it’s been really nice to see coverage go from “womp flag cancelled” to “fans upset flag cancelled, alas” to “fans want you to sign this petition to save flag and i am a little scared of them”
#OFMD2Spoilers
the other thing i can't stop thinking about is how natural and confident and perfect rubio's Zhang Yi Sao is, like she slots in so perfectly i kept forgetting she hasn't been here the whole time
it’s a slow day and ed’s head is in stede’s lap on deck
ed: would you still love me if i was a worm
stede: of course i would, darling
ed: what about if we met when we were kids, then spent a few decades apart and found each other again. what then
stede: easy. i’d love you again
s3 opening to rhythmic strained whiny grunts and a close up of ed's face in something like pain, stede's forehead at the nape of his neck, pan out to see ed trying to screw the short side to the ikea bed to the long side while stede is pushing it up against the wall
just picturing them in A Meeting being like ready watch he's gonna post a selfie, you won't believe what happens when he posts a selfie, it's nuts, go ahead man, yeah, hit post, do it
writing an epistolary fic where stede's sending emails and letters to the support line to uncancel his favorite show and ed is the only rep to break from script and respond personally
#saveofmd
here’s what i woke up thinking. the longer i sit with it the more i feel like this was a Nothing Is As It Seems season. the soup lady is a pirate and hornigold is here/alive and stede is a mermaid and the rabbit is a wolf and buttons is a bird and
if you are fat and even THINKING about covering up during this heat bomb or whatever let me be the first to say: fuck that, let them gouge out their eyes
ed: fine, what if i were, i dunno. a vampire. and you were a werewolf
stede: edward
ed: you’d make a cute werewolf. you have dog energy
stede: but i like cats
ed: i know. i have cat energy
stede: what does that even mean, dearest
ed: … meow
not pickles is one year old today, what a fun way to remember the og graphic had a typo. writing this genuinely changed my life, i’m so grateful you were all here with me for it.
in an effort to be better at Participating, I have written a neighbors AU for this prompt: not pickles
Stede's kids are creepy and Louis has a puppet obsession and a fascination with Dickfuck (Ed's cat) and Ed's just trying to figure out What Makes Ed Happy. :)
i keep thinkin about ep 5, about "that wasn't a long story at all." i don't think it's because Stede didn't want to be annoying, I think it's because he spends every episode trying to have a real conversation with Ed, he's sick of them just telling stories. he wants to TALK
he was a man who created nothing, learned nothing, loved nothing, contributed nothing to this world. may history forget him expeditiously. do me a solid and pour one out tonight. down your throat while you're celebrating. i love you 💛
haven't seen anyone say it and it's a tiny thing but whenever i see the afterglow robe in this specific color i think of ed underwater. on his way, but not there yet, ya know?
samba seems like such a cool and kind and sweet and generous guy, to the fans, to his colleagues, like, wow, if i had a hype man like that in my life i would be fucken invincible
(cw death) for the past two hours i have been sort of walking around and crying and talking to myself and hugging my cat because i periodically google to see if my stepfather is alive and today it turned out that he, in fact, IS NOT
today's my birthday and i wanted to post a story for you like last year but it didn't come together in time and i'm gonna go see a movie instead of fighting it. in the meantime, here's my face which is now 39 human years old. i hope you're all having the best day. 💛
ed: ok what if we were beekeepers
stede: oh! that sounds lovely! and we’d get to enjoy all that delicious honey
ed: what if i was a writer. and you were one of my characters and i fell in love with you
stede: easy, you could write me to love you. even tho i would anyway
just sitting here not working and thinking and i don't think it's an insignificant detail that as stede starts to lose the thread and go feral in his popularity, his crew start to leave him
#ofmds2spoilers
it's always the best day when twitter rediscovers that conan obrien is one of the funniest motherfuckers to walk this miserable earth. i feel so lucky to have been shaped by the writings and ramblings of his brilliant and deranged mind
okay i have a question all my bookstore colleagues are doing. if you were jesus and people ate something for your body and drank something for your blood what would it be
completed a whole ass original novel and am pitching agents to sell it have i mentioned this i can't remember if i mentioned it anyway it's 100% because of this place
Leaving your family to become a pirate. Shaving your beard. Embracing your true self. Even positive changes can be scary - just ask our favorite pirates!
How has
#OurFlagMeansDeath
inspired you to try something new or make a positive change in your life?
#OurFlagMeansPride
ed: what if we were something super normal. professors, say
stede: oh i think that sounds fun! listening to you get all passionate about your subject. plus we’d get to spend lots of time in libraries. plenty of potential there
ed: stede!
stede: i meant for reading!
ed: what if we lived in new york city
stede: well, i’d feel so lucky showing you off to all those people
ed: we’d live in a tiny room, probably
stede: we already live in a tiny room
a laugh, a kiss
in 2016 on election day i was in buenos aires and stayed up all fucking night in horror and the next day as i wandered around zombie-like each time someone realized i was american i got a gentle hug and a "oh sweetie it's your first dictator, don't worry it gets much worse"
ed: what if i was a chef
stede: i already love your cooking
ed: ok what if i was the rich one and you were my tailor
stede: now you’re just listing jobs, darling. i’d love you no matter what job you had!
i wrote all the worst things he said to me on a piece of paper and burned it in the fireplace and now i am going to talk to some pasta about it. you’re all very kind to me and i’m grateful
ed: what if there was some bizarre ritual where there was only one woman left and she was choosing from a group of men to marry, what then
stede: that sounds like an absurd psychological experiment but if you were one of the men, i’d find you. i’d love you
ed: what if we played professional baseball
stede: i don’t know what that is, but i’m certain i’d find a way to love it
ed: what if i was a glassblower
stede: ooh, i like that one. i’d definitely still love you
I wish Choices weren’t made as much as anybody but i do think it’s absolutely a thing to have a long term relationship turn toxic and codependent and morph into one person parenting the other
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i think, like. this show was such a surprise. the things that feel this Big are often a surprise. and so how do you imagine what the next thing will be? how do you imagine a surprise?
ed: would you still love me if i owned a bar
stede: i’d be a regular!
ed: what if … what if you were a priest and i was a sinner
stede: well darling, you have heard what the say about loving the sinner. suppose i’d just have to love the sin, too
ed: what if i lived in someplace super cold. tiny cabin, snow everywhere
stede: oh, i think i’d let you warm me up
ed: what if you were just, like, a voice in my head
stede: i’d have very little control over it, i suppose. but i think i’d still love you
this is oswald cobblepot, a four-year-old menace so-named because his litter was rescued from a storm drain (he was on the local news!). he yearns for the sewers, which i consider pirate-adjacent.
#petsforpirates
#adoptourcrew
#saveofmd
my across the street neighbors have a little guy, maybe 3, and i caught them coming out of the grocery store today and the kid had a dozen roses CLUTCHED to his chest and his mom just shrugged and was like idk man he needed them for some reason. anyway, also pickles louis
if you're thinking about buying kristian's book after the live, maybe consider a local independent bookstore--they preorder! they ship! or, failing that, bookshop dot org. okay i'm off the soapbox i love you no matter what 😘
partner plays dnd at a local game shop and they’re doing a lil party for all their various gamerfolk, figure i can get at least one person to ask about my shirt
#saveofmd
#RenewAsACrew
not pickles got a little update! a bonus chapter, a peek into how it's going, a long epilogue of sorts. if this is news to you, surprise! thanks to
@ofmdficclub
for the invite, thanks to everyone who hung out 💛
this story was complete before i was On Here and so i often get WAIT THAT WAS YOU?????? about this one, hi, yup, That Was Me, come hang with me on sunday at fic club and chat about it ✨💛🍸
It feels like yesterday that
@_smallestchurch
was blowing our collective minds with ‘turn on the light’. It is mind-meltingly good with lines that take our breath away. FC Discord is still screaming about this work 1 FULL YEAR after it’s finished 🩷
every time i see that "if we all list one thing we learned in therapy" post i wanna be like can i offer you the 84k word erotic fanfiction i wrote on this topic? there is a puppet,