You know. For some reason I think the thing that made me melt the most when watching ofmd for the first time was seeing the bows in Ed's beard and flowers in his hair in ep 5. Like. Ofmd really took big bad pirate blackbeard and made him cute and put him in pretty outfits and let him have flowers and bows in his hair just cause he wants to look nice??? There's just something about it that's so sweet to me idk...
Okay but the part of the bts scenes from yesterday that's actually sticking with me the hardest is Stede saying "I'm sure we're not the only ones who want to live forever."
Like...fuck if that's not a gut punch. Stede started out the show with such a low sense of satisfaction and expectation with his own life that when he's asked if he wants to live he goes "I dunno probably?" Ed went from being passively suicidal in s1 to the entire first three episodes of s2 revolving around how he is so convinced he's unlovable that he sees no option for him other than death. These are not two people who started the show valuing their own lives.
And now they want to live forever. That's the power of queer love, queer joy, queer community, finding people who truly care for them, finding new meaning in their lives, getting to learn that life is really worth living. And that's fucking beautiful.
ed and stede on beautiful hotel balcony overlooking the southern french coast. stede’s spooning ed with his dressing gown wrapped snugly around them both and they’re lazily rocking on their feet together as they gaze dreamily out at the ocean. they’ve been standing there for half an hour because stede is actually balls deep
pouring one out for gentlebeardies who are squicked out daddy kinks tho. can’t relate but i imagine the latest bts clip is a new sort of emotional/psychological torment