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yerbamansa.bsky.social
ArchEmily🖤
@yerbamansa.bsky.social
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Archem, they/them, fic writer & reader, rabbit person, Xennial queer vegan in PDX. Here for 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ & limited doomscrolling. I still love kale. p.s. billionaires shouldn't exist. pfp by @followedmystar.bsky.social

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ArchEmily🖤 @yerbamansa.bsky.social · Oct 17
I write OFMD fic. Mostly Ed/Stede and Jim/Oluwande, but not exclusively. All ratings, many genres. archiveofourown.org/collections/...
Text reads: yerbamansa's OFMD works on archiveofourown.org Background image of a waffle with fresh berries.
yerbamansa.bsky.social
Food prep today: made a pumpkin pie and sweet potato & mushroom shiao mai filling, cooked tofu to add to curry and rice for fried rice, and opened up a pineapple for the fried rice. Still to do: actually assemble the shiao mai. Everything tomorrow will be simpler
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
would it be a gentlebeard fic if we didn't have a little lucius meddling? #wipwednesday
“You know, I never could tell with you two.” Ah. There it is. Ed picks up his mug again and takes a sip. It’s still too hot, he can feel it on the back of his throat. “Never could tell what?” “Whether this was a ‘secret lovers’ thing or ‘will-they, won’t-they’ thing.” Ed feels his hands tremble just a little. He slams the mug down so hard on the table a little liquid splashes on the table. Fuck it. “Reckon that’s none of your business,” he says. Lucius looks gleeful, which just pisses Ed off. “Well, that’s more than I got out of Stede,” he says with a sigh.
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
at the coast for the holiday and it's stormy in a way that does not lend itself to excessive beachcombing plus i'm trying to work some hours despite my mouse suddenly not being compatible with the work laptop and i already just kinda miss being in my own space
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Reposted by ArchEmily🖤
anathxmadevice.bsky.social
a lil #TakeTwoTuesday meets ICYMI for mine and @aliassamm.bsky.social's kinktober collab!! blending merstede/kraken ed tentacle smut with the classic 'helping out a pal pining while fucking' trope because why not 👌

archiveofourown.org/works/74507466
the bottomless blue by anathxmadevice and rose_quartz_kitten Summary: Ed's skin is stretched so taut across the bulge that it looks like it could rip open with a single touch. It throws his proportions off, the rest of his torso tiny in comparison, the snaking mass of tentacles struggle to find space around the protrusion. “Oh, Ed,” Stede says softly, just in time for Ed to swear and huff and tug the blanket up again, covering himself from view. “No wonder you’re in pain.” Just helping out his friend, isn’t he? Ed said this would feel good, and making other people feel good is what friendship is all about. If Stede can make Ed a little more comfortable... well, it’d be rude not to offer.
November 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
Affirming graffiti from the bus stop
TRANS GIRLS LIVE 4 EVR (heart) written in block letters on the glass wall of a bus shelter. The street is visible through the glass
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
just a reminder that this exists and brooke is amazing
gaywatson.bsky.social GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · Jun 25
At some point I will add this to AO3 and properly link it to @yerbamansa.bsky.social's fic, but in the meantime...

*clangs dinner bell*
COME AND GET YOUR TENDER TENTACLE SMUT (!!)
#OFMDnsfw #OFMDfanart #OFMDfic
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
Looking forward to finding out if my brain will let me write smut at my mom's house or if it'll be like "no, do literally anything else"
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
sunday night repost, in case you feel like yelling at me about angst or something 😇

(also i have a feeling there are folks who will hold out on starting this until it's actually done, which i get, but man i'm gonna be rambling about it for probably another 3-4 months at least so. sorry?)
yerbamansa.bsky.social ArchEmily🖤 @yerbamansa.bsky.social · 4d
Chapter 3 is up! ✨ We are playing a long game here, folks. archiveofourown.org/works/725853...
November 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
there are 1500 words in the ch6 doc and we aren't even to the fun part yet
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
drafting thoughts you won't remember by the time i actually post what i'm writing:

they kissed! what if they get to enjoy the bubble for a bit?

OR what if i made ed talk to his fucking therapist for 5 minutes and break down juuuuust a smidge instead??

(i think ch6 will have smut tho)
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
quitting three jobs i hated and getting laid off from the one i liked best.
recursecenter.bsky.social Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · 15d
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
Chapter 3 is up! ✨ We are playing a long game here, folks. archiveofourown.org/works/725853...
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
I DID IT I DRAFTED CH5 NOW I CAN POST CH3
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
Sitting in bed at 5 am on a Saturday, like you do, listening to Spiritualized bc I was updating my fic notes and remembered that the unofficial sponsor of the chapter I'm trying to finish drafting is "ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space" & I gotta get up & write w/real fucking keyboard
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
dear brain, i would like to finish this chapter draft tonight. tomorrow at the latest. just because. please.
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Reposted by ArchEmily🖤
alimasin.bsky.social
WELCOME TO THE FALL FRONT FRIDAY FALL FESTIVAL!

🍂👖🍂👖🍂

Share something you made, repost or rec something you love, think about fall-front pants and share your thoughts with the class!

🍂👖🍂👖🍂

#FallFrontFriday
An extremely cool graphic for the Fall Front Friday Fall Festival. Friday, November 21st. Text reads: "Put your favorite character in fall-front pants! Create something new! Share something old! #FallFrontFriday " The border of the graphic is closeups of fall front pants worn by various characters in Our Flag Means Death, with fall leaves placed over the front of their pants.
November 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
I swear to god someone is browsing their tiktok fyp on this bus with full fucking sound
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
wdym i have to live up to my commitments and go to the library now instead of writing a very awkward conversation that will end with kissing
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Reposted by ArchEmily🖤
ghostalservice.bsky.social
NEW SHARK CHAPTER (bless my subscribers who’ve already left me the Loveliest Comments even though I forgot to post about it)

In which we all experience the full range of human and wereshark emotion

archiveofourown.org/works/730617...

#ofmdfic
keep swimming - Chapter 5 - ghostalservice - Our Flag Means Death (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
i need to write one (1) more big emosh scene in this ch5 draft and then i can unleash ch3

(idk that it's that big and dramatic tbh but there is some Ouch and we like hurting ourselves sometimes right?)
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
i saw bridget everett and joy oladokun earlier this year. before that the last concert i went to was neko case in 2019. before that...i honestly don't know.

i would go to more now that i'm in a city where that's feasible, but i am a tired person.
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
a second #wipwednesday with @petrichorca.bsky.social & @sonorawent.bsky.social which we really! will! update soon!!
“How long have you lived here?” “Oh, a while,” the man replies. He glances down at his shirt, blinking almost like he’s surprised to see the riot of color. “Been trying to figure out what to do next, too, I guess. Changing it up, or whatever the kids say. Feels like I’m trying on new mes all the time, and I can’t figure out which one fits right. Seems like you’ve got it all figured out, though.” Stede shakes his head, emphatically no. “Hardly. I’m lost at sea half the time.” He has, in fact, gotten lost on the river, but he’s not going to mention that right now. “You look…” Stede clears his throat. “No one should have to be one thing. And I realize we don’t know each other, but you look very you today, in case that helps.” The man’s eyes go impossibly round. “Yeah, it does, mate,” he says softly.
November 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
i venmo'd my trainer for our sessions and got a "special offer" for a free lottery ticket istfg this shit is not cool
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
somewhere around half done drafting ch5 of 'reminders,' so here's a little of that #wipwednesday
He can’t fucking imagine how those two ended up here at the same time, who called whom, much less what words were exchanged in the waiting, but he finds that he’s just relieved anyone showed up at all. “Sure,” he says, trying to school his face away from bafflement and into something a little less pathetic. It’s one thing from the nurse, but those two? Disaster. The nurse peeks out the door where Ed can’t see. “Come on in,” she says to the unseen corridor before opening it wide. Izzy ambles in first, dressed in his uniform suit like he just came from the office. Stede tiptoes in behind, looking pensive as hell, and stands with his back to the wall. “I’ll let you gents chat,” the nurse says. She gives a serious look to both visitors on her way out the door. “20 minutes tops. He needs rest.” It takes Izzy a solid 10 seconds after the door clicks shut to approach Ed with questions. “The fuck happened?” he asks.
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
yerbamansa.bsky.social
#taketwotuesday in which i offer hurt, no comfort, i guess (brought to you by recently rewatching the good place)
archiveofourown.org/works/66901573
i'm a cloud now - yerbamansa - Our Flag Means Death (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM