At its core, every piece of media we ever have consumed and ever will consume — whether it’s art, music, books, movies — is fundamentally about love, or the lack of it.
it’s an inescapable facet of human life. it could be about the love you have for people in your life, or how much you hate your job, or love your city, but the love is always there.
the only times i feel sickly about theater is whenever someone mentions either phantom of the opera or little shop of horrors. i physically need to hold myself back from talking about how much i enjoy those shows. otherwise i don’t care DONT talk to me about rent. i don’t care.
A number of people have pointed out that Stede has pulled some good fuckeries in season 2-- retaking the Revenge in s2e3 and getting the crew + Zheng, Auntie, and Jackie back to the Revenge in s2e8.
Stede's been doing wee fuckeries since before he ever saw Ed's theater extravaganza at the beginning of s1e6, though! Tying a gagged DJenks to the dinghy in s1e1 and making him row back to the Navy ship with three coconut-headed dummies was a little fuckery, and it bought the crew enough time to escape.
Stede's improvisational attempt to retake the hostages from Izzy, Ivan, and Fang involves some targeted force (the rock that smacks Ivan in the face). But Stede makes the most of that brief distraction, getting his knife to the face of a much more accomplished fighter.
Add to Stede's quick reaction capitalizing on Izzy's lapse in attention
bluffing (of a sort that's so ridiculous it's plausible it's not bluffing);
the weirdest staredown ever;
testimony from both hostages that Stede is "quite insane" and "has the eyes of a madman";
and willingness to negotiate a compromise.
Stede regains a hostage basically by flummoxing and unsettling his opponents. I think we can call that a fuckery! And the last part of the plan is to run like hell back to the Revenge.
Lord help Stede if anyone in-universe ever figures out that his pattern is "do something deeply weird and then get the hell out of there." But it's worked really well for him and his crew so far!
( Fits right into what one of the next memory chapters is gonna be…)
Alternative title: Heaven meets her grand uncle that no one speaks about only to find that he’s a literal murderer! Maybe don’t turn the ball pit into a Time Machine…
I hope today has been better *gives you a lollipop*
Today has been better, thanks for asking! (and for the lollipop!)
part of what was going on yesterday was stress about an audition this evening, but I got through it okay. I messed up my lines a bit but other than that I think I did pretty good? I'm just glad I'm past it though. I have done an audition in forever and it was more nerve wracking than usual because of that, I think.
i’m going to be so honest and you can’t hate me. if the other classics students i work with were more enigmatic and pretentious* as the stereotype goes i think i would be a lot more committed to my classics studies