I do love a good pirate's tale

I’m a lover of Edward Teach first and human second

it is important to me that ed have many opportunities to rub his face on something soft

mothman (candied)

He wont lose Ed.

You can pry Ed in crop tops from my cold dead hands.

Still fairly heartbroken that Ed didn’t get any soup in S2.

Maybe Roach learned how to make it from Zheng. Maybe he could give some to Ed. Maybe someone could write a fic about it.

would like a genius dot com deep dive into “from the udder of life / we make milk”

hi beautiful

Today I’m thinking about merstede who runs away from home and ends up getting caught by fishermen but is saved by the legendary kraken who takes him in and treats his wounds and isn’t actually anywhere near as scary as the legends say

dare I say it: meow

Ed wanted boba

being a writer leads to a genuinely helpful but also very stupid kind of mindfulness where you'll be having a sobbing breakdown or the worst anxiety attack of your life and think "okay, I really need to pay attention to how this feels. so I can incorporate it into my fanfiction."

Sometimes I do get annoyed by fanon reactions to Ed, and then I remember that the OFMD writers were very careful to ward off the already-silly "Ed is abusive!!" takes by having other characters say to Stede "do you think Ed is going to murder/hurt you" and then having Stede respond every time with "wtf what is wrong with you, no??" And then, of course, Stede (who textually knows and understands Ed best) is right about that, and once he's feeling safe and supported again Ed is literally just hanging out being a little kitty. So I guess RIP to everyone who thinks Ed sucks but I actually paid attention to the show and I'm different <3

LITERALLY like

Ed in his mind: extremely quick to anger and responds with violence at the drop of a hat

Ed irl: will let someone tackle him to the ground and will literally just cower about it and not lift a finger to defend himself, won't even yell back that this guy's a dick until he's rowed his little boat out of retaliation range

psst you ever think about how ed doing violence against hornigold even inside his own imagination isn't triggered by hornigold being aggro at ed himself, it's only when hornigold brings up stede?

and actually that's the pattern for EVERY time we see ed lose his temper to the point of becoming directly personally violent outside the context of a raid, every single time the last straw is when they bring up or threaten somebody else ed loves? his mom, "pining for his boyfriend," "your feelings for stede bonnet," the soldiers reading the letter, etc?

and in that context probably part of the point of the pop-pop scene is to establish that there's actually NO level of threat to ed himself and his own physical safety that drives him to violence, not even a situation any normal person would view as pure self-defense, as long as pop-pop doesn't threaten someone else he's perfectly safe?

i just think that's interesting. in light of, you know, everything.