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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

first ed i could find, featuring bonus stede. still makes me smile 😻

ed & stede on their super-cool adventure with a tweet/reblog/whatever box reading “the most beautiful and elegant goth you’ve ever seen and a silly tropical vacation dad who are a couple”

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

so has someone already drawn ed in the gothic ship hat, or…

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

felt cute. took an old school myspace-style selfie about it. in other news, i agreed to sit on a committee at work that is designing a strategy for AI in the library. i’m hoping to be a common sense/dissenting voice re: all AI all the time, but we’re one meeting in and i’m already so demoralized.

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Jenn overboard! @self-induljennt.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I love Our Flag Means Death so much.

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

at the rhys show last week husband whispers in my ear that isn’t it funny a lot of the other cis dudes have his same vibe and wouldn’t you know it their femme partners were often dressed kind of like me..? so i had to explain middle-aged bi ladies and their golden retriever partners, bless. 😂

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

first-timer. big “i’m so excited, i’m so, excited, i’m so scared” / THIS IS HAPPENING energy 🫠

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

ed/stede energy off the charts in this one. but i genuinely keep going back and forth about who’s mr mustache and who’s the treat! anyway, i need this as a meetcute in a smutty coffeeshop au…

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

happy new year, beautiful pirate pals! i haven’t been around as much as i’m dealing with an extended flare of a chronic condition, but your art & fic are getting me through 💖 here’s to another year of being #crewforlife!

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

a sudden email saying head of a key department is “no longer employed” at the library has me running to my work wife all “what the hell is going on in towels?” and she looks at me like 🤨 and i am once again reminded that not everyone is crew, and that’s ok. i guess. maybe. #crewforlife #ofmd

still of sad stede and wee john with the text “what the hell is going on in towels?”

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

happy halloween from this millennial librarian, the swag i made for our spooky books event, and a fun non-edward-teach-approved binding from our collections. #ofmd #crewforlife

me! a 41yo white woman with greying dark curly hair and a septum piercing, dressed as the girl from “the green ribbon” with a ceramic pumpkin.

six 1.5-inch buttons with images from books on them.

a decorative binding for “trilby” by du maurier. there is a spider web with a winged heart and spider in the center.

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

spotted this accidental stede from a 1970s children’s reader in the archive today. #stedebonnet #ofmd #crewforlife

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

you guys my 9yo made some kpop demon hunters fan art today. we found the print at goodwill yesterday & went at it with colored pencils this afternoon. he even added the magpie! 😍💙🐯

a vintage/antique print of the traditional derpy tiger.

the same print from the first picture, except it’s colored in to look like the kpop demon hunters tiger and is back in its frame.

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

omg you guys, could this be a good thing for a potential #ofmd 3? 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼#crewforlife

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

texts i get from my husband when he’s watching cartoons with the kiddos. i love that we’ve all convinced our friends and family that the world would just be all-around better with #ofmd s3 in it. “my boyfriend” is rhys, btw 😂 #crewforlife

a text bubble that reads “well, yr bf strikes again, today popping up in rise of the tmnt as…wait for it…mezmer-ron/hypno-potamus a mutant hippo hypnotist-magician. i mean, if only they’d just made ofmd 3 we might have been spared this”

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

“he was so insane for this” and it’s just jeans and a black tee 🫠

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

the absolute definition of bisexual panic. 😅

xena & stede — i mean lucy lawless & rhys darby — standing next to each other, both looking dapper as fuck.

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

you guys, i got 5 hours of sleep last night, so i’m spending money i do not have on caffeine, and i have to teach a dozen students about medieval bibliography tonight from 6 til 8:30. all i want to do is go home and ofmd (yes it’s a verb now). anyway, here’s wonderwall (a pretty manuscript page).

a leaf from a 15th c book of hours showing a miniature of the virgin and child.

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

just some casual fascism on my commute in washington dc today. they’re there every morning. watching us.

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

i finished reading “howl’s moving castle” aloud to my family today and now i can’t stop thinking about an #ofmd AU and obsessing over who would be who. i mean in many ways howl is obviously ed and in others he’s so stede-coded! all i know for sure is that izzy is calcifer 🤷🏻‍♀️🔥🏰

a person seen from the chest down lying in the grass on a dinosaur-print picnic blanket. they are holding a copy of howl’s moving castle by diana wynne jones. two kids are partially seen off to the left.

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

is anyone else listening to the new wet leg record? “liquidize” is so ed/stede coded: “you say i’m lovely and you say i’m worth it all i look you dead between the eyes i say i know you are but what am i?” in other news, everything continues to remind me of them #ofmd #crewforlife

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liquidize

YouTube video by Wet Leg - Topic

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

not me clicking the “show” button on the metro escalator just as someone walked by 😬🫠

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ellie @ellmercury.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

get in bitch, we're going honking

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

i just came home to my family watching “jumanji” and when i googled rhys’ character i was treated to this hilarious AI mixup with a different movie character: “a koala who is known for his feisty and immature personality, and his hatred of being called cute and cuddly.” i mean, it’s not NOT rhys…

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

ugh, covid round 3. i’m scared because i’ve had post-viral nonsense both other times, but is it weird that as a mom with a full-time job a silver lining is having time to read fic in bed? any recent recs? i missed fettering-fest and need to catch up on june and july content in general. 😫🤧🏴‍☠️🌈📚?

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

a family friend & parent of a trans kid (now thankfully 18+) alerted me to this today. children’s national, which serves the greater washington dc area, had “paused” gender-affirming meds in january. there’s a contact form at the link below if you’re so inclined: www.childrensnational.org/contact-us

“A message for existing and new patients: in light of escalating legal and regulatory risks to Children’s National, our providers, and the families we serve, we will be discontinuing the prescription of gender-affirming medications. This change will go into effect on August 30, 2025. Mental health and other support services for LGBT patients remains available. You are always welcome at Children’s National for your other medical needs. We know this change will have a significant impact on affected patients, families, and staff. Our care teams are working directly with families of current patients to support them. If you have questions or need further assistance, please contact us directly.”

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

ugh just when i think i couldn’t be any more in love with rhys, he posts a snap like this with his sweet little eyebrow furrow and boyish posture. i am so endlessly charmed and endeared by this dork. 💖

rd in trelane costume sitting with other snw people on the edge of a set. he has his hands in his lap with his fingers intertwined.

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

it what world is it fair that i am at work today instead of just watching rhys’ quiff wibble on repeat for hours?! 😫

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

ofmd s3e2 is just this. big drama in the premiere followed by beach day. like s1 but a real vacation!

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

okay hear me out on episode 2. i know it wasn’t as amazing as the premiere, but the backstory we got about fang’s childhood love?! ::swoon:: 💖

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

you guys, this is such a beautiful & bittersweet love story between two british naval officers in the early years of the 20th century. it’s just begging for an #ofmd au (with a happier ending!)

thisislovepodcast.com

Episode 116: The Terra Nova

In 1910, a group of British men set off on an expedition to the South Pole. Over a hundred years later, in the journals and letters that survived, a writer discovered a love story.

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

putting this out there for crew struggling w/ family of origin: we (neurospicy fam of 4) survived a vacation with my narcissistic dad & appeasing mom, all while bonding w/ my brother (bipolar) like i haven’t since i was a teen. water may not always find its own level, but we can build an aqueduct.

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

just spent five solid minutes of my workday staring at the bottom of that vee…and then another thinking about the way the chain is sitting against his collar 🥵

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

greetings fellow sluts! /pos at work we’ve been sorting and rescanning our pamphlet collection by call number and this morning we got to the Ds, meaning i found myself hollering across the workroom “just bring all the D and DP to me!” and i was trying so hard not to blush and give myself away. 😳

a close-up picture of some old pamphlets on a cart with yellow chippy paint.

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

roach would 100% order this and be enraged when the chocolate didn’t instantaneously appear. when it finally did show up, he’d be pissed again that he couldn’t just like point at the tin to make the drink appear. frenchie would agree that it was bogus and that cats were definitely involved somehow.

an ad from the 1890s for “instantaneous chocolate” — a powdered drink sold as “the greatest invention of the age”

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

this french fry vampire & all-around nerd is my husband. today he marks 13 yrs of sobriety: 4748 days of making this choice & interrogating parts of himself most people prefer to keep hidden. i’m humbled by his work. if you love someone struggling with drugs/alcohol, my DMs are always open.

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

grandparents have the kiddos this afternoon so spouse & i stopped in at our local. i look away from the fries for ONE SECOND and he does this, waggling his eyebrows and saying “wakey wakey!” reader, he is not perfect but i’m so happy i married someone who gets it 💖

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

woke up to a bunch of new 🏴‍☠️ finch pals! feeling the love 💖 now enjoying coffee with the fam at our local indie — the colors & shapes of our order make me happy, so i thought i’d share. also honestly anything on a tray makes me think of them…

a plain wooden tray with three ceramic cup and saucer sets on it: one red with a hot chocolate & marshmallows, one speckled grey with a matcha latte, and one yellow with espresso. the espresso cup has a silver spoon on the saucer.

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

seems like a lot of us are having bad brain times at the moment — myself included. is there anyone else still using finch who might want some new friends? here’s a pic of my birb pippin for the algo. would love to have some pirate pals on the app! 🏴‍☠️🌈🐥

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R | Politest Menace 🏴‍☠️🍊 @politestmenace.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Have an excellent day, pirate pals! 🏴‍☠️❤️ #ofmd

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

lying in bed watching “the residence” on netflix & i’m pretty sure bronson pinchot’s chef outfit and silly little swiss-german accent yelling “you are NOT going to take away my kangaroos!” is going to fix me…

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

need some love & comfort, pals. tuesday i fell & scraped the hell out of my knee. typical. less typical is last night the pain got BAD & dr at urgent care said cellulitis + watch for sepsis. 😳 on antibiotics that make me sick & am scared. fluffy fic recs/stories of infections w/ happy endings plz? 😭

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

the 5yo “graduated” from preschool today. usually i don’t buy into the american impulse to make A Big Deal out of everything, but right now i’ll take any reason to celebrate. 🎈🧑🏼‍🎓

a picture of an adult human in an orange shirt hugging a small human wearing a mini-mortarboard that says “congrats grad” with pictures of scientific flasks and balloons. neither of their faces are visible.

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

i don’t have a proper contribution for #ofmdzineweek, but i’ve been trying to figure out how to share some of the books i’ve been collecting that remind me of #ofmd & our crew, so here’s a little poem/faux-zine i made using bookish bits from our collections at work… page 1 forty singing seamen

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marie @thewildbluesky.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

an insane 6 weeks: moving 50k+ rare books @ work; supporting spouse thru a (successful!) career-change interview; dealing w/ more long-covid-adjacent illness. there’s been no energy for anything else & i’ve felt the absence of this space so keenly. i cannot WAIT to catch up w/ you all 🏴‍☠️💖

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