TLDR; Rhys Darby; Taika Waititi; Samba Schutte; Nathan Foad;  Anapela Polataiva; TellTaleAwards Round 2; AdoptOurCrew; June 3rd An Excellent Day: Trends; WeAreAllTaikaNow; RoboJenks; Other Fandoms; Menacing Memes; Articles about #DontStreamOnMax; NeurOFMDivergent Pride Week; FanSpotlight; Love Notes;

Throwback picture from The Cryptid Factor with Rhys and Buttons!

Quick crumbs of Taika on Rita's Instagram from her latest show!

Samba's rom-com Advanced Chemistry is premiering on June 26, 2024, 9:15 PM at TLC Chinese 6 Theatres Los Angelos CA! Get tickets here.

Our fabulous Auntie has been appointed Officer of the NZ Order of Merit (ONZM) in this years King's Birthday Honours List! This is a prestigous position awarded for contributions to the Pacific performing arts! Congrats Anapela!

Nathan is feeling pretty saucy about another Billionaire planning to visit the Titanic Wreckage.

The awards are open from June 3 - June 9! OurFlagMeansDeath, Rhys and Ruibo both made the next round! So did Deadloch and Deadboy Detectives, please be sure to get your votes in each day!

Our crewmates over at @adoptourcrew want to hold WBD Accountable! Check out their statement on their tumblr, or here!

Where the hell do I even start? Wow crew! Today was impressive! #DontStreamOnMax was trending on twitter, so was #SaveOFMD, there was so much polite menacing and massive aggression going around, it was wonderful to see.

The absolute darling @ twindy5 was kind enough to send me some trends just before posting this so we could see some of the latest numbers. 

So one thing you don't want to miss is that apparently certain folks on twitter think that everyone fighting for Our Flag Means Death on Twitter is a Taika bot.  So rejoice! If you wanted to be Taika Waititi, now you can be!

Source: @ pirateidiot's twitter

And everyone rolled with it!

Okay so there was some speculation because an account named "David Jenkins" started getting into the fun with everyone today (but not Chaos Dad's account). Many folks thought it was a bot that maybe somehow got attached to our trends, but I read back to when the account was created back in January and they've been around a bit.

They've hopped on the bandwagon against WB for quite some time (for CoyoteVsAcme, etc) so it's still possible they're a bot, but hard to tell for sure.

What did cause some excitement was Chaos Dad then blocked them.

One of the other exciting things that happened today was just how many other fandoms outside of OFMD Twitter decided to jump on the bandwagon for #DontStreamOnMax. Even the SnyderVerse folks got into it!

• Q+Magazine Article

• Daily Caller Article

• Digg.com Article

• NerdStash Article

• ‘Don’t Stream On Max’ explained: Why people are boycotting the streaming platform
• Is Warner Bros. Discovery Inc (WBD) worth investing in despite its overvalued state?

The lovely folks over at @neurofmdivergentprideweek were kind enough to allow me to share some info for the upcoming Week!

"What is NeurOFMDivergent Pride Week?

NeurOFMDivergent Pride Week is a week-long Our Flag Means Death fan event for creating & sharing fanworks focused on neurodivergent experiences. There are prompts for each day, but any content relating to OFMD and neurodivergence is welcome." 

Today's Cast Cards are Lily Riley, "head guard" of The Red Flag, she had the distinct honour of being knocked out with chamomile! and also one of our lovely writers-- Natalie Torres! 

Gonna try to keep up some spotlights from the fans with Pride month! Tonight's spotlight is the absolutely stellar @blackbeardskneebrace with some adorable Peanuts style of our favourite pirates!

Peanuts T4T Ed/Stede / Peanuts Polycule