the absolute definition of bisexual panic. 😅

you guys, i got 5 hours of sleep last night, so i’m spending money i do not have on caffeine, and i have to teach a dozen students about medieval bibliography tonight from 6 til 8:30. all i want to do is go home and ofmd (yes it’s a verb now). anyway, here’s wonderwall (a pretty manuscript page).

just some casual fascism on my commute in washington dc today. they’re there every morning. watching us.

i finished reading “howl’s moving castle” aloud to my family today and now i can’t stop thinking about an #ofmd AU and obsessing over who would be who. i mean in many ways howl is obviously ed and in others he’s so stede-coded! all i know for sure is that izzy is calcifer 🤷🏻‍♀️🔥🏰

is anyone else listening to the new wet leg record? “liquidize” is so ed/stede coded: “you say i’m lovely and you say i’m worth it all i look you dead between the eyes i say i know you are but what am i?” in other news, everything continues to remind me of them #ofmd #crewforlife

not me clicking the “show” button on the metro escalator just as someone walked by 😬🫠

shut up and take my money 💰

get in bitch, we're going honking

i just came home to my family watching “jumanji” and when i googled rhys’ character i was treated to this hilarious AI mixup with a different movie character: “a koala who is known for his feisty and immature personality, and his hatred of being called cute and cuddly.” i mean, it’s not NOT rhys…

my bisexual brain when i think of them in a show together 🫠

ugh, covid round 3. i’m scared because i’ve had post-viral nonsense both other times, but is it weird that as a mom with a full-time job a silver lining is having time to read fic in bed? any recent recs? i missed fettering-fest and need to catch up on june and july content in general. 😫🤧🏴‍☠️🌈📚?

he is two apples tall 🥹

a family friend & parent of a trans kid (now thankfully 18+) alerted me to this today. children’s national, which serves the greater washington dc area, had “paused” gender-affirming meds in january. there’s a contact form at the link below if you’re so inclined: www.childrensnational.org/contact-us

ugh just when i think i couldn’t be any more in love with rhys, he posts a snap like this with his sweet little eyebrow furrow and boyish posture. i am so endlessly charmed and endeared by this dork. 💖

it what world is it fair that i am at work today instead of just watching rhys’ quiff wibble on repeat for hours?! 😫

ofmd s3e2 is just this. big drama in the premiere followed by beach day. like s1 but a real vacation!

okay hear me out on episode 2. i know it wasn’t as amazing as the premiere, but the backstory we got about fang’s childhood love?! ::swoon:: 💖

you guys, this is such a beautiful & bittersweet love story between two british naval officers in the early years of the 20th century. it’s just begging for an #ofmd au (with a happier ending!)

👉🏼 ed and stede 👈🏼

putting this out there for crew struggling w/ family of origin: we (neurospicy fam of 4) survived a vacation with my narcissistic dad & appeasing mom, all while bonding w/ my brother (bipolar) like i haven’t since i was a teen. water may not always find its own level, but we can build an aqueduct.

RIP stede bonnet, you would have loved this moth-based “sonic journey” #ofmd #rosymaplemoth

just spent five solid minutes of my workday staring at the bottom of that vee…and then another thinking about the way the chain is sitting against his collar 🥵

greetings fellow sluts! /pos at work we’ve been sorting and rescanning our pamphlet collection by call number and this morning we got to the Ds, meaning i found myself hollering across the workroom “just bring all the D and DP to me!” and i was trying so hard not to blush and give myself away. 😳

roach would 100% order this and be enraged when the chocolate didn’t instantaneously appear. when it finally did show up, he’d be pissed again that he couldn’t just like point at the tin to make the drink appear. frenchie would agree that it was bogus and that cats were definitely involved somehow.

this french fry vampire & all-around nerd is my husband. today he marks 13 yrs of sobriety: 4748 days of making this choice & interrogating parts of himself most people prefer to keep hidden. i’m humbled by his work. if you love someone struggling with drugs/alcohol, my DMs are always open.

grandparents have the kiddos this afternoon so spouse & i stopped in at our local. i look away from the fries for ONE SECOND and he does this, waggling his eyebrows and saying “wakey wakey!” reader, he is not perfect but i’m so happy i married someone who gets it 💖

woke up to a bunch of new 🏴‍☠️ finch pals! feeling the love 💖 now enjoying coffee with the fam at our local indie — the colors & shapes of our order make me happy, so i thought i’d share. also honestly anything on a tray makes me think of them…

seems like a lot of us are having bad brain times at the moment — myself included. is there anyone else still using finch who might want some new friends? here’s a pic of my birb pippin for the algo. would love to have some pirate pals on the app! 🏴‍☠️🌈🐥

Have an excellent day, pirate pals! 🏴‍☠️❤️ #ofmd

lying in bed watching “the residence” on netflix & i’m pretty sure bronson pinchot’s chef outfit and silly little swiss-german accent yelling “you are NOT going to take away my kangaroos!” is going to fix me…

need some love & comfort, pals. tuesday i fell & scraped the hell out of my knee. typical. less typical is last night the pain got BAD & dr at urgent care said cellulitis + watch for sepsis. 😳 on antibiotics that make me sick & am scared. fluffy fic recs/stories of infections w/ happy endings plz? 😭

the 5yo “graduated” from preschool today. usually i don’t buy into the american impulse to make A Big Deal out of everything, but right now i’ll take any reason to celebrate. 🎈🧑🏼‍🎓

i don’t have a proper contribution for #ofmdzineweek, but i’ve been trying to figure out how to share some of the books i’ve been collecting that remind me of #ofmd & our crew, so here’s a little poem/faux-zine i made using bookish bits from our collections at work… page 1 forty singing seamen

an insane 6 weeks: moving 50k+ rare books @ work; supporting spouse thru a (successful!) career-change interview; dealing w/ more long-covid-adjacent illness. there’s been no energy for anything else & i’ve felt the absence of this space so keenly. i cannot WAIT to catch up w/ you all 🏴‍☠️💖

update on “pounded in the butt by my inability to be normal at work” — it turns out my colleague’s wife is a badass bisexual lutheran pastor who ✨gets it✨ and she is now spreading the gospel of chuck. @chucktingle.bsky.social, you were right: love is real!

every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

whelp, today i accidentally introduced my colleagues to chuck tingle and outed myself as a weirdo with kink-adjacent interested so i’m doing great thanks 🫠

middle aged librarian things: my back is so effed after a week of moving books at work that today i actually used my hitachi as a back massager 😂

bring your child to work day becomes volunteer your child for menial labor day when you have 2 months to move 70k rare books to temporary shelving. tilly was a natural with the scanner — his little grin here is so impish!

psssst, fandom is not transactional; please stop treating fic and art like “content” and framing yourself as a consumer. we’re supposed to be in community here.

waiting for the absolute shit ton of emails i’m about to get from my jesuit university rearranging the end of classes and beginning of finals like 🫣

it happened to me: i planned a family outing for day two of my period requiring me to drive 70 miles and then hike to a beach like an effing idiot. happily, i didn’t murder anyone (a very natural cause!) and we found a shedload of cool fossils.

watching “jurassic park” with the fam and realizing that way back in 1993 millions of people were totally ready to accept trans dinosaurs. i mean sure they were majestic, fearsome, and powerful — but so is the trans community i know today. sending love & fortitude your way today, trans pals. 💖🏳️‍⚧️🦖

St George and the Dragon but make it trans

wtf you guys, the minecraft movie was actually super fun? rachel house? jemaine clement? surprise matt berry cameo?! jason momoa’s himbo hair and ass were basically their own characters, and i need to see ed teach in his pink fringed leather jacket ASAP.

stede-coded husband told our kids we would see the minecraft movie today. my ed-coded response: “fine, but this movie is going to be terrible and i am fully expecting to be fucked into oblivion about it.” reader, we shook on it.

it’s friday and i’m just thinking maybe we should all get a little ofmd season 3. you know, as a little treat?

[not-so] confidential to @politestmenace.bsky.social: i just moved into a new office in the special collections center at work & along with my “weird stuff i’ve found in the library” collection, my pinboard now features the most niche fandom sticker ever made & i love it. #ofmd #treecrotchinspector

okay, is this anything? au where ed & stede are a biologist and a paleobiologist on the team that bred the new “dire wolves” — lots of scope for breeding kink jokes here, friends! #ofmd #ofmdfic