tender as hell

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i need a hundred more episodes of them just doing stuff

Happy 2 years to Our Flag Means Death!

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i love how Gandalf invested in Hobbits in year one and has been pushing them ever since. Thorin, i hear you need help with a breaking and entering. Can I recommend one of these little cunts? Silent as fuck, trust me. Elrond my dude i know you're skeptical but these four chucklefucks just transported a weapon of mass destruction all the way here. Theoden, you've gotta get yourself a hobbit man, I've got a spare one here. Denathor you big prick, take a hobbit - literally this is the bottom of the range but listen to him sing. Beautiful little bastard.

The original pride flag and the sewing machine it was sewn on

Source (Season 2 - March 11th 2024)

kay_buchanan: Spanish Jackie’s boot dagger sheaths 🏴‍☠️

This is my attempt on making Blackbeards knee brace. All is leather, the braces themselves are hardened with beeswax. All is put together with buckles and rivets.

Functionality wise i was surprised how actually really great it is to wear. I have a problematic knee myself and it got to bend so much lighter and easier and at the same time its greatly supported. The middle strap is very important for it all to work well too tho and its not that visible on the show so thats an important bit. Overall 12/10 🏴‍☠️✨

If you want to see the whole making process, you can head over to my Twitter

something that makes me nuts about the jenkins cut btw

ok one thing that was almost universally predicted by the fandom, and did not pan out, was ed keeping stuff hidden in the auxiliary wardrobe during the kraken era. never happened. in fact the auxiliary closet never gets mentioned in s2. well, whatever, that's not the only thing we were wrong about. we all thought lucius would be in the walls too.

but. we do know ed was hiding some stuff somewhere. that blue robe he's wearing for the morning-after scene is, according to gypsy taylor, one of stede's that he kept.

and, ok, they presumably never had to explain that, it sounds like just a headcanon on gypsy's part. but there's also the lighthouse painting, which we never saw, but was supposed to reappear, the set dressers actually put it back in place as they patched up the cabin and they've shared the bts images:

and having the painting just reappear with no explanation of where it was seems much weirder. given how carefully ed hides the cake topper and his general trust-no-one attitude it seems very unlikely he'd have had this painting that is very meaningful to him out anywhere it could be seen by others. especially when the painting seems to be completely untouched while every other visible possession of stede's has been vandalized. it sure wasn't there in that spot over the mantle earlier, we get a very clear shot of it in impossible birds:

the other thing is weirdly someone made a specific effort to disguise the lever that opens the auxiliary closet with something more on theme for the kraken's ship than stede's little mannequin:

so yeah i think he must have had this stuff in the auxiliary wardrobe, and i do think probably it was going to come up. not as a significant plot point or anything, but my guess is maybe the scene where ed's on his bender at the start of red flags playing with his wedding dolls was supposed to take place in the aux wardrobe like we all thought and then someone was like hey our budget got slashed and we're spending all this money on a mermaid tank and a rainbow pride market, do we really need to build this set that'll only be used in one scene.

so like not a big deal. probably the right call on budget honestly. but i really would have liked to see the concept for how they were going to decorate ed's little hidey hole with the painting and everything.

i want to chew glass every time i contemplate the multiple bts drops where people who worked on the sets talk about the running motif of stede repairing the damage to the cabin over the course of the season as a metaphor for the mending of his relationship with ed and ed's relationship with the crew. you don't see ANY of that unless you count the quick shot of stede putting knicknacks back on a shelf during the "be the captain" scene. but none of the repairs to the cabin are EVER visible. but they had to put so much effort into it! you just don't DO that if you think it will never be visible at all! and they've described it as a running thing over the course of the second half of the season, not just something you'd see once, which means there were MULTIPLE scenes cut in stede's cabin over the course of at least two episodes, more likely three. (i guess it's not even impossible there was one at the end of 2x08). i don't even have any idea what those scenes would have been. it haunts me. RELEASE THE JENKINS CUT

ok actually I'm not done

his kicked puppy demeanor has bewitched me body and soul

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just a little guy (gn)

my favorite lil guy (gn)

suddenly possessed by lost possible garlic soup s3 plotlines. like zheng's basically admitted to never having a healthy relationship before and suddenly she has a boyfriend, a girlfriend, and partner, two of whom are just the sweetest nicest people ever and the third who maybe I wouldn't immediately describe as "sweet" is still a really good person. also thinking about zheng and archie convos were they bond over their different strats to survive the sexist world of piracy. idk I think it would've been cool to see zheng come out of her shell and see the four of them actually be fucking polyamorous.

#Oh is that what we’re calling them?#Not sure where the garlic comes from but ok!

@lady-misery I think it comes from olu, jim, and archie all wearing garlic in 2x05

@jellybeanium124 Ohhhh ok! In that scene, I was paying too much attention to Jim to notice Olu and Archie were wearing it too. Thanks! Man I should do a rewatch.

@starlithumanity says that it's actually vico's creation