Innkeeper BTS - 05/08/2024

I'm your captain!

sailor's kiss

Sexy stockings 👀

seriously, though, how are his legs so perfect

They are so important to me

🥹🥰🫶🏼💖👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

Watching Rhys smile and keep looking at Taika to see if his improv will make Taika crack while also remaining in character as Stede radiating absolute sunshine are some small moments in the show I live for.

Thinking about how DJenks saying Stede is Stede Bonnet the 15th and how that insinuates his father's name isn't Edward like it was in history, freeing up the potential for Ed to take Stede's last name without it being weird. Which is sweet and fun in its own right, but given ofmd hijinks this means they could maybe use their married names without revealing their identities, like:

One day while the boys are having a nice breakfast in town, someone approaches them, waving a wanted poster.

"Edward Teach. Stede Bonnet. The jig is up!"

Stede sighs. Not really the reaction expected of a pirate on the run with a bounty on his head.

"Not again," he mutters. Looks to his companion. "Do you want to explain this time?"

Their would-be capturer frowns. "Explain what exactly?"

"There's been a misunderstanding," Ed provides, "I'm Edward Bonnet. He's Stede Teach."

"Common misconception," Stede Teach chimes in.

"Unfortunate coincidence," Edward Bonnet adds.

"So....you're not pirates?"

"Christ, no. Innkeepers."

"We own the Mermaid." Stede takes a lazy sip of his tea, completely unbothered by the intrusion. "Near the beach."

"Oh. Well. That's alright then."

You all right, mate?

Coloured pencils and a bit of white ink on Clairefontaine Paint On Naturel, A4.

Graphite pencils, white coloured pencil and a bit of white ink on Clairefontaine toned paper (Paint On Denim), 20 × 40 cm.

(✿ᵒ̴̶̷̥́ ◡ ᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀ )♥

Over the past month, 256 artists collaborated to recreate 310 frames of Ed and Stede’s S1 kiss to express our love for this show and these characters. This is animation is the result

If you'd like to take a look at each frame, check out the project website here

Also check out the project credits here! The doc has all the artists who participated listed in frame order with their social media links and ways to donate to them

So, what makes Ed Happy?

Graphite pencils, white coloured pencil and a bit of white ink on toned paper, A4.

I bought a couple of reprinted 19th century atlases years back with the idea of drawing something in them, but couldn’t think of a good subject until now. Graphite pencils and a bit of white ink on uhh… Polynesia. 27 × 20 cm.

I've seen some rancid fucking takes in various internet dumpsters lately, so allow me to frame this in a way that removes all chatter of algorithms or advertisers or any sort of modern money-grubbing that seems to fry everyone's critical thinking brains to fucking oatmeal lately:

Fanwork is a garden. You do not plant seeds in a garden and then get to watch fruits of your labor sprout by just staring at your rows and doing nothing.

Labor: a key word. There should be nothing passive about fan communities.

You cannot harvest your funky little purple potatoes or your butt-shaped carrots without tilling the rows; watering them; getting dirt in the lines of your palms and the rinds of your fingernails. You must give as much as you are wanting to take from the garden. You can have nothing worth anything at all from that garden besides fallow mud unless you're prepared to do the work to grow it.

Curate the tags you like. Find authors, artists, subsets of larger fandoms, that speak directly to the things you love; the specific characterizations you adore, the dynamics that light you from within. Tell them you love them. They will, most likely, love you too. That's what happens when you give someone a handshake: they hold you back for a moment. It's fucking electric.

Do not deny yourself this.

And I get it, to a certain extent. I'm almost 30 and I think my generation seems to be one of the last that has any sense of organic community-building left in it when it comes to online spaces. It makes me so angry and fucking sad that younger people on the internet don't know how to cultivate their fan communities because they've been raised in spaces optimized for maximizing advertiser dollars and spoon-feeding shit that makes money to consumers accordingly.

But it is not the responsibility of fan spaces like AO3 to conform to "the way things are" now, because the way things are is actively insidious to things like queerness and otherness and anything that isn't neatly-packaged, sexless, sanitized ~content~ that speaks to nothing but the slimmest, most vapid slice of reality.

It is your responsibility to tend the garden you want to grow. Take that responsibility for your own experience. You're an adult on the internet. Buck up and act like it.