This is my decade old Hannibal blog that I am bringing back from the dead and rebranding because gay pirates (especially Roach, Frenchie, and Izzy) consume my every waking moment. I’ll spruce this blog up eventually. Tumblr has changed drastically in the 5 years I’ve been gone and I’m learning slowly
Anyone have any tips on how to find a beta reader? I’m back to writing fanfiction and I haven’t since ye olde fanfiction.net days. I’m writing an OFMD Steddyhands fic and just feel like my fic is missing something but I can’t put my finger on what.
You asked; I delivered. Have some silly Steddyhands - feat. some amazing ‘Draw The Squad’ poses from Roxy’s Refs on FB and croxovergoddess on tumblr! Wow, I’m so glad that these middle-aged men retired to run an inn together and everyone is alive and happy
Izzy Hands in OurFlagMeansDeath
2.06 • Calypso’s Birthday
“Edward Teach is just a teenage girl”
Yeah well Izzy is her “straight” best friend who she has an intensely codependent, vaguely sexual, extremely toxic relationship with.
And when your best friend who you are totally not in love with- ew why would you even suggest that, gets into a relationship, the only normal reaction is OBVIOUSLY to break them up for your friends protection (call the British navy) because that is what good friends do.
And then later you realize that you are actually gay and that those were in fact gay feelings and jealousy so
I’m sorry but they’re all teen girls and this is just the queer teen girl experience
“And what I think is lovely about Izzy’s arc or Izzy’s redemption is we don’t change who he was. It’s a version of who he was, who is now feeling gratitude and acceptance. And we can talk about the closet, whether it’s an emotional closet or a sexual closet. He comes out of the closet this season, figuratively and visibly, and every queer person has that story. They’re all different versions of the story, but the relief of the coming out process, it’s life-changing. ” — Con O'Neill
*Izzy asking Lucius for dating advice*
Lucius: Just be yourself.. You know, say something nice?
Izzy: … Well, which one? I can’t do both
Okay so here’s my pitch for the season 3 cold open-
We open to a close up of Stede’s face, he’s clearly concentrating, he’s sweating a little, and covered in blood. It’s pretty clear as we pan out to a shoulder shot that he just killed someone. He looks very sexy about it.
We switch to a close up of Ed’s face, sweaty, clearly has just been fucked. Maybe his top button is done up wrong. Who knows.
The shot pans out and we start hearing their conversation. They are outside the inn, digging up Izzy (stick with me)- they’re talking about how silly they feel for just now realizing this is the problem- OF COURSE Izzy has been so mad, they didn’t bury him with his ring! How silly of them! And they didn’t even notice until someone tried to rob them and Stede killed the robber (and they fucked about it). THAT must be why Izzy won’t stop haunting them. They tuck the ring into his breast pocket and start to rebury him.
Next shot- we find out that they think Izzy has been haunting them because of a the ~weird happenings~ at the Inn. The haunting does not stop after they bury the ring. This part of the episode starts very creepy, real horror movie vibes. However, we find out through the course of the episode that what they think is a haunting is just two whim prone chuckleheads with no experience running an Inn.
“All of the produce mysteriously went bad!” - Stede, whose experience with food preparation is putting marmalade on toast just left them too close to the fire and the heat did what it does to produce.
“The room keys keep going missing!” Nope. Ed simply cannot remember where he put them.
“The desk bell keeps ringing at night but there is no one there!” It’s buttons the seagull fucking with them.
They both think they’re responsible for the haunting and having a crisis about it. Idk, dealers choice about what they feel guilty about.
They are losing their fucking shit over this haunting. Maybe Izzy shows up once or twice in a Badminton style memory ghost.
We pan back to The Revenge. It’s a total parallel to what happened with the red suit.
They also think they are being haunted by Izzy.
The word “twat” keeps appearing carved into random places aboard the ship. Frenchie’s peanut allergy is back full swing. They keep sailing into storms by accident. Etc
They set sail for the Inn, desperate to ask Ed to control the ghost of his dead best friend or burn the body, anything to get rid of this fucking ghost.
It’s Jim fucking with them and dumb luck. (Except for the storm thing, it’s just impossible for anyone to read the weather as well as Ed)
They all meet up at the Inn, and now we have a Scooby Doo style episode where the ghost was the friendship and character growth we made along the way.
And then for an extra layer of comedy, maybe at the end of the season we see Izzy’s ghost just sort of old man loitering around the ship because he didn’t want to leave what I am affectionately deeming his kids.
Thank you for coming to my TedTalk
This is canon, I’m sorry, I don’t make the rules