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Fuck it we bawl (starts sobbing uncontrollably)

something something the beard picking scene and the most early explicitly queer character on the show being the one observing it and recognizing it and naming "this is happening", something about queerness as a site of knowing, something about the audience is queer and the audience knows what is happening between the leads before the leads themselves do, something about self recognition, something about being hurt so many times it needed to be said explicitly on screen, something about so many STILL didn't believe it was happening despite being told, something about straight audiences being so used to ignoring queer audiences they ignored being told, something about the relief of not being tricked by the narrative, for once not being tricked by the narrative, for once being told and having it be true, for once, this is

really

happening

She gives my dick a heartbeat when I look at her

so i made ofmd madlibs if you want to play 👉🏻👈🏻🥺

babe wake up Taika Waititi is gobbling the met gala

husbands!! @gbweddingweek

Never left 

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WRITING IS MY PASSION

this is how it's done 10/10 no notes

la vie en rose 🌹

Stede, getting home from shopping: oh. hey love. Are we having a rough day today do you think

Ed: what makes you think that

Stede: well mostly the way you're hiding underneath the bed. Because you don't usually do that on good days, is all I'm saying. I could be wrong. You could just be under there for fun.

Ed: i might not be under here for fun today.

Stede: could I fit under there too, do you think?

Ed: I - no way, man, the floor's hard, and it's cold under here, and I guess you could technically fit if you really wanted to but you shouldn't even try -

Stede: maybe we should get you out from under there then?

Ed:

Ed: maybe if I had some help?

Stede (a few minutes later, in the massive pile of pillows and blankets they've snuggled up in on the bed): better?

Ed (like he can fully breathe for the first time): yeah, babe. Yeah. Better.

i dont think i was put on this earth to spend 40 hours a week doing any one thing

what about fuckin gay n nasty

there is one thing i was put on this earth to spend 40 hours a week doing

~ Shell Pendant.

Date: A.D. 1200-1500

Place of origin: Mexico

Medium: Shell

I just saw something that made the whole canyon thing click for me. It was “if you watch season 1 from Izzy’s perspective, he’s the hero.”

And like. Of course that’s the case. Any good actor is going to play the antagonist like the hero of the story. No antagonist thinks they’re the antagonist. That doesn’t make it true, it just means they did their job.

Of course Izzy sees his actions as not only justified but as objectively virtuous. He has to reconcile with that in the end and I think “killing” Ed is a big part of that. Up until he’s shot by Ed, he’s blaming everything but himself for the drastic turn in Ed’s behavior. He blames Ed’s feelings for Stede, he blames Stede for doing something to Ed’s brain when really, Stede was just an escape hatch from a life that Ed hated.

We don’t really see Izzy reconcile that he was part of the problem until he’s talking to Stede in S2 Ep3 and he says “we did this.” And look, none of this is to say that Ed isn’t responsible for his own actions, but he was absolutely driven to the point he was in S2 ep 1-3 by an overwhelming sense of hopelessness that there was no way out of a life he hated, out of being a man he hated. The “only family he had” looked him in the face and said he was better dead than being someone he actually liked.

So yeah, Izzy saw himself as the hero. His POV means less than nothing to me.

Even though he says "we did this" he still hasn't fully taken account of his actions, from the shark talk and when he talks to Stede in 2x7, until his death.

Izzy is a fascinating character, but he is the antagonist. So watching the show from his perspective is a cool character study, but it's not what this story is about.

I swear, the trend of having anti-heros and antagonists as the major trend of leading characters on shows (Dexter, Walter White,.etc) has influenced people to go to those characters to connect to more.