You ever feel trapped? Like you’re just treading water? Waiting to drown? Blackbeard always wins. That’s the thing. He can’t fail. It’s not even a challenge anymore. People just see the flag and they freak out. “Blackbeard!” And they basically just give up. They surrender. What’s the point? I don’t even need to be on the boat. I’m a ghost. There’s no chaos. There’s no drama. There’s no f*ckin’ life.
TAIKA WAITITI as EDWARD TEACH/BLACKBEARD in Our Flag Means Death
Thinking about Stede and how he’s concerned about his crew being potentially traumatized by violence and how encouraging and supportive he is of their creative endeavors and how he stood up for Ed against a room full of passive aggressive bullies and how he stood up for Buttons and Karl (RIP) against Jack being a violent bully and how he sat there with Ed as he was having a breakdown in that tub and reassured him that he was a good person and that Stede was his friend, and thinking about that one post that says something like you grow up to be the hero that wasn’t there to save you, and I’m just having a moment here, okay.
