Taika Waititi as Edward “Blackbeard” Teach, painted over 7 hours and 45 minutes in Procreate! Had a lot of fun with this one, really leaned into the florals.
listen i love ofmd and its cast as much as the next queer but the way some of y'all are treating taika waititi is going to make me Act Up. he’s not queercoded he’s not your babygirl he’s a real human being who is never going to live up to the pedestal you’ve put him on. have we learned NOTHING from the john mulaney debacle
I’m generally not grateful for my Catholic upbringing, but it did make me extremely suspicious of any thoughts that might resemble idolatry.
is this my re-entry into tumblr? i have brought some Our flag means death fanart for u as a little ‘im back’-typa gift havent known a single minute of peace ever since i watched this show. im obsessed
it’s jokes on here but rly truly genuinely the thing u like abt taika’s core affect has always been his māori-ness. what ur perceiving in his comedy and writing and emotional beats and exploration of masculinity and general clown shit is peak pasifika. not that islanders have the monopoly on his tone but. since 2 cars 1 night, eagle vs shark, flight of the conchords, boy, hunt for the wilderpeople, what we do in the shadows, our flag means death etc. he has never not been a māori eccentric making distinctly happy-sad dramedies born out of māori boyhood and the cadence of nz aoteoroa village kid humor like. that is an islander doing bits at ur aunty’s funeral if i ever saw one
anyway just ensuring the masses. that’s not western hollywood progressive ally it-boy sauce. u know what i mean. like the reason it’s refreshing is bc pasifika masculine tenderness exists outside of That. māori boys traditionally wear skirts and weave and wear flowers in their hair and collectively weep at funerals and kiss the body in the casket and tell self deprecating jokes when grandma is bummed out and learn to carry grief very. absurdly, comedically, softly, openly. grief both personal and historical. colonized islanders navigating the fracturing of our communities via jokes etc. it’s everything that white masculinity is not. so!!! idk there are and will continue to be a trillion essays on taika’s sauce bc he gets written fat checks and has like 7 massive projects out at any given time but the conversation would hugely benefit from not leaving out his. entire artistic ethos as an islander
