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I was thinking about Jim’s revenge arch today, and how they had a brother. Was the brother also tasked with avenging his father’s murder? Did he receive the same training? Was he lost in the woods, same as Jim’s but never found? Is his arch to find his family? In this essay I—
you know what still gets my blood boiling. the fact that we’ll never see what s2 was SUPPOSED to be. we know there are scrapped storylines and deleted scenes. we know that what we got wasn’t entirely dj’s vision because of max’s meddling.
my mom: your cousin just had a baby
me: that’s cool, the showrunner of my favorite show revealed that he’s still shopping it around after a double cancellation so. a win for both of us I think
s3 is going to include a flashback to the first day they met but include some scenes we haven’t seen before including them swapping rings and Ed looking absolutely whipped about it. trust me
was talking with a work friend today about tv shows and she was like “the worst part is that everything good gets cancelled. have you heard of our flag means death” you know I might’ve
idk if he’s talked about it before but at the Supercon panel Samba said that he asked HBO/Max if he could do official promo for the show, including a podcast, and then when he got to NZ they said “sorryyyyy we have no money” and shut it down
I know this point has been beaten to death but it rly is so nice to enjoy a show where the showrunner doesn’t chastise a fandom for doing fandom things and jokes with us about mpreg and rarepairs. after all that fandom in has been through at the hands of creators we deserve that
do u think taika went on pirates of the caribbean while he was at disneyland. there’s a little voiceover after you get off the ride that says something about “tell everyone you set sail with blackbeard” do you think he heard that and made a joke about it. does he think about ed
I’m glad he’s getting work but it’s always “Darby guest stars” “Darby makes a cameo” etc etc. Rhys has leading man potential how come the only people to see that are us and David Jenkins
Looks like we now have confirmation as to what Rhys was filming in Canada a few weeks ago!
He'll be appearing as a sardonic, successful ad executive who always knows best on the new workplace comedy, The Z-Suite.
I really do love that MerStede didn’t pull Ed out of the water Little Mermaid style. He didn’t save him, Ed still had to do that himself. But he stayed down there with him. He made it easier.
maybe this is me but I don’t think Stede was ever scared of Ed, I think his shock when Ed said “I’m blackbeard” was more rooted in embarrassment. Like “oh god, I cant believe I didn’t recognize history’s greatest pirate and I’ve been making a total fool of myself in front of him”
i actually will never get over the fact that stede bonnet heard a cute guy outing himself as one of the most dangerous pirates in history got scared for like a second and then just sat him in front of his library and started yapping about his favorite books like pls i love him
taika’s going to release another really good movie sometime in the next few years and the public opinion of him is going to do a complete 180 and everyone’s going to claim they always loved him but I will NEVER forget the way yall have been treating him
saw a good point on tumblr and im mad at hbomax again.
imagine you had to cut down s1 into the same constraints that s2 had. imagine how many plot points/arcs you’d have to cut entirely to cram it into 2 fewer eps.
and now imagine *that many more scenes* in s2.
yk what I love about this scene is I was CERTAIN that it would cause a rift or some sort of conflict between them, but even when they’re not entirely on the same page ed trusts stede so completely that when he says “no, she kissed ME” there was never a question abt it.
Neil fucking Gaiman is on tumblr asking people to watch DBD to try to save it from cancellation. This show hasn’t even been out for two weeks.
We should promote shows because we like them, not because we’re scared of queer representation being taken away.
David Jenkins please don’t ever tell us the plot of s3. As long as you keep that to yourself I can hang on to the tiniest sliver of hope that they might come back.
I’d never really put together that “an excellent day” was June 3 and Stede didn’t meet Ed until August 31st/September 1st. Three whole months passed in those first three eps!!! How much of that time was Ed tracking him I wonder
In terms of problematic things Stede Bonnet has done, giving himself an entire en suite stocked with ye olde lush products while the crew shared a bucket and a baby bath is near the top
if Ed and Stede were a het couple I guarantee people would’ve picked up what you were putting down by ep4. the fact that they didn’t shows exactly why we need more stories featuring queer love - its not nearly normalized enough in popular media
just met samba at his auto table and he was so fucking lovely :( I didn’t even pay for an auto or photo for today but he let me chat with him anyway and I gave him a friendship bracelet and he thanked me for supporting the show :(((((
do u ever see a character and it's like they were created in a lab to specifically appeal to u. like they just have every trait u like in a character somehow
also worth mentioning that Stede was NEVER EVER afraid of Ed hurting him, even when everyone else said he should’ve been. He doesn’t even flinch when Ed starts yelling at him. Stede knows Ed well enough to know that he would never purposefully hurt him.
I just love how soft Ed is with Stede, even when he’s angry & heartbroken… I remember people predicting that Ed was gonna stab Stede & throw him in the brig. I’m SO glad David gave us this instead 🏴☠️🩷
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modern Jim who doesn’t sit down to watch tv, but does that dad thing where they stand in the corner pretending not to care while actually being super invested. Zheng’s like “you can come sit down you know” & Jim says “I’m NOT watching” but they haven’t moved in several mins
i don’t typically clown but it is very weird that david went to wb studios. like, super weird. also super weird for kinga to post about it twice.
first thought was a new project, but if I were him I’d never take a job with them ever again lmao.
renegotiations maybe? 🤞
lesbian stede being told all her life that she has such beautiful long blonde hair and so she cuts it off into a little bob when she runs away to be a pirate
I love how, often, Stede doesn’t touch Ed unless it’s on Ed’s terms. He meets Ed in the middle, letting Ed come to him rather than just going for it. The same is true of the bathtub scene, when Stede offers Ed his hand, and lets Ed decide what he wants to do with that gesture.
LOVE LOVE LOVE in fics when Stede and Ed are about to have sex for the first time and Stede is considerate of Ed’s bad knee (getting him extra pillows, suggesting new positions, etc) and Ed just MELTS because no one’s ever cared for him like that before
I’m so sick of this take.
Just because you exclusively interact with queer art doesn’t mean that queer storylines/romance is commonplace in mainstream media. It’s still fought against by networks and studios, and we should celebrate every win we get, and uplift it.
another Supercon panel highlight: an improv that didn’t make it into the show was in the pilot, when Stede asks what to do with big feelings, Nat Faxon apparently said “well, you go home, and you take it out on your family” 💀
it’s been six months since season 2 aired, and a little over six months since I started watching the show. I *loved* s1 of course, but when I saw Ed grab Stede’s hand from the gravy basket… the course of my life was forever altered. happy half bday ofmd s2 <3
I’m not someone who does ofmd rewatches often and literally every time I do I’m like holy shit. this show is really good. why is no one talking about this.
I know M*x made them cut down and change a LOT so I’m giving Jenkins/the writers the benefit of the doubt, but this is exactly the kind of thing s2 needed more of imho.
i know David Jenkins probably isnt allowed to say anything bad about the folks who still technically own his art, but I just really hope he sees all this and sees how furious we all are on his behalf. And I hope it brings him a little bit of joy amidst all the anger.
telling this Stede Bonnet that not only is he going to meet the dread pyrate Blackbeard, he’s going to fall so completely in love with him and be so wholly loved in return. And also that he’s going to fuck him so deep into the mattress that he sees stars. god bless
do you think zazlav even remembers pulling the plug on ofmd. or was that just like a sixty-second discussion in a budgeting meeting and he was like “hmm, probably no one will miss that one”. unrelatedly I think we should bring back the guillotine