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seven point three miles
[our flag means death | edward teach/stede bonnet | 19,776 words | rated t]

“So what brings you out here anyway?”

Ed’s out of the blue question at least answers Stede’s anxieties about radio etiquette. He pulls the walkie from his pack and stares at it, deciding how much of his life he actually wants to share with this complete stranger.

“What brings you out here?”

or: Stede takes a job as a remote forest fire lookout in the summer following his divorce, with a plan to find out who he is, and what he wants his life to be. With the help of the enigmatic lookout on the other side of the forest, he ends up getting more out of the experience than he could ever have hoped.

[read on ao3]

ratchet

Been a long time coming but the firewatch boys finally got their happy ending 🔥💞

the (not so) lost art of the fire lookout
[ed/stede | 12.7k words | rated e]

“I spent months imagining you,” Stede says, stepping right up into Ed’s space, hand resting on his shoulder. “Weeks and months trying to piece together the information I had about you, trying to form it into some kind of visual. You’re everything and yet somehow nothing like I conjured up.”

Ed takes a breath, leans a little closer, pressing his temple to Stede’s so he can feel the words against his skin.

“There are so many gaps in my knowledge of you. How you look, and how you feel. How you taste. How you smell. I want to learn all about you. All the spaces in the jigsaw I’ve spent all summer building in my head. I want to finish it.”

[the complete series on ao3]

January 11th 155 notes

firewatch au em foxtails

leatherjacketeddie

Me to everyone this Boopoween

October 31st 6,325 notes

astrayan

Reblog if your blog is boopable-safe so you can get all the (probably new) achievements. I don’t care about notes I just want boops

October 31st 60,602 notes

i shall return to this place purely to scroll and boop. An entire day of scrolling and booping. I’m not sorry 😌💛

October 31st 4 notes

dailyflicks

A heart's a heavy burden.
Howl's Moving Castle (2004) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

May 20th 3,607 notes

bbyteach

Original post. felt so edstede modern AU…

January 21st 663 notes

ourflagmeansgayrights

went for a rare visit to twitter bc i heard con o'neill said some things abt ofmd and i wanted to see what was up, and i ended up seeing a lot of “ed is abusive” and “this show condones abuse and abuse apologism to a dangerous degree” takes. a lot of talking abt how the show was an irresponsible portrayal of domestic violence. a lot of relating the violence in ofmd to real-world domestic abuse.

and i’m sorry but i just can’t take that criticism of the show seriously bc the portrayal of domestic violence that they were talking about was literally. amputation and forced autocannibalism.

like. cmon. real-world domestic abuse does not typically involve forced autocannibalism.

we have word-of-god confirmation from djenks himself that in the context of the fictional pirate world of ofmd, the toe stuff is pretty normal pirate stuff, and only shooting izzy’s leg was “a bit much.” and of course fans are free to analyze the show however they want and feel whatever way they want to feel about the way the show depicts physical violence. but personally i just cannot lend credence to the belief that this show handles domestic violence in a harmful way because the physical violence in ofmd is so gratuitously and ridiculously over the top that i frankly find it silly to try and relate it to real-world domestic violence.

rozanovx

on top of this, we actually do see domestic abuse portrayed in s1 when we see flashbacks of ed’s childhood and his dad abusing his mum

if the writers wanted to present the toe scene etc as ed committing domestic abuse towards izzy, they would’ve done so by matching the tone of e.g. the scene where ed’s dad throws a plate at the wall and by having ed face similar narrative consequences to his dad (i.e. death)

but they didn’t. not even close. instead, the show handles it in the same way that it handles e.g. stede killing nigel - we aren’t supposed to feel bad for the “””””victim”””””, we’re supposed to empathise with the protagonist because of the emotional pain they’re facing as a result

and those are all very deliberate choices that signify that we aren’t at all meant to consider ed’s actions towards izzy as abuse, much in the same way that we aren’t meant to condemn stede for being a killer

January 7th 123 notes

wasn't there something about the knife throwing scene from the trailer getting cut because it darkened the tone too much sounds a lot like a deliberate divert away from behaviour that WOULD replicate the domestic abuse Ed was around as a kid maybe. maybe not. things to consider.ofmd

tallahasseemp3

the way people cannot take any negative thing happening in tv shows these days is genuinely frightening and incredibly tiring. sometimes characters die. sometimes bad things happen for the story to move along. unwillingness to deal with anything upsetting in the realm of FICTION (and by upsetting i don't even mean difficult themes but just basic storytelling stuff like a character dying) is how you get incredibly watered-down cookie cutter media that doesn't make you feel anything. "ooooh but escapism" you cannot avoid everything bad forever. and if a character death is something that will send you spiralling that is something with your mental health and not with the piece of media being made. from the bottom of my heart: grow up

January 7th 12,990 notes

welp there it is

bbyteach