#Our Flag means death

[snake-snack-stede]

[shiftythrifting]

For 5.99. It knocked the wind out of me

[smolbus]

poor man can never get anything done in this household

[sollee-art]

Sitting and holding hands on the porch of the Inn at sunset

For the Anonymous who asked for this plot - top one 💜 And another one for the Anon who text me “more neck kisses, please!!”

[poison-into-positivity]

A dash of hope on this fine evening - TV Insider ranked a bunch of cancelled shows on how likely they thought they were to be saved, and OFMD came in second place.

[googoogojob]

[sherlockig]

[celluloidbroomcloset]

We kinda forget that...Stede thought Ed was dead. He thought that he'd waited too long and that he'd not made it in time. He thought the man he last saw happily running off to mug a guy for a dinghy had been so destroyed by despair that he'd gone on a months' long rampage and ended it by baiting people he loved into killing him. He thought, moreover—and had been told by multiple people—that it was all his fault.

Stede's relief doesn't just last through the moment when Ed wakes up, nor does his guilt just vanish. He nearly lost the love of his life and he knows it.

[our-flag-means-love]

we can compliment the writing of ofmd all day (and yes, i will continue to do so until the day i die) but the acting really soars too- especially in season 2, in my opinion. rhys and taika are both fantastic, and perhaps i'll share some more of my favorite acting moments of theirs in the future, but for now i want to focus on one in particular.

specifically, stede during the moonlight kiss.

in just a few short seconds, rhys's face manages to convey a pure tidal wave of emotion without a single word of dialogue. the arch of stede's eyebrows, the desperation in his body language, the way he pulls ed impossibly closer.

it's like ed is an oasis in an endless desert, or a breath in the lungs of someone barely treading water.

it's as if stede's been replaying their first kiss over and over in his mind—thinking about how good and right it felt, but how awkward and clumsy he was, how he didn't know what to do with his hands and just kind of let it happen to him—and as if getting to try it again is the only thing he's thought about for the past three months.

his face during that kiss says so much more than just a few words ever could—i'm sure he could've filled a novel with his thoughts and then some.

"i missed you more than anything."

"i dreamed of this moment every single day."

"the thought of feeling your lips on mine again has kept me sane."

"i already know that i want to spend the rest of my life with you. i've known it for months. you're the only person in the world for me."

"i love you. i love you. i love you."

[edscuntyeyeshadow]

don’t remember who i was before these dropped tbh

[bizarrelittlemew]

The Edward Teach School of Medicine™️

[piratecaptainscaptainpirates]

I've been thinking lately about how lucky we are that OFMD ever got made in the first place.

Like, we live in a media landscape that's actively hostile to shows like OFMD. Even without the fact that it's a queer show with a heavily-poc cast, OFMD is genuine and campy in a way that most shows are just not willing to be nowadays.

Of course, I'm still devastated that we didn't get the third season we deserved - I probably always will be. But it really is wonderful that we hit exactly the right time to get what we did. Much earlier, and a show like OFMD never would've had a chance of being greenlit, and a few years later, and it probably would've gotten cancelled after season 1. I don't know about you all, but I'm really glad we got the cancellation after season 2 instead.

I'm just really grateful that we hit the timing exactly right to get what we got, and I'm glad that my time and place matched up just right to be here with you all for it.

[follows-the-bees]

"You won."

Small line. Huge meaning.

You won my heart.

You won the thumb war game.

You won at getting through (this bout) of depression and are living!

[sollee-art]

This one for the person from Twitter who asked about "having cake for breakfast" sketch, well, here it is!

[medievill]

the ned low thing was a real take? lol you are really gonna look me in my eye and tell me edward “take your sword, run me through”/“whip my balls” teach stood in front of us and gd wearing a cat collar and visibly physically reacted to stede’s captain voice for your take to be “ned low, the only kinkster on ofmd, whose kink is a core part of his villainy”

lmao gorl bye

[spirker]

I always find it so excruciating talking about OFMD irl.

Yeah there’s this show I really like. It’s about pirates. Yeah the comedy one with Taika Waititi.

Yeah when I say I ‘really like’ it I mean that it’s more important to me than breathing and I can’t talk about it more or I will cry.