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Did a screencap redraw because I love them and I love this scene and the lighting is so nice and dreamy..... Good show

#he invented eyes #he really did though #good job capturing that op #I love how Ed looks at Stede #like just confounded and enamored #we need to be a lighthouse 🥹 #OFMD s1 #ofmd art #ofmd fanart #our flag means death

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POV: You’re Stede and you see him, wyd

Hope this Ed’s not too hot for Tumblr lmao

#idk about stede but I’m dropping to my knees like my life depends on it #jfc 🥵🥵🥵 #god he’s so pretty #ofmd art #edward teach #our flag means death

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Lil modern Ed wip, inspired by NY Street fashion photography. I'm still backpacking (currently in Bahol) so enjoy a grainy ass photo of the babygirl in question.

It occurs to me I haven't drawn this guy in his canon leathers that much... should probably fix that.

Outfit inspo source

#this is delightful #but I take issue with 300 thread count #it would be 600 thread count at a minimum! #we’re talking sueded sateen pima or egyptian cotton here #we’re talking flax linens and silk satins #we’re talking luxury #I have strong feelings about bed linens apparently #ofmd art

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Rule one of fandom: there are some things that only exist for us.

Don’t send actors fics

Don’t give them explicit art ever

Don’t tag them in rpf questions or theories

Don’t try to bring them into fandom drama of any kind

Don’t hold them responsible for what the producers and writers decide

They’re still people.  They have private lives, which do not include fandom.

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*Holding it, kissing it, making it wobble around, etc.

#not my fault they’re such good fidget toys #stimming with soft penises #like ya do #they’re just so bloopy #🤷🏻‍♀️

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Reblog to give the person you reblogged from the ability to finish their WIPs

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i hate that "that that" is grammatically correct. why is english the joke language

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Pete Buttigieg is just a faggot.

It's very important to me that younger queers understand this: to the people who you're trying to be more respectable for when you say things like neopronouns set the trans movement back or you're why the cishets don't accept us or including [aces/bi people with the 'wrong kind' of partners/non-binary people/kinksters/non-passing trans ppl/furries/polyam people] just hurts us, can't you wait until we get all our rights before we talk about some of yours? -- to those people? Pete Buttigieg is just a fag.

On Sunday at Pride Northwest, some kids -- late teens, early 20s -- asked what our button I survived Reagan for this? meant. All of the queer adults at the tables making up our ad hoc counter looked at each other and sighed a little. Emet and another adult started to explain the way that the Reagan Administration handled -- or didn't handle -- the beginning of the AIDS crisis. How many people died. How much we were ignored. The Ashes Action. The Time Magazine article which explicitly blamed bisexual men for passing the pandemic to the cishet community, playing on all the worst stereotypical bullshit. The way that even when the CDC started paying attention, they were so focused on gay men that they ignored AIDS in the lesbian community, leading to the "women don't get AIDS, they just die from it" poster. And so on.

I finished counting out change and passed the last Bear Pride raised fist pin over to a bear a little older than me, then turned my head and interjected, "they didn't care until it started infecting more than just the fags." I turned my head back and handed him his change. He laughed bitterly and said, "remember when they called it 'gay cancer?'"

That what I need you to understand. The people for whom you are folding yourself into smaller and smaller boxes will never see you as anything but a freak. A queer. A dyke. A tranny. A fag.

Never.

These are people who will stand by and let you wither away and die alone, gasping for breath in a cinderblock room, and not even claim your ashes, and they will say you deserve it, because of your lifestyle. If they speak of you at all it will be by the wrong name, with the pictures you hate the most. They will curse at your lover, throw him out of the home you shared, and steal the gift you gave last Christmas to throw it in the trash just so he can't have it and they'll say Jesus loves you! while they do it. They'll feel good and righteous and blessed and holy and pure for doing it.

And for them, you spit in the eye of your sister. For them, you disavow your sibling. For their sake, you trim away bits of your heart and lace yourself up tight. Never too loud. Never too queer. Never inconvenient or embarrassing, never asking for too much.

Pete Buttigieg is what happens when your Boomer dad turns out gay. Middle America. Parents still married. Suburban-sprouted. Valedictorian. Harvard-educated. Rhodes Scholarship. Military service. More power to him: I hope he and Chasten are very happy together. Genuinely, I do.

You couldn't create a more respectable gay if you grew one in a lab run by concerned voter focus groups.

But Pete Buttigieg? Is just a fag.

That's the part you don't seem to get: when they abandoned us, they abandoned all of us. Rock Hudson was a beloved movie star and even personally friendly with that horrid pair of ambitious jackals. Nancy Reagan refused to help him get into the only place in the world that could treat him at the time, and he died.

It was 1985, 4 years after the CDC first released papers on what would eventually become known as HIV/AIDS and 7 years after the first known death from an infection from HIV-2. Reagan hadn't even said the word AIDS by the time Hudson died.

Pete Buttigieg is just a fag, and so am I. Unless I'm a dyke, which seems to depend on who's yelling what from which window and what day it is.

Yes, there will be people who genuinely love and accept you. Those people are worth all the frustration of the rest, thankfully, and they're the ones who love you in a pup mask or a leather harness and a neon jock like the ones sold by the men up the row from us last weekend. They're the ones who laugh out loud when you tell them you hid the word "dyke" in your company name, the ones who love you in all your messiness and uncertainty and the way you don't fit into neat boxes all scrubbed up and clean.

Most cishets, though... well, they don't actively mean you specifically any harm, at least not when they have to look at you. Not when you're right there in front of them. Maybe they'll be okay with you, personally, especially if you're the kind of gay who makes a good rhetorical device, and as long as you remain a good rhetorical device.

They need people to know that they don't have a problem with the gays, after all, and there you are, being all convenient. You make a nice token, and as long as you do, well. You're useful.

But they call you by your deadname when you're not around, and they put the wrong pronouns in your medical record even though they met you years after you came out, and they won't put themselves out to save you. Not one little bit.

I didn't want to be here again. The year I graduated from high school was the worst year of the AIDS crisis. The world into which I became an adult was a world in which an advisor and friend to Reagan, William F. Buckley, openly advocated for forcibly tattooing the HIV status of HIV+ gay men on their buttocks (and IV drug users on their forearms), and in which my father not only told me that when I was 14 or so, but when was told me that he'd advocated for that tattoo being "over their assholes."

(Buckley wrote that in '86, but he doubled down on it in 2005.

Fucker.)

But yeah. I didn't want to be here again. I wanted my daughter to inherit a better world. I wanted Obergefell and Lawrence v. Texas and Hope & Change to really mean something. I work for it, today and all days. I haven't given up.

I need you to know that, too. This isn't a white flag. I'm not surrendering. This isn't over. To misquote Henry Rollins, this is what Marsha and Sylvia and Stormé and Leslie and Brenda and Auntie Sugar trained us for. This is punk rock time.

But I need you to understand that if Pete Buttigieg is just a fag, if that human embodiment of a Wonder Bread, mayo and Oscar Meyer bologna sandwich is not respectable enough for them -- and he's not -- then the rest of us have absolutely no hope of measuring up. Not even if we trim away every colorful, beautiful piece of our community, not even if the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence vanish into the ether, not even if we sacrifice the five elements of vogue on the altar of white supremacist cishet middle-class conformity: we can't trim ourselves down to something they'll accept.

The only other option is radical acceptance of our queer selves. The only other option is solidarity. The only other option is for fats and femme queens and drags and kinksters and queers and zine writers and sex workers and furries and addicts and kids and the ones who can look us in the eye and see all of us to say we're here, we're queer, get used to it just the way we did 30 years ago. It's revolutionary, complete and total acceptance of our entire community, not just the ones the cishets can pretend to be comfortable with as long as we don't challenge them too much, or it's conceding the shoreline inch by inch to the rising waters of fascism until we've got nowhere left to stand and some of us start drowning.

That's it. Either it's all of us or it's none of us, because if we leave the answer up to the Reagans of the world and all the people who enabled him in the name of lower taxes and Democrats who wring their hands, weeping oh I don't agree with it but we'll lose the election if we fight it right now, the answer is none of us.

The brunch gays can come, too, I guess.

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words: 1,611 | rating: M | one-shot

For AUpril, day 16 (artist/19th century), posted late.

Additional Tags: POV Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Alternate Universe - Always a Different Sex, Alternate Universe - 19th Century, Alternate Universe - Artists, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, impressionism, Blackbeard | Edward Teach Loves Stede Bonnet, Soft Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Artist Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Model Stede Bonnet, Female Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Female Stede Bonnet

The current canvas she was working on almost did look like it had been painted with her eyes closed — all of Stede’s soft skin rendered with lighter, sketchier brushtrokes and no defined edges, the background and bedding done in loose and imprecise curves. It almost looked like a child had done it. That’s what the critics would say, anyway. Ed wasn’t sure she wanted to let the critics have this one to pick over.

#chocolatepot out here doing the lesbian lord’s work #ofmd fic #our flag means death

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what a kind and thoughtful review from library journal i appreciate this very much buckaroos. that is now three STARRED REVIEWS (others in booklist and publishers weekly) dang sounds like a PRETTY GOOD BOOK WORTH PREORDERING. LOVE IS REAL

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something something frenchie's jimi hendrix mcr welcome to the black parade emo goth marching band breakup boat kraken era dark days fit will always be famous

bonus:

#happy Frenchie Friday to all who celebrate #frenchie my beloved #frenchie ofmd #our flag means death

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As someone who is fundamentally a very logical person, being mentally ill is so fucking annoying by how it doesn't respond to logic. Like I know that getting enough sleep is important and yet I'm still up late because the part of my head infected with brain fungus doesn't want to.

#the last two parts especially #all the therapists telling me I have good self insight 😫 #great I guess but it’s not doing me any good that’s why I’m here bitch #currently reckoning with regret and the reality that you’re ready when you’re ready #there is no should #pre caffeinated mental health ramble in the tags #anyway finally finding a good therapist has been great highly recommend #getting my adhd diagnosis meant medication which meant I could actually finally use the tools #because my brain works different! #anyway #hang in there kittens

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HENREN + kisses ↳ HAPPY LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK!

#idk who these people are but just LOOK at that love! #🥹🥹🥹 #they’re so lovely #yay dykes #I ❤️ queers

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sensational! taika waititi showing hole 🙀

here it is

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fun fact: Boston Museum of Science calls their evening lecture series “SubSpace”, which would be a totally innocuous math term except for the fact that, to make sure you know these lectures are higher-level and not aimed at their usual audience (kids), they chose to subtitle it “SubSpace: Adult Experiences”

😶

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hey here's a website for downloading any video or image from any website.

works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.