Okay But The Thing Is We Don’t Talk About The Moonlight Scene ENOUGH. Like Yes, It’s Obviously One

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putting this gif under a box propped up with a stick in order to capture bisexuals

You know you’re in Texas when the restrooms of the banquet hall connect to the rodeo next door

Me every time a new song comes on at my first day of work since season 2: oh! It Is Them!

Buttons and Izzy are BFFs I don’t make the rules

Every time I think that I’m actually not that into journaling I somehow add another place to journal and this has now brought me up to three journaling destinations

My government teacher was trying to get us to debate controversial topics in class today (just for fun y’know) and he was looking at his list and was like “now this is too controversial” and of course we all had to know what it was. So he finally gave in. “Is gender a social construct? Is it malleable?” (Something like that) Everyone in that class just said “yes.” There was no debate. Anyone who disagreed didn’t say anything.

I’m mostly staying off tumblr right now for fear of good omens season 2 spoilers, but that means that instead of this being a constant thought, it is now only about once a day that I get hit with the sudden and unavoidable sadness that is remembering there is no ofmd season 2 release date yet

You ever notice something about someone because it looks like a feature on someone else but why did you notice it on either of them? Because I can think of two people who have the exactly same set of teeth. There’s a ratness to them

While we like to joke about Izzy being in the wrong genre, I would argue that there are in fact at least five distinct genre universes in the world of Our Flag Means Death, and all of them have different rules.

Stede Bonnet, and his crew when they’re around him, live in a Muppet movie. I didn’t come up with this analogy but it’s so accurate. Insane physical comedy and comedy-action where no one really gets hurt. Mild peril but you know everything is gonna work out. Terrible puns and sight gags, but room for sweet, genuine emotional moments too. The rules of time, space, probability and logic will bend for a good joke.

Izzy Hands is in a grimdark action/drama where if someone gets stabbed in the gut they will behave normally and fucking die. (Probably slowly and painfully, of sepsis.) Crucially I think Izzy also lives in a genre where you can only be subtextually queer, and violence (done for or with or to each other) is the only acceptable form of intimacy between men. This is why being forcibly dragged into Stede’s world, where everyone is busy having silly low-stakes misadventures and being gay and emotionally available all over the main text–and seeing his Subtextual Boyfriend go into this world and love it–sends him round the twist.

The British, Spanish and other imperialist militaries are in a Master and Commander-style naval adventure where they’re the heroes. This is why they all take it completely seriously when Stede (unintentionally) kills Badminton and takes hostages, even though we can see that he bumbled his way into it ass-backwards. This is also why Stede is so shocked to get actually for real stabbed aboard the Spanish ship. (“Did you mean to do that?”) He didn’t realize until that moment that he’d stepped into a different genre. The stabbing is one of the first Surprise Genre Switch moments we get and in retrospect it’s very important for setting up that in this world, the threat of getting hurt or killed is very real–which we need to understand to know that there are real stakes much later, when Stede almost gets executed by the British.

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OFMD Characters Based on What I’ve Seen From Gifs Because I Haven’t Watched The Show Yet:

- Blackbeard: looks scary but has a marshmallow center maybe? Insecure, should be protected even though he’s a big scary pirate. Shaves his beard later and I’m already sad about it.

- Fancy Man: big silly goober. Blackbeard is in love with him and he returns the feelings but it takes him longer to figure it out because he’s a big silly goober. Mega nerd.

- Pathetic Mean Little Bitch: one sided feelings for Blackbeard maybe? Embarrassing little man. I suspect he’s just pathetic enough for me to like.

- ‘Move I’m Gay’: has a lot of good one liners? Doesn’t think he’s cute but has decided to act cute anyway. Good character.

- Fancy Man’s Wife: deserves better.

- and like a million other characters I don’t remember

- I think there’s a seagull?