Its Actually Kind Of Funny To Think About The Fact That Stede Didnt Know He Was Gay. Because Bestie Ur

Y’all I love the dynamic in episode 5 so much…

One of the reasons I love ofmd is because Ed and Stede are both repressed in ways that are inherently exclusive to queer men but in completely different ways. It makes the way they learn from each other so interesting and informs what they need from each other.

Stede’s able to present himself in a way that reads as queer by modern standards his whole life because of his aristocratic status, but he doesn’t want it. (And yes modern standards matter in a historical fiction show that has lines like “ew, lame” 😂). His whole life he’s been blamed by everyone in his life for not being “man” enough, not being able to even fake it till he makes it. The fact that his queerness is worn on his sleeve at all times with only the virtue of period typical straight obliviousness keeping him hidden makes it so he almost kind of has a “been there done that” attitude about it. After all, it only ever lead to bad things.

Meanwhile Blackbeard is the exact masculine ideal Stede thinks he (himself) should be, and he doesn’t want that. Ed’s the perfect definition of a “real man” but it’s something he was forced to hastily toss up like a wall for defense decades ago without actually considering what makes him feel like himself. He lights up at the promise of colorful fancy clothes, he likes being soft and kind of ridiculous, he wants to be the one who’s wooed by someone he likes. But he can’t ever really have an outlet for those things because he accidentally became the literal poster child of traditional masculinity. (It’s the classic “ran into the closet so hard you broke through the wall and don’t even know where tf you are now” lol)

So what happens in episode 5?

Ed let’s Stede “save the day” instead of him which culminates in a ship on fire (peak swash buckling), and Stede let’s Ed stand under the moonlight and basically hear that he’s pretty.

DEAD BOY DETECTVES INCORRECT QUOTES!!! (EDWIN EDITION)

there are so many of him because i'm an edwin relator and also he is SOOOO TUMBLRCODED. he would be a tumblr user and also say all these things. or at least think them. (credit to these tumblr users as well <3)

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but this time it’s dan and phil.

do you think they had a situationship?

hi sherlock and co gang

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concept: season three episode eleven of TOS where kirk and spock are sped up, but mccoys counteragent to slow them down doesn’t work.

they’re stuck on the enterprise together for years in their perceived time all alone with the rest of the crew in near suspended animation.

spirk ensues.

they finally find a way back and they’re like literally married and the entire crew is like. what the fuck??

Guys for the love of fuck can we please stop treating queer rep like a competition? And yes this is 100% about that cringe ass ask someone sent Neil Gaiman.

hey!!!! so i finished the fic!!!!!!

here it is everyone, my child, my first ever trek fic. i hope you enjoy it throughly!

shoutout also to my beta reader @mazarinememories !!

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concept: season three episode eleven of TOS where kirk and spock are sped up, but mccoys counteragent to slow them down doesn’t work.

they’re stuck on the enterprise together for years in their perceived time all alone with the rest of the crew in near suspended animation.

spirk ensues.

they finally find a way back and they’re like literally married and the entire crew is like. what the fuck??

‘Dead Boy Detectives deserves a new streaming home and a second chance at life’

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