#ofmds2spoilers

[toboldlymuppet]

here in the storm, i found peace in you

[ratchet]

I'll never leave you. I'll never leave again.

[lukelemon-art]

Want some cake? 🎂

[spyderfyngers]

[horatiios]

Thinking about how carefully Ed’s body was laid out below deck, with a cloth over the face. Prepared for mourning.

And like after everything,,why would the crew do that? Why not just throw him over board and be done with it?

But then I remembered who did need to mourn, who would have taken the time to put a handkerchief over his face,,

[jennaimmortal]

I’m rewatching the show from the beginning, and it’s REALLY clear to me now that there are major parallels between Stede’s enjoyment of his sudden fame at Spanish Jackie’s & Ed’s enjoyment of the same adoration from the French aristocrats in 1x05.

There’s even that moment where Ed is telling bullshit stories to the crowd, saying that he was “living as a sort of god-king,” which is so similar to Stede’s shouting, “I am a sea god!”

I absolutely love all the parallels!

[amarshmallownamedo]

stede really said "he's actually a really good guy" to the people blackbeard marooned 6 months ago

[finchxs-revenge]

So something I absolutely adore about the way Izzy is depicted on screen with his new leg is that he is consistently leaning on or being supported by other characters. It's not all the time and it's not always just for mobility: Sometimes he has to lean on someone because he's fatigued or just a little off balance. And he has moments where he takes things slower or has to really push himself just to like sit down (like how he kind of groans when he sits down next to Stede at Spanish Jackie's.)

I'm not an amputee but I wear leg braces and my left hip is fucked and from my perspective this is a really accurate representation of disability on screen because it presents a balance between things Izzy can do and times he needs or wants help.

I don't watch a ton of movies or TV so maybe there have been better representations of disability on screen since when I was younger, but in the past, I noticed media that showed disability (especially with an able bodied actor in the role) would either 1. make the character visibly disabled but functionally able bodied (like a bionic arm or magically regaining the ability to walk once the plot requires it) or 2. just sideline the character from most of the action to get around times when the disability aspect would get in the way with traditional staging or action scenes. And they nearly never show someone leaning on another character unless absolutely necessary for obvious mobility reasons, not for things like being tired or regular background movement.

But ofmd shows different visible aspects of disability realistically and it's so much better for the characters and the story.

The same is true for Wee John in a lot of ways, he sits most of the time but is rarely removed from the action, and other characters move about him in an inclusive way.

Yeah. I love it all. It's so good.

[acceleratedmuseo]

Fang *crumbling*

Frenchie *taking the cakes away* *eating up*

meanwhile

Izzy *crumbling*

Frenchie *holding his hands* *humming*

[sungmee]

the contrast between wet cat izzy with ed and his normal looking self with stede in the teaser had me thinking about stede helping izzy clean up...

[krazycattgurl]

This scene is everything ❤️ one word, beautiful

[mystysmuses]

I'M SO READY FOR HER TO SLAY THE HOUSE DOWN!!!

[beccapaintmore]

Has anyone else clocked that the new flag is what was on the back of Frenchie's coat?

[zhalar]

ok hi HELLO. this is a bit spoilery im very sorry for this. anyways, isnt this a fine sunday to lose my mind and contemplate uglycrying,

[horatiios]

Ok but the fact that everyone was right about the teaser trailer & the way that the “I love everything about you” line was not in one of the letters Stede sent???

That he’s going to say that to Ed in person so tenderly????

[childofwonder]

Ed putting his whole arm around Stede and bringing him as close as possible is maybe the best part of them sleeping together for the first time

I love them