Icon from a picrew by grgikau. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
ugh now i’m just thinking about ed and stede and how much they put each other on these ridiculous pedestals in the EXACT SAME WAY and it’s both sweet and so, so dumb.
because in the same way post-chauncey stede is like “ed’s the coolest person i’ve ever met! he is so pretty and smart and preeeetttty and oh no, i am not worth his love i must retire to the west and plague him no longer!!!!” and post-izzy ed is like “stede’s the fanciest person i’ve ever met! he is so pretty and smart and preeeetttty and oh no, i am not worth his love i must enter my rep era and Be The Kraken because if he doesn’t love me no one will!!!!”
both relatable, both key to their adjacent key insecurities, both Big Beautiful Dummies
no. fuckin. notes.
realtalk now that ed chucked all stede’s old life’s material baggage (other than the painting and that one picture of blackbeard, which i very much want stede to throw overboard as he tells ed he’s not much interested in the legend of blackbeard, he came back for ED) i am craving s2 as a journey of these two men learning who they are as separate people, together?
because that’s what the world denied them BOTH. who are we without their rules and boxes, in our hearts. that’s something neither one have actually gotten to ask yet, even if stede’s return to mary and the kindness she gave him in exchange for genuine amends sees him in a steadier place to start the journey.
it’s got to be different paths, different roads to authenticity, but they can just… walk them, joyfully, next to each other.
maybe touching boots every other step.
So every ship I have gets a playlist and they all contain the same song: Run by Snow Patrol. Then a fun exercise I do is determine their “Run by Snow Patrol Moment(s)”
