He’s Soooooooooo Me (I’m Drinking Hot Chocolate)

Love how Ed plans to use Stede’s mangled corpse to free himself from piracy and Stede ends up using a mangled corpse to free himself from the part of the world he doesn’t want to be in anymore

Gender is stored in the flat chest, cropped hoodie

I’ve seen and heard a lot of people saying they didn’t understand why Stede went back to Mary but listen. Just minutes before, we see Chauncey telling him that he messes up everything he does. Of course we know it’s not the best idea to go back. We know that it actually makes things worse— for him, for Mary, for Ed, for pretty much everyone but Izzy. But he doesn’t know that yet. Stede doesn’t know that him “ruining” things actually made them better for people. So he does the one thing he thinks will fix it. He goes back to Mary. This should fix his marriage, make his children happy, get Ed back to being the most fearsome pirate ever. Stede likes to do what he thinks is best for people… he’s just wrong a lot of the time

You know when you see someone do something and you don’t think it should be embarrassing but you know if you did it you’d be embarrassed but you’re not gonna say that because you don’t want them to feel embarrassed because there’s literally no reason they should be?

#our fuh mn duh #possibly our fuh mn death #just depends on the day

I am very careful about making sure that my sound is all the way off when I open apps just in case, so why is it that, with the sound all the way down, Spotify thought it a good idea to blast the Inside soundtrack at 7:30 in the morning?

Who was going to tell me Crowley wears gold nail polish in heaven?????

I don’t keep up much with the Olympics, but every time I see someone got sick, or fell, or got hurt, or whatever, I just feel so bad. These people have worked so hard for so long, and some of them might never get another chance ):

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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