Our Flag Means Pride

✨🏳️‍🌈 Our flag means pride ✨🏳️‍🌈

People often complain about "how many genders there are". When you go through school, you learn that there are three states of matter. You also learn that there are two genders. Of course, this is not the reality. You may learn that plasma is a fourth state of matter, and that there are transgender or nonbinary people.

Let's take a look at the true number of states of matter...

I feel that if Bose-Einstein condensate is a valid state of matter, then girlflux is a valid label.

The real world is FAR from simple. Not even matter is binary (or quaternary).

I've noticed that a lot of folks think, "Izzy thought Stede and Edward were fucking on the deck" during the "run me through" scene.

Which isn't something I even considered until I saw people talking about it, as if that was what had happened.

I don't think Izzy would have been nearly as upset (or to be exact, the type of upset that he was - scared, confused, horrified, crying and then storming off) if he had seen them fucking. I think we would have got a reaction similar to the ones where he walked in on Lucius and Pete/Fang (frustrated, annoyed, confused, pissed off and vocal about it).

Izzy is a queer codded "villain" in a gay rom/com. He's not functioning on the same rules as eveyone else, becouse he's playing a different genre.

In Izzy's genre/world, sex isn't an ultimate expression of romance - violence is.

Homoerotic sword stabbing is a part of his world, not Bonnet's. Edward is sharing something far more intimate than an orgasm with Stede, he's sharing his mortality with him, his blood, his life. Stede is incapable of understanding this action, in fact he's disturbed and unsettled by it. In Stede's world there isn't anything romantic or sexual about impaling another man with a sword, becouse in Stede's world/genre, he can kiss Edward softly and (at least make plans to) run away with him to live happily ever after.

However, for Izzy - Violence is Love. Being pinned to a wall and choked is beautiful, having your toe cut off and forcibly autocannablized is euphoric. Of course, these things are also traumatizing, becouse love for the Hays Code queer is traumatizing.

So, I don't think Izzy thought Stede and Ed were having sex. I think he was aware that Ed was being stabbed, which for Israel Hands, is a form of intimacy far more meaningful and he was emotionally devastated by this, to the point of crying becouse he felt betrayed. Violence (and specificly homoerotic violence) is supposed to be his thing, their thing, a part of Blackbeard's world, that Bonnet isn't supposed to be privy to.

Happy Pride Month.

a very special shout-out to Allan for existing

I was being cancelled because apparently it was classist to put feathers on dinosaurs.

Both dream me and irl me were very confused.