Happy birthday! Love this song, and also hoping for a 2.0 version for you that looks like thriving and enjoying.

This video and story is an example of people at their best.

!!!!!?????!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations! That’s amazing!! Every day a new beginning. So much better sober 💜

Every queer friend group is a collection of fantastical medieval beings

Grateful to my queer internet besties

AH-mazing!

I really like the way you drew their noses!

Yesss

Ed has shrunk 3 of Stede’s wool sweaters but then he wears them as 3/4 sleeve crop tops. Perfect for Autumn! 🍂

Look at this lil purple rainbow squid! Witnessing an alien abduction.

crying laughing its literally me

🦩 📸 🫠 Flamingo Dreaming- a 1990s AU where Ed’s a burned out photographer and activist from the 1980s and 1990s AIDS epidemic and Stede is new to town. What could possibly happen?
archiveofourown.org/works/71515981

You can tell that magic con is in town because my hotel sold out of performance enhancing drugs:

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting. The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The "known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson. So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself." 1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium. Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary. Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I’m right here with you. I’ve read it twice and the podfic is solidifying it as one of my favorites of all time.
I’m loving the @kninjaknitter.bsky.social and @happydaiz.bsky.social collabs lately. Best of.

Three small wood-pattered boats float in the water in front of a sign that says “Pirate Ships”

There are pirate boats in the Inner Harbor in Baltimore!
Download some OFMD fanfic, rent one of these, and sail away into the sunset.

I think I head a dream about Deadloch recently. Pleaaaaase may it be so.

Really love that show!

I hadn’t read this one, and really liked it. You have such a lovely way of keeping their essence the same but transforming the characters.

Full time work should always pay enough to afford housing, food, healthcare, and saving for the future.

Yes.

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I can’t alt text someone else’s video, but this is a side by side video of a flamingo and Rhys Darby as Stede Bonnet dancing to the same beat.

Ooh! Not far from me. When is it happening?

I keep thinking about this. Would definitely be like… uh I don’t know these people. But not sure if he’d go temple trashing or just ignore and hang out at the food trucks. Tbd.

Totally appropriate to be sad! It is such an intimate professional relationship, and I honesty bet they are sad about it too.

what Kimmel said YouTube video by Tiedrich

BTW this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel fired:

"This is not how an adult grieves the murder of somebody he called a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Zy...

Drawing if a tired puppy with the caption; "This too shall pass but like wtf"

Bruh

What a mustache. Love this guy.

I loved the first chapter! Gorgeous writing, awesome imagery. I’m all in.

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system