Stumbling Upon A Star Trek: TOS Post That Isn’t Some Stupid Fuck Jerking Off To Kirk And Spock As A

sobbing actual tears 🥺

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.

really thankful dr mccoy goes by "bones" so we can call his ship with Spock "spones" and not "spleonard"

SPOCK: CHILD OF TWO WORLDS

mike wheeler in flip flops will never not be hilarious

theres something so beautiful about phannies on tumblr. like. yeah. you go on a rant about incredibly niche thoughts about your faves. i wanna read it. im reading it and enjoying it. are you deranged? yes. but you’re speaking your truth mama and im sat.

do i personally believe half the theories ab dnp 2.0?? no but being insane with you guys and letting people on the internet engage the idea part of myself that is also crazy is so wonderful. i cant help but feel so endeared. i love u guys. i love u guys sm. keep talking ily.

hi sherlock and co gang

sapphster ftw check me out on ao3 i wrote that one fic ab john and sherlock playing minecraft

i love the s&co discord fr

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DEAD BOY DETECTIVES INCORRECT QUOTES!!! (ASSORTMENT) this show is everything to me. their dynamics. <3 bonus!!!

(credit to anyone i accidentally stole screenshots from and also the tumblr users pictured) <3

this mental image hit me like a truck and i had no choice but to make it real

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.

ao3 come back bbg i was READING i was INVESTED how am i supposed to procrastinate my coursework without spirk fanfic 😔

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