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PilotPirate

@pilotpirate.bsky.social

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She/her, elder millennial, OFMD podfic creator, writer. I sometimes post explicit content. Cover art by @sonorawent! Podfics: https://archiveofourown.org/users/PilotPiratePods/ Fics: https://archiveofourown.org/users/PilotPirate/

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PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · Jul 26

It's here! Chapter one of I Got People, my #ofmdreversebigbang collab with @sonorawent.bsky.social! The getaway bus is a little crowded but surely there's room for Ed and Zheng, right? Gorgeous art! Post-heist shenanigans! Identity crises! And more... archiveofourown.org/works/680669... #GarlicSoup

Title card for a fic. A picture of a vintage-looking bus with Gentlebeard and Garlic Knot silhouettes in the window and a Zheng silhouette in the doorway. I Got People is written across the bus in bold tangerine letters. Underneath is written: Words by PilotPirate and Art by SonoraWent. On the corner of the bus it says OFMD RBB 2025. It is beautiful!

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PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 13m

🫂🫂🫂

PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 1h

I love it so much!!!

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✨ Rowan 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🍉🔞 RD Portland 🍿 OFMD in theaters @littlefingies.bsky.social · 1h

Boost for whatever the fuck this is 😅

✨ Rowan 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🍉🔞 RD Portland 🍿 OFMD in theaters @littlefingies.bsky.social · 11h

Have a mind-fucking treat, friends! Auntie is visited by the sea witch in a dream.

archiveofourown.org/works/72437586

await for me, above
by littlefingies
auntie/the sea, explicit, 1k
kinktober day 14
psychic/mind fucking

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PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 1h

Such sweet silly perfection!

pez | bi ed and stede calf truther @petrichorca.bsky.social · Apr 9

It's still #TakeTwoTuesday in my timezone! I was thinking about #OldManCrush and how fun it was to write with my dear @veeagainsttheday.bsky.social. Silly oblivious friends to lovers fluff 💕

📰 archiveofourown.org/works/59152522 by us
🎧 archiveofourown.org/works/59295946 by @happydaiz.bsky.social

Screenshot from Archive of Our Own of fic title, author, and summary, white text on dark grey background. Text reads

Title: #OldManCrush

Authors: petrichorca, veeagainst

Summary: Stede and Ed happily run a newspaper together, but can their partnership survive Stede’s op-ed describing his anonymous middle aged crush?

Front page of a fake newspaper called The Revenge, from the fic called #OldManCrush by veeagainst and petrichorca. Full sized image and text included in fic

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pez | bi ed and stede calf truther @petrichorca.bsky.social · 4h

Need some fluff amidst the horrors on this #TakeTwoTuesday? @veeagainsttheday.bsky.social and I've got you!

📰 archiveofourown.org/works/59152522 by us
🎧 archiveofourown.org/works/59295946 by
@happydaiz.bsky.social

#OldManCrush

pez | bi ed and stede calf truther @petrichorca.bsky.social · Apr 9

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LyraTalise @lyratalise.bsky.social · 3h

Evening bump for this one! Thanks to everyone who's already read and commented. 💜

LyraTalise @lyratalise.bsky.social · 15h

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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PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 10h

I am so excited to read this

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✨ Rowan 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🍉🔞 RD Portland 🍿 OFMD in theaters @littlefingies.bsky.social · 11h

Have a mind-fucking treat, friends! Auntie is visited by the sea witch in a dream.

archiveofourown.org/works/72437586

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PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 10h

Haha I just started listening to the podcast so have not gotten that far yet! That all makes sense! I can see how over-tagging can lead to tags losing their meaning.

PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 12h

I have one! I feel like I've seen you post a couple times about "angst" and how different people define it or maybe how the definition has changed. I'm new to fandom spaces, so I'm curious how you define angst, and has there been a cultural shift around the definition? (Is this too sociological? 😂)

PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 13h

For #TakeTwoTuesday here's a playlist of SFW one shots! (Thanks to @mgm1229.bsky.social for reminding me that this might actually be useful to some folks!) #ofmdpodfic
on.soundcloud.com/SIImSGW1Rcpp...

OFMD SFW

Our Flag Means Death one shots that are safe for work! Also check out the multi-chapter Those Darlins and Second Star to the Right!

soundcloud.com

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GayWatson 🌈🏴‍☠️🎨 @gaywatson.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 14h

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

076 GayWatson and Nomadsland

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

podcasts.apple.com

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PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 13h

Yes!!!

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PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 1d

I'm glad I got to meet you!!!

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PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 1d

Some luck, but also getting back the same type of energy you're creating! 💖💖💖

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PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 1d

That would be soooo cooooool if I could make it work it's an awesome idea

PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 1d

Stede gets to play!!! 🥹

PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 1d

Get ready for chapter 3 of the podfic of The Body Kinetic by @followedmystar.bsky.social and @ourfag.bsky.social!
SC: on.soundcloud.com/Y2npVDnQ8U9w...
AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/712603...
IA: archive.org/details/01-t...
written: archiveofourown.org/works/672341...
#ofmdpodfic

The title card for a podfic. Featuring a snippet from some amazing art by ourfag of writhing tentacles with sharp, pointed barbs. It says The Body Kinetic written by followedmystar art by ourfag podfic by PilotPirate

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sailor's ruin 🏴‍☠️ 🧜‍♀️ COMMS OPEN 🎨✨ @sailorsruin92.bsky.social · 1d

✨ Cursed DILF ✨

#ofmd #ourflagmeansdeath #ofmdfanart

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PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday!!! 🎉🎈🎂

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ClaireG 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈 @clairegregoryau.bsky.social · 1d

It's been WAY too long (I'm so sorry) but the podfic of Chapter 5 of @veeagainsttheday.bsky.social's brilliant Seabird is up now. This chapter is an epic three hours long and you can listen to the whole thing in one, or broken into six half-hour chunks. It's such a journey and so full of love 😍

🔗👇

ClaireG 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈 @clairegregoryau.bsky.social · Feb 18

Chapter 1 of the podfic for @veeagainsttheday.bsky.social's brilliant historical AU Seabird is up now!

An OFMD tale based on the wild true story of the Pacific Clipper, a flight that made the first (accidental) commercial circumnavigation of the world in 1941.

Links below! 🔗👇

An older map of the world in muted colours centering South America, the Atlantic Ocean, and Africa, with a red line and tiny white planes tracing across the top third. The title Seabird is placed in large black letters in the bottom third. Across a bronze banner at the base the text reads, An AU-gust Air Adventure by VeeAgainst; Podfic by ClaireGregory

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PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 1d

Me too!!!! I had such a delightful time hanging out!!!

PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 1d

Woohoo!!! Yes it is sooooo hard to podfic with others in the house so well done on managing to get it done! 🎉

PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 1d

😩 I'm sorry I hope you get delivered home soon!

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PilotPirate @pilotpirate.bsky.social · 2d

Wow that's cool 😍

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