#steddie

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lessperfectmorefree:

Okay, so why couldn’t Stede at least go to the beach to meet Edward and tell him he needs to go back and mend fences with his family? The only reason I can think of is he’s afraid that when he sees Edward again, he won’t be able to leave him. Other ideas?

(The pairing name steddie was coined by @postsforposting with explanation for it… but IDK how to link to posts)

ed chooses to go to the king’s service with stede, he chooses to “ruin his life”, ruin who blackbeard is, all for stede. stede sees this as him “ruining history’s greatest pirate”, trapping him into a domestic life he was forced into by signing the king’s act of grace–just like how stede was forced into marriage with mary, the life that stede hated so much. stede didn’t go back because he didn’t know how much it meant to ed, and because he thought he was doing him a favor and making him better off–which is what stede was told his whole life about everything, “this is for your own good”, meaning that everyone else is happy with this, so why can’t you be too? stede does exactly what he’s been trained to do his whole life.

stede thinks that running away would turn into a horrible hateful trap again, and he isn’t sure he does want to go with ed–because he doesn’t know it’s love at this point. you can tell because he’s not real enthused with the idea of running away. escaping, yes, but not running away. he knows that he wants what he has with ed, but he doesn’t know that he’s making ed’s life better–he truly does not see how trapped ed is in his blackbeard persona, that ed isn’t free to do as he wishes. we see that, but stede never does. stede thinks the fancy, soft side of ed has always been there, he doesn’t realize it’s only come to existence around him, that it cannot exist without him.

he does truly think he’s ruined him, he doesn’t think his fun will last (see the whole treasure map problems), and he doesn’t know it’s love so that crucial missing piece means he doesn’t think he’s wanted, doesn’t think ed would care if he left, doesn’t think there is anything but making it better for everyone.

stede has never been in love before. we the audience see this as a romantic comedy, because we know all the tropes. but stede in that moonlight scene with ed, holding the red silk of his heart, telling him he wears fine fabrics well? that’s some slick seducing! but it’s genuine stede, he’s not being seductive, he’s not flirting, stede is really just thinking “having a normal one my good friend ed in the moonlight”. he doesn’t recognize ed tried to kiss him. he’s awkward! it’s baby gay’s first love and first steps in a world he doesn’t even recognize that being gay is allowed yet, much less something he himself could do, doeswant.

this is written to be about being different/gay in a world that doesn’t allow it, that violently suppresses anything like that. stede’s world is like that, his world is our world, but so is ed’s. they both are doing what they have been trained to do all their lives, forced into doing…and that results in both of them not recognizing when they’re doing the wrong thing, thinking they’re making the right choice for themselves, even thinking they’re helping other people: ed excusing calico jack, trying to pretend he never killed anyone, turning kraken to protect himself, and all the damage he and izzy did to each other codependently building blackbeard; stede, leaving ed as if it doesn’t matter because he thinks so little of himself that he can’t imagine he matters to ed, acting like he accepts ed’s past even though he can’t handle it in the present every time it comes up, while pretending he himself is free of any and all violence, pretending he’s nothing but clean, even after his passive aggression left a ship on fire.

both ed and stede looked to each other’s worlds because they were told their own didn’t want them, that freedom could only be found in the other’s….but that isn’t true. the expectations of other people are always present; that they look different doesn’t mean they’re any more free. and you carry with you the expectations you were raised with, so changing your setting doesn’t automatically give you the wisdom and ability to shuck that, to be able to see–to recognize–what you want, what you desperately need. you can still see all that as scary, as unreachable, not for you; and that can push you to reject it and go back….even when you know the world you left is intolerable and damaging. that the rules CAN change doesn’t mean that you know how to make them change, or that you know that they are able to be changed, or that you can recognize any of that. and even if you do….you can’t snap your fingers and make it so for everyone else around you, who could be anywhere along the same path, or in a completely different world of rules than you and happy there–being in the same world (sharing the same scene) doesn’t mean you share the same rules (genre). you see that when the rules of the show change with different characters: the naval officers live in Master&commander rules, stede’s crew are muppet romcom rules, izzy lives in a gritty traditional pirate show, etc.

ofmd ship name should be steddie. i’ll tell you why.

it’s not blackbeard in the relationship. after the kiss, he wants to be known as edward, ed. the crew call him eddie, right before izzy breaks him back into the kraken, right when izzy turns everything that should be seen as open and welcoming, a kind touch, into things that are to be hated, into something mocking.

that’s the last straw for izzy. “his name is captain, or blackbeard!”. no, it’s not. ed himself corrects that.

a theme of the show is finding yourself, creating something worth keeping, something you can hold onto, something of value, being allowed to be who you are without threat. having steady support, not hate and violence forcing you into things that aren’t sustainable, things that wear you down, not fickle and mocking that sounds polite but offers only pain.

steddie.

icedmo:

they are bffs they are mortal enemies they want to kiss

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irlplasticlamb:

i love eddie “chaotic homosexual” munson and steve “disaster bisexual” harrington


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steddie is made so much fucking funnier considering that a) mike sees eddie as a cool older brother figure and b) mike still doesn’t really like steve. mike’s older siblings vs dating this one fucking guy

lovelybuckley:

happy pride month to these gay people

valenschmidt:

Dustin Henderson with his two dads Steve and Eddie

coralinejones:

eddie saw shirtless steve and really said to himself “hmm what would be even better than this?” and immediately decided to put his denim vest on him, so true so true

sirenharley:

The fact that Steve and Eddie both have dumb high school assigned nicknames is really funny to me. Steve “the hair” Harrington and Eddie “the freak” Munson. Just not awfully creative ones.

Steve: *staring at Billy and Eddie*

Steve:I can take them.

Robin:…Who?

Steve: Billy and Eddie. I can take them both at the same time. I just knowit.

Robin:

Robin: I’m not gonna even ask.

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