trent crimm representing writers everywhere
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I love it when someone on here tries to use the working class defense of Izzy and in doing so reveals that they have a very specific very gendered and racialized view of what "working class" means, a view which doesn't reflect the reality of poor people's lives at all but does reflect the narrative about fucking stoic white appalachian coal miners with economic anxiety which is constantly fed to rich and upper middle class Americans people by CNN and Fox news alike.
Working class people are human beings actually which means they all have soft and weak moments. Working class people have interests outside of work. Working class people can be feminine. Working class people for the most part do not worship at the alter of work they like taking breaks and time off. Working class men, by in large, look like the crew of the revenge(Lucius and Oluwande included), not like Izzy who has very strong middle manager vibes, and you're a fucking idiot if you can't see that he's literally in a managerial position.
Thank you this has been brought to you by an autistic drag queen who lives paycheck to paycheck and enjoys clothes and is open about his feelings and would do literally anything to avoid manual labor xoxo.
if you try looking for a post using the tumblr search function it will never show up. but you know what will? a reader x character fic
He buries his nose into his armful of shirts and takes a deep breath. It soothes a yawning ache somewhere in his chest and makes his lips tremble, his eyes water. Enveloped in the comfort of what is the closest he will ever come to hugging Stede again, he lets the floodgates open.
“Fuck you, Stede.” he cries into the clothes of a dead man, “You had to go and fucking die instead of coming with me.”
or, Blackbeard mourns for Stede while Stede does his best to chase the myth of Blackbeard and reunite with the love of his life.
Trying my hand at something different. It was just too perfect.
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Hey so, a lot of you are new here, either because of IFWTS or because you're fleeing Twitter (or both!) so I thought I'd take the time to let you know that IFWTS is not the only strangely niche science-adjacent fic I've written. I also have (drumroll)
Yup, my first blackbonnet fic is actually a 9k word E-rated fluff/smut piece where Stede is cursed to grow tentacles, and Ed is a horny fucking nerd about it. Not sure if tentacles are your thing?
I'm gonna endorse this fic as scientifically accurate and "so good I did some knitting (for op) about it"
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ofmd class analysis posts are always wild as shit because they'll talk about how stede is definitely able to be soft and gnc because he's rich and how ed is rich now and that's also why he can be soft but izzy is poor (sorry, "working class", the preferred terminology that just so happens to harken back to association with blue collar white men), which is the real reason he's cruel and unkind to the people around him, and it's like -
the whole fucking crew comes from poverty/is poor. wee john, who used to make dresses and still loves the stories with the voices and dressing up and theater. frenchie, who is primarily a musician and likes to dress up fancy to scam the rich. oluwande, who is the softest man alive. black pete, who literally started out being toxic masculinity central including misogyny and opens up to vulnerability and softness.
i could go on, there are more crew members. the majority of the cast are poor and soft and enjoying softness, so why is it class analysis posts in this fandom love to posit that stede (and sometimes lucius) are soft because they come from money and that izzy hands hates them for class reasons, when the whole crew enjoys softness and luxury openly and yet izzy only comes down on two people for it.
Fanart for Chapter 1 of the incomparable @talkitthroughasacrew‘s The Sun Hung From a String (aka Sapphires 1.5)
“I like your dreams. They look just like mine.”
Link to the fic: The Sun Hung From a String
I think Lucius had a crush on Pete first :)
Image description under the cut!
ed has a lovely dream :)
prints and such of this are now available on my inprnt @/olives-n-feta :D
Our Flag Means Party Prompt 4 Team Black: AU
Today’s prompt was AU, so have a little Space Pirate Blackbeard!
Our Flag Means Death
Ed Teach and Stede Bonnet