DEAD BOY DETECTIVES INCORRECT QUOTES!!! (CRYSTAL EDITION)

*comes back 91 days later to nic having gone stir crazy* (not really)

happy for you! hoping for the best! i believe in you and will try to remember to send u asks while you are away. i’ll miss seeing u on my feed. good luck soldier (literally) 🫶🏼🫡🖖🏼

Mazzy's Log: 41525.12 (Very Important)

Hi all, it's been quite a while since I've made a log, but this time it's very important. I've been debating with myself on when to send this out but I figured now or never because it's never easy talking about this.

At the time I'm writing this, I have been enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for 4 weeks. I have been dedicating myself to writing, creating fan graphics, reading fanfics, and enjoying the friends I have made in fandom as much as possible before my ship date: May 5th. I was entered into the Delayed Entry Program so I could physically and mentally ready myself to become a Marine and make something honorable of myself, hence why I haven't been quite as active "creatively" as I'd like to be -- writing fics, creating album covers, etc.

After I ship, I will have absolutely no contact with the outside world for 13 weeks straight. 91 days. Three months. Except for letters to friends and family. Afterwards will come ten days of boot leave before my orders are given. I don't entirely know what exactly the military will have in store for me, but it's quite likely I will be active even less so than I currently am and it pains me so because you've all been so wonderful. I love the idea of being in the Trek fandom while on active duty and serving as an example of what Trek has done for people and providing some insight to military life since the show is based off of the rank structure of officers in the Navy.

For the time being, I will do my best to get out a fic or two before I ship off. And hell, it'd be funny if I was doing a chaptered fic and came out with a new chapter after three months with an author's note going "hey, sorry, I was at Marine bootcamp anyway here's Kirk and Spock making out".

While I'm gone after May 5th, please feel free to send fun stuff in my ask box so I can have something to look forward to when I come home and open my laptop. Just to like, keep the blog alive or something. It's a weird sentimental thing with me, haha. It can be anything: fics, fanart, Star Trek news, memes, even non-Star Trek stuff, just have fun with it. Obviously, no sending hate or criticism for my decision to join the military, I've heard it all already.

I love you all. LLAP.

With vermillion love, MAZARINE A.S.C.

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 they’re around him, live in a Muppet movie. I didn’t come up with this analogy but it’s 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 Stede’s world, where everyone is busy having silly low-stakes misadventures and being gay and emotionally available all over the main text–and seeing his Subtextual Boyfriend go into this world and love it–sends him round the twist.

The British, Spanish and other imperialist militaries are in a Master and Commander-style naval adventure where they’re 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. (“Did you mean to do that?”) He didn’t realize until that moment that he’d stepped into a different genre. The stabbing is one of the first Surprise Genre Switch moments we get and in retrospect it’s very important for setting up that in this world, the threat of getting hurt or killed is very real–which 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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reblog to donate your breasts to phil lester. i’m sure he wants them more than most of his fanbase.

Hey remember how last night Phil said he wanted double G's?

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bill why are you touching him like that???

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.. it’s giving flamboyant dude. i’m 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 they’re new to me and i’m obsessed)

link:

Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.

Stumbling upon a Star Trek: TOS post that isn’t some stupid fuck jerking off to Kirk and Spock as a couple is like finding $20 on the sidewalk.

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.

ed “no one has ever allowed me to just be myself” teach and stede “no one has ever loved me for who i am” bonnet finding love together is something that can be so personal

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