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Modern OFMD where Stede takes them all to build a bear and Izzys complaining that it's a waste of money but ends up with a pirate bear anyway.

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ACCURATE

All of us trying to find each other on here:

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It is my deeply rooted belief that Jonathan the seagull (Karl/Olivia) was named for Jonathan Livingston Seagull of the story by Richard Bach. I will not be taking questions at this time.

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Lear is my favorite of the canon. I will now never hear this line the same way again. 🤣🤣🤣

Unintentionally humorous moment in this Yiddish translation of King Lear: for “unburden’d, crawl towards death,” the translator has “באַפֿרײַט פֿון לאַסט/מיר װעלן שלעפּ זיך דעם טאָיט אַנקעגן”. For “crawl”, the translator chose “drag myself”, which is fine, except that the word in Yiddish is one you’ll already know: “schlep”.* “I will schlep myself toward death,” said King Lear.

*granted, the word probably doesn’t have the same connotation in Yiddish–it just means “to drag” and is appropriate, but to a modern reader? That’s incredible.

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Space Mom/Space Girlfriend don’t @ me I contain multitudes, m’kay? And they’re ALL kinds of f*cked...

P.S. Those labels are the same now as they were when I was four, I just didn’t know the second one was A Thing until I was older thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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#FACTS!!!!!

it's izzy.

izzy has the caretaker instincts.

sure, he needs to give more than 1% of a shit about that person but i would like to point out he was not present for any of the lucius finger scenes and also has not been around many people who are in need of caretaking

except ed

who he spends his whole life caretaking

in this essay i will

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I, too, will die on this hill.

Izzy taking Stede's kids under his wing is a hill I will die on.

[id: a digital sketch of Izzy Hands and Alma Bonnet from OFMD. Izzy has kneeled down to tie Alma's shoelace. She has her hand on top of his hand for balance and is smiling. /end id]

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Unquestionably.

BLACK LGBTQ+ LIVES MATTER!!

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I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

@ fic authors what do you personally consider a successful fic? What’s the bar?

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Fuck ‘legitimacy’. Creativity is creativity, whatever form it takes.

Reblog if you think fanfiction is a legitimate form of creative writing.

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Ask, and ye shall receive. ❤❤❤

Ooh drop me a word or a line and I’ll use it a prompt.

Izzy had expected some kind of big fight when Bonnet came back. A bit of bloodshed. Some grovelling. Shouts. God if either of them had shouted he would have been happy. Would have made him feel like all of this was for something.

There wasn’t any of that.

Bonnet had climbed on the ship like he still owned it. Had pulled up his rag tag misfits of a crew, and had set them straight to work.

Blackbeard had looked relieved.

Izzy spent three days and three nights holed up his room.

Knock knock. Knock.

“Captains want to see you.” Izzy barely registered that it was Lucius’ trill happy voice that called through to him. The Lucius that he had saved from drowning, hidden in the walls for weeks.

‘Great’, Izzy thought, tidying himself up to be more presentable, like he hadn’t spent the entire time crying ‘a long walk off a short plank, and it’ll be over.’

He didn’t pay attention to the crew as he walked to his death. Took to it like a man who knew the inevitable was going to wreck him, and he couldn’t give in now, couldn’t show his cowardice when it would be over so soon.

“You wanted to see me?” Had his voice always sounded this rough? Like drags from the bottom of the ocean, full of gravel and sand and broken glass.

Bonnet gives him a look, all soft eyes and softer frowns. Blackbeard has the decency to not look at all, smoking his pipe as he lounges in that pink fucking robe that Izzy wants to set on fire.

“Things are changing, Iz.” Blackbeard says- only it’s not Blackbeard. It’s Edward. Killing with kindness pops into Izzy’s head, and he scoffs. The Gentleman Pirate did kill Blackbeard, and kindness was a messy weapon. “You can stay if you accept the change.”

“And if I refuse?”

Finally Edward looks at him. Really looks. Izzy feels like Edward is holding his heart in his hand, ready to squeeze it.

“Then we’ll leave you at the next dock. You won’t be welcomed back.”

Izzy’s gaze flickers to Bonnet, who is staring into him and through him, then settles back on Edward. “I’ll stay.” And it feels as easy as breathing. Choosing Edward.

“Stede will be your captain too.” Ed pushes, puffing out little ‘o’s from the smoke he had inhaled. “We’ll be co-captains. You’ll follow both of our orders, right?”

And it’s not just Edwards hands holding tight on his heart now, Izzy realises, it’s Bonnets too. Covering Eds in a way that makes him feel treasured, instead of boxed in.

“Yes Captain.”

Bonnet steps forward, past Ed and into Izzy’s space. Reaches up a hand that Izzy instinctively flinches from. Keeps going despite that, cupping Izzy’s face just how Ed does. How Ed must have told him to.

“Good boy.”

Izzy’s knees go weak, and he wonders when it became so easy with Stede to. When he had decided he would kill for this pathetic man just as much as he would for Ed.

“There you go. Wasn’t that easy, love?” There is a twinkle in Stedes gaze as Izzy stares at him, like a secret that he barely knew was unfurling before him. He doesn’t speak this time, but does press into Stede. Curls his hands in that stupid white shirt and pulls until they’re kissing, hot and wet and loud.

That’s the thing about love. It is easy, when you give in.

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Oh.

Oh, my God.

OH. MY. GOD.

haven't drawn fanart in years but i am here for one thing - (jizzy) stizzy

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A different Captain Eddie...

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Like Abbott and Costello, Like Sonny and Cher, Like Martin and Lewis, They're a perfect pair! Like Laurel and Hardy, Like Fontanne and Lunt, They're perfectly mismatched! They're Rita and Runt! Edward and Stede!

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Are we just not going to talk about the fact that the cover on the “good shovel” is a freaking Crown Royal bag?

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What does *your* flag mean?

I’m not sure. Is there a flag for “cis-female chaotic bisexual disaster with a praise kink that can be seen from outer space whose most cherished dream is to find her human and move to a slightly run-down house on the Northern California coast...where the beach is foggy and moody...somewhere she can write and make art and maybe have a bit of a garden and share morning coffee with her human and their assorted pets under fluffy blankets while the sound of the waves lulls them into a lovely, safe, comfortable, glowing quiet”?

Yeah, I kind of thought not. Oh well.

I’m new here. Mostly because I dug my heels in for years but y’alls fandom content is ::chef kiss:: and, well, what the heck? Might as well.

Fandoms include, but are not limited to:

Top Gear (CHM)

The Grand Tour

Burn Notice

Good Omens

Grace and Frankie

Our Flag Means Death

Gentleman Jack

Star Trek: Voyager

Moderately active on AO3. 8lapetitehirondelle8 Mostly reading these days, but I do write.

I can’t promise I’ll generate or create anything fascinating or noteworthy, but if you’d like to buddy up and lurk quietly in between bouts of heart-eyed squeeing, be my guest.

Just be kind.