the lighthouse/kraken motif/imagery is driving me up the wall guys… because ed thinks they’re a warning, and stede thought at first they guide people home, when in reality it’s both, and they both think they’re the monster… there’s this quote by ocean vuong that makes me screaming
you’re a monster; a plague; you defile beautiful things. you’ve even managed to bring history’s greatest pirate to ruin. // you do this, you do. you take the things you love and tear them apart or you pin them down with your body and pretend they’re yours. (x)
ed genuinely met stede when he looked possibly his worst physical state of his entire life and was like oooohhh baby you could wreck me. something so powerful about that.
