An obsession with David Tennant never really dies, it just hibernates until he breaks your heart in a new show and then you have to go through being in love with him all over again
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I fucking love how time and space works in the OFMD universe. Stede goes through captain training, and the crew find and raid two ships, picking up and offloading a curse, all within the time it takes Ed to catch a fish.
OFMD feels like a love letter to every fan who’s loved a piece of media and received indifference at best in return. To love something so much and have everyone involved love it too, show us in every moment that, yes, it is special, and loved and cared about, is so beautiful.
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Ed and Stede are criticised for behaving like teenage boys, having big emotions, and falling fast and hard and running away. But then we’re shown the softer things that come with young love: holding hands, sharing stories, furtive glances, quiet declarations. 1/2
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I’m welling up rewatching episode 4 because Mary’s big speech about how the magic and mystery will disappear from Ed and Stede’s relationship, and then there’ll be nothing left, is wrong. 1/2
I was so sure we'd see Stede take on a whole new identity in season 2 after faking his death, but he's just out here using his whole ass government name
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A teacher once told me that I care too much about things that aren’t real. I’ve sat with that comment for years, used it against myself when I’ve cried for people who don’t exist, but I’ve come to realise that they are real, anything created and loved and shared is real. 1/2
My heart breaks for Stede when he says this because I think he truly means it. He’ll take anything, any version of a relationship, if Ed will just stay.
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How am I supposed to just carry on with my day when Stede finally kissed the person he loves with his entire being. How am I meant function knowing Stede pushed his hand into Ed’s hair and moaned softly as he tried to deepen the kiss he’s waited so long for.
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It’s such a great detail to have Ed’s accent wax and wane depending on who he’s talking to. A strong example is when he speaks to Fang and matches his cadence. As an immigrant, that’s exactly what happens when I’m around family.
It feels like we’re seeing Izzy grow into someone who would make an excellent captain. He’s always been good at the technical stuff, now he’s learning how to be someone the crew respects. He’ll take over the Revenge when Ed and Stede decide to retire to their inn
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Season 1 is Ed thinking he’ll be happy if he’s accepted into high society.
Season 2 is Stede thinking he’ll be happy if he’s accepted as a pirate.
Season 3 will be them realising they’re happiest in the space and roles they carve out for themselves.
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TW mental health/suicidal ideation
I’m seeing a lot of people annoyed that Stede saved Ed, calling it unhealthy for Ed to live for Stede. Here’s the thing: having mental health problems, to the extent of Ed’s, destroys people. 1/4
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I know we’re likely going to have Ed angry with Stede and freezing him out in the next few episodes, I know it makes sense for the plot to do so, but god, Stede has been through so fucking much. He sat with the body of the man he loved after freeing his crew, 1/2
We’re shown Ed and Stede, talking about catching a fish, playing thumb wars, being happy and soft together. They don’t need a tempestuous love to carry them through, they’re perfectly content to just be together. It’s beautiful. 2/2
Ed and Stede are going through all the motions of Big First Love. They’re dealing with huge, complicated feelings about themselves and their lives. A fight was inevitable, they needed to reach breaking point so they could finally say the quiet things aloud. 1/2
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S3 opens on the crew on deck.
Frenchie patches a sail, while Oluwande and Archie scrub the railings under Auntie’s watchful eye. The Swede swabs the deck, Jackie watching from nearby, appreciating how his muscles flex as he sloshes water onto the boards.
1/3
I know its not confirmed in canon that Ed has ADHD, but I feel so validated in how my brain works when I watch OFMD. Ed’s never treated badly for how he thinks or speaks, everyone accepts him for who he is. After 30 years being told there’s something wrong with me, it means a lot
manifest with me:
🕯️OFMD is picked up by another network. They’re given ten episodes and a great budget. The network promotes the hell out of it and it does even better than season 1 and 2. MAX has to watch it all happen.🕯️
Side-eyeing reviewers who say season 2 is just giving fans what they want. Season 1 gave people what they wanted, and needed, in a story. We felt seen, by a show that didn’t even know who we were. So maybe the writers are just damn good at their jobs.
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There’s something beautiful about a show outdoing a fandom’s head canons. We’ve had eighteen months to think of how Ed might react to Stede leaving and somehow we were completely blindsided by those fucking cake toppers. Amazing.
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TW mental health
I won’t lie, Ed trying so hard to sabotage himself, to bait the crew into doing what he thinks he deserves, really hit me in a place I don’t like to look at too closely for fear of it crushing me.
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Fang saying “am I crushing you?” as he hugs a man, that on more than one occasion has yanked his beard, has me so emotional. He saw that Izzy needed to be comforted and not only did so, he also checked in with him. We don’t deserve Fang.
It’s actually hilarious that the show included such a stereotype of a villain, who gives his big villain monologue before every kill, and looks to be a real threat, and Stede just brains him with a violin. Peak writing. We are blessed.
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Seeing so many people scrutinise Rhys’s behaviour at the panel makes me so nervous to do fandom stuff irl. I want to think that people will be understanding that I don’t always act ‘correctly’ due to being ND, but if Rhys can’t be allowed to be himself then I really don’t know.
As much as I hope David was being serious about there being lesbian pirates there’s something really funny about the idea of him waking up today, realising what he promised us and getting on the phone with his people shouting ‘FIND ME SOME LESBIANS’
They’re getting to have something they didn’t as kids, and they’re experiencing it together. To be shown the ups and downs, and taken along on their journey is such beautiful storytelling. It’s wonderfully clever, and heartfelt and lovely. And I feel so lucky to witness it. 2/2
I like to think there was one person on set whose entire job was to slosh water over Con any time he looked like he was remotely starting to dry
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As Pete sets to work pulling him up, Lucius’s gaze falls to the name again. The letters aren’t as straight as he hoped, but the words are clear. The sun glints off the gold paint, illuminating a promise and a warning for every ship to see.
𝐼𝑧𝑧𝑦’𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒.
3/3
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Jackie is literally so giddy watching Ed watch Stede have liquor poured down this throat. If she becomes their number one shipper in the show I will never recover
The world is built on stories. We are who we are because of who our ancestors breathed life into. To care for others’ creations, to carry them with us, is not only a fundamental part of being human, but a truly beautiful experience, and should be celebrated. 2/2
Ed, dying to tell Stede how he feels after a month together, takes Stede to the local aquarium. As they stand in the blue glow of the tanks, Ed points at a spotted eel.
‘That’s how I feel about you.’
Stede stares into the tank, confused. ‘Like a fish?’
‘No, that’s a moray.’
what if Izzy tracks Stede down because Ed’s gone off the deep end and he needs to train Stede because he knows Ed won’t let Stede speak when they meet and they’ll have to duel
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who ‘killed’ Ed. He put everyone first while his heart was shattered. He’s made mistakes, but he was taken from Ed, by his childhood bully and then witnessed his death. He’s been through so much, he needs Ed as much as Ed needs him, and knowing Ed will push him away kills me. 2/2
Sometimes, someone else needs to carry your pain until you’re strong enough to carry it yourself. Love doesn’t fix everything, but as someone who might not be here right now without my partner’s support, I can tell you that love can be what you truly need in your worst moment 4/4
When you suffer from severe mental health issues, you need support. For some people, that support will come from one person. Is that healthy in the long run? No. Can it be the lifeline people need in their darkest moment? Yes. 3/4
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If they bring Izzy back, I’m going to need an entire episode of him in the gravy basket. I want to see his life through his eyes as he battles with his choice to return to the living, or let go.
We literally it happen in the show. Ed wanted to die. He felt unlovable, unwanted and did everything he could to goad others into ending his life. He needed to know he was loved. He needed to feel Stede’s presence to pull himself back from the brink. 2/4
I need the iconic ‘Father’ scene in Fleabag translated to Ed and Stede in S2. Ed only allows Stede back on the Revenge as a deckhand and Stede happily calls him Captain every chance he gets.
‘You’re way too invested in fictional people.’
Yes, what possible reason could I, a neurodivergent person, have to attach myself to people who can’t hurt or judge me.
Episode one of s3 will be them trying to run the inn for five minutes before they burn it to the ground and take a magic dinghy straight to the ship
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My local market closed down which was a big chunk of my income, so I’m scrabbling to fill the void it left with my online shop. How would everyone feel if I shared some of my stuff on this account from time to time? I make so much OFMD stuff that I’d love to show people 🏴☠️❤️
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I’ve been keeping my posts about the finale purposefully vague for my own mental health, but something that’s been cropping up repeatedly about Izzy’s death has been effecting me deeply. I don’t talk about it much, but during the pandemic I got extremely sick 1/8
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I think today, more than any other day, it’s good to remember that the show doesn’t start and stop onscreen. The show is the foundation of the fandom, but we are the builders. We add to it every day with our words and art and love. 1/2
Lucius dangles from the side of the ship, paintbrush in hand. He’s putting the final touches to vessel’s new name.
‘Babe! Can you hoist me up?’
Pete peers over the railing. ‘All done?’
Lucius looks up at his husband and smiles. ‘All done.’
2/3