TLDR; Con O'Neill; David Jenkins; Rhys Darby; Madeleine Sami; Rachel House; Kristian Nairn; Samba Schutte; Vico Ortiz; Ruibo Qian; Dominic Burgess; Fan Spotlight: Our Flag Means Fanfiction; BearNecessities OFMD Affirmation Cards; Love Notes;
== Con O'Neill ==
It's Con's birthday! He's on his way to San Jose for the next GalaxyCon and sending some thank yous for all the birthday wishes! Happy birthday sir!
There's also a birthday video!
Also Samba sent some love Con's way!
Img Sources: Con's Instagram / Samba's Instagram Stories
== David Jenkins ==
I forgot to include this last time! Our buddy Jemaine is asking everyone to watch the new episode of Time Bandits that he wrote that came out on Apple TV on the 14th! Chaos dad's on it! Are you? (I'm late watching them).
And today he reposted one of our favorite messages:
Source: David Jenkins' Twitter
== Rhys Darby ==
Rosie posted some super cute family pictures! Apparently Theo's been making donuts!
They were also out at the new Rhett & Link' premier of Wonderhole! Is that a Spanish Jackie's shirt we see? 👀
Source: Rosie CD's Instagram Stories / Getty Images
= The Cryptid Factor Live =
One of our beyond amazing and kind crewmates @sconesfortea was so sweet to allow me to share their many photos and videos of Rhys and the Cryptid Boys! Please check out their tumble posts below for pure Cryptid Chaos! Yes that is Buttons doing the worm!
Source: @sconesfortea's Tumblr
== Madeleine Sami ==
Mads is sharing some love for some fam and a new video on Deadloch!
Source: Madeleine Sami's Instagram
== Rachel House ==
More BTS from Time Bandits and Rachel's episodes!
Source: Rachel House's Instagram
== Kristian Nairn ==
Kristian's on his way to Galaxy Con San Jose as well!
Source: Kristian Nairn's Instagram
== Vico Ortiz ==
More OFMD S2 BTS from Vico on their patreon!! Wanna see the new vids?
Source: Vico's Patreon
== Samba Schutte ==
Woohoo! Samba's new romantic comedy Advanced Chemistry has been acquired by Good Deed Entertainment and will be released in theatres on Sept 3! Congrats Samba! Lots of love from the OFMD cast too!
Deadline Article
Source: Samba's Instagram
== Nathan Foad ==
You guessed it-- Nathan's also on his way to GalaxyCon San Jose!
AND he found some old bts that he decided to share on his instagram stories.
Source: Nathan Foad's Instagram Stories
== Ruibo Qian ==
Our Pirate Queen apparently had some photos done-- but has laryngitis right now! Wishing you a swift recovery queen!
Source: Ruibo Qian's Instagram
== Dominic Burgess ==
Dominic is out with the Palm Royale crew, celebrating Jeff Toyne, a music nominee for the Television Academy!
Source: Dominic Burgess' Twitter
== Fan Spotlight ==
= Our Flag Means Fanfiction =
Another episode of Our Flag Means Fanfiction this week in honor of Con's birthday! Several of our magnificent crewmates, hosted by @ringasunn! Check them out on their Linktree!
== Bair Necessities Affirmation Cards ==
Tonight I'd like to add a new fan spotlight to the mix - OFMD Affirmation Cards by our lovely crewmate, Mik aka bairnecessities!
She has been making OFMD and other fandom affirmation cards for a long time-- some of you may even own some of them or recognize them from David Jenkin's Instagram shares!
Mik makes such gorgeous and uplifting artwork, and she was kind enough to allow me to share some of them and link to her work over the next few recaps. Please absolutely check her out on the various socials, there's such lovely, kind messages in all her spaces <3
Instagram / Twitter / Linktr.ee / Etsy
A couple selections from the Season 2 Deck:
She's also got a beautiful expansion deck that's just come out, featuring a lot of our favorite secondary characters from Season 2!
OH! And did I mention, she's going to be at GalaxyCon SanJose this weekend? You can actually pick up some of her new expansion decks there!
Source: BairNecessities Linktree
== Love Notes ==
Hey there lovelies! Well here we are, going into Friday again! (Some of you are already there, hello folks from the future!)
I truly hope this week has been kind to you. It's certainly been a busy one, and apparently full of birthdays! Con on the 15th, Taika on the 16th - and the weekend is looking even busier with GalaxyCon San Jose coming up! With David being so active as well, it's been nice to see so many people having a great time in the fandom again.
Whether it's jokingly mourning the loss of poor Doug LastName, or adding goofy ass horses to our favorite ofmd pictures-- it's been really heartwarming to see everyone having such a good time. This is what fandoms are for! To joke, and laugh, and have fun. Sometimes to be serious and talk meta too, and part of that is just getting to interact with each other, and play off each others strength and goofiness.
I really am so fortunate to be a part of this fandom, it's nothing like I've ever experienced before, and it brings me a lot of hope and joy on dark days. You all play off each other in the best ways, and make this fandom so unique and fun, and even when things seem down, you find new ways to heal and rise again. I know I haven't been around as much lately, but I want you to know I'm still keeping an eye out, and you all are still some of the kindest, most brilliant, and fun people I've ever had the pleasure to meet.
Keep shining lovelies, you're doing great out there with whatever you're dealing with.
