Bones & Spones

Only one bed

Stuck in the rain

Lost in the woods

Among Us style mystery killer paranoia

Fake marriage

Kidnapped (every conceivable way possible)

Crying over your hospital bed

Camping

Stranded on an island

Stranded in Antarctica

Using my clothes to cover/warm you up

Terminal illness

Quarantined together

“I’m keeping your [sentimental item] safe until I get you back”

*can’t go 2 hours without calling you*

Pizza & movie nights

Attending work functions together

I went back in time and you were there

We have to strip to check each other for ominous skin abnormalities

Wrote you love letters

New Year’s kiss

Spent my holiday on a case with you

Cleaning each other’s wounds

*wipes your face when you got food on it*

Road trip

Undercover together

Stake outs

Instinctually reaches out for you

I can recognize you even if I can’t see your face

Even brainwashed, I refuse to hurt you

Literal soulmates

Secret relationship

Our Flag Means everything ❤

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Fans turned up for OFMD and viewer numbers exceeded expectations, by all accounts the viewership for the show was beyond excellent. The cast delivered amazing performances. The writers and crew had to work with a drastically reduced budget and fewer episodes and still gave us an amazing second season. Critic and audience review scores for the show are excellent. The show didn't just succeed but blew away expectations on every count, and it should've been enough to guarantee a renewal, and in the end no amount of excellence would have prevented this because it was (in all likelihood) down to WB execs throwing a tantrum because OFMD isn't an IP that can be milked indefinitely.

Stede is not disgusted by his wife. He tries to be a good husband and father and is terrible at it because he's a repressed gay man and also he wants badly to be understood and doesn't know how to express that. But we see him try to relate to Mary, and we see moments where they were happy (playing with their children, having dinner). At no point does Stede dislike Mary; he's just not a heterosexual man. They're friends, and are even to finally play together, at the end because they're able to understand each other, finally.

And this carries on throughout. There's zero misogyny at play. The few jokes about Jim when they're revealed to not be a man are written as silly and superstitious, not misogynist, and are pretty quickly put to rest. Spanish Jackie, Archie, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Zheng, and Auntie are all respected by Stede, Ed, and the rest of the Revenge crew and zero issue is made of their being women.

The show clearly and closely relates homophobia and misogyny. The people who are misogynist or use misogynist language - Calico Jack, Izzy, the Badmintons - are the antagonists. They're the ones who think being female or perceived as feminine is a bad thing. They use misogynist language to describe or dismiss Stede, Ed, and Lucius especially. And while Stede and Ed both have issues about their masculinity, at no point do they think that being female is a bad or shameful thing.