#writing ofmd fanfic

[releasethekrakenwife]

Hallo, crew! Have you had a gander at casting news and some of those costume workshop photos? Are you itching to start maybe writing yourself some [redacted] ...

...Red Flag Fleet?? Zheng Yi Shao, greatest pirate in history, a pirate empress who with a fleet was composed of 400 junks and between 40,000 and 60,000 crew members???? Let's write her as respectfully and accurately as possible, gang! This is info from a friend of mine, who is a Chinese-Canadian translator and Chinese history and language scholar! I was asking about how to use Zheng Yi Shao's name correctly, and this is what she shared:

Shi Yang is her original name. Zheng Yi Shao (literally Zheng Yi's wife) is what many called her

My opinion is titles should be translated not transliterated because then it is just a bunch of sounds. So people who like work for her or want to show her respect or don't know her well would call her Madame Zheng or a similar title

Ching Shih - Ching is a dated romanization for Zheng and Shih is older romanization for a suffix that just means surname. So just means someone with the surname Zheng in terms of intimate names:

If it is like her husband or close friend then Shi Yang would be fine. A lover could use Xianggu which is like one of the title that refers to her as being a woman but also feels a bit more intimate And in terms of other relatives, older and younger: I don't think you need to get into intimate names and things like that because to do that well would require knowing some Mandarin and mapping out exact relations between the two. That is why it is hard. Like parents might have a name for their child, and an aunt/uncle/grandparent might use another. And if it someone not in the family they might use something else or just the first name or madame.

P.S. I AM NOT GOING TO SURVIVE LESBIAN PIRATES

[cobaltaugustao3]

My constant struggle when writing PWP

[permanent-fire-hazard]

If Mary and Doug don’t accidentally book a vacation at Stede and Ed’s inn then what’s the point

[sensitivesiren]

writing is crazy because you can sit there for hours, going through the entire human spectrum of emotion, all five stages of grief and then some, and literally nothing happened. it's all in your head. you made it up.

[soupbtch]

Ed notices Stede tucking flowers through his powdered wig in the captain’s cabin as they get ready together. He grows quietly fascinated watching Stede’s fingers as they sort through the flowers scattered on the desk, picking the smallest, brightest ones to loop gently into his wig. He’s never seen anyone handle anything so delicately before.

He steps closer, and Stede looks up and asks, “Would you like some in your hair, as well?”

Ed’s eyes widen at the question before he remembers he’s not attending the party tonight as Blackbeard. He can be anyone he wants. He can be someone who wears flowers in his hair. He might even like it.

“Yeah, sure,” he huffs in a small voice, and Stede gestures for him to take a seat.

Stede reaches around to pluck a flower from the pile. “May I?”

In the past, Ed has never liked people touching his hair; and though he barely knows Stede, he finds himself trusting him anyway.

Stede begins gently placing flowers in Ed’s hair, weaving the stems through his waves. No one has ever touched Ed so tenderly, with such great care as if he were reverent and beautiful and delicate. He feels himself melting into the soft press of Stede’s fingertips against his scalp.

“There,” Stede says quietly. “Go have a look.” He doesn’t need to find a mirror to see how he looks – he can read it on Stede’s face.

From then on, trusting Stede becomes an easier decision to make. Then something natural and instinctual, like breathing. Ed trusts Stede again later that night as he slips the red silk from his fingers, and once more a few days later when he asks Stede to run him through on the deck of the ship. Inhale. He trusts Stede with the next ten years of his life. And still, as he waits at dawn with his feet dangling over the edge of the dock. Exhale.

His vision tunnels. He’s cold. Suffocating.

“Like treading water,” Ed had said a lifetime ago. “Waiting to drown.”

Miraculously, he breaks through the surface. He has to force the air back into his lungs, will them to deflate and hope his body remembers how to fill them back up again.

“Breathing the same air,” Stede says to him. And it’s painful, and he hiccups and chokes, but slowly, gradually, it gets easier. He whispers his goodbye to Blackbeard as Stede lays him gently down on the bed. But his breathing is still jagged, irregular; one step forward before stumbling back.

He’s sputtering on salt water again when he finds a letter in a bottle. He finds the man who wrote it. He’s wielding a sword, and Ed trusts he won’t get gutted this time as he sprints towards him from across the beach. He inhales automatically as they intertwine, pressing their promises to each other's lips.

“Almost ready? Want me to put the flowers in your hair?” Frenchie asks.

“No thanks,” Ed exhales. “It may be our wedding day, but I trust Stede will be here any second now to do it himself.”

[finns-kardemumma]

feeling so incredibly normal about stedes earring. feeling soooo normal about ed finding that piercing under tufts of blond hair and whispering "fuck off" under his breath

[bragginball-z]

David Jenkins did not know what he was about to unleash upon the fandom when he put Ed in a cat collar and had Stede use his captain voice on him

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

looking back on the fic I've written in the last few years and my own sexuality journey has made me realize that there is an argument that poly folk and ace/aro folk process love in a lot of the same ways, like the idea that you can have significant, life-defining relationships with different people and you get something important and sometimes even a similar flavor from each relationship but each one is still fundamentally different and significant in its own way and sometimes you don't want sex but you do want hugs and your partner may be having sex with their other partner but that does not make your relationship any less important because they come back to hug you and having more hearts bound up in your own is never a bad thing, because being loved no matter the form is never a bad thing, you are lovable and you can love so many people and having a heart overflowing with love for other people and things and the universe just means that you're healing and finding the people who fit you in whatever way that comes and there will always be someone cooking in the kitchen filling your heart and stomach no matter what and in this essay i will-

[moonibinbon]

Missing writing them (blorbos) but need to focus on other things (life under capitalism)

[naranjapetrificada]

In this weird wonderful AU Georg fandom that is OFMD we have so many beautiful options. I was never, ever an AU type until now, but I truly can't get enough. Just last night I stayed up entirely too late because I finally got into Wave Hello to the Void, which on its face should absolutely positively not be My Thing, but the AUs we're blessed with here seem to always break that rule (especially with mxmollusca involved because holy shit have you read In Favor With Their Stars yet???).

We're so incredibly lucky y'all. I've been in fandom spaces for a long time but I've never felt this lucky.

We get different takes on time travel. We get the multiverse (and in so many beautiful forms). We get thought-provoking fantastical allegories and devastating (but often hopeful?) prequels with fascinating studies of character and fascinating takes on soul mates. We get complete fantasy overhauls that are gem-like in the beauty and precision of their prose and world-building. We get darling modern AUs and heartwrenching (but still ultimately happily-ending) modern AUs and modern AUs in basically every possible permutation, including ghost stories.

We get dystopias and apocalypses and post-apocalypses, meditations on love and existence, metafictional experiments in Not-RPF that draw even the biggest RPF skeptics (*points to self*) in, leaving us to wrestle with fundamentally altered attitudes toward storytelling that we may never be able to reconcile. Hell, even the missing scenes, canon-divergence, and fix-its hit different. Not to mention westerns with outlaws and cowboys, an archetype which conveniently also manages to scratch the proverbial pirate itch.

Even though pretty much every fandom has these things, for me at least they've never felt quite so imaginative and well-executed. We're so lucky to be here, to be writing for each other and reading for each other and for many of us, feeling creative for the first time in years or even decades. The gay pirates did that for us, because good source material can be the key to great fan works. And whether or not we get a third season, as much as they can't take the show from us, they also can't take away the gift that getting to experience all these fanworks has been. That's something I'm going to keep reminding myself while we wait.

and idk maybe tell your cowboy fanart friends that Ed can also ride horses as a steppe warrior or whatever

[quaintlyfig]

Quaintly Fig's Prompt Generators

See original post for the most recent list of generators.

I have entirely too much fun building ofmd prompt generators, so I thought I'd share them here in case anyone wants to give them a spin 🩷🧡💙

SFW Generators:

☠️ A Good Pirate's Tale (canon-era) 🦄 A Real Boy (fairy tale) 🪐 Beep Beep Boop (sci-fi & fantasy) 💗 Happiness Happens (fluff) 🌈 I Love My Baby (fluff) 🎲 Really Quite Random (gentlebeard & really quite random) 🎃 Somethin' Witchy Afoot (spooky season) 💐 Take a Whiff (scent generator) 🐆 The Art of Fuckery (fuckeries & schemes, canon-typical violence) 👹 The Monster Mash (creature creator)

NSFW & Spice-Possible Generators:

(Figured I'd hide these lists below the "keep reading" button!)

~🩷🧡💙~

Spice-Possible Generators:

These aren't nsfw-centered, but some of their outcomes are nsfw

🎶 Hanging On By A Thread (song lyrics, very lite spice possible) 🦋 In Every Life (an au generator) 🤖 Not Bloody Optimal (obstacles, very few nsfw possibilities) 🌧️ Wreck Me, Daddy (angst)

NSFW Generators:

❤️‍🔥 Baby, Baby, Baby (sexy times) 💌 Dear Ed, I long for you (gentlebeard, very sexy version of the Dear Ed letter) 🌶️ Getting Steamy (sexy times) 🩲 Let's Get Kinky (exactly what it says on the box) 🐷 Pretty Deeply Impure (v. filthy, lil kinky, lil silly) 🐺 Want Your Pretzel (omegaverse) 🍌 2024 OFMD Kinktober Brainstorming - full month or sort by the day

[edsbacktattoo]

The Tolling Bells - Rated E

"I've always known you."

Here is the beginning, and this is where we are now.

In any life. 🌸🧁

[spirker]

Write whatever rarepair, crackship, weird fantasy, canon divergent fic you want. There is only one rule, and that is that Ed and Stede are in love and obsessed with each other in every universe.

[scary-flag]

Me, having to finally actually write down A Fic™ so a total of three people can read it

[soupbtch]

graphic by @spirker 63.6k words / rated explicit / complete

Edward Teach was miserable in cruises. Then he met Stede Bonnet.

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this is a modern cruise ship AU. slow burn, idiots to idiot lovers, lots of silly costumes and theme nights. ultimately, this is a story about finding and accepting love despite and regardless of a lifetime of insecurities.

big, massive, heartfelt THANK YOU to @sleepystede and @spirker for the betas.

all 11 chapters are up on ao3 now 🫶

and enjoy some lovely art for ch5 and ch7, both by @innfinders-innkeepers !!!

[unadulteratedkr]

Ed meets him on the beach. Well—”meet” might be a bit generous. It’s more 'came across some dude on his beach, was ready to yell this asshole OFF his fucking property, then saw the dude was fucking crying his eyes out, and yelling felt like a dick move, actually'. Now Ed’s sitting next to the guy—all golden and gorgeous and still crying, a fish out of water in the sand with his fucking chinos—and he’s holding his hand out, saying “I’m Ed,” so it’s as close to them meeting as it can be without getting into the whole ‘fuck off’ thing.

Hello, loves! Prouder than I can say to share the fic I got to write for the @becausethenightzine!!!!

Featuring Stede crying on a beach, Ed Teach immediately being down bad for him, and lots of tender affection and care between two men who have, and I cannot stress this enough, LITERALLY just met.

EDITED TO ADD THE LINK BECAUSE I'M A SILLY GOOSE: