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Interview with Lindie and Boy

On this episode of Mind the Tags, Vee and Emily interview Lindie and boy, two incredible podficcers from the Our Flag Means Death fandom. Lindie and boy share what got them into podficcing, tricks of the trade, and some of their favorite things about recording fanworks.

Thank you to Erik Potteiger for producing our song and Haflacky for our logo design. Thank you Ollie for editing our sound!

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Last week I went to Cape May, New Jersey to get my OFMD tattoo! It was a perfect opportunity to see the sights in my favorite place. Cape May is the setting of my Big Bang, which I can share as of today! If you haven't had a chance to check it out yet, you can read the whole fic here:

Here are some pics from last week to enhance your reading experience!

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It’s time for my big bang! So excited to share this. Thank you so much for @the-widow-olivia, @petrichorca, and @shieldmaidenofmithrilhall for beta’ing this fic and cheerleading me through the process!

Title: Shore Thing Author: ferventrabbit Artist: nocturneequuis Beta reader: the_widow_olivia, shieldmaidenofmithrilhall, petrichorca Main Characters: Ed Teach and Stede Bonnet Other Characters: The Crew of the Revenge Main Relationship(s): Ed/Stede Other Relationship(s): Rating: Explicit Additional Tags: Modern AU,New Jersey,Jersey Shore,but not the show,References to Homophobia,Coming Out,Karaoke,Beach sheninigans,Almost Kiss,First Kiss,First Time,Frottage,Hand Jobs,Kissing,Blackbeard | Edward Teach Wears a Skirt,Divorced Stede Bonnet,References to Barry Manilow,Flagrant disrespect of Yuelinging Warnings: N/A Summary:

The Bonnets go down the shore to Cape May, New Jersey during the same week every year. It’s tradition. But this year, everything about the Bonnet family has changed. The kids are off to summer camp, Mary is on a trip with her fiance, Doug, and Stede is newly single with no earthly idea what comes next. He books a room at The Queen Anne B&B — run by mysterious proprietor Blackbeard — and vows to make the best of his vacation alone. Stede’s life is about to change again in ways he could never have expected.

Wordcount: 36,972

Shore Thing

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Wait someone did Zardoz crossover art omgomgomgomgomg

The concept art of the final boss of the Leather squad - Zed, I mean Ed, the Blackbeard, I mean the Moustache

Reference to Zardoz (1974) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070948/

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+ bonus Izzy

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I draw them kissing (and doing uh…other things) a lot I have a sickness

(Collection of a few old ones from twitter yet again, full versions of the middle ones can be found here)

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Ed and Stede meet when they’re partnered up for a Get Out the Vote campaign. But between knocking on doors, sparks fly. A fluffy little pre-election collab from me and @ferventrabbit!

This is my first ever collab AND it pushed me over 100k on AO3!!!

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✨💖 just a couple of babes 💖✨

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I’m sharing the fic I wrote for the @becausethenightzine, “Pinned.” Basically my excuse to write Ed getting sexily shoved up against a wall 😌

archiveofourown.org/works/60229150

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Ed wanted boba

✨ and he always gets want he wants ✨

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At choir rehearsal tonight we got to the end of the piece where we have a reeeeeally long held note. We all have to stagger breathe to sustain it. The person next to me was on the same note I was, and we instinctively started working together to hold the note. She breathed, I sang. I breathed, she sang. We trusted each other to keep the note going and were in tune with one another’s breathing. I’ve maybe had one conversation with her in my life, but we were so in sync with each other.

It was a nice reminder that the world’s still capable of having moments like that.

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So helpfulllll

How to write a kiss scene

requested by: anon request: How do I write a good kiss scene? As how do I describe it? What details or words would make it good?

What goes into the writing of a kiss scene?

details to incorporate:

the sensations in their stomach, their chest, and their knees

the way their breathing changes shortly before the kiss

the feeling of the other's hands

the texture of the other's clothing

the moment they realise they've reached the point of no return

the feeling they're left with after the kiss

words to use...

... to describe the kiss:

tentative

tender

hesitant

quick

soft

gentle

delicate

languid

feathery

familiar

exploring

hungry

heated

fiery

frantic

impatient

sloppy

messy

aggressive

... to describe how they feel about the kiss:

nervous

excited

giddy

anxious

apprehensive

ambiguous

surprised

reassured

certain

confident

relieved

eager

greedy

... to show what the lips do:

exploring each other

brushing over each other

locking

devouring

touching

sealing

pressing against each other

capturing

lapping

tasting

crushing together

travelling (the other's body)

trailing (down to the other's chin)

grinning into the kiss

caressing

lingering

... to show how their body reacts:

feeling warm all over

buzzing

humming

pumping/palpitating heart

clenching lungs

joy bubbling up

tingly stomach

warm chest

burning cheeks

sweaty palms

blood rushing through their veins

... to describe what their hands are doing:

tangling in their lover's hair

wrapping their arms around their lover's neck

intertwining their fingers with their lover

resting on their lover's hips

pressing into their lover's shoulder blades

cupping their lover's cheeks

touching their lover's chin

curling their arm around their lover's waist

resting on their lover's shoulders

grabbing their lover's collar

sneaking up under their lover's shirt

brushing over their lover's bare skin

lightly squeezing their lover's butt

focus on:

the sensations instead of what's physically happening. (the protagonists might very well not know themselves what is happening exactly, but they feel very precisely)

I hope this helps <3

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Always love writing with Pez 🥹❤️

Hello, I am slowly figuring out how to use tumblr effectively. I thought I'd give an update on fics I've written in 2024, but keep forgetting to talk about here in a meaningful way.

As We Go Hand in Hand (explicit, gentlebeard, 7100 words) follows Ed as he processes the past few months while living on the island with Stede, massively in love but struggling with himself. I wrote it while feeling a lot of delayed grief around the (confirmed) s2 cancellation, and while it's sad at points it's also quite romantic I think. I really love this story.

Behind Closed Eyes All I See is You (explicit, gentlebeard, 5300 words) is a smutty PWP my dear friend @chaoticturtleturtle invited me to write with her. Stede lets Ed take the lead in a scene with some sensory deprivation, pwp, and aftercare.

like sugar to my heart (mature, gentlebeard, 4200 words) is a silly fic I wrote for my Animorphs OFMD AU co-writer as a birthday gift. Our blue four-legged four-eyed mouthless alien Stedeth gets foiled by a vending machine (based on the tumblr art of the giraffe centaur), and Ed consoles him.

like a bird (teen, gentlebeard, 3700 words) with @ghostalservice gives some backstory about Stedeth's life prior to the events of our 177k fic and features some very cute art of Mary and Stede's children (as Andalites, of course) by @theogem

Stede’s Cursed Red Suit as a Metaphor for Grief and Moving On (teen, stede + izzy, 1717 words) explores the squishy time of season 2, episode 5, and the dynamic between Stede and Izzy in season 2 overall. I am also obsessed with how Stede acts in the cursed suit. I find their s2 relationship really interesting so this is me looking a bit at that via a missing scene starting with Stede yelling OH FUCK OFF.

Calypso’s Dawn (explicit, gentlebeard, 1800 words) centers around how Ed made his boyfriend blush the morning after Calypso's birthday and how Ed feels about it. I love this fic. I've been trying to challenge myself to write more self-contained, shorter stories and this one turned out really well imo.

Life as a Series of Forward Rolls (teen, gentlebeard, 9900 words) features Stede running into his teenhood crush, the gold medalist in men's gymnastics from the 1996 Olympics. This fic also centers around a Barbie doll in Ed Teach's likeness, which @swashbuckling-sweethearts made an INCREDIBLE art of (embedded at the end of the story), inspired by my own 1996 Olympics Barbie. Silly and light modern AU!

Did you mean to do that? (teen, gentlebeard, 700 words) explores Stede's grief around Ed dying, even when he knows Ed is alive. I had no idea I would be so interested in writing missing scenes, but long conversations with friends have really ignited me in exploring these. (The length - I was trying to channel @brigdh, whose ability to write devastatingly brilliant drabbles inspires me, and I'm pleased with this one!)

Perfectly Ordinary Tuesday (mature, gentlebeard, 4900 words) with @ferventrabbit follows Stede and Ed deciding to get married on a perfectly ordinary Tuesday, and drag their inn guest Dave along for the ride. We split up writing the vows, and I balled my eyes out writing mine and then reading em's. This story is fluffy and fun, and it was a great way to start 2024. :)

What's next: I'm working on or noodling a lot of projects, solo and with different collaborators. Imminently, I've got a fic with @veeagainsttheday coming for AUpril on April 1st. Hoping to get something else out in April for @ofmdjanuaury's AUpril 2024 event, which I highly encourage folks to check out - it's for all sorts of creators!

@ghostalservice and I continue to think about our blue alien Stede and his human boyfriend Ed. Wanna Fly Away was such an important project to me while we were writing, and it's become even more special as folks find it. WFA now has art embedded in most of the 15 chapters, so if you haven't seen those check it out. More to come in that space.

Where was I going with this? Well, I suppose I want to say I'm still here. OFMD changed my life, and the OFMD fandom community is deeply important to me. I still hold out hope for a third season, or a follow-up that brings us more closure, but no matter what I'm still thinking about our pirates and will for a long time. If you read this far, thanks for being part of my community. <3

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Jeff’s Inn by the sea pop-up!!

This was so so so fun to make and I’m super happy with how it turned out!!

For reference Stede and Ed are approximately 4cm tall and it was sooo hard to draw them this size BUT LOOK HOW CUTE!!!

Bonus photos + video of it in action below the cut!

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Oooooh I've got a fic that pairs nicely with this. One of my favorite flavors of Ed - happy, safe, comfortable <3

@ourfag this possessed me. sorry

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It’s International Podcast Day!

Fandom friends: You should go listen to Mind the Tags, hosted by @ferventrabbit and @veeagainsttheday! It’s a fun and smart look at the history of fanfic.

My favorite ep so far was their look at the history of AUs. Enjoy!

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OFMD Fic Rec

Oh my fucking word, friends. If you've not been reading @veeagainsttheday's "Seabird", you better had. The latest chapter is absolutely feeding me in my desperate longing for more OFMD. The period aviation details, the character details -- Archie calling out racism to justify destroying library reference works? Spot on. Ed and Stede being absolutely besotted and trying so hard to make it work and then having the world work against them in ways that help them work against themselves? oh, yeah. But I have faith, friends. Veeagainst is one of the best that ever did it. Go get it.