So anyway, “wholesome” is not the opposite of sexual. Sex, including queer sex, can be lovely & wholesome & affirming & good. The purity culture idea that leads people to describe sex on tv as if it is antithetical to anything “wholesome” and more akin to violence…don’t like it.
I’m gonna bare my soul for a minute and admit that for the first time I’m feeling as though there isn’t a place for me to engage with the ofmd fandom online because I just…I really like season 2. I think it was good and I enjoyed it.
Okay but did he even really leave tho?? I’m serious like, he got off the ship, dicked around on an island a few hundred yards away for less than 12 hours and then came back. He never even left Stede’s sight. It’s like the pirate equivalent of sleeping on the sofa.
The cruelest possible opening for S2 of ofmd would be to show Ed and Stede together on the Revenge like nothing happened, only for Ed to wake up, revealing that it was a dream and that he’s still all alone.
Okay so did anybody else notice how GREEN the color grading was in the last two episodes??? Because I SURE DID! And that’s actually lowkey notable 👀 because it is a departure from the norm, it was a deliberate choice and in film language it is super meaningful 🧵
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@keeganofcourse
Thinking about the amount of time that went into measuring fabric and cutting out each letter and putting the whole thing together, knowing you’d have limited space to say what you wanted, planning it carefully…
“Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself.”
@JennyENicholson
Have you listened to that This American Life ep where they interviewed bird watchers & one of them talked about bird calls in movies? He said most filmmakers edit in bird calls that are geographically impossible and that it takes him out every time. Im always thinking about that.
@Jalapinooo
@calebsaysthings
If you as an individual are seeking attention on tiktok by saying cruel, demeaning things about the extremely vulnerable ppl in your care, including threats to harm or withhold care on a whim, yeah - I’m gonna blame you. The system is bad & should change but it’s not an excuse.
@Very__Regular
This is 100% the energy I bring to yelling about fabric softeners!! Stop buying fabric softeners!! They destroy your clothes and eventually your machine! Fabric softener just exists to be bought and that’s all!! All you need is a couple table spoons of concentrated detergent.
@zephanijong
My sister bought these for a slippery strap on a bag and apparently they work for her! You stick them to the inside of the strap and they create enough friction to keep the strap up.
People saying “why didn’t they bring back the red silk ”
Bcs it represents the longing in Ed’s heart for fine things! But he doesn’t need the symbolism back when Stede is back! Stede is the object of his desire! That’s why he’s in the red shirt! IT CAME BACK ACTUALIZED AS STEDE!
I’m sorry but this is the funniest Rhys Darby has been since that bit in the pilot where he sits down with a flourish and immediately stands back up and that truly is saying something because he is always so fucking funny
@metaplexmovies
The Green Knight was shot on digital. Much of it has a muted or monochromatic color palate and many scenes take place in dimly lit rooms or at night in would-be total darkness. It’s also one of the best looking movies I’ve ever seen. It’s not the camera.
Idk what it is but OFMD causes some kind of mental insanity that makes people incapable of understanding very basic storytelling. Like some sort of media literacy madness where any ability to absorb even the most basic facts about what’s happening on screen totally disappears.
@ycsm1n
Thinking about that streamer who just exposed her abusive partner on stream and a billion dudes reacted with “well, she’s a liar, I thought I had a chance, so—“
Pathetic.
@titilvating
@stedestache
I am not browsing ao3 for an instruction manual on healthy bdsm practices or a pamphlet on how to talk about intercourse with your partner
@VirgilKnightley
But horniness and kinkiness aren’t antithetical to wholesomeness either. The implication that sex is somehow impure is what troubles me. It’s natural and, if you’re enthusiastically participating with other adults who care about consent and safety, that’s not somehow “impure”.
I keep seeing ppl like “why won’t Taika post” and it’s like…ya I wouldn’t post either if everything I said was taken in bad faith, my fans talked loudly & continuously about how much they hate my wife while using my face as a pfp, & strangers said ultra weird shit about my kids.
@GreatCheshire
I just got to that part in Todd in the Shadows’ video and it FLOORED ME. “The boring gays wanted to get married 🙄🙄” as if the thousands of deaths caused by aids didn’t directly expose how important it was that queer couples be allowed to serve as each others’ next of kin.
Thinking very quietly about how
@faeeebaeee
was like “what if Stede came clad in white, his entire chest exposed and heart uncovered, for a date with Ed, who just so happens to be covered up to the chin in all black.”
@daedaeonfire
I think it was healthy for Stede too because he needed to wrap up stuff at home to be truly free enough to be with Ed. The most healthy thing tho would have been if they just fucking talked about their feelings 😭
@TheShirell
@oliviacoyy
That’s the real takeaway tbh. I’m always like “where are these people irl?” And it turns out they’re among us, having totally reasonable opinions on the royal family on tv. 😭
Hey so I deleted my tweet because I didn’t expect it to get that much attention and I don’t want it to be a thing. It’s a tv show and I care about people’s feelings more than a tv show. That being said, this scene of Ed crying on the floor is 100% about Stede and not Izzy.
@realJaredGilman
I went and saw the D&D movie and I was trying to figure out why it felt like such an early 2000s throwback and I honestly think that part of it is because you can see everything the entire movie 😭
@talkalot_360
@historicalfits
He has also apparently been unfaithful to every woman he’s ever been with and made unwanted advances at his employees so that probably didn’t help.
@propergandar
@pippowoah
@lNTRUSlVETHOT
Literal shit comes off easily with the specially designed cleaner made specifically for cleaning up literal shit. You know what doesn’t come off easily?? A big ass sticker. Now I have to go get the big ass sticker cleaner and something to scrape it with. While other deal.
@kendallhosseini
No but like they were fully broken up and getting divorced and he was obviously in the throes of Waystar Brainrot and Rava was still like “I gotta get it just one last time”. He’s the Lewis and/or Clark of fucking.
First of all, this isn’t the usual color grading in the show. Usually the show is so much warmer, especially in scenes with Ed and Stede. Like, look at the colors of the ambient light in these scenes compared to many of their scenes together in 2.6 and 2.7.
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ANYWAY! My point is! If you feel like the last couple eps felt “off” somehow or “wrong” - disconcertingly different from the previous eps, etc….that is at least somewhat deliberate bcs they are making the show green on purpose to make you feel that way 👀
#OFMD2Spoilers
I mean you can see it change mid scene at the party, where we go from the warm purple we know symbolizes their growing love to sickly green which, again, has in film—
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@ofmdquotes
Noooooo waaaaay - that’s a Moffat show??????? Oh my god…he’s literally so obsessed with working on shows where little girls meet time travelers who they grow up and have romantic relationships with…what the actual fuck 💀
@nathan_foad
You say that but how many times have you watched back the scene with the “I’ve decided to carry myself like I’m cute”? That line delivery left 5 dead, 12 injured, 2 missing. Fucking sublime.
To paraphrase incase you don’t want to watch the video- bcs of its rarity in nature, green ambient light is unnatural and denotes a state of discomfort, of wrongness. And bcs it would take so much work to make the show green, it’s an obvious tell it was deliberate.
#OFMD2Spoilers
@dkfanfilms
@adpo97
I 100% believe all those scenes exist but as someone who saw it 3 times the year it came out you could literally make up any scene and I’d believe you because all I remember is the visceral awkwardness I felt watching the hair sex scene in theaters with my entire family as a 16yo
@roxana_hadadi
@StayFrostyX19
I’ve never been able to watch Green Room because watching anything with Anton Yelchin in it makes me way too sad but this is the third time I’ve seen that film brought up in the last couple days so maybe that’s a little sign from the universe that I ought to.
I’m going to allow (the best) YouTuber Dan Olsen to explain why a green undertones in film is significant because he can do it more succinctly than I ever could on Twitter.
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@ryancbeard
I totally get the message the movie is going for, I just don’t think it’s a terribly good movie and I don’t care for it. Not because I think it’s fatphobic, just cuz I think it’s bad.
People are so weird about Ed and Soap in fanfic. Like, I get it, Stede definitely has nice soap onboard, look at the guy- but Ed doesn’t think Stede *invented* bathing. I think he just likes soap yall. He even comments how Stede’s crew being grubby, presumably because he isn’t.
Even in scenes that are much more dower, the lights are lower, and the colors are more washed out, there still isn’t the same sickly green undertone.
#OFMD2Spoilers
@doxie_gay
@subtlecycle
I saw so many people say “he just got popular because he’s hot 🙄” so imagine my suprise when I looked him up and went “oh *THIS* fuckin guy???????? The crowd work tiktok guy??????????????”
I love Taika Waititi’s work, I have vocally criticized the malicious & vitriolic hate ppl sling at him (which I think is often the result of poorly disguised racism) but I’m not gonna pretend that letter he signed didn’t endorse violence against Palestinian civilians bcs IT DID.
@FilmUpdates
What a terrible cover. How you manage to take such a bad photograph of such a startlingly beautiful person baffles the mind. And the photoshop is ✨not helping✨
@cevangelista413
I think this is the thing that’s going to finally convinced me to watch Barry. I was always going to, I’ve heard nothing but good things… I just hadn’t gotten around to it.
is this supposed to be terrifying? It’s kind of terrifying.