#stede and his suit

[lacefuneral]

stede pink suit tribute

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

one thing about me is that i do enjoy a good Dad Stede fic or fics where stede’s kids (and mary and doug) are important figures in his life and he has a great relationship with them, i like reading abt stede trying so hard to be a good dad

but at the same time i do not consider this to be stede’s canonical characterization. canon stede is an incredibly subpar dad to his biological children. not only does stede not know how to interact with said biological children when he’s not sharing his interests with them but also it has never once occurred to him that he should do other stuff with them. stede probably doesn’t even realize it’s possible to do anything with his kids aside from play pirates. he also does NOT have the emotional maturity necessary to handle when a toddler is throwing a tantrum, and thank fucking god he got out of there before they reached their teens. in s1 he mostly felt guilty for leaving them bc he did it in the middle of the night without saying goodbye but also because he still felt tied to the social obligations enforced on him by society. he still felt like he had a responsibility to be a Socially Acceptable Man, which includes being a husband and a dad, even tho trying to be a socially acceptable man made him fucking miserable. when he realizes at the end of the season that his kids and his wife are legitimately better off without him he leaves again without looking back.

and mark my fucking words he is never seeing those kids again. he said “two messed up kids, probably” so he’s at least somewhat aware that running out on his kids like that will most likely cause lasting psychological damage, but by god his children’s abandonment issues are not his problem. doug and mary can worry about that, he left them plenty of money to afford ye olde therapy if they need it down the line. and louis might’ve said “who are you, again?” but the truth is that stede only knew louis was his son bc he was sitting for breakfast inside stede’s house. that man could not pick his kids out of a lineup if his life depended on it. to quote @jaskierx, stede said “two messed up kids, probably” as in “my kids are messed up. and i think there were two of them”

[lilopossum-9]

So I was just rewatching the end of episode 5 once or twice (no particular reason), and realised Ed specifies really clearly when he says about fishing being man vs beast: 'I'm the man and the beast is beneath the sea' and that sentence is so meaningful coming from a man who for all his adult life has thought of himself as a kraken or a monster who deserved to drown.

He is healing through fishing 🎣 And the crew are healing through shared creative projects like the unicorn leg and the bizarre cursed suit raid.

[arsenicflame]

I love people who love competent Stede Bonnet but, for me, he's always at his best when he's at least a little bit cringefail

[fai-pai]

So, for the our good shadows fandom (or how do we call it again?), we have a new overlapping thing between the ofmd and wwdits.

A fucking cursed piece of clothing owner doesn't want to admit is cursed while everybody else is going crazy about it.

[nisabaismymistress-blog]

The flourish of a fine fabric. Fhwhoooosh!

[here-there-everyfuckenwhere]

My hand slipped

[ask-stede-bonnet]

@ask-edward-teach Jack is coming by in a few days if you hadn't heard. Any tips to prep? I bet he fights dirty, what tricks should I prepare for?

[hootgrowlhootgrowl]

Can’t wait for Stede’s season 3 wardrobe which will be the perfect mix of color and flair from season 1 but not as restrictive and more practical like season 2

[yourlocalpileofcrows]

It really very much bothers me that we haven't seen the auxiliary wardrobe at all this season. What's in there now??? Did Ed do anything to it when Stede left??? Did they all just forget about it??? Are they hoping we forgot about it?? Because I very much did not and it's haunting me

[nicnacsnonsense]

Actually I do know another way to explain it. It’s like this: Stede Bonnet is a square peg, and when he was born they put him into a round hole.

He was just a tiny little thing at first, and then he started to grow. He grew and grew until his corners started scraping against the sides of his round hole. And everyone started yelling at him, what are you doing, can’t you see how you’re scraping the sides, stop trying to be so big. And Stede doesn’t feel big, he feels small (he’s so small), but he’s also never been any bigger than this before, he doesn’t know, maybe this is how it’s supposed to be. Except they all tell at him again, look at all this space you’re leaving, you’re supposed to fill it up, but when he tries to get bigger to fill it, his corners scrape the sides again. And they all yell and yell and yell can’t you do anything right? In the end he stays small; at least that way he fits inside his hole.

Then he runs away and finds a new hole, a square hole. I don’t know if the square hole actually is any bigger if you got right down and measured it, but that’s not important. What’s important is there’s room now. Room for Stede to stretch out in all directions, room to grow to fit all the parts of him, room to fill all the space he’s given. And when he bumps up against the sides this time they aren’t holding him in or holding him down; they’re just holding him. And can you even imagine that, being a square peg in a round hole your whole life, and then one day finally finding someone who hugs all your corners tight, who loves them because you corners perfectly fit in theirs?

But then Stede gets put back in his same old round hole from before. And he doesn’t fit in there anymore.

[queen-beefcake-sqx]

I'm queuing this up for Monday so I can post this without feeling like I HAVE to slap a spoiler tag on it but like.... I am insane about the Shape of Water allusion that has GOT to be intentional:

Like come ON.

[adamarks]

My cool secondhand red leather vest has dry rot 20 dead 135 injured

[arsenicflame]

i miss stedes fancy little outfits :(

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

Me writing my fic: and then he........... Would he reach under his shirt or unbutton his shirt

Realizing I have no idea what Ed is wearing: FUCK ME

I need yet another fit for a semi punk very rich GNC trans gay man going to divorce court and trying to seduce his lawyer but Also trying to seduce his ex husband's lawyer (much easier to do than the first thing)

You think you can get away with setting the tone for what they're wearing in the beginning and then never think about it again and then suddenly you have to describe the clothes on the floor smh