Next up!: Palm Royale WP May 2 via @LCWebsXOXO with the lovely @ dominicburgess approx. 4pm EDT/9pm BST/1pm PST!
== MerMay ==
More MerMay prompts! This time from our lovely @bizarrelittlemew! Head on over to her blog post below for MerMay Bingo!
== Ranker ==
Ranker Link
== Fan Spotlight ==
= Cast Cards =
Tonight, our @melvisik has blessed us with another cast card, and this time, it's Wendy! One of our Red Flag Crew members, and a proud OFMD fan as well! So glad to see her getting some recognition as well!
== OFMD Colouring Pages ==
More colouring pages by our fantabulous crewmate @patchworkpiratebear! The seagull is gonna be so much fun!
== SchadenFreude ==
Our crewmate @/Seven_Sugars caught WBD at it's all time low again!
@/Seven_Sugars Twitter
== Love Notes ==
Hey lovelies, I am so very out of it tonight, I'm sorry. It's been a long week. Tonight will be short as I'm fading fast--- I just want to say please remember to give yourself some grace. You are not one thing, you are a glorious vessel for so many beautiful things. Not all those things will go as planned sometimes, but you're still beautiful, and you're still kind, and you're still worthy.
Get some rest crew, sleep well.
Img by @thelatestkate
== Daily Darby / Tonight's Taika ==
We finished the Short Poppies watch party today and .. well, idk, seeing Rhys look at himself like that made me wanna have Taika look at them too. Don't judge me :P
Gifs courtesy of @ofmd-ann & @gottagobackintime
page 3 of my (unofficial, fan-made) #graphicnovel adaption of 'the curse of the seafaring life'!
also, for a limited time, I'm offering digital character drawings for as low as £10! so, hurry! this discount is only around until June 1st! the offer is available via my #kofipage. i draw for all fandoms! :)
kissing our sister fandom, good omens, on the mouth for standing strong with ofmd fans. even if nothing happens it’s been so lovely to see all this solidarity
I am a solidly middle-aged fangirl, and my last real fan community before OFMD was the X-Files. (I feel like I am not the only one here who fits that description).
The news that we aren’t getting a new season of Our Flag Means Death is hitting me harder than I expected.
So I am thinking about Scully.
There’s this X-Files episode called “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose.” The plot is about a guy who can see into the future and tell people how they die.
Scully asks him, "How do I die?"
And Clyde Bruckman replies, simply, "You don't."
I've seen fans speculate that Scully winds up becoming immortal by the end of the series. But, 22 years after the end of the show's original run, that line has taken on a new meaning for me.
Scully doesn't die, she can't die, because I still think about her. Scully is immortal because there are fans still writing her into stories, still making art, still getting inspired by her and pursuing medicine and science.
You cannot truly kill a story. You can cancel a TV show. You can, if you're an asshole, make fun of fan creators and their ideas. If you're really an asshole (and a media conglomerate), you can send them cease and desist letters and tell them to stop making art that breathes new life into that story. But the story will not die.
I draw a lot of hope from the long, long history of fandom. The people who loved stories enough to keep them alive, even when it wasn't clear that there would ever be another "official" work in their lifetimes. The Sherlock Holmes fans. The Star Trek fans.
First Panel: Nigel Badmintons face is covered by the HBOMax Logo. He is standing on the beach in his captains uniform and yelling at the boat leaving. Caption Reads: "OFMD Is NOT getting Renewed!" End First Panel
Second Panel: Stede Bonnet's face is replaced by an icon that says "Our Flag Means Death Fans". He has a white shirt thats been cut open and his hand up to his ear, pretending to listen. Caption Reads: What's that now? End Second Panel
Third Panel: Stede Bonnet's face is replaced by an icon that says "Our Flag Means Death Fans" and he holds onto the rigging of the ship. Caption Reads: "I can't hear you" End Third Panel]