#Device

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[designobjectory]

Microscope

c. 1745– 1765

France, mid-18th century

gilt bronze mounts

[visuallifes]

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

Where is Izzy during the lighthouse fuckery in 104?

You’d think he’d be doing Frenchie’s job being as Izzy’s so indispensable. But no, he’s not here:

He’s not with the main group on deck either even though Fang and Ivan are present:

We can’t be entirely sure Izzy isn’t skulking on the maintop with Ed and Stede because normally he’s obsessing over one or the other, but I don’t see him:

Now, earlier Izzy told Ed…

And surely even by Izzy’s standards, the plan can’t be telling Stede to ready the canons. Because that isn’t ‘devising a plan’. That’s firing weaponry willy-nilly at a superior vessel.

But seeing there is now ‘a plan’ which involves an element of fuckery and risk, and might need everyone to pull together, where is Izzy in shoring up his Captain? Where is the camaraderie, the moral support? Where’s this pride Izzy’s been banging on about in working for a ‘brilliant sailor’? Because Ed is being that brilliant sailor right now, and Izzy is nowhere to be seen.

Izzy’s probably sulking in whichever cupboard he usually sleeps in because his thunder’s been stolen, but there’s also a stagecraft reason Izzy’s not present.

The reason Izzy isn’t on screen during the lighthouse fuckery is he isn’t necessary to the moment. He functions as a device not a character. If he isn’t needed to disrupt Ed and Stede’s developing relationship, at least in season one, he doesn’t have any other function. He possibly could’ve skulked in the corner, hands in pockets, but that would’ve sucked the unbridled joy from the moment of success.

Izzy’s role is different to say, Roach, who functions in the show as a character, and offers a very human reaction to events, bringing further depth to the theatrical setting.

But Izzy isn’t a character in the same way. He isn’t developed enough to act even as a background character in season one, reacting to events larger than Ed and Stede, because his role is one-dimensional existing only around Ed and Stede. And though he’s developed a little in season two once the device of antagonist is redundant, he doesn’t have much fizz because there’s really not that much to develop.

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[digitalismmm]

Modular synth on sale

[processes]

Toaster on display in The Wolfsonian-FIU's permanent galleries, Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

[shopsystem]

Transparent Source / Supply.Family / Robot Hand iPhone Pro Max / Mockup / 2024

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[sorrysomethingwentwrong]

Thierry Lechanteur Art !

[dudukbazaar]

Orbaster Value ●●●○○ ; Size ●●○○○ Contact with the ambulacras at the center of the sphere allows the user to speak and understand echinoderms. The telepathic transmission gives tingling in the fingers.

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Éphéméride des Chimères (@chimeride), N°137

[synthwave-static]

Bathed in the soft glow of neon and amber, she exists in the liminal space between dreams and reality. A lofi girl for a synthwave world, her thoughts as intricate as the melodies that fill the air. The city sleeps beyond the glass, but within these walls, the music never stops.

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[catthlaf]

Sometimes you just need to make a Contraption

[pencilbrony]

Headphone to speaker adapter