Edwin Paine…

i have an addition to this post but cannot for the LIFE of me find the original so im attaching photos here

just truly bonkers how much i love lying down..........like being horizontal? unparalleled

this mental image hit me like a truck and i had no choice but to make it real

is this anything? i find it hilarious. i was just minding my business when this exact scene appeared behind my eyes and in my ears. i hope i did it justice and at least one person finds it as funny as i did.

beautiful women named daniel howell are dming me on instagram

Y’all I love the dynamic in episode 5 so much…

One of the reasons I love ofmd is because Ed and Stede are both repressed in ways that are inherently exclusive to queer men but in completely different ways. It makes the way they learn from each other so interesting and informs what they need from each other.

Stede’s able to present himself in a way that reads as queer by modern standards his whole life because of his aristocratic status, but he doesn’t want it. (And yes modern standards matter in a historical fiction show that has lines like “ew, lame” 😂). His whole life he’s been blamed by everyone in his life for not being “man” enough, not being able to even fake it till he makes it. The fact that his queerness is worn on his sleeve at all times with only the virtue of period typical straight obliviousness keeping him hidden makes it so he almost kind of has a “been there done that” attitude about it. After all, it only ever lead to bad things.

Meanwhile Blackbeard is the exact masculine ideal Stede thinks he (himself) should be, and he doesn’t want that. Ed’s the perfect definition of a “real man” but it’s something he was forced to hastily toss up like a wall for defense decades ago without actually considering what makes him feel like himself. He lights up at the promise of colorful fancy clothes, he likes being soft and kind of ridiculous, he wants to be the one who’s wooed by someone he likes. But he can’t ever really have an outlet for those things because he accidentally became the literal poster child of traditional masculinity. (It’s the classic “ran into the closet so hard you broke through the wall and don’t even know where tf you are now” lol)

So what happens in episode 5?

Ed let’s Stede “save the day” instead of him which culminates in a ship on fire (peak swash buckling), and Stede let’s Ed stand under the moonlight and basically hear that he’s pretty.

help me

the gay pirate show has taken permanent residence in my mind and for WHAT REASON

a love letter to the terrible influence tour

i saw dan and phil a month ago today and that night was so incredibly special that i made a comic about it

Star Trek sexuality headcannons below cut

Us now that there’s no more tit shows :(

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