It makes me want to cry just looking at it. Ed!!! 😭😭😭

I can't sleep. Lines from OFMD fics are flitting through my brain. So I'm thinking; what are the lines that have stuck with you; lodged in your brain; maybe made your heart sing? Mine tonight was "I am going to absolutely need some context on that, Stede" from Foxtail's 7.3 miles. What are yours?

I love how well this Watership Down/Our Flag Means Death crossover draws from both sources. But even if you only know about the pirates, who can resist Ed and Stede as rabbits!

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Oh...🫠 He's very pretty, isn't he.

It's amazing that you are publishing these chapters to match up with the real life timings, including the moon stages! In other news, I always see wild rabbits on my daily lunchtime stroll, and today I saw my first baby rabbit of the year. It was teeny tiny and so very cute! 🐇

I love Watership Down and I love Our Flag Means Death. So Ed and Stede as rabbits? Yes please!

I tried! I kept contact with friends & made/strengthened new ones (pirates!) I read loads of fanfic & left comments/thanks to the authors I looked after/supported my family as best I could. I did a good job. I made time for me, including hobbies. But I failed to keep my house tidy. That's for 2026!

EXPLAIN YOUR USERNAME Well. I play recorder, badly. I love to take night time walks to gaze at the moon and stars. I do not, however, do it naked. It's far too cold for that here 🤣

How fascinating! I quite like mine (I have a t-shirt this colour but it doesn't really suit me 😆). Although it would have been nice for it to be more purple! I think the text is pretty true to me too.

I really want to thank @neverleftpodcast.bsky.social for starting this discussion about ratings. I am so sorry that some of you have felt pressure to include explicit chapters when you didn't want to. Many of us love ALL your fics, smut or no. Please write the fics you want. We will read them all ♥️.

This makes me really sad. I read a *lot* of OFMD/Gentlebeard fanfic. I read for the love and connection between Ed and Stede and the emotion that brings. Explicit sex is irrelevant. It can be enjoyable to read and a great addition, but occasionally it actually detracts from the fic. 1/2

Yesterday I finished listening to the podfic of Starman by the_widow_olivia (are they on here?). I have to say @kninjaknitter.bsky.social and @happydaiz.bsky.social, you did an incredible job. I've already enjoyed the fic several times, but the podfic was amazing, particularly the music. Thank you ♥️

That's amazing Lucia! It's close between Stede and Ed, but it has to be Stede because I found his bravery so inspiring to my own life. Favourite Stede moment is hard! Possibly 1.10, setting off with determination to go and get his man. Or the couch scene. Or writing letters. Don't make me choose 🤣

This is Cinnamon. He's having surgery today. Can you send some good vibes his way please!

Give me 5 games to get to know you: Zelda: Ocarina of Time Hangman (pen & paper) Ticket to Ride Seven Wonders World of Warcraft (a sneaky 6 - Sid M's Civilization IV/V) These games I have spent inordinate amounts of time playing (and hangman is just a constant, as a child and with daughter).

Just looked at my Spotify wrapped for the year. Yes I am still addicted to the OFMD soundtrack...

I have to say I'm very happy with my word cloud - having Stede, hope, incredible and gorgeous seems very fitting somehow. But where is Ed? He was on my other word cloud (the one that went round a couple of weeks ago), promise!

I may have no results 😱 I clearly do not belong in this fandom. Fuck. 🤣

Ok I'm curious. Am I as much of a goody two shoes as I think I am, @profanity.accountant ?

I have been excitedly waiting for this one and listened to it earlier. I adore this podfic series so much! Thank you @kninjaknitter.bsky.social and @happydaiz.bsky.social for your wonderful work on @rottensoldier.bsky.social 's incredible fic 🫶🤝♥️

I need to say- I love Stede Bonnet. I love Ed Teach. I love the people who made our show. I love you who write fanfic, create art, craft merch, record podfics and chat to me about this glorious show. I felt ill earlier and every one of these things has made me feel better. So thank you. And cheers ❤️

I also have a piece of angelite in honour of Free Space Ed. Not a pocket rock as I have lost these before. It lives next to this little lighthouse on my bedside table. The two bracelets also in the pic are actually my pocket rock equivalent, if 'comfort bracelets' are a thing? Pocket rocks 😁

A movie that takes place where you’re from.

STOP. this is a selfie checkpoint. You must repost with a cute selfie to proceed. Oh blimey - cute photos of me don't really exist 🤣 So I'm reposting one I've already put on here, meeting Buttons at TCF Edinburgh '25. Can't really crop him out to make it a selfie!

Here you go, a bit of sunshine ☀️

Beautiful haul of Ed and Stede goodness arrived this morning. Thank you so much @frankieofmd.bsky.social that was FAST! The cameos and bird robe chain are gorgeous, but that Gentlebeard LED key chain is ❤️❤️❤️ (my photo doesn't do it justice). I'm so pleased with them. Love the bonus stickers too!

If anyone hasn't read Free Space yet, just go and start it. Right now. Find somewhere warm, cosy and where you aren't going to be disturbed until you've appreciated every single one of those 121k+ words. This is simply one of the most incredible pieces of writing I have read, of any flavour.

Get to know your mutuals. List 10 random things you like. Clouds Country walks Singing Really old buildings Bonfires Cups of tea Cheese Trees The sea Stained glass

I mean, just look at him...

Reposting this, because I've just spotted it again and it brought tears to my eyes. Again 🥹. They are so beautiful, so in love and I could stare at them for hours... They are a set, do not separate. I think this applies to these images as well as to our beloved boys.

@kninjaknitter.bsky.social it seems we are already following each other! I'm the lady who was sitting on your left in the knitting workshop. It's been so lovely chatting to you over the weekend, and I hope you have a quick and uneventful journey home ❤️

These were all so fantastic! You looked brilliant all weekend, and I enjoyed meeting you and hearing about your outfits ❤️

What a wonderful weekend at the Wee Con. It was an absolute joy to meet so many fellow pirates - again and for the first time. Thank you so much to @amuseoffyre.bsky.social for putting it all together. And I hope you can get some well deserved rest!

@owltrousers.bsky.social You really have created something so special. Your S1 tapestry brought me to tears, and your S2 has done it again!! There is so much love and emotion tied up in those tiny stitches. I never thought I would look at a piece of embroidery and struggle to keep it together! 🤝🫶❤️

On the train to the Wee Con. If you have chatty young children, *why* would you book the quiet coach? I'm currently listening to them re-enact some battle. "Dum, dum, dum dum, CHAAARGE! He's dead!". If it wasn't the quiet coach it might be entertaining..!

I was thinking about you today, @owltrousers.bsky.social . I visited a cathedral and was shown the sewing room. This is one of their embroidery chairs. I was imagining you sitting in something like this while you made your Gayeaux Tapestry, but figured you'd be far more comfortable on your sofa!

So, after saying only a week ago that I *never* type "Steve". Meet Steve 😁🐮

Oh that's a tough one! But I'm a big fan of his one liners, so...

I don't think I'd even seen these! Just ordered mine :)

After all this time, why does my phone still want to autocorrect Stede to Steve??? I _never_ type Steve (well apart from just then). It's Stede, Stede, Stede!! 🤣

w/o downloading anything new - where are you mentally?

Happy OFMD S2 day to those who celebrate 🎉 For me, this started 4 months of desperately trying to avoid all S2 content, spoilers etc while I waited for it to be available in the UK. And also still devouring as much S1 content as I could find!! That was tough!! But today is a great excuse for pics 😁

I've been transfixed by this all morning and it's made me rather emotional. It's the aging that has got to me. The way they look so happy, utterly devoted and so very much in love. It's beautiful ❤️ (and this has been me ➡️ 🫠🥹🥲😭😭😭)

Gorgeous art to match a gorgeous fic ❤️❤️❤️

Not on mine either. Let's help fix that...

Just look at this adorable goofball. You've got such a rollercoaster ride coming, Ed, but eventually it's all going to turn out just fine...

Ok me from a different era, rocking that Dallas/Dynasty chic. Mid/late 80s perm and shoulder pads.

Just watching this over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over... etc etc etc.

Love this pic!