sobbing actual tears š„ŗ
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.
Stedeās able to present himself in a way that reads as queer by modern standards his whole life because of his aristocratic status, but he doesnāt want it. (And yes modern standards matter in a historical fiction show that has lines like āew, lameā š). His whole life heās been blamed by everyone in his life for not being āmanā 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 ābeen there done thatā 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 doesnāt want that. Edās the perfect definition of a āreal manā but itās 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 whoās wooed by someone he likes. But he canāt ever really have an outlet for those things because he accidentally became the literal poster child of traditional masculinity. (Itās the classic āran into the closet so hard you broke through the wall and donāt even know where tf you are nowā lol)
So what happens in episode 5?
Ed letās Stede āsave the dayā instead of him which culminates in a ship on fire (peak swash buckling), and Stede letās Ed stand under the moonlight and basically hear that heās pretty.
Netflix make dead boy detectives season 2 happen pretty please
mfs look like they in a badly photoshopped fan edit what on earth.
taken from this gas ass clip:
full interview and some thoughts from me below!
first of all, shatners suit is⦠so .. the purple.. itās giving flamboyant dude. iām obsessed. sorry to say it.
second of all, bro⦠why are you holding him like you just married the man. cut it out! or stop being a coward and just kiss him on the mouth already. smh.
(also yes i will continue to post these interview moments as i find them because theyāre new to me and iām obsessed)
link:
Star Trek sexuality headcannons below cut
People complaining about Lockwood and Co in AAALLLLL the Dead Boy Detectives posts on YouTube and Instagram, and alllll the complaining and speculating in the DEAD BOY DETECTIVES tags.
PLEASE please stop. Iām SORRY about your show. Iām sorry it was cancelled.
Dead Boy Detectives is a property that ties into The Sandman, was created decades before the Lockwood books, and is based on Neil Gaiman characters.
Thereās a lot of reason for us to be happy and excited and Iām here in these tags to celebrate THIS show.
Complain to NETFLIX via direct message, tags, DMs, tweets whatever but can you PLEASE let us be excited for THIS show?
oh he 10000000% would be an abba listener. jim kirk would blast angeleyes on the bridge and i just know that for a fact. maybe thatāll be what i edit next š¤£
im so glad you understand my vision. thank you.
is this anything? i find it hilarious. i was just minding my business when this exact scene appeared behind my eyes and in my ears. i hope i did it justice and at least one person finds it as funny as i did.
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 !!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/64328155
iām gonna tag people here if you commented on the original post, obviously if you want your name removed feel free to reply or message me!!!
@rowlev @pipthecow @non-main-branch @pre-raphaelite-s @dat-carovieh @mmmerlenoir @justhugsplz
concept: season three episode eleven of TOS where kirk and spock are sped up, but mccoys counteragent to slow them down doesnāt work.
theyāre 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 theyāre like literally married and the entire crew is like. what the fuck??
While we like to joke about Izzy being in the wrong genre, I would argue that there are in fact at least five distinct genre universes in the world of Our Flag Means Death, and all of them have different rules.
Stede Bonnet, and his crew when theyāre around him, live in a Muppet movie. I didnāt come up with this analogy but itās so accurate. Insane physical comedy and comedy-action where no one really gets hurt. Mild peril but you know everything is gonna work out. Terrible puns and sight gags, but room for sweet, genuine emotional moments too. The rules of time, space, probability and logic will bend for a good joke.
Izzy Hands is in a grimdark action/drama where if someone gets stabbed in the gut they will behave normally and fucking die. (Probably slowly and painfully, of sepsis.) Crucially I think Izzy also lives in a genre where you can only be subtextually queer, and violence (done for or with or to each other) is the only acceptable form of intimacy between men. This is why being forcibly dragged into Stedeās world, where everyone is busy having silly low-stakes misadventures and being gay and emotionally available all over the main textāand seeing his Subtextual Boyfriend go into this world and love itāsends him round the twist.
The British, Spanish and other imperialist militaries are in a Master and Commander-style naval adventure where theyāre the heroes. This is why they all take it completely seriously when Stede (unintentionally) kills Badminton and takes hostages, even though we can see that he bumbled his way into it ass-backwards. This is also why Stede is so shocked to get actually for real stabbed aboard the Spanish ship. (āDid you mean to do that?ā) He didnāt realize until that moment that heād stepped into a different genre. The stabbing is one of the first Surprise Genre Switch moments we get and in retrospect itās very important for setting up that in this world, the threat of getting hurt or killed is very realāwhich we need to understand to know that there are real stakes much later, when Stede almost gets executed by the British.
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Steve is at Eddie's gig.
Is he:
a) jealous
b) protective
c) touch starved
(the answer is all three)
this is the one iām writing presently !
āWell thatās probably not good. Jim thinks to himself, gulping.ā - she spock my jim till i spirk
(NOT THE FINAL NAME LMAO I JUST CANT TAKE THINGS IN MY DOCS SERIOUSLY)
presenting... random titles in my google docs for star trek fics im writing (+ a line from the fic) without context
Jim blinked. āSpock, Iām not about to pimp you out to these guys.ā
Uhura was the first to get it, eyebrows hiking up in delight and surprise. āOh my god, Spock you dog!ā
"Just what the hell are you doin' to him, Jim?"
"Nothing he didn't ask me to!"
McCoy rolled his eyes. āOh please,ā he scoffed. āBring out your whips and chains and do your fucking worst. Really? Thatās the bargaining chip you went for? Newsflash, moron, heās not gonnaāā
āYouāre alright darlināā The endearment slipped from his lips faster than he could process it. He tensed, waiting for a sharp retort. It never came. Instead, he felt Spockās chest rumble slightly against his own, a deep thrum that made him bite his tongue to keep from laughing with glee when he realized where it was coming from.Ā
Spock was purring.
she/they/he - i say funny things about my special interests sometimes dan and phil - star trek - superwholock
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