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schmirius_blog2024-11-04 10:47 pm
schmirius) wrote in schmirius_blog2024-11-04 10:47 pm
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I mean the thing about "the gentleman pirate": it's just an oxymoron that's the snfirs thesis of "he'll kill you... with /kindness!/" and in this universe,that's the kind of guy would show up a d kill you, worse luck
kill (pirate) with kindness! (gentlemen)
passive (gentleman) aggressive (pirate)
the show says it 50 times to remind you who Stede is/sees himself as. absurd, but adorably so. or insanely so, if you're reading him as a pirate
(rather than reading the title "gentlemen" and mentally filing the piece away as a regency style lords-you-dont-understand
kill (pirate) with kindness! (gentlemen)
passive (gentleman) aggressive (pirate)
the show says it 50 times to remind you who Stede is/sees himself as. absurd, but adorably so. or insanely so, if you're reading him as a pirate
(rather than reading the title "gentlemen" and mentally filing the piece away as a regency style lords-you-dont-understand