it was fuckin’ kinda gauche

I still have to receive the bluray burner & a few other things BUT look at the covers I did and how good they look on a shelf!

I do hope that we get the real thing eventually, but in the meantime I'm obsessed with these.

My top Izzy hilarious moments:

Of course, crawling away after his leg snaps going "you're born alone you die alone," absolute wet cat behavior

Yelling at the unicorn figurehead

How Con's acting choice for "Izzy crying" was "stare blankly and whimper loudly"

When he tries to be cool in s2e5 but he ends up saying shit like "a curse is a curse...and when it takes hold...it takes hold?" and "we gotta get out of here, it reeks of...dead priests"

complaining at length to Spanish Jackie in s1 while she looks entirely fed up with his nonsense. "then bonnet comes along and he's like, ooh, blackbeard, i love your hair, your beard, and all that" lives in my head.

The whole "ooh daddy" thing and how it's both completely baffling and absolutely integral to his character

The way he doesn't even fucking try to catch the sandwich Roach throws at his head

I never see anyone mention this one but I absolutely love how when Stede challenges Zheng to a fight in s2e7 you can hear Izzy go "oh Bonnet no" in the most distressed voice ever

And maybe this is just a me thing, since I’m not that much younger than them, as I approach my 42nd birthday next week, but I’m not old. I mean, I’m not a kid, but I barely even feel like an adult most days.

And yes, I do know that for a pirate in those days, 48 or so would have been considered ancient. I know the real Blackbeard died in his mid to late 30s and Stede Bonnet at 30. But that’s reality, and OFMD is not supposed to resemble reality. If it did, it would be a very different show.

Anyway, I’m not having a go here, and maybe to younger fans they really do look like two decrepit, ancient, old men, or maybe people are just joking around, but more likely this just seems a bit like a byproduct of the film and TV industry’s obsession with youth. I think people are surprised (not in a bad way, just pleasantly surprised) to see people not in their 20s depicted as being in love, and having sex, and all those things that we’ve been indirectly told for years can only happen up to a certain age. And then to see it in a queer romance too, that just makes it stand out all the more, and compared to a lot of the other media people see, these characters do seem older. Because they are.

So I think what I’m saying isn’t, “Hey, stop calling them old!”, which I guess you’re welcome to do if you really must, it’s more something along the lines of, “It shouldn’t be unusual to see these kinds of relationships, and if it was more normalised then maybe people wouldn’t think they were old.”

STEDE & EDWARD + kisses

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