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While we like to joke about Izzy being in the wrong genre, I would argue that there are in fact at least five distinct genre universes in the world of Our Flag Means Death, and all of them have different rules.

Stede Bonnet, and his crew when they’re around him, live in a Muppet movie. I didn’t come up with this analogy but it’s so accurate. Insane physical comedy and comedy-action where no one really gets hurt. Mild peril but you know everything is gonna work out. Terrible puns and sight gags, but room for sweet, genuine emotional moments too. The rules of time, space, probability and logic will bend for a good joke.

Izzy Hands is in a grimdark action/drama where if someone gets stabbed in the gut they will behave normally and fucking die. (Probably slowly and painfully, of sepsis.) Crucially I think Izzy also lives in a genre where you can only be subtextually queer, and violence (done for or with or to each other) is the only acceptable form of intimacy between men. This is why being forcibly dragged into Stede’s world, where everyone is busy having silly low-stakes misadventures and being gay and emotionally available all over the main text–and seeing his Subtextual Boyfriend go into this world and love it–sends him round the twist.

The British, Spanish and other imperialist militaries are in a Master and Commander-style naval adventure where they’re the heroes. This is why they all take it completely seriously when Stede (unintentionally) kills Badminton and takes hostages, even though we can see that he bumbled his way into it ass-backwards. This is also why Stede is so shocked to get actually for real stabbed aboard the Spanish ship. (“Did you mean to do that?”) He didn’t realize until that moment that he’d stepped into a different genre. The stabbing is one of the first Surprise Genre Switch moments we get and in retrospect it’s very important for setting up that in this world, the threat of getting hurt or killed is very real–which we need to understand to know that there are real stakes much later, when Stede almost gets executed by the British.

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Love how Ed plans to use Stede’s mangled corpse to free himself from piracy and Stede ends up using a mangled corpse to free himself from the part of the world he doesn’t want to be in anymore

I’ve seen and heard a lot of people saying they didn’t understand why Stede went back to Mary but listen. Just minutes before, we see Chauncey telling him that he messes up everything he does. Of course we know it’s not the best idea to go back. We know that it actually makes things worse— for him, for Mary, for Ed, for pretty much everyone but Izzy. But he doesn’t know that yet. Stede doesn’t know that him “ruining” things actually made them better for people. So he does the one thing he thinks will fix it. He goes back to Mary. This should fix his marriage, make his children happy, get Ed back to being the most fearsome pirate ever. Stede likes to do what he thinks is best for people… he’s just wrong a lot of the time

Finished both ofmd and wwdits within like six days… guess it’s on to Good Omens then…

I have not felt this way about anything since… middle school? My thoughts have been consumed.

I could never be a pirate because I don’t like seafood

Schrodinger’s gender

I am a woman in the way that my favorite teacher said something that implied he thinks of me as a daughter figure

A woman came into my work and as she was ordering said “my fiancée” and “she” in the same sentence. A lesbian wedding is approaching, your honor

Every time I see I cis guy wearing a pair of earrings that I own my gender gets a little stronger

The thing about being genderfluid is that music tends to affect me. Like, listening to Sammy Rae always makes me feel much more like a woman. Queen is genderless with a twinge of masculinity. Conan Gray? I am suddenly a gay man.

So when Jesus flips over the tables it’s “righteous anger” but when I do it it’s “taking monopoly too seriously” and “ruining family game night” ??

I think there’s both a stereotype and an expectation in the queer community that relationships must move fast. You met each other yesterday and now you’re moving in together. You’re having sex on the first date. You’re getting married after one week of dating. People are allowed to do whatever they want, but this feels like too much pressure for me. It’s also making it a lot harder to figure out if I’m demi or just… scared

I never truly understood the concept of comfort characters until I read Any Way the Wind Blows. Turns out reading Carry On was a very big part of my life

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The music choice in Umbrella Academy is incredible. The ability to make you dance while you’re favorite characters are about to get brutally murdered is a valuable skill.

Does anyone else get gender envy from Max as a singer in the Goofy Movie?? I mean come on.

I used to hate Valentine’s Day because I’m always single, but now I’m just kinda vibin. It’s not that bad you guys

Simon is an inherently fruity name. Simon Snow. Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Simon from Young Royals.

Today I saw a jackpack (jean backpack)

Starbucks gave me the wrong panini ):

I don’t keep up much with the Olympics, but every time I see someone got sick, or fell, or got hurt, or whatever, I just feel so bad. These people have worked so hard for so long, and some of them might never get another chance ):

One of my coworkers was like “we all know women are the best species” and I agreed with her and then she said “hell, we even invented crossgenders” 😀

I just lost the game

Just watched Rhett and Link attempt to identify their own belly buttons and immediately recognized Rhett’s from the music video for the belly button song thing from years and years ago and idk what that says about me as a person

Do I watch Lost or is the ending so bad that it’s not worth it?

Do you ever fall in love with someone in your dream? It kinda makes me sound touch starved, and maybe I am, but I always find it kind of beautiful. In my dreams I’ve fallen in love with so many different kinds of people.

Kurtis Conner’s video on goat story was a cultural reset

I’m not like other girls. Sometimes, I’m a boy

I’m trying to save rewatching UA until I inevitability get quarantined but wtf am I supposed to watch until then /:

My government teacher was trying to get us to debate controversial topics in class today (just for fun y’know) and he was looking at his list and was like “now this is too controversial” and of course we all had to know what it was. So he finally gave in. “Is gender a social construct? Is it malleable?” (Something like that) Everyone in that class just said “yes.” There was no debate. Anyone who disagreed didn’t say anything.