no because they're obviously going to be so embarassing during their inkeepers era. ed fucking hates nature, rude customers and doing any kind of manual work as observed in the fisherman job. now that he's back with stede, he will fully embrace his pillow princess nature and you know it. stede on the other hand, is used to either his hot pirate gaysona or melon spoons and silk linen. he's going to be so cringefail during work hours and absolutely won't know how to deal with anything. he's just gonna be reciting gruesome pirate tales and how he met ed. which absolutely no one asked for. not to mention that the inn is in the middle of fucking nowhere, which means it will have the success of mary and anne's antique shop

they're going to be so insufferable and i'm SEATED

ok i'm off to ao3 to see if there's a trip advisor or yelp or whatever fic yet with all the reviews of their inn.

found one!

The Inn

Friends, they aren't actually talking about the tiny building they found that's completely unsuited to be a cool inn that would let Ed walk around with lots of keys.

"The story is done" No, it isn't. Piracy plot aside, David Jenkins ended S2 with a happy point for the show's main couple in case HBO does the unthinkable and denies us a third season. I'm going to repeat what I put here :

They're in love and have told each other that. They've kissed. They've had sex. They've moved in together. But we haven't seen them have the deeper conversations, and they both still have things to work through and communicate to one another. It's not just a wacky adventure ahead as they fail at customer service.

"killing off izzy after he went through all this growth and finally got to be happy means all that healing was for nothing"

goddamn that is a bleak way to look at life. we all die, man. healing is still worth the effort.

Apologies for derailing your OFMD-specific post, OP, but thank you for articulating this. I haven’t watched this season of the show yet so can’t comment on how this particular death was pulled off, but I have multiple partial posts in my drafts folder trying to express in 3000+ words what this post encapsulates in 43. Not only do we all die, but as I get older and deal with more loved ones’ deaths IRL and contemplate my own death in a less theoretical way, I find myself *wanting*, even needing, to engage with media that acknowledges & represents it. Art that helps me think about living well and meaningfully in the presence of death, and about what substantive change & healing means for someone who HAS spent many decades living with bitterness/trauma/maladaptive behaviors and might not have that much life left.

My ex’s mom just started therapy for the first time at 79 years old, and thinking about that makes me feel scared and claustrophobic for reasons I’ve been working on unpacking. On the one hand she pretty obviously has a lot of unexamined trauma as well as undiagnosed OCD, and hopefully treatment can ease some of her suffering. On the other hand, what if she discovers something about herself that totally changes her perception of her entire life up to this point? What if this introduces some profound regret about the way she’s spent the last almost 80 years? What if she learns some joyful and expansive new way of being, and then only gets to practice it for a few more years or even months? Well… I suppose if she gets those few months of joyful expansiveness, it will be better than not having them!

Anyway, thanks for this, I feel like I should print it out & carry it around in my wallet as a ward against death-panic.

yes! also, death of loved ones is is always too soon, always. even when it's long-expected and a relief of suffering, my first reaction is always, what, already? no! not yet! not ready! and then i miss them so much, i think of conversations i still wanted to have, and i'm at an event they would-SHOULD- have been at. always too soon. even for people who spent their cancer remission tying up all their affairs, i'm not ready.

and then there's the ones who died suddenly, unexpectedly, or so very young, wow, wwaaayyy too soon. very very not ready!! give them back! we still need them!

death doesn't care, death comes anyway.

but it's a story, every character can have the perfect death! really? is there such a thing? if you think so, you can write it in your fic, i guess, and see if that works for you (i hope it does, because Always Too Soon is never a satisfying story).

Our Flag Means Death s2 costume design | From page to screen part 1

no because they're obviously going to be so embarassing during their inkeepers era. ed fucking hates nature, rude customers and doing any kind of manual work as observed in the fisherman job. now that he's back with stede, he will fully embrace his pillow princess nature and you know it. stede on the other hand, is used to either his hot pirate gaysona or melon spoons and silk linen. he's going to be so cringefail during work hours and absolutely won't know how to deal with anything. he's just gonna be reciting gruesome pirate tales and how he met ed. which absolutely no one asked for. not to mention that the inn is in the middle of fucking nowhere, which means it will have the success of mary and anne's antique shop

they're going to be so insufferable and i'm SEATED

ok i'm off to ao3 to see if there's a trip advisor or yelp or whatever fic yet with all the reviews of their inn.

#The reviews are in (source)

thesis antithesis synthesis etc. i think in s3 they should figure out they hate being innkeepers and are going stir crazy when they're alone and get back together with the crew in the post-piracy era to invent a Ye Olde Cruiseship and there should be at least one bad joke about cruising thank you

oooh. season 3 will be the pirate version of fawlty towers. gotcha

established in-universe logic of the show allows for izzy didn't die truthing and here's why. he got shot on his left side. "science tells us that all the useful organs are on the right part of the body." so you take a sword on the left, no harm no foul. bullet wounds are different to sword wounds? izzy already survived a bullet to the leg, the rotting of said leg, and a grim field amputation. ed described him as an "indestructible little fucker." immediately following this ed survived being beaten to death with a CANNONBALL but izzy gets taken down by one measly bullet? sorry djenks you're gonna have to try harder if you want me to believe he's dead for realsies <3

I STAY WINNING x

also the roof leaks

People have such an "holier than thou" approach to sex here. Like, "oh they did it for the wrong reasons!" Or "they made a mistake because it's too soon" like... You know there are no rules, right? Not really.

Stede and Ed did what they felt like doing in that moment, and even if they didn't they would have this fall out because the problem is not what they do out of love but what they think out of fear.

THE PROBLEM IS NOT WHAT THEY DO OUT OF LOVE BUT WHAT THEY THINK OUT OF FEAR

I don't know if it's just because I was bracing myself for something far worse, or because David Jenkins has made it clear that the show is the relationship so there's nothing to fear long-term, but I actually left those episodes feeling pretty good about Ed and Stede? No, break ups aren't fun, obviously, but

Could that conversation have gone better? Absolutely. But they're 14-year-old boys. They love each other, they have so much in common, but when it comes to piracy, they're in very different stages of their lives.

Ed doesn't want to hold Stede back, but he doesn't want that life anymore. He doesn't want to put himself in that situation, and he doesn't want to get hurt again when (he assumes) Stede chooses a life of piracy over being with him.

Ed has so much trauma to work through. He knows that, but he doesn't know how, he just knows he has to "do something different."

All of these are actually really huge steps. It presents itself as conflict, and it is one. A BIG one. But it's an important one for them to go through if we're going to have Ed and Stede really thrive in their relationship, and be truly content both as a couple and as individuals.

And then they kissed. OFMD - S0205 - The Curse of The Seafaring Life

OK, I'm dead. The whole mermaid sequence was a practical effect, and Rhys did the damn thing himself. *applauds*

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