Ally 🏴‍☠️💜🏴‍☠️ He’s so delicate

Later that night, when he goes to check on the baby, Stede finds that Alma snuck into his room to sleep next to him 💕
#ofmdfanart

Ed sitting in a bed with toddler Alma and baby Louis, there's glow in the dark stars behind them, and they're reading a book called "The New Unicorn"

It's bedtime for the Passing Notes family, and Ed is doing storytime with the kids 💕
#fanart #ofmdfanart

Ed looking shocked, holding a fresh dandelion out in front of his face (Buttercup is in the side bag, peeking out)

Finally finished a piece I meant to post along with chapter 1 of Life Begins Again 🔥
#ofmdfanfic #ofmdfanart #fanart
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. If y'all haven't read chapter 1 👀
archiveofourown.org/works/769563...

The camera pans out from the initial headshot of Frenchie to reveal an interview set-up, not unlike the tribute interviews during the Games. Frenchie sits down on a tall backed chair as the camera keeps zooming out. “I'm joined here today with one of the co-Victors of the 74th Hunger Games, and survivor of the third Quarter Quell, Stede Bonnet.” “Oh my god,” Ed mutters under his breath, his body moving closer to the screen under its own volition. The camera had timed it so that Stede had only been revealed, seated in the chair across from Frenchie, when Frenchie had announced his name. “You're alive.” For a long moment, the screen cuts to a medium shot of Stede and Ed’s breath catches. He looks… different. His eyes have dark heavy circles under them, and he's sitting in such a rigid posture, back straight to the chair. Stede might be proper, but not like this. His lips are smeared with a natural shade of lipstick, but beneath that, Ed can see that they’re horribly chapped, like they haven’t been giving him enough water. But he's alive. He's alive and breathing, and that's all Ed can ask for right now.

Now that everyone had left the cave and are well enough away that Lucuis can no longer hear their voices, he becomes increasingly aware of the silence. It’s so quiet and still, almost as though the stone is sucking all of the noise into its depths, like the soundless vacuum of space. It is so profound that Lucius can hear the sound of his blood pulsing in his ears, pulsing fast because his anxiety over the Badminton interaction and his stupid choices have his heart racing. God, what was that? he berates himself. The knee-jerk, ego-petting, worst-choice-possible reaction to boast about their new career-altering, history-altering discovery. To the two worst people on the planet. Who could actually do a shit ton of damage not just to him, but to all of them. Even to the extraordinary skeletons in this cave! He thought he’d matured beyond rising to the Badmintons’ antics, but he supposes not. Perhaps it’s the trauma of dealing with them in his formative years as an early career scholar. But that’s hardly an excuse to put so many other careers in danger. He hasn’t been this much of a disappointment since his Ph.D. supervisor read the first draft of his dissertation! That was, at least, easily fixed. But this? He can’t say.He takes a few deep breaths, hears his heartbeat slow in his ears, blinks, and looks around. “Okay, get it together,” he tells himself. “There’s work to do here.” Almost tiptoeing so as not to disturb the solace the skeletons had enjoyed for tens of thousands of years, Lucius approaches them and crouches to look at them more closely. Once again, he marvels at their embrace. Two male specimens, two species, a missing link of a sort on the scale of Lucy! He really won the survival bias lottery with this one. “No,” he whispers firmly to himself. “Enough of making a name for myself. Focus on the research. Focus on the two people in front of me and the life they’ve told in the art on these cave walls. Think of their story within the context of

“I want to see the overworld.” She's met with silence, the kind of silence that makes you squirm in your seat in embarrassment for even opening your mouth. But she keeps going, “I know you guys don't allow it but… but I want to see the real plants, the kind that dad doesn't have to grow himself.” “We have everything we could ever need here,” her father says with an uncharacteristically harsh tone, “you have no business going up there, young lady.” “But dad–” “No buts!” Stede takes a deep breath, “We keep you and your brother here to protect you, it's not safe up there.” She looks over at Ed, who matches Stede's pinched brow and disapproving glare. “Please, nothing grows here, it dies in a couple hours and has to be grown back, it's all in a constant state of decay.” “But it's our decay. Nothing here belongs to that poor excuse of an uncle you and I are unfortunately related to.” “But dad, please!” Ed slams his fist on the table, and his eyes go red, “No, end of discussion!” Alma stands and runs out of the room.

Rumspringa (noun) - Pennsylvania German term meaning ‘to run around’, a rite of passage for certain Amish communities during adolescence before a person is baptized. Can manifest in not going to church on certain days, staying out later, slacking on chores, or going on extended trips to secular cities outside their community (among other things). It's a loaded thing to be faced with, rebelling against everything you ever knew, disobeying your parents who have been your strict guardians your entire life. And even worse, being expected to rebel in some way, that just adds even more pressure, how far is too far for Stede, he doesn't even know the limit he can handle. That is what the mere idea of Rumspringa is to him. He's a good kid, doesn't make too much noise, puts his head down and works, follows every order his father and mother give, sings the hymns in church and reads Bible passages when asked, who could ask for more in their child? But he has been feeling doubts, in himself, in his faith, in everything, really. But that's what Rumspringa is really for, for mentally preparing yourself for baptism, and deciding if you even want it. If he does, he already knows what's waiting for him here, the young woman he's now allowed to hang out with one on one, so long as there's a good five feet between them. Mary’s father is the lead pastor at church, and as such, he wants the best boy for his daughter. That fell to Stede, since his father runs one of the more successful farms in their community, selling at the big farmers market in Philadelphia every summerand bringing a ton of money back for the community. It's why they have some of the nicer roads in Lancaster county. They're arranged to be wed, if the Rumspringa goes how Stede's father wants it to go. A perfect blending of the families. But the thought scares Stede to his core.

Four snippets for WIP Wednesday

• Chapter 2 of Hunger Games au

• Chapter 5 of Caveman au

• Chapter 6 of Mythology au (I haven't forgotten about it, I'm just perpetually distracted lol)

• And the start of Amish Stede on rumspringa au 👀

#wipwednesday #ofmdfanfic

“I’m sorry if the sight of my cut bangs disgusts you 😠”

“😅🥹 I love your hair. Bangs or otherwise”

GOD 💀💀💀💀💀💀

Alt S2 opening storyline for Blackbeard that just occurred to me:

Upset about Stede having left him, trying to reinvent himself while having a broken heart, he gets drunk one night, grabs a knife, and gives himself bangs.

Everyone must compliment his new look because they’re terrified of him.

Ahh thank you!

"The top ten occupations of Blackbeard | Edward Teach according to the canonical tags of AO3 1. Artist 2. Musician 3. Innkeeper 4. Business Owner 5. Rock Star 6. Tattoo Artist 7. Chef 8. Writer 9. Bar Owner 10. Actor" Black text on a white semi transparent box thing with the background of the sea underneath. Not quite graphic design is my passion vibes but close enough.

Have you ever wondered what the top non pirate occupations people give Ed on AO3? I have. So I present this to you all in case you share my wonder. #OFMD

Okay was anyone going to tell me that Rhys is narrating Hims commercials or did I just have to get jumpscared by his voice at work ☠️

M'babies ❤️🏴‍☠️
(Both acrylic paint, L is on hardboard, R is on canvas)

Ran to the comments to beg for the Ed one as a print and saw that you already had a link for it and immediately purchased 😂

Nah s3 will be about them figuring out how to talk it through. They’re dumbass4dumbass all the way baby

A stolen moment of peace - a rare luxury for two pirates 🖤

#ofmd #ourflagmeansdeath #ofmdfanart #blackbeard #stedebonnet #gentlebeard

My favorite is the “ed preplanning his wedding” one

One of the most exciting things to meee about the Disastercule is how much we get to explore ED at different stages of his life! There is a lot of flexibility in this event for how to explore that. For example:

Excellent alt text 😂

ed teach in the process of folding like a deck of cards as he turns away from anne bonny (offscreen) to look at stede (also offscreen)

here we see ed pre-planning his wedding to a one stede bonnet (once again offscreen). lookit him lil face he’s just got the cutest lil chipmunk cheeks i wanna squeeze em

ed making a cringey face at lucius (offscreen!) bc he knows he’s about to be yeeted off the ship in the most spectacular way. at least it wasn’t a keelhauling, babygirl

and once again ed teach making moon eyes at stede bonnet. this picture is in the dictionary next to the term “down bad” bc nobody’s ever been more down bad than him

heard we needed some emergency ed teach

In a sea of nondescript metal doors, David finds compartment 30122, prepares himself, and knocks on it. "Go away." A voice sighs dramatically on the other side of the door, David just rolls his eyes, and goes in anyway. Former Hunger Games host, Lucius Spriggs, lays across the bed, dramatically. If it weren't for the small amount of Botox in his forehead, he'd look just like any other person in 13. "Mr. Spriggs, your door opens," David demonstrates with the sliding metal door, it's only lock being the auto emergency one in case of mass illness to quarantine. "It opens and closes, and I'd love it if you could figure that out and join the rest of us out there." "Not like this," he scoffs, "in a fucking ill fitting gray jumpsuit like I'm some sort of..." He doesn't finish the sentence, but the look on his face suggests something someone of his Capitol ilk would say. Something about "looking District", the greatest sin someone in the Capitol could commit. David's been around for a while, District inspired trends flow in and out of popularity, emulating Victors is nothing special or new. But "looking District" is equivalent to simply giving up, looking like you actually work for a living. Old capitol habits die hard, it seems. Lucius sighs, "Look, David, I appreciate the position I've been put in, and I love the cause and all that. But I just... I can't do it." He puts his head in his hands, the reality of the situation finally dawning on him. “I just want to go home.” "Lucius, your days in the Capitol are over, you might as well just accept it."

Happy wip Wednesday from Hunger Games au, a certain someone ended up in 13 with everyone else 👀

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BRINGING IT FULL CIRCLE

YEAH same. Ouat was my first exposure to him and I was so weirdly fascinated with Jefferson

SAME. It took me so long to realize Bucky was also this guy 💀 but legit Sebastian Stan has RANGE. I loooved him in We Have Always Lived in the Castle

a man in a cowboy hat is screaming and saying `` get it to work '' . Alt: Sebastian Stan from “once upon a time” in the role as the mad hatter, having a mental breakdown as he tries to make a top hat that will get him back to his daughter after being trapped in wonderland

Wild to see this today because I just started rewatching Once Upon a Time and I didn’t *forget* that he had a several episode arc in the first couple seasons, but I *did* forget how absolutely unhinged he is in them

iirc david said this was a very very early version of the scene so it probably got changed due to a combination of just normal screenwriting things, the episode amount dropping, and studio interference we know was happening for the last few eps. But GODDDDD what we could have had 😭😭😭

Ed kissing Stede on the cheek, while staring at the camera. His hair is super teased and big and he's wearing a black leather jacket, purple tee shirt, and various necklaces and earrings. Stede is wearing a blue button up, low cut black tee shirt underneath a slutty gold necklace, and Robert Smith style goth makeup. But in black and white

Ed kissing Stede on the cheek, while staring at the camera. His hair is super teased and big and he's wearing a black leather jacket, purple tee shirt, and various necklaces and earrings. Stede is wearing a blue button up, low cut black tee shirt underneath a slutty gold necklace, and Robert Smith style goth makeup

🤍🖤Late 70s/early 80s goth icons, Edward Teach and Stede Bonnet🖤🤍
#ofmd #ofmdfanart

ROWAN

Ed with full beard and long hair lying on a bed between Anne and Jack with his arms crossed over his chest and blanket tucked beneath them. Though the rest of their bodies are covered by a blanket, their chests are bare and it’s implied that they’re all naked beneath the blanket. There’s a light blush on Ed’s cheeks and he looks mildly stressed out

Ed’s face is so “Yup, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation”

Disastercule* Weekend *Any 3+ of Ed/Jack/Anne/Mary Feb 20-23 Hashtags: #OFMDdisastercule #OFMDRareShips Collection: Disastercule_Weekend hosted by @ofmdrareships art by @intheblanketfort The aforementioned art by Caly @intheblanketfort.bsky.social is a beautiful illustration of Anne, Ed, Jack, and Mary. All are at least 10 years younger than we see them in Canon. They're naked, all cuddled together under a black blanket. Anne and Mary are looking towards each other, looking smug. Jack looks at the camera with a hand behind his head. Ed hugs the blanket to his chest, looking to the side with his hair fanned around him.

Who's up for POSTIES!? Coming February 20-23, Disastercule Weekend is an event celebrating Ed/Jack/Anne/Mary. This event is co-hosted by @littlefingies.bsky.social and @halfeatenmoon.bsky.social. Thank you to @intheblanketfort.bsky.social for the beautiful art! #OFMDRareShips #OFMDdisastercule

Don't want to fan any drama flames, but not sharing would feel even more foul:

NEVER.