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Stede Bonnet + being bitchy his legacy:

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Things I learned listening to Nancy Hennah talk about hair and makeup for Our Flag Means Death:

The storm in "Red Flags" made the wig ball up in a knot that took five hours to untangle. Most of the wet stuff in S2 used the wig from S1 for that reason.

There were two s1 Ed beards, so one could be blocked and curled while the other was in use.

Tattoos were kept on as long as possible, because putting them on and taking them off was time consuming. But three days was really the limit for them looking good and staying on securely.

DJenks requested that Ed have a full sleeve tattoo fairly late in the game before shooting. The snake was an efficient way to get a full sleeve, and also made placing smaller bits easier. Freckles were used for navigation.

DJenks asked for the back piece tattoo we see on Ed in s2e1. The skull and snake part were done by Dean Sacred and the lettering by Nancy Hennah.

Initial plan for Ed's chest piece was two ships having a fight, but it was too wide. The final chest piece was one tall ship with some bigger stars around it. There was initially a mermaid who didn't make the cut. "We always lived in fear of him having his top off."

NH talked about how much fun the hair cage styles were for s1e5 and the wedding in s2e1-- "because we weren't being period correct we had leeway."

A variety of makeup looks were tried for the beginning of s2, including one where the eyemask went all the way to the hairline. It's meant to look like it could be replicated using charcoal and oil, stuff the crew would have had access to.

Nathan Foad started a mini-trend of ridiculous sideburns in the 6 months he was wearing That Facial Hair around LA.

There was initially a wig set aside for Rhys. Not the white one he wears for s1e5, but a longer blond one. It wasn't used after tests because his own hair was so good.

Ed's s2 wig wasn't so much intended to be longer for story-telling purposes, it was just that he was wet a lot of the time and that pulled the curl out. But there were longer pieces around the front.

When Ed washed up on the beach in the Gravy Basket scene, he got black metallic sand in the wig. It was impossible to fully remove and was still in at the end of the season.

Normally Taika's hair would be slicked back with solid gel, but that's water-soluble and wouldn't have worked for s2e3. In that instance it was slicked back with glue? or something glue-like? and plumber's tape fashioned into a headband. The wig stayed on until when Ed was apparently falling into the water with the cannonball in the last take (really being pulled sideways).

Fang's tattoos were designed by Iniya Taylor in Auckland. A henna artist (whose name I didn't catch) designed Archie's pieces, which NH placed. Mads was thinking about getting one of her tattoos for real.

Of Ed's nail art in s1e10: "That was Taika, he'd gone and gotten it, and it was gels, we couldn't get it off. Taika said 'no one will notice, don't worry about it.'" (And then everyone noticed and was so excited and wrote meta about it.)

Did you know what you were unleashing when you put the wig in a bun in s2? "No."

There were many guesses about the hangman tattoo: circus, pirogi, virgin, mirage, girlie, girthy. The actual answer is PIRATE.

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Happy 3rd anniversary to Our Flag Means Death ☠️🌈

I can't even begin to say how grateful I am for this show. It's given me so much. But my favourite thing is that it's brought so many beautiful people and friendships into my life 💜

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a Rhys Darby hair (and face) appreciation post

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“It was a beautiful thing to make, and I’m really proud of my work on that and the work of a huge number of New Zealanders.”In a new interview with The Spinoff, Rhys talks about his favorite tv project he’s ever been involved with 😏

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From 'Thor' to 'What We Do in the Shadows': Taika Waititi Shares Memories from His Career

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I can't really go away without asking about Our Flag Means Death, about your experience working on that and all the stuff that came out of it. Would you be prepared to work on that again as a longer form rather than a series?

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Remember when Rhys kept saying Louise was pretty and agreeing she was gorgeous and sexy during the short poppies commentary? Well, I woke up thinking about that and I'm making it everyone's problem.

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just gonna drop this here lmao

Piss Off, Hard On (explicit, unhinged, 3k words)

We're talking about boyfriends pissing together sticking together over on the bird place

Exhibit A (Deleted scene):

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For those not perpetually on the dead bird site, David Jenkins is doing his level best to give fandom collective heart attacks for the past few days.

17th September 2024:

20th September 2024

Closely followed by Samba posting this - note the hashtag

Con O'Neill also shared it on his instagram almost as soon as Jenkins posted. Immediately thereafter #OurFlagMeansDeath and #supnetflix ended up trending, leading to this description of what was happening:

which gradually turned into:

22nd September 2024 (just over an hour ago)

"Would be". Not "would have been".

Needless to say, people are somewhat aflail.

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Seriously what is going on. One of the things I really respect about DJenks is he was very prompt and clear about both announcing the cancelation and raising the white flag, and he's been extremely careful not to say anything that could get hopes up since March.

And now, suddenly, in the past three days we've gotten him directly tagging a specific streamer calling OFMD "available," other cast members using the #supnetflix tag, DJenks talking about how good season 3 would be...I don't know what's going on behind the scenes, but something's up, right? This might never amount to anything but SOMETHING is going on, and it feels a lot like back early in the renewal effort when spirits were high and DJenks was focusing attention on a handful of streamers (but now it's just ONE, which is even more interesting). Would he even be ALLOWED to call OFMD "available" if the situation was still the same as back in March?

Something has made him take down the white flag, at least for now. And all we can do is keep the buzz going (and requesting OFMD via Netflix's form couldn't hurt, the form's here and it takes literally five seconds).

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Everything is coming from you. Until you resolve this guilt, you'll continue to be haunted.

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also it kind of fucks me up that we're approaching the anniversary of S2 airing but also approaching the anniversary of the cancellation.

I just keep thinking back to where we were this time last year, with teasers and trailers and promo shots dropping and those of us who were less spoiler averse were digging through articles for hints of what was to happen, and then we had OCTOBER and each week we were losing our minds over the new episodes and there was SO much fannish activity, it was so chaotic and joyful and exhausting but oh my god we were so alive.

and then we barely had a chance to savor that before it all came crashing down. just burned fast and hot and bright and then it was over.

it's so fucking unfair and I'm still furious that this is how they treated this gorgeous, meaningful show.