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03/13-16/2025 Daily OFMD Recap
TLDR; David Jenkins; Rhys Darby; Samba Schutte; Kristian Nairn; Nicola Dove; Siren Events: Behind Our Flag; Love Notes;
Hey luvs, I know I'm super behind again-- I actually took a couple days off from work to catch up on all the stuff I have to get done around the house and online I'll do my best to be caught up over the next couple days! <3
= David Jenkins =
David's been keeping active over on bluesky and sending some love to our crewmate Danielle aka dbsaveofmd.bsky.social!
Source: David's Bsky
Also, he's joining the digital convention going on on April 5th via Siren Events! Visit the bottom of the recap for more info!
Source: David's Bsky
= Rhys Darby =
Rhys was out helping to manage the new AoNZ Sail GP team, the Black Foils! He even got to do his traditional Murray Role call!
Source: Rosie's IG Stories
Lots of solo shots and pics with Rosie and Theo out with the team as well!
Source: Rhys' IG
Other great news in Darby-land was Season 2 of Monsters At Work, where Rhys voices Roger Roger, won an Emmy for Outstanding Voice Direction! Congrats team!
Source: Rhys' IG
Rhys also announced returning to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! You can get tickets for Aug 1-10! at https://www.pleasance.co.uk/
Source: Rhys' IG
= Samba Schutte =
Samba was sharing lots of memories and friends!
Source: Samba's IG Stories
= Kristian Nairn =
Kristan was out at Comic Con Scotland Aberdeen on March 14 and 15 and he did a couple interviews/panels!
Source: Simon Cassidy IG
= Nicola Dove =
Our beloved S2 photographer was kind enough to post more /updated stills!
Source: Nicola Dove IG / 2
Annnnd Rubio and Samba had a little fun with them...
Source: Ruibo's IG Stories
= Siren Events: Behind Our Flag Event =
Hey all! Sorry this is so delayed on announcing but April 5th, 2025 - 18:00 UTC, the online Our Flag means Death Virtual Convention will be taking stage!
You can still purchase a ticket for the entire event here! Here's the schedule!
LIVESTREAM SATURDAY 5TH APRIL 2025 (UK 19:00-02:00) VIEW ON DEMAND FROM SUNDAY 6TH APRIL 2025
A SPECIAL 90 MINUTE PANEL WITH DAVID JENKINS
Saturday 5th April 18:00 (UTC) / 19:00 (BST / UK)
60 MINUTE BREAK - 19:30 (UTC) / 20:30 (UK / BST)
LOOKS THAT STOLE THE SHOW: BLACKBEARD
Saturday 5th April 20:30 (UTC) / 21:30 (UK / BST)
30 MINUTE BREAK - 21:30 (UTC) / 22:30 (UK / BST)
LOOKS THAT STOLE THE SHOW: MERMAIDS & UNICORNS
Saturday 5th April - 22:00 (UTC) / 23:00 (UK / BST)
BUILDING THE WORLD OF OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH
Saturday 5th April - 23:00 (UTC) / 00:00 (UK / BST)
THE BEST REVENGE IS DRESSING WELL
Sunday 6th April - 00:00 (UTC) / 01:00 (UK / BST)
and last but not least, Kelly Ren Head Painting & Sculpting!
Source: Siren Events UK
== Love Notes ==
It's been a while lovelies! Jeez! What a year it's been. I tell ya one of these days things are going to calm the heck down and things are going to get easier, they just have to.
Today I just wanted to remind you that tomorrow can be so scary when things are uncertain. We never know what's going to happen--- but that doesn't mean we have to always look to the future. Sometimes, when things are hard, we need to sit here in the moment and process them so we can deal with tomorrow when it comes. Please remember to get some rest and be kind to yourselves lovelies. 🫶. S
Source: The Latest Kate's IG
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if you’re wondering how you can help POC, can you please stop reblogging art where ed is too dark. please stop sharing fic where ed needs a white man to save him like he’s a doll they have to manage rather than a full person. please stop sharing work that exoticises non white characters. that’s the bare minimum you could do. i don’t care if the comic is funny or you don’t want to confront the author
i’m sorry i can’t tell you every single time this happens bc if i did, i would have another unpaid part time job just running into DMs to tell people they’ve shared something racist. at a certain point i have to trust that you’re an adult who can teach themselves to spot this stuff
the LEAST you can do is not engage. please stop failing at the EASIEST action you could take. i don’t know how much more begging and groveling i can do for white people to CONSIDER listening to me. i’m exhausted.
The symbolism of light and lanterns (and lighthouses) has probably been talked about ad nauseam at this point (I know I've done tons of meta on it myself) but it still scratches at a part of my brain.
So I want to talk specifically about the use of candles in this show.
For the most part, lanterns are shown on the ship, held or sat near the crew (but that's another topic.) This is mainly for safety of course, you wouldn't want a particularly strong wave to rock the ship and knock over the open flame. (The Revenge already has a fireplace! Madness!)
Let's look at a few times on the ship where candles are used specifically with Stede.
Specifically during two of Ed and Stede's deepest moments: the bathtub scene and cocaptains.
During these two moments the lights are not just used as mere lighting but as symbolism.
In 1x6, during Ed's panic attack, he crawls into the tub and covers himself with Stede's robe. The low lighting of the candles gives the scene an air of intimacy. When Stede first joins Ed in the tub, the two of them are shown in separate mirrors and two candles are present, which both physically symbolize where they are at the moment. Two mirrors, two candles.
But then the cinematography changes after Ed tells his darkest secret, Stede accepts it no questions, no judgement, and then declares that he is Ed's friend. They are now closer to becoming one: a unit, they are friends. And to symbolize that physically they are both shown in the same mirror. The blocking has Stede in front of the second candle, cause just like the mirror, only one candle is needed. This is a positive use of candles and lighting used as hope and love.
Next up is the cocaptains scene. There is one bright candle in front of them, like a beacon that casts light on both of their faces. In the background the two round lights that touch each other, two becoming one: Cocaptains.
The last positive use of the candle is the one in the background during the "I love everything about you" scene. I've written an entire analysis of the movement and meaning of that candle and scene.
The progression of the candle getting closer to Ed the more Stede talks during this scene gets me every time. It starts behind Stede, only shining on him, then moves between them: they are sharing the hope and love, and then next to and touching Ed. Stede's love, hope, and light shines symbolically through and onto Ed, while Ed opens up, looking at Stede, and taking the words to heart, letting the light soak in.
Now let's move on to the other times Stede is shown with a candle.
The only other time we see candles really used on the ship is during a meal. In the pilot, they cover the table when the British Navy is there. Stede and the rest of the crew are forced to perform during this part (it's wonderful in episode six that their performance switches to who they want to play, basically putting on a scary play for another ship.) candles on the table with the British and some of the crew, lanterns with the rest of the crew in the background.
This is not a positive moment like the previous instances, instead it is during moments of repression and hiding ones true self.
Speaking of that...the rest of the time candles are used with Stede during his time at home.
A candelabra sits behind Stede as he presents Mary with the model of the ship. The ship was built as an escape, Stede's last attempt to make the life that was killing him work. The hope of a different future behind him as Mary (rightfully) chastises him about the ship.
The narrative shows us that Mary and Stede do not have a happy marriage. They circle each other, which leaves them living together but not being together. We see this in the blocking of the shot in bed, Mary lays flat on her back, hands on her lap while Stede lays on his side, facing away from Mary and hugging himself. A single candle shines on Stede's side, that hope (aka the Revenge) off in the distance. Mary's side is dark, she didn't know about the plan, currently doesn't have that hope.
When Stede returns back to Bridgetown, candles are used to shine the light onto the situation: Stede no longer (did he ever?) fits into this life.
The candlelight illuminates the darkness — the space he once existed as the patriarch of the family now painted over by black paint. (What I love about this is Mary is a painter, the subtext of that she is the one who painted him out, taking control of her own narrative, just like Stede leaving was him taking control of his.)
Not only are there tons of candles around him, but one particularly one he holds up that both shines on the void and his current face, it is literally illuminating the knowledge of the situation with light. (Like the classic lightbulb lighting up moment.)
Next, Stede carries around a candle on a single holder. He holds it up in front of his face, once again illuminating the knowledge of Mary moving on.
Both of these moments offer a literal sense of Stede realizing that he does not fit in the old life anymore. But it also shows how both Mary and Stede have moved on, have embraced their true selves and are now happy in this new life.
Mary and Stede talk to each other, truly talk to each other for the first time. There are no more hard feelings, but rather an understanding of each other that comes from finally understanding and embracing their own selves.
As Stede sits in his old seat candles surround him. We saw in an earlier scene that his family sat at the other end of the table, but this time he places the petrified orange at that end. This symbolism of Ed sits directly next to Ed that symbol of hope and light in Stede's life. All the other candles behind him show Stede hope on the back burner at the moment, that lone beacon of hope.
Overall, candles are used as a representation of hope and enlightenment for Stede. When the candles are behind him is when Stede's hope is at his lowest. But once Ed and Stede are together, have found each other from the dark, candles reflect that hope and light the one brings to the other.
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they should’ve made something like castiel shorts where we see him trying to do different human things like that scene where he goes grocery shopping for dean because it was so funny and I’d watch the hell out of it because I love him
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Imagine your situationship betrays you, breaks your brothers head, becomes god, crawls back to you saying he’s sorry and he’ll make it up to you, fucking dies before he can make it up to you, then you spend a really long ass time suppressing your emotions AND loosing your father figure so you barely have time to even think about it, then your brother fully has a psychotic break and when you finally think you found someone who can help it turns out that’s your ex-situationship! He’s not actually dead AND he doesn’t remember you and he goes by Emmanuel. And he has a wife which you feel very normal about. You decide to not tell him that he’s an angel and instead decide to vent about your friend Cas who betrayed you and is the reason your brother is crazy. You tell him that you’re usually able to shake these things but Cas’ betrayal is different for reasons we’re not gonna dive into. He tells you that you don’t have to have a reason and that you’re not a machine. He has known you for approximately 30 minutes and is already reading you like a book. Finally, you have to tell him. He gets his memory back by smiting a bunch of demons while an edit plays in his head. He’s devastated by what he did and wants to leave. It’s revealed that you kept his trench coat and have been keeping it in the trunk of your car or I guess taking it through multiple cars. You give him his trench coat. He does the only thing he can do which is transfer the craziness to himself. Your brothers okay and you two decide to leave your him in the psych ward. This happened to my good friend, Dean Winchester.
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It’s been too long since I’ve drawn this scene 🧜♂️
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@follows-the-bees comments here made me think about how Ed frames so much of his life and his understanding of the world as stories. He turns himself into a fantastical sea monster to kill his father, he imagines Stede as a fantasy creature who crosses the line between life and death. Blackbeard himself is a myth and a legend whom Ed initially invents as a form of pageantry and protection, and who escapes from him and starts being taken over by racist white men and an imperial power caricatures and horror narratives.
With Stede's letter, Ed finds himself written into another story, but this time it's a love story. It's Stede's dream about him, about connecting to him across an ocean, about being intertwined with him. It is the first time someone has put Ed down on paper not as a monster or a myth, but a human being who is deeply loved. It may be the first time sees himself through someone else's eyes and realizes that he is loved, not feared.
Stede has drawn and written Ed, over and over, as he sees Ed and as Ed truly is--not a ghoul, not a monster, not a racist caricature, but a beautiful, lovable man. There are no lies about him on that paper or in anything Stede writes or draws.
The physical act of writing their love into the world--and Stede also metaphysically writes their names on each other--helps Ed to accept himself as someone who is loved and who can be loved. Stede tells Ed their story.
His whole life he has played all those caricatures.
I really love the point you make about how he has only seen himself as these stories: the racist Blackbeard drawings, the deep sea creature who people fear, in books and on posters. And we see how he responds to one of those depictions in the fourth episode. Mocking it saying he is just a man, has one gun and one knife just like everyone else.
We see how Izzy responds to another version of the Blackbeard drawing in another book. He tried to tell Ed that this is who he is. Ed takes up that caricature until he can't anymore.
But lastly we see Stede's responses to those posters. How he mocks it the same way Ed used to. That's not him, that's not Ed, just like Ed tried to convey to him. In the same way Stede was able to rewrite his story, becoming a real boy in Pinocchio, he starts to rewrite Ed's. From the letters to the poems to those little drawings on the sides of maps.
OFMD is a theatrical play and the characters get to write the plotline. Stede rewrites his story then gives Ed the freedom to rewrite his. To make up his own narrative that doesn't just include what he considers his darkness, but the beacon of light. All through love conveyed in the written word.