And an incredibly accessible one at that. They’re not just an actor, they’re a fan too. Ortiz has shared BTS set photos, made TikToks to trending sounds cosplaying as characters, and has interacted with their fans at every level. Ortiz’ Jim is receiving a lot of love, not just because their character is fundamentally a badass, but because of Ortiz themselves. To call the show a phenomenon is not an understatement.
The hashtag #RenewOurFlagMeansDeath has been used across Twitter and Tumblr in the hundreds of thousands - much to the rejoice of today’s news, timed to the first day of Pride month, that confirmed the show would return for season two. Within months of the release of Our Flag Means Death, fanart, fanfiction, and meta popped up all over the internet. They’ve been a part of their local queer scene in Los Angeles for years, and now they go out to a show and they’re recognised.
I asked Ortiz about how it feels to be a part of something that has garnered a massive, outspoken fandom. “It was so healing, honestly, to see all these different kinds of queers on screen.” In Our Flag Means Death queerness isn’t relegated to the sidelines of the story, but made the focus, the fulcrum on which the whole show hinges. “The way they handled so many of the characters and relationships in the show was beautiful,” Ortiz told Gizmodo.
You can feel free to read subtext into many of the characters, but when I watched the first season, I personally subscribed to the newsletter of repressed self-hating gay man, Izzy Hands (Con O’Neill). In addition to Jim and their love interest, Oluwande (Samson Kayo), Lucius Spriggs (Nathan Foad) had a romance with Black Pete (Matthew Maher) and a dalliance with Fang (David Fane), Calico Jack (Will Arnett) and Teach had a confirmed romantic past together, and Spanish Jackie (Leslie Jones) went for polyamory with her harem of husbands. While the romantic pillar of the show was the relationship between Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) and Blackbeard–also known as Edward Teach (Taika Waititi)–they were hardly the only pair to get a romance. “When I read the pilot, I thought to myself, ‘you know this is pretty gay’, but I never thought the show would go that far,” Ortiz explained to Gizmodo over video chat recently. With a small timeframe and a smaller budget, writer-director David Jenkins created a queer workplace comedy that took a swift detour into a historical high-seas romance, bodice-ripping included. Ortiz wasn’t the queer one, but one of the queers, a part of an expansively queer cast that centered queerness in the storytelling. The thing is though, Our Flag Means Death doesn’t just have one queer character. Their character, Jim (shortened from their last name, Jiminez), is a transgender, nonbinary, Latine person who uses they/them pronouns… just like Ortiz. “I’m used to being the queer one.” Ortiz is speaking about their role in the hit pirate comedy, Our Flag Means Death. Pics of hot sexy grannies free porn Hot porn pictures.“I knew my character was going to be the queer one,” Vico Ortiz said in our interview last week. Twink Porn Tumblr 131940 | Bushy Twink Hung Cock Gay Twink at Black Dicks for White Boys Collection of gay Photos de photos de blacks Le blog de Une Histoire de Mecs
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