#c; stede bonnett

[avastyetwats]

The Pentleman Girate

Continued from here. @fxckin-blackbeard

Five glasses.

Five glasses of whiskey! Now that was something to be proud of, wasn't it?

...If Stede Bonnet had actually managed to drink five. That's what his impressive goal had been anyway, but he already hit the floor with just one drink in him. That was probably just as impressive because who is taken out by just one drink?

"The Pentleman Girate, Bede Stonnet. That's who!"

He hadn't meant to say that out loud.

In his defense the whiskey was strong and Stede had never really drank anything that strong before. In fact, he rarely drank at all, not even when he was still in Barbados. A drink or two here and there was fine, but becoming drunk? Wasted? Why, that was unbecoming. He lets out a scoff mixed laugh at the thought - or what was supposed to be a laugh anyway - because gods, aristocrats were ridiculous. He was glad to have left that life behind and peruse a life of dangerous adventure! Which included trying alcohol, something Stede always thought he'd be able to handle just fine, and hoped he would if at least to impress Ed, but alas... he did not handle it fine. He didn't handle it at all, really.

Because here he was on the floor with his arms out, claiming he was merely hugging the floor because... well, didn't everyone need a hug? Or everything at this point. "My ship is already floating, Ed. We're in it!" A friendly reminder, though not at all correct since they were in an unmoving and very grounded building that they were trying to turn into an inn. He feels Ed's hands on his body, lifting him up from the ground and Stede struggles to assist him. "It's not mmmade up! Luciusss told me. It means," He pauses as he walks with Ed towards the couch. He felt far more drunk on the floor than he did on his feet, probably because laying still made the entire room spin. He was fiiiiine. "It means..." He sighs in frustration before he snaps his fingers. "Before after everyone!" Then he hums. "No, wait..." He thinks again, grunting when he's sat on the couch. "Before... anyone else! That's the one." He beams. "And that's what you are, Ed. Before after everyone anyone else." He smiles so sweetly at him, his words meant to be loving, even if he completely butchered them.

"Funny that this is called a love seat, isn't it?" Now his voice sounds flirtatious, his grin matching, or trying to. "As though it were meant for us."

[queerasfact]

Queer as Fiction

Queer as Fiction encompasses our podcast episodes talking about the intersection of queer history and media, whether that’s pieces of historical queer media, or modern media dealing with queer history.

All our episodes are gathered here in one place for you to check out!

Queer media from history

Pre-20th century

The Epic of Gilgamesh (c.1800BCE epic poem)

Achilles and Patroclus (figures from Greek myth)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th century English Arthurian poem)

Carmilla (Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 lesbian vampire novella)

1920s

The Captive (1926 English adaptation of Édouard Bourdet’s lesbian play La Prisonnière)

1930s

Mädchen in Uniform (1931 German lesbian schoolgirl cult classic film)

1940s

Wonder Woman (1941-1948 American comics)

1950s

The World Well Lost (Theodore Sturgeon’s 1953 sci-fi short story about gay aliens)

Giovanni’s Room (James Baldwin’s 1956 novel about an American expat in Paris)

1960s

Victim (1961 film focussing on Britain’s laws against homosexality)

The Boys in the Band (1968 play, 1970 film, and 2020 film about a group of gay men in New York)

1970s

1980s

The Color Purple (Alice Walker’s 1982 epistolary novel on a queer, black woman in America’s south in the first half of the 20th century)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddie’s Revenge (1985 queer-coded slasher film)

Queerness in Videogames (discussion of 1989 queer game Caper in the Castro, 1988 trans Mario character Birdo, and World of Warcraft’s Pride parade begun in 2005)

1990s

Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingstone’s 1990 documentary about the New York drag ball scene)

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994 Australian roadtrip drag comedy)

The Birdcage (American director Mike Nichols' 1996 gay comedy film)

The Matrix (Wachowski sisters’ 1999 cyberpunk trans allegory)

Queer media about history

Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire (a discussion on the way  medieval fantasy interprets historical reality the 2011-2019 TV series and 1996-ongoing book series)

The Handmaiden and Fingersmith (Sarah Waters’ 2002 Victorian lesbian novel Fingersmith and its 2016 film adaptation, Park Chan-wook The Handmaiden set in Japanese-occupied Korea)

Achilles and Patroclus in modern media

Call Me By Your Name (2007 novel and 2017 film depicting a relationship between a teenage boy and an adult man in 1980s Italy)

Pride (2014 film about the 1980s UK activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners)

Tell It to the Bees (2019 film and 2009 book depicting a lesbian romance in 1950s Scotland)

Stonewall in the media (Roland Emmerich's 2015 film and Crissle West's 2016 Drunk History segment on the 1969 riots)

Bohemian Rhapsody, Colette, and Vita & Virginia (three queer films from 2018, covering the lives of Queen’s frontman Freddie Mercury, 19th-century French author Colette, and early 20th-century English writers Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf)

The Old Guard (2020 Netflix film featuring queer immortal mercenaries)

Interview with emily m danforth (interview with author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post about her 2020 book Plain Bad Heroines, described as Picnic at Hanging Rock meets The Blair Witch Project with lesbians)

Ma Rainey (episode on the 20th-century American blues singer Ma Rainey, featuring a discussion of the 2020 film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)

The Boys in the Band (1968 play, 1970 film, and 2020 film about a group of gay men in New York)

Our Flag Means Death (2022 comedy about pirates Edward “Blackbeard” Teach and Stede Bonnett)

A League of their Own (2023 TV show about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League)

[avastyetwats]

'I can see it already. Death by sled.' From Iz

“Oh, come on now, Izzy.” Stede huffs as he positions the makeshift sled on top of the large, somewhat steep snowy hill. “Where’s the harm in a little fun? We’re pirates, aren’t we? And the pirating life is full of all sorts of dangers and risks! How can this be any worse?” Because he was Stede Bonnet. And Stede had quite the way when it came to getting himself hurt. He was a man that did things he really probably shouldn’t. He was a man that thought he could something when he really probably couldn’t. And didn’t. And right now, it was all about having fun!

So, all bundled up in his coat, mittens and winter hat, the Captain sits himself on the sled and scoots closer towards the edge. “Okay, Izzy, I’m ready! Send me off!”

@izzyeffinhands