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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 6d

Planthopper keychain plushies are now available in my shop! Bring a soft little bug friend on your adventures.

🛒🐛 shop.fossilforager.art

A stack of 3 green planthopper plushies with large bright red eyes and big pupils. They have two leaf-like wings on the side of their bodies and round stubby legs. They are posed on a rock with a pebbled background.

A singular green planthopper plush on a rock.

Three planthopper plushies in a row posed on a rock. From this angle, you can see they all have a green beaded chain attachment on their back.

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Jenn Lee overboard! @self-induljennt.bsky.social · 4d

come back to me

#ofmd #OurFlagMeansDeath

Drawing of Ed and Stede from Our Flag Means Death. They're underwater. Stede is a merman and cupping Ed's cheek as Ed looks up at him. There's a rope falling away from Ed's waist.

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Jenn Lee overboard! @self-induljennt.bsky.social · 5d

The Dread Pirate Blackhook and his manic pixie boyfriend. 🧡 They win the costume contest every year.

#ofmd #OurFlagMeansDeath

Drawing of Ed and Stede from Our Flag Means Death dressed as Captain Hook and Tinker Bell. Ed's costume is classic pirate captain with one arm on the duster removed. He has a long red sash tied as a belt. His hat and coat are mostly purple and white with gold filigree. Stede's costume is tight and short, revealing his long fuzzy legs. He's holding Ed around his shoulders with one arm so that he is lifted and kicking both feet. His wings are bright yellow and pink. He's tossing gold confetti like pixie dust.

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🌿🩸 Chey 🔞🗡️ | 🍉🇵🇸 @stedesmoth.bsky.social · Nov 16

at last...🎵

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Foxy McLuvox 🏴‍☠️ @foxymcluvox.bsky.social · 16d

My first attempt at fanart as I try to get into embroidery - I sketched Ed on fabric and then stitched away. 1/2

An embroidery hoop with Ed Teach dressed in his leathers. He has been sketched on fabric then embroidered.

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ELK64 @elk64.bsky.social · 13d

errant

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cappy @cappyy.bsky.social · Jul 29

bonnet starts with a b and has two n’s. bunny starts with a b and has two n’s. if my math is correct….. stede = bunny

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Riley @rileyisokay.bsky.social · 20d

Newest art. Because we need to turn poison into positivity. And these guys make me happy. (They should have danced. We should have gotten to see them dance.) 💔🧡💜 #OFMD

A digital painting of a scene from season 2 episode 6 of Our Flag Means Death. Stede and Ed face each other in purple-pink glowing light lit from behind by indistinct colored lanterns.

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Scary Corpse-ico🦇 🎃 ✨ @sarahcosico.bsky.social · 21d

✨💖🫧🥤

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poorlyformed @poorlyformed.bsky.social · 22d

Very excited to announce that the pre-orders for the 2026 Gentlebeard Calendar will open on October 1! Proceeds will once again be donated to the Rainbow Railroad.

graphic showing the cover of the calendar, with Ed and Stede in shades of black and pink and hearts around them. the calendar will be $25 and preorders will be open from October 1-15

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ida 🐭 bizarrelittlemew @bizarrelittlemew.bsky.social · 24d

feathers: clean
crops: flourishing
hat: on point
friend: bat
autumn vibes: impeccable
#crochet

Various crocheted items on a windowsill: several pumpkins, a black and purple bat (in soft chenille yarn with sprinkles of color), and a seagull, sitting with its long legs crossed on a pumpkin. It is wearing a green hat and an orange butterfly

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🌱 MK/RET @retquits.art · 28d

glittering fish sticker wips!! 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞

#wip ✧ #fish

A collection of rough digital sketches of cartoon fish with glittering scales. The fish drawn are a bluefin tuna, arapaima, bluegill, atlantic herring, fantail goldfish, oarfish, mola mola/ocean sunfish, mahi mahi/dorado, spawning sockeye salmon, coelacanth, and sanke patterned koi. Transparent text overlaid over the art reads "WIP [heart symbol] MK/RET".

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oaklinghouse @oaklinghouse.bsky.social · 28d

New obsession is drawing Thorin in hobbit clothes so get ready for more of that
#thehobbit #bagginshield

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Neoriceisgood @neoriceisgood.bsky.social · Sep 9

My sealife #pixelart set is nearly at 1000! Only 10 more to go! Anyone got any good suggestions for the last pieces to add to the set? <3

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Illustory 🌈✨ @illustoryart.bsky.social · Feb 2

🏳️‍🌈🦄🏴‍☠️
#ourflagmeansdeath

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Jenn Lee overboard! @self-induljennt.bsky.social · Sep 8

Today has been so wild. Extreme ups and annoying downs. I broke a molar. Going to have to get that dealt with soon. If you want to help me out, I have a few stickers left and three!!! #ofmd digital artbooks on my ko-fi! ko-fi.com/ytwojenn/shop

Visit Jenn Lee's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

ko-fi.com

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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mermaidinn 🏴‍☠️ here’s the deal, buckos 🏳️‍⚧️💀🇵🇸 @mermaidinn.bsky.social · Sep 5

you make a fool of death with your beauty, and for a moment, I forget to worry #ofmd #ofmdfanart

Illustration of Ed and Stede sitting in bed together the morning after the first time they have intercourse. They’re leaning towards each other and smiling. In the bottom half of the picture the blankets wrapped around Stede’s waist transform into a merperson tail, and Ed’s blue robe becomes waves and hints of tentacles

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Hannah Bluish @hannahbluish.bsky.social · Sep 5

See a trinket, pick it up…

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You wrote me a lovely postcard! @ofmd-postcards.bsky.social · Sep 2

TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR KIDS FACING DEPORTATION

www.32auctions.com/ywmlp?r=1&t=...

#ofmd #ywmlp

#YWMLP: A Fundraiser for Immigrant Kids

Silent auction '#YWMLP: A Fundraiser for Immigrant Kids' hosted online at 32auctions.

www.32auctions.com

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Eddie @sonotthekraken.bsky.social · Aug 28

This incredible, adorable fanart got me thinking 1) they're so freaking cute and I wish they'd gotten to dance in the show 2) I need to make Ed's fancy party outfit 😭and 3) I have this pic to share of me and @captaincharlemagne.bsky.social dancing at Ren Faire as the lads 🏴‍☠️💜

#ofmd #ofmdcosplay

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em ✨🏴‍☠️💖💜💙 @emcolbs.bsky.social · Aug 28

dancing in the moonlight

#ofmd #ofmdfanart #ourflagmeansdeath

a digital drawing of ed and stede from ofmd dancing in their fancy party outfits

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David Jenkins @david-jenkins.bsky.social · Aug 27

Death Star advocates say shooting into the little hidden vent will blow the whole thing up…

… so definitely don’t do that…

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

arstechnica.com

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em 🌩️🦊 @slightestwind.bsky.social · Aug 26

Life continues to Life with a capital L but the one nice thing I have managed this summer is the completion of my OG 151 cross stitch after 3 years and god knows how many stitches of work 🙌

A photo of a very large completed cross stitch project of the original 151 Pokémon cross stitched as coloured sprites. The background fabric is white evenweave and the Pokémon are arranged in a grid pattern.

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Act of Grace: An OFMD Virtu-Con @actofgracecon.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hi all~ Announcing Act of Grace: An OFMD Virtu-Con! A free virtual OFMD con hosted over Discord on February 7th and 8th 2026. Panels, Artist Alley, Writer highlights, and more! More info and applications coming soon.

actofgracecon.carrd.co

#ofmd #ourflagmeansdeath

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