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Rotten Soldier
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Say what you will about America, but thirteen bucks still gets you a hell of a lot of mice.

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Today’s audio installment of “From Reno with Love” by @rottensoldier.bsky.social is read by @fullofhope137.bsky.social “La Dolce Vita”, three chapters. It will post today, Sunday & next Thursday! links to listening on the archive! Music by @happydaiz.bsky.social
archiveofourown.org/works/741224...
Soldier (@soldier.bsky.social)
soldier.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I don't want to make light of a very serious situation, but if you start a statement with "I am a _BLANK_ and I'm here to say...", the next words out of your mouth really ought to create a rhyming couplet
"Chuck Schumer should go ... he's no longer capable of leading the Democratic Party."

"I am an establishment Democrat and I'm here to say that Bernie Sanders is much more in line with where I and many other Democrats are today than Chuck Schumer is."
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you're craving a quick hit of pure fluff, @kninjaknitter.bsky.social and @happydaiz.bsky.social did a great job putting together this 16-minute podfic of one of my Reno oneshots; an established-relationship vignette of sappy domestic Gentlebeard doing their sappy domestic thing in the early 1970s
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
November 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The Swede's name is Jim. When he joined the crew. he was told they already had a Jim, and he would have to pick something else. While he was trying to decide, Frenchie offhandedly called him "The Swede" and it stuck.
A challenge: Pick an OFMD character who isn't Ed, Stede, or Iz. Write a headcanon for that character. Challenge mode: Pick a character who isn't those three or CJ, Jim, or Lucius. Share a ship that doesn't include that list. Extreme mode: Pick a background character. What are they gossiping about?
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It's Halloween, and somewhere out there, Lucius and Pete are dressed as Casual Princess Diana and the Princess Diana Beanie Baby
November 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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It's Halloween, and somewhere out there, Jim and Oluwande are dressed like Tybalt and Mercutio in Baz Luhrmann's 1996 Romeo + Juliet
October 28, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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It's Halloween, and somewhere out there, Lucius and Black Pete are dressed like Lucille and Buster Bluth on the cover of Balboa Bay Window magazine.
October 28, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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I think of you, often. Hope you're thinking of me as well.
August 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Another year, another urge to publish the Reno Cure Whumptober Special, a series of vignettes illustrating when and how each character in The Reno Cure dies.
It's aliiiive! Check out the daily prompt sets below for OFMD Whumptober! ⬇️❤️‍🔥
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I remain blown away by all the hard work and creativity that @kninjaknitter.bsky.social and @happydaiz.bsky.social have poured into the podfic of The Reno Cure... listening to it has been such a lovely experience. And the OG fic just crossed over 10k hits on ao3!
October 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
i love hit television show our flag means death
September 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The Take Me scene between Ed and Stede in Ed's radio booth is probably the best thing I've written, and the way it turned out in the podfic is genuinely beautiful. I love it. Check it out.
September 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Listening to the podfic of my own fanfic:
September 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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needed to doodle something fun today so i #PutEdInThis #ofmd #art
September 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
August 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
One of the through-lines I'm proudest of in my extended Reno Cure universe is how Stede chronologically blossoms into a huge bitch.
sometimes i wonder if we as a fandom write stede too bitchy, but then i remember rhys’ performance in this episode and i’m struck with the realization that perhaps we do not write him bitchy enough.
in hindsight i probably could’ve guessed 💅
August 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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BOYS GO TO JUPITER: Endlessly clever, funny, imaginative, with the best soundtrack of the year. In its Sims-esque CG animation, evokes a vivid sense of languor, of waiting around for anything to happen, as the gig economy looms over Florida’s suburban sprawl and life drifts by, warm and sweet.
August 21, 2025 at 4:19 AM
August 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Even if trains weren’t objectively better than air travel, I would still want more trains built just to drive the airlines out of business
every time I book flights it becomes more and more apparent that the entire airline industry is trending toward RyanAir and I cannot overstate how much I hate it
August 23, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Chapter 1 of the road trip fic I've been threatening to write forever is here!
Enjoy! Or don't! I'm just happy to be here.

"May, June, July, I Count the Time"
Ed/Stede, 8 chapters (probably), rated E for eventual smut
archiveofourown.org/works/696445...
August 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Stede in this, PLEASE
August 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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The Sleepwalker and his Nightmare
August 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Someone should write about how fucked up it is that there's so much more public fretting over indie romance books and amateur fanfic than the enormous amount of wildly popular cop/military propaganda that the government actually has a hand in shaping
August 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM