#and the kraken ed

[bbyteach]

Uhhh sooooo NYC 80’s punk scene AU where ed used to play in bands when younger but not anymore & runs a popular venue and is totally burned out on the scene. Until a blonde weirdo wearing pastels started coming to shows there and he had to understand what is going on with this guy?? And the guy wants to learn more about this world and Ed confused but ends up having more fun than he has in ages??

[thecoolestcowboy]

girls be like “i’m fighting demons” and the demons are some little rich dude who wears a little striped night gown with a matching nightcap and snores ‘HONKK shooo HONK shooo’

[merricatblckwood]

After months of work (and mostly procrastination) i finally finished Ed's *kraken era* earring. It was a challenge as I had to base myself on a bunch of moving pixels but I think it turned out nicely. It's made in gold plated bronze, with mother-of-pearl.

It's available on my Etsy shop, you can get yours! (It's made to order btw)

[zulizenz]

Maybe a bit too generous on the hair, but I think Ed's fine with it.

[vlcimor]

[pennybunpirate]

✨I finished it✨

The Lighthouse and the Kraken, my silly little idea for something to do with a damaged ceramic lighthouse I had that turned into one of the most labour intense art projects I've ever done. I poured so many hours and love into this thing, and posting the progress on here and having you guys cheering it on kept me motivated to see it through❤️ (even when I had to take a break for a few weeks because my shoulder got worn out from working on it)

More closeups and a video under the cut ❤️

Check out #pennybunpirate's lighthouse for all the progress posts if you're interested 🙃

Thank you for following along, it's been a fun ride❤️

[fright-designs]

throwback to the Our Flag Means Death embroidery i made last year 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️

[sailorsruin92]

She's just a puppy and she loves Ed's boyfriend 💗

Prompt: Kraken and Underwater friends/ pets, again

[lydiajoypalmer]

The Kraken 🐙

shop / sticker club

[edwardteachswombtattoo]

We don't really get an explanation of why Ed is wearing Buttons' clothes in Episode 7 (and the start of Episode 8), but I like to think it's because Ed saw Buttons turn into a seagull proving that change can happen even if it seems impossible and then Ed tries to embody that for himself by wearing Buttons' clothes as a reminder people can in fact change. Just because you're a pirate doesn't mean you have to be a pirate forever, you know?

[eggyboj]

''I could fill oceans with what I feel for you''

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

Chauncy’s character assassination of Stede Bonnet in 109 is brutal. I want to explore the imagery and connotations of monster. Typically, we think of monsters as grotesque, ugly and something to be feared. Monsters are deemed anti-normative by the majority who set the standard for what is considered desirable, normative.

Stede has been ‘monstered’ by everyone his whole life. His father others and bullies Stede for being a gender nonconforming boy; Mary cannot understand Stede’s desperate need to ‘break the monotony’ in their marriage; the Revenge crew can’t initially comprehend this new, life-affirming approach to piracy and consider mutiny. To the likes of Nigel Badminton, Stede has been a ‘monster’ since childhood with his gentle, crying, flower-picking ways. Ed is the first person to see beauty and worth in the monster. When Ed attempts finally to shed the costume of toxic masculinity worn as protective armour for so long, he is accused of being a monster too: ‘This…you’ve become’. This. Unnamable. A whatever. All because Ed isn’t performing masculinity to Izzy’s expected standard. Effeminate behaviour will not be tolerated. Emotion outside of anger is weakness.

But this show loves to confound and it confounds well.

In 203, Ed’s mind subverts the trope of the monster into something transcendental. And by doing so rescues his own self from the Kraken-monster imagery that has imprisoned him, the stone falling from his waist, albatross-like.

Because what is more monster than a human-hybrid. A scaly, underwater-breathing, half-man, half-goldfish. Merstede is a monster. An effeminate one. And a beautiful one! Ed reclaims the word from Chauncy, rehabilitates it, and allows the wonder of Stede Bonnet to blaze across his dying consciousness. This enigmatic man, frequently reviled for being unashamedly himself, turned Ed’s world upside down and inside out. Who challenges Ed’s own perceptions of self again, and again, and again. Whose anti-normative qualities are not grotesque, but rather exquisite. This undefinable, miraculous creature who left Blackbeard completely and utterly undone.

Stede mirrors Ed. I am you and you are me. Let’s be anti-normative together. Let’s redefine the trope.

Here be monsters, both.

[asmeanasiamnice]

posters

[edsrosetattoo]

Ed to the crew of the Revenge:

[vlcimor]

The kraken A timelapse video for you all as an apology gift for my lack of activity.. :´)

[pennybunpirate]

Guys. Guysss. Took me 3 weeks but I finished the sculpting 🤩🤓

Now I get to paint it (awesome) while hoping it'll continue to go well (mildly stressful). Ah, the rollercoaster of making art 🙃

Some closeups and a video under the cut, for ✨funsies✨

Ps. The light is a random led fairy light I had, the battery box is covered in clay and the cable is inside a tentacle 🙃