Yes Ed Fucked Up And Deserved What He Got But Have You Considered That He's Just Like Me Fr?? Or That

yes ed fucked up and deserved what he got but have you considered that he's just like me fr?? or that he's literally my babygirl??? have you even thought about that

okay for REAL final thought before I have to get ready for work

I love how FASCINATED Ed and Stede are by each other.

Ed's telling a story about going fishing, one of the most objectively boring activities known to man (no offense to my fishing friends), and Stede is hanging onto his every word, absolutely rapt, complimenting Ed on his triumph.

Stede rambles for a bit about his new shirt, and Ed seems vaguely disappointed it wasn't actually a very long story after all.

They just can't get enough of each other. Ed could be reading from a phone book and Stede would be going "oooh, yes, Ed, I love how you said that Smith fellow's name, do it again." Stede could list every single kind of lace ever created and Ed would be staring at him all heart-eyed and encouraging him to start from the top all over again.

They just........love breathing the same air.

OH MY FUCKING. OK so I was gonna go screencap for one thing and then I noticed ANOTHER THING and realized a third thing and my socks are blown clean fucking off.

Jeff's Inn By The Sea, right.

THE HAIR.

Starting out, Ed's in his usual half-up everyday practical style (it's out of his face a bit, looks good, but nothing too fiddly).

Then in the next shot, he's pretending to be Jeff, and his hair is all up.

So adding to the thing from S1 where he puts his hair all the way down for his Blackbeard Persona on raids and when Krakening around, and half-up when he's being more himself, not hiding behind a persona.

Now we know the hairstyle that indicates Jeff. Jeff's hair is all done up. Like at the fancy party, except this time he had to do it himself and he doesn't have any flowers to put in it. Jeff is polite. Jeff is posh. Everyone likes Jeff. (except he's not really good with people, is he, because "Jeff" is still Ed, and Ed still struggles with wearing masks that aren't violence, with hiding the angry part of himself instead of the soft part. "Jeff" couldn't maintain the illusion of being a posh aristocrat at the party, and he can't keep it up now either when Hornighost starts being rude).

Hair all down, he's hiding his vulnerability. Hair all up, he's hiding his darker side. Half-up, he's expressing himself more honestly and completely.

There's one other time we've seen him wear his hair all up.

And as we know, here he's planning suicide by storm. He's hiding his intentions, keeping everyone thinking he's more stable, getting everyone out of the way so he can pull off his attempt without being stopped. Again, he's hiding his darker side.

And the updo starts to fall apart as he confronts Izzy and then tells Frenchie to take the day off, as he gets closer to not pretending anymore.

Then, in the storm, he's back to the half-up style again.

He's not pretending anymore.

i cant believe edith piaf covered a pirate love song originally performed by izzy hands

i LOVED that ed's most in depth conversation about the everything was with fang. who he's been with for 20 years and who is so so forgiving. having it with him made it feel like a reckoning with the entire history of blackbeard and how he's hurt people who could have been (could still be!) friends to him without realizing. he's already gotten to the idea that he was hurting himself with blackbeard and this was such a good way of getting him to see he was hurting others too. and to be FORGIVEN for it, for doing fucked up pirate shit like hornigold, who he's scared he's become and there's no way back, i feel like goes a long way to addressing a lot of the gravy basket shit. like yeah, you hurt other people. you hurt yourself. blackbeard was not a Good thing to have been. but it's okay. you can be something different now and the same people you've always wanted on your side and thought you had to perform blackbeard for might actually love you for it

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