I think it would be really funny & cute if it were like Uno. And rum

I just love the idea that he's someone's escaped labubu. And Now he's the sea's labubu

Yeah i love trying to fix them, but. They need fixing lol

Jim gets them for him, he'd never spend that kind of money on himself. Well they didn't spend that kind of money either, they just get them for him

—for him. And I still think fishing could've been that secret third thing that keeps them all at sea. Pop Pop come back

—fix, but then he really enjoyed it & succeeded to the point of thinking everything would always work out.

I think his worry that it wouldn't always work out *was* filmed (the extended Road to Moscow scene shows him secretly concerned when nobody's looking), but not sure what other plans they had—

I did kinda think Stede would walk away eventually—s1e1 Olu stating nobody chooses to become a pirate opened the question of, what was Stede running from, & the answer was very quickly revealed as "a comphet life & loveless marriage." So I wondered if/when he might think piracy was a temporary—