Anyone Remember That Book By The Curious George Authors Abt The Transgender Kangaroo

anyone remember that book by the curious george authors abt the transgender kangaroo

i need to rewatch to find all the parallels but they made it so clear that ed was deliberately trying to channel hornigold when he was trying to get the crew to turn on him

from the arbitrary punishments with terrible consequences (hornigold makes the cabin boy eat a live crab, ed tries to get archie and jim to fight to the death) to how hornigold calls ed 'old chum' after we've seen ed use this phrase for the first time when he's just given the gun to izzy

ed has had two father figures. one of them was so awful that ed killed him. the other was so awful that ed tries to emulate him when he wants to get killed.

hey don't cry. new bears in trees song apathy is boring out on friday ok

gonna thrift a black shirt tomorrow so i can paint "im kenough" on it in metal font and give it to my cousin <3

Okay, coming back to this post initiated from @jellybeanium124 now that I've had some time to wake up and rewatch the scene in question of Stede walking in on the crew devouring the seagull raw.

Like I said in my original "something something" response, there is some folklore that seagulls possess the souls of deceased sailors, and the screeches they make are the sailor's mournful wails. Therefore, it was considered bad luck to harm seagulls in any way, because it would be doing injury to the soul of a sailor.

Related, there is of course The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, where the mariner kills the albatross, bringing about great calamity to the crew. The mariner is then forced by the crew to wear the albatross around his neck as a sign of his guilt while they go through hell on the high seas.

I do believe the world of OFMD follows these superstitions. We see it with Karl and Olivia being able to speak with Buttons, and we see what happens to Calico Jack when he kills Karl. Yes, that was with some hexly influence from Buttons, but point stands: killing birds is Bad.

Something I keep stirring in my "is this intentional or is this DJenks handwaving to move the story along" pot is that the crew apparently didn't check if Ed was breathing. They dealt the blow, then laid his body out and did their best to forget about him.

Until Stede shows up.

I believe this scene is meant to show that the crew is literally chewing on their guilt. They just killed the greatest sailor they knew. He was their friend. This isn't what they wanted to happen, but they felt they had no choice.

And perhaps that's why they didn't check to see if he was breathing. Because they didn't want to look too closely. They didn't want to confront the horror of what happened that night. They just made sure they were out of danger, then closed the door and attempted to move on without dwelling on it. As Frenchie would say, they took the terrible things they saw, put them in a box in their minds, lock the box, and don't open it again.

But then Stede arrives, and they know they're going to have to open the box.

They don't say anything. They just keep chewing on their guilt, as if saying "yeah, we did what we had to do. Who are you to judge?"

But eventually it's all going to come out.