ourflagmeansdemise - Tumblr blog

[ourflagmeansdemise]

Frank Wilbert Stokes - The Phantom Ship, Atlantic Ocean (ca. 1903)

[ourflagmeansdemise]

Dublin you beautiful beautiful bastard #Ireland #irisheyes #dublinireland

[ourflagmeansdemise]

the show died with izzy and now it's time to bury it in the yard

[ourflagmeansdemise]

I'll be honest I'm honestly relieved there isn't gonna be a s3 of ofmd. I understand why ppl are upset and they're valid for it but honestly after how betrayed I've been by it and how much bullshit I had to go through with s2 I never really wanted a s3 because I knew it was just going to fuck it up further.

Say what you want by "oh at least they got their happy ending" bc well, maybe it is for some, but for me there never will be a happy ending in canon at this point no matter how many seasons they put into it, that ship sailed (heh) a long time ago.

To me the cancelation just means the show is officially in our hands now, and tbh I trust us with this show more than I ever trusted David Jenkins with it.

[ourflagmeansdemise]

OFMD was honestly over for me (and a lot of other fans) with the way season 2 ended. We loved it. We devoted a year and a half of adoration, creativity, energy, etc to it. And the sudden drop into dark drama in season 2, even before the loss of Izzy, made some of us nervous. To reference The Gay Pirate Podcast, they made our singular show that was a safe haven away from Prestige TV™️ into the same thing everyone else was doing. We no longer felt safe to laugh and love and get attached to characters. There was definitely a faction of fans who decided they wouldn’t watch even if a third season did happen, because they felt so betrayed. So for me, and for a lot of others, it was over in October. Hugs to all of you who are mourning the fresher loss, I’m sending you all virtual oranges to stave off scurvy and winter blues. Thank you for creating this beautiful fandom, and letting me be a part of a fandom as it happened live, for once.

[ourflagmeansdemise]

I think we all need a bit of weepy edizzy lovemaking as a treat given the circumstances. comm for Magziraphale on twt based on their Kinktober '23 fic

+ extra moist detail

[ourflagmeansdemise]

the curse is capitalism and corporate greed

[ourflagmeansdemise]

Minor tangent but I have seen a specific criticism of OFMD multiple times that's along the lines of "the problem was the first three episodes being too dark and gritty instead of being our fluffy kind gay show."

And I strongly disagree with that criticism.

Like, Season 1 already had its dark and gritty moments. It was never 100% fluffy. Everything Ed does at the end of 1x10 (throwing Lucius overboard, cutting off Izzy's toe, marooning the crew, and kidnapping Jim and Frenchie) is the most obvious example, but there are others: Stede's experiences as a child, Ed's abusive father, Jim's family's murder. All of them are shown to still be affected years later in a way that impacts how they interact with other people, which is why it's emotionally satisfying when they find love despite it.

Addressing the events of the S1 finale in the first couple of episodes of S2 was vital. It solidifies just how devastated Ed is and how that devastation has affected everyone else, both negatively and positively, for a given value of "positive" (the Kraken crew is clearly closer as a result of their shared trauma). The scenes showing how being part of Stede's crew changed them for the better (talking to and hugging Izzy, Jim telling Fang the wooden boy story with the voices, etc.) were absolutely necessary and arguably the strongest parts of the show, and I don't think we would have had that if the stakes weren't so high. "Ed is a bit mopey sometimes, but it's not that bad!" just doesn't have the same oomph.

Had they pulled a Last Jedi and started 2x01 by throwing away all that build up from 1x10 and making a joke about it, it would have been a poorer show. The times when darker things were treated as a joke (Lucius' experience after being thrown overboard), flat-out ignored (Stede's fairly obvious anxiety disorder), or blown past because of time constraints (Ed getting voted off the ship and then reinstated as part of the crew within a day) were when the show was weakest.

The problem, of course, is that once you've acknowledged that impact, you need to keep acknowledging it. It needs to continue having an impact. And you can't do that if you don't have the time to explore it because you need to skip ahead to the part where everything's fine now.

I'm not saying that they needed to fully shift gears and stop being a comedy entirely. I think S1 threaded the needle pretty well in terms of balancing the conflict with humor. Like, Ed has a breakdown in the bathtub over murdering his father and what a horrible person he is and his plan to kill Stede, and none of that is a joke; the joke is when Stede checks to make sure Ed isn't going to kill him. The sad stuff can be taken seriously and we can still have humor to break the tension! We can do it! We have the technology!

But you can't have a serious thing happen for the sake of growth and then hand wave it away later when it's inconvenient. And you definitely can't introduce ways to break that tension (surprise, Stede is alive because he used This One Weird Trick!) and then not use it when it's inconvenient (surprise, Izzy is alive because he– oh, wait, no, he's dying for realsies).

The issue wasn't the show having dark and gritty bits at all. The issue was the lack of time for those dark and gritty bits to do their fucking job: being a catalyst for personal and relationship growth in a way that actually matters to and affects the story.

[ourflagmeansdemise]

Con supporting the trans community🏳️‍⚧️🤍

[ourflagmeansdemise]

Izzy <3

[ourflagmeansdemise]

Talk it through

[ourflagmeansdemise]

[ourflagmeansdemise]

#indirect kiss my beloved TAIKA WAITITI as Blackbeard & CON O'NEILL as Izzy Hands in OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH (2022— ) Episode 2.06

[ourflagmeansdemise]

It was a long, lonely, wet day #ofmd #izzyhands #pirates #moist #actorslife

[ourflagmeansdemise]

CON O'NEILL as IZZY HANDS in OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH in episodes 2.01 — 2.03

[ourflagmeansdemise]

Our Flag Means Death 2x6 | I'm working on my look.

Bonus:

[ourflagmeansdemise]

I loved you. Best I could. || "I loved you in all the ways that I could”, Sue Zhao