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So honestly one of my favorite storylines in OFMD (other than everything about Gentlebeard of course) is the resolution between Stede and Mary at the end of S1.

There are lots of stories about the devoted wife waiting for her husband’s return (such as Penelope from the Odyssey) but this isn’t a story about devotion between Stede and Mary. It never was. They didn’t love each other and never would, so those iconic weirdos devised a whole plan involving a jungle cat, a falling piano, and a random corpse to beat the system.

I love that Mary built a new life for herself after Stede left. I’m sure she was upset and angry, but she still took her own carpe diem advice and created a new life with things she actually loved: her kids, Doug, and painting.

And that’s how you do feminism right there. I have no notes, only the hope that there are more stories like this in the future. 10/10

i also love that they are able to see that unhappiness that existed in their marriage was because they didn't love each other like that. they were stuck in a marriage where neither one of them felt fulfilled. they knew they didn't feel romantic love (or passion or desire etc etc) towards one another

but as soon as they were freed from that marriage?? once they opened up to one another? their dynamic is completely different! night and day! they could just be friends!

and i think they make good friends. they work well together. they support each other. they help each other attain the lives they really want. they're genuinely happy for one another. they know they are not in love, but they do share a love. a fondness. a camaraderie. ofmd shows us that love takes many forms, and this is one of them.

i will never not love watching them become friends in ep 10. it's a really beautiful depiction of the way that relationships can change and adjust with us as we grow.

it means your husband knows how to have fun

oops

thinkin about how stede and marys touches are so awkward and forced but when stede comes out and mary hugs him its so genuine and stede just melts into it. fuck

yeah sorry I filled your boyfriend’s house with chintz. to keep it real you need to—oh you already got it. okay

oh so I’m not allowed to get my husband laid? god forbid women do anything

Mary Bonnet (Claudia O'Doherty) from Our Flag Means Death. (Progress shots on Instagram)

‘We are to be lighthouses for each other, remember?’

My piece for @ofmdzine !! 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

A widow's life isn't nearly as bad as it's made out to be 🎨

saying this to someone the next time they tell me they’ve been stabbed

our flag means death / 1.04

i really like that mary wasn't made to be the female character that gets between the popular gay ship but is in fact a whole character with goals and development like fuck yes

Obsessed with this post from @wearfinethingsalltoowell

MFW when I found out the man my foppish husband fell and love with and faked his death for is the dread pirate Blackbeard

This is not a face of someone who’s going to forgive you three months later

Three months later without even receiving an apology

like 

what’s going on here. mary babysits eurus on shutter island? mary lets eurus borrow her wig collection? what.

I thought that too during my last TAB rewatch, like, wtf

Poor Rosie… if that’s saying something about Mary’s babysitting skills, then dearie me.

Starting your proposal with “look as you know these last couple of years haven’t been great”

mary: a literal assassin, shoots sherlock in the chest, deduced to be a ‘sociopath’, constantly condescending, insidiously chips away at john’s self-worth, threatens sherlock while he’s in hospital, almost kills sherlock a second time at the empty houses, is coded subtextually as moran, gets sent a “curtain rises - the last act” text from sherlock, already knows to go to the london aquarium without being told, tells sherlock that they’re “even” now that she’s ‘taken a bullet for him’, sends sherlock a “miss me” dvd, tells sherlock to go to hell, tells sherlock to kill himself so that john will either commit suicide out of guilt if he watches the dvd too late and fails to save sherlock, or hate himself for not saving sherlock without the help of the dvd in the first place because he’s “so perfect” and should have intuitively known sherlock was in danger because that’s ‘who he is’, a catch-22 situation in which sherlock and john always end up forced apart no matter what and john always ends up suicidal

fans, casuals, literally everyone?: mary’s redemption arc was so beautiful. she was such a strong, brave female character and i can’t believe “”shippers”” think she’s an antagonist because she gets in the way of their “””OTP”””

people with common sense: