#team effort to get weird
having a brain blast on the idea of izzy and stede actually continuing to have narrative similarity in how they both seem to have this like. action-adventure story idea of piracy, where stede is all focused on the freedom and romanticism of the idea of a pirate’s life, and izzy on the gritty action-adventure of being a pirate and being the most badass, aggressive, hypermasculine guy around, and neither of them can understand how a person might just want to have a life that isn’t surrounded by violence or might want comfort and a little peace and a break from it all
(ed, i mean ed, i mean neither of them really understands that ed just wants to retire, that it’s not that he hates piracy but that he became a pirate because he had to survive and he’s tired of surviving and he just wants to live now)
#THIS THO #there’s a fucking red string board of thematic pairs (and more than pairs) on the show #but stede and izzy have FASCINATING strong parallels #which is why i think it’s extra fascinating that when i wrote my bar meta i kept thinking: i could be writing this about izzy #only stede says 17 words and goes …shit. shit i FUCKED UP #and he tries to tell those bar assholes their glamorized image of piracy and thus violence is all wrong #whereas izzy is on the other end of growth: regression!!! #he is still stuck in the system and he sees losing the toe as actually winning for once #stede won and went: shit i hate this oh god ew i hate this??? take it back #izzy won and came in his pants and had subtext sex with ed (where he bottomed!) #and the next day he practically cries with joy when fang is like. the fuck is wrong with you. #that is the face of a man who feels ridden hard and put away wet in the GOOD (and sex) way #this show is ridiculous
Just putting @knowlesian‘s tags in the post like they should be
FUN FACT I AM WRITING JUST SUCH A THING (prev tags in a post??? more likely than you think) …a couple things actually they’re annoyingly fun to compare/contrast
also i just realized a fun little wink for those of us who like to get freaky with themes AND parallels: izzy being fucking horrified stede won the duel by losing/being penetrated comes full circle with the toe
where izzy wins by losing and ends up penetrated subtextually by edward but mostly literally by himself?
there’s just a lot there.
