#Edward Teach

[sherlockig]

[sollee-art]

A very good morning for them! ☀️ For full version - it’s on my Twitter (@SolleeSoll) Tumblr wouldn’t let me post more uncensored version and hid the post. If someone want it I can send art to your DM.

[lumiilys]

There’s an old inn down by the beach that is rumoured to be haunted.

People say it was once owned by two famous pirates, so when prospective guests hear it’s haunted they assume the worst and expect wailing in the night and spectres at the feet of their beds. However, that is not the case at all. Somehow, the grass at the inn grows greener than anywhere else, the flowers grow taller and brighter, and guests are often overwhelmed by an inexplicable feeling of peace when they arrive.

Sometimes, on very rare occasions, a pair of ghosts can be spotted there walking hand in hand through the garden or dancing together in the moonlight. The two of them appear to be far too enamoured with each other to be of any trouble to the guests though.

Stede and Ed are long gone but their spirits still haunt the place that was once their home. The love they shared still permeates the building and the earth surrounding it. They may be gone but their love will never die.

[ofmd-ann]

Right now, I just wanna do what makes Ed happy

[bizarrelittlemew]

Our Flag Means Death 2x8 | Ed in his (brief) serene fisherman era 😌 ⌊ requested by @catbells-and-summerlinens

[temporal-discounting]

I love the playfulness of the dream reunion in Impossible Birds. The way they're like two excited puppies, just slamming into each other and rolling around giggling in the sand.

'Cos yeah, they're in love and they are sexually attracted to each other. But also, they're besties! They love playing together and being silly and goofy with each other! And Stede has clearly missed that so much.

They just take such immense joy in each others' company - and it's that joy that Stede's sleeping brain goes to first.

(Though I would love to have known where that dream was headed had it not been interrupted by Wee John's farts... 🤔)

[xray-vex]

[aha-my-villainous-thoughts]

Sneak peek for WipWednesday

[manesalex]

Every Ed Teach Scene (47d/?)

[dimplyowl]

Thinking again about the opening of s2e8 and Ed being attacked by Pop Pop and how he barely tells Pop Pop to stop, and instead looks to the son for help. “Control your Pop Pop.”

Because in Ed’s mind Pop Pop is doing what fathers do, is being aggressive and uncontrollable, and it’s the son’s responsibility to protect people from the father. Just like Ed failed to protect his mother from his father. Until he didn’t.

[sherlockig]

[lumiilys]

Never not thinking about his eyes in this screenshot and the way he’s looking over at stede

[ofmd-ann]

I shouldn't be bored. I'm fucking Blackbeard!

[bizarrelittlemew]

His golden retriever energy 😭 ⌊ requested by @xxprincess1x

[rinnalien]

[follows-the-bees]

The journey of the Blackbeard image from three different perspectives:

1) Ed holds up the book containing a crude caricature of himself and scoffs. He has one gun and one knife just like everybody else. From the onset we see how Ed does not agree with the public persona of himself — a monster; the audience's perspective — just like Stede's — is challenged and flipped from the celebrity to the actual person behind it. We see the brilliant tactician, but also the man who likes fine things, goofy playacting, and sitting quietly and carefully taking care of someone majorly hurt.

2) Izzy holds up a different image of Blackbeard., ripping out the pages and telling Ed, beardless, vulnerable, cloaked in a soft robe Ed, that that version of him is worse than death. That this caricature in the book is actually Blackbeard and that's who he needs to become. He is telling Ed to only be the monster in the book — that public persona Ed made abundantly clear he does not like.

When we see Ed in the next season, he has completely shuffled on that persona: nine guns and all.

3) Stede sees the wanted posters of Ed and scoffs (just like Ed did when he saw it) and talks about how that's not Ed. Ed isn't a ghoul, he's a really great guy.

Stede takes up his own parchment and pens his own version of Ed. He creates poetry about Ed, he writes letters and "sends" them to him. He draws how Ed actually looks in the margins of the map. How he sees Ed: Not as Blackbeard with nine guns, but just a man, a man he loves, a man who loves him.

In the end, Ed takes up all sides of himself, including the leathes of Blackbeard. But not for other people, not to be that monster public persona, not to shield himself from harm, but to fight for love.

There is something to be said about the dropping of weapons completely during this scene as well. The journey of what Ed holds: weapons, the necks of colonization, the love letter, Stede (but that's for another post).

The layers of storytelling are built into the core of the show. I've written before about Pinocchio reflecting Stede's story of becoming himself, not just someone who lives in the fantasy of books, (also Jim's story) and how stories take on a journey of their own. As well as the importance of Stede's writings.

But Ed's story is also just as layered. Celebrity versus reality. We see both the good and bad of being in the public (the about turn at the French party, Ed teaching Stede about fame in Man on Fire). We see how exhausting and isolating it can be to keep up the public persona. And especially how toxic it is when others force this on you. But best of all, we see how freeing it is to have someone to see you for everything you are, flaws and all. And then being able to love yourself for those same reasons.

Ed takes back his story, the images about him out there showing a monster, and he learns to love all sides of himself, learning to be just himself: Ed.