Taika Waititi interview strongly implies he has not watched the show (didn’t seem to know of doggie Blackbeard) but he *does* look at the porn.
This man has a busy schedule. He knows where his priorities lie.
Keep thinking about “works for spiders, works for men”. How long has Stede been getting the spiders off the ship? Is he the spider catcher for everyone, or is it just for Ed? Why is this so sweet?
You know what should be considered by any streamer who wished to
#SaveOFMD
? We follow people everywhere. We will all watch season 3 and then we’ll watch whatever David Jenkins does next. All of us. You’d be buying guaranteed audience for shows that don’t even exist yet.
#ofmds2spoilers
Consider, “you wrote me a lovely letter!”, that’s how Ed reacts to one nice thing. consider every other letter slowly washing up on their beach. Stede doing other romantic things for Ed. Making him terrible home-craft gifts from beach junk. Loving him every day🥹
THEY SWORD FIGHT THE BRITISH NAVY TO GET TO EACH OTHER ACROSS A BEACH
THEY HAVE SEX WITH LITERAL FIREWORKS GOING OFF
THEY CALL BACK “YOU WEAR FINE THINGS WELL”
ED LOOKS AT STEDE DURING THE WEDDING VOWS
STEDE KILLS SOMEONE FOR BEING A DICK TO ED
BOYFRIENDS
1. I read a book for the first time since I watched OFMD yesterday 😂
2. A LOT of fan-fiction is equivalent or higher quality than the (really quite good!) book that I read.
So no more “oh it’s just fanfic” about your writing please friends.
The way OFMD has reignited my love of and the value I see in storytelling. & Shifted my priorities back to quality of life, creativity and fun. Been a long time since I felt like I was able to find fun an important value, y’know? Wanting to be happy felt childish.
Congratulations
@StreamOnMax
and
@caseybloys
for the GLAAD award nomination for Our Flag Means Death!! You must feel like very proud parents…who kicked their kid out of the house with no warning a week ago…oh.
#SaveOFMD
#RenewAsACrew
Ok I’m gonna do a kinda dark note on this scene since we’re all talking about it today. We all agree the face touch sexual/romantic vibe, yes? Can we take a minute to think about how gross that would feel to Ed if doesn’t return that feeling?
One of the most powerful messages of Our Flag Means Death for me was that you’re allowed to enjoy things, and that wanting to enjoy your life is actually valid and important.
It might sound silly but seeing that in characters I could relate to changed things for me
#SaveOFMD
Hey
@netflix
I cancelled because of your mean households rule but to be honest I will re-up if you pick up Our Flag Means Death. Like. I just will. You do the thing, you get my money. And the money of all those people tweeting at you rn. Seems like a sweet deal?
#AdoptOurCrew
bbyteach on tumblr drew this incredibly sweet and amazing Christmas and roses make-up (and face to face meet-up!) from Skinned Knees and it is gorgeous
There are plenty of things you can legitimately criticise Taika for but it’s weird and disingenuous to pretend he’s a bad pick for directing Klara and the Sun. His best work has consistently been stories about children, families, loneliness and compassion.
Y’know, when I haven’t rewatched OFMD for a bit I start to wonder if it’s not quite as good as the hyperfixation makes it seem in my head.
I’m watching it right now and it’s BETTER. I know I’m preaching to the choir here but guys this show is perfect.
Props to those of you able to look directly at Ruibo Qian. That’s impressive af. I have to look through those little plastic glasses that they give kids during a solar eclipse; she’s too beautiful for my retinas to handle without additional shielding.
He’s not really a pet. Three years ago Sky-Rat fell through the bathroom skylight while I was peeing, naked, on a Sunday morning. We caught him in a bread-bin and released him in the park.
I’ll always remember you, Sky-Rat.
#AdoptOurCrew
#PetsForPirates
Lunch with mother-in-law. She has watched all of OFMD - genuinely whole first season. Said, “so, do we think this is a gay relationship then?”
The fuck can you watch ‘his name is Ed’ and still not know. Straights, man.
Love that half of us have taken him to mean that the Jenkins cut of the season 2 finale is 40 minutes long, while the other half believe that Jenkins cut of the Pop-Pop scene is 40 minutes long.
Personally I’m hoping it’s the latter.
Okay but listen 🤡🤡🤡 is there any world in which a new platform saves OFMD, recognises the value of what it has, and releases extended s2 episodes with some of the cut material back in? Is that…possible?
Is selling off stock before you tank the price by cancelling an overperforming flagship show simply vile unethical behaviour, or is it the action of a man who has gone piss mad? Neither option look good for WBD.
#zaslavout
#pissmadZaslav
#SaveOFMD
The final chapter is here. I have a lot of feelings, and so do Ed and Stede.
At the end, you’ll find beautiful art from
@mossgroves_art
that will just steal your heart away.
Pivoting to positivity: I would’ve loved a season 3 beyond measure & the story, the cast and crew, absolutely deserved it. But, I got so much of what I wanted out of season 2. If I had a made a wishlist for s2, it would’ve ticked everything plus more. Ed wore a cat collar y’all.
Hey, so, I’m gonna need 50 variations of ‘Ed and Stede immediately decide not to take it slow after all’ on my desk by end of play tomorrow? And I’m gonna need explicit reference to the bell, whether on or off. Thanks all, teamwork makes the dream work.
#ofmds2spoilers
Thinking about the folks who’d put me on their cishet list because there’s a risk to being out in my workplace. Thinking about how I got advised to set to private the lgbtqia network meetings in my calendar so certain colleagues can’t see what they are.
I am one complicated sex scene and a very thorough edit and beta from finishing probably my favourite thing I have ever written. I am excited folks. Writing is cool.
Oh please let’s not do bisexuality talk again. Y’all were fucking exhausting last time. That article is naming things which aren’t there but femme men can be bi, people who look and behave like Stede Bonnet can be bi, all we really know is that he likes Ed.
Well I’m looking forward to season 3 already and I’m probably gonna stay off fan twitter for a few days because I can see this is gonna be a nightmare
#ofmds2spoilers
I think something I love more than anything about OFMD is the willingness to take time with Ed’s journey, to not require him to be a perfect victim, to follow a line from traumatising childhood to normalised violence and coercion, & to give both vulnerability and strength to him
My Our Flag Means Death merch arrived! Thanks
@ASTROGLIDE
💕
Anyone thinking they might wanna
#AdoptOurCrew
and
#SaveOFMD
, know that I bought this just because astroglide tweeted nicely about OFMD. That’s all it took to get my money. I didn’t even need new lube yet.
Hey
@netflix
, do you wanna be our money bitch (affectionate)? Pirate Queen Zheng just got here, saved our crew, and then the show got rudely cancelled by a mediocre man at WBD. Maybe you’d be a better home for the Queen?
#AdoptOurCrew
#SaveOFMD
The end of The Innkeeper will forever be one of the most gorgeous, heartfelt, beautiful pieces of television. I don’t have the words for it. The idea of missing out more things as wonderful and unique as that is genuinely so sad to think about.
#SaveOFMD
#AdoptOurCrew
Just logged into BBC iPlayer to see our men on the banner at the top 😭😭
#SaveOFMD
#AdoptOurCrew
I’m gonna actually pay the license fee for a couple of months so I can repeatedly stream Our Flag Means Death.
Rewatched OFMD this evening for the first time in ages (yes, all of it). It’s a fucking masterpiece. I know you all know that. But fuck, man, it’s so beautiful.
I both love and am terribly intimidated by how the end of season 2 leaves open an endless wealth of possibilities for fic. Not the urgency of post s1 fix-it, but an entire life of anything Ed and Stede choose to play with. An embarrassment of riches. Where to begin.
@chaoticmulaney
Wait were they on a boat? That’s why they kept talking about pirates! Unfortch I was too busy having my heart broken by the greatest love story ever told
I wake up, I make coffee, I check Max’s socials and comment, I email support
@hbomax
.com, I tweet
@caseybloys
. I can do this every day for years if I need to. My brain thrives on having a routine.
#SaveOFMD
#RenewAsACrew
Look. There was this, and I forgot about it, and I don’t want to distract from renewal (
#saveofmd
#renewasacrew
) but I just saw it again in my camera roll and we all need some cheer…
I started a new thing! It’s gonna be fun! There’s fake-dating, some *mumble-mumble yet to be revealed plot 👀*, and smut probably sooner than expect because why not?
That’s great news Casey!! Congrats to the folks who worked hard! You know what else critics really loved? Season 2 of Our Flag Means Death!
So I guess I’ll be on the look out for Hacks getting cancelled for no reason soon
#SaveOFMD
#FinishOurStories
#DontStreamOnMax
khkfjdjskajakskgkf calling the astroglide fun fetishising and shit, i’m not a gay man and i still need lube to get a cock up my ass what the fuck are you talking about
My final postcard to
@Caseybloys
.
@StreamOnMax
has told us who they are, and I am hyped for a different streamer to
#SaveOFMD
#RenewAsACrew
Max had its chance 🤷🏻♀️ embarrassing as hell for them tbh. Imagine fucking your own reputation this hard and not even using
@ASTROGLIDE
On Saturdays, I tend to go for a hike with my husband and at some point the conversation will turn to what’s up in fandom. I don’t even know where I’m gonna *start* this week guys 😂 but we are now an astroglide family so he does need to be notified of that.
Leaving when you don’t enjoy something is the best, it feels great, and it costs nothing. Applies to relationships, parties, movies, fandoms, websites…
When the worst people in the fandom have you blocked so you don’t have to see their bad takes and attempts to stir up drama 😌 twitter has been a blast with you all the past few days, I’m so happy I get to be excited about these pirates with you all
I’m in my feelings a bit this evening reflecting. I have some sexual trauma in my past and returning to fandom and fanfic in particular has helped me with that so much, in seeing and enjoying so many depictions of sex (including kink) as fun, loving, hot and wanted
lmao
@StreamOnMax
with that article, panicking that everyone sees them looking dumb and another streamer is going to pick up Our Flag Means Death and make a mint off it.
@AppleTV
@PrimeVideo
@netflix
one of you has the opportunity to do something so gd funny.
#AdoptOurCrew
@david_jenkins__
I will trade you a first born child for the 40 minute pop-pop scene. Not my first born child since I don’t have one, but I’m sure I can find one somewhere if you want one.
Why does
@caseybloys
keep panic-shilling these terrible fake cancellation reasons when he could stage a coup against Zaslav instead??? HBO used to be good! The fuck you covering that dumbass’s decisions for? Embarrassing.
#SaveOFMD
Fuck it. Clown mode time. Hope is faith’s bitchier sister and I sure am too much of a bitch to have faith in anything, so hope it is.
Sign the petition, email HBO, do everything
@RenewAsACrew
suggest, retweet everything to get it trending. Why not try?
#SaveOFMD
#RenewAsACrew
#ofmds2spoilers
its horrible to see our boys fighting, but please consider the inherent romance in their argument being about how their lives can work together long-term. They’ve *just* got together and their anxieties are arguments are about “how do we keep this forever?”