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Got a backlog of OFMD art to share here.

This one is a redraw of my first ever sketch of Izzy back from last August.

I always find it so interesting to see how people’s style has changed over time and with effort/practice. I didn’t bother to add Ed and Stede in the beginning as I wasn’t very confident drawing multiple figures… I guess I’ve gotten more patient.

Enjoy the details as I did: scars, freckles and silly tattoos.

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[thereisnothingtowriting]

cold blooded

when your parents are snakes

and you were raised to charm them

threat displays are self preservation

and its up to you to tiptoe around them.

now back up slowly and quietly, pay attention

walking away means risking getting bitten

and though you might suck out the poison

you’ll still be left with venom.

we’re on the run from genetics, 

but not quite orphaned,

there’s just no word for that kind of abandonment.

in the animal kingdom often parents eat their young.

competition for territory is rife

but human parents are supposed to support you for life.

the problem is that some are less scaffolding 

and more of a slow knife

but in the end its better to bleed once 

than for the rest of your life.

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'“A gift,” Izzy held out the necklace. When Ed didn’t immediately reach out to take it, Izzy cleared his throat and kept talking. “I can learn, Edward. I know I can. You’ve changed, but I used to know you. I can learn again. I can make sure you’re content.”

He could do his job. He could give Ed what he needed: the fine and fancy life. The softness that had driven him into Bonnet’s arms. Izzy could give it all to him. He could do better.

He would do better.

If Ed would just give him the chance to try again. '

-Pearls and Promises

by iamtheyellowbox

(Psst if you’re in need of stellar OFMD fics this wonderful writer has 38 for you to enjoy 🎁)

To say this image sunk its teeth in me and wouldn’t let go 🥺 Maybe inspired by Con’s comment that Izzy ‘wants to be better. He just doesn’t know how.’ ❤️ Since s2 my feelings about these two are complicated.

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‘Against all reason, Izzy wanted Stede, and Stede wanted him. Right now, there was nothing in the universe that was going to rob him of that.

Ed would win. He always won.

But Izzy would have this moment, this boat, this lantern, this fog that felt like it was shielding them.’

From Chapter 8 of Curse of Hospitality by Withercrown / @withercrown

I’ve been enjoying this story way too much.

LOVE an Izzy sickfic that slips slowly into SteddyHands. Add sword fighting lessons, a birthday party, sonnet writing, ballroom dancing and I’m yours.

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Stede grabbed at his back and Izzy ignored the pain in his shoulder as he pulled him closer with a desperation he’d never felt before. If this was his one chance, he was going to make the most of it. He was going to kiss him with everything he had. He was going to kiss him until Stede’s judgement returned. Until the captain was back in his right mind; until he shoved Izzy away in disgust; until Edward showed up -‘

- A Kindness by persephoneschild

Another lil drawing for another fanfic favourite.

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Progress! A leisurely 5 hour sketch + 2 just for shading so far. Will add more to it soon. Need to add blue for Stede’s fancy jacket.

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Sometimes I scribble the beloved Blackbeard for an hour or so before bed… This will be an entire page of him. Practice makes pirates!

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“Room people” ✨ how is their ship name not Wee-Oui? You can’t tell me these besties don’t have matching finger tattoos of a match and a needle. I will not listen 🙉 Also Frenchie patches up his loved ones clothes with cuteness. Four leaf clovers 🍀 for Wee John and good luck. Please offer up suggestions for other crew members. My relationship with colour is still awkward and neither of us is sure who should pay or whether it’s even a date ✌🏽

Also enjoy this fanfic I just wrote about these two set after s02e05 called Open The Box

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‘“Oh,” Stede says, feeling his face fall. “You.”

“Jesus f***ing Christ,” Izzy responds. His eyes are wide with horror.

Stede lurches to his feet; his arms jerk uselessly in the confines of the rope, which remains unmoved by his desperation to wipe the remnants of Ed’s mark from his face.

“It’s not what it looks like!”

Izzy shudders. “Right. S’pose a chimney sweep attacked during the night, then.”

Stede has no rebuttal; there’s no way to explain it that doesn’t circle back, inevitably, to the desperate way Ed had kissed him, like he’d wanted them to consume each other entirely.’

- and if you don’t love me now: chapter 3 by oopshidaisy

Two weeks in the scribbling but… another day, another fave fic driving me to illustrate its most gripping scenes. Literally gripping this time. The idea of Izzy cleaning Stede’s face of Ed’s dark kisses is just… deliciously cruel 👌🏽

Happy one year anniversary to this happiness inducing show!

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Finally posting my first ever Draw This in Your Style response to j3llynut over on insta. A fun challenge and a good excuse to draw these two together for the first time. (Though of course I couldn’t resist adding my fave…)

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‘His captain was alive. His Edward was alive. He reached out for Ed’s hand - limp and cold in his own. Bringing it closer, he could see purplish veins shimmering through the thin golden skin on his arm. Somehow, by some miracle, there was still enough blood left in there to keep him alive. Unwittingly, Izzy lifted Ed’s wrist to his face, mouth pressing into the soft flesh, blessed pulse throbbing against his lips…’

-‘our veins are busy but my heart's in atrophy’ 💔 by @tinyzoologist

Casually devouring a writer’s work and then illustrating a fave scene to express your love & gratitude 👌🏽 totally normal media consumption 😎

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No specific fic inspiration or explanation for this one 🧼 Though I have read a million fics where SteddyHands bathe together so… ENJOY my tribute to bubbles? And my addiction to hidden details.

Also my attempt to emulate the pretty impressionist pencil work of Salman Toor (must learn to paint soon so I can truly capture his style)

Title suggestions welcome?

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‘Ed’s seen Izzy cry before; with laughter (when Jack accidentally whipped his own balls and then fell overboard), with pain (when Ed tattooed his signature below Izzy’s eye), with sadness even (deep in his cups listening to some singer softly crooning the lyrics to 'Black Is The Colour of My True Love’s Hair’), but Ed’s never seen Izzy break down the way he's doing now: folding in on himself and set to fall.

Without care for the fact that he might be in love with him, or perhaps because of it, Ed wraps an arm over Izzy’s shoulder and across his chest, hand closing around the edge of his waistcoat.’

From my 2k fic Black Is The Colour

Another four or so days of sketching ✨ here’s hoping I can get access to a scanner soon for better quality uploads!

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I’m writing Izzy-centric fic and my actual angry first mate sailor boyfriend is my muse 🥰

Before OMFD I used to be bored by his work rants. Now I just take notes:

(whilst eating a pbj with a cup of soy milk) “you’re not second in command. I am!”

“no work talk in the mess.”

“don’t ask me how to do it, just do it!”

“what do want? a participation trophy?”

(after telling the deckhand to put in an order 2 weeks before) “if there’s a picture of an oil can on that laptop, I’m gonna smash it to pieces.”

“no point learning about clouds when you don’t know how to grease a ship after 4 years.”

“yes, I know how tides work. now answer the question.”

“if you don’t know, say so, don’t lie. that’s how people die.”

(my favourite) “I’m buying a pride flag for the boat. it’ll piss off the bigots.”

He’s been on the boat for almost 5 weeks straight and his badness level is set to boiling. Home in 3 days! If he orders me around even one time…

Also please FEEL FREE to use these as prompt fills and then tag me in sailor BF inspired fics 🤞

#omfd #omfd fanfic #omfd fic #izzy hands #first mate hands #my boyfriend everyone #israel hands #our flag means death #personal #bybirdielogreen

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#read a cute fic where Izzy sleeps under stedes jacket for comfort #felt compelled to sketch it #stede thought it rude to ask Lucius #I am Lucius #art wip #scribbles #bybirdielogreen #omfd fanart #omfd izzy hands #omfd izzy #stede x izzy #steddy hands

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‘Izzy holds them close to his chest, a splash of colour against all that black.’

Lil Izzy sketch based on a cute fic where he gives Stede flowers (by @notebooks-and-laptops )

Bonus: Coloured lazily on my phone to test out colours.

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