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The usual. Destiny, fate, how to throw a curveball. The inextricable relationships in our lives that are neither accidental nor somehow in our control, either.

fox mulder + the x-files (season 5)

#the x files #mulderisms #loml

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merryfinches

thepersianslipper

Yes, Collider, yes! Let's get the momentum going! Sign the petition, engage with #renewasacrew.

@renewasacrew

#our flag means death #renew as a crew #save ofmd

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captain-flint

you ever just cry because of a man's stunning profile?!

#our flag means death #blackbeard #taika waititi #imagine having this face

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rhysdarbinizedarby

blairpfaff

#cinematic parallels

#rhys darby #our flag means death #taika waititi #this is so mindblowing #look at them!!!

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Something I realized about Ed and Izzy's relationship: in my hc, they had a sort of crooked relationship when they were younger, hook ups every now and then until they stopped completely. After season 2 pretty much confirming they only had a platonic thing going on and Izzy being Ed's mentor, I think his unrequired feelings and maybe even Ed's own confusion about them (back then in theory it made sense for them to be a couple, they would be unstoppable...but Ed just didn't love him that way) created Blackbeard.

Blackbeard was the manifestation they both created and fed: since Izzy couldn't have Ed, he could love this persona. Since Ed couldn't love Izzy, he could be Blackbeard and give something back to him.That's why Izzy was in such a resentful place in season 1: Blackbeard was fading away even before Stede and that's why he was so desperate for Ed keep feeding it.

That's why he pushed Ed in the end of s01 to be Blackbeard again, because he couldn't keep it alive by himself. In season 2 Izzy finally realizes how that beast they both created was going to destroy both of them at some point. He didn't trust Stede before, but Stede saving them even after finding out about Ed's death was a turning point for him, because Stede proved to care about the crew.

Season 2 is not only about Ed being free from Blackbeard, is about Izzy being free for it too, and how much happier he is. He gets to be loved by his crew, gets to express his art and his craft as an amazing pirate helping Stede, the same way he probably did with Ed too. He finally realizes that he couldn't love Ed the way he wanted but Ed being loved makes him happy too, and he passes the torch to Stede, because he makes Ed happy and Blackbeard needed to die.

#our flag means death cast #edward teach #stede bonnet #edizzy #steddyhands #gentlebeard #izzy hands #taika waititi #rhys darby #con o'neill #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2

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midearthling

saltpepperbeard

no because really, i think stede is operating in a way he thinks will win him respect. i think he's operating in a way he thinks is the expectation. i don't think he likes it, and i don't think it's "him," but i think he enjoys the positive reinforcement from everyone around him. he's literally never had that before in his life.

he was bullied as a child for what he enjoyed. he was cast aside by his father for being himself. the crew threatened to mutiny against him or even just flat-out kill him because he was too "weak."

and here he is trying to pull himself up out of maelstrom of mistakes. "he's been a failure his whole life." he's trying to do everything he can to rectify that. he wants to be the lighthouse for his crew. he wants to be a good captain. he wants to be a good pirate. he wants to be a good lover. he wants to be something.

and he was actually getting there himself--he just didn't realize it. listening to his crew more, showing them kindness, leading them when they were lost and had no place to go, putting his own grief on hold and taking back the revenge...

he was getting there! but still, he was surrounded by those haunting expectations, by the fear that it wasn't enough.

the whole conversation between he and ed where ed is encouraging him to command respect/be tougher. the whole conversation between he and izzy where izzy says he's "never met anyone with a total lack of skills." zheng saying that she didn't "conquer china by letting people go on and on about their feelings."

not to mention the goading from ned. "once you kill me, you're a real pirate. you're not an amateur." "see? that's why he likes you. your bumbling amateur status."

it all keeps swimming circles around him, looming above his head like a shadow.

he thinks he has something more to prove. he thinks he has to be more. even though his own methods work, like ned's crew turning on him simply because stede showed kindness and understanding, all these phantoms keep telling him it isn't enough and that the other methods are more effective.

because he kills, and looks visibly shaken by it, but his crew cheers. he grabs ed by the collar despite them wanting to take things slow, and they grow intimate. he walks into jackie'z after it all, a place where he was previously banished from, and is treated like a sort of pirate hero.

it's not him. "we don't just banish people, do we? that's not us."

but it's encouraged. it's celebrated. so he thinks it should be.

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It's like the just can't win: when Ed left him for Calico Jack it was another reinforcement of the idea that he wasn't enough. That being a pirate and man like Jack is what he should be because that's what Ed and the crew liked. Then Stede becomes the pirate they all wanted him to be and still the crew and Ed leave him 😭

#ofmd s2 spoilers #stede bonnet #our flag means death #edward teach #gentlebeard