OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH 2x06 Calypso's Birthday

THOU ART LISTENING TO

*fireball explosion*

102.3

*bubbling cauldron*

REAL WIZARDS FM

*shimmering mana crystal*

WHERE WE PLAYETH NOTHING BUT CHANTS, CHANTS, AND MORE CHANTS

*wololo*

THIS ART NOT THINE ELDER MATRIARCH'S STATION

Ed is played by a 48 year old actor so he's a bit younger but still gen x, same as Con, Ed uses a mobility aid (the knee brace), and Ed is textually a queer man and the entire story is about his same sex relationship.

If you say that Izzy is the only older disabled queer on the show you are just fucking lying.

Oh fuck me @sabra-n is right. The only disabled crew member played by a disabled actor!!!! (Wee John is played by a disabled actor but the show does not indicate that he has chronic pain in any way)

I feel so stupid dude. This whole hiatus I've been yelling about how if you really want a guy who had a toxic masculinity problem but then got good dick and decided he was ok with being soft now you would be a Black Pete Stan but you can't handle a guy who's disabled and bald. And then when push came to shove I totally forgot.

I think the question of why he likes her is pretty easily answered—look at everything about her, all of tumblr was in love with her after 3 episodes. So when this amazing, brilliant woman is interested in him—yay! Why not? Oluwande is first choice material and knows it he deserves to have the Queen of China in love with him!

And when he tells Jim he’s going with her, in the back of his mind it’s a little bit “yeah and you and your gf can stay on the Revenge and watch the captains break-up for the fifteenth time.” He’s making a decision for himself. Compare that to him telling the Chief “I’ve got someone on the ship”.

The S1 context is that Jim left Olu for their revenge quest, they were distracted and impulsive, dragging him into Spanish Jackie's and courting danger when he tried to pull them away. And yes, Jim came back, they chose Olu - and don't get me wrong I loved their s1 relationship and kind of mourn it. But it was a dynamic where Jim was leading and Olu was following.

They'd also been separated a while by s2, and things happen. They remain loyal to one another like family but the passion is maybe cooling off. (Also they probably think one another is dead). And then when they do reunite, Jim has kind of moved on, romantically, and yet again Olu is just following them.

On the background of all that, having someone as awesome as Zheng say - "you were the break in my day" - must be kind of a revelation. And Olu literally says, "I've never been the break in someone's day before."

Even though he and Zheng weren't on the same page when he was on the Red Flag, once Olu is with Jim and Archie on the Revenge and seeing their bond, I can totally see how Zheng's words and sentiment would percolate in the ol' thinkbox. If anything, Zheng is memorable. It's plausible that Olu would think about her, turn their interactions over in his mind, recognise that he was being appreciated in a way he hasn't been before, and ultimately develop feelings that then lead to their reconciliation. As Jim says, he thinks of Zheng often.