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Goth dork screaming about OFMD from the safety of my brainrot containment area. (Also RGG now 💜) Queer mid-30s fic writer/reader, double threat. Just vibing. 🔞 (she/they)

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Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · Feb 6

✨🏴‍☠️ OFMD Fic Thread 🏴‍☠️✨

A forest green flat lay with a plant, a cup of coffee, a small dish of paper clips, and a small stack of green notebooks. There is a ship motif embossed in the middle over the words “Writing Thread.”

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Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 12h

Of course! Some of the other pumpkin carvers like to gut first so they can carve w/a light inside to see how it’ll turn out in real time, but I’m too short to reach the table properly, so I just keep the ungutted pumpkin in my lap while I carve 😂 Everyone’s got their own favorite techniques & tools!

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Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 12h

With the right tools, it’s honestly a lot easier than it looks to get started! I definitely feel like I’ve improved over time, but my first pumpkin last year was still mostly okay 😂💜

Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 12h

We’re kind of at the mercy of whichever pumpkins we get sent, but the less dense, smoother skinned pumpkins are the easiest to carve. I think if a pumpkin is ripe enough to pick, it’s fine for carving, but if the skin feels extra tough, that’s definitely more challenging. These are great questions!

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Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 12h

No worries!! The illustrators use a printout and transfer paper to get the outlines before filling the rest in with sharpie and ballpoint pen. Then I use a Speedball linoleum cutter for most of it and finish with some pottery loop tools to smooth things out before gutting it and doing final touchups

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Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 12h

Eeeeee yay!! 🥰🥰🥰

Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 14h

ME TOO 🥰🥰🥰

Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 15h

Honorable mention to the Northern Exposure pumpkin I did yesterday after calling the most IMMEDIATE of dibs on it 😂😂

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Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 15h

OMG 🥹🥹🥰🥰 Ahhhh thanks, it’s been a lot of fun!!

Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 15h

They split up the jobs this year for the illustrators and carvers and the illustrators are seriously CRUSHING ITTTT. The rest is just a Speedball linoleum cutter, various pottery tools, and steady hands 😂💜

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Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 15h

Eeee thank you!! 🥰🥰🥰

Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 15h

I’m REALLY happy with how these ones turned out!! Thank you!! 🥰🥰

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Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 15h

Had a stark revelation when I did this last year that because I am getting paid to do this, I LITERALLY am a pro pumpkin carver?? Which is weird to think about, but also very neat?? 😂💜

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Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 15h

It is PUMPKIN SEASON, my dudes (gn). Here are a few of my favorites that I’ve carved so far this year! 🎃🎃🎃🎃

Spongebob Squarepants jack o’lantern. He is smiling and riding a little pod of jellyfish

Looney Tunes jack o’lantern featuring the main cast popping out of the “That’s All Folks” background below the Looney Tunes title

Scully and Mulder from the X-Files jack o’lantern. A detailed close up of their faces pressed together at the cheek as they dramatically look at something off to the side

Iconic film still of police chief Margie Gunderson (played by the incomparable Francis McDormand) from the movie Fargo (1996) jack o’lantern

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AJ McKay - chaos packed into skin🏴‍☠️🦄🧜‍♂️🐙🐿️ @ajmckay.bsky.social · 1d

@stellarcyn.bsky.social could use our help for some dental medical bills that are coming up! If able please donate. Shares here and other platforms are more than welcome as well!

They also have a Kofi on their page if you check out their Bluesky page - another way to help!

gofund.me/e2c2270ca

Donate to Cyn’s Dental Medical Bills, organized by AJ P

My friend Cyn is trying to raise money for a medial dental bill that is desperately needed, but unexpe… AJ P needs your support for Cyn’s Dental Medical Bills

gofund.me

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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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Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 3d

LMAOOOO spoken confidently by a man who has listened to six whole bands in his LIFE 😂😂

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Hybrid Signal: an OFMD Monster Zine @hybridsignalzine.bsky.social · Sep 10

🧜‍♂️ ZINE NOW AVAILABLE 🐉
Get our OFMD monster-themed zine now! An 18+ digital (screen-reader friendly w/alt text) 96 page zine full of fantastic art and fic from 23 contributors!
All proceeds go to charity; see how to purchase in the post below ⬇️

Graphic with black background that says:
AVAILABLE NOW
Image of a view of the sea from shore, a lighthouse in the top left half, shining out over the horizon where a ship's silhouette is visible in the light beam. A large tentacled creature is wrapped around the lighthouse and a sea creature of some sort is partially emerging from the water in the foreground. The scene is partly obscured by fog. Text on the image reads "hybrid signal, an OFMD monster zine".
Next to the image is text that reads "An 18+ digital 96 page OFMD zine, centered on monsters!
Amazing art and fics! A brilliant variety of ships and characters!
All for charity!".

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Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 3d

I GASPED. This is amazing 🤩🤩

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gin. @ginnedfish.bsky.social · 3d

ed, ed and eddie.

a "monster under the bed" piece for @hybridsignalzine.bsky.social. more in comments. #OFMDfanart #OFMD #edteach

child ed, blackbeard ed, on a bed above the monster kraken ed. water's flooding in through the bedroom door.

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Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 4d

I shrieked out loud, this is so funny and so THEM 😂😂

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The Reluctant Rose @reluctantrose.bsky.social · 4d

LEEEROOY JENKIIIINSSSS 😂😂😂

Jenn Lee overboard! @self-induljennt.bsky.social · 4d

"EDWARD!"

Here's stock photo studies while I was playing D&D tonight.

#omfd #OurFlagMeansDeath

Drawing of Ed and Stede from Our Flag Means Death. Ed is naked and jumping into water. Stede is in way and is going to get splatted by his hurdling naked boyfriend. Is he terrified? Is he a little turned on? Yes.

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Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 4d

Possibly, but it would also be deeply cool and a great conversation starter. I LOVE THIS 💜💜

Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 5d

What a win-win scenario for -Gabriel voice- awwwwlllll of us 🎉

(My vote’s for thigh riding, but I would be delighted with whatever your art heart drives you towards 💜)

Jenn 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈💜 | 🌃👽🥁🥀💇 @metavenhorst.bsky.social · 6d

Hey remember when escalator?

Rhys Darby riding an escalator with a completely natural and relaxed pose (not)

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Jenn Lee overboard! @self-induljennt.bsky.social · Mar 12

There are stories that come out of our community that force me to sit with myself. @amuseoffyre.bsky.social's A Little Restraint is one. It's had a grip on me since the start. I love Ed's flirty selfie. Had to draw it a while back. 🧡

archiveofourown.org/works/542974...

#OurFlagMeansDeath #ofmd

Drawing of Ed from Our Flag Means Death. He's wearing a modern leather harness across his chest. He's holding his arm up to take a selfie and doing the horns gesture with his other hand. He's winking and sticking his tongue out.

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