Stede’s wailing meltdown on his return to the Revenge upon finding out Ed threw out all his stuff

“But you walked away from everything you had, mate! You left it all to your wife!”

“Of course I did HALF OF IT WAS HERE”

[merriell]

Stede [Bonnet, played by Rhys Darby] was just so … I loved him. Did you know that was his real hair? That’s not a wig. I’m telling you right now, that was the hardest I ever laughed in a long time, when he told me that was his hair. [x]

[veil-of-lament]

hey so, in light of this great floor plan of the cabin from jackuntiljune on twitter, do you think in ep 6, when he backed into the hallway, ed crawled the entire length of the hallway to the bathroom? shaking, unable to support his own weight, navigating the manufactured darkness towards the only safe place he could find. going through flashbacks that blur reality, moving on instinct along the walls.

finally making it to the bathroom and immediately grabbing the robe as if it's a blanket to hide under, away from the monsters (himself).

yeah. anyways.

okay, but - Stede being like, hmm, must learn how to make love in a Manly Way, how do? and so it’s like -

“Lucius! Lucius– ah, Lucius, there you are. I need to have a word.”

“Yes?”

“I need your advice. Man to man.”

“…go on?”

“Ed and I intend to make love. Later today, actually.”

“That’s… great–”

“Absolutely, and so I need you to fill me in.”

“You need me to–what?”

“All the tips. All the details. I need your expertise. Not that I don’t have books, obviously, and the illustrations are really tip-top, but sometimes these things are best explained by an expert, wouldn’t you say?”

“I… uh…”

“Now, I’ve heard you’re a bit of a Lothario–”

“I mean, I don’t think that term exactly applies–”

“–and I want you to give me the real goods. I need the conversation to be quite frank. Possibly even ribald.”

“…oh, god…”

Twenty minutes later Stede strides off to meet his destiny, and Lucius is staring out at the sea, ashen-faced. Pete leans next to him; nudges him suggestively.

“Hey, sweetie…”

Lucius looks at him like one who has seen Death.

“No. Not now. And possibly never again.”

Stede Has Never Kissed Ed When Ed Had A Beard

I can’t decide if when he does it’ll be “ooh mr blackbeard ooh” or “ick id yer beard is scritchy”.

why yes, “dressed for success” by roxette IS on my stede bonnet playlist, why do you ask

[jude-shotto]

The Lighthouse
"Well, technically you're supposed to avoid lighthouses, so you don't crack up on the rocks."

-this line paired with the mindset of Stede that he ruins everything he touches or keeps close is 😘👌

Happy OurFlagMeansDeathDay 🏴‍☠️!

And here's a speed paint for this piece ^^

[polyamoryprincess]

Also everyone keeps forgetting that after Stede got /kidnapped/ he was convinced that he‘s destroying everyone around him and that he deserves to die AND THEN the person who convinced him, the very twin brother of the guy he manslaughtered and had PTSD induced hallucinations over, whose entire life was /destroyed/ by his hunt for Stede, tripped while trying to execute Stede AND ACCIDENTALLY BLEW HIS OWN BRAINS OUT.

Like the sword was horrifying but the twin shot himself point blank in the face. We don’t see his body like we see his brother’s body. Like they don’t play a single second of that for laughs like they did in the first episode, Stede screams in such genuine mind breaking horror.

That happens in the middle of the night. He arrives home in the middle of his wife’s meeting, mid-morning/early-afternoon. He walked straight from the corpse to his wife’s home over /hours/.

Everyone assumes he either lied to Ed or made a conscious decision to go back to his family out of guilt, and I’m sure that thought ultimately kept him on that path, but he was most likely in literal actual medical shock when he decided to go home, probably even when he enters the house.

That makes a lot more sense than him assuming she’d be super chill about him coming back after leaving (especially since he frequently imagined how upset she’d be for his leaving the way he did) and also knowingly making his family a harborer of a murderous pirate fugitive who might be associated with another dead body.

Less “I’ll abandon Ed and go back to my family” and more like Big Bold “Go Back. Undo. Get Home. It’ll be fine.” On a loop.

[feriowind]

He has to go back. 

– 

 A somewhat dramatized version of the missing scene in ep. 9