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When I first watched this movie I thought it was insane that he was allowed to just bring a duck in to the zoo and to bring it into backstage area, but then I moved to New Zealand and discovered that this kinda things is actually just the vibe here. I mean obviously the keeper probably would actually let him into where she is preparing food, but last time I went to Auckland Zoo and my friend who works there we showing me around, we saw several different (relatively uncommon) native birds just chilling in various spots and he kept having to radio his colleague and report the sighting to determine whether it was an escapee or just a bird.

ALSO once I was at Hamilton Zoo as a member of the public and one of the other visitors was literally walking around with a fucking rat on his shoulder?? Like a rat that he brought from home to see the rhinos.

Not enough Doug appreciation recently...

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how does fresh milk stay good in a can. real question.

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you get a gay pirate ! and you get a gay pirate !

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“While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.”

— Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via francescacoppa)

Someone put it into words. I gotta sit down

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Thinky thoughts about gentlebeard and their own versions of protectiveness towards each other, with Ed’s “I will keep you safe from the whole world even if it kills me” kinda way, and Stede’s “I will kill the whole world for you to keep you safe” kinda way

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I've been tracking this down for a while now and I've finally found confirmation of what I suspected: the current Google Maps imagery for Piha Beach in Aotearoa New Zealand was taken during setup for filming of Our Flag Means Death's Season 2, Episode 8!

On the left is the north end of Piha Beach with the inn set. On the right is the south end carpark with the film crew base.

Why is that cool to me? Because it truly was a fleeting moment in time, no more than a handful of days of possibility, and yet we can see it right now on Google Maps, at least until they update it. As an archaeologist I love a moment preserved in time.

The specifics of how I pinned down the imagery and the date are in this Twitter thread, but the short version is, I was hunting for a better visual on the area immediately surrounding the inn while writing Full Fathom Five, and noticed that the carpark in particular seemed to line up exactly with images from the final day of filming.

The final day of filming overall was 13 December 2022, filming at Piha was on 12 December 2022, and this aerial image was taken on 11 December 2022.

I had already been through the first image to make a comparison to the aerial map and it looked like a match, but Google Maps had 2024 in their attribution. [Noting that I'd put 13 Dec on my image notes, but I'd got that tangled with the last day of filming in the Kumeū studio the next day, and it was 12 Dec on location].

Thankfully Google Earth came through with the actual date.

Which means we now know that for now, if you hop onto Google Maps (not Google Earth, because they have a different image for the north end that does come from 2024) and zing on down to Piha Beach, you can take a look at a preserved moment in time from the filming of S2Ep8.

You can hop straight to the inn here.

And straight to the parking lot here.

And remember to put the layers into Satellite mode to view the aerial imagery.

Everything that's shown at the north end lines up with what we've seen both in the show and in behind the scenes content, all of which I delved into in this Twitter thread last month. That goes into a lot more detail about specifics, but the evidence is solid across the board.

The sandy path that runs beside the inn is a distinct feature seen in the show.

The peak that sits behind it, likewise (from Google Maps user uploads here and here).

The inn itself, and the way the path gives way to an unseen carpark, from Simone Nathan's TikTok video.

Based on all of that, it's easy to see that we've got our inn right here circled in red, preserved in that moment in time, even though it was no doubt taken down as soon as filming was done.

Prep looks like it took a couple of days before filming; filming was pretty much done in a day, according to an article at the time.

So, there you have it- it's a minor little thing and it won't be up forever, but for now you can hop into Google Maps and see an aerial view adjacent to the filming of S2Ep8 at Piha. The other beach scenes from Eps 1, 3 and 8 were filmed at Te Henga/ Bethells Beach.

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You're meaning to tell me Stede saw this for a good few minutes and left that interaction completely unaffected? That he didn't get any wet dreams or weird boners afterwards? That, after having sex with Edward, he didn't once imagine how it would feel to do that with Izzy, especially after their conversation at Jackie's, after they shared a look and Izzy touched his leg? Really?

This is the face of a man who's considering things ok

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yeah no this has me feeling Violent actually :)))

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Reblogging is pageantry

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yes i do think that, actually

do you think Ed chose to wear Buttons' old clothes because to him, Buttons was proof that a person could change, and he was ready to start believing that?

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I really vibed with season 2 when I rewatched all the episodes in one sitting, but hot damn do I wish that Ed was doing well as a fisherman and then found one of Stede's letters and CHOSE to quit fishing to go back to him. That would have been so romantic and growth driven.

I just don't buy that he was an out of touch incompetent fisherman. He grew up poor and had actual skills and became captain by climbing the ranks. He wasn't born into leadership and didn't not know how to work. My biggest gripe. Also that pop pop scene was too long.

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Very excited to pick up my bestie from Auckland airport tomorrow. He hasn't watched S2 yet because he's been waiting to watch it with me on this trip, then on Tuesday we are visiting filming locations. Yayyyy!!!

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Ed is learning the importance of praising your anxious husband

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As someone who doesn’t live anywhere near NZ, I would love to see a map with what scene was filmed where around Auckland and the rest of NZ. Do you know if something like that exists?

Not a map, but a list absolutely does! It's on the official tourism website for New Zealand and you can find it here.

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I think my ofmd brainrot is wearing off, but I'm still gonna go visit filming locations in West Auckland next week!!

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#is this not how the scene went?