I think that Sunnydale can largely thank Anya for not having a lot more incidents of chaotic inexperienced magic users (e.g. the Trio) causing mayhem. Why? Well, when Giles sold Glory 2 items that could be used for a dangerous spell, she called him out, basically asking why he would sell anyone such a dangerous combo. This indicates that Anya is at least generally aware of what shouldn't be sold to customers or what to watch out for, and implies she wouldn't have sold Glory the items. Furthermore, when the gang is under the Tabula Rasa spell, we saw that an amnesiac version of Anya was able to perform potentially dangerous spells using only a single spell book, including conjuring rabbits and a sentient skeleton (that Giles sword fights with). This indicates it would be entirely possible for people with no idea what they're doing to perform irresponsible magic fairly easily.

Basically, Anya prevented a large amount of even more crazy whacky things from happening in Sunnydale

We needed scenes of Anya calling Buffy and saying "Someone just bought these dangerous items and he was clearly a vampire intent on ending the world, you should go stake them"

Buffy "Why did you make the sale if you knew this could end the world??"

Anya "I jacked up the price and got him to pay triple. I mean, he thought he was about to end the world so he wasn't going to care if I took all his money. Now go kill him before he does the spell, this is your sacred calling"

For your viewing pleasure, the extended shot of this epic scene🏴‍☠️ It sadly had to be shortened for time, but we really enjoyed doing this in one take. All the little details- the Swede as a fashionista, Auntie watching proudly, Wee John weighing his options, Frenchie all Cool Hand Luke, Stede’s hesitant smile at the end⚔️ Taika is the one timing the throwing of the clothes while guiding the camera operator so he doesn’t step on our brave extras. Directed by the amazing @ferfrias✨ And I sadly had to cut the opening shot of brave young Alex’s a** so this post doesn’t get flagged. But I know it’s all seared into our brains…☠️🍑

From Samba Schutte's IG

IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS POST FOREVER these are my exact thoughts on ed and izzy

from this post

Dug up and coloured a silly “fix-it” comic I doodled shortly after ep.6. Throwing it here because why not, I haven’t posted a comic in over a month.

Imagine an alien sharing a cool human fact they just learned like ”hey guys did you know that the silvery markings on humans actually aren’t true stripes? They’re called stretch marks, they happen when the human is growing fast enough to actually outgrow their skin, which is apparently something that just fucking happens to almost all of them at some point of their life.”

and another one is like ”wait so you’re saying humans don’t have stripes.”

”actually they do, but the stripes are invisible. There’s genetic code that’d give them stripes but they’re just the same colour as the rest of the skin. So the visible stripes are not real stripes and the real stripes are invisible.”

”I swear if you tell me one more weird human thing today I’m beating your ass.”

The human in the room looks up and goes "Wait I have stripes?"

"what do you mean cats can see them, but I can't?"

what do you fucking mean cats can see them

I WENT THROUGH THE SAME THOUGHT PROCESS

MY CAT THINKS I HAVE STRIPES?!?!?!?

NO NO ITS NOT "IT THINKS I HAVE THEM"

BECAUSE WE DO APPARENTLY

SO ITS ACTUALLY A VERY DISTRESSED "MY CAT THINKS I KNOW I HAVE STRIPES?!?!?!"

AND I THINK THATS A BIT WORSE TO BE COMPLETELY HONEST

MY CAT KNEW I HAD STRIPES BEFORE I DID?!?!?!?!?!?

I DIDNT THINK OF THAT

WELL I DID AND NOW I CANT UNTHINK IT

@beenovel @messiambrandybuck these are the variants

WHAT

apparently there's a disease where they become visable, and these are the most common kind??

Ngl it looks cool but???? I'm still in shock tbh

I NEED TO KNOW WHAT PATTERN OF STRIPES I HAVE AND THE CATS WON'T TELL ME

I COULD HAVE A CHECKERBOARD ON MY BACK AND NO ONE WOULD KNOW???

They’re called Blaschko's lines!!!

The reverse can also be true ... kinda.

I remember reading somehwre the human eye can see more shades of green than any other colour. I just googled it and the human eye can see 10 Million different shades of green.

So human could see stripes and patterns on, say, a reptillian race who maybe can’t see as many colours as we do, and think they’re just one boring shade of green.

Human: We have stripes?! I wish I could see them. I hope they look like yours.

Reptile Alien: Wait, I HAVE STRIPES!

*mutual excitement all around*

Our Flag Means Death S1E2 | S2E6

Oh I LOVE this. Conservation is an art unto itself and can completely change the way we look and interpret artwork! I love the choices made here. The lighter colour and bigger and fuller skirt really brighten the statue and add something to the silhouette that makes her immediately recognizable as a little dancer.

i would've loved a parallel of the opening dream sequence fight where stede and izzy are friends now

for the OFMD missing scene event on twitter

#RenewAsACrew

opening up my own fanfiction document on my personal laptop to see if the author has updated it yet

The one thing I am mad about, with Our Flag Means Death being cancelled, is that we missed out on anyone making the most obvious joke of the entire series.

The Revenge washes ashore on a Remote Island after a wild lightning storm, or some shit.

Stede: There's no need to bow, friends - we are but pirates!

Wee John: Did he just call us butt-pirates?

Frenchie: Rude

Lucius, at Pete: Damn right, we're butt-pirates.

Pete: You're my cute little butt-pirate...

Jim: [Draws blade] Hey. Speak for yourself.

Archie: [Optimistically] Ehhh, I dunno. I'd go for anything once. Like this time when I was in a butt cult and --

Olu: ... [software failure]

Buttons: Ye cannae. moonbathe. in. yer troos!

Roach, to Fang: ...so, then I like to take the meat, and really RAM it in, ay? Like get it really stuffed in there... [holds up goose]

Ed: [Wistfully] Yeah... yeah, y'know I guess we are butt-pirates.

Izzy: [INTERNAL SCREAMING]

I love that they have the same expressions, but I really love this particular moment because Ed starts it. He’s been so mad and so hurt, but the SECOND the lesbian drama starts going down he turns to Stede like “can you believe this, babe?”

He loves Stede and he wants Stede, but he also really really missed his playmate.

This is what Izzy says after throwing the unicorn legs down on the ground in front of the crew, and right before his first prosthetic gives out and he falls to the ground in 2x04. Obviously the last word was "job." I don't think I've seen anyone talk about this line and it fucking fascinates me. I have three main questions.

There are two main answers for #1. Frenchie and Ed. Frenchie is the one whose job it was to kill Izzy. However, Frenchie is in the room, and Izzy says "he" and not "you," and the Izzy & Frenchie dynamic is not a big dynamic in the show. Izzy & Ed is. So "he" is Ed. Ultimately, it was always Ed's job.

What's the job Ed was supposed to do? Take the other leg and then kill him. Izzy seems to expect him to do as much in 2x02.

Why does Izzy think Ed should've done this, and why is removing the unicorn's legs revenge? Well at this point, Izzy doesn't see himself as part of the Revenge crew. He sees himself as a rotten leg, a dead man walking (he says "I'm already gone" later in this scene). Izzy's always been very purpose driven, and the purpose that has been driving him for ~10 years is gone. He got Blackbeard, and it didn't turn out to be the thing he always wanted. What's left for him except to rot and die?

As for the second half of that question, I think there's two good answers and the truth lies somewhere in the middle. First, Izzy's drunk, thinking irrationally, and has become fixated on the unicorn. Second, the unicorn is the figurehead on the ship, a symbol of Stede and his ship, and therefore something Stede cares about. He knows hurting Stede will hurt Ed, and he wants to destroy something he thinks Ed cares about by proxy. Izzy recently learned that he and Ed do not have the relationship he thought they did, and Ed doesn't care about him as much as he thought. Izzy's own pain won't hurt Ed, so he has to hurt something else (I don't think this is entirely true, by the way, given how Ed reacts to Izzy dying, but Izzy definitely thinks he doesn't matter to Ed literally at all right here).

I also think it's interesting that Izzy frames this issue as being about their jobs. Ed's job was to take the other leg and kill him. In saying this he reveals he hasn't totally worked through not-needing-Ed-to-be-Blackbeard yet. He needs Blackbeard to kill him! It isn't until the crew make him a part of the ship and a part of the crew that he can fully let that need go, because he finds a new purpose: being a member of the Revenge crew. And that's enough.