TLDR; Cast&CrewSightings; RhysDarby; Damien Gerard; Petition Sighting; Stats; Save OFMD Crew Weekly Calendar; StunMoveSunday; Current Fundraisers; Reminders on how to help; Reminders for Watch Parties/Wee John Wonday; Articles; OFMD Fan Crew Weekly Wrap Up; Love Notes; 

== Cast & Crew Sightings ==

= Rhys Darby =

Today's Rhys Darby sighting is on behalf of the WWDITS 2014 fans, who pooled together to get a cameo for him to tell us more about Anton from WWDITS 2014. I would however, like to take a moment to give a round of a applause to whomever it was that decided to make the "from" name "VIANTON". You all are fucking lunatics, and I love it. 

Cameo - Twitter Thread - Thank you to @Lizzy__Leo for sharing!

= Damien Gerard =

Our favorite SaveOFMD supportive cast member Damien Gerard has reached out to twitter and asked for some support for a community centre in his home town Brighton, that supports trans and non-binary folks. If you happen to have a few bucks to spare, he'd appreciate the help! TransPrideBrighton

== Petition Sighting! ==

== Stats Stats Stats = 

Our friends over at @adoptourcrew wanted to give us some reassurance regarding OFMD's Performance on Parrot Analytics.

== Save OFMD Crew Weekly Calendar ==

There is an unofficial internet strike this week in Support of Palestine from February 18 to 25 and so the saveOFMD Crew will be reducing their Tumblr activity. But something big is on the horizon on the 26th! They'll also be promoting charitable efforts, inspired by the Our Flag Makes a Difference Crew!

== Stun Move Sunday ==

The Save OFMD Crew is over on instagram doing a Sunday Engagement Game called Dock , Matey, Stun (otherwise known as "Shag, Marry, Kill") with your favorite OFMD character.   If you'd like to participate on IG feel free to visit: Save OFMD Crew

== Current Active Fundraisers ==

Pirates for Palestine

eSIMs and Sanitary Products for Gaza

== Reminders on How To Help ==

For examples on how to help, feel free to visit the OFMD Renewal Repo which has daily updated tasks for US/Outside US fans to help with, but also some low-spoon tasks to focus on if you're looking to limit activity during the strike. 

Examples:

🖱 Click some links 

This boosts stats and metrics that streaming platforms look at. 

• Google 
• Wikipedia
• IMDB
• Rotten Tomatoes
• TV Stats

Request OFMD on Netflix, Apple, Amazon and FX! For Prime users, Molly (aproperpirate on Twitter) has provided special instructions:

1. go to your acct
2. settings gear
3. scroll down to help & feedback 4
4. scroll down to provide feedback

Share your love with YouGov! @libbyroseitm has created these detailed instructions for you!

Request OFMD songs on BBC Radio! @TeeHeeSeason3 on Twitter has created this neat guide for everyone!

Review OFMD!

SchnellaBella on Twitter has created detailed instructions to rate and review the show on German websites, even if you don't speak German!

And @lowrahh has put together detailed instructions for Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb:

ROTTEN TOMATOES:

1. Go to https://www.rottentomatoes.com. 
2. Click “Login/Signup” and continue with email or link up your Google account.
3. Check your email inbox for the verification email. The “Verify my email address” button will take you to a newsletter signup screen on the website. To close the window, choose whether or not you want to sign up to the newsletter.
4. Search ‘Our Flag Means Death' or click here: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/our_flag_means_death 
5. Scroll down or click “Seasons” to jump down, then click “Details”.
6. Scroll down again or click “Review” to get to the audience ratings. Click “Post a review”.
7. Rate each season and describe what you loved about it! Hit “submit changes” to save. Don’t mention the petition, as it could get your review flagged as spam.
8. Rate and/or review a few other shows or movies – we don’t know for sure whether Rotten Tomatoes takes this into account, but it definitely can’t hurt, and leaving a rating only takes a few seconds.

IMDB:

1. Go to https://imdb.com or download the IMDb app on Google Play / App Store. 
2. Create a new account or sign in using any of the other accounts shown.
3. Check your email inbox for the verification email. Return to IMDb and fill in the code to verify your email address.
4. Search ‘Our Flag Means Death' or click here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11000902/  
5. Give your overall rating for the show, then select ‘User reviews’ to write an honest but positive review, ideally at least 600 characters long. Do not mention the petition, as it could get your review flagged as spam. If you can’t leave a review, scroll through other people’s reviews and mark the positive ones as helpful/the negative ones as not helpful. 
6. You can also rate each individual episode: go to the episode guide and rate each one. Find your favorite episode(s), select ‘User reviews’ and write your own! Don’t copy & paste your review, as this can get it flagged as spam.
7. Important! Rate and/or review a few other shows or movies – otherwise IMDb’s algorithm will give your reviews less weight. 

For Google, go to the "Reviews" tab, click "More Audience Reviews" and then "Write a Review" in the top right hand corner.

== Reminders ==

= Watch Parties =

As of right now we have no watch parties scheduled for this week due to the strike for Palestine, but after it's over we're picking back up on #PeopleOfEarth and #Wrecked

= Wee John Wondays =

Supposedly we are continuing on with Wee John Wondays tomorrow at the usual time  10.30 PM (although I haven't seen any updates from his IG / Twitter account so just FYI).

== Articles ==

Our own @snejpowa's has an article out in Polish!

• Nasza bandera znaczy miłość – cudowna moc fandomu

And we've got another article mentioning Our Flag Means Death in Indonesion!

• 6 Serial yang Dibatalkan Sepihak pada Tahun 2024, Sudah Nonton? 
• Every TV show that's been canceled in 2024 so far, from 'Our Flag Means Death' to 'Minx'

== OFMD Fan Crew ==

Our friends over at OFMD Fan Crew have their weekly wrap-up up for the week up on their site! Please check it out!

== Love Notes ==

Hey lovelies. It's that time again. Some of you on the other side of the world have already started your Monday, and some of us are about to start ours. 

We've had a lot of "peaks and troughs" this past week (as Rhys would say) but I hope you had more peaks overall. With the social media strike coming up this week, I'm predicting this week might feel a bit more "troughy" (is that a word? I doubt it). 

Just remember that we are all still here. If you need support, please reach out. No matter what is happening on the other side of the world, or down the street, you matter just as much as they do.  

Your happiness, and your well being matter.  

There's no shame in needing help, and there's no shame in asking for it. For me, I probably will be supporting the strike in other ways, so I'll still be here. 

You aren't alone. 

You're never alone. 

 It'll feel like that sometimes, especially since the past couple weeks have been pretty high paced-- but you're not alone. 

 It may sound silly, but if the Rhys Cameo's have been helping, please go watch them again and again. They help me a lot when things are feeling down.  Here's a thread on Twitter (thank you @lividturkeys) if you need them or they're all in the last few days of Recaps if you need them (I'll try to get a link list going on the repo tomorrow, just been a bit swamped the last few days with work). 

Sending you all love, we'll make it through this, and who knows, over the next week maybe we'll have other good news. Take care of yourself lovelies!