When Zaslav said the numbers weren’t there he was actually telling the truth once you subtract out all the **** sock puppets

Just saw a guy in a reflective vest that read OUTLAW OPERATIONS MANAGER and I just think that Izzy Hands —

There are so many astoundingly lovely things here and I am in AWE of both the craft talent in this fandom and the organizational wherewithal of the mod team

My Apple Watch logged my primary workout but not the secondary one (trying to wriggle into a new binder when damp from the shower). I think I pulled a muscle in my neck.

#HeatedRivalry #podfic of @nomadsland.bsky.social “trolley problem” is available . The written work is a WIP with 2/? on AO3. This fic explores Ilya getting life lessons from Fred Rodgers while watching children’s TV to improve his English. on.soundcloud.com/xTXox0WzrHfs...

All the headlines like "Heated Rivalry is REAL and ALIVE in WOMEN'S HOCKEY" are so funny to me. Like babe in women's hockey you gotta come out as straight, marrying your opponent is encouraged, actually, if Shane and Ilya were PWHL players the story would be 3 sentences long

It has been more than a year and I thought maybe I was free but the siren song of "maybe a new tattoo would fix you" is REAL loud right now

Looking at the family and work calendars for the next couple months and if anyone needs me I'll just be breathing into a paper bag in the corner.

(The song in question was Mr. Brightside - she misheard "cab" as "cat")

One of my current fav games to play with my kid is to try to guess her song request based on her descriptions. Most recent stumped me for days until we heard it while out and about: “a boy singer who kinda sounds like Cayden. He’s in love with a girl but he’s sad and it’s also about a cat”

The reason Regency cheese Rhys is trying to be so manly is because Taika ran off with Monterey Jack

Just realized that Shane Hollander was canonically in grade 6 when Avril Lavigne’s Let Go was released & I just feel that maybe Sk8er Boi had lasting psychological effects

I've been on a bit of a Heated Rivalry tear and @kninjaknitter.bsky.social has been making truly lovely podfics: archiveofourown.org/works/78539731 and archiveofourown.org/works/78361011.

Every once in a while I click on a post on the dash and realize there's a whooooooooooole other side of fandom there, huh

I'm reading Charlotte's Web to my child and realized that I've never actually moved beyond Wilbur in terms of characters I identify with most. I am and have always been a depressed, socially awkward pig given to existential dread and ennui.

I just think I should be allowed to put my Ao3 stats on my CV -- I can be a prolific writer under the right circumstances

Ope guess i go here now. archiveofourown.org/works/78240556

Here's my WIP list, which is incomplete (YIKE)

O Brother With Big Naturals, Where Art Thou?

Guys it is 2026 and the source material is gay romance/smut, why are we tagging Heated Rivalry fic with Male Homosexuality??? YES AND?????????????

LINDIE @kninjaknitter.bsky.social MADE A PODFIC archiveofourown.org/works/77792631

Ope guess I'm writing Heated Rivalry fic now? archiveofourown.org/works/77781486

Let people like things 2026

Someplace bright and new, a little gift exchange niblet for @515253545.bsky.social archiveofourown.org/works/77207206 With a truly lovely podfic by @kninjaknitter.bsky.social here: archiveofourown.org/works/77342976

Had a conversation with an IRL friend who is very active in a different fandom and we both agreed that while Heated Rivalry is fucking great it could’ve used a touch more hockey. I am here to learn something via blorbos, ok???

My year in fic has far and away been about collaboration and/or friendship inspo! Starting (and ending!) with water like a stone, my beloved collab with @gaywatson.bsky.social: archiveofourown.org/works/621530...

A guy on the street called me a "Lou-Reed-looking motherfucker"

You can like multiple things at the same time! Liking one thing does not diminish how much you like the other thing!

Survived my first year of graduate school, presented at a conference solo, parented a very stubborn child, didn't give up writing for fun entirely.

Time is a flat circle (I thought this was Teen-Wolf-era Tyler Posey for a full minute)

Tired: “which one of you is the man?” Wired: “which of you smirks smugly behind their coffee cup as presents are opened and which of you handles the trash bag of wrapping paper and packaging?”

What I’m not gonna do is read a bunch of Heated Rivalry fanfic before I watch the actual show because that’s how I got into the OFMD fandom in the first place & two would be too much

I gotta say, I think there's a critical period for Muppet exposure, and if you miss it and come to the Muppets as an adult, they're just noisy jerks.

Take. Eat. This is my body. A sacrament. Chapter 6 artwork for Water Like a Stone: archiveofourown.org/works/62153089/chapters/199526636 #OFMDfanart #OFMDfic

Time zone bump if you’d like to read this completed Stizzy fic that begins and ends on Christmas Eve and is full of shared grief and yearning and gorgeous art archiveofourown.org/works/621530...

Me: nothing like a sweet little gift exchange fic to get me out of this writing slump! Just gonna bang this one out easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy Also me, sixteen Wikipedia pages deep in research about [REDACTED]

And with this, it's finished! Rating goes up to E with Ch 7, FYI. archiveofourown.org/works/621530... This has been such a labor of love and such a special collaboration.... 1/?

Ch 6 of Water Like a Stone: the end of the story except for the epilogue, which will post in the next day or two. @gaywatson.bsky.social's art for this chapter is truly exquisite, & this has been SUCH an absolute joy to work with them on this throughout the year! archiveofourown.org/works/621530...

Saw this in the window of an antique store in town and now I need an AU where Fang is an old folk musician who used to tour with Auntie until a misunderstanding broke up the band. Thirty years later, they reconnect…

AU where Stede is desperately trying to buy the last Tickle Me Elmo in the store but Izzy swoops in and steals it out from under his nose and they have a light saber battle in the toy aisle to win it back

Buttsex tbh

My child made a little Old Bae fanart at school today

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

I re-listened to @kninjaknitter.bsky.social’s podfic of my “Both Sides Now” to really put me in the spirit of the season & highly recommend you do the same: m.soundcloud.com/user-3761719...

Eavesdropping on my child and my wife chatting in the kitchen and I just realized my kid is WRITING A WILL so that someone will take care of her favorite stuffie when she dies WHY ARE KIDS SO MORBID 💀

"Despite the obvious non-normal distribution of the outcome variable we see in the histogram, we can assume normalcy because of the Central Limit Theorem" is basically just "the David Jenkins School of A Normal Distribution"

Happy anniversary of my very favorite targeted ad ever // maybe someday I’ll write the misdelivered post AU where Ed is a prof chef and Stede is Afraid

Agonized about what to bring to the department bake off this afternoon & finally decided fuck it, I’m bringing sweet potato pie bc *I* think it’s delicious & I’m proud that the crust is maybe the nicest I’ve ever rolled (this post is also about fanfic)

It surprised me to learn I wrote ~44k this year because the back half of the year sure has felt fallow. Highlights have been collabbing with @gaywatson.bsky.social on water like a stone and getting to channel @loopslip00.bsky.social for on magpies and becoming 💖

And here’s the difference between my wife and me. Me: you know how everyone has a light inside them? Sometimes being in love with someone makes that light shine brighter. My wife: it’s about taking a bath on the roof