the thing is actually never stop blowing up is a love letter to the spirit of ttrpgs and creating stories with your friends about silly and ridiculous things and the incomparable dopamine of making your friends laugh and that's actually what life is all about. It's silly and ridiculous and collaborative to a fault and its literally everything to me. It is an encapsulation of every little thing that I love about ttrpgs.
too many of you are treating this + the various discussions of real sexual assault/abuse in the notes as fun drama or using this post as a vehicle to spread misinformation so im turning reblogs off until you can behave
broke: Izzy wearing makeup and singing for the crew is OOC
woke: Izzy is open to experimenting and trying new things now because hitting rock bottom helped him realize how depressed his old life made him and he now knows he needs to change to find happiness
bespoke: he's like this now because they cut off the homophobic leg
in season 1 when calico jack called izzy a sentimental bastard i always figured it was mostly a dig about his feelings for ed, but uhhhhhhh. season 2 is making it abundantly clear that's just an accurate description of izzy as a person lmfao like, him weeping over his new leg while insulting the crew even though they can't even hear him?? and then he goes and stands at the bow of the ship WITH the note just to have a nice little moment by himself. i half expected him to let it float away after that but he DIDN'T. does he just keep it tucked into his vest now? i bet he fucking does
and i mean to be fair the entire time we've known him he's been wearing a ring around his little tie thing and we can only assume that's for sentimental reasons too i'm losing my mind he's just a little shit with a lot of feelings
just remembered Izzy was in the room for that scene where Stede asks if he can call Ed his boyfriend and it's sooo funny to think of him having a very belated realization that everything he did in season one happened in response to a guy Ed hadn't even defined the relationship with yet