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naranjapetrificada · 3 months

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In this weird wonderful AU Georg fandom that is OFMD we have so many beautiful options. I was never, ever an AU type until now, but I truly can't get enough. Just last night I stayed up entirely too late because I finally got into Wave Hello to the Void, which on its face should absolutely positively not be My Thing, but the AUs we're blessed with here seem to always break that rule (especially with mxmollusca involved because holy shit have you read In Favor With Their Stars yet???).

We're so incredibly lucky y'all. I've been in fandom spaces for a long time but I've never felt this lucky.

We get different takes on time travel. We get the multiverse (and in so many beautiful forms). We get thought-provoking fantastical allegories and devastating (but often hopeful?) prequels with fascinating studies of character and fascinating takes on soul mates. We get complete fantasy overhauls that are gem-like in the beauty and precision of their prose and world-building. We get darling modern AUs and heartwrenching (but still ultimately happily-ending) modern AUs and modern AUs in basically every possible permutation, including ghost stories.

We get dystopias and apocalypses and post-apocalypses, meditations on love and existence, metafictional experiments in Not-RPF that draw even the biggest RPF skeptics (*points to self*) in, leaving us to wrestle with fundamentally altered attitudes toward storytelling that we may never be able to reconcile. Hell, even the missing scenes, canon-divergence, and fix-its hit different. Not to mention westerns with outlaws and cowboys, an archetype which conveniently also manages to scratch the proverbial pirate itch.

Even though pretty much every fandom has these things, for me at least they've never felt quite so imaginative and well-executed. We're so lucky to be here, to be writing for each other and reading for each other and for many of us, feeling creative for the first time in years or even decades. The gay pirates did that for us, because good source material can be the key to great fan works. And whether or not we get a third season, as much as they can't take the show from us, they also can't take away the gift that getting to experience all these fanworks has been. That's something I'm going to keep reminding myself while we wait.

and idk maybe tell your cowboy fanart friends that Ed can also ride horses as a steppe warrior or whatever

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mxmollusca · 2 months

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My lovely @epersonae made me the most wonderful art for my birthday:

It's STE/DE 💚💚

He's got the little green light and everything. Don't you think he deserves a little smooch?

#ifwts #in favor with their stars #ofmd fanfic #ofmd fanart #fiber arts #our flag means death

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nordarknessdimsthesky · 9 months

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Redrew my Absolute Lithops Effect comic based on the epilogue of In Favor with Their Stars by @mxmollusca !

#in favor with their stars #ifwts #our flag means death #ofmd #the mountain goats #ofmd fanart #ofmd comic #ofmd fanfic #ofmd au #edward teach #ed teach #stede bonnet #ste/de #AI!Stede #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #tmg #absolute lithops effect #my art

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confusedraven1 · 1 year

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“Paintings…There was the portraiture, some busts, some full body, but all of a single subject. They were all of Ed.

And in every one, Ed’s eyes were full of stars.”

[inspired by In Favor With Their Stars by @mxmollusca and Gustav Klimt!]

#ofmd #ofmd fanart #our flag means death #edward teach #blackbeard #ofmd au #golden #ai stede bonnet #in favor with their stars #ifwts #fanart inspired by fanfic #execute draw function #render object

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xray-vex · 5 months

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GIVE ME THESE MOMENTS BACK GIVE THEM BACK TO ME

some art i made for The Ship of Theseus by @mxmollusca, which you should read*.

(*but make sure to read In Favor With Their Stars first if you haven't yet, but be aware that you will not be the same person after reading.)

#ofmd au #ofmd fanfic #mxmollusca #ofmd au fanfic #edward teach #stede bonnet #ifwts #tsot #in favor with their stars #the ship of theseus #it's always always

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mossgroves · 1 year

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Together they were something new.

In Favor With Their Stars by the amazing @mxmollusca Thank you for an incredible story that I'm never going to forget.

#in favor with their stars #ifwts #ofmd fanart #our flag means death #gentlebeard #my art

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zaletwisted · 1 year

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Body and Binary 💚💫 I’m not ready to say goodbye to Ed and STE/DE tomorrow…

Inspired by In Favor With Their Stars by @mxmollusca

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almarygazar · 1 year

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Joined Tumblr just to yeet this In Favor With Their Stars fanart in the direction of @mxmollusca. I binged it all in one night and then made this. Thanks 4 the beautiful fic.

#ifwts #in favor with their stars #our flag means death #ofmd fic #ofmd art #ed teach #stede bonnet

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feralbananas · 1 year

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“If I could dream, I’d dream of you.”

Fanart based on “In favor with their stars” by @mxmollusca

#ifwts #in favor with their stars #ofmd fanart #ofmd au #ofmd fanfic

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bibliotheksbewohnerin · 1 year

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something pretty. something worthy of all this

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fanart inspired by In Favor with Their Stars by the incredible @mxmollusca <3

some fics transcend their source material, in that they’re truely something else, and this is definitely one of those.

#ifwts #in favor with their stars #ofmd fanart #my art

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milkmothmaen · 1 year

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why we measure laughter in volume not mass when you sleep at night and I’m left to count your heartbeats in the dark go read mxmollusca's In Favor with Their Stars right NOW because if you still haven't you are really missing out! it is truly a wonderful sci-fi au piece and it works as a standalone work, thats how good it is! it's so good i am seriously planning on making a video game out of it so!! yeah! cheers!

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd au #ofmd fanart #milkmothmaen #mxmollusca #In Favor with Their Stars #IFWTS #edward teach #ste/de #digital art #illustration

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naranjapetrificada · 9 months

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I came to this hellsite to talk about gay pirates and my therapist, and my next therapy session is still a few days out.

The problem is that I still need to finish processing In Favor With Their Stars, and it only raises even more questions about things that engaging with the show and its fanworks have prompted discussions with my therapist about recently. Why I didn't think to avoid fiction guaranteed to raise existential questions in the middle of a prolonged moment of IRL existential turmoil is beyond me, but here we are.

(it's not beyond me, I seem to have an unconscious drive to test the limits of my emotional regulation and resilience that makes it incredibly difficult to avoid looking into an abyss, even knowing the second half of that Nietzsche quote.)

It's remarkable (and appropriate) that this fic has received the kind of attention and discussion that it has, but that has left me feeling like so many others in the AO3 comments: what could I possibly say that hasn't been said dozens of times? I guess the only "unique" things I can offer on it is the Therapy Stuff it brings up. Also profuse apologies to my therapist that yes, we do once again have to talk about fanfiction that wrecked me, why it managed to unlock things that nothing else in my 3[redacted digit] years of life ever had, and what questions it's left me wrestling with.

Namely:

Why does the question of Stede's personhood makes me feel compelled to try to resolve an ethical debate that people who have spent their entire careers studying AI and consciousness and self-concept and science fiction will never agree on?

Also related to compulsion: what is that drive to engage with devastating media like wiggling a loose tooth?

Why do I assume I'm being judgemental just for asking myself if Ed's "happy ending" could actually be read as incredibly, distressingly lonely in some ways depending on how one feels about the origins and nature of Stede's consciousness?

How will Stede survive without the very of-biological-origins Ed? Will he want to? Should I actually write that fic I had an idea for that would wrestle with that question?

Why in the world is so much of my experience in this fandom wrapped up in grief? I can't seem to shut up about it.

How do you decide if the strong feelings art provokes in you are something you need to unpack or are just part of the experience? Especially as someone whose response to beauty is to cry with the same intensity as when she's crying over actual emotions?

Anyway thanks @mxmollusca for the emotionally fraught questions I can't stop mulling over right now and for the profound beauty of the story that provoked them. I may not be able to distinguish between potential reasons it all made me cry but I'm still so thankful for the chance to shed those unidentifiable tears regardless.

And thanks to everyone else out there making OFMD stuff too. I've never been part of any other fandom with this level of skill and creativity, nor with so many creators doing so much good work. If there's something in the water it must be the source material.

#ifwts #in favor with their stars #go ahead and grieve yourself #spoilers #ifwts spoilers #in favor with their stars spoilers #ofmd meta #ofmd #our flag means death #gentlebeard #edward teach #blackbonnet #stede bonnet #my therapist will be hearing about this #therapist: 1 me: 0

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mxmollusca · 5 months

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EXCITEMENTSTRONGPREFERENCE

hello dear ones! I am thrilled to announce the launch of The Ship of Theseus, the multimedia STE/DE POV sequel to In Favor with Their Stars.

infinite love to @nordarknessdimsthesky and @emi--rose for their audio/editing/moral support. Kyle has released an accompanying audio drama to go with it!

a reader requested that related posts be tagged with #TSOT so that folks may avoid spoilers, and so I humbly ask that you do so 💚 thank you in advance

I hope you enjoy!

#ofmd #our flag means death #blackbonnet #ofmd fanfic #my fanfic #ifwts #in favor with their stars #the ship of theseus #tsot

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nordarknessdimsthesky · 1 year

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A short comic based on the epilogue of In Favor with Their Stars by @mxmollusca and the first part of “Absolute Lithops Effect” by The Mountain Goats

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miss--alaineous · 1 year

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decorated my coffee table to honor my fav quote from one of my fav fics EVER. and translated said quote to binary and copied it on the table... totally normal, right?

#ifwts #our flag means death #ofmd crew #ofmd #ofmd craft #crafting #ste/de #fandom

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xray-vex · 1 year

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“Ed-- is this what bodies are for?”

here's my attempt at Ch 11: Background Processes of In Favor with Their Stars by @mxmollusca because i cannot get it out of my head

(caution: spoilers)

#in favor with their stars #ifwts #our flag means death #ofmd #our flag means death au #stede bonnet #edward teach #ofmd au #gentlebeard #ed teach #ofmd stede #ofmd edward teach #ofmd fan art #ofmd art

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