#ed blackbeard teach

[kidneys-and-custard]

[fantasaria]

Ed's doing nine-guns-Blackbeard!

[nancylou444]

Bonus Canon LGBTQ+ Characters of the Day

Stede Bonnet and Ed “Blackbeard” Teach (Our Flag Means Death)

[waldos-art]

(break the chain echoing off in the distance)

[ID. Stede is kneeling with a chain wrapped around his middle and a halo of light streaks behind him while putting the red silk over the clasped hands of Blackbeard who is on the right, shrouded, with tentacles coming from his hair. They stand before the ocean where a storm is closing in towards the middle.]

[hamilpop]

Happy Pride 2022! 🌈

To celebrate, I have two sets of Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) & Ed "Blackbeard" Teach (Taika Waititi) from Our Flag Means Death and three bobblehead figurines Hailee Steinfeld as Emily Dickinson available at my Etsy shop.

[liquidcargo]

Our Flag Means Death // “Home To Me” by Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

[redundare]

the manic pixie dream girl in OFMD

feyburner on twitter posted this absolutely incredible insight:

and i added my commentary on twitter, but i wanted it on one block here:

OKAY BUT THIS IS SO GOOD BC the broodingly soulful man is too intellectual and/or aware of his own narrative, which causes his angst. the antidote is manic pixie earnestness, but the manic pixie HAS to remain unaware to be the antithesis of postmodern over-awareness.

Elizabethtown, 500 Days of Summer, Garden State, Scott Pilgrim: all feature a hyperawareness of trope and the brooding man frames everything in terms of story, narrative, arc -- just like Ed. they're trapped by their story but don't have the tools to write something different.

in Elizabethtown the woman LITERALLY gives the man a map to navigate out of his current life. at the end his choices are to follow the map home or go a new direction, and he's able to choose new direction bc he's sufficiently rejected rationalism and embraced emotion

in 500 Days, though, the man's still trapped in his head, and therefore trapped in the narrative. he can't give up the power being aware gives him; the very last shot is him looking to the camera and winking. he's still in control, but at what cost?

it's a reductive binary understanding of "male" rationalism vs. "female" emotionalism, ofc, but there IS something to be said for a balance between both, and the trope is really more about the male writers trying to escape what they know to be toxic masculine traits

what happens when you, a man, are fucking tired of being A Man, when inside you feel soft and bruised like a mishandled plum, when none of the exclusively men around you seems interested in anything other than hyper-masculine posturing? how do you escape?

the answer comes thru MPDG's lesson on self: there is no escape. you can't hide or run. you have to make a permanent choice. and the choice CANNOT BE merely choosing to be with MPDG; the choice must be about the man's self and future, one that he can't hide from the other men

Ed latched onto Stede but it doesn't actually help if Ed can't internalize those lessons. Ed wanted to run away to China, but that's not changing, that's hiding. the MPDG doesn't represent escape, they represent transformation.

Blackbeard transformed into Ed through MPDG power, but Ed wasn't ready to be Ed in front of Izzy. As long as Ed remains scared of what other men think, he hasn't fully embraced the emotionalism of the Manic Pixie Dream Stede

That will be his arc in s2: reading off the map Stede left in his heart, finding his way to his real self, and then choosing himself, for himself, not for anyone else

[sturdyshield]

Our Flag Means Death + TV Tropes - Edward “Blackbeard” Teach

[apllecrash]

Dreams of you all the time Feels so good when we're together, love

[kiwistede]

I love you.

[simper-maximus]

,,I don't even like spiders, that's why I wear those black leather gloves"

[ibenology]

I just keep adding to this and it’s slowly going from a meme to something I might have to talk to my therapist about

[nancylou444]

Canon LGBTQ+ Characters of the Day

Stede Bonnet and Ed "Blackbeard" Teach (Our Flag Means Death)

[criiitter]

redraw of the best scene in the whole damn show

[hamilpop]

Ed "Blackbeard" Teach (Taika Waititi), Our Flag Means Death

Taika, my beloved. Still working on Rhys Darby as Stede Bonnet, but I've been kicking my butt sculpting Ed's beard, hair, and costume. Ed and Stede will be on sale in late May, because a doll I'm using for Stede won't release until then.

🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈☠️

[vroomvroomwee]

Izzy lying to Stede saying he stabbed his painting to spare his feelings and make him think Ed was still a good person and didn't want to cause him any harm while being in unimaginable pain and barely conscious from having a limb amputated without any anesthesia all after being the reason they basically broke up in the first place. little man, you are so weird I want to study you under a microscope