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GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨

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drawer of pictures, occasionally NSFW | Elder Millennial Birate 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️🐙🧜🦄| pfp by Kate Beaton http://harkavagrant.com (#264) OFMD all day, every day and sometimes cats My art can be found under #OFMDfanart Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/gaywatson

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GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · Sep 14

I want to say something about art.
(a 🧵)

It is a uniquely human experience to see a sculpture or a painting and recognize yourself in the curve of a line or a cluster of brushstrokes;

Still from Season 1 of OFMD showing Mary's abstracted lighthouse painting

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GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 6h

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GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 6h

I only delurked and joined Twitter because I made these to share but no one knew who the hell I was so why SHOULD anyone remember who made them? 😂

GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 6h

It's always an honor to be asked to play blorbos in someone else's sandbox. And Bonus: I got a real good friend out of it! 🥰

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sam💀 @adhdedteach.bsky.social · 9h

i know i havent been posting much but if anyone feels like helping out i could do with a bit to get to the end of the month 🫠🫠 ko-fi.com/samhound

Support ADHDedteach

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GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 8h

9. Water Like a Stone

Mine and @nomadsland.bsky.social's actual, intentional, "we're doing this Together" collab!
If you need any more incentive to take a chance, chapter 5 just dropped yesterday!

GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · Feb 5

Time to start an art thread for the illustrations for my ongoing Stede/Izzy collab with @nomadsland.bsky.social

Part 1 - In the Bleak Midwinter: archiveofourown.org/works/61192309

Part 2 - Water Like a Stone, Chapter 1: archiveofourown.org/works/62153089/chapters/158983267

#OFMDfic #OFMDfanart

Full color illustration from Chapter 1 of Water Like a Stone. Stede is sitting at one end of a gray couch. He is holding a glass tumbler full of a brown liquid, his expression puckered in confusion and moderate disgust. A plump orange cat is curled up on Stede's lap and looking up at him. Izzy is seated in his own separate blue armchair, abutting the end of the couch where Stede is. Izzy is leaning back, relaxed, and smirking at Stede's reaction.

GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 8h

8. Bottom Stede Week

Full disclosure: I thought Ariana was referring to this year's BSW piece: bsky.app/profile/gayw...

but now I realize listening back, she was asking about this one 💁: bsky.app/profile/gayw...

GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · Oct 24

Time for something slightly spicy? I think it is.

Here's the tender-as-hell piece that I did for the last @bottomstedeweek.bsky.social because vanilla is a spice, too. Brace yourselves for some hardcore eye contact.

AO3 🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/55356538

#BottomStedeWeek
#OFMDfanart
#OFMDnsfw

Stede is on his back with his leg hooked over Ed's hip. Ed is on top, cradling Stede's face and gazing deeply into his eyes. They are lying on top of wrinkled sheets, the slanted windows of Stede's bed nook on the Revenge behind them. Image is rendered in hyper fantasy colors of pinks, blues and yellows.

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GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 8h

7. Prove It by @knivesinfeet.bsky.social

GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · May 20

Waaaaahhhhhh! I've missed Them! Go look at the little treat @knivesinfeet.bsky.social left out for us 💜

Get the full Prove It story here: archiveofourown.org/works/58528840

#TakeTwoTuesday #OFMDfanart #OFMDfic

SCENE FROM CHAPTER 16 OF "PROVE IT":

This must be an acceptable response, because Stede kisses him harder; his hands move to the back of Ed’s neck, reeling him in. And Ed’s torn, because being pressed up against Stede Bonnet like this is, objectively, the best place to be in the entire world . . . But, also, he was serious about not intending to get things started again until Stede completed his baking practice today.

So Ed pulls back a little and—in what’s a stroke of either genius or madness—grabs a spare baking tray off the counter. He slides it between them like a barrier, like a giant rectangular chastity belt, and Stede’s eyes widen as the metal pops and clangs. But he doesn’t resist when Ed moves in for another kiss over it. He just rolls with the weirdness—even grabs the edges of the tray to help hold it in place.

Illustration from January 2025 that appeared in the epilogue video to the fic Prove It by KnivesInFeet. It depicts a scene from Chapter 5 where Lucius snaps a photo of Ed and Stede sleeping on an empty coach bus. Ed is slumped over, his head resting on Stede's shoulder. Stede's head is resting atop Ed's, making a "head sandwich." The image is rendered in a soft mauve monochrome wash.

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GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 8h

6. The Piratefinder Profiles

GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · Aug 5

Post a meme made by you

Definitely of A Time 🥲, but screw it I still like them a lot. Here's the whole album: imgur.com/a/Q0qlN0C
#OFMD #OFMDfanart

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GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 8h

5. You wear fine robes well

(and I did eventually end up making the comic that I referenced for #OFMDzineweek, just changed the ending): bsky.app/profile/gayw...

GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · Oct 21

Another early one, this is me juck mucking about trying to figure out a style. As you'll soon see, I still haven't figured it out.

"You Wear Fine Robes Well"
AO3 🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/53865226

#OFMD
#OFMDfanart

Ed cups Stede's chin while standing in front of the biggest full moon you will ever see. Ed is wearing a blue robe, Stede wearing his yellow "battle jacket" robe.

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GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 8h

4. The Master and Margarita and Ed and Stede

GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · Oct 21

I am Ed. I am Stede.
I contain multitudes.

Just another random AU that popped into my head. For (slightly) more context:
AO3 🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/54763723

#OFMD
#OFMDfanart

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GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 8h

3. The Artist is Present by @alltomato1717.bsky.social

(and the original inspiration post): bsky.app/profile/allt...

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GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 8h

2. Throat G.O.A.T. by @nomadsland.bsky.social

GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · Oct 21

Here's the one that started it all: the late-night reunion scene from chapter 9 of the brilliant modern AU "Throat G.O.A.T." by @nomadsland.bsky.social

AO3 🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/53151667

#OFMDfanart
#OFMDficart

Scene from Chapter 9 of Throat G.O.A.T. by nomadsland. Modern AU. Ed is cradling a crying Stede, the whole image is rendered in deep blue tones.

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GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 8h

How about a #TakeTwoTuesday thread revisiting some of the art pieces and collabs that we mentioned in this episode...
#OFMDfanart #OFMDfic

1. Fast Cat by @nomadsland.bsky.social

GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · Apr 6

Fast Cat? Fast Cat.
@nomadsland.bsky.social destroys me in the best way. Every. Time. 😹

My chapter one art from @smallestchurch.bsky.social's Fast Car redrawn with Ed and Stede as cats. Just go with it.

Read Fast Cat: archiveofourown.org/works/64314451

#OFMDfanart #OFMDfic

My illustration of the Minty's headset fuckery scene from chapter one of Fast Car with Ed and Stede redrawn as cats for the parody fic Fast Cat.

Young Cat Ed and Cat Stede sit on a bench. Cat Ed has his right hind leg propped up on the bench seat, posture open and casual, leaning his left forearm on Stede's shoulder while he holds a drive-through headset to his ear. He's smiling slyly and talking into it while looking out of frame.

Cat Stede is much more rigid and closed in his posture, seemingly trying to take up as little space as possible. He's perked up, though, looking up at cat Ed with hearts in his eyes and he smiles as he bites his lip in utter adoration.

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el 🍉🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @loopslip00.bsky.social · 11h

in honour of this gorgeous art: a lil #TakeTwoTuesday for 'forever is a feeling', the vignette fic I wrote for @gaywatson.bsky.social last year!

ft. a morning, a morning, an evening, a dream, and a drifting-off-to-sleep, together 💖

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archiveofourown.org/works/63172957

‘There, look.’

The bird is too far above to make out, really. From sea level, it’s nothing more than a black skirr against the morning’s blood-orange splash, but it’s taken a while to spot her again, dancing on wind drifts and, Stede assumes, getting a good look at the day that’s creeping towards them over the horizon, and he’s not going to let her out of his sight now.

‘Do you see?’ He turns, finger still raised. ‘Ed?’

‘Mm?’

Ed’s reclined lazily along the gunwale. He’s got his back against the rise of the forecastle and his legs dangling on either side of the barrier, and Stede takes a moment to enjoy the thrill of pleasure at being able to look at each of these things and name them. Gunwale! Forecastle! Boyfriend!

What a thing.

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Caly 🏴‍☠️💜😊 @intheblanketfort.bsky.social · 2d

I'd love to be stabbed by Jim #ofmdfanart

A digital pencil portrait of Jim from Our Flag Means Death. They're pictured from the shoulders up, head turned, gazing softly at someone off screen. This is S2 Jim, so their hair looks really fucking badass, and they're wearing pauldrons made of thick rope

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GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 14h

lol mine will always be side-eyeing True Love across time and space forever

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Merryfinches 💕🌈 🏴‍☠️ @merryfinches.bsky.social · 16h

I’m super poor this month, so I‘m running a little OFMD sale in my shop, I’ll even pop a little extra surprise in with any thing you buy, as a thank you for helping me out right now! 🥰❤️
#shopofmd

Withyworkshop @withyworkshop.bsky.social · 16h

15% off the OFMD collection in my shop this week! 🥰 use the code ‘REVENGE’ at checkout for the discount!

Pins, brooches, earrings, lots of lovely things (And now is a great time to order any Xmas presents btw so they reach you on time…) ❤️
#shopofmd

Laser cut earrings of two skeleton mermaids, one holding a heart and one holding a spear

Acrylic earrings shaped like Ed Teach and Stede Bonnet from our flag means death. Stede is a merman with an orange tail

Laser cut earrings that say ‘talk it through as a crew’

Laser cut pins with quotes from our flag means death

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GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 17h

That was Miles queermedieval.bsky.social

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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 18h

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 18h

CUTE AGGRESSION ACTIVATED

GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 18h

Well have I got the podcast episode for you...

GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 19h

Happy birthday!! 🎉🥳🎈

GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 19h

Oh hey! Would you like to listen to me and Avery talk about art, writing, collaboration, and trying to figure out how AO3 collections work, even?

Never Left Podcast @neverleftpodcast.bsky.social · 20h

I got to talk to @gaywatson.bsky.social and @nomadsland.bsky.social today!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...

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Podcast Episode · Never Left: Our Flag Means Death · 10/14/2025 · 57m

podcasts.apple.com

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LyraTalise @lyratalise.bsky.social · 21h

Ch 7 of Working with the Wrong Tags, in which it turns out that intimacy comes in many varieties. #OFMDfic #OFMDfanfic

archiveofourown.org/works/698687...

Title card for Working with the Wrong Tags, designed by latinkraken. Image photoshopped to look like Facebook post for Our Flag Means Death characters Ed and Stede. Black and white image of hands nearly touching. Ed's hand has a spider and stars tattoos, and he is wearing a black watch. Stede is wearing a square turquoise ring. The image is "tagged" - "Ed Teach Straight" "Stede B. Engaged" and between their hands "Best Friends." At the bottom in blue text by LyraTalise 64K words|E Rated.

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