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bert and ernie go to ikea

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A perfect afternoon spent

Tattoos and tea 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈

Just love the idea of Ed giving Stede tattoos

INPRNT | twitter | instagram (time lapse)

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I got beta-ed!

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Stedeeeee

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New outtake just dropped

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With the new flag from DJenks!

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My squirrel brain, I wonder sometimes. I love reading anything Sarah Vowell writes (I think because she has a similar squirrel brain, but she always circles back to the original point, something my brain does not always achieve…and she weaves current events, historical events and pop culture seamlessly, AND she’s so fucking funny). I’m in Hawaii, so of course, I’m reading her book “Unfamiliar Fishes” about Hawaii (seriously, read her books…”The Wordy Shipmates” and “Assassination Vacation” two of my absolute favorites). ~squirrel~

So anywho, she’s describing her research process and the portraits of 2 missionaries (Hawaiian history chalk full of the meddlers) painted by a man named Morse, yes, of Morse code fame. And aside from the very interesting story she goes on to tell that involves how Morse was inspired to invent Morse code, my little squirrel brain goes to Rhys Darby being a Morse coder in the NZ army, and I’m Hawaii thinking about how native Hawaiians are very connected to Māori people in NZ and Taika Waititi is Māori and now I should continue reading that OFMD S3 speculation fic I started last night but ~squirrel~ back to Hawaiian history.

Anyone else have this problem?

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#❤️engravingcraft #ofmdtillIdie

I reworked my wood engraving a bit and like it even more now. I added more details and it feels a bit less chunky now.

Might return to it again in the future but for now I'm happy with it .

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We are to be a lighthouse for each other, OFMD?

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Helloo? Anyone there? 🐙

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I don't think I'll ever be emotionally over the beautiful queer journey represented by these two kisses.

Firstly, we have Stede, a repressed gay man who has probably never even entertained the idea of loving a man, being kissed by a man for the first time and (although enjoying it) clearly being a little bit stunned and nervously keeping his hands down because he has no idea what to do with them.

And then we have Stede a few months later, the very next time he gets a chance to kiss that same man, having gone on such a journey of self-discovery that he's absolutely figured out who he is, and what he wants, and this time he's ready to grab what he wants with those same hands (literally).

Stede Bonnet is the character of all time and I could cry for thirty million years over his gorgeous arc of queer discovery, queer love, and queer joy.

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I keep seeing posts on social media thanking the OFMD cast and crew for their work and not mentioning Taika, and it's driving me to distraction because Taika is absolutely fundamental to the existence of this show.

There's a huge chance the show wouldn't have been picked up at all if Taika hadn't attached his name to it. And he didn't just attach his name and walk away - he played a key role in developing the show. David has said that he was looking at the history with Taika and they both went 'omg Stede and Blackbeard were fucking' and decided to centre the show around that. Taika pushed for Rhys to play Stede. Taika saw Nathan's comedy on instagram and went 'yep that's Lucius'. Taika was desperate to play Ed, and fought to play him. Taika has spoken about how much he loves playing Ed, how it made him fall in love with acting again, to the point where he wears some of Ed's jewellery and has gotten some of Ed's tattoos actually inked on him. He poured everything he has as an actor into Ed (some of the stuff he had to perform, particularly at the beginning of S2, is difficult) and the show simply wouldn't work without it. Taika directed the pilot. He loved the show enough to juggle filming S1 with post-production on Thor: Love and Thunder. When the show's budget was slashed by 40%, and could no longer afford to film in LA, Taika would have been key to moving production to New Zealand - and if that hadn't happened, S2 wouldn't have happened. When a director went off sick with Covid during S2, Taika jumped in to direct half an episode and then didn't take a director's credit on it.

You do not have to like Taika. You do not have to agree with everything he does/says. But what we are not going to do is erase the absolutely key fundamental role that Taika has played in OFMD. This show simply would not exist, probably not in any form, but certainly not in the form we see and love, if not for Taika's continuing and multi-level contribution.

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So Captain asked us to have at it…

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A love like ours...