#oh!!! our flag means death. for sure

[unnonexistence]

i think a large chunk of my media taste is just "this has deeply moving & emotional character arcs, but isn't afraid to get a little silly with it"

[lyoneve]

“Lover, where do you live? In the sky, in the clouds, in the ocean?”

[bookshelfdreams]

how does anyone not love the pilot

[edwardbonnets]

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH - SEASON 2 TEASER

#ed and stede being represented by the wedding toppers

[mwagneto]

THEY ACTUALLY SET HIM ON FIRE ?????

[snake-snack-stede]

honestly if I glanced over and saw chauncey rowing to my ship my first thought wouldn't be oh yeah the manslaughter. it would be omg not this again nigel where did your hair go I hallucinated you with hair before

[theclaravoyant]

hmmmm something so beautiful and sexy to me about it feels good . when you’ve probably never known intimacy to feel good your whole life . when that’s what it’s supposed to be in all your dreams and novels and what you tell yourself but you didn’t get to marry for love and you didn’t get to kiss and hold hands and have sex for love and it didn’t feel good . it felt awkward and awful and probably sometimes downright horrific but now it feels good . it feels good

[ghostlyheart]

If looks could kill...

the ladies of Our Flag Means Death from the season 2 teaser

[kamwashere]

THE LOOK ED GAVE TO STEDE DURING THE WEDDING ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

[giantkillerjack]

If media has taught me one thing, it's to never own a paperweight capable of causing traumatic brain injury.

My dad owned a heavy glass paperweight once that tapered into a sturdy sharp point on the top, and the fact that no one was murdered with this at all before his retirement from the lawfirm is the surest proof I have that this reality is in fact not fiction.

[edsbacktattoo]

mary’s perfect cheeks. that’s it that’s the post

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

honestly second to the stabbing scene i think one of ed’s most blatant come-ons was “feels weird without the beard, from here to here is freezing” like oh you’re just gonna tell him u want him to sit on your face like that??? here, in the barracks of the pirate reformatory???

[myckicade]

Thinking about Lucius and Buttons. The line, "You don't know if you picked up smoking?", in particular. Which, on the surface, yeah, totally just funny. But what if it got Buttons thinking...

+1 for Lucius' change in personality (which we know all about). +1 for Pete's comments about Lucius' balance. +1 for Lucius suddenly picking up smoking, and seeming to be unaware of it? +1 for the ideas of transmogrification already floating around Buttons' brain.

Heh. What if he thinks it wasn't Lucius that crawled out of the drink? What if he thinks Lucius is some kind of mythical sea creature?

*coughs in Scot* A damn selkie. *coughs in Scot*

After all, this is just a story they're being told. That part of the crew didn't know Lucius went overboard. None of those present for the reunion actually saw him hit the water.

Hmmmmmmm.

[arsenicflame]

i really liked my tags on this post so i wanted to touch them up and post them as a stand alone! i ended up adding quite a bit to this ''':)

What artistic skill does Izzy possess?

I think he has a lot of 'practical' artsy skills. he’s decent at sewing (mending your own clothes isn't just useful, it's almost a requirement at sea with limited possessions and resources) he's probably decent at braiding hair from having to splice rope- simply anything with roots in being useful I think he has done enough to be decent at by this point in his life.

Singing comes into this as well, holding a rhythm is important for certain sailing tasks, and while I think he can sing in ways that don't translate to shanties, I don't think he has utilised this in a long long time (so excited that we are apparently getting an Izzy singing scene in s2!!!! I need him to know he can have fun)

Another thing is I think he was a really good tattoo artist! I don't actually see him as having the creativity to come up with interesting and unique designs but I do think he is excellent at the act itself, and at copying requested designs. you need a swallow? an anchor? a ship? any common sailors tattoo? he can absolutely do it and it will probably be the best tattoo you have. it was always a mark of honour if you could convince him to do yours on the Queen Anne- he was very busy and didn't often do them, and definitely wouldn't do them if he didn't respect you. He's done a lot of Ed's 'quality' tattoos (though I think Ed also does a lot on himself), he's done tattoos for Fang, and Ivan, and he will do them for the rest of the kraken crew in the future. (he will even do one for Lucius one day, one of his own pieces of art as long as its not an Ed face or a dick. They understand each other now)

anything else? I don't know, I see him very much as, he won't let himself do things if they aren't practical. his canon whittling is as close as he gets and that's more of a 'thing to do with your hands while watching the deck' kind of thing. have knife will whittle

I think ultimately, Izzy doesn't let himself do things for himself. if you love something, if you have a soft spot, it can be targeted, taken away.

I do think he maybe dances though. He always plays it off as something Ed forces him to do when they're drunk/on shore but... he loves it- the motion; the reliance on another partner and the intimate understanding of exactly what they're gonna do next? I think he would love that actually.

I think dancing might be the one thing he always does for fun. He never lets himself have it, but if Ed demands a partner? Yes, of course, anything for his Captain.

(Ed always demands a partner. he likes dancing well enough but he likes seeing Izzy do it more- he knows Izzy will never do it on his own, he understands why, but Ed is Blackbeard. Nobody fucks with Blackbeard- and if he wants to dance? if he wants his first mate to dance? they're fucking dancing.)

but that's not the truth of the situation, really.

It always takes him a second to let his guard down, but he relaxes into it. He lets himself loose in a way Ed only sees when he's deep into the rhythm of a swordfight. And perhaps it's the same, to him- finding the flow of the battle, of the music. Feeling his partner, understanding them and being understood in return? It's all the same- but dancing is safe. Dancing is fun. In a swordfight there are stakes- and he loves the stakes, he loves that this thing that means everything to him matters, but sometimes, just sometimes, it really is nice to move like that in a way that doesn't matter.

And when they really get going- all twirls and jumps and frankly being a little ridiculous, Izzy laughs. A deep belly laugh, a kind of joy you didn't think was possible from him. But here he is, letting go at last. He laughs and he smiles and he feels such joy, the rest of the world melts away, and it is just him and his partner, dancing.

(later- much, much later, a man will play a battle song over their raids, a jaunty little tune that throws off everyone they fight against, and Izzy gets to dance, and fight, and feel free, unburdened by the weight that he's carried with him his whole life. They'll dance after too, and he will have finally found a place where he completely belongs)

(if you liked this, can I recommend Talking Bodies by ItsClydeBitches, i feel like that fic fits the themes of dancing incredibly well)

[shittywriterbrain]

"i hope you're thinking of me as well" stede can you fucking IMAGINE

[theofficialpresidentoftheusa]

No cauuuuse what in the world do Ed and stede know about rebuilding a house. Those two suck at nearly everything they do they are not going to be able to do that.