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rhys's tweet has me fucking FREAKING OUT

it's only the last time for now, right? until season three....right?

right?

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six months since the brainrot started and it hasnt wavered for a SECOND

i think i can officially classify it as "special interest" territory rather than just "fixation" territory

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Some sailored words on conjured ships

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//personal, but

only 3 ppl in the irl world know, so i just wanted to shout into the online void that today im celebrating being 2 years SH free :) its hard to hit such a big milestone and not being able to tell anyone (the 3 ppl irl that know are miles away) but i wanted to say it somewhere

i know its not OFMD content, but thank you for indulging me

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Every time I see Taika post I have less and less faith that he's actually in S2

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Israel Hands/Lucius Spriggs, Black Pete/Lucius Spriggs Characters: Black Pete (Our Flag Means Death), Lucius Spriggs, Buttons (Our Flag Means Death), Israel Hands, Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Blackbeard's Crew (Our Flag Means Death), Stede Bonnet, Frenchie (Our Flag Means Death), Wee John Feeney, The Swede (Our Flag Means Death), Jim Jimenez, Oluwande Boodhari, Fang (Our Flag Means Death), Ivan (Our Flag Means Death), Roach (Our Flag Means Death) Additional Tags: Enemies to Lovers, Established Black Pete/Lucius Spriggs, Eventual Happy Ending, Eventual Romance, Smut, Hate Sex, Hate to Love, no beta we die like karl the seagull, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Bets & Wagers, Lucius Spriggs-centric, But also, Israel Hands-centric Summary:

Post-reunion, life on the Revenge has taken on a familiar routine- much to the crew's dismay. Despite everyone's protests, Izzy Hands remains the First Mate, and he's making it everyone's problem. The crew decide that the solution lies with Lucius's powers of seduction, and a bet begins. With his reputation on the line as well as an increasingly insane betting pool, Lucius is determined to succeed- at an almost embarrassing cost to his dignity. Needless to say, shenanigans ensue- but what Lucius doesn't anticipate in his endeavor is just how much he and Izzy have in common.

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in hindsight i think these were the gateway drug to my pirate brain rot hehe thank u

Trick or Treat

Treat!

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Trick or Treat

Treat!

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I just-

the way that queerness actually is shown fairly historically accurate in the show but not to the point where the lgbt community feels like 1-dimensional victims instead of people. The world is still the same as ours, Homophobia is there, it’s just… quiet. It’s not constant aggressive action, or violence permeating every moment of their lives… it’s the background noise.

It’s in the bullying Stede endures for not performing the ideal masculine, but it’s also the simple expectation and eventually enforcement that he’ll marry a woman. It’s in “anything goes at sea” and the calm, almost practiced defensiveness that prompted such a statement. The small confirmation that Hornigold would lose his mind at Ed having breakfast at a table every morning with Stede.

It’s not just seen in queer sorrow but community as well, even joy. How Lucius looks after Jim, Stede, and Ed once their queerness is known to him. How Ed kisses Stede in a quiet place away from expected public, the refusal to discuss Blackbeard further when the truth of being “lovely” to another man garners unsavory looks. In the best circumstances, protecting one another in a world that isn’t built for us is like breathing.

It even comes from people with no ill intentions. Mary doesn’t mean anything by “what’s her name?” but it tells us something anyway, about the world these characters inhabit. About which ones can step comfortably through it, and which ones must think carefully before even revealing they lack such luxury. The quiet understanding in tossing a stone in that perfect path by saying “his name is Ed.” It means something that she reacts in surprise, pleasant surprise, but surprise none the less.

It’s not a show without homophobia, but it’s not a show about it either. It manifests in the narrative the same way it does for most of us day to day: the white noise of heteronormativity.

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you ever just start writing a fic as a "haha that's kind of neat" idea and then slip into "uh oh this is really fun and I think I may actually and sincerely like this?" That's how im feeling about this lucius/izzy fic im working on

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the Snau (snail au) cinematic universe

Snede, Sned, Snizzy & co

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so david tennant is the doctor again and mcr wore their revenge outfits today

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"The fake shells idea wasn't bad..."

"It was a snupid idea. I've only got snupid ideas."

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checking in with the fandom like

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I gotta hand it to the folks running DW now, after the last couple of seasons of (imo) bad writing David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa were the only people that could entice me to watch the show again

David Tennant as Tenth Doctor - DOCTOR WHO: The Parting of the Ways (1.13) David Tennant as Fourteenth Doctor - DOCTOR WHO: The Power of the Doctor (2022)

+ bonus

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the way i feel spiritually aligned with this middle aged queer man in fucking bonkers

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seeing david's activity always brightens my day. i think this man is just as excited about these lads as we are

not david liking this tweet lmao