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Fyre
@amuseoffyre.bsky.social
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Fyre online since 2000. Scottish. Geek. Author. Globetrotter. Technically 'grown-up'. Can be found under the username amuseoffyre in most locations :)
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This country is ridiculous #aotearoa #newzealand
A beach with scudding white clouds in a blue sky
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
A quote from poem 49 for the curious:
Wald michtie Joue [Jupiter] grant me the hap [fortune] With 3ow to haue [hae] 3our Brutus pairt and metamorphosing our schap My sex intill his vaill convert No Brutus then sould caus ws smart [hurt] as we doe now, vnhappie wemen Then sould we bayth with joyfull hairt honour and blis [bless] the band of hymen
November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
Of course we can't 100% say for certain it's her, but given there's a poem directly addressing the writer and talking to "Lady Marie" and immediately following it with a plea to the goddess Diana, which matches the motifs of Poem 49, it's very, very likely.
Screenshot of a section of poetry in Scots: Ze heauinlie goddis & goddessis ze most celestiall Vnto my muse zour helpis doe bend & for zour aydis I call &thou diana ladye bricht with nymphes of chastetie Graunt me your favours I requeist to end this worthelie
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
Took some wind-down time and wrote a bit more of the boys :)
archiveofourown.org/works/542974...
#OFMD #OFMDfic
A Little Restraint Fyre Chapter 112: Fresher Waters Summary: With Ed filling his day with distractions, Stede hadn’t had much time to let the work… business sink its claws into him. It did, of course, though not as deeply as usual. Still, helping Ed prepare for interviews, both of them working over an official statement to be added to the Blackbeard socials and websites, decorating the bedrooms in readiness for an invasion by the children and all the furniture moving and replacing that came with it definitely helped.
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
Also also since it's a fact that delights me, there used to be carved monuments called herms. Some of them (not all) had Hermes' head and also Hermes' nads and were usually placed at crossing points or boundaries (ie. one of the things our Hermes was God of). And anointed them with oil for luck >.>
An archaic carved stone herm with Hermes' head at the top of a pillar and his erect bits on display halfway down
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
...was... was it trying to cross the road?
Screenshot from BBC of a fleet of chickens beside a busy road. Headline reads chicken escape forces partial closure of busy trunk road
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
Why I vibe hard with this man 🤣 #RLSDay
"I am an abject idiot, which all things considered, is not remarkable." — Robert Louis Stevenson in a letter to a friend in 1873
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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"This is the hard part of literature. You aim high and you take longer over your work, and it will not be so successful as if you had aimed low and rushed it. What the public likes is work (of any kind) a little loosely executed; so long as it is a little wordy, a little slack, a little dim and knotless, the dear public likes it; if should (if possible) be a little dull into the bargain. I know that good work sometimes hits; but, with my hand on my heart, I think it by an accident. And I know also that good work must succeed at last; but that is not the doing of the public; they are only shamed into silence or affectation. I do not write for the public; I do write for money, a nobler deity; and most of all for myself, not perhaps any more noble, but both more intelligent and nearer home. Let us tell each other sad stories of the bestiality of the beast whom we feed. What he likes is the newspaper; and to me the press is the mouth of a sewer, where lying is professed as from an university chair, and every prurient, and ignoble, and essentially dull finds its abode and pulpit. I do not like mankind; but men, and not all of these - and fewer woman. As for respecting the race, and, above all, that fatuous rabble of burgesses called “the public”, God save me from such irreligion! - that way lies disgrace and dishonour. There must be something wrong in me, or I would not be popular." — Robert Louis Stevenson on writing, success and popularity (1886)
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
#RLSDay
"Do not think me unhappy; I have not been so for years; but I am blurred, inhabit the debatable frontier of sleep, and have but dim designs upon activity. All is at a standstill; books closed, paper put aside, the voice, the eternal voice of R. L. S. silenced. Hence this plaint reaches you with no very great meaning, no very great purpose, and written part in slumber by a heavy, dull, somnolent, superannuated son of a bedpost." — Robert Louis Stevenson dealing with a bout of chronic illness
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
Robert Louis Stevenson on happiness #RLSDay
I know there are people in the world who cannot feel grateful unless the favour has been done them at the cost of pain and difficulty. But this is a churlish disposition. A man may send you six sheets of letter-paper covered with the most entertaining gossip, or you may pass half an hour pleasantly, perhaps profitably, over an article of his; do you think the service would be greater, if he had made the manuscript in his heart’s blood, like a compact with the devil? Do you really fancy you should be more beholden to your correspondent, if he had been damning you all the while for your importunity? Pleasures are more beneficial than duties because, like the quality of mercy, they are not strained, and they are twice blest. There must always be two to a kiss, and there may be a score in a jest; but wherever there is an element of sacrifice, the favour is conferred with pain, and, among generous people, received with confusion. There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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"Again, when you have married your wife, you would think you were got upon a hilltop, and might begin to go downward by an easy slope. But you have only ended courting to begin marriage. Falling in love and winning love are often difficult tasks to overbearing and rebellious spirits; but to keep in love is also a business of some importance, to which both man and wife must bring kindness and goodwill. The true love story commences at the altar, when there lies before the married pair a most beautiful contest of wisdom and generosity, and a life-long struggle towards an unattainable ideal." — Robert Louis Stevenson on Marriage (Taken from his El Dorado essay)
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
Feeling this one especially #RLSDay
It seems hardly possible to be both rich and honest; the millionaire is under a far more continuous temptation to thieve than the labourer who gets his shilling daily for despicable toils. Are you surprised? It is even so. And you repeat it every Sunday in your churches. ‘It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven’. Robert Louis Stevenson - Lay Morals
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
A few quotes for #RLSDay
Love should run out to meet love with open arms. Indeed, the ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room. From the first moment they see each other, with a pang of curiosity, through stage after stage of growing pleasure and embarrassment, they can read the expression of their own trouble in the other’s eyes. Robert Louis Stevenson on love (Virginibus Puerisque - 1912)
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
hells yes
#JumanjiMovie now in production, only in theaters Christmas 2026.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
Look at my version. I love him so.
Cover of a book - a digital painting of a close-up face of an archaic greek statue with a beard against the backdrop of a starry sky. Part of the face has cracked away, showing the dark eye, cheek and black beard of a man beneath it. Below the face is a fog-shrouded Victorian city. The title of the book is between the face and the street: Patron - C.B. Lewis
November 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
I've had these ordered for weeks and will be waiting for weeks more before they arrive, but can I just say how happy I am there is an option for CDs? I like solid tangible media, kthx. Something that can't be erased at the whim of a rich twunt. #EPICthemusical
A screenshot from an order with an image of an album cover and 3 CDs: Epic CD (completely CD series x 1)
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
Look who's back 😁
archiveofourown.org/works/542974...
#OFMD #OFMDfic
A Little Restraint Fyre Chapter 111: Posterity Summary: Turned out you could just ask for the questions and get them no problem. Fuck, it was such a weight off to know what was coming his way, even if Ed knew his mouth probably would run away with him from time to time. Stede made it even easier by turning the decorating sesh into a practise Q & A round. Or technically a decorating sesh, if Stede didn’t stop and squint at the questions – he wore reading glasses, turned out, and hadn’t remembered to bring them with him – more than he rolled the rich red paint onto the wall.
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
SInce I'm sorting the photos, have a few more details of both in progress :)
Close up of the lacework on the pocket and front seam of the black body of the coat Close up on the raised collar with lace trim on the back of the coat A teeny tiny violin made of cardboard A tiny Ned Low costume with embroidered buttons and unhemmed sleeves
November 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
And a bonus close-up for the back of the coat!
Close up of a white disc of the moon surrounded by pirate show themed charms, some bought, most custom made
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
Also, because they come as a pair, we also have Illia as Ned Low :)
A muppet of Illia in his Ned Low cosplay And Ned-ception with Illia in his Ned Low costume carrying himself as Ned Low
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Since the big reveal has happened, I can now show what I was working on during the summer 😊 Because I like to go overboard on the detail, when @poshtater.bsky.social asked for a particular muppet in a particular fit, I may have... exceeded my brief a tiny bit. #ourflagmeansmuppets
A tiny wee smol muppet-sized version of PoshTater's S1 coat, on a chair beside the coat, which is displayed on a mannequin at the Wee Con. The back of the tiny weeny muppet coat with charms matching as closely as possible and felted and embroidered and beaded sea scenery along the bottom A muppet of poshtater in the bebe coat with cascades of blue hair A photograph of the headless body of the muppet in the coat during a fitting
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
Once again, the EU ignoring the recommendations of the International Court of Justice from their decisions in July 2024. There have been even more in 2025, but so many governments are just ignoring them.
Section of the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem - The Court gives its Advisory Opinion and responds to the questions posed by the General Assembly from July 2024, which reads: In its Advisory Opinion, the Court responds to the questions posed by the General Assembly by concluding that: the State of Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful; the State of Israel is under an obligation to bring to an end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible; the State of Israel is under an obligation to cease immediately all new settlement activities, and to evacuate all settlers from the Occupied Palestinian Territory; the State of Israel has the obligation to make reparation for the damage caused to all the natural or legal persons concerned in the Occupied Palestinian Territory;
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
Behold! My Stuff! #theweecon
A collection of postcards, stickers, pins and other shiny things (including a beautiful shawl, a teal Captain's sash, a pack of gorgeous paper and a leather bound teal journal)
November 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
The unexpected bounty I got last night absolutely definitely did not get me bawling a bit #theweecon
A digital drawing of myself, Obliquity of Our Con Means Death and Amy of Siren events sitting in Stede's cabin, festooned with all our con memorabilia Envelopes and a notebook chockful of lovely messages from the attendees A gummoning circle of red gummy bears in a circle with "bye fyre" written on the table cloth
November 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
amuseoffyre.bsky.social
In these uncertain times, never forget who is causing the chaos.

Behold, the Rogues Gallery! Mad, bad and dangerous to know!
#OFMD #OurFlagMeansMuppets
A gallery of five wanted posters of muppets of Nigel Badminton (wanted for being horrible, even as a little boy), Chauncey Badminton (for crimes - cut off), Calico Jack Rackham (for the murder of Carl the seagull), Ricky Banes (for treachery, villainy and being a rancid syphilitic cunt) and Edward 'Ned' Lowe (for the crime of fucking calypso's birthday)
November 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM