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Queer parent | any/all pronouns | 36 | nomadsland on AO3 🌈🏴‍☠️🍊🦀🥨|| perennial grad student

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · Sep 9

Chapter 2 is live! With more stunning art from @merryfinches.bsky.social, podfic by @kninjaknitter.bsky.social, and words by @ghostalservice.bsky.social and me!

archiveofourown.org/works/695337...

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 4h

you wrote that whole section like MONTHS ago when we were still in the planning stages!!

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 4h

Bro this is 100% your Ed, which is also IMPECCABLE 😂

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 5h

#WIPWednesday brought to you by Ch 3 of the Martian AU with @ghostalservice.bsky.social, featuring Ed and Jackie having bad days in tandem.

Ed’s thinking about whales.
Specifically, he’s thinking about that one whale, the one he read that really depressing article about that was being passed around like ten years back, the one that sings at a different frequency than all the others? That one. He wonders what’s up with it now, if it’s still out there—if it ever found another whale to talk to, a little whale buddy. He doesn’t remember if it sang too high or too low for the others, because maybe if it was too high, it could have talked like, dolphins or something? Do dolphins like other creatures? Ed doesn’t fucking know, he’s not a biologist, and his brain’s offering the half-remembered suspicion that dolphins are assholes, so maybe the whale wouldn’t even want to talk to a dolphin even if it could—but Ed’s been alone on Mars for all of two days, and honestly, he’s just about ready to murder someone for the chance to talk to someone, anyone, just for a few minutes. He’d take letting Buttons explain moon crater energy to him. He’d take Frenchie’s theories about astrology—and the dude’s a fucking astronaut, how does he still believe in the energy of the constellations and planets when he’s fucking been to one?—or Izzy’s theories on why Ed’s relationships have all failed. He’d take a dressing down by Jackie, if he could just hear somebody say his name, just once.

Jackie’s browsing jobs on Indeed.com when there’s a knock at the door. She wonders what the hiring manager at the Lego Store at the Galleria would say about her resume. Director of NASA to Sales Associate - Part Time. Couldn’t be worse than this fucking gig.
Geraldo sidles in just as she closes the browser window. She hasn’t slept in 36 hours, and she knows she’s not alone in that. Geraldo’s got that dumb-ass constipated look on his face that he gets when he hasn’t slept in a while. He’s holding his phone like it’s a holy relic.
“What.”

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 13h

Ed Teach Speech Bubble

Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 1d

I watched it last week and it was not the time for me - I cry every time!

Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 1d

Today for #TakeTwoTuesday, how about Three Quarters of an Inch, which is my only RPF (so far): archiveofourown.org/works/540201...

three quarters of an inch - Chapter 1 - nomadsland - Our Flag Means Death (TV) RPF [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 1d

A sandwich absolutely dripping with mayonnaise.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 5d

Top 4 reactions to me buzzing my hair off:

4. Congratulations on your hair cut
3. Did you cut your hair? Oh.
2. Why did you cut your hair like that?
1. MAMA! WHY ARE YOU BALD

Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 7d

Well, in that case, would you like a teaser of chapter 6? (I have seen the full art and it is SO WONDERFUL HWARGGHHGHBHH)

Seven weeks to Christmas
The following Sunday, Stede arrives in a blast of cold wind and a string of muttered curses as he unwraps his scarf and doffs his gloves. Izzy doesn't even bother getting out of his chair, just watches Stede shed his outer layers. Stede removes himself to the kitchen, returns in a minute with a glass for each of them.
"Hello," Izzy says, and then, as Stede briefly rests one ice-cold hand on Izzy's nape,
"Absolutely the fuck not, Bonnet, you can fuck off right back—

"I brought you eggnog."
"You can leave that on your way out."
"There's rather a lot of brandy in it."
"Good brandy?"
"Would I bring anything else?"
"Snob."
"I won't apologize for having exceptional taste, Israel."
It shouldn't be possible for one (stupid) face to hold this much fondness. Izzy feels pinned,

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 7d

This haircut, surely, will fix me.

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 7d

I s2g one should be allowed to submit a record of one's failures to make an appointment for an ADHD assessment in place of the actual ADHD assessment

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 7d

Taking psychic damage bc this coffeeshop is playing Unknown / Nth like it's Muzak

Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 8d

AT NIGHT?

Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 8d

Every piece of art you have made for this story is my favorite thing so shhhh to your brain weasels

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 8d

I was in downtown Philly, so probably not?

Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 8d

I dunno, man, between grad school and trying to write a whole ass novel I’m beginning to think I may be a bit of a masochist

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 11d

two heads are looking at each other on a checkerboard floor

Alt: two heads are looking at each other on a checkerboard floor

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 11d

Jeff’s Inn by the Sea is where aspiring author Stede Bonnet goes for escape the chaos (and unhappiness) of his house. He doesn’t know it’s owned by famously reclusive author Blackbeard, who dropped the first two books of a trilogy 20 years ago and has been blocked since…

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 12d

I reread this last night during Insomnia
Hours and realized partway through that I was reading it with @pilotpirate.bsky.social’s voice in my mind’s ear. Check out the podfic if you haven’t, it really is exquisite!

PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · Apr 14

The podfic of Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago is complete! This is a gorgeous, deeply moving fic. Check it out if you've been waiting!
on.soundcloud.com/PUF6F9RPCqsB...

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 14d

I am exhausted and sad this morning. Please share a bright moment from the last 48 hours. I'll start: my kid and I made apple cake yesterday and she had some for breakfast this morning and proclaimed, "this cake is AMAZING, Mama. We are great bakers!"

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 14d

Cat, maybe? Helpful enough for balance but not, like, holding stuff.

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 15d

Oh, I was thinking the tail is not prehensile!

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 15d

Would you rather have a prehensile nose like an elephant, or a tail? Why?

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PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to start the podfic of The Body Kinetic, written by @followedmystar.bsky.social with amazing art by @ourfag.bsky.social!

On the one hand, Stede's life is grinding him to dust.
On the other, their new artist-in-residence is fascinating.

SC: on.soundcloud.com/Gzq7mrS6McxX...

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The title card for a podfic. Featuring a snippet from some amazing art by ourfag of writhing tentacles with sharp, pointed barbs. It says The Body Kinetic written by followedmystar art by ourfag podfic by PilotPirate

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Nomadsland @nomadsland.bsky.social · 17d

Parenting is really fucking hard but sometimes you get moments like tonight, where we were all being silly and dancing around the kitchen to “Can’t Touch This” and my 5yo goes “I love family Hammer Time!”

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