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ClaireG 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈
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Continuous pirates c/ Our Flag Means Death

https://clairegregoryau.carrd.co/
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A pinned thread for my OFMD fics (completed and WIPs), art, and recommendations feeds and lists!

Pinning any of these feeds to home (option at the top right of each feed) will let you access them easily, but this will stay pinned here too.

I'll be adding to this list and to the feeds over time.
Reposted by ClaireG 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈
i started this fic in 2024 which means i've had this chapter, specifically, rattling around in my brain like a ball bearing for a FULL YEAR.

anyway it's free space day xx 💖

archiveofourown.org/works/614230...
November 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
10 random things that you like:

My kids laughing so hard they cry
Falling down a research rabbithole
Sunny days with scattered clouds
Ladybugs
Strawberry matcha lattes
Fun dangly earrings
A brand new ball of yarn
Finding that one perfect song
Travelling, anywhere
Food that tastes just right
Get to know your mutuals. List 10 random things that you like.

Stracciatella gelato
Greek mythology
Fall, especially when the cold air takes hold
Singing
Pineapple
Long walks
Travel
Elephants
Mountains
The smell of the soil after the first rainfall of the season
Get to know your mutuals. List 10 random things that you like.

Dark coffee
Angel Reese
Linguistics
Memes like this
Live music
Notebooks/pens
Taskmaster
Cozy British murder mysteries
Polar seltzer
Maps
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Oh god 🫠 Holly is the absolute GOAT of this 😍

Also this is @serpentanddahlia.bsky.social's Dr Ed from If Y'all Having a Bad Day up and downnnn

archiveofourown.org/works/651922...
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Yep, turns out sharks and mermaids are definitely compatible in the end- the diving boys really won at science this Halloween 😌 #OFMDNSFW #OFMDfanart
November 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I've had a tonne of driving to do this week and I've been relistening to this myself- enjoying it every bit as much as the first time! It's truly such an impressive work of narration, great effects, and blending background sounds subtly to set the scene (but there is a no-FX version available, too!)
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Diving boys Halloween thoughts earlier- Stede doing his last circuit of the closed aquatic centre for the night, pausing at the door to the diving pool because the whole thing is glowing an eerie blue for some reason.

Also, there’s— steam? coming off it.

Is that some terrible chemical imbalance?
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Truly such a brilliant work from @kninjaknitter.bsky.social 😍 Forever delighting in it (also the first time anyone EVER read my words out loud in over two decades of writing, and I'll never forget how that felt ❤️)

archiveofourown.org/works/400594...
November 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Reposted by ClaireG 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈
upon the erstwhile sea, an @ofmdbigbang.bsky.social fic with art by @mermaidinn.bsky.social

"Stede had always seen the Door... Upon the lintel, in knife-carved letters, were the words: BE SURE."

inspired by the Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire, rated M
November 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Maybe some things, maybe a LOT of things are absolutely shit, but I got to have brunch with @wardrobespierre.bsky.social and his delightful husband and my delightful husband this morning, including this TOP tier strawberry matcha latte, and then I got my ears repierced, and a few things are good ❤️❤️
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Lots of other people have already said it (and I love that), but shouting out everyone who feels a little invisible when these posts go around, whether you're a lurker or a cheerleader or because life has been lifeing and you've found yourself out of sight and out of mind ❤️
Because we need a little positivity: who are the people in OFMD fandom who you most look up to and want to send a little love?
October 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Reposted by ClaireG 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈
Anyway I'm just thinking about all the people who write, beta, make art, sew, knit, podfic, podcast, edit, cosplay, post, stream, write meta, create stuff, inspire others etc.

And all the people who like, read, comment, share, collect, wear stuff, listen, watch, talk, cheer etc.

Thank you ❤️
October 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Reposted by ClaireG 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈
Here’s one more snake-lovin’ NZ firefighter, in case you needed her today!

There’s a delightful fic by @clairegregoryau.bsky.social that goes along with this too!

#OFMDfanart #OFMD
October 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Full Fathom Five was a months-long real-time labour of love, with a writing process that my husband described as like sitting vigil by a lover's grave 😅 I turned up every day for 101 days and spun out a post-S2 story that I adore.

archiveofourown.org/works/544047...
October 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I think we may be cursed, actually 🙃 Brain injury survivor mum just had to be whisked off to the ER tonight after whacking her head again earlier in the week- a concussion rather than another bleed, thankfully, but I’m about to bubble wrap her going forward 🫠
October 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Reposted by ClaireG 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈
HAPPY FIC CLUB CREATURE DAY FROM A BIG TOOTHY GUY

My Ed/Stede Jaws AU is STARTING.

HUGE THANKS to @catski22.bsky.social for the prompt and @fandomtrumpshate.bsky.social for all you do!!

archiveofourown.org/works/730617...

#ofmdfic
October 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
For #ficrecfriday, @petrichorca.bsky.social's A Gentleman's Pirate is one of my OG foundational favourite fics in fandom: archiveofourown.org/works/39699084

Which I just re-read because @dimplyowl.bsky.social wrote a PERFECT alternate ending that left me giddy: archiveofourown.org/works/72820971
A gentleman’s pirate - petrichorca - Our Flag Means Death (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Reposted by ClaireG 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈
ALL WEE CON FOLK: we have 7 people who paid for an online ticket on kickstarter but who haven't claimed their tickets yet. If you don't claim your ticket, we CANNOT send you the links for the panels!
We sent out redemption codes to all kickstarter supporters. 🧵 #theweecon
October 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Reposted by ClaireG 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈
In case you're not sure how to deal with spam comments on your works on A03. Thank you @savernake.bsky.social !
October 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Not new, but last year I wrote an entire insane strangers-to-lovers fic about somnophilia in the style of a scientific study, if you're into that sort of thing. They had to test just about every possibility (it's just good science, of course).

archiveofourown.org/works/607750...
October 23, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Reposted by ClaireG 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈
oh right, it is #WIPWednesday. apropos overalls 👀
not pictured here: live stede reaction (but i bet you can imagine)
cooking with @clairegregoryau.bsky.social 😌
October 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Ed's on a mission to drive Stede absolutely insane with these overalls and he's certainly succeeding at it 😌

Our 1950s Italian writing retreat mystery is not going to be part of the Big Bang anymore but we continue to cook hard and look forward to sharing it with you! #wipwednesday #OFMDnsfw
October 23, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Here's the news, I'm leaving*. I'm a fisherman now**.

*Stepping down from the Fic Club team
**Finishing this fucking PhD before it kills me

Okay but in all seriousness- I announced this morning that I'm leaving the Fic Club team because of <gestures at all the flames> my insane life 👇
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Life is just so relentlessly tough for so many of us lately- seeing a lot of people grieving losses, and I wanted to share this website that helped me survive after my dad died. It felt like anytime I was losing my mind they had something to say that I needed to hear ❤️

whatsyourgrief.com/blog/
Blog Articles About Grief and Loss - What's Your Grief
What's Your Grief Blog
whatsyourgrief.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If you like to be turned on and then emotionally murdered with increasing intensity these chapters really have everything 😌 (/pos)
Finally!! Two new chapters of the divorce boys are now up...this one's got it all: sad, romantic, AND horny 😌

pls forgive any excessive typos, i did the final read REAL fast so i could get this off to y'all before i have to go to therapy lol
archiveofourown.org/works/702434...
Right Where You Left Me - Chapter 13 - serpent_and_dahlia - Our Flag Means Death (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I have in fact written a bit of the vacuum bondage fic already- revisiting my Tie Me Up boys for it 👀

And planning some Garlic Soup for stuck in a wall if I can get it together 👀👀
I haven’t managed to meet a single event deadline since Jan 1 this year but nonetheless!

Cannot stop thinking about vacuum bondage and the sexy slapstick potential with Stede Bonnet involved 🧐

Also love a stuck in a wall scenario (I give you my tidied-up explainer I made for someone new to it 😌)
October 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM