aha-my-villainous-thoughts:

“My love, what are you doing?”

“This is mine,”

“Darling, we agreed to share this robe, you must be patient-”

“I wasn’t talking about the robe.”

“Oh! Lucius, you can go, thank you - oh, love, wait! Patience!”

“Absolutely not.”

xxx

Another ‘quick’ sketch that got away from me… lil saucepots are a bad influence on me

I’ve decided Stede’s matching stab wound from their reunion happens to be heart shaped, and Ed finds this pretty funny. He even added the little stick n poke arrow, just so Stede remembers whose heart he has in his hands.

racketghost:

Thinking about how so much of season one is just a happy accident. Stede wants to become a pirate and he ends up with this crew just by happenstance. He doesn’t understand what piracy really entails. He kills Badminton on accident, twice. He goes into everything fumbling and naive. Ed finds him and falls in love with him by accident. There’s nothing deliberate about any of it. He wasn’t expecting to find this bizarre little man in the middle of the ocean with his fireplace surrounded by books on a wooden vessel and he wasn’t expecting to fall in love with it. He wasn’t expecting to hear “you wear fine things well” and Stede wasn’t expecting it to mean so much. They keep stumbling into each other and pressing on parts of themselves they were never sure were okay to lean into.

and I think, I hope, that the second season has the reverse of that. we already see it at the end: with Stede being deliberate about his choice, finally. He deliberately gives up his wealth and goes into piracy knowing what it means. He deliberately chooses his crew. He is going to have to be deliberate about loving Ed, choosing Ed. He’s going to have to look at his life and choose all of it for any of it to work: the violence and the poverty and the family and the love.

And I’m sure that Ed, who has already chosen, already been deliberate about loving Stede in those final episodes, is going to have a steel-lock on his emotions. So Stede is going to have to woo him on purpose. Break down those walls he cracked already on accident but this time again with intent. Once more with feeling. Once more with purpose. After all love is so often falling in love with the accidental and sticking around for the intentional.

Because at the end of the day choice is the important thing, no matter what lucky stars led you to it in the first place.

dumb-droid:

y e s

ghostdrinkssoup:

underrated moment in ofmd is when stede flashes back to ed threatening their hostage with a knife while mary is trying to explain what falling in love is like and we just hear him distantly screaming thenextonegoesthroughyourFUCKINGHEAD over the piano instrumental

lookitsstevie:

an anchor and a skewer (happy marriage to my dear friend)

I have found Izzy’s song

chaosemporium:

Oluwande Boodhari is amazing. He talked his crewmates out of mutiny for the sake of a bedtime story. He helped his work friend go into hiding after killing their boss’s husband. He poured boiling tea on a man’s crotch. He threw a rock at the crewmate of one of history’s most bloodthirsty pirates. He wears crocs in 1717. He was bullied into being captain for approximately 3 hours. He helped invent the world’s first pyramid scheme. He plays drums maybe? He keeps his beanie on during sex. He’s incredible. He’s my best friend.