Had this for my desktop background for ages after S2 promo started coming out- the romantic hero vibes? Everything. #OFMD

Okay, so, turns out I do have some stuff to say. When all of this stuff about “Cara” potentially being Mira popped up yesterday, I had three central feelings- one, gobsmacked by the possibility. Two, concerned about the potential that it might not be right. And three, not the least bit surprised.

Did the Art vs Artist 2025 thing and my first proper self portrait for it; succeeded mainly at giving myself Resting Cranky Artist Face 😌 Anyway fun to look across a bunch of different styles and vibes in choosing only 8 of 26+pieces from this year! I left out the spice this time.

Very very grateful when touching grass means spending a few joyful hours laughing with @ourflagmeansjeff.bsky.social and @mustardwrites.bsky.social, eating Bec’s fucking amazing baking, and listening to @happydaiz.bsky.social’s brilliant podfic work on the way. Real fandom love ❤️

since i have to close commissions until summer I'm offering them one last time until EOD tomorrow ❤️

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New dino boys with the Life Finds a Way sequel this year, I'm begging the universe, because I'm really excited about them ❤️

My sister-in-law’s family have been visiting from Japan over Christmas and they brought each of us a Daruma doll for good luck and success in the new year- you fill in the pupil of its left eye when you set your goal, and the other when you achieve it. It’s going to help me get this PhD finished 🫡

New year new dog? (Same dog, just shaved completely for summer, a little later than usual 😂)

So many wonderful treasures, but this one by @clairegregoryau.bsky.social and @akans.bsky.social was such a delight archiveofourown.org/works/75933656

I’ve said it before - fan fic is cookies someone made at home and brought in to share. Yes, they should be labeled for allergies (tagged). No, you don’t leave a nasty review if you don’t like them - they weren’t professionally baked, they were made by your peer ❤️ Build community, not negative clout

Yet another WIP in the long list, this time an Ed and a Stede who meet as Aussie Rules football spectators and sit beside each other every fortnight for 17 years before that connection is lost and has to be re-found 👀 Fingers crossed for writing time in 2026!

Okay my last thread because it feels like the good stuff is worth acknowledging from this year- I haven't done a lot of crafting over the last couple of years but I have been doing it on and off for life. Several things this year (including struggling with everything else) bumped me back into it.

I have two more lists of stuff from 2025- fics first, and then I'm gonna need a separate one for craft 😂 All in all I published two multichapter fics, two chapters from an ongoing WIP, two podfics, and six one-shots.

😌 jim having cake with their family 😔

I had the most ridiculous drama years ago that I think about OFTEN in terms of multiple people going above and beyond. <Lights a pipe> It began... with the locust plague...

This year has been /hard/, and it’s really dented my ability to create the way I usually do. I’ve been writing like I’m running out of time since I was a teen and it’s as essential to me as breathing. Thankfully I’ve gained art as an alternative, because I deeply needed it in 2025. (Inc some NSFW)

Some Calvin & Hobbes-style Garlic Soup shenanigans for December 30 on @roximonoxide.bsky.social 's Advint Calendah 💙 Go check out the full calendar at ourflagmeans.gay/2025/, there are so many fun goodies to discover!! #OFMDart

Artist sign-ups will open next week! Check out the 2026 website for more info about the #OFMDReverseBang: sites.google.com/view/ofmd-rb...

I keep forgetting to post this but anyway- part 1 of a few panels for #fallfrontfriday, on a random Tuesday :P This bit isn’t super spicy but it’s implied- I’m sure it’ll stay perfectly chaste from here 😌 #OFMDfanart #ofmdnsfw

saw this highly inspirational meme and decided to do. also i cant have live plants in the flat i’m currently in cause Imm not here often enough and its SAD. and my plants in the other city are prolly dying right now 😭 #ofmd #ofmdfanart #gentlebeard #cactineedpetstooawarenessmonth

We just finished watching Wake Up Dead Man yesterday and it felt SO sharply on point for the current world. Also Josh O’Connor is a superstar and I absolutely loved it being a real two-hander between he and Daniel Craig. Maybe my favourite Knives Out yet.

Dec 27. Being this deep in the gravy basket now between mas and new years calls for a heart-warming helping of Garlic Soup. 😌 @ohtangerines.bsky.social brings us this postcard perfect moment from everyone's favourite polycule ❄️🧄💗 Gooo look! ourflagmeans.gay/2025/

This has been one of the hardest years of our lives and I feel so, so battered by it rolling toward the finish line 🫠 But we’re still here. We’re both the oldest kids in our families and we’re called on to be the support for everyone, and that’s before we get to our own family struggles and needs.

I have watched the hockey boys and I enjoyed them! It hasn’t tripped my feral fan switch- not sure anything ever will to the same extent as OFMD. But I got very invested in Skip and they supported the overall story so well. Cried (happy) buckets at the end of Ep5, and I loved the last episode.

Now for your earholes! #OFMD #OFMDpodfic soundcloud.com/user-3761719...

Facts 👇 (Also RUN to read this chapter, it’s an absolute masterpiece- I felt like I’d been swept up in the real inner hurricane of Ed the brilliant artist, emotionally speaking 👀)

A very happy #FallFrontFriday to all who celebrate! This story is now complete! I am soooo excited to share this last chapter with you all. It might be one of my favourite things I've ever written... archiveofourown.org/works/743124... #ofmdfic

This is DELIGHTFUL 😍 Stede's thought process throughout this is the best kind of trip 😂

I wrote another Christmas fic... archiveofourown.org/works/76367046

This story is so achingly beautiful- going to be thinking about it for a long long time.

Looking back over this year it felt like it went in a BLINK, but when I review all the different crafts I did this year there was a WILD amount. But my favourite has to be my Revenge-inspired granny blanket, for how nicely it's turning out and for all the hours spent with my daughter making these ❤️

I hate that writing fic inevitably comes with putting yourself out there to potentially feel excluded or not good enough. Writing is a vulnerable thing no matter the medium. If you’re a fic writer, you are doing AMAZING, for real. Try to ignore the shit out there that makes you feel less than.

Listen it's already Tuesday here so we'll call it #taketwotuesday- just thinking again about Glitterpig's INCREDIBLE work on this Synchronicity-inspired text-based interactive canon-era diving game- an entirely joyful, hilarious way to while away some time! archiveofourown.org/chapters/127...

I hate that anyone feels pressured to write outside their comfort zone. This space is all about writing what YOU want, no matter what rating that is. But this is a great list of G, T and M-rated fics with podfics! Huge effort, @neverleftpodcast.bsky.social - thanks for sharing!

I didn't achieve as much (for me) this year, but I DID get to send the diving boys across four continents, seven countries, one famous monument, and an entire chapter of Mile High Club for their anniversary 🫡 They're as insane as they ever are, and more in love than ever. #ofmdholestice 🔗👇

telephone meet cute? of course! Hold Please by @clairegregoryau.bsky.social podfic by Boy archiveofourown.org/works/72694466

My kid and I made some of the paper airplanes from Come fly with me by @clairegregoryau.bsky.social with podfic by Lindie and the planes and the fic were both fucking excellent archiveofourown.org/works/661894...

IT IS THE WINTER SOLSTICE Check out the Livestream of Newgrange, starting in less than 2 mins!!! www.youtube.com/live/lRgumO6...

Have you opened today's present? 😇

If it's cold where you are, December 19th's art should reallllly warm you up 🔥🥵🫠 Thank you @wardrobespierre.bsky.social for this spicy Christmas treat for both us and Stede!

Lindie has recorded our festive dino boys for your ears! 😍

Behind door 18, @akans.bsky.social and I have been cooking up some dinosaur-themed Christmas joy! A fast burn meet-cute in which palaeontology curator Ed and textiles curator Stede have to team up to save the museum’s t-rex Christmas sweater reveal after calamity strikes. Based on GLORIOUS art 😍 🔗👇

My dedication to nailing down these locations as closely as possible is quite ridiculous, I’ve gotta tell you 😂 Looking forward to going out there on the hunt next year.

Dec 18th: dino it's late in the day but when i saur what @clairegregoryau.bsky.social and @akans.bsky.social made for today's box i felt it in my bones. don't misssss 👀🦖

Some closeups! ✨🦖🏴‍☠️🎄

What's behind door 18 of the Advint Calindah?? It's a Christmas fuckery! I showed @clairegregoryau.bsky.social a very rough sketch and an idea and she just went BET and wrote 10k words about it 🥹💖 And what would a collab between us two be, without dinos being involved? 🦖🏴‍☠️ 🔗 ourflagmeans.gay/2025/

Truly, HOW COOL IS THIS? 😍 I could immediately see the perfect story for it and I love what we made ❤️

I wasn't planning to post any of this, but I saw a couple of people saying it was quiet on here, and since I can't seem to shut up at the moment, here goes. (Some of the lovely people I met at WeeCon have heard some of this, but it's the first time I've put everything together in one place).

Behind door 18, @akans.bsky.social and I have been cooking up some dinosaur-themed Christmas joy! A fast burn meet-cute in which palaeontology curator Ed and textiles curator Stede have to team up to save the museum’s t-rex Christmas sweater reveal after calamity strikes. Based on GLORIOUS art 😍 🔗👇