hex upon ye

[pennysoaky]

I had to expound on my own post lol

[googoogojob]

[jamfancy]

Finished making Ed’s shrine. I love that I have my art and the art and writing of others to keep OFMD alive for me.

[gatoconfundido]

[shaneposting]

nakey shoulder posting has been happening all day and nobody has brought up the idea of stede biting ed's shoulder while he's fucking him. do i have to do everything myself around here. anyway ed's hair swept back over his other shoulder so stede can kiss his neck and whisper filth to him, biting down on the muscle to stay quiet when he cums, leaving a lil bite mark that aches when ed presses his fingers against it again and again over the next few days to remind himself of the night, you know the drill

[sconesfortea]

Favourite tiny details in OFMD: Blackbeard’s heart (1.05 vs 1.10)

The tiny moment the silk forms a heart kills me every time

[systlin]

If any of y’all didn’t know, there’s a free online library, aka

https://openlibrary.org/

and I found like, twelve ebooks I’ve been wanting to read on there, and blasted through like three of them during the course of a boring-ass shift.

[skaldish]

Guy there are books on magic on there.

[systlin]

There’s books on EVERYTHING there!

[eudevie]

Wouldn’t this be bad for authors though? or is this like a normal library where they get /some/ money?

[systlin]

It’s like a normal library. Libraries can upload ebooks there and let people check them out through openlibrary if you have an openlibrary account, or it can point you to nearby libraries that have physical copies of the book for you to go and check out. If you check out books via openlibrary it counts towards the count of books checked out from the library that uploaded the ebook, and they can use it in their reporting and funding and stuff.

There’s like 150 libraries partnered with openlibrary so far.

They also have copies that you can check out if you are print-disabled.

[systlin]

You can also ‘sponsor a book’, which means you pay the cost of the ebook you want openlibrary to acquire, and then they can add it to their collection and let people check it out.

[systlin]

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL26576A/Tamora_Pierce

I sure did!

And click on a title even if it says ‘no ebook available’ and scroll down, ‘cause sometimes that just means “all of the copies of ebooks are checked out right now but you can get on the waitlist when it’s back in”

[kayliemalinza]

This is part of the Internet Archive! I’ve posted about this before. Please go, it’s amazing. 

[xray-vex]

I DID THE THING --

8+ hrs of Stede's library fireplace with ambient sound. First time I've ever done something like this, a fun learning experience.

[lizardsfromspace]

Sherlock Holmes looked up from his book. "My dear Watson, the only thing I love more than respecting women and having feelings is being in a gay triad with you and Winnie the Pooh. Let's hook up with the Great Gatsby," he said, 100% legally

[choicelessflope]

SPEAKING OF LABYRINTH AND PINOCCHIO!!

this is toby froud. the character sculpt lead on pinocchio. you know who he also is???

BABY TOBY IN LABYRINTH!! he’s the son of brian froud, the conceptual designer for labyrinth. what a legacy

[sovietunion]

It's medieval girl winter.

[bookshelfdreams]

ooo free psychoanalysis! XD i am absolutely a stede simp, and fave secondary character is either lucius or oluwande, my competent beloveds <3

course, all the best people are <3 (a stede simp that is)

This show got you with the aesthetics and kept you with the interpersonal relationships. Found family dynamics are your jam. It's about the fantasy of finding a group of people who turn out to be yours completely by accident, isn't it.

The way this show handles the homophobia inherent in the setting is balm on your soul. You notice details I wouldn't even think to look for.

If you could marry Stede's party coat from ep5, you would.

x

[cuddlytogas]

CORRECT! ON! ALL! COUNTS!!!

[bookshelfdreams]

#is one of the noticed details the fact that in the slow pan across the kneeling crew during the chain sequence #it's all those most in danger from english law #pete roach frenchie olu and lucius so. all the black crew members and the confirmed sodomites (and then obvs stede and ed) #is this on purpose? probably not #but yeah on myyyy maybe second or third watch probably i found that shot abruptly TERRIFYING #like not to embody the worst kind of hermeneutics of suspicion and only finding victims in historical queer rep #(Felski; Bruhm; YES i went and dug through my old thesis notes to remember who those authors were lol) #but there's something so implicitly menacing about that line up that just FLOORED me on rewatch #not swede. not john. not buttons. barely pete. then very clearly: roach. frenchie. olu. lucius. #SHIVERS i tell you!!! shivers down my spine! #just. knowing what the empire would do to black men. what the navy would do to sodomites. centre stage. absolutely horrifying. #ANYWAY OKAY thank you for the excuse for THAT rant that's been building in my chest for about six months XD #and STEDE SIMPS UNITE UVU

via @cuddlytogas

[elibenik]

I wrote a public blog post that goes through the process of formatting your art to post online safely by reducing the DPI and file size without losing overall visual quality. Read it now here!

[cairoblue]

The BBC is doing an audio play of The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper's amazing novel. They're dropping daily episodes as the events of the novel progress day by day through late December.

The Dark Is Rising - 1. Midwinter Eve - BBC Sounds

This night will be bad. Tomorrow will be beyond all imagining

[knitmeapony]

SCREAMING MY FIRST FANDOM OMG THIS LOOKS SO GOOD

[knitmeapony]

JOHNNY FLYNN IS DOING THE MUSIC, OH IT IS CHRISTMAS INDEED

[franken-freakie]

[figmentof]

HBOmax FYC–Our Flag Means Death: Taika’s thoughts on Stede as a character

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"wow i never would have guessed you're autistic" thanks! i traumatized myself throughout my developmental years learning maladaptive masking skills that have harmed me body and soul