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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.

happy Thursday the 20th

phil lester is the only capitalist i respect

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gonna be testing the “ill listen to anything” mfs with this one

ok so not only was i right about the dibs nickname for years but i literally fail to see how this is anything other than dan calls phil moon nickname confirmation. im going crazy. guys am i crazy for this. someone tell me im not crazy.

EVERYBODY GO WATCH DEAD BOY DETECTIVES. RIGHT NOW. PLEASE. HONESTLY THE BEST SHOW I HAVE EVER SEEN. FOAMING AT THE MOUTH. GOING ABSOLUTELY BATSHIT OFF THE WALLS CRAZY. IF ANYTHING EVER HAPPENED TO THEM ID KILL EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM AND THEN MYSELF. IM NORMAL. NORMAL AND AVERAGE DEAD BOY DETECTIVES LIKER. ANYWAY GO WATCH IT!!! IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!! (FOR THE BETTER)

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im addicted to making these 🫶🏼

a love letter to the terrible influence tour

i saw dan and phil a month ago today and that night was so incredibly special that i made a comic about it

SPOCK: CHILD OF TWO WORLDS