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cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 21d

Here goes nothing...

The first chapter of Something Rich and Strange, a Gentlebeard House in the Cerulean Sea AU, is up on AO3!

archiveofourown.org/works/709834...

Something Rich and Strange, A House in the Cerulean Sea AU by carmen_monixide

Image of a tiny green island with only one house, surrounded by blue water and sky.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 10h

Zohran Mamdani hops on a Citi Bike and a woman heckles him, shouting “communist!” He responds, “That’s cyclist”

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cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 9h

Exactly lol

cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 9h

See you get it!

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cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 9h

Lmao you're very welcome, thank you for recognizing how much better ManMan would have been!

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💡💡💡 @3chandeliers.bsky.social · 15d

White candy heart that reads MALE BUTT CHEEKS

Still from Our Flag Means Death: Stede Bonnet peering over the edge of a ship)

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cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 9h

Houston St

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 9h

There are WAY more things in this than I even remember omg

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petrichor #CrewForLife #SaveOFMD @gheyandwoke.bsky.social · Jul 11

okay this is for you @indarltonitrust.bsky.social and @kellykat53.bsky.social 😂 (I feel like enough happens in this fandom that there could be one of these every month!)

Luis continues: "The top 3 execs at Ketchup open the Kudoboard to save OFMD so tiny clowning. On 4th of July Aaron Epstein from S1 posts a pic of the OFMD flag as "still there" so more tiny honks. The You Only Frame Twice animatic is released and it's amazing. An anonymous source shares a draft of Ed and Stede's first time from Calypso's birthday. We all lose our entire shit. Debates and discourse ensue over whether it's real."

Luis continues: "Bruce Springsteen probably wonders why 'I'm on Fire' is suddenly blowing up. Dad confirms that it's real (and talks about bulging parentheticals). We all lose our entire shit TWICE. OFMD hits 38,000 fanworks on AO3. And that's been the last 3 weeks."

Ant-Man/Nyarie stares back at him.

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cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 10h

🥹🥹🥹💜💜💜

cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 10h

Omg thank you so much!!

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Sharon //Tresdem @tresdem.bsky.social · 10h

#WIPWednesday Brings a snip from the next part of the Building together series. #OFMD

archiveofourown.org/series/3835417

The inn stood at the center of town, three stories tall and Stede was let in the back and lead up a center of narrow creaking stairs and unenthusiastic walls. The room he was lead into was a stark contrast. It wasn’t opulent, but the furniture was well made, possibly from wood from the island. A fine set of chairs in front of an elegantly carved desk with a taller, cushioned chair behind it made of dark red wood. A fireplace where the mantel had curved and coiled ends like seashells. There were a few paintings but most of the decor seemed to be carvings of fish or turtles or the long lines of an elegant crane, one foot raised as it stared out the window.

Stede was sat in a chair in front of the desk and noticed there had been a face carved in the top center of the other. An interesting sort of face, with black lines painted all over it in curves and whorls. It’s mouth hung open and its tongue stuck out. The most striking thing was the eyes, set with iridescent abalone shells, they seemed to bring to it a kind of life. As if it was always watching. As if it could pounce any moment should Stede get any ideas. Ed would love that kind of thing, Stede thought.

Innman came in a moment later from the other door, looking tired and irritated. Stede noticed something else he should have before. The way Innman’s dark hair, threaded through with white and gray, was bound up in a heavy braid. The same way that Ed had done his own when he’d wanted to be Jeff. Maybe it was a coincidence, but Stede doubted it.

“Well then,” Innman sat heavily in the chair across the desk, two guards, man and woman, flanking him while the other remained at Stede’s back. “Have we learned not to be a complete ass? Are we going to behave ourselves now?”

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delta “luckii🌸” badhand @deltabadhand.bsky.social · 12h

the power of cuddling — not enough about this in the lamestream media these days.

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cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 10h

Oh god I found an updated but cursed version if things come to that

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Dahlia 🏴‍☠️🍊🌈 @serpentanddahlia.bsky.social · 11h

Ok for now the 🫠s have it but if I get bored I might post a cheeky ❤️‍🔥 later…

For WIP Wednesday, Stede opens up to Lucius about his past

"Did you love him?" Lucius asked.
Stede tipped his head back and stared at the ceiling.
He was twenty-one, and signing his name next to Ed's on the marriage license. "You don't have to to do this. "
But Ed had only smiled. "I know."
He was twenty-two, and sitting next to Ed at the end of a dock-staring into those enormous buckwheat honey
eyes, the flame of the birthday candle dancing in the black of his pupils. Stede took a deep breath, and made a wish for
courage.
He was twenty-three, and Ed was in his lap, letting out the tiniest hiccuping sighs as he rocked slowly on Stede's
cock. Their mouths were pressed against each other-just sharing air, too boneless and fucked out to even kiss properly.
Stede's dick hurt pretty much all the time these days, that was how much sex they were having, but he couldn't bear to
stop.
He was twenty-four, and he had a cold, and he was miserable, and he'd snapped at Ed at least half a dozen times that day because being sick always made him feel scared and sad, like a trapped animal, but instead of giving up on him Ed had made him soup and when Stede burst into tears at the sight he'd climbed right into the bed and held him while he cried and cried.
He was twenty-five, and dozing on Anne's couch on Christmas Eve. His head was on Ed's shoulder, and he was drooling on his shirt, and he was too sleepy to even pick a fight about whether or not Die Hard was a Christmas movie.
He was twenty-six, and hooking his chin over Ed's shoulder to get a peek at the lyrics he was writing in his
notebook.
"You cannot write that about me!" He shrieked, and his attempts to wrestle the pen out of Ed's hand led to an
hour of play wrestling and kissing on their living room floor.
He was twenty-six, and waking up to find Ed's side of the bed cold, and a Dear John letter waiting for him on the kitchen table in place of his husband.

"I didn't realize it, at first," Stede managed to say. "But yes. I loved him. I think I always had. Just took me a while to get there, but we did figure it out eventually."
In spite of himself, he smiled. "And then we were very happy, for a little while."

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cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 10h

This is *definitely* not going to end in horrific tragedy, nope no way

🙃🙃🙃

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 21h

For 911 calls of the future, AI is on the line

AI might answer your 911 calls

By the end of next year, Montgomery County’s call center hopes to use artificial intelligence to answer nonemergency phone calls. The goal is to lighten the workload for a chronically understaffed center.

buff.ly

cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 10h

NO ONE WANTS THIS YOU WEIRD LITTLE DING DONGS

cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 11h

La vida es DOLOR

cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 11h

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cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 11h

Ed Teach in this 😍

Emily @emilyonhere.gay · 17h

i was trying to find an outfit for work and veered so unbelievably off course

mirror selfie from the neck down. i’m wearing a tight red shirt with the word “baby” in a black gothic font. i’m also wearing a short black skirt with a belt. i am very much not wearing a bra.

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cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 11h

Same brain

cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 11h

A #WIPWednesday post for my #OFMD Kinktober fic! I'm hoping to get a bit of dopamine to push me through to the finish 🙏. Fic is canon-divergent starting from when Stede kissed end in the moonlight, prompt is public/semi public sex 👀

Ed’s eyes had fixed gently to Stede’s face, tracing pathways between eyes down to lips, to side burns, to chin. His expression dropped a little when Stede finished speaking. “That wasn’t a long story at all.”

Torn between saying too much and scaring Ed off, or not saying enough and seeing him sad, Stede floundered. “Well, I…”

Ed interrupted him, achingly gentle. “Well… you wear fine things well.”

Now they were both definitely blushing, and the way Ed looked at him through his thick dark lashes, hesitant and reverent with just an edge of heat, made Stede's heart pound like a drum. A smile curled onto his face and as Ed shifted his shoulders, moving slowly closer, Stede mirrored his movements, the sound of the bell ringing making him practically pant with desire.

When Ed closed the gap, soft warm lips framed in soft scratchy stubble meeting Stede's, cannon fire erupted in his chest, a nameless and hungry part of him grabbing the helm and using momentum to increase speed with haste. Ed parted his lips with a sigh and Stede swept in with his tongue, finally, finally tasting him, finally a part of him inside of Ed, with many more to come. Stede's hand slid into Ed's hair, clutching it and he pulled Ed flush to his body, thoughts disintegrating as he felt Ed's answering hardness pressing against his own. No thoughts no plan nothing except for more more more and mine mine mine…

As suddenly as the kiss had begun, it ended, Ed stepping back and pulling out of Stede's grasp. Stede clenched his fists tight on either side of his body, fighting off the fierce desire to kiss Ed's rosy kiss-swollen lips, to make him pant even harder with kisses to his neck, his clavicle, every inch of perfect tattooed skin.

Breathlessly, Ed looked at Stede with an apology in his eyes, ready for his tongue. “Can we take it slow?”

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cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 11h

It's like 9/11 nesting dolls at this point
All 9/11 allllll the way down

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Dahlia 🏴‍☠️🍊🌈 @serpentanddahlia.bsky.social · 12h

I’m bored on the road today—what sort of divorce boys snip do y’all want for WIP Wednesday?

💔 sad
❤️‍🔥 horny
🫠 romantic horny sad trifecta

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🏴‍☠️𝔓𝔦𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔅𝔬𝔱 @piratebot.bsky.social · 12h

Ohhhhh, a pirate's life sounds just right
Sounds quite nice I could say that twice.
Sounds quite nice, we wont live long foy-ho-ye-yo-yodelay-ho
Smash and gouge and stab and poke and choke you out, that's a pirate's life
Pirate's life, short but nice
foy-ho-ye-yo-yodelay-ho

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