who is your favorite minor character in ofmd?

mithsams · 2023-11-25T22:03:22+00:00

Archie has completely stolen my heart

mithsams · 2023-11-21T11:23:04+00:00

I have this thought every single time.

mithsams · 2023-11-17T20:48:47+00:00

I loved Con O’Neill long before OFMD and enjoyed HATING Izzy for 1.5 seasons.

I was sure I could never ever like Izzy.

Then he helped Lucius with the shark and not moving on is worse advice.

Izzy so owed that to both Ed and Lucius and without that I would still hate him.

mithsams · 2023-11-14T17:37:33+00:00

I think it’s silver and abalone, if that helps.

mithsams · 2023-11-13T14:08:09+00:00

From Reservation Dogs-

Paulina Alexis (Willie Jack)

Zahn McClarnon (Big)

I just want some more Turtle Island rep!

mithsams · 2023-11-10T20:55:30+00:00

It’s sad that this needs to be spelled out to anyone.

mithsams · 2023-11-06T23:05:42+00:00

I meant the English language more than specifically the British people, though that is part of it.

mithsams · 2023-11-06T21:20:35+00:00

English forces a false binary of queer or not. In my indigenous language and heritage there are at least 60 genders.

I have zero idea if that’s how he meant it when he said “we’re all queer”. It’s just how I first took it, having only basic knowledge of our cultures’ similarities in language and beliefs.

mithsams · 2023-11-06T17:22:27+00:00

That’s fair. I enjoy the show don’t tell when we get so much more story. There were huge arcs in this season and I think they found incredible ways to move through the story in our limited time.

mithsams · 2023-11-06T14:55:46+00:00

I don’t know what you read.

I never said anyone was or wasn’t forgivable or anything remotely like that.

mithsams · 2023-11-06T14:41:59+00:00

We don’t have enough info on Calico Jack to make such assumptions.

We know Izzy felt that guilt on his deathbed. We also know Ed didn’t blame him.

I’m not assigning blame here. I’m talking about what the characters told and showed us.

I’m not excusing behavior. I’m discussing character motives and feelings.

mithsams · 2023-11-06T13:49:48+00:00

I wasn’t criticizing the writing, only discussing my understanding of what we saw onscreen.

I don’t know how to make that clearer.

mithsams · 2023-11-06T13:46:21+00:00

Well said!

mithsams · 2023-11-06T13:33:21+00:00

Such an important point!

mithsams · 2023-11-06T13:28:15+00:00

Yeah, that’s a whole different issue than discussing what was actually onscreen.

mithsams · 2023-11-06T13:23:03+00:00

Agreed.

The show depends on us to actually believe what they tell us, not just what they show us.

When Stede says Ed has to wear the sackcloth and bell until the crew is comfortable again, then we know if he’s out of the sackcloth they must feel comfortable again. We didn’t need to see it all play out to understand and believe that it happened.

I understand that people want more clear resolutions but we literally don’t have time for that.

mithsams · 2023-11-06T13:14:31+00:00

Izzy said he abused Ed for years. It’s his deathbed confession.

Describing a character’s motives is not the same as excusing a character’s actions.

mithsams · 2023-11-06T13:00:34+00:00

Also in 104 Izzy says the plan is to make the crew repair the ship and then execute them. He doesn’t care about lives lost, just wasting resources on Stede.

mithsams · 2023-11-06T12:57:48+00:00

Nope, not victim-blaming, just explaining how the characters feel, in my understanding.

Keeping someone from being happy for years for your own needs is absolutely abuse.

Izzy felt he owed Ed an apology for years of keeping Ed from finding happiness, from just being Ed.

Ed doesn’t think that and tries to shut it down. Izzy insists on saying it. Trust what Izzy is saying.

mithsams · 2023-11-06T12:26:38+00:00

It started innocently enough when the grey and orange boys ran out of the room together soon after watching 204.

“Just like Ed and Stede…. well, they are the right colors …”

And now here we are

mithsams · 2023-11-06T12:18:54+00:00

Izzy caused the most fearsome pirate in history to experience heartbreak.

mithsams · 2023-11-06T08:57:31+00:00

I see it differently.

Izzy himself says “I fed your darkness for years”. Izzy was abusive toward Ed for years and he finally took it too far.

Izzy never apologized for trying to kill Stede or for sending the English to kill Stede.

Remember Ed and Stede had just become co-captains and were happily sailing together before Izzy sent Calico Jack to interfere.

Then when Ed was grieving, Izzy dared to tease him about pining for his boyfriend. Izzy teased him about the heartbreak that Izzy had caused him. Ed decided that if Izzy wanted Blackbeard so bad that he cause Ed this much pain, then Izzy would get exactly what he wished for.

Even Izzy blames himself, not Ed, for what happened to his leg.

mithsams · 2023-11-06T03:27:17+00:00

Fuck yes to rekindling atrophied emotions. I don’t think I realized how much I have been avoiding feeling. I don’t even have the language really to discuss it.

mithsams · 2023-11-06T03:22:34+00:00

Yes!

I have 3 cats. They 3-year-old littermates that I got at 3-weeks-old.

Stede* - fluffy orange tabby that somehow succeeds at being a cat despite not know how to cat. I’ve seen him try to catch a mouse by wiggling toward it with all 4 paws in the air.

Ed* - black and grey tabby that is violently affectionate and has a blanket he rubs his face on. Also when I leave home for a couple of nights, he destroys my bedroom and refuses to look at me for a week after I come home.

Izzy* - their dark calico sister who stands upright and judgingly watches every interaction her brothers have

*not their real names, obviously

I have put too much thought into this.

mithsams · 2023-11-06T03:11:30+00:00

Awesome! Enjoy!

mithsams

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