writing brain come baaaack i need you to get through hell

loving this stede making progress, sometimes almost despite himself. 🥹

i did it. i did the things. and now i'm sleepy and want a cookie.

Running errands out of my usual rotation and feeling very anxious in my body (not for that reason) but doing it anyway

Things are dire, but sometimes you get up and the sky gives you a little show to reward you for getting up and facing another day

"Stede climbs onto the bed, lying on his side so he’s facing Ed. “Hi,” he says, smiling shyly. Ed reaches out and brushes an errant curl out of his face."

for the late crowd in need of distracting ridiculousness

a few words got added to two separate docs today, that's not bad after a couple weeks of being totally unable to do much in either one 🫠 i still have beta feedback to go through, but brain needed to get words OUT not process change.

An Attempt Was Made. a very silly attempt, but an attempt nonetheless! 2k, M, written for @fakegeekboy.bsky.social as part of an exchange. archiveofourown.org/works/77360326

Ed having a nice afternoon ☺️ #ofmd #ofmdfanart

Community. It's the way I saw fellow Jim/Olu fan @tragicallynerdy.bsky.social mention two other things they liked that I *also* liked so I decided it met an arbitrary threshold to DM them and four years later we're going to meet irl for a *second* time +

Might seem unrelated to OFMD fandom, but hey, pirates can't navigate the seas with light pollution blocking out the stars!! FYI: Intl Dark Sky Week is April 13-20 2026 & DarkSky.org has a petition you can sign re orbital illumination systems that would destroy night skies darksky.org/news/orbital...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Kisses for everyone 🥰 (I also love these three because I learned so much about printmaking along the way, from top to bottom!) #ofmdfanart

I really need to get back to my WIPs. Writing headspace has been doing vacations.

there are pros to organizing myself into a 4-day workweek but one of them is not having to stave off the nap wave that wants to overtake me at 1pm

Okay, going by Lis' rules... Lived in all three contiguous west coast states, visited a few others. I counted taking the train through some (without getting off the train)

there's these maple leaves on a twig right outside my window that keep jumpscaring me because out of the corner of my eye they look like some guy's hair whipping around in the wind. i am not on the ground floor. there are no decks. i may just be tired af.

one i haven't seen mentioned on my timeline already: The Americans the fucking train station scene lives in my head foreverrrrr

hi for #TakeTwoTuesday I'm here to share some T4T4T Jim/Ed/Oluwande smut, in which they get stuck in a closet at a fancy gala and find some very fun ways to spend their time! Fun tags: semi-public sex, being walked in on, fucking in clothes :3 archiveofourown.org/chapters/152... #ofmdfic #nsfw

#taketwotuesday in "honor" of the traitors coming back this week, why not read ed and stede as traitors in love (with alan cummings' looks)? archiveofourown.org/works/63763225

went to the last day of this exhibition with @sonorawent.bsky.social & @escargot-on.bsky.social and it was STUNNING and you can't buy posters or anything like???? BUT THOSE COLORS ARE SO NICE I WANNA STARE AT THEM DAILY (so, glad we got to go) portlandartmuseum.org/event/yoshid...

I didn't realize until I was updating the website that one form of art that can be accepted for the reverse bang is a playlist. I know some of you are amazing playlist curators -- I wonder how that'd strike potential writers? 🤔 All artist FAQs: sites.google.com/view/ofmd-rb...

Artist and support sign-ups for the 2026 #OFMDReverseBang are now open! Visit the official website to learn more about the Reverse Bang and sign up to be an artist or to support our artists and writers:

sometimes you just wake up before dawn and spruce up an event website before sign-ups go live while listening to thelonious monk

archiveofourown.org/works/765521... 5.2k words! A very SFW chapter! A Roman numeral joke that cracked me up beyond what was reasonable!

we've been watching a ton of movies and tv shows together this week so naturally tonight's date was...a movie! only lovers left alive, the most vibes-based vampire movie ever! i saw it ages ago and remembered the vibes but not the details, so that was fun.

New year, new art for the timeline! Here's a glimpse of @redwsailing.bsky.social and my latest Billboard Boys collab installment. It's getting increasingly unhinged (as expected). Check out the full fic on ao3. Link in post below! #ofmd #ofmdfanart #ofmdfanfic

Look, the circumstances of the first day of this new year may not be representative of the year as a whole, but it was an awfully nice day

the jamestown ferry chapter 20 (featuring gorgeous art by @sweetpotato70.bsky.social) this fic is now complete at 143k words. 🥲 archiveofourown.org/works/687612...

Technically another hour and twenty minutes to go till midnight here on the west coast, but @sonorawent.bsky.social flew in from. The east coast tonight so we're splitting the difference. Goodnight, 2025, you sure were a year.

Welcome to 2025 Wrapped with OFMDRareShips! Your co-mods @tragicallynerdy.bsky.social, @petrichorca.bsky.social, and @latinkraken.bsky.social want to thank everyone for celebrating rare ships from Our Flag Means Death with us all year. Here’s a look back at our 2025. We had fun! 1/14

In the new year, I want to: * Make regular plans with local friends * Travel a little more * Find one more local thing to get involved with on a regular basis * Write write write write * Dabble more with other creative outlets

As the sun emerged on the last day of what was once a new year, slender maples shivered in the cool air

"Ed spots Stede in the corner of the room, arms crossed over his chest, nibbling at his thumbnail, guilt visible on his face. I don’t like where we ended things, either, Ed thinks."

Rhys Weekend here in Portland. Got to spend quality time with many beloved pirate pals and even co-host a brunch/party. Here's hoping for more of that in the new year 🎊

in january 2024, i was in a bad place, life-wise. then i started writing this fic that was basically my diary but with a thin veneer of stede bonnet. i'm not saying writing this fic changed my life, but maybe it did. #taketwotuesday archiveofourown.org/works/53191606

"Ed wants to memorize Stede’s face lit up in sunglow, hazel eyes intense and trained on Ed like there’s nothing he wants more in this fickle world."

working full days for the next three days, then @sonorawent.bsky.social will be here and i am not pulling out my work laptop for several days :)))

things! are! moving right along!!!

working on something short and deeply silly for a fic exchange posting in january and managed to put words! in the doc! while at a coffee shop!! (also there was pie! i am marionberry'd the fuck up today)

run don't walk (or, well, be careful on your old joints, you're probably recovering from some injury or another)

brain, please let me work on writing today.

...there are a thousand perfect '90s albums, who's trying to represent the entire decade with four bands from the pnw (and i am! from! the pnw!)

settled into my new life. kept my job. helped raise money for great causes. met/spent time with lots of friends, old and new. became a library volunteer. started doing pilates again. wrote some stuff i'm proud of. was brave, sometimes.

I recently commissioned @ardnaid.bsky.social to make me a hat like the rainbow one in the pic below but with a variegated purple contrast and it arrived over the holiday and it's PERFECT sooo

like half an hour after i posted this my mom came in like "okay i think we can go today, the roads look fine actually" so i am HOME and i have GROCERIES and i fed my mom sushi burritos and now i am in MY QUIET HOME AGAIN YAY

gonna be at my mom's for an extra night due to weather/road conditions which is! fine! except! i just really fucking miss my own space and doing things for myself and being able to focus on stuff i want to work on! it's been a week! 🫠

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:

Hey it's a holiday! Happy that day if you celebrate, hugs if you don't! Here's a cedar branch that washed up in the surf!