande about her influence over Zheng
I find this entire situation so interesting. I don't want to downplay anyone who feels that the character deserved better because undoubtedly he did: Izzy had a beautiful character arc, going from Ed's grumpy right hand to his enemy, his jailer, his tormentor, back to right hand and focus of all his anger, to shoot straight up to being the moral center of the Revenge crew, their protector. Izzy was never not going to step in front of a bullet for them, and his love transcended from just Ed to all of them. It would have been beautiful to see him go on to live a fulfilled, life, but he was a pirate, and more so a pirate than anybody else on this show. He was always going to be in harm's way.
Now I don't know if Con himself thought it was time to leave the show and got written out, or if this was always the way the story was going to go. But I do think that he was written out in a beautiful way, taking responsibility for the things that he knew were his fault and finally giving Ed permission to embrace all the things that he had mocked him about for years. I don't know if they would have ever gotten to the point of being so sincere and sweet to each other if it wasn't at the end. These are both men that were very highly socialized to avoid these conversations and I guess I'm just happy that if he had to go, they had some time at the end to square things away with each other and that Izzy gets to stay with his family forever.
"Dear Ed,
I long for you. Every day we spend apart feels like an eternity. I know you don't want to hear from me, but I write these letters daily, hoping one will reach you. Hope that's okay.
And I know we're not through - I can feel it in my soul. A love like ours can't disappear in an instant. We're joined to one another; intertwined.
We wrote our names on each other in permanent ink."
I can't handle my heart. Omfg, this show.
Heart bursting, crying, then smiling through tears. If you would have ever told me that a show about pirates could make me feel better about a world on fire, and that a season ending would make me feel like I'm saying goodbye to cherished friends I would have thought you were high, but here we are.
Smooth sailing, Revenge. Already wishing for S3.
"I think a lot of the internal forces in Our Flag are the villains. It’s like, Can you let yourself be loved? Do you know what you want in love? If you know what you want, are you healthy enough to get it? When you start going into the tropes of [Blackbeard impression] Oh, should I be gay or not? or Oh, my friends did me dirty — we’ve seen that a lot. It’s good dramatic fuel, but I don’t think those are the things that drive the show.
I think the things that drive this show are a bunch of people who care about each other and are trying to figure out how to have relationships. And relationships are hard. Usually, you’re your own bad guy or gal or person in a relationship. It’s rarely [someone] doing something terrible to you — it’s you just trying to figure out your own shit."
I love this show so much. Especially these kinds of interviews, where the interviewer so obviously is trying square peg questions and David is giving round hole answers.
your level of education means nothing if you never learned any compassion
