#this is ed and izzy for sure

[manycatsao3]

Baby & toddler sibling dynamic is so funny to me

They'll be playing so sweetly together, and toddlers can be such caring big siblings, until they suddenly get over taken by a level of malice adults aren't capable of manifesting and push the baby off the sofa

[mermaidstede]

😔

[bisexualmultifandommess]

The funniest thing that could happen in ofmd season 2 is Stede and Izzy hanging out so much they accidentally become best friends and both absolutely horrified when someone (definitely Oluwande or Jim) points it out to them.

Like I can definitely see a situation happening where Stede goes off into danger and Izzy is adamant that he’s not going after him to help but it immediately cuts to a scene of him going after him and all you can hear is him going “stupid fucking Stede Bonnet” like we know he’d say something like that.

Enemies who grow to care about each other is my favourite thing.

[arsenicflame]

happy "our marriage is never gonna recover from this" day

[pirategrime]

love's bitch.

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

ofmd s2e01

Izzy: Ed… what if we just… talked it through??? Ed: Ed: Lol. Lmao, even. Ed: Yeah, alright. Sure. I’ll talk about my fucking feelings. Ed: Apparently the way I shared my feelings last time wasn’t acceptable? Not a big music fan, Iz? Ed: How about this, then, since I’m apparently not allowed to express my feelings through song: What if I just go stand in front of everyone and point a fucking gun at my head? Is that okay with you, Izzy? Is that the sort of “talking it through” that you approve of? Ed: Gonna be real with you, man, I really can’t get any more blatant abt my current emotional state than this! Gun under my chin! Babbling nonsense in front of the crew! This is how being Blackbeard makes me feel! Do you get it now? Is this what you fucking wanted? Izzy: ENOUGH! Ed: Oh? Izzy: The atmosphere on this ship is fucked and everyone knows why. Ed: Mhm. Go on. Izzy: The problem is your feelings for Stede Bonnet. Ed: Ed: Yeah, fuck this.

[our-flag-means-death-killed-me]

Stede: Would you be my boyfriend? *Ed kisses Stede* Stede: Yes or no?

[loumandforyou]

I'm sorry but the concept that overstressed Izzy that looked like he was at the verge of his fifth anxiety breakdown in a week, is somehow a lying manipulative mastermind, is simply hilarious to me.

[soapbubbles511]

Sorry DJenks, I just do not care about the potential Izzy backstory section of your bluesky story. You didn't think it was important to give him any real backstory while he was alive. Certainly don't care now that he's dead.

I can't even muster up enough interest in Izzy to be a jar guy. I put him in there and shook him around for a couple seconds. Then I promptly forgot about him for like a month and accidentally let him die in the jar. Oh well.

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

Leading on from where is Izzy during the lighthouse fuckery? Where is Izzy during the Dutch merchant fuckery? Who knows, but possibly on deck the entire time, waiting to hear the Good News of Bonnet��s murder.

Imagine Izzy seeing the crew coming out of Stede’s quarters, but there’s no sign of Stede or Ed. This is looking promising. So he asks Jim where they are, and they say the Captains went into Stede’s bathroom together. Blackbeard was crying. That can’t be right, Izzy thinks. Blackbeard doesn’t cry. He hopes it’s another fuckery.

Now Izzy thinks one of two things is happening: they’re either fucking or fighting. I mean, it has to be something reptilian-brained.

He waits, desperately hoping only Ed will emerge from the quarters, bloody-knived like Macbeth.

And then this happens, and Izzy gets his answer:

GIF by @manesalex

Fucking

‘Stede Bonnet, Draw your weapon…’

Honestly, Izzy wouldn’t be able to comprehend what went on in that bathroom in a million years - ‘I’m not a good person, Stede.’ / ‘Hey, I’m your friend.’

Soulmate behaviour.

[luciuscodedswedeboy]

Taika et al really committing to the “Ed is Jesus, Izzy is Judas” bit huh

[sketchy-scribs-n-doods]

steddyhands has me so ruined for any individual izzy ship bc every time i try reading long stizzy fic where ed disappears i inevitably go 'but where's ed? :('

and whenever i read long edizzy fic where stede never pops up i'm inevitably going 'but where stede?? :('

and even when i read ouizzy or sprizzy or fang/ivan/izzy fics etc where izzy is happy while stede and ed are doing their own thing, i'm always a little sad in the back of my mind like 'ed and stede... they don't know?? they don't know the love of izzy?? no kissing first mate??? :((('

(don't get me started on how difficult straight up stede/ed fics are to dig through sometimes, i love the ship to death truly i do, she's the main girlie, but forget crying over where izzy is in their dynamic, i gotta go Entire Work and CTRL+F search izzy's name throughout the fic just to make sure his character isn't getting massacred disney villain style before i get invested in a 50k+ fic at 2am)

my ideal world is one where stede/ed/izzy have sorted their shit out, izzy and frenchie are music boyfriends, izzy shacks up with lucius and pete sometimes for some kissing bitching and gossiping sessions, and izzy and fang have cuddle sessions on the regular

all this ofc alongside archie/jim/olu/zheng's whole thing, whatever frenchie and wee john have going on, lucius' thing with fang, and jackie's continuing recruitment of new husbands to join the swede

in my heart polycrew is real and thriving, we could have had it all dammit

[n3v3r-l3ft]

Are you serious? Are putting on the same level Izzy's words (as toxic as they are) to the physical violence of Ed cutting off his toes?? I love Ed, but we can't justify every bad action of him, he's not an innocent baby!

I'm actually so serious, Anon.

Are you?

Are you seriously going to sit here and tell a 2Spirit Native that calling the English Navy (the cops) on Ed (a queer brown man) and his boyfriend isn't physical violence? Those aren't words. Those are actions.

Aside from that, he's been manipulating, belittling and abusing Ed the entire first season. Abuse is abuse; it being non-physical at first doesn't diminish that it was abuse. Emotional and mental abuse is just as much abuse.

Izzy undermines Ed constantly. When he doesn't like a choice Ed makes (for himself) he goes behind Ed's back and sends his ex boyfriend to literally manipulate him into leaving Stede. He calls him derogatory terms in regards to his queerness and straight up tells him he should have let the English kill him. If that doesn't read as a vague death-threat idk what does.

And he said that to Ed in one of his most vulnerable moments, while healing from heartache, after Ed literally saved him from the crew's mutiny.

I'd also like to add that Ed warned him. After that first toe we saw in s1, he told Izzy "threaten me again, ever, and I'll feed you the rest"

🤷‍♂️

This isn't to say I don't think Izzy deserves a support group, but I don't think he's entitled to one (or my sympathy) when the toxic environment is something he's curated since day one.

Ed isn't abusive, he's reacting to abuse.

Again:

[arsenicflame]

i think the reason izzy can be so blasé about his relationship with ed is not because hes taken to blaming a shark instead, but because hes actually already done a lot of the processing in the previous episode.

hes mourned his leg, hes had his drunk crying rants. hes gone through the five stages of grief. and then? the crew reaches out to him, offers him their support. they make him a new leg, they nominate him their new figurehead. when he stands there on the prow of the ship, leg on, letter in hand, thats his acceptance, thats his moving on.

[finnabar]

workin on an izzy agere fic and figured i'd illustrate some scenes... he's just a lil guy fr

please keep this sfw btw! <3

[puns-and-musicals]

I can’t stop thinking about the gay pirate show.

Can’t stop thinking about Stede- in all shabby, colourless clothes but for the red kerchief around his neck- red like Ed’s silk, red like the season 1 visualization of Ed’s heart.

Ed, lying on the deck of the Revenge amidst the storm, trying so desperately to die- with the black cravat finally tied around his neck again. The black cravat that in season 1 represented Stede’s influence.

and Izzy- beloved Izzy. Izzy who holds the gun in his bare right hand, who shoots at Ed without his black glove. The black glove whose leather he used as a barrier in season 1, a shield against any perceived vulnerability.

I have so many thoughts right now and I’m losing my mind about all of them 🥰