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Liv@the-widow-olivia· 24d

I can’t believe I haven’t posted yet about the incredible fanbind that @catski22.bsky.social made for my fic (a commission from the @ourfamilyourfight.bsky.social Fandom Market)!

The cover of Starman, by the_widow_olivia, depicting Ed and Stede kissing in zero gravity. A hand with purple nail polish is holding the fan bound copy.

Same hand is holding open a page of the book, where the waxing and waning moon motif and NASA worm font titles are visible

The book is being held open again, this time with an illustration of Ed and Stede holding hands wearing 70’s clothes

The back cover of the book, featuring Ed and Stede and the phrase “AD ASTRA PER ASPERA”

Liv@the-widow-olivia· 24d

Y’know how there are memes about how ppl in medieval times didn’t know what cats looked like cause they drew them all weird? What if this was their Jimothy? What if one cat actually looked like this and all of ye olde artists just thought he looked fun to draw?

A painting of a cat with human-shaped eyes, a bizarrely long nose, and a human-ish mouth

Liv@the-widow-olivia· Jul 9

If you’ve been waiting for the Forever is a Feeling boys to figure it out, have a lil snip. 🥰 #OFMDFanfic

They keep walking, side-by-side, slow as molasses.
Ed can't quite see Stede's face in the dark when
Stede says,
"We could, I suppose, go back to my
place."
Ed's mouth feels dry. He was cold a moment ago, but all of a sudden he feels like he's going to sweat through his jacket.
"I'spose, yeah, could do." Ed says, cool as a crisper drawer in a snowstorm.

Liv@the-widow-olivia· Jul 8

This clip is from Nov 2025 (when Nikki Glaser hosted) but I found a bird robe pillow on SNL! #OFMD

A screen cap from an SNL clip on YouTube. A bird robe pattern pillow is situated between two actresses on a couch.

Liv@the-widow-olivia· Jul 8

New chapter of Forever is a Feeling is up now! This one is a short detour, but there's a long chapter on its way. archiveofourown.org/works/802439... #OFMDFanfic

Stede: Wish I'd kissed you goodbye.
Stede: Sorry if that's too much.
Stede: Would you have let me?

Liv@the-widow-olivia· Jun 26

Having maybe the worst Thursday ever, so for each like I will listen to (and share) a song that brings me joy.

GET TO KNOW MY MUSIC TASTE
for every like,
i will post one song i love

Liv@the-widow-olivia· Jun 17

Sure, go for it! Give me a number and I’ll answer. #OFMDFanfiction

random fic writer questions
1. which of your fics is your pride and joy?
2. when and where do your best ideas seem to strike?
3. is there another author who inspires you to write?
4. how long do you spend editing?
5. do you use a beta reader?
6. what's your usual writing environment?
7. what's a fic you didn't expect to be popular but really took off?
8. what wip are you most excited about?
9. do you write in order or do you jump around?
10. do you outline?
11. which fic did you do the most research for?
12. would you ever accept requests or commissions?
13. is there a writing habit you wish you had?
14. what are your top three most used additional tags?
15. what are your three most popular fics by bookmarks?
16. do you make playlists for your fics?
17. what genre is easiest for you to write?
18. what's a trope you want to write but haven't written yet?
19. which fic would make the best TV show? what kind of TV show would it be?
20. do you listen to music when you write?
bangtanagan

Liv@the-widow-olivia· Jun 10

An image of Ed Teach conversing with a wolf (rabbit) in season two of Our Flag Means Death. Superimposed over the image there is a thermometer that is half empty. The top line is labeled “Goal Smooches” and the halfway point is labeled “current smooch level.” The image is labeled “ED NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!”

Liv@the-widow-olivia· Jun 10

Ok, it’s Wednesday again, right? A little bit of Ch 7 of Forever is a Feeling, which has a guest appearance by a character I have never written before! #WIPWednesday #OFMDFanfiction

Liv@the-widow-olivia· Jun 8

Someday, the Barbie Movie AU will make it out of the WIP folder… Blackbeard takes in the Real World… #OFMDFanfiction

Blackbeard slows to a stop when they finally reach the Real World - or what he assumes is the Real World. He's never actually been here before, but it sure isn't Pirate Land. For one thing, there are smells. So many smells! Not just the tang of plastic and the comforting musk of cardboard, but some sort of salty smell that stings his nose, and a fresh green smell that tickles a bit. And the sun! The sun isn't just a circle, it's - dickfuck it's bright! - probably shouldn't look at that too long. And it's warm.
Blackbeard's whole face feels warm, like he's entered the gentlest of Easy Bake Ovens.

Liv@the-widow-olivia· Jun 2

New chapter of Forever is a Feeling! Just in time for the first day of Pride Month! We go back to Stede's first Pride, and in the present day, Ed and Stede finally (FINALLY!) talk it through. Inspired by Lucy Dacus' "Most Wanted Man." #OFMDFanfic archiveofourown.org/works/802439...

A gilded museum frame is empty, floating in a cloudy sky. A red ribbon weaves in and out of the frame. Inside the frame, there are floating, illuminated words: "forever is a feeling, an OFMD AU"

Liv@the-widow-olivia· Jun 1

These are all Roach, to me

A rainbow wearing a chef coat and hat, cooking another rainbow in a pan

A pair of red chopsticks picking up a rainbow

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 31

Fell down a rabbit hole and got to this video of Annie Lennox and David Bowie performing “Under Pressure” in a Freddie Mercury tribute concert. I know it’s tiny pixels but… Holy shit, Ed and Stede in this! #OFMD youtu.be/DXbh5sf4YPc?...

Annie Lenox and David Bowie perform on stage in front of a band.

Annie is wearing a black ballgown with a sequined long sleeve top and black mask eye makeup.

Bowie is wearing a mint green suit and purple shirt.

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 28

Is it #WIPWednesday already? Little flashback to baby gay Stede at his first Pride from the next chapter of Forever is a Feeling. #OFMDFanfic

June, 2013
Stede isn't as unworldly as everyone thinks he is.
He has been to a queer bar before. He's even been to this queer bar before. With Ed, actually, back when Ed was in grad school and they had the stupid luck of living in the same city for a couple of years. And then Ed introduced Stede to Mary and his weekend nights got busier, if a little less fun.
But that was back when Stede had no idea that he, himself, was somewhere on the LGBT spectrum. To be fair, that revelation was all of two months ago, and he's still sort of reeling from it. So in this moment, standing outside the door of a gay bar as a newly out man, it strikes Stede that there should be some sort of protocol, some sort of pageantry.
Maybe he should announce himself when he enters? Or even better, ask Lucius to announce him! Unfortunately, Lucius isn't here yet, and Stede's starting to get weird looks from people entering and exiting the bar.

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 27

It took me until today to realize that the upright piano was invented in 1800. 🤣 Jenkinsed again!!!! #OFMD

An upright piano falling onto Stede Bonnet’s supposed body in OFMD s1

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 19

My first saved Ed — pretty sure this was my first post to Tumblr, about how we needed more Ed and Jim hangouts.

Vico Ortiz as Jim and Taika Waititi as Ed, in costume behind the scenes in S1 of Our Flag Means Death

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 18

Every time this pic comes up, this is what I see in my mind…

Cover image of the children’s book Scaredy Squirrel goes camping by Melanie Watt

There is a grinning cartoon squirrel holding a marshmallow on a stick. He is wearing a green bucket hat, matching green camp shirt, and an orange neckerchief. He looks adorable but maybe a little like he is about to get into trouble

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 16

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone “Do you expect me to talk?” “No? I expect you to die?”

Nathan Foad poses in costume as The Swede in season 2 of Our Flag Means Death. He has slicked back blond hair, a crop-top Spanish Jackie’s tee, a black bolero jacket with matching high waist button fly pants. It’s basically a Met Gala look, now that I think about it. He is leaning on the cluttered bar and smoldering at the camera

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 16

Bicon Ed Teach, lying on the ground and conversing with a wolf (rabbit) on the hit show Our Flag Means Death

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 15

A lil snip from Ch 6 of Forever is a Feeling. Oh my god this is happening (they’re having an actual conversation). #OFMDFanfiction

"I just wish..." Ed starts, and then shakes his head.
"Nah, it's stupid."
"Go on?" Stede says, hope mingling with the caffeine and the sugar in his bloodstream, making him feel like he could levitate a little if he tried.
"I wish we could have a fresh start." Ed shrugs, as if he's dismissing his own idea.
"We could do that." Stede says, not entirely sure what he means by it. The wheels in Stede's head are turning, propelled by pancakes and the memory of kissing Ed, a memory he won't shove down and hide, not ever, not this time. He can't go back in time. He can't hit "undo." But he can change things from here on out. He can start again.

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 13

I choose to interpret this message as an endorsement of all OFMD Rare Ships. Who’s with me? @ofmdrareships.bsky.social?

ohhheyhayley
Every day I thank @dvidjenkins for all the s2 kisses

David Jenkins:

Coulda offered more. Everybody was in love with each other by that point.

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 13

Just posted: A tentative reunion between two friends (but *just* friends, obvs). Has amazing art by @aliassamm.bsky.social! #OFMDFanfiction Forever is a Feeling, Ch 5 archiveofourown.org/works/802439...

Forever is a Feeling
rose_quartz_kitten, the_widow_olivia

Chapter 5: To the last drop (Ed)
Summary:

Ed could handle commiserating with Stede a thousand miles away. He could even handle the brief glimpse he saw from backstage as Stede tried and failed to sneak into the auditorium unobtrusively, clambering over students and muttering awkward apologies.

But up close after the lecture, Ed felt wave after wave of familiarity and fondness.

All he could think was, “My friend is here.”

Ed and Stede reconnect in a maybe-possibly-probably haunted old house.

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 11

I literally do not remember writing this, but it’s in my docs and titled after one of my favorite songs, so… uh, have some Innkeepers-era something or other? #OFMDFanfiction

They've had a fight.
Doesn't matter what it was. Ed stacked the firewood
"backwards." Stede put the empty marmalade jar back on the shelf. It was a nothing fight. A triviality.
A trifle.
Except pirate captains (even former pirate captains) don't trifle. They live and die by the sword. They've commanded men into battle. They've got Captain Voices. They use them.
Of course, on the Revenge, it was all play. Even when Stede came back and Ed wanted nothing to do with him, it was play. Tug of war, hide and seek, capture the flag (the flag's the fish). The stakes had changed, but not the game.
Here, on the island, the game has disappeared like mist at dawn.
And Ed doesn't know what he's doing.

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 8

Happy fic-aversary to Dear Gentleman Innkeeper, in which innkeeper Stede writes an advice column, and an anonymous reader asks him how to convince his boyfriend to propose… T, 3.8k archiveofourown.org/works/557394... Podfic by @happydaiz.bsky.social archiveofourown.org/works/57145915

Dear Gentleman Innkeeper
a quite silly work of fanfiction
devised by the widow_olivia

Dear Gentleman
Innkeeper the_widow_olivia
Summary:
Stede starts an etiquette advice column for pirates.
An anonymous reader writes in asking how he can get his boyfriend to propose. Stede's initial advice is trash, so a friend steps in to help.
Gentlebeard Wedding Week Day 1:
Proposals

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 8

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ker-thunk ker-thunk

Screenshot of an article about the cyber truck. Including a photo of said cyber truck on a country road.

Home > Car News > Tesla Recalls Cybertruck Because
Wheels May Fall Off
General
Tesla Recalls Cybertruck Because Wheels May Fall
Off
Nelson Ireson
05/07/2026 9:00am
Tesla has recalled a total of 173
Cybertruck models from the 2024-2026 model year equipped with 18-inch steel wheels due to a potential wheel-stud failure.

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 6

Ok, sorry to anyone who followed me for burger jokes. #WIPWednesday for Forever is a Feeling, in which the boys are finally in a room together... and other confined spaces (ask @aliassamm.bsky.social for details)! #OFMDFanfic

It wasn’t Stede’s fault. It was just…kind of a lot to see him in person, all three-dimensional and smelling like snow and buzzing with enough energy to power a small nuclear reactor.

Ed had been an idiot to think that he could see Stede again and feel, well, normal.

Seeing Stede in Boston felt good. Too good. Like he had wooshed past the Stede Bonnet event horizon and was careening toward the abyss.

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 6

Truly no one should let me on the internet

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 5

For the first #TakeTwoTuesday of #OFMDMerMay: The one and only time I gave Stede fins & scales. And made Ed & Stede clergy in the Catholic/Calypsish church. And wrote 4k of PWP to get to a very dumb punchline. Curse of the Disco Were-Pope! #OFMDFanfiction archiveofourown.org/works/69162736

Liv’s greatest achievement in Canva:

“Curse of the Disco Were-pope by the Widow Olivia” in neon blue letters over a Renaissance style painted ceiling. There is also a disco ball and a hand reaching for a goldfish tail.

I will never top this graphic.

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 4

Omg please tell me Nicholas Hoult and Luke Evans are seated next to each other at dinner…

Nicholas Hoult wearing a black leather suit with a black leather tie and gray shirt. He is on the Met Gala carpet, posing with one hand in his pocket

Liv@the-widow-olivia· May 4

So… Luke Evans is part of the Queen Anne’s Revenge crew…