#possessive edward teach

[sibmakesart]

[hummingbee-o0o]

I mean.... probably, right?

[nightcolorz]

every time Ed moves or flips his hair out of his face I get a raging boner I mean what

[stil-lindigo]

lift me up, hold me down.

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[chuplayswithfire]

I've always seen Ed's robe era as a standard break up response - crying in your room, making sad creative projects, wearing your ex's clothes that are still at your house, eating ye olde ben and jerry's aka marmalade - and I remain firmly convinced that this is what the show is going for, because this is a romcom, after all.

But if I were to take it as a serious cry for help, an experience of extreme mental distress and signs of a man having a breakdown and losing himself... then like damn Izzy fucking sucks. How are the Crew of the Revenge collectively having more empathy, compassion, and care for a man they've known for a few weeks than Izzy is for a guy he at least claims to view as his captain and as a man he respects?

Like fucking hells bells man, the crew are concerned about Ed's well-being, listen to his song with bafflement but offer encouragement when they understand it's sincere, and are more than willing to meet Ed where he is and call him Ed when he asks. They're down for the talent show because they're a bunch of silly and delightful people, but also they're encouraging someone who's going through a rough time and pulling himself out of it. They're being compassionate and they're genuinely eager to share their talents and see if Ed likes them.

If Ed were genuinely having a mental health crisis (which again is not how I interpret these events but if one did), then this is a great way to respond. They're encouraging Ed to reach out to them by accepting the lowering of a previous boundary (call me Ed, not Blackbeard), they're accepting of his interest in trying new things and changing up his old life, they're genuinely invested in and value his opinion of them in a way that demonstrates that they still think he's cool and admirable despite his changing his whole look and ditching the job persona that they all initially looked up to him for. The crew in general are not just hero worshipping Edward Teach who is Blackbeard, but actively like Ed the man and want him to like them too.

We also see that this is effective and healing for Ed, because after lowering his barriers and singing for the crew, having them accept him in this very vulnerable moment and respond encouragement and genuine excitement for him suggesting they do something totally new, after asking them to call him by his name and treat him like a peer instead of an untouchable idol, the next time we see Ed is him being calm, cleaning his living space, letting in the light instead of wallowing away, even acknowledging that he was not living well by commenting that he can't believe he was "living like this".

Being supported and encouraged helped him to get back on his feet and regain his equilibrium, and he gets that from the crew, a group of men and Jim who have known him for a handful of weeks.

Meanwhile, Izzy stews in his distaste for everything that's happening with Edward, and doesn't decide to engage with him about any of it until he sees Ed doing better and yet still not being the man Izzy wants him to be. Izzy's responses consist of telling Edward that he should have been killed rather than be able to live as the man he is right now, dehumanize him as a thing rather than a person, and cap on a threat to watch his step if he doesn't start acting like the man Izzy wants him to be. For some reason, this threat isn't always taken seriously in the fandom, but I'd remind everyone that the only reason Stede, another pirate Izzy doesn't respect and sees as worthless, isn't on the ship in episode 10 is because Izzy went and found the British Navy in an effort to have him killed. He told Ed that having Stede killed by firing squad - the same death he's saying he should have "let" happen to Ed - "is a humane way of ending this". Ed wasn't prepared for Izzy's treachery because he didn't take Izzy's last threat - that he would rue this day - seriously.

Izzy is perfectly willing to follow up on his threats. And he was making a threat, a serious one, right after saying that he should have had Edward killed as part of his last plan.

Like, look, Izzy's response in episode 10 is always wildly off the wall - there is no situation where it's appropriate or even reasonable for him to dehumanize Ed, threaten him, or tell him that he should be killed for trying new means of expressing himself, but if we approach episode 10's robe era as Edward being in a state of genuine mental health crisis and distress?

Then Izzy's fucking abominable. Absolutely horrendous. There's no defense. It would only further highlight that Ed was right to say he has no friends in episode 6 - because no friend would react that way even if you were just going through a breakup, let alone a genuine mental health crisis.

A group of people who only knew Ed for a few weeks have more compassion for him than Izzy.

[mayhasopinions]

basically their dynamic in season 2 so far

[toastywindow]

has anyone ever made a meta/ essay on izzy being a bitch to everyone, especially to stede (in season 1), and telling them that ed should be called as "blackbeard"... and then the next scenes is of izzy calling ed as.... ed. like why is he the way he is you know? is he not part of "everyone" that should call ed as blackbeard?? what is he to him? (yes pun intended for s2 scene lol)

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

I hope if we get more Ed exes that they're all dumb and derranged but like each in their own unique ways. Like Calico Jack and Stede are both Himbos but they're different brands of Himbos and they're both absolutely insane but they're different types of insane. I just want to see some biodiversity when it comes to Edward Teach's type. Part of me even wants to see how many single braincelled lunatics we can give this guy before we start having to do repeats.

[ourflagmeansdeath-kinkmeme]

Ed/Izzy, Any/Izzy — Ed gets jealous, possessive, that makes Izzy angry

Sometime post reunion, established Stede/Ed, Izzy is romantically or sexually with someone other than Ed.

Maybe Izzy/Ivan/Fang happened while Stede was gone and Izzy was emotionally vulnerable. Maybe Izzy/Lucius or Izzy/Roach. Maybe Jack turns up again, alive, and Stede throws a fit because he's banned from the ship, and Izzy offers to go "distract" him because Jack's a big ol Izzy simp. Maybe somehow Stede/Izzy is happening. Maybe it's a fling with some unnamed rando we don't care about.

In any case, Edward finds out about Izzy's relationship and goes all out possessive, jealous, you're mine see this x mark on your face, etc.

But Izzy doesn't react as expected, accepting anything from Edward and desperate for his attention. Instead, Izzy is mad as hell about it. Did Ed think about thier relationship or care to ask Izzy's opinion when he was pining over Stede? Has Ed looked twice at him in fucking years? What, so Edward's allowed to move on from the horrible unhealthy thing they became as Blackbeard but Izzy isnt allowed to try and find happiness of his own? Fuck off Ed.

Up to filler how it plays out from there.

DNW: non or dub-con.

Fill: None

[saltpepperbeard]

So what if Stede and Ed are having a little disagreement of sorts, with Stede being particularly snippy, and Ed interjects with kisses?

Stede is attempting to argue his point, only for Ed to slowly walk towards him. Stede stubbornly straightens and continues to try and speak his mind, even when Ed looms closer and closer…

…Only to get a sentence sliced in half by an unexpected peck.

Stede sort of blinks at him with surprise, sputters a bit, but continues trying to talk. Like, “T-that’s all good and well, Ed, but—“

But he’s cut off by another peck. Ed is smiling. Stede scoffs and tries to stick to his principals, even as his composure begins to sway. “Edward, you cannot expect to just—“

Oh, but he does, interrupting with another peck. Ed is grinning, especially when Stede finally gives an incredulous huff, something that almost sounds like a laugh.

“I’m trying to make an actual point here—“

Yet the same thing repeats. But when they both pull back, when Ed begins to laugh, Stede cannot help but join him.

“Oh, come on—“

More pecks. More laughter. More love.

And whatever argument was on the table utterly melts away, what with the two falling into fits of giggles and kisses.

[anyastradivarius]

OFMD fanvid - Stede/Ed - Break my heart again

“Are you the definition of insanity?

Or am I?

Oh, it must be nice

To love someone

Who lets you break them twice.”

Break my heart again - FINNEAS

[xray-vex]

I was born under a black star/ I’ve been waiting my whole life to be happy

My first of several artworks for "fallow land & bigger sky" by getmean aka @rattlerbit. This entire story took over my brain from the very first sentences; one of my absolute favorite fanfics (from any fandom) of all time.

"Ed dreams in red and black. Dreams of a red moon over black water, of red blood spilling from a black fist."

tw: blood Procreate/3 hrs

fallow land & bigger sky (68894 words) by getmean Chapters: 22/22 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet Characters: Crew of the Revenge (Our Flag Means Death) Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Hurt/Comfort, Suicidal Ideation, Self-Harm, Healing, New Beginnings, this is a story about healing and forgiveness of others and self, but it's also about grief in all its various forms, pastoral fantasies, splitting wood as therapy, welsh springtime, Reunions, Oral Sex, Frottage, and my favourite:, Erectile Dysfunction Summary: Spring is as much of a dying season than it is a living one. Ed had died in the spring. -- after season one, ed fakes his death, and ends up on a welsh island populated solely by nuns. there he makes wine and tends the old wood-fired boiler, thinks about his mother and makes friends with a teenage nun; dreams in horrific red and black. then one night a rowboat eases ashore, and his safe, drunken wheel of routine gets shattered for good.

[pirategrime]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet/Lucius Spriggs, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Lucius Spriggs, Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alcohol, New Year's Eve, Oral Sex, Masturbation, lucius spriggs’ ongoing HR nightmare Series: Part 2 of per my last email Summary:

Six months ago, Lucius had just been fired by Edward and was crying into an emergency midday gin and tonic until Pete could beg off work early and rescue him. And now he’s here, eating nighttime eggs and drinking champagne in his loft apartment after fucking his boyfriend.

Twice.

“Was it just me,” Pete says, awed, to the empty space where Edward just was. “Or was he hitting on you?”

[stil-lindigo]

he’s facetiming stede :D

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[chuplayswithfire]

i have been talking about this with @broadlybrazen a LOT lately and finally wanted to consolidate my thoughts here on tumblr, but there's an aspect of homophobia represented in our flag means death that i think a lot of people miss, and that might be because it's not the sort that people usually encounter, but like -

the entirety of izzy's plan to have stede killed by the british navy is motivated by homophobia. the entirety of his motive is grounded within homophobia. that izzy is likely to be a repressed gay man does not change the fact that his entire motive for sicking the english on stede is grounded in homophobia.

when chauncey badminton rolls into spanish jackie's bar and asks their motives, jackie is pissed about her nose jar and her favorite husband being killed. izzy's motivation is explicitly "he's done something to my boss's brain". izzy's entire motivation for having stede killed is explicitly because he thinks that ed adoring stede, having affection for stede, having a romantic and sexual (because he thinks they've already consummated!) bond with stede, has literally damaged him as a person and damaged his brain.

i have seen a lot of discussion about how izzy is trying to save ed, and none of it acknowledges that what izzy is doing is straight out of the homophobic evangelical playlist of "i love you and you cannot be like this (gay, queer, feminine, soft), this is not who you are, you are being corrupted, for your own good i will isolate and harass and hound you and i will seek to destroy these corrupting influences so you can go back to being the person i knew".

our flag means death is very earnestly talking about toxic masculinity, about what it means to be a man, about what it means to exist in a world where you have been abused for being your true self (stede), what it means to exist in a world where you have never felt safe to be your true self (ed), what it means to exist in a world where you feel torn between your peace and your familial responsibilities (jim), what it looks like when you're a man who has embraced himself (lucius), what it means to be a man who chooses compassion and understanding (oluwande), and in all the ways it represents men and especially queer men, it digs deep into homophobia.

yes, it does this while being a comedy. yes, it does this without being a trauma porno. but also, yes, it is talking about what it means to have experienced trauma, and what it means to cause trauma, and izzy hands' plan to have stede killed and ed pried away from stede, his plea for ed to see stede being gunned down by a firing squad as a humane death, all of this is about homophobia. it is about the fact that izzy thinks stede is a thing that should be killed, and that ed, in choosing to emulate him, in choosing to be open and soft and vulnerable and gay without violence, has become a *thing* too.

it is about the fact that people can care about you, because i truly think izzy cares about ed, and because of that care they will do horrific things to you and the people you care about, because their regard is a controlling, possessive thing, that feels entitled to dictate the truth of your existence.

there is nothing benevolent, nothing compassionate, nothing loving in what izzy does, but he sees it that way because he genuinely and truly believes that stede is ruining ed because he is corrupting and changing him for the worst, and that is classic homophobia, izzy's just doing it in a repressed gay hat.

[beetles-in-a-trenchcoat]

BE THE KRAKEN

(inspired by @swooshbuckle’s criminally underrated post god bless)