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Elphia
@elphia3.bsky.social
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OFMD, Gentlebeard, season 3. Early 40s, she/her. Minors stay away (sometimes I recommend fanfic). I may block follows from non-pirate fans—nothing personal.🪿🐈‍⬛🕯️🏴‍☠️📚🦄🌈
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Wait, last one
Screen capture of a Zohran campaign style sign with gold text on a royal blue background with a red shadow saying “PANTO for THE CAPTAIN” referencing Frenchie’s quote in episode 2 season 2 of OFMD. (from https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html)
November 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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I’m probably not the first to do this
Zohran for Mayor sign generator screen cap reading “BALLS for DAYS” in gold on a royal blue background with red shadow behind the letters
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I saw some cool clouds the other day and thought of you (your request for sky pictures). And my cat was extra cuddly last night. I hope things get better soon 🫂
Thin fluffy layer of clouds over a blue sky with some trees and power lines and chimneys around the lower edge. They look almost like mackerel clouds but maybe not quite distinct enough A large brown marble tabby dozes happily in the lap of a person wearing a grassland owl sweatshirt. The person’s hand is on his shoulder and back, keeping him from rolling off
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I was briefly confused by a small plane flying low altitude figure eights over Newark last Wednesday 6:40-6:46 pm and thought of you (just caught the tail end)
October 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I was trying to find my childhood brown teddy bear in my iPhone photos, and somehow the only search result was for a screen capture of Yarn Ed in a red string bikini holding a wooden serving spoon. 😹

But my more recent favorite is the Flatwoods Monster
Squishable shaped like a red spade-headed creature with glowing golden eyes wearing a teal sci-fi-esque dress. She’s on a grey faux fur blanket next to a brown tabby cat with similarly golden eyes
October 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Hard to believe it’s still so bad at public figure ages. I wish the explanation had to do with AI agreeing with the skeleton in The Last Unicorn about the reality of time. But it’s probably something less fun about math not meshing well with word embeddings. Anyway here’s a similar error from March
Screen capture of an AI summary for Billy Bob Thornton’s age in 2000 saying he was both 41 and 45 in that year: “Billy Bob Thornton › Age (March 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM PST) 69 years Date of birth August 4, 1955 Place of birth Hot Springs, AR Al Overview Billy Bob Thornton was 41 years old in 2000. • He was born on August 4, 1955. • Therefore, in the year 2000, he would have turned 45 years old. • However, the question asks for his age in 2000, which would be 41.”
October 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Ed and Stede near the end of episode 2x8 of OFMD in front of their inn. Ed looks pained but at peace. Stede looks mildly annoyed at Zheng’s interruption. Stede wears his teal silk deep v shirt. Ed is in his one-armed black leather jacket. Stede caresses Ed’s bare elbow. Ed’s hand is on Stede’s left shoulder
October 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Without downloading new pictures, where are you right now?
A slouching brunette person in a green jacket and white head covering with a yellow-orange flower brooch at her neck stares into the middle distance while holding a brown cat with a striped tail. He has an impish expression on his slightly human-like face, and all of his (very long) front claws are out. By Ivan Generalić
October 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Is this a Mandela effect, or is bus not usually pluralized this way? At a BART station last night
Sign on a concrete overhang saying EXIT on a bright green background and <- BUSSES -> on black below it
October 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Reminds me of this part of this poem
(The Trans Poem by Michal 'MJ' Jones www.muzzlemagazine.com/michal-mj-jo...)
Black text on white background screenshot from https://www.muzzlemagazine.com/michal-mj-jones.html: ‘And when we are killed you will say "this is not what we meant, violence is not the answer" The dictionary antonym to existence is death So, what is it you meant? You just mean un become un become un become’
October 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Does anyone know of stories featuring Ed and Stede kissing in a wintry forest? Maybe in hiding posing as Croatian farmers with a cat?

(this is a sincere request; also I miss them and everything reminds me of them)
LOVE IN THE FOREST by Ivan Generalić Two people kiss on a bench in a leafless winter forest. A startled white cat watches in the lower left corner. They have a woven basket and bottle, and the bench is covered with a blanket
October 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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The dancing boys make me so happy!! So sparkly. So in love 💖💖 (no stickers were harmed during the photo shoot, I promise, despite the flexed claw)
Five sparkly art stickers of Ed and Stede dancing with three smaller sparkly stickers of a rosy maple moth, orange slice, and white flower (maybe a water lily from the Calypso’s birthday market?). A brown dog’s fur and a green curtain are in the background A white and black cat lying in the sun paws two sheets of the same stickers on a light wood floor. They scintillate in the sun, with the silvery sparkles turning rainbow colors in the reflected light
October 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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My own cutest demon at the moment—coincidentally also posing for the camera while we’re away! 😻
A brown marble tabby on the back of a couch gazes majestically towards a pet camera with glowing eyes
October 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
October 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Remembering full moon* manifesting last February. This bicolor cat (currently on my shoulder) and I will never stop manifesting a third season of hit tv show Our Flag Means Death

*following BtVS rules, we’re saying the full moon lasts three nights
A nearly full yellowish harvest moon in a dark sky, zoomed in with some craters and moon roads visible A white and black cat gazes curiously at a chaotic candlelit altar on a wooden table with various OFMD mementos such as twine, a unicorn bookstop, a cement cat, seashells, and an orange
October 8, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Mine was stuck for a full minute on this screen, and I thought that was the joke / the entire gif 😸
Loading screen showing the first frame of the gif: Stede at home chewing, eyebrows raised in incredulity, wearing a gold trimmed indigo vest with a cream shirt underneath it
October 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Edward Teach #ofmd
Profile shot of Edward Teach’s right side in OFMD season 2’s The Innkeeper. He’s in the gravy basket wearing a tattered black scoop neck t-shirt while cosplaying a hotel desk clerk in the AoNZ woods. He has a pearl necklace, hair up in a loose bun, and a fern flourish affixed to his shirt
October 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Happy October 1st from three ravens in a dead tree!

(same picture twice—cropped version on the left; from near Eureka, CA in late 2022)
Three ravens in a dead tree against a blue sky with no clouds. Two on the left are in flight headed towards a seated raven who is fluffy and defiant—beak tilted up, feathers shaggy and puffed out. An uncropped version of the other photo with three ravens skirmishing in a dead tree against a blue sky. Some blurry dark green foliage is visible in the foreground on each side of the photo
October 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Rhys and Rosie had a similar idea! I hope the person who won this is cocooned in it as we speak
Rhys Darby in a red t-shirt modeling a gigantic grey, black, and white scarf knitted by his wife, Rosie Carnahan Darby. He smiles and holds up the ivory tassels in his right hand while standing in a hallway. The frame behind the picture is a bright pink and white pattern with text saying: “Knitted Scarf Donated by Rhys & Rosie Made by Rosie #1479”
October 1, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Does this count? To me this is Stede more than Rhys. Or Stede with a hint of Rhys
Topless Rhys Darby behind the scenes being sequined into the MerStede costume. He smiles in a gentle, adorable, self actualized way that reveals his left dimple. From Samba Schutte’s Instagram
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Ned Low and Calico Jack’s sign maybe (American, sadistic creeps, nice hair)? What’s their name—LoJack?
An illustration of a very pale white-haired man with rosy cheeks and lips wearing a blue suit, white shirt, black cravat, and American flag top hat. He tilts his head to his left and smiles coquettishly while posing with a bottle of Welch’s grape juice. His hair is thick and smooth, worn in a chin length bob with a couple of loose face framing tendrils/bangs. A yellow banner reads “Uncle Sam’s Favorite Welch’s” in red text (taken at the Lake Erie Grape Discovery Center in Westfield, NY)
September 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Similar vibes I think (taken fall ‘22 in Humboldt County)
Two signs on a post in front of green trees. There’s a Bigfoot gift shop sign in the far distance and some green foliage in the foreground. Top sign says “restroom —>” below a red illustration of a wooden outhouse, and the bottom one is a Bigfoot illustration, in the standard Patterson-Gimlin walking pose wearing a mask, that says “social distance champion”. There are some odd metal cartoon cats on the ground. Maybe lamps or luminarias or just garden statues?
September 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Same! 😻😻 Also what Stede is thinking in this scene
Cropped screenshot of Stede gazing dreamily/proudly at Ed while he clutches his new cat bell wearing a burlap onesie on the deck of the Revenge in episode 2x5 of Our Flag Means Death
September 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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A couple of resilient autumn roses, surviving despite my very indifferent rose care #bloomscrolling
Two yellow roses, the one on top older and paler. Green leaves, a sidewalk, and a red-roofed house are all blurry in the background
September 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Admittedly I’ve rewatched the season 1 finale less than any other, because seeing Ed weeping in the bed nook destroys me, but I can’t believe I forgot the scene where Stede knifes a guy for a dinghy after Ed ditches him
A google search screenshot. The search bar says “mugged a guy for a dinghy” and the AI overview says; “In the show Our Flag Means Death, the character who mugged a guy for a dinghy is Stede Bonnet, the "Gentleman Pirate". ® After Stede is abandoned by Blackbeard at the end of Season 1, he finds himself shipwrecked and heartbroken on a beach. In a desperate attempt to get back on the high seas, Stede encounters a man with a dinghy and, despite his timid nature, holds him at knifepoint for the boat. o This scene is a turning point for Stede, as it shows him embracing a more genuinely pirate-like approach rather than simply playing at it. @“
September 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM