#OFMDAU-GUST

[izzy-b-hands]

8/16 is done, even on time!

If you like Futurama and Our Flag, hopefully you'll also like this. If I can, I might piggyback off of this like I did the music au and write more for some of the upcoming au-gust prompts, but we'll see lol.

[swashbuckling-sweethearts]

Day 11: Birdwatching

Wrote a quick little fic for OFMD AU-gust 💜🦆

[raggedyanndy]

unrealistic to think I could write fic for every day of OFMD au-gust, BUT i'm using it as a brainstorm/creativity sparker. maybe i'll actually write some of these. ANYWAY i just wanted to share my Train Of Thought for today, Day 8 - sports / ancient / pacific rim:

Ed is big deal big shit jaeger pilot, can drift with anyone but never clicked as well as he does with Stede, who is new. Weird choice, this other older guy, but the two of them come together so perfectly when they first spar. 

Stede left Mary to go train which is WAIT WHAT IF THEY’RE THE SCIENTISTS INSTEAD

And Jackie is Stacker!!!!!!!!

Ed has a cane and climbs up and down ladders to use his giant chalkboard and is very dramatic about math and probability and Stede looks at the way people do science and thinks, Why? And what if it were different? and people think he's a weirdo and he doesn't understand when people don't want to gush about the kaiju.

Jim is Raleigh! They lost their brother in a fight with a kaiju years ago.

do you see my visionnnnnnnnn

[ofmdjanuaury]

Welcome to OFMD AU-gust! Check out the prompts and start creating 💙

Rules and text version under the cut!

RULES:

Any OFMD fan creations count! Fic, art, dioramas, bakes…

You can do one day or all of them, and use as many prompts from the day as you want!

Tag everything #OFMDAU-GUST

Every time you post something, try and comment on someone else’s, too!

You can post any prompt any day AFTER that prompt’s official day! So you can post Improv fics any day after 8/1, but you can’t post theatre fics till 8/31.

HAVE FUN!

Text version of the prompts:

1. Mechanic | Mail Carrier | Improv

2. Fantasy | Solarpunk | Fiber Arts

3. School Staff | Art Model | Taxidermy

4. Social Media | Tentacles | Identity Theft

5. Music/Band | Specific TV Show | Jumanji

6. Journalism | Specific Movie | Planetarium

7. Phone Operator | Rennaissance | Y2K

8. Sports | Ancient | Pacific Rim

9. Medicine | Aquarium/Zoo | Makeup Artist

10. Celebrity | D&D | Gig Worker

11. Science Fiction | Superheroes | Birdwatching

12. Coffee Shop/Bakery | Magical Girl (gn) | Influencer

13. Restaurant | Medieval | Eldritch Horror/Cryptid

14. Science | Place-Based | Weed Guy (gn)

15. Porn Star | Specific Book | Natural Disaster

16. Crime/Mob | Specific Cartoon | Drag/Burlesque

17. Farm/Rural | Time Travel | Polar Explorer

18. Small Business | Apocalypse | Stargate

19. Writer | 19th Century | Escape Room

20. Law | Nightclub | Professional Cuddler

21. Rebels | Zombie | Desert Island

22. Bar | Ghost Hunters | LARP

23. Transit | Daemon | Community Meeting

24. Archeology | Aliens | Paint and Sip

25. Epistolary | Public Access TV | Gas Station

26. Neighbors | Heist | Reality TV Hosts

27. Noir | Grocery Store | Blacksmith

28. Disney | Olympics | Sentinel/Guide

29. Boats | Non-Anglophone Place | Lumberjack

30. Canon-Divergent | Gardening | Kink Club

31. Theatre | Free Space | Someone Else's Universe

(Thanks to yerbamansa for reminding the mod to be accessible!!)

[izzy-b-hands]

8/19, 'escape room', after so many fucking drafts fkdasjfkdlsaf, is done!

[izzy-b-hands]

8/15 is done

[izzy-b-hands]

Day eight 'ancient' fill is DONE and I am not looking at it again for at least a month flkasjfldasj

That said, Housemate gave it a read and has reassured me it's actually lovely, I'm just having Writer Brainworms over whether it's good or not, and as Housemate is also a writer, I trust aer's opinion on this.

V Basic piratey stuff: hidden treasure trove, a curse, being forced to take a job on a Disney cruise to survive, etc.

[izzy-b-hands]

Fill for one of the Day Seven prompts, ‘phone operator’, is done! This is one of the few I’ve had done for a good while, actually lol.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/49188181

[izzy-b-hands]

For a short fic which incorporates Ed, Stede, and Rocky Horror, this fic is much less eventful than one might expect.

That said, my fill for Day Six  it’s also short, cute, and v domestic w/Ed and Stede as neighbours to the infamous castle, and on a day like today when every idea I had for every prompt was fighting me hard, I think that’s enough.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/49168591

[izzy-b-hands]

Day Five fill for ‘band/musician’ is done! With an OFMD/Queen crossover AU, involving Ed and Izzy and their band opening for Queen, circa 85/86 tours (I didn’t go through Queen’s touring timeline to set a hard date on this, so just wiggle it in there wherever you think feels best in your head when you read lol.)

Izzy and Ed are happy together except that they aren’t because neither of them has sat down to confront their own feelings and what they actually want. Freddie can see a miserable Izzy needing a break from waiting for Ed to feel exactly as he does, as well as an Izzy making the same sort of not-quite-mistakes he’s made before with guys he’s really liked.

No real drama, despite the above, nothing beyond Ed and Izzy being grumpy with each other (which is like. a regular Tuesday for them let’s be real here), just some bitter sweetness.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/49139830

[izzy-b-hands]

It’s crack fic, involving a question of love and tentacles inspired by a meme. You understand. You read*

*aka give it a try but only if you wanna lol

Day Four of AU-gust, Tentacles, is posted:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/49119124

[izzy-b-hands]

yoooo as of posting my fill for AU-gust Day Two ‘fiber arts’ I’m at 49 fics written for OFMD! (not counting the extra lil ones I published on here that haven’t been posted to AO3 yet, and will, eventually just. is a slog trying to find them in the blog backlog, but EVENTUALLY)

Anyway, that means I’m v excited to see if I either Day Three will be my fiftieth fic!!! for OFMD or if I’ll wind up finishing an unrelated draft first (I have one I’m plugging away at that I am only giving the title and main ship of for the sake of Fun and Mystery: ‘Single Serve Blueberry Brownie’ and rizzy) and THAT might be No. 50!!

That aside, here be the link for Day Two! Wee John POV of the messiest wedding planning in existence (for that moment at least, Mary/Doug) going down at his and Frenchie’s wedding salon/shop after he’s ALREADY put out one bride’s fire for the day. Stede is also there, having a bad time until suddenly it isn’t anymore (Ed/Stede.) Overall ship is Frenchie/Wee John but nothing explicit or NSFW going on for anyone in this fic, aside from the NSFW levels of stress and less than kind behaviour towards each other that weddings can bring out in people lmao.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/49062529

[izzy-b-hands]

Day Twelve of AU-gust, 'coffee shop!' Except my take on the au, bc normally it isn't one of my faves. But I had fun with this one.

[izzy-b-hands]

Day Eleven, 'superheroes!' It's definitely not Marvel or DC, my fill for it! It is...something dfkajlksajfk

[izzy-b-hands]

Day Three! of AU-gust is done and posted! Shoutout to Housemate for letting me use the idea they had for this prompt after I was otherwise stumped by the options for today!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/49085299

For once, Day Four is actually already done as well, but won’t be posted till the appropriate day of course (and that’s really just an excuse for me to try and tackle the days I DON’T have a fully finished piece for yet lol)

[izzy-b-hands]

Day one of OFMD AU-gust is done! My fill for the prompt ‘mechanic’ is up on AO3!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/49042720