Snowflake: Our Flag Means Watch This!

[author_by_night]

In your own space, write a promo, manifesto or primer for your fave character, ship or fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'll copy off a manifesto I wrote for Our Flag Means Death on tumblr. Original post here.

I still see Firefly mentioned periodically. Which I get - I mourn its cancellation, too.

 

I'd like you to meet my new fave,Our Flag Means Death. Great Found Family vibes. Great humor. Lots of job shenanigans. Frenchie's  "A Pirate's Life" might rival Firefly's opening theme.   Most of the characters are queer and/or POC. 
 

Ed/Blackbeard has some Mal Reynolds energy. Stede is a combination of Wash and Inara - Inara in that he's Ed's love interest, and also a person from high status chilling with pirates for unclear reasons, Wash in that, well, if he could have toy dinosaurs, he totally would. 

 

Did I mention David Jenkins isn't an asswipe like Joss Whedon? 

 

Watch Our Flag Means Death. You will never break the chain. 

 

(In the event you know anything about the historic Blackbeard and/or Stede Bonnet, rest assured that Ed and Stede are VERY different from their historic counterparts. Completely different people, minus the names and some of the backstory/reported backstory for each. Kaz Rowe on YouTube broke it down really well.)
 

Comments

[misbegotten]

Ooh, I love how you compared OFMD specifics to Firefly! I am a big fan of found family stories and OFMD has it in spades.

[sparrow2000]

I loved Firefly so I think you might have sold me one this one. I hadn't heard of Our Flag Means Death, but colour me intrigued. Thank you so much for literally waving the flag. I do love the prospect of a new rabbit hole. :)

[kingstoken]

Yes! More OFMD fans!

[silveradept]

I can see the parallels, and OFMD is a great show to watch.

[mekare]

Okay this is a convincing argument: where can I watch it?

[author_by_night]

It really does. :)

[author_by_night]

It really does. :)

[author_by_night]

You're welcome! I hope you enjoy it!

[author_by_night]

Do you get HBO where you are?

Looks like it's also on BBC and Crave.

[mekare]

Ah, sadly none of these are available for me. I‘ll wait, maybe it‘ll appear somewhere else.

[badfalcon]

I have been wanting to watch this for a while, and the more I see, the more I want. So thank you!