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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · Nov 27

A pinned thread of my writing:

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 6h

The Swede's name is Jim. When he joined the crew. he was told they already had a Jim, and he would have to pick something else. While he was trying to decide, Frenchie offhandedly called him "The Swede" and it stuck.

🌈🏴‍☠️ McKy 🧄🥣 #SmartEra @trbocrab.bsky.social · 11h

A challenge: Pick an OFMD character who isn't Ed, Stede, or Iz. Write a headcanon for that character. Challenge mode: Pick a character who isn't those three or CJ, Jim, or Lucius. Share a ship that doesn't include that list. Extreme mode: Pick a background character. What are they gossiping about?

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 2d

Of course!

Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, I'm amazing at coming up with Halloween costume ideas on the day itself when it's far too late to do anything about it

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 2d

qgssvhggyuydhd is she wearing a Northwestern sweater???

Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 3d

It's Halloween, and somewhere out there, Lucius and Pete are dressed as Casual Princess Diana and the Princess Diana Beanie Baby

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · Oct 28

It's Halloween, and somewhere out there, Jim and Oluwande are dressed like Tybalt and Mercutio in Baz Luhrmann's 1996 Romeo + Juliet

John Leguizao as Tybalt in Romeo + Juliet

Harold Perrineau as Mercutio in Romeo + Juliet

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · Oct 28

It's Halloween, and somewhere out there, Lucius and Black Pete are dressed like Lucille and Buster Bluth on the cover of Balboa Bay Window magazine.

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 4d

The Way Things Are Going: archiveofourown.org/works/491428...

Nothing to Fear and Nothing to Doubt: archiveofourown.org/works/57823678

New Session | Archive of Our Own

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 4d

@yerbamansa.bsky.social has a great post-apocalyptic flair. The Way Things Are Going is a near-future climate apocalypse Jim/Olu longfic, and Nothing to Fear and Nothing to Doubt is a more fantastical apocalypse one-shot about Frenchie and Wee John

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🏴‍☠️𝔓𝔦𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔅𝔬𝔱 @piratebot.bsky.social · Aug 7

I think of you, often. Hope you're thinking of me as well.

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 10d

The story fades to black around 2018 as Ed and Stede's elder-care nurse Steak Knife presses play on The Reno Cure: the movie, based on the play that Lucius wrote in 1980... so then you can start over and wonder which one you're reading, the real story or Lucius's version?

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 10d

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 10d

Many of them do

Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 10d

And that's only like 1964. They've got a looong way to go.

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 10d

It sounds like I'm joking but I assure you this document is very real

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 10d

Hahaha but imagine Reno Izzy in bed, surrounded by his found family, and then he looks and Benji is standing at the corner of the room smiling at him... and then he looks at the door and Calico Jack is smoking a cigarette and scratching his balls and Izzy's last thought is "wtf, I hated that guy"

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 10d

Another year, another urge to publish the Reno Cure Whumptober Special, a series of vignettes illustrating when and how each character in The Reno Cure dies.

OFMD Whumptober 🏴‍☠️ @ofmdwhump.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's aliiiive! Check out the daily prompt sets below for OFMD Whumptober! ⬇️❤️‍🔥

October 1: stabbed - dissociation - lost - “Did I do it right?”

October 2: loss of a loved one - rescue gone wrong - isolation - “La vida es dolor.”

October 3: not allowed to die - bedside vigil - confusion - “I loved you best I could.”

October 4: working to exhaustion/injury/illness - shaking hands- hurt/no comfort - songfic

October 5: major character death - protective character - “It’s me you want.”

October 6: non-con - obsessive character - comfort - “who did this to you?”

October 7: Delirium - drugged - holding back tears - stockholm syndrome - sci-fi

October 8: revenge - modern au - bleeding out - hospital - voicemail

October 9: self-harm - survivors guilt - helplessness - “Oh, shit.”

October 10: kidnapped - hidden injury - act of grace - “I’m sorry.”

October 11: blood trail - infection - panic attack - multiple whumpees - “I don’t think anyone’s waiting for me.”

October 12: sick while injured - left for dead - innkeepers - whimpering - lovely letters

October 13: held at gunpoint - restraints/bondage - altered mental states - “I’m fine.”

October 14: put on display - trouble breathing - fight - “You were always gonna realize what I am.”

October 15: duel gone wrong - age regression - wound tending - miscommunication “I don’t feel well.”

October 16: “Don’t leave me.” - nightmare - sensory overload - emotional whump - canon compliant

October 17: breakup - splint - teary eyes - “I thought you were different.”

October 18: left behind - brain injury - memory issues - “Don’t make me.”

October 19: drowning - fatigue - gravy basket - “Just breathe”

October 20: shipwrecked - torture - worse than it seems - phobia exposure - “There’s always an escape”

October 21: firing squad - passing out from pain - flashbacks - “We only have this one life.”

October 22: fuckery gone wrong - concussion - trapped - touch aversion

October 23: serious illness - bed-bound - guilt - “You ever feel trapped? Like you’re treading water, waiting to drown?”

October 24: poisoning - breakdown - overwhelmed - time fuckery/time loop - “You can go.”

October 25: apocalypse AU - self-sacrifice - a fate worse than death - “Please don’t go.”

October 26: flogging - disobedience - no promises - forced to watch - “It’ll be okay.”

October 27: the kraken - grief - post-canon - leather - “I won’t leave you on your own!”

October 28: curses - infestation - saved by the enemy - begging for help - betrayed

October 29: depression - fatigue - touch-starved - “I’m not a good person.”

Oct 30: haunted, mind control, ghosts, “I can’t do this anymore”

October 31: mythical creature - good bones - reunion - emotional hurt/comfort - found

Bonus prompts:

Amnesia
Barely conscious
Blackmail
Blinding
Chronic illness/pain
Claustrophobia
Coma
Cramps
Cry for help
Disoriented
Drugged
Forgetting to eat
Hanahaki
Heatstroke
Hypothermia
Isolation
Jumping to safety
Just a cold
Lab rat/medical experiment
Limping
Living weapon
Lonely
Made to harm self/someone else
Mass casualty event
Migraine
Mutiny
Ptsd
Seasick
Sub drop
Truth serum
Vertigo
Voice loss
Whipping
Enclosed spaces
Breathplay
Public humiliation

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 14d

I remain blown away by all the hard work and creativity that @kninjaknitter.bsky.social and @happydaiz.bsky.social have poured into the podfic of The Reno Cure... listening to it has been such a lovely experience. And the OG fic just crossed over 10k hits on ao3!

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 25d

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · 25d

Every time I see one of those faces on a poster:

a crowd of people sitting in chairs with the words oh britta 's in this on the bottom

ALT: a crowd of people sitting in chairs with the words oh britta 's in this on the bottom

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · Sep 25

i love hit television show our flag means death

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · Sep 25

archiveofourown.org/works/448802...

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · Sep 25

Ha yeah they just come out in whatever order they want to

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · Sep 25

Your hard work really shines through, the result is incredible. I told Lindie this the other day- I'm awfully emotionally attached to the Reno Cure 'verse, and it's very rewarding to know it's in such good hands with the two of you.

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Rotten Soldier @rottensoldier.bsky.social · Sep 25

It's the best!

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