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1 year

#ofmds2spoilers Izzy: Lucius looks sad. gonna help him Izzy: hey :) dissassociate and create a fictional story to not deal w the truth. also here's a little shark your honor I love him

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1 year

#ofmds2spoilers the fact that ed doesn't remember that he agreed or did the talent show. you know, the thing that big part of the fandom thought was "healing" and might as well be dissociative episode

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1 year

remember when they asked Rhys why he thought ofmd resonates so much with lesbians and he started talking about grease and the queer cast of the show sat there like 👁️👄👁️ until Vico stepped in and saved the poor man

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1 year

if we have to stick w parental figure this is at LEAST a mom

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1 year

this is the dude people will try to convince u isn’t a bitchy jilted wife btw

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1 year

izzy is not homophobic he just hates rich people and hes right

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10 months

this just kind of makes me sad because... I can feel the queerness/love that shines through this moment and... it wasn't on screen. it didnt translate - it was cut and stitched together back again

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1 year

feels so callous that Jenkins spent so many interviews calling edizzy a love story and calling Izzy the jilted spouse and then after he kills Izzy off he calls him a father figure. literally queer baited in the queer show might be my most massive L #ofmds2spoilers

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1 year

anyway I did a thing

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1 year

edizzy

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@persphones

1 year

"maybe it was hbo" yeah maybe it was but then why does Jenkins keep talking in interviews how happy he is with it and how he thinks is satisfying and kind and how Izzy's journey went exactly as he thought it should go

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1 year

"best i could", had you as my right hand man. "best i could", send you to do the job if i wanted it done right. "best i could", showed him the bird guy. "best i could", asked you to stay. "best i could", showed you the frankfurters clouds. best ed thought he could #ofmds2spoilers

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1 year

#ofmds2spoilers I'm used to my fav characters get sidelined by the writers but wow Jenkins really fucking made us think he cared about Izzy uh

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@persphones

1 year

ok going back to edizzy real fast izzy saying he was shot bc he told ed he loved him. stede agreeing to it. this is why ed shot him. not bc he said stedes name, but bc he dared to break eds fantasy that he is unlovable #ofmds2spoilers

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@persphones

1 year

@lincodega killing off a suicide attempt survivor, disabled, older queer man after he just felt cared for the first time in his life and found his community feels the furthest thing from queer joy and kindness we were promised. it's just so disappointing

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@persphones

1 year

hes still so in love w him #ofmds2spoilers 😭

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@persphones

1 year

I don't think Jenkins is homophobic or was attempting to queer bait. I think he's incredibly irresponsible and thought that "gay" was just another character trait he could play with with a bigger budget, he knew he didn't know what he was doing and had a team of queer writers +

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@persphones

1 year

it's just so sad. imagine loving someone so much, imagine losing parts of yourself to them, imagine being abused by them, imagine being w him for decades, attending to his every whim and cleaning up his messes, and then u have to die so he can be happy and u die w that knowledge

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@persphones

1 year

con arriving on la and going to lunch with samba and immediately asking to go to the picket line I'm kissing him on the mouth he's so sexy with his worker rights

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@persphones

1 year

anyway. Izzy "I have one more song" just a few weeks (days) after he tried to kill himself. moving forward the only way a lot of underprivileged queer people know how: through, despite it all, with a smile on his face and friends by his side #ofmds2spoilers

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@persphones

1 year

he has a heating pad for his cramps and edward is asking him whats for dinner

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@persphones

1 year

they really made Lucius go through a lot of trauma and then made it seem like he was the bad guy bc he was mad at the guy who was meant to protect him (his captain) and that he was in the wrong for complaining/not being positive wow

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@persphones

1 year

when they showed Izzy dying on EP 1 I was like well there's no way they're killing Izzy on the sf because that's just dumb, cheap foreshadowing but

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@persphones

1 year

i cant believe they gave jim a beard makeup and gave kristian and con the opportunity to dress up for a drag show and gave lucius a proposal scene and i love my queer show #ofmds2spoilers

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@persphones

1 year

ngl waiting for Izzy to have a breakdown because something dumb triggers him out of his "everything is fine and I don't have trauma :)" mental space and if it doesn't happen I might have to write it

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@persphones

1 year

if u look close **** is revolutionary by giving a male character the female treatment (insane hate bc they get in the middle of the main ship, fridged)

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@persphones

1 year

something something stede confronting izzy abt him being homophobic and hes like i suck cock all the time i just dont like u

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@persphones

1 year

as a writer, i just cant stop thinking how did you fumble this so bad. not just izzy, but your main couple too, and your side characters and your arc. it feels like such shitty writing

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@persphones

1 year

as usual it seems like the only solution is to be more insane about izzy hands

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@persphones

11 months

the issue with edizzy abuse is not that Ed couldn't come back from it (from what we saw, it already went pretty far) but the fact that they refuse to acknowledge it proper/seriously as abuse + make Ed accountable for it esp in regards to Izzy

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@persphones

11 months

not to be parasocial but Con basically confirmed genderfluid Val and using they/them pronouns for them after actively asking Vico about trans/nonbinary folks and reading up on literature and learning is ....... wow

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@persphones

1 year

this pic is so funny to me because con is clearly doing that thing where he leans onto the person-hes-in-the-pic-with's shoulder/hugs them tenderly but Samson is too far away so he's just leaning on air

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@persphones

1 year

Ed getting banished and thinking Izzy will come with him and then he doesn't #ofmds2spoilers

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@persphones

1 year

not every queer story needs to be one of queer joy but also why is this cishet man doing a thought experiment w queer love get off my lawn

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@persphones

7 months

"had a dream you killed me last night" "good for you" "it was good for me" what the fuck was that

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@persphones

1 year

people saying that Ed is disabled like that's fanon. that is fanon. the knee brace was something we expanded on

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@persphones

1 year

ngl r/hys and t/aika on a panel w con and the Kids feels like the boss coming over to the office 😭 nathan is so shyyyy

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@persphones

11 months

ooc that ed would just let izzy die. he would bring him back to life through sheer force of will. "I didn't say dismissed"

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@persphones

1 year

if you think im over how its such a fucking stupid decision to kill off izzy im not and i will never be

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@persphones

1 year

idk the whole "this was always meant to be Izzy's arc" just makes it more cruel. do you seriously only see your side characters as fodder for the main love story?

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@persphones

1 year

i know we're all very mad at ed right now but uh.... edizzy? yes? anyone still?

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10 months

you are not used to the absence of pain.

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@persphones

1 year

I love the sad stories and the tragic arcs and the doomed by the narrative characters. when I'm not watching a show that the cast and crew keep telling me is about queer joy and kindness and love the flip and switch is what makes this fucking suck so bad

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@persphones

1 year

ok but i cant believe the 'turn poison into positivity' quote was like earnest this is the most corporate shit ever

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@persphones

1 year

man I'm still fucking mad that Jenkins knew he wanted to Izzy have all this journey (abuse + mutilation, suicide attempt, alcoholism, putting himself back together through community and love) and still killed him off like that

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@persphones

1 year

I'm sorry Ed reaching w his hand covered in blood looks so out of place in the scene this is so stupid did they really think that looked good

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@persphones

8 months

i love the hit comedy show ofmd. my fav funny scene in s2 is when the recently disabled man is crawling on the floor saying you live alone you die alone and then 4 episodes later he dies :)

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@persphones

1 year

"it's not bury your gays" cause everyone is queer. well it still fucking sucks. would you be ok if Lucius died? no? why? because he was just finding his happiness after being put through hell?

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@persphones

10 months

i feel like one of my biggest issues with s2 writing is that the characters all seem aware of their roles in the story too much. side characters accept they're side characters instead of being main characters in their own life, which leads to choices that make no sense

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@persphones

1 year

idk why people keep insisting izzy is homophobic as if gays dont call each other sluts all the time,

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@persphones

11 months

Sorry but 'dont know how but want con O'Neill there" is not comforting me

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@persphones

1 year

today's looping thought is the casual way ed says "take off your boot". expecting obedience. it has happened before #ofmds2spoilers

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@persphones

10 months

izzy's tragedy hit so deep because he spent his entire life in defense mode and then when he started to open up for the first time maybe ever he died and he wasn't even sad about it because he thought his life was not worth much anyway and-

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@persphones

10 months

do u think con knew izzy would die so he just made every scene much gayer than it had to be

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@thozaarmitage

10 months

not a day goes by where i don't think about izzys hand on stedes thigh

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@persphones

11 months

now that we know that someone doesn't really care that much about character consistency, the Izzy's revenge scene that feels so out of place considering Izzy's character through s1 makes a lot of sense lmao

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@persphones

1 year

the issue is not killing a character btw it's being shit at it. get good

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@persphones

11 months

Jenkins should have made Izzy imprint on edstede baby. he didn't have to kill him

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@persphones

1 year

"Izzy's death made sense for the narrative" ah yes because killing off characters because you don't know how to salvage or tie off their arcs is such good writing

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@persphones

1 year

this might come to bite me in the back but if you think izzy, a man who in canon is lashing out of hurt/unrequited love wont be able to be "redeemed" when the cast and crew always focus on the KINDNESS of the story i think we're missing the point

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@persphones

1 year

Jenkins would thrive on game of thrones writing room this is not a compliment. #ofmds2spoilers

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@persphones

1 year

anyway. killing Izzy was a fucking stupid decision uh

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@persphones

1 year

wife: izzy deserves better me: izzy doesnt want better he WANTS ED wife: he shot him in the leg me: no he didnt it was a shark wife: ....... YOU WATCHED IT HAPPENED me: shark.

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@persphones

11 months

coping with this interview (love con, still hate what happened and I hate that he confirmed Izzy had a coming out story and that he could see his death coming because it's How It Goes by closing my eyes honestly

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@persphones

1 year

It was just such bad writing man. how the fuck do you fumble so many story arcs this bad

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@persphones

2 years

hello since twitter decided to suspend my other account @ edizzycoded im back here. slowly following everyone again, still kind of upset @ losing everything in that account but also at this point, its whatever what can i do

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@persphones

11 months

they are each other constants.................................. im ok dont touch me

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@persphones

1 year

the more you think about it the worst it gets that Jenkins seems to keep pushing the narrative he was "playing dolls"/"writing fanfic"/"wanted to see what Con would do". when we first heard it, we felt understood - connected even. esp w the hate fanfics get, it felt good to be 🧵

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1 year

if they didn't want to lose a part of their passionate fanbase then they shouldn't have botched the ending and senselessly/cruelly killed off one of their most beloved characters in a shitty way. skill issue lol

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@persphones

11 months

I do hate the fact that Ed was trying to make amends (albeit not in the best way) and it got pushed out of the way because he paid for the party and then. that was that

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@persphones

11 months

if I had a nickel for every time some1 in cast/crew of ofmd said smth like "it didn't make sense and I had to sit with it for a while and jump through hoops to understand it" in the past week or so I'd have 2 nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

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@persphones

1 year

how does Izzy goes from this to it's about belonging

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1 year

sorry sometimes i just remember they killed izzy and i literally get blinded by rage

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1 year

sometimes you create a character so incredible and you're obsessed with the tiny little freak and suddenly the entire story revolves around him and his arc and his choices and he is not the protag and you already started the story and planned it out and shit, hes not the protag +

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1 year

I also don't think only queer people should write queer stories but i feel really uncomfortable with the way Jenkins talks about queer narratives and queer love vs what he delivered on episode 7-8 tbh

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1 year

it sucks that we thought the queer indigenous man would have a coherent character arc and would not rely solemnly on the white men of his life to dictacte who he is and who he can be but i guess not

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@persphones

1 year

so u agree. season two would be better if it was about edizzy?

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@persphones

9 months

ed's insomnia finds him too fast in the inn, less than a week after they buried izzy. his feet take him out of the shack and into the beach, the cold sand stuck on his soles. he sees him, then. standing close to the water, watching the waves. there, but not quite, not fully

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@persphones

1 year

can't believe me they gave me a dying in his estranged lovers arms, a little fall of rain scene and it wasn't even emotionally satisfying enough for me to be into it

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@persphones

11 months

same reason I feel like people read Izzy as homophobic lmao

Erin Ekins (she/her)

@QueerlyAutistic

11 months

I've seen people going 'Christopher Eccleston wouldn't have supported all this woke nonsense in Doctor Who!' and that just tells me that a) you know absolutely nothing about Christopher Eccleston and b) you make gross assumptions about people for being working class and northern.

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10 months

the bad news/good news framing sucks so fucking bad can this man not talk like a corporate machine once in his sfucking life

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@persphones

1 year

yeah jenkins can be playing us and whatever, izzy is alive, its a fuckery, the inn is a bust, whatever, i dont care the trauma porn with izzy's disability arc was still there and we'd still be hanging like 2ish yaers for it so i dont care

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@persphones

1 year

if u ignore everything wrong and put the scene into a season/arc that makes sense and is respectful I do like eds stupid "sorry about the leg" apology

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@persphones

11 months

just really stuck on the "reading the scripts i knew it was coming", that just makes me so sad because its clearly izzy on a redemption/healing journey. we all saw it coming. we just wanted to believe it was different

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@persphones

11 months

why didn't they let Izzy and Lucius have soup......

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1 year

izzy still does Ed's taxes even tho they're divorced

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@persphones

1 year

plot twists and gut punches are only fun if you're not fucking betraying your audience jenkins. there is a difference between writing a cruel story and acknowledging it is cruel, and writing a cruel story and telling everyone it's about kindness

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1 year

oh I remembered. anyway you have to fuck up majorly for a big part of your fanbase who was genuinely hyperfixated and in love with your tv show to be so upset, betrayed and hurt by it that they can't even think about rewatching it

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@persphones

1 year

edizzy divorce, izzy ends up downloading tinder after months of self pity and angst, first person that shows is edward himself and hes smiling and hes so gorgeous and he misses him so much

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@persphones

1 year

I don't think Jenkins was responsible in handling any of that, and I hate that he wanted to ~experiment with writing romance and decided to do it with a community he doesn't belong to and in a irresponsible way

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1 year

genuinely im still stuck on 'ended the season on a happy note' like what

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@persphones

9 months

did con just say "dont let him post this" or am i allucinating LMAO i love it he knows the people

alex • izzy hands brainrot

@haleseliot

9 months

OH MY GOD TUM ?!?!?! SAMBA ?!?!?! HELLO ?!?!?!

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1 year

not giving Jenkins any rights but con did kinda pop off on the death scene

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1 year

thinking hard and deep about the "there he is" scene. how many times did Ed push Izzy against the wall and choke him,

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@persphones

10 months

btw the issue is not people donating for the billboard - I don't personally agree but you do whatever you want with your money. my issue is people actively complaining about the surplus money being donated to charity when this was INITIALLY stated that it was what was going

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1 year

story of unrequited love, of a powerful man being made undone by love. which is fair. but idk man. the story changed. it became about queer love. it became and was promoted as a romcom. it centered around an indigenous brown queer character. +

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@persphones

1 year

i thought it was a sort of thing of surviving through stuff and pushing forward, not letting your trauma drag you down to the floor. that it was izzy's way of surviving - the only way he knew how to.if i knew it would end the way it did, i wouldnt have thought it was a nice scene

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@yaoiMDPhD

1 year

“Not moving on is worse” reads as “get over it” which isn’t really a nice thing to say to people who have been victims of brutality (Lucius and Izzy and the audience) huh. I really thought there would be a narrative rebuttal. But no. That was the point. Kinda fucked.

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@persphones

1 year

what if hornigold is not a crazy, threatening, dangerous, sexy old man. what will I do

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@persphones

10 months

Izzy realizing Ed wants a dom and domming the shit out of him and then Ed is like I didn't know u could do that and Izzy just says you never asked

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@persphones

1 year

I'm sorry I literally can't imagine how they expect me to move on from the edizzy on the first eps in just one week. I'm still stuck there. I have love for you. the shot. the murder suicide. what the fuck

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@persphones

11 months

"i always played izzy as a man who was in love but didn't know he was in love" im taking sever psychic damage here guys /pos

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@persphones

1 year

honestly if i squint sure i can see a way of izzy coming back but i dont want to give jenkins the time of the day or the benefit of the doubt and even then it fucking sucks because we are bound to "wait" for like 2 years ish for it if it happens #ofmds2spoilers

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