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ipomoea-batatas · 4 hours
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your boss just got stabbed and hanged in front of you. next time you see him blackbeard is leaning over his weary body. the kraken tells you to keep count. you obey without knowing why or daring to ask. next thing you know blackbeard is wearing a frilly white top and flapping his arms around on deck. your captain is dressed in the infamous black leathers. they’re fucking GAY goddamnit
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ipomoea-batatas · 4 hours
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love the way david jenkins refuses to apologize for shit just not making sense. how do they get places so quickly? doesnt matter. why is ed wearing full leather wouldnt he be sweating like hell? oh yeah it'd be awful to be a pirate in that, but it's hot, next question. he does not hesitate to just be like. eh who gives a shit. they're in love, who cares about how the boat got there. it's all fake anyway. here watch taika and rhys kiss.
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ipomoea-batatas · 2 days
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The ACLU has launched a petition against Mastercard’s policies on adult content!
Mastercard put into effect a new policy regulating adult content sellers that makes it extremely hard for sex workers to earn a living online. It must be stopped.
The policy itself imposes strict and invasive requirements on adult content websites using Mastercard’s financial services – including pre-approval of all content before publication, forbidding certain search terms, and monitoring the age and identity verification process for all performers.
Americans sign here!!
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ipomoea-batatas · 2 days
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Meet the Artist: GDBee Art (@prinnay)
Geneva Bowers is inspired by the wonders of the natural world around us, and enjoys manipulating colors to create art full of mood and feelings.
Below are some of the pieces of art she has shared with you all.
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If you haven't seen her Creator Spotlight, be sure to check it out here. For more of Geneva's work, head over to her Tumblr, @prinnay, and give it a follow!
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OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH
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ipomoea-batatas · 5 days
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if I wrote a dystopian novel where the corrupt evil megacorporation that controls society has a fucking smirk for a logo, my editor would tell me to use a less heavy-handed metaphor
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ipomoea-batatas · 5 days
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I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.
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ipomoea-batatas · 5 days
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its interesting to me how self-deprecation neatly ties into making others feel bad. like. if you constantly assume that you’re stupid no matter how informed or skilled in a topic you might be, people who are a bit less learned or skilled than you might see how you, someone who is obviously skilled, talk down about yourself, and assume that if you think YOURE an idiot you must think theyre an even bigger idiot and lose confidence or find you intimidating as a result. its fucked up. and its part of why it can be so important to break out of cycles of self-hatred–not just for yourself, but for people around you
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ipomoea-batatas · 6 days
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Pirate husbands (。´∀`)ノ 🏴‍☠️
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ipomoea-batatas · 7 days
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Hello! Just wanted to swing by and say how grateful I am for everything you bring to the OFMD fandom. The cosplay, all the music (I LOVED each and every version of Ed's sad song you posted), the art... you just do SO much and you put your full self into them and it's really special (and fun) to see. So happy that we have you here. 💕
This is so sweet idk what to do when people are this nice to me 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️ i’m miserable with a head cold rn and this was so nice to get ❤️❤️
OFMD has changed everything for me! I had never cosplayed or done music in front of other people before this fandom 🙈 the hyperfixation plus the creative community here has helped me grow in ways I truly thought were just not in the cards for me ❤️
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ipomoea-batatas · 7 days
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You wish Ed and Stede got to have the wedding they deserve? Let's give it to them!
Gentlebeard Wedding Week will run from Monday 6th to Sunday 12th May 2024. It is a fan-run event for writers, artists, cosplayers, musicians and everyone in between to create a piece of artwork around a set of wedding-themed prompts.
The prompts will be posted to this page once they are ready, so watch this space!
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ipomoea-batatas · 9 days
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stede: how are you handling this so well?
ed: i get to spend the next ten years with you :)
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ipomoea-batatas · 9 days
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Edward Teach - Stede's Boyfriend 💕
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ipomoea-batatas · 9 days
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The reason I think OFMD feels like fanfiction (affectionate) is that it's so incredibly earnest, in a way we're just not used to really seeing. It never feels the need to point and laugh at the earnest whimsy of it all, it never makes a joke of queerness, and it never gets annoyingly self-referential in the way media that's too worried about its own image will be (you all know how Marvel movies have characters be like "ooh wasn't that weird? we have to point out how a weird thing is happening so the audience knows we're cool and above that." that thing never happens).
They want Stede to write the man he loves little love letters every day? He kisses the bottles before he throws them into the ocean. He lays awake thinking about a moment where he almost kissed Ed under the moonlight. He has dreams of running to Ed across a beach.
They have a character who wants to feel like he deserves to get married so bad, and who also wants to feel safe to explore more feminine gender expression? They have him paint a bride cake topper to look like himself.
They want a character to make the decision to live because he hears the voice of the man he loves, challenging his belief that no one cares if he lives or dies? They have his lover appear to him as a beautiful mermaid and give him a huge, lovesick smile, and it's sweet and campy and 100% genuine.
I'm used to seeing so many of the things in OFMD in media as just jokes. A fat, Black man being seen as extremely desirable. Women of color in positions of authority. Queer love and desire. Drag shows! But OFMD never, ever punches down, and it's always so earnest, and it cares so much.
Just...damn. I feel lucky every time I think about it. We've got a special show here.
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ipomoea-batatas · 9 days
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No season 3 means i cant see a plot where both ed and stede are "cheating" by sneaking out of the house to have little pirate adventures, and one day they find eachother in disguise working with opposing crews but theyre not gonna expose their identities there so they have a lot of tension and flirting as "strangers" and blow the whole mission to go fuck nasty
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ipomoea-batatas · 10 days
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baby baby baby ⭐️
[buy the print here]
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ipomoea-batatas · 11 days
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I honestly and truly believe all good AUs should be a little “”””ooc”””” in the sense that good characterisation involves understanding that changes a characters backstory and circumstances will have an effect on how they respond to the world around them
Good characterisation isn’t about creating a perfect 1:1 canon replica it’s about understanding why a character is different in your work and about grounding the changes you do deliberately choose to make in canon character traits
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