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tuningspork · 1 month
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the thing about brokeback mountain is that Ennis wanted to survive but Jack wanted to live. and can you blame them? you can't blame either of them
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tuningspork · 3 months
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tuningspork · 3 months
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Bittersweet Thomas Barrow moments that make me want to smile and cry at the same time
Andy apologizing to Thomas when Thomas offers to teach him how to read - I think this is one of the few honest apologies Thomas has ever received.
Master George gifting Thomas an orange after his attempt - I mean, how can you not love this?
Cora thanking Thomas for rescuing Edith from the fire (literally one of the only times the family genuinely thanked him).
Robert realizing that Thomas, after all, is just as a human being with feelings, emotions and pain as everyone else.
Phyllis being genuinely concerned for Thomas in S5 and constantly asking him if he's alright and not giving in, even though he shakes her questions off everytime.
Phyllis not asking questions about 'choose your own path' but instead instantly understands and takes him to the doctor right away.
Richard asking Thomas out for a date multiple times (in the ''swan on the lake' scene, in this deleted scene at the servant's table and after the prank, making sure, he knows where Thomas will show up).
These two absolute legends at Turtons who whistled after Thomas, trying to flirt with him (underrated queens).
The moment Phyllis realized that what Thomas meant with 'he hopes, Joseph would make more of his life than Thomas has ever made of his.'
Mary visiting Thomas after his attempt, asking him how he is doing.
Richard gifting Thomas the pendant and Thomas looking like he's in a dream - the first time I saw this man speechless.
Mrs. Hughes comforting Thomas in the pouring rain in S3 after he got fired and basically kicked out of the house.
Thomas standing up for himself when Carson called him 'revolted' and 'foul'.
Phyllis basically encouraging Thomas to go on a date with Richard.
Every Thomas + children interaction.
Thomas talking and comforting Edward Courtenay in S2.
Thomas asking Richard if they want to be friends... FRIENDS...
I could think of so many more but I think that's enough for now. Thanks for listening to this completely unnecessary list.
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tuningspork · 3 months
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I like how Thomas Barrow’s apology/reconciliation language is offering tea and toast. This man has footmanisms embedded so deep he can no longer escape them, but he will gladly, without resentment, use his skills to serve the people he cares about.
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tuningspork · 5 months
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one of the main reasons i love ofmd is the unapologetic queer joy they show us. there's not a single moment where the drama revolves around a character's "coming out" moment. there's no need to accept or reject anyone for what they identify as. like, for fuck's sake, there have been so many moments in the show where they explicitly tell us, "hey, this is us, take it or leave it." no explanations, no justifications—just pure, unfiltered representation. it truly drives in the point that at the end of the day, queer people are also just simply people.
as much as i appreciate the abundance of queer representation we're getting now, i cannot emphasize how much a show like ofmd means to me. i am begging more companies to do what ofmd is doing and just show queer people living as boring old fucking people instead of as victims. take us beyond existing as an educational tool or a plot device. show queer people being people, and we'll stop being victims.
"kill me. kill us all. our spirit will last throughout your entire fսckin' empire because... we're good." you know what this show teaches us? that queer people are resilient as fuck, and that whatever we may have been told, shown, and made to believe about our queerness is wrong. we're good. we continue to be good despite the hardships we face. despite all the shit our elders and trailblazers have gone through from the beginning. despite the political landscapes of today that continue to try to strip us of our dignity and rights. we still exist and we will continue to exist—as people first, and victims last.
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tuningspork · 5 months
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I really appreciate that a section the fandom seems to have embraced the psychological horror of Ed & Stede's Haunted Inn
Stede abandoned a wife and children for the freedom of the sea, and found a new family. He has given up both for a life on land with an unstable lover, always looking for a reason to bolt at the first sign of trouble. His dignity as a captain has been replaced by the placid facade required for customer service (and his lover's peace of mind).
Ed is a murderer and torturer. He is wracked by guilt but unable to make true amends: the mangled body one of the two men that ever loved him lies buried as a monument to his brutality. He ricochets from identity to identity in hopes of finding peace, but the monster is inside him. All he has his Stede. If he loses that, or thinks he does, he'll drag them to the bottom of the sea.
Izzy has been denied a burial at sea, unable to escape Ed's clutches even in death, his golden leg amputated from his body. All that was good in Izzy Hands has gone to better places. All that remains is pain, jealousy, fear, and hate. He has been trapped with the two men who took everything from him. Now he will take everything back.
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tuningspork · 5 months
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something something about buttons and izzy both being first mates and their existence somehow reinforcing both stede and eds roles as pirate captains, something about how that means that they both needed to go for ed and stede to truly leave piracy behind, something about that above all a first mate should always be loyal to their captain and that even though they have both left this world, izzy and buttons are still there with their captains at the end of it all
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tuningspork · 5 months
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"killing off izzy after he went through all this growth and finally got to be happy means all that healing was for nothing"
goddamn that is a bleak way to look at life. we all die, man. healing is still worth the effort.
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tuningspork · 5 months
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"I want complex queer characters!!!" Some of you can't even handle Izzy Hands
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tuningspork · 5 months
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Finished Mary Shelly's Frankenstein recently so here's some of my fave quotes
"Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for your enemies"
"But his affection for me at length overcame his dislike of learning…"
"He can no longer be subject to pity; we must reserve that for his miserable survivors"
"I wept like a child. 'dear mountains! My own beautiful lake! How do you welcome your wanderer? Your summits are clear; the sky and lake are blue and placid. Is this to prognosticate peace, or to mock at my unhappiness?"
"Thus I might proclaim myself a madman"
"Sleep fled from my eyes; I wandered like an evil spirit, for I had committed deeds of mischief beyond description, horrible, and more, much more (I persuaded myself) was yet behind. Yet my heart overflowed with kindness, and the love of virtue"
"This advice, although good, was totally inapplicable to my case…"
"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock."
"You are my creator, but I am your master- obey!"
"Villain! Before you sign my death-warrant, be sure that you are yourself safe'
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tuningspork · 5 months
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do you like jegulus or do you like the notion that someone could love someone so wholly, that they could peel back the layers meant to never be peeled and look past everything someone has done to see who they truly are and love them for that?
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tuningspork · 6 months
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I have so many thoughts but I at least want to address the "for the new unicorn" note. because first of all it's so incredibly gratifying for izzy to finally be accepted into a community. it was shown before that the crew cares for him in some way but it was the first time he really saw that. that he isn't useless and alone, that he still has a place on the ship. even more so the crew WANTS HIM to be on the ship. and also that they want him to embrace his disability which doesn't make them think any less of him.
but also the choice of words. because inherently it rings queer, unicorn as a symbol of queerness. and even if it may have a negative sound when you use it differently here it is extremely positive. izzy is not only accepted to the crew, he's also accepted to the queer community, to the family. the unicorn on the revenge was also the one that was leading the ship, so one can argue that they want him to take that role in their dynamic.
and you can see that he does so immediately. he puts himself together and starts helping the crew. he's still bitchy but no longer violent and cruel. he helps stede and lucius immensely because that is what he does now. he's part of the family. twat.
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tuningspork · 6 months
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tragic gay people holding hands make me go feral
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I can’t stop staring at this, goooddddd gay peoples hands make me FEEL THINGS, jesus
also I thought I couldn’t draw hands but these are good haha
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tuningspork · 6 months
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Izzy lying to Stede saying he stabbed his painting to spare his feelings and make him think Ed was still a good person and didn't want to cause him any harm while being in unimaginable pain and barely conscious from having a limb amputated without any anesthesia all after being the reason they basically broke up in the first place. little man, you are so weird I want to study you under a microscope
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tuningspork · 6 months
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the fact that of the two men who love edward teach the most one is described as an 'indestructible little fucker' while the other refuses to give up on him even in the face of mounting horrors. something, something. love enduring.
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tuningspork · 6 months
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stede saying "i'm afraid to see you. i'm afraid that your life is better without me" when ed is literally ending his life because he's lost the hope stede brought into his existence...stede being the light in ed's darkness...stede begging him to live and showing ed he matters and he is loved and someone out there believes in him and wants him around...i'll be here cryin all day lads
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tuningspork · 6 months
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don't you understand he literally brought Ed back to life with his love, he gives Ed a reason to love and live because deep down, even at his lowest Ed knows that it's not true that there's no one waiting for him - Stede will always wait for him, Stede will always offer him his friendship even after he tells him his most shameful secret oh god oh fuck
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