#will be doing most of my ofmd posting on my sideblog but i wanted to post a little here for my conhead moots teehee

[dykecadence]

gonna be real i was not the biggest fan of izzy in season one i just did not Get It with him.... i get it now. s2 izzy got me by the throat immediately ive seen the truth and its con oneill

[cowboycostume]

AMVS for Palestine 🇵🇸

I am joining a group of amv artists in fundraising for Palestinians. @amvs4palestine (check out the master post for the basic terms and to see who all is participating)

I have made amvs for Supernatural, Hannibal, Our Flag Means Death and Lord of the Rings - check out my youtube or amv tag if you'd like to see what my work is like.

DM me @smokerdean (sideblog so I can keep track of requests) with proof of minimum $10/€10/£8/etc donation to crips for esims for Gaza, one or more fundraisers from @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi’s vetted list, or an esim donation directly to esims for Gaza*

the minimum donation will get a 35-60sec vid (ex: 1 2 3 4) for their chosen media/character/relationship, please see under the cut for list of possible media choices & request guidelines. higher donation amounts can request longer or narrative work.

I have ONE open slot - they will reopen after all videos are completed, and be completed in order of submission. donations above $30/€30/£25/etc and/or 2 or more 30 day esims can request priority**

*if donating nomad esim(s) use code NOMADCNG for 5% off or code MIRA25JV for 25% off if it is your first time buying from nomad - please also include ss of your email to Gazaesims@gmail.com with your proof of purchase

**priority only possible for standard length (35-60sec) videos

please send a youtube link to the song you are requesting & the character/media/episode(s)/etc. if you'd like a specific section of the song please include the time stamps or specific lyrics.

I will edit to anything but would prefer not to do any taylor swift, edm, metal, or hyperpop.

all videos will be uncaptioned unless requested otherwise. all videos will be posted to @cowboycostume (ofmd to @izzyhandsapologist) & my youtube, unless requested otherwise.

available media (things already on my drive)

Supernatural, Our Flag Means Death, Ted Lasso, Lord of the Rings, Venom, Hannibal, Ready or Not, Spiderman No Way Home, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

additional shows I would be able to edit for (shows I know well enough to pull from & know I can get a dl for)

IWTV, WWDITS, Succession

willing to edit for any single episode of basically any show and most movies, if you provide a download.

feel free to chat with me ahead of time to see if what you want is a fit with what I am able to complete or capable of <- especially if requesting narrative work do this!!

@spnamvs

[actofgrxce]

So, OFMD is my all time favorite show and I am in love with every single character and have been wanting to try and join the fandom as Stede Bonnet, but I am SO nervous. Only because you, and several others, are just so incredible and I am intimidated but ahhh, I want to do badly write as my pirate princess. Any advice? Or just go for it? I’ve been writing for years, but graphics/theme making are not my forte.

Hey, friend!! Thanks for the kind words!!

I would just GO for it, with the understanding that there's a learning curve to the "rp etiquette" of Tumblr (and some users, as is the way with social media, will be more forgiving and flexible with "mistakes" than others). I would introduce yourself, as you have done here, to people who seem fun and chill, and express your interest in interacting with them IC. 1) Tell them you would be writing Stede. 2) Read their rules page (usually there is a pinned post at the top of a writer's blog offering a mobile-friendly link to their rules, which is basically how they prefer to interact with other writers, how often, in what format, what the writer's or "mun's" triggers are, etc) and tell them that you have: this seems to be a real sign of good faith around here. 3) Collect a small list of people (maybe 4 or 5) to start with, and follow them. If your rp blog is a "sideblog" to a main account, also let them know that, so that when a non-rp blog (you) follows them, they know who the heck it is! I cannot underscore enough how important it is to find people with whom you jive ooc, as yourselves. It simply will not be fun if you don't. So take your time with this part! 4) Make your blog. Customize your theme as much or little as you like, but a good rule of thumb is to at least make an "About the Muse" page (muse's story), a "Rules" (do's and don't's of interacting with you) page, and a "Verses" (discrete story timelines, usually grouped by how much you adhere to canon or by romantic "ships") page. Your muse is a "canon" muse: that is, a muse that already exists in the official fandom universe. 5) If you don't have it already, GET XKIT REWRITTEN (a browser extension that lets you alter Tumblr's increasingly perplexing and user-unfriendly interface, lol. There are versions for both Chrome and Firefox. 6) Start writing. You rp on Tumblr by reblogging a person's IC (in-character) post to your blog, and adding a text reply. They then reblog you. And so on and so forth. Here is where you consult their rules page to know things like: are they okay if I trim posts? Are they okay with me dm'ing them to ask for replies? What's the most courteous way to use tags in order to easily find past writing or filter my blog? How explicit can writing with this partner get re violence or s*xual themes? Etc. Everyone is different.

Re making your blog fancy: You do NOT need to be well-versed in Photoshop, themes and coding in order to run a blog. A lot of people now rp on Tumblr Mobile, where theme graphics don't show up anyway. Those who still use graphics vary, but most of us really don't care if our writing partners use them as long as we can continue to do so.

However, if you're still anxious, I've got a couple graphics and rpg sources right off the bat that can help you tremendously:

@poohsources (your one stop shop for EVERYTHING theme, icon, rp etiquette, formatting, etc related. A very kind soul) @octomoosey (best free blog theme coder on Tumblr!)

and if you're willing to pay for codes and graphics, I can also recommend a few good friends.

Also, if you have further questions, come to me. My anonynous ask option is usually on. <3

(Anyone reading this, feel free to add on your suggestions!)

[lacefuneral]

Yellow (affectionate) ❤️

hi meow!! i know you a bit bc of ur posts (i think about "please come back. my princess with a disorder" SO often)

hi i'm jay i like stede a lot and i have a lot of niche interests but OFMD has captured my heart and attention since i learned about it back in april 2022. i also love ed obvi i think he's the most beautiful man in the worldge <3

i was a fan of rhys of back in 2007 (when i first watched flight of the conchords) so OFMD has been very strange for me lmao. i've been gradually catching up on the last 15 years or so of his filmography. i also think he should he bent in half. who said that

i have a BFA in graphic design but i'm disabled so instead of working in the industry i use my education to make dumb things online. but like. very slowly. there are videos i'm working on that are months in the making. i'm also a self-taught black and white photo colorist (yes. like the "colorized" memes) and i do that for fun sometimes. i never did learn how to make Proper Gifs (photoshop always fucks them up on export without fail) so I do usually use the dreaded ezgif dot com for mine. but, since i'm getting better at color correction in adobe after effects, maybe i'll try to actually learn sometime

i like bugs and rabbits and all sorts of creatures. they are like animals to me. i really like valentine's day and lovecore and the color pink and make that my whole personality. love learning abt gay history and i love archiving stuff. i have several sideblogs abt it

i talk a lot about my love of men and being trans and being femme. i like to write poetry and sing. sometimes i do voice acting in an audio post. i've always wanted to work on an actual project but I need vocal training first

that's pretty much the basics! smiles

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

🍺 Jamie, we need the full unabridged Calico Jack essay you certainly have.

Ok so here's the thing. I've already made a lot of the meta about him that I need to make so I'll just link some and give you director's commentary. This is in reverse chronological order of when I posted it so my understanding of my evil alcoholic meow meow has grown more complex and nuanced the farther down it goes.

The full throttle Jack apologia I was on before the canyon materialized - I understand why this one has 7 notes and three of them are from me. I really do. However I stand by most of what I said here. I don't stand by my relative minimization of what Jack did do wrong (Being homophobic, being a bad friend to Ed and saying that they're not friends, Being manipulative instead of just warning Ed and letting him make the call about Stede). I think that what's missing from this little essay is that Jack is, as a narrative tool, trying to pull Ed back into his old life that he hates. His fundamental narrative purpose is to show what Ed's life was like back when he was shitty. Now I think from this perspective that Stede is just as culpable for doing that to Mary but it's not Mary's story any more than it's Jack's story so I am reading against text in this meta. However what you have to understand is that in may of 2022 when I published this thing that Jack was universally hated. I personally saw him as a sympathetic and wrong character where as the general consensus back then was that the dalliances he talked about with Ed had to have been non consensual if they were real because why would Ed ever have sex with a guy like that. Which is a take I have a lot of problems with but the main one is that it denies Ed agency to have sex with a guy that rubs you, the viewer the wrong way. So basically, I agree with this post but I would not make it in the current relatively Jack friendly climate of the fandom. Nor would I make it in a post canyon enviornment where the homophobic masc white guy apologia has reached a fever pitch just because I don't want to be associated with that. Also I'm a lot less charitable to Stede than most ofmd fans for personal, non jack related reasons. Also I want to make a note here that I should have made in that meta but will make now that I'm not saying that Stede is terrible and you shouldn't like him, my argument was essentially that seeing Jack as one dimentionally evil is kind of weird when you're willing to completely write off Stede's misogyny era as an oopsy. I like Stede. Most people like Stede. I stood alone in also liking Jack at the time.

Here's a much more reasonable strain of Jack apologia that I've settled on - In the early days I bounced back and forth between "he literally did nothing wrong except kill Karl" and "He's the worst guy ever (affectionate)" but eventually I saw how the wind was blowing on people who said "he's never done anything wrong" about Izzy and I was like, I'll dial it back even though I'm not throwing Ed or Stede (generally unless I'm also defending Mary B in the same breath) under the bus to say it. You'll notice it's pretty much the same thesis except for instead of being phrased as "Stede was out of pocket and Jack did nothing wrong and you're all highschool brained" it's phrased as "I think this is what happened but these two other things could also be the case and I would still like him. This is the clear role he plays in the narrative giving it to someone else annoys me." Also Beardy is what I started having my Jack tulpa call Ed before season 2. I've explained why Here on the @ask-calico-jack sideblog where I'm the mod because I got an ask about it and I decided to address it out of character. Also I'm Not Going Anywhere is a Jack apologia fic I was writing at the time which I have since abandoned. Basically I whumped him into submission.

My Evidence for Jack being willing to risk his life to save Ed - more apologia that I stand by. Once again I want to reiterate that in 2022 everybody hated that guy and most people still hate him which is fair and natural but enough people have come around that I'm now willing to ignore the haters because I have to fight with the people who like him wrong.

this was part of an ask game asking me what I thought about ships and I went off about Ed and Jack

I learned that Calico Jack was named after calico the fabric and I made this because I'm still on my Jack/Ed enemies to rivals who fuck shit - Not sure about Ed's skin here, is he too orange? depends on whether you're on desktop or mobile.

Calico Jack penis discourse - This one is integral to my view of the pissing scene. I love the pissing scene it's one of the only scenes of tv ever.

Jack is cute he would kill me for saying it but it's true 2 3 4

Brief asside that I feel like I have to put in and here's probably best: At some point in late 2022 early 2023 Jack stopped being so villified and people started to think he was kinda fun. After this the CJizzys attacked. I used to passively like the concept of CJizzy because in my head they were the worlds worst guys being terrible together. It was giving Izzy a pirate captain to obsess over the way he obsesses over blackbeard, except the pirate captain actually liked being a pirate captain so it was healthier than what he has going on with Ed, and also it was like if that one straight couple that are together but hate each other because she's a nag and he's a slob were gay pirates who partake in unsafe bdsm. Then a bunch of people started writing and drawing this wildly out of character CJizzy stuff and I got turned off of it completely because they would hollow out my favoriate little villain to turn him into the perfect white masc boyfriend for their little guy because they cant enjoy a show if there aren't masc4mascs in it, and now because of that I hate the ship. I just can't stand people giving Jack emotional intelligence without him being wrapped in a blanket and socialized by force first. It's not that I don't like woobifying him it's that you're woobifying him wrong and above is the way you ought to do it. anyway, onwards.

Anon asks me how I think Jack felt about being rejected by the crew - I stumble upon an interesting potential motive for him faumenting mutiny against Stede and potentially evidence for him telling the truth about having been mutinied three times.

Ed has a type - I added Frenchie in here because I'm a serial shipper and I stand by that decision despite Frenchie being different from Jack and Stede in most ways but I genuinely think that Stede and Jack are a very similar type of guy

Jack is not a frat boy - this one is me being a dick again but also I'm right.

Jack calls Stede slurs, this is funny - note that Stede also calls Jack "calico" as if his first name is Calico and his last name is Jack and that historically Jack was called "calico" Jack because some guy writing a salacious book about pirates wanted to make him seem gay so to me Jack's nickname for Stede is Fairy and Stede's nickname for Jack is Fudgepacker. This to me is both amusing and homoerotic.

Fic rec - What I think Jack and Ed were like as kids, there's a one paragraph meta and then below it a link to a 2k word fic

Jack has a type - Anne and Mary came out and I love them

Jack fucks - This has always been my take but I think there's a lot of people on here who thinks he doesn't fuck well and all of them are wrong, and more importantly, have not had sex with as many bisexual 50 year old alcoholic perverts as I have, so they don't know what they're talking about. Jack would try to sell me meth on grindr.

Jack and Ed are tragic actually - they could have been highschool sweet hearts who got married if Jack wasn't a little bitch

I am shipping so hard right now - my thesis about my pet 5 way

Aro cowboy pirate- Jack and Jim also have stuff in common

Jack has dimentions don't you dare say he doesn't have dimensions - Jack actually is sympathetic Ed told me himself and he also told you and Jack also says a lot about both Ed and Stede and that's the whole reason he's there is to say a lot about Ed and Stede if you will just listen to what his presence says about the guys you like maybe you would understand him like I do. (you general not you specifically)

and finally

my writing advice.

[youmagnificentbeast]

because I sure as fuck can't decide so my audience has to

I will of course spoilertag accordingly!

[doks-aux]

Looks like I might’ve breached containment with that Stede post. If you’re here because of it, hi! A couple of things you might want to know:

1) This is my sideblog. It’s 99% original posts pertaining to writing and fandoms with 1% of limited reblogs. My main blog is @doktorgirlfriend which is all the same content, plus personal posts and a whole hell of a lot more reblogs.

2) Most of my OFMD posts are actually about Izzy, and many of those are shipping him with a historical pirate who has not actually appeared in the show and who I’ve fancasted as Jemaine Clement. So, uh. Yeah. That’s pretty much what we’re doing here right now. Also gay Batman villains.

Barring none of that scaring you off, welcome! My inbox is always open.