Re-watching Withnail & I for about the millionth time. I love this film so much. It's a masterful mix of tragedy and comedy. Richard Grant and Paul McGann are both perfect in it.
This is a dumb AU crack fic I wrote on Tumblr a few months ago after an Izzy hater there earnestly whined that nobody ever wrote 'cute 'coffee shop next to the tattoo parlor' AU fics in which Izzy called the cops on Stede. I moved it over to AO3 today because it's hard for me to keep track of things on Tumblr.
If they changed Izzy's name to Minion, OFMD would immediately become 1000% funnier and all the haters and antis would have nothing to bitch about, IMO.
I was thinking about that hilarious bit in 'The Art of Fuckery' when Izzy gets all flustered trying to get Blackbeard out of that harness before he chafes his balls... I wonder how many times Blackbeard actually did chafe his balls wearing that silly harness because he was trying to scare the crew on some ship the QAR raided. And did Izzy have to put salve on chafed balls? And why did Blackbeard bring that harness and all his fuckery smoke pots with him over to the Revenge in the first place?
I keep seeing fans claim that Stede beat Izzy in the duel. No. Stede won the duel on a technicality because Izzy's sword broke, but he didn't beat Izzy at swordplay. If anyone/anything beat Izzy in the duel, it was the Revenge itself because Izzy's sword jammed in the mast. In fact, I'd argue that Izzy defeated himself because he got so agitated trying to retrieve his sword that he pulled on the sword hilt too hard and broke it himself.