I do think people's opinions on s2 are heavily influenced by the fact that most of us went into s1 like "yeah I guess I'll check out that pirate show my friend likes" and we went into s2 like it was a major life event.
one of my favorite s2 Stede moments is when Buttons says he's going to perform an avian transformation ceremony and Stede's just like sure! let's get you a bowl.
I'm 100% convinced Izzy's gonna kiss someone this season and we're going to make a million gifs of it and yet I don't know who or when and it's driving me insane.
personally I think Ed and Stede's forced slowburn is very cute. I want them to keep going with it. revel in the unresolved sexual tension. everyone around them is getting uncomfortable.
every time I get nervous about what's gonna happen in the last three episodes of s2 I remember that izzy now canonically hangs out in the captain's cabin to be a theatre kid with stede and nobody can take that away from me.
Izzy's character arc in s2 isn't about redeeming himself to the crew it's about accepting the love that they already have for him and going from barely surviving to thriving because of it and I'm feeling very emotional about that.
this is how steddyhands can still win: not with a bang but with stede sarcastically inviting izzy to join in already if he's gonna keep interrupting and izzy shrugging and nodding.
the flavor of steddyhands where ed and stede are the most annoying couple in the world and nobody can figure out if izzy is dating them or third wheeling or a secret third thing.
Vico having access to the actual Izzy Hands (Con in costume) and using that power to make him do tiktok dances... they're the most powerful fictional character stan in the world.
I really wish they were just releasing the last three episodes this week I'm gonna feel so stupid being on edge for a week waiting for 28 minutes of tv.
#ofmds2spoilers
I think s2 will end with the crew separated (amicably, with the understanding that they will meet again since djenks said the ending will be satisfying) and it'll be like:
on insta I saw a trans comedian talking about a time where they pulled out a knife at a party and someone went "this bitch has a knife" and then quickly corrected it to "this motherfucker has a knife" and that's jim and frenchie.
if con o'neill did in fact drop TLOU for OFMD he made the best possible decision for his career, assuming you measure career success by the quantity of tentacle porn of your character.
someone on tumblr posted some quotes from the script of a movie that was never made (The Sea Kings by William Goldman) that could be OFMD lines and... amazing.
#ofmds2spoilers
Okay is it just me or does it sound like he knows that this was their first time... did Stede tell Izzy during one of their gossip sessions that he and Ed hadn't fucked yet...
#ofmds2poilers
endlessly funny to me that every reunion fic included Izzy having to make up in some way for selling Stede out (and in many cases the author considered it an unforgivable crime) and then in the actual show everyone is just like [shrugs] izzy's a dick sometimes.
I'm definitely not the first person to make this observation but Izzy is 1000% the kind of guy to say he doesn't want a pet and then he's the one who bonds with the pet the most.
An Izzy death fakeout would make sense and it would be funny in retrospect but it would also give like half the fandom panic attacks in the middle of the episode so they probably shouldn't.
Thinking about the 5d chess Ed was playing in episode 4. I don't think we've talked enough about how yes the clothing swap was some flirty fun with his new buddy but it also gave him a chance to check if Stede's corpse would be the right size to pass off as his.
psa about hits-to-kudos ratio on ao3: a single reader, reading a fic once, can still lead to an ABSURD number of "hits".
I'm reading a certain fic for the first time. I'm on chapter 8/9. according to my history I have viewed this fic FIFTY TIMES.
stede: okay, all in favor of kicking ed off the ship for psychological torture, attempted murder, and general bad vibes, say aye.
entire crew: aye. 😐
stede: and all in favor of letting him stay on because he's just dealing with a lot and he's very pretty say aye... aye. 😀
keep thinking about how stede said treasure is the real treasure but izzy said, with full sincerity, that the real treasure is the friends we made along the way.
thinking about how con, a middle-aged queer man, put so much love into izzy, a middle-aged queer man that happens to also be a huge asshole, thinking that nobody would really like the character and then a solid portion of the fanbase decided that actually izzy needs to be loved
izzy hands is gay he's problematic he's the judas to ed's jesus he's emotionally immature he's a good shag he wants to be better but hasn't gotten the chance to he's got sexual tension with lucius he's a little bit afraid of jim and he's my best friend 💕