I’m About To Start The Last Episode Of The Original Series

PHILIP LESTER. THAT IS NOT ADEQUATE PROTECTION FROM THE ABSOLUTE POWER OF THE FUCKING SUN.

sobbing actual tears 🥺

Y’all I love the dynamic in episode 5 so much…

One of the reasons I love ofmd is because Ed and Stede are both repressed in ways that are inherently exclusive to queer men but in completely different ways. It makes the way they learn from each other so interesting and informs what they need from each other.

Stede’s able to present himself in a way that reads as queer by modern standards his whole life because of his aristocratic status, but he doesn’t want it. (And yes modern standards matter in a historical fiction show that has lines like “ew, lame” 😂). His whole life he’s been blamed by everyone in his life for not being “man” enough, not being able to even fake it till he makes it. The fact that his queerness is worn on his sleeve at all times with only the virtue of period typical straight obliviousness keeping him hidden makes it so he almost kind of has a “been there done that” attitude about it. After all, it only ever lead to bad things.

Meanwhile Blackbeard is the exact masculine ideal Stede thinks he (himself) should be, and he doesn’t want that. Ed’s the perfect definition of a “real man” but it’s something he was forced to hastily toss up like a wall for defense decades ago without actually considering what makes him feel like himself. He lights up at the promise of colorful fancy clothes, he likes being soft and kind of ridiculous, he wants to be the one who’s wooed by someone he likes. But he can’t ever really have an outlet for those things because he accidentally became the literal poster child of traditional masculinity. (It’s the classic “ran into the closet so hard you broke through the wall and don’t even know where tf you are now” lol)

So what happens in episode 5?

Ed let’s Stede “save the day” instead of him which culminates in a ship on fire (peak swash buckling), and Stede let’s Ed stand under the moonlight and basically hear that he’s pretty.

"they can't make another aos chris pine is old and raggedy now" you don't understand. this is exactly why they have to make another aos.

Netflix make dead boy detectives season 2 happen pretty please

hey texans listen up

we need to start referring to abbot as the gregoner. please. i think it would really improve the political climate. thank you for your time, as you were. <3

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People complaining about Lockwood and Co in AAALLLLL the Dead Boy Detectives posts on YouTube and Instagram, and alllll the complaining and speculating in the DEAD BOY DETECTIVES tags.

PLEASE please stop. I’m SORRY about your show. I’m sorry it was cancelled.

Dead Boy Detectives is a property that ties into The Sandman, was created decades before the Lockwood books, and is based on Neil Gaiman characters.

There’s a lot of reason for us to be happy and excited and I’m here in these tags to celebrate THIS show.

Complain to NETFLIX via direct message, tags, DMs, tweets whatever but can you PLEASE let us be excited for THIS show?

I need my tiddies chopped like Kirk and my uterus slashed like Will

help me

the gay pirate show has taken permanent residence in my mind and for WHAT REASON

shonk owes me money

I love the Sherlock & co discord server so much ( the person who made this @nic-the-rat ) !!!