#OFMD fandom

[perilousandwicked]

Day one completing my cast dip series.

[fuckyeahizzyhands]

[schoernchen]

Tiny reunion story of Ed and Stede. I hope there will be some kissing involved 💗

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

You're doing great, sweeties :) 🏴‍☠️❤🦄

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[the-widow-olivia]

Deep breath.

I am a solidly middle-aged fangirl, and my last real fan community before OFMD was the X-Files. (I feel like I am not the only one here who fits that description).

The news that we aren’t getting a new season of Our Flag Means Death is hitting me harder than I expected.

So I am thinking about Scully.

There’s this X-Files episode called “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose.” The plot is about a guy who can see into the future and tell people how they die.

Scully asks him, "How do I die?"

And Clyde Bruckman replies, simply, "You don't."

I've seen fans speculate that Scully winds up becoming immortal by the end of the series. But, 22 years after the end of the show's original run, that line has taken on a new meaning for me.

Scully doesn't die, she can't die, because I still think about her. Scully is immortal because there are fans still writing her into stories, still making art, still getting inspired by her and pursuing medicine and science.

You cannot truly kill a story. You can cancel a TV show. You can, if you're an asshole, make fun of fan creators and their ideas. If you're really an asshole (and a media conglomerate), you can send them cease and desist letters and tell them to stop making art that breathes new life into that story. But the story will not die.

I draw a lot of hope from the long, long history of fandom. The people who loved stories enough to keep them alive, even when it wasn't clear that there would ever be another "official" work in their lifetimes. The Sherlock Holmes fans. The Star Trek fans.

How does a story die?

It doesn’t.

[meep-meep-richie]

I just love that insane look (and his hair)

[edscuntyeyeshadow]

[mon-ster-chen]

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[tinseltrinkets]

I think it’s lovely that OFMD lives on even though it’s stopped running. There’s so many cash grab shows that stream for 100 seasons that no one is passionate about but with this show, even when the plug is pulled, the fandom is just as lively and impassioned as it always was. There’s still so much to appreciate and interpret and incorporate into art and writing. I’m very thankful for this show and the fandom that loves it so unabashedly.

[celesmaxwell]

Whatcha been up to the last week or so, OFMD fans?

[captainsvscaptains]

Battle of the Captains

Round 3 Part 4 Poll 2

Propaganda

Ed's a master tactician! He's a terrible flirt! He's got the eyes, the beard, the fit, and the sexy lil voice! Tummy and arm! He's gay and has daddy issues! What more could you want from a man???

Jonny's the self-proclaimed captain of the starship Aurora (though everyone else calls him the first mate), and one of the lead singers in The Mechanisms, a spacefaring cabaret of immortal pirates with lovely voices and extremely gray morals. He hails from New Texas, he's got a heart made of metal, and he likes to play the harmonica and shoot things.

[perilousandwicked]

The weekend to end all weekends

[toastywindow]

This shot in particular????? i have.... very strong emotions about it

[yourgentlemanpirate]

@NedLowe

(Thank you @the-widow-olivia and fic club for this wonderful silly idea)

[schoernchen]

I binged Our flags means death this weekend and had to do some fanart of these lovely bozos <3

[meep-meep-richie]

AT LEAST THEY ARE LIVING HAPPILY EVER AFTER AT THEIR INN T_T