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Fans Animate Queer Pirate Kiss in Our Frames Mean Love

A Little Bit Human published an article about the project featuring an interview with the moderators, Em and Cait.

HBO Max’s Our Flag Means Death, starring Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi, is a lot of things. It’s a swashbuckling romance, a celebration of historical queer pirates, and, for the countless fans whose hearts the show sailed into last year, a genuine treasure.

And that brings us to this May when fans – led by Em, a fan artist, and Cait, a pharmacist and an ardent lover of fan art – casually dropped a 41-second video that celebrates one of the show’s most impactful scenes: a kiss between Darby’s Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate, and Waititi’s Ed, the legendary Blackbeard.

The scene, brought to life in digital and traditional paints, knit, embroidery, fabric, paper, and even perler beads, was a project that took two months and 256 artists to create.

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