#ofmd aupril

[ofmdjanuaury]

It's nearly April, and you know what that means...

Presenting: Not-AUpril!

A month of drabbles, quick-fire (and longer-form) prompts, and invitations to make things in forms beyond prose.

We're doing something a bit different this year, after all the excitement of the #OFMDCraftFair.

Each week has a theme, and every day its own prompt! Many of them silly, some of them meaty, hopefully something for everyone!

For more info, come join us on bluesky.

Link to all the prompts in spreadsheet form:

Not AUpril 2025

Weeks Line-up [see the graphics above for the daily prompts, alt text provided]

WEEK 1: Drabble Week ⚡ (Tues 1st – Sunday 6th) Every day we’ll post a grid of nine words for you to use as you wish. Do as many or as few as you like – the world’s your oyster!

WEEK 2: Random Generator Week 🎲 (Monday 7th – Friday 11th) A staple writing prompt tactic, we invite you to roll the dice with us! Each day has a generator attached which you can use. Or, you can interpret the prompt however you want! [see the spreadsheet above for links]

WEEK 3: Canon Inspo Week 🏴‍☠️ (Sun 13th – Fri 18th) Since this is NOT AUpril, we looked to OFMD’s canon for a single word to represent each episode. Each day has three episode prompts (e.g. 13th April is 1x1, 1x2, 1x3). You don’t have to stick to canon with what you create, but let canon inspire you!

WEEK 4: Sensory Week 👃 (Saturday 19th – Wednesday 23rd) Inspired by the #OFMDcraftfair, this week is a chance to explore the things we love about OFMD with our hands and other parts - through the senses! [see the spreadsheet above for links]

WEEK 5: Form Fuckery Week 🌀 (Friday 25th – Tuesday 29th) Prose is great, but sometimes it’s fun to shake things up! This week, why not play around with metre, rhyme and layout! Get silly, let it be amateurish - have fun with it!

Guidelines:

any medium counts—especially this year!

post your work on—or any time after—the prompt day

do as many (or as few) days as you like

tag your posts #ofmd aupril and use the AO3 collection [link]

rec existing works in reply/reblog of the relevant post

hype others’ works! cheer each other on!

remember: more cake!

and since we’re mixing things up this year...

try something new! we’re swashbuckling, let’s have fun with it!

Brought to you by @ghostalservice @loopslip @veeagainsttheday and @petrichorca

We hope you’ll join us for a month of silly, off-the-cuff creating! Any questions, just ask.

[newnewyorker93]

I managed to write something for all the days of @ofmdjanuaury 's Not AUpril Drabble Week (🥳) so here's a little masterlist of all of them!

Tea Service

Ed and Stede get a new tea set.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64331113

(basket-cloud-pink)

Poison into Positivity

In which the Revenge's cannons play a role in some of Ed's worst and best moments on the ship.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64367674

(barrier-cannon-mouth)

Reaching Out

On their first night at the inn, Ed and Stede talk about The Foot Touch.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64392469

(snort-window-heel AND out-window-grin; two lines for a double drabble!)

Reprise

Stede reclaims a lost moment from the night of Calypso's Birthday.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64429159

(dance-blast-merry)

Dressing Well

Stede helps Ed get dressed for the fancy boat party.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64445359

(violet-dig-fizz AND violet-grow-slide; two lines for a double drabble!)

Love Connection

Ed makes a fascinating discovery.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64482040

(wisp-casual-crease)

[adhduck]

“—and we still need to get the towels, in case someone forgets. The beach ones, please, not the nice ones—”

“Yes, love, I know not to use the nice ones,” Ed says, patient with a thread of laughter in his voice. Stede ignores him and checks his hair in the bedroom mirror again, even though it may be for naught as soon as they get started.

“They know it’s at 4:30, right? Not 4?”

“I would hope so, considering 4:30 is the only time we ever gave them,” Ed says.

“But they know not to come early?”

“Stede,” he says, which is not an answer, so Stede turns to glare at him only to be met with an infuriatingly soft expression, not a hint of urgency in his boyfriend’s eyes at all. “Sweetheart. It’s gonna be fine, okay?”

“I know that,” says Stede, who does not know that and is, in fact, more sure of the opposite. “Now please, can we finish getting ready, they’re gonna be here in less than an hour and you know some of them are going to be more on time just for the drama of it—”

“Stede.” Ed grabs his shoulders, drags him gently to their bed. Stede sits with a huff, though his legs instantly thank him for the reprieve—he’d set his forearm crutches down at some point, wanting to get the cleaning done faster. Ed plops next to him. “Your friends love you. They are going to support you.”

“Us,” Stede says, though he’d been thinking mostly of himself the last few hectic hours.

“Us,” Ed agrees. “And when we tell them what we are, they are gonna love us just as much. Lucius will make some sort of hentai joke, Wee John will say he knew mermaids were real, and then we’re going to have a very fun pool party with all our friends. Okay?”

“But what if—”

“Nuh uh, no what ifs. It’s going to go great, okay? Hell, Buttons is probably one of us. Like a—penguin or something.”

Stede frowns. “Are penguin people a thing?”

Ed shrugs. “Fuck if I know. But I do know he won’t blink fucking twice at a few fins and tentacles.”

Logically, Stede knows he’s right. But he’s never told more than one person at a time before—hell, he’s never told more than one person period. And never somebody who isn’t sort of like him.

“I just—” He takes a long, heavy breath and leans into Ed’s side, head tucked on his shoulder. “They’re practically my family, Ed. I don’t wanna lose them. Or—or have them look at me like I’m an alien.”

“Hey, aliens are fucking cool.”

“You know what I mean. I don’t want them to look at me differently. Other than—you know. The obvious stuff.”

“I know,” Ed murmurs. “And I can’t promise they won’t be a little…surprised, at first. But it’s not because of us, yeah? It’s just a lot to take in. And they’re all so fucking weird, I’m sure they’ll be used to us in ten minutes flat.”

“I hope so.” Stede touches his foot to Ed’s, marveling for the millionth time that their bodies can be so different and yet create something so similar to walk on land. “I hope so.”

Read on ao3! (ch1 up now, ch2 up by around april 28)

[chocolatepot]

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

words: 3,355 | rating: G | chapters: 1/1

Edward Teach, Earl Blackbeard, is a rake, and Stede Bonnet is a wallflower. Fate and whim brought them together in a marriage of convenience, but can they transcend the convenience? A Regency AU.

For OFMD AUpril! I started out more "Regency romance" but quickly slid down the hill to full-on nineteenth century prose and had a blast doing it.

[andillwriteyouatragedy]

THE SPIRIT OF THE SYMPHONY

for ofmd au-pril, day 1: community theatre!

when one of the two stars of the show has to step down, stede fills in— though he's not sure he can pull it off.

luckily, his new co-lead, ed, seems to think he has what it takes...

read 'spirit of the symphony,' my first fic for ofmd au-pril, on ao3!

[ofmdjanuaury]

OFMD Not-AUpril Day 1!

choose three words to complete a line horizontally, diagonally, or vertically. then write 100 words including your chosen prompt words!

want more words? complete two lines and write 200 words, or three lines for 300 words!

artists, pick prompts for a 5 (1 prompt), 10 (2) or 15 (3) minute sketch! podficcers, post a video / audio clip of you reading as many drabbles as you can in 5 minutes!

reblog with your prompt fills! (or post them on bluesky as a quote to the daily post!)

See the main OFMD Not-AUpril post for more info on what we're up to this month ~

The prompt timezone runs from about midnight BST -> about midnight in American Samoa so you have about 36 hours to respond to each daily prompt. So if you see this on a day that doesn't make sense... that's why!

[ofmdjanuaury]

OFMD Not-AUpril Day 5!

choose three words to complete a line horizontally, diagonally, or vertically. then write 100 words including your chosen prompt words!

want more words? complete two lines and write 200 words, or three lines for 300 words!

artists, pick prompts for a 5 (1 prompt), 10 (2) or 15 (3) minute sketch! podficcers, post a video / audio clip of you reading as many drabbles as you can in 5 minutes!

reblog with your prompt fills! (or post them on bluesky as a quote to the daily post!)

See the main OFMD Not-AUpril post for more info on what we're up to this month ~

The prompt timezone runs from about midnight BST -> about midnight in American Samoa so you have about 36 hours to respond to each daily prompt. So if you see this on a day that doesn't make sense... that's why!

[ofmdjanuaury]

OFMD Not-AUpril Day 3!

choose three words to complete a line horizontally, diagonally, or vertically. then write 100 words including your chosen prompt words!

want more words? complete two lines and write 200 words, or three lines for 300 words!

artists, pick prompts for a 5 (1 prompt), 10 (2) or 15 (3) minute sketch! podficcers, post a video / audio clip of you reading as many drabbles as you can in 5 minutes!

reblog with your prompt fills! (or post them on bluesky as a quote to the daily post!)

See the main OFMD Not-AUpril post for more info on what we're up to this month ~

The prompt timezone runs from about midnight BST -> about midnight in American Samoa so you have about 36 hours to respond to each daily prompt. So if you see this on a day that doesn't make sense... that's why!