#adhduck

[blakbonnet]

Hi participating in ask culture by showing you this picture of Ed. He is so beautiful

it's the same picture

[trans-top-stede]

🔪 🏜️ 🧩 for the ask meme thing!

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

I've suddenly forgotten every time I was like "I just went down a weird half hour rabbit hole about..." but the first thing I can think of off the top of my head is different kinds of dessert cheese and how they're made, for my cheesemonger au Wheel and Deal

🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?

I always love a long comment, but my actual favourite comments are anything that engages with the story/themes/whatever in a way that shows the person is thinking really about it, long or otherwise (and also your comments, of course 🧡)

🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?

Probably characterization/personality traits that feels actively counter to the way the characters are portrayed in the show? I'm fine with things that aren't part of the original character being added, but usually not at the expense of canon

Ask me more stuff!

[ofmdlovelyletters]

i'm sure i'm not the first to send this kind of thing in but a MASSIVE lovely letter to everyone who has taken part in organising the ofmd craft fair (i don't want to name drop bc i don't know everyone who is involved so i will miss people out and then i'll feel bad forever but i love you all)

it's been incredible to watch the donations going up and the whole fandom has felt like a really fun positive place to be during the past week and we're all just having a silly time and buying little items and raising a fuckton of money for charity and i think that's neat

(also as someone who has worked for charities irl i need you to understand how fucking insane the staff at the trans youth emergency fund must be going right now. i'd be vibrating through the wall)

To the organizing crew behind @ofmdcraftfair — @adhduck, @veeagainsttheday, @xoxoemynn, @yerbamansa, @zombee, and, of course, their tireless captain @ghostalservice — this lovely letter is for you. 💌

Crew, there's still a few more days left in the auction, so be sure to check it out here.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Is masturbation as big a ‘risk factor’ (putting in quotes bc I don’t wanna sound moralizing or anything) for uti’s the way partnered sex is? I never really see stuff about how to be careful of uti’s when masturbating, just partnered sex, but theoretically there are still hands or whatever all up in there, right? Should you be doing the same stuff after masturbating as sex, like peeing?

hi adhduck,

any behavior that can introduce bacteria to the urinary tract comes with a risk of UTI. having sex solo will generally be introducing less new bacteria to your body than getting up close and personal with an entire other person, but cleanliness is still important. make sure you have clean hands and toys, don't cross contaminate from the anus to the vagina if you have one, and staying hydrated so that you can urinate in a timely manner when you're finished. it might not be possible to 100% prevent UTIs, but you can definitely decrease the risk!

[littlefingies]

My contribution of OFMD Aro/Ace week is a podfic of

Just to Kiss Me

by @adhduck! Rated M.

Ed is learning how to be cared for, which apparently involves Stede helping him shave, and also saying what he wants--and what he doesn't. (Or: ace!Ed is about to be so, so fucking loved)

Listen on this post-s1 reunion fic on Soundcloud above, or: - Read the written work - Listen on AO3 - Download from Internet Archive

The cover art is commissioned from Pogo who was amazing to work with!

[eefaevie]

Ed is a sexy fireman posing for a charity calendar with endangered animals

Stede is a disaster who keeps setting off fire alarms

Sound interesting? GOOD NEWS

Too Hot (Hot Damn) is a hilarious and sexy fic by *inhales* @adhduck @bizarrelittlemew @zombee @clairegregoryau @emi--rose @trans-top-stede @ghostalservice @petrichorca @wardrobespierre @xoxoemynn with art (this art!) by me!

go read it have fun I love you mwah

[mossgroves]

My art for the OFMD Reverse Big Bang for the amazing You're the Shape of my Days by adhduck

“So that’s your dastardly plan,” Stede replies with an audible smile between slow, chaste kisses [...]. “Get clean so we can dirty ourselves up again?”

Ed smirks. “You say that like it’s a bad thing.”

[mxmollusca]

Happy Yecret Yanta to my Yestie @adhduck! This Innkeepers-era oneshot has everything! Communication problems! Monsters! Autism! Percy Shelley! So many limbs! Phonics! I hope you love it. 🕷️♥️🕸️

[xoxoemynn]

hi, I'm looking for more ofmd blogs to follow, do you have any recommendations? <3

I have SO MANY!!! In fact the last time I got an ask like this I hit the mention limit that I didn't even know existed so I'm going to keep it limited to beloved mutuals who are pretty active and post a lot of OFMD. Let's go!

@blakbonnet @bizarrelittlemew @stedesearring @edsbacktattoo @jaskierx @asneakyfox @snake-snack-stede @as-a-creww @saltpepperbeard @merryfinches @chocolatepot @gentlebeardsbarngrill @soupbtch @areyoudoingthis @agaywithcoffee @sherlockig @gentlebeard @summerlinenss @wearfinethingsalltoowell @edscuntyeyeshadow @bbyteach @jellybeanium124 @ofmd-ann @batsarebetterthanpeople @insteading @unadulteratedkr @scarrletmoon @babykittenteach @meanmisscharles @peanutbutterex @appleteeth @glamaphonic @sweet-little-goldfish-stede @edandstede @piratecaptainscaptainpirates @pearwaldorf @allthinky @ghostalservice @xray-vex @scarrletmoon @adhduck @oatmilktruther @darkinerry @poisonintopositivity @stedebonnets @aha-my-villainous-thoughts @adamarks @cahootings @petrichorca @suffersinfandom

I hope you find some new friends from the list! 💕

[sigilmint]

Get to know me better tag game!!

Thanks for the tag @richvampire!!

Last Song: let me down by Zimmer Grandioso (bc of the game Keep Driving, which I super recommend!!)

Last Book: I'm gonna take this opportunity to recommend a fic and that fic is onward and upward by iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid which is the best timeloop mechanic fic i've ever read and pulled my heartstrings so hard i'm still thinking about it a whole year after reading it!

Last Movie: UNFORTUNATELY IT WAS THE WEDDING SINGER. WE'D NEVER SEEN IT AND UH. IT WAS BAD.

Last Show: Severance

Last Thing I Searched: "elijah wood hooray meme"

Favorite Color: green generally, black for clothes, teal/copper for color combo

Sweet/Savory/Spicy: Savory if i can only have one, but sweet/spicy if there's a combo to be had :)

Relationship Status: Stephanie and I just celebrated 13 years together!

Looking Forward To: New dnd campaign on the very near horizon!! I'm so excited but I still need to name my new guy and I Am Struggling.

Current Obsession: You look in my head rn and it's zaundads all the way down. All my other faves are still in there ofc but hoooooo boy I can't get nearly enough of these friends to lovers to enemies to lovers guys they have AU potential baked INTO the sauce and everything.

tagging: @katherineaurora @illmetkismet @kirtlandswarbler @adhduck @kg-clark-inthedark @clueindonut and anyone else who wants to have a go!

[blakbonnet]

AUTHOR OF THE WEEK: @adhduck

Please give it up for the nicest and one of the most creative writers in this fandom: Duck! I'm just such a fan because not only does Duck manage to write the softest, gentlest, loveliest Ed and Stede (both together and apart), their fics somehow perpetually keep me looking like 🥹 all the time ough. And they were very very nice about sharing their writing process with me:

What's your writing process like? Do you start with the beginning or the end? Do you write in order or as the scenes come to you?

Mostly it’s the Taika “look at a document for 8 hours and then close the document,” honestly. I’m a very slow writer and lose motivation very easily, so I mostly get by on the muse’s fire hydrant and forcing myself to write those fifty words even when every single one feels so bad.

I go moooostly beginning to end because even though I’m generally an outliner, I always end up with little details that will affect later scenes and I don’t wanna lose continuity or have to rewrite a bunch. However, I do definitely let myself do a [finish this scene later] and move on to the next scene because otherwise I will get really fucking stuck, and sometimes I’ll write a line or a paragraph I thought of that sounds really good and tuck it away for a later scene.

Favourite trope or headcanon you like to explore while writing?

Ooooooooh, I don’t know if this is a trope but there’s just nothing I love more than huge feelings contained in mundane stories, of feelings so big you can’t actually express them and so they’re this constant hum throughout the story. I also love writing about touch for both of them, how Ed gives casual touch to hide the deep well of desire for intimate touch, how Stede is so unused to touch and craves it so deeply. (Can you tell I just really like subtle yet overwhelming emotions? Maybe it’s the aroace in me idk but that shit hits HARD.) Oh, and I love a fuckin’ allegory or object to discuss all those big feelings, whether it’s monsters or gardening or peaches or what the fuck ever (I have used all of these lol).

Whose voice is easier to write - Ed or Stede? Why?

I think Ed’s voice comes to me faster because the way I personally speak is closer to Ed’s voice, but it also means I’m sometimes double-checking myself to make sure I’m still deep in his voice, not my-voice-but-Ed. Stede isn’t necessarily harder for me, I’m just doing all that double-checking to make sure I’m not slipping into Ed voice or, god forbid, Aziraphale-lite voice. So, idk! I love writing them both, the little details of each of their inner dialogues are SO important to me (Ed’s tangents and his pshh-I-don’t-care moments, Stede actively avoiding thinking about things he doesn’t want to face, etc etc etc).

Your personal favourite thing you've written that you'd like more people to read

For the longest time it was There is Love That Doesn’t Have a Place to Rest, mostly because it was posted the day before another fic and, while I find them to be siblings and equal quality,  the other one got way more attention. That fic is about the time between signing the Act of Grace and getting to the academy and I think I really nailed where the two of them are at.

However! (And I know this is cheating okay shh.) Nowadays the one that I wish people read the most is Not Only the Sugar, But the Days. It’s the sequel to my “offscreen 30 year slowburn friends to lovers finally get together” fic and I put my whole fucking heart into it, honestly. The two boys basically go on a bunch of dates to live out the teenage experiences they never got together and work through the biggest feelings and I just! Really want people to see it! (It also can be read as a standalone, which I didn’t advertise super well lol.)

What is the one word that you think you use a lot?

Unfortunately it’s probably “just” or “a little” or filler words like that. Also obviously if the word fuck counts then, yeah, that. Maybe warm? Or something about yearning??? If I have a classic word please tell me I’m fascinated by this idea.

Do you have a beta reader? Have they made you a better writer?

The person who beta’s for basically all my fics is Owen @trans-top-stede and they are sooooo fucking helpful and incredible. So good at catching all the little things I miss, making sex scenes make sense, reminding me positioning in general is a thing, cheerleading me on, etc etc etc. My fics are so much better for their help.

Why OFMD 🥹

Ed and Stede just fit so fucking well into all sorts of AU’s (they try to invent their own AU’s in canon, even) while also having so much fun space to explore within canon. Their range is also perfect perfect perfect for writing fics—they can be in the wells of misery and fluffy as fuck and obnoxiously cheesy and realistic all in the same fic, if you want, and it’s completely accurate to their canon selves. It’s also helped me to embrace being silly and cheesy and earnest because life is about being yourself and finding your people and feeling deeper, feeling bigger, feeling more authentically without fear of being too much. Fuck I just really love these boys. (Also they’re so pretty and the whole crew’s so pretty we WON.)

Please head over to @ofmdlovelyletters (who also made the header) and send your love to all your favourite authors (and authors of the week 😈 watch that blog for some special letters coming your way)

[swashbuckling-sweethearts]

@adhduck wrote an absolutely lovely fic about half-bird siren Stede and trans Ed called Sweet as the Sound! 🌸 @petrichorca commissioned me to draw a scene from it for Duck, so surprise Duck, here it is!

The story is SO sweet, and I can't wait to read it again!

Sweet as the Sound

Rated E, 17K

[ofmdlovelyletters]

HI IT’S TIME TO GUSH ABOUT CLAIRE!!!!!!!!!

First of all, what a kind and sweet and supportive fucking soul. Literally brought us the joy that is fic club, and just in general is always hyping people up and reccing fics and leaving the sweetest comments and just being the best person ever.

And of course, her writing talent. Ohhhhhhhhh my god the way Claire has mastered pwp, emotional arcs, complicated plot, all of it???? MWAH.

A favorite of hers for me right now is The Broken Lines, her post-WWI fic that jumps between timelines to help stede discover the memories and love he’s lost as he bonds with a 1719 version of ed who, too, has lost the love of his life. I could hardly put it down for anything once I began, you could just feel how much knowledge and raw love Claire poured into this story. It’s mysterious and heartfelt and intense and gentle and sexy and heartwrenching and a million other things, god if I keep talking about it I’ll just have to reread it all right now! (And big shoutout to Gerlinde and Boy who did the fucking incredible art and podfic respectively!!!)

I also have a soft spot for Rinse and Repeat, where Stede keeps coming over to fuck Ed once a week like clockwork but then runs out when his timer goes off like a sexy Cinderella. Just a very fun and funny fic that quickly turns heartfelt and sweet (of course it does, it’s Claire!)

Anyway Claire I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!

Hi @clairegregoryau! You've received a lovely letter from @adhduck. 💌

Crew, you can read The Broken Lines here, or listen to the podfic here.

Rinse and Repeat can be found here.

And of course, be sure to check out all of Claire's works here.

[adhduck]

I forget to self-rec over here all the time, but if you wanna read 2.5k of nonsexual puppy play with gentlebeard that's mostly just tooth-rotting cuteness, I have great news about what I just posted 💖

https://archiveofourown.org/works/60945886

[clairegregoryau]

AO3 Fic Meme

I was tagged by @denizbevan!

What ratings do you write most of your fics under?

Explicit (50) Mature (17) General Audiences (3) Teen And Up Audiences (2)

What can I say? I've always been intrigued about the ways people relate to each other through sex, so it's most often a part of the stories I tell. What are your top three fandoms?

Our Flag Means Death - 71 Jurassic Park/ Jurassic World pirate crossover - 1 Deadloch - 1

What is the top character you write about?

Edward Teach (67) pips Stede Bonnet (65) for the most-written-about.

What are your top three pairings?

Edward Teach/ Stede Bonnet- 65 Oluwande Boodhari/ Jim Jimenez- 5 Lucius Spriggs/ Black Pete/ Fang - 3

What are your top three additional tags? I'm gonna do my top ten actually 😂 I am nothing if not consistent.

Alternate Universe - Modern Setting (37) Anal Sex (29) Blow Jobs (22) Happy Ending (17) Hand Jobs (10) Complete (9) Post-Canon (9) Mutual Pining (9) First Time (8) Voyeurism (8)

Does any of this surprise you?

Nope! I'm a strongly Ed/Stede, mostly explicit writer, though I also have a lot of stories that focus more on the mystery or historical plot, which accounts for a lot of the M ratings. The one thing I'm kinda impressed with is that voyeurism made it into the top ten tags- it's a trope I enjoy but I've now clearly used it a lot (we're gonna blame the Olympic diving boys and the Tree Change boys and the Lucky One Hundred camboys for being hopeless exhibitionists, and maybe a little bit the chaos spies and the current future sex club boys, because all of them angle that way).

Tagging in @ghostalservice, @petrichorca, @veeagainsttheday, @fakestgeekboy, @adhduck, @xoxoemynn, @bizarrelittlemew, and anyone else who'd like to answer!

[bizarrelittlemew]

15 QUESTIONS FOR 15 FRIENDS

whew ok so i was tagged by @blakbonnet @gentlebeard @spirker @kiwistede @ofmd-ann @edsbacktattoo @gentlebeardsbarngrill @sleepystede @lisahafey and @darkinerry, thank you all <333

ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? nope, my name is pretty normal where i live ✌️

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? ngl i teared up a little at the cameo where Rhys talked about grief. but full-on crying i think was when i had my weird weekend-long breakdown a few weeks back

DO YOU HAVE KIDS? no (we'll see what the future brings)

WHAT SPORTS DO YOU PLAY/HAVE YOU PLAYED? nothing competitively but i did horsebackriding and some handball

DO YOU USE SARCASM? never heard of it

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? voice!! and hair

WHAT'S YOUR EYE COLOUR? hazel

SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? happy endings

ANY TALENTS? uhh teaching myself stuff in general i think, to the degree that i need it. also writing and making gifs <3

WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Denmark

WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES? writing, crocheting, making gifs, fandom stuff in general, gardening, weightlifting, gaming. i'm also very into interior design

DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS? yep! two cats <3 they're sisters (foster fails)

HOW TALL ARE YOU? 178 cm / 5'10"

FAVOURITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL? biotechnology in high school, if we go further back i liked the natural science subjects in general. and shop class/carpentry lol

DREAM JOB? i mean ideally if i could get paid to write and post about gay pirates on tumblr dot com but realistically a well-paid job in pharmaceutical research where i can work from home and never have to write another funding application ✌️

i'll tag (with no pressure) @xoxoemynn @as-a-creww @forpiratereasons @saltpepperbeard @emi--rose @stedebonnets @stedebonnit @chaotic-neutral-knitter @oatmilktruther @petrichorca @adhduck @sherlockig @eye-scream-girls @dearpirates @zstraps sorry if you've already been tagged and if you made a post already please feel welcome to link me to it!