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In my HC, mesmerized-by-the-stiddies-Ed misplaced that cloth about 3 times before putting on Stede's forehed. He probably put it over Stede's mouth, eyes and pillow bc he couldn't look away from those t*ts.

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Heart-Shaped Box, Ch 5: After a rough month of talking it through, Stede, Ed, and the Crew are heading to spring break in South Padre.

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Heart-Shaped Box, Ch 4: The snow day continues, even as things heat up. E-rated.

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Here's my contribution for the 2025 Gentlebeard Calendar!

I'm so happy I got to be a part of this project with so many great artists ❤️

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Candlemaker Stede meets Ed at their shared wedding venue, too bad they're getting married to other people. Stede decides to keep his distance, but when Ed asks to be friends, things get messy.

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"On the Ethical Standards of Glory Hole Hook-Ups" by Quaintly Fig

Rated E, 2100 words

Summary: Stede has been chatting online with PirateGuy69, and when they get together for an anonymous hook-up, Stede is in for a surprise.

Since it's E-rated, more info & fic link below the line:

From the Pretty Deeply Impure generator prompt: 🐷 Stede subscribes to Ed’s website. 💦 Ed says, “Just like that, you��re so fucking good.” 🍑 Stede & Ed use a glory hole.

Fic link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62317315

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Heart-Shaped Box, Ch 3: Things between Ed and Stede are still awkward but maybe thawing. Too bad about all the ice.

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Heart-Shaped Box, Ch 2: Things between Ed and Stede are awkward. Ed decides to drink about it on another Saturday night out.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61681414/chapters/158305495

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PROUDLY PRESENTING:

The Unofficial OFMD AO3 Wrapped 2024

sponsored by my love of fandom community, a passion for data presentation, more hours in photoshop than I am willing to admit, and inspired by the Good Omens AO3 wrapped

images used are either official stills or screencaps from episodes and the Vanity Fair lie detector video. everything edited by me :)

a few additional stats:

79 works had more than 100k words, with an accumulated 16 million words, meaning 1% of works accounted for 21% of words

At a reading speed of 300 words per minute, it would take 174 days and nights to read all of the OFMD fic from 2024 - or, if you read for 11.5 hours every day for a year, you'd be able to get through it all!

The most tagged sex acts for explicit fics were (in order): Anal Sex, Blow Jobs, Oral Sex, Anal Fingering, and Hand Jobs

271 works were tagged "Art"

details about data collection and analysis ⤵️

All data was collected on January 1st, 2025. I limited search results within the fandom tag to works updated between 2024-01-01 and 2024-12-31. Works started earlier but updated in 2024 are therefore included. Works added and deleted again during the year are not accounted for.

I manually typed data from the AO3 search into Excel, so there may be errors and inaccuracies due to the limits of the AO3 search function, authors' tagging choices, and typos (sorry lmao). There is probably an easier way to do this but idk I was bored and didn't mind. Graphs were made in Excel.

For the total word count estimate, I collected the exact word counts of all works above 100k, then gathered data on the number of works within pre-selected word count intervals and multiplied the number of works with the average of the interval (for each interval). The total sum and cumulative graphs for both number of works and word counts are presented above.

I made posts on tumblr and bluesky asking people to nominate their favorite tags from 2024, and included as many as I could.

This is just how I chose to present the data - I hope it makes sense and I'm open to questions!

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Happy NYE!

Here's a compilation of some of the Ed's and Stede's I drew this year, set against a rainbow palette bc I love rainbow colors 🥰💜

Goal for 2025 is to draw more Stede (such a struggle to find enough to add here!). Can't wait to draw more of these two ridiculously in-love pirates 🥹

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A thin slice of cake for the #MoreCakeChallenge! 1.7k words of fluff and nonsense from two monks pining for each other and fighting over baked goods

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61843120

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For the More Cake Challenge, "Quilling with Kindness." T-Rated, Ed and Stede meet over paper quilling.

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Heart-Shaped Box starts today! The senior year conclusion of my college series. Stede been keeping a secret. When it's finally revealed, he and Ed are both left struggling with the fallout. Can they move past Stede's mistake?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61681414/

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💕 soft mornings 💕

A little Gentlebeard art for the weekend! I think they’re going to be in bed for most of it 🥰

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Found a little Christmas joy by writing (I'm proud to say) first-time tagged rare pair Doug/J!F! In which Mary dumps Doug right before Christmas, and Jeffrey Fettering and his horse save him from spending the holiday alone. ❤️

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One year after "Stay Away," Ed and Stede are sharing an apartment, Ed paying his part of the rent with a terrible retail job in the holiday season. He's exhausted, and Stede's still partially hiding their relationship. Something is going to have to change.

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Where I Find You by @probably-lyra-adjacent invites us to cross a bridge between childhood, adventure, innocence, and maturity, grief, and love.

Or: two times Ed opens a door and finds light in the depts 🧡

Beautiful art by OurFlagMeansZepp