apropos of nothing, of course, if you like stories about pining while fucking over the course of years with increasingly difficult-to-ignore feelings and tension about coming out:

Coping with my family of origin on Christmas by painting the face I wish I could make constantly I’m pretty happy either way this Stede all things considered! 🥹

merry christmas 🎄💜

✨It’s the most wonderful time of the year✨ #ofmd #ofmdfanart #ofmdnsfw #edwardteach

old work again merry christmas everyone

Reposting this for the holiday spirit, hope everyone has a restful day today and tomorrow and it's filled with warmth, good food and [redacted]😊 Love y'all 💛 #ofmd #ofmdfanart

wanna do something weird? ❄️ #ofmd #ofmdfanart

💝 #ofmd #ofmdfanart

Short Steddyhands Christmas eve 🧵

merry christmas, here’s “wonderwall.” (just kidding, it’s “night moves.”) archiveofourown.org/works/76364991

Merry Christmas! Peace to us all #OFMD #OurFlagMeansDeath #ourflagmeansdeathfanart #ofmdfanart #izzyhandsfanart #IzzyHands #ofmdizzy #ofmdixzyhands #cononeill #ouizzyfanart #ouizzy #frenchie #ofmdfrenchie #FrenchieOFMD #JoelFry

I don’t know if the best things happen while you’re dancing or if they just happen with this fandom 😁 Either way, here’s some special artwork I made for today! Celebrate this 24th day of December by checking out the 2025 Advint Calindah! Here: ourflagmeans.gay/projects/cal...

For Dec 24th a holiday classic reimagined by @heyitsalliemack.bsky.social 😍❄️🧣 Danny Kaye eat your heart out 😌 ourflagmeans.gay/2025/ Merry any-mas to the most savage, insane, vengeful pirate horde i know <3

Bringing this back for Christmas 💋 Happy 24 days of Stedemas! 💖❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💖 #OurFlagMeansDeath #OFMD #OFMDfanart #TheVillainsArt

bump for the folks who may have been asleep when i posted

the jamestown ferry chapter 19 (featuring art by @sweetpotato70.bsky.social) just the epilogue to go after this! 🥲 archiveofourown.org/works/687612...

almost done 🥺🥺🥺

what if i told you that i wrote today’s gift? and what if i also told you that there’s art by @sweetpotato70.bsky.social???

What better time of year to answer the question is Stede is a good boy? And WHO better to answer it than Edward Teach? 😌🎁🎅 Dec 23rd brought to you by the @flagmeanssteph.bsky.social & @citrussyndicate.bsky.social dream team! Check it out! ourflagmeans.gay/2025/

They are so childish, I hate (love) them 😤💕 My gift for @sensationseekng.bsky.social for the the art server exchange! :D Here are your cozy soft modern Edizzy in the log cabin they rented for their winter holidays! u7u #ofmdfanart #edteach #izzyhands #edizzy

Give a cat a warning!

Definitely my Badminton Gallery!

(•_•) <) )╯ well well well / \ ( •_•) \( (> look who's eating / \ (•_•) <) )╯ seaweed / \

b i g day for moustache Stede fans (me) Dec 22: Brings a little NSFW nostalgia with this holiday banger by @unfunpleasures.bsky.social and art by @sweetpotato70.bsky.social 🧔‍♂️🕯️🍆🎄👀 ourflagmeans.gay/2025/

My little contribution for day 20 of @roximonoxide.bsky.social 's amazing Advint Calindah 🎅🎁🎄 Go check the project out on ourflagmeans.gay/2025/ and happy holidays! #ofmd #ofmdfanart #gentlebeard #advintcalindah #ourflagmeansdeath

My Canyon Christmas gift for @ginnedfish.bsky.social , I hope you like it! I combined the prompts "Jack/Izzy" and "modern AU"... The 70s counts as modern if the show is set in 1717, right? Right!? #ofmd #cjizzy #canyonchristmas

FINAL DAY OF HOLESTICE which means i have to rec @stedezissou.bsky.social and my WAS (Wet-Ass Squssyverse), as it is indeed the wettest, holeyest fic i have. archiveofourown.org/series/3311524 featuring SO MUCH ART

Are you kidding me with this gorgeous collab?! 70s Christmas Eve porn?!?!?😍 @unfunpleasures.bsky.social and @sweetpotato70.bsky.social you’re the greatest ourflagmeans.gay/2025/

if you need something to read (or reread) today, allow me to tempt you with Winter Heat by @kalansphantomff.bsky.social for some needy omega Stede deliciousness 😌🍆💦✨ archiveofourown.org/works/57925222 #ofmdfanart #ofmdnsfw #gentlebeard

another ficrecfriday pic, still fucking excellent No Delays by @fakegeekboy.bsky.social and podfic performed by @sdryan.bsky.social archiveofourown.org/works/61850614

This one was so much fun to write, and @sweetpotato70.bsky.social knocked it out of the park with the art 😍

Dec 21: Brought to you by @sweetpotato70.bsky.social because who better to ring in solstice than a fancy little snow fairy? 😍❄️🧚‍♂️ ourflagmeans.gay/2025/

Oh my gosh today’s art by @sweetpotato70.bsky.social is soooooooooooooo cute! 😍 ourflagmeans.gay/2025/

c0mm 🐟🧜‍♂️ spooky mermizzy! #izzyhands #ofmd #ofmdfanart

They're the loudest at the party. And the first and last to karaoke. There's an annual bet in the friend group over how long before Ed calls the nibbles 'whores derves'. Stede suspiciously wins the bet every year. It's three years before their friends catch onto the fuckery. #ofmd #OurFlagMeansDeath

yo ho ho | #ofmd

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We're deliriously happy.

Hi loves, if you have comms open or are needing help, please link me to your info post so I can share. 🧡🧡

This is the ideal gay couple. You may not like it, but this is what peak faggotry looks like.

Ed is stuck at the office, marked as essential staff for the last day before Bonnet Industries closes for the holidays. It's fine. He can do anything. But when a power outage leaves him trapped with Stede, the day takes a definite turn for the weird. #OFMDfic archiveofourown.org/works/75943301

Final post from me and @whataccountantsdo.bsky.social A new full fic featuring brief Ed/Mary and Stede/Doug pairings Death Of A Slut (Era) - (please note the CW warnings on chapters 2 & 3) archiveofourown.org/works/757087... #OFMD #OFMDFanFic (post 4/4)

chapter 9 🍕💜 the jamestown ferry by @unfunpleasures.bsky.social archiveofourown.org/works/687612... #ofmdfanart

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the jamestown ferry chapter 18 (featuring ultra sweet art by @sweetpotato70.bsky.social) archiveofourown.org/works/687612...

chapter 8 part 2 💜🥺 the jamestown ferry by @unfunpleasures.bsky.social #ofmdfanart #gentlebeard

RAFFLE TIME! I'm running a raffle for one copy of my OFMD as Birds print below, thanks to a lovely donation from an anonymous pirate who wanted to spread some cheer! The print is 11" x 6" (280mm x 153mm)-to enter please donate $5+ to Transanta (more details below) #OFMD #OurFlagMeansDeath #birds

There’s this PetShop!AU by ALandslideOfOpossums on twitter (twitter.com/alandslideofop1) where Ed is a cat and Stede is a goldfish. My friend was devastated that they can’t be together, so… Enter Buttons the Sea Witch! 🌊✨ #OurFlagMeansDeath #SaveOFMD #AdoptOurCrew #OFMD

boosting this as i'm still unable to afford an appointment this week 🙏

Here is my art for Chapter 1 of @bizarrelittlemew.bsky.social 's fic Closest to Heaven! (New chapters posted Weds) Ed and Stede are best friends and it's the 90s. Stede is slow to realize why no kiss can measure up to the kisses he's shared with Ed😌✨ Read it: archiveofourown.org/works/748208...