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.
Im still in utter disbelief that we have an actual canon gay kiss, no queerbait, it’s authentic and it’s painful and it’s exactly what I wanted to see myself in. They’re flawed and rough and it’s REFRESHING!!!!
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.
With a lot of the other stuff I’ve done, it’s just been a cameo or something short. You just walk [in and out] of one scene… Eking this out over the six episodes that I’m in, it was great to have the time to set up the relationship. We were building and building and building to that moment on the beach and yeah, it was really fun.
