03/09-12/2025 Daily OFMD Recap
TLDR; David Jenkins; Rhys Darby; Taika Waititi; Vico Ortiz; Samba Schutte; Andy Rydzewski & Andrew Deyoung; Rachel House; Tiny Crew Big Raffle; OFMD Craft Fair Creator Feed; Fandom Spotlight; Love Notes;
= David Jenkins =
David agreed, it's time to bask in moonglow!
Source: Davids bsky
= Rhys Darby =
There's just so much Rhys Darby news now a day it's hard to keep track! If you're in AoNZ between March 27 and April 4th he'll be in town! Check out his site for tickets!
Just some adorable improv he did recently!
Also they're doing new merch for the AoNZ tour!
Source: Rhys’ Bsky
= Taika Waititi =
If you're out in AoNZ, you can now watch 6 Disney films re-versioned into Te Reo Māori! While this isn't directly related to Taika, he did write the first draft of the Moana screenplay-- and he's spreading the love of Reo Māori!
Source: Taika Waititi’s IG
In direct Taika news, he'll be joining Ellen Burstyn for the Drama 'Place To Be'! Check out the article here!
Source: Disney Australia IG
= Vico Ortiz =
Vico was out at the Queerties with the Today In Gay Team!
Today in Gay was also featured in Teen Vogue! Article Here.
Source: Vico's IG Stories
= Samba Schutte =
The date and dish has been updated fo Samba's upcoming class!
EVENT DATE: May 10th EVENT TIME: 10AM PT/1PM ET EVENT LOCATION: ONLINE
Tickets for Samba's May 10th class go on sale in April!
Source: Stands Website
Samba's short, 'Best Life' premieres at the LA Film Festival on March 27! Check out the trailer below!
Source: Samba's IG
= Andy Rydzewski & Andrew Deyoung =
Some of our cinematographer's and director's new work, "Friendship" was featured as a Festival Favorite at the South By South West 2025 Film Festival!
Source: Andy and Andrew's IG
= Rachel House =
Our Mary Reed, Rachel House was featured at the "All About Women" festival about gender, justice and equality on March 8-9! More info here!
Source: Rachel's IG
Rachel was also out at a Tinā screening, supporting our dear Auntie, Anapela Polata'ivao!
Source: Rachel's IG
== Tiny Crew Big Raffle ==
Great news! Tiny Crew Big Raffle is back! This time with a super amazing prize made by the props team of OFMD! The baby monkey was behind the bar at Spanish Jackiez and helped to really build the ambiance of the place! The monkey was donated by our fabulous S2 Set Decorator Megan Vertelle! The Raffle begins March 29th! To learn more and keep up to date, remember to check out their socials! Linktr.ee / Instagram / Tumblr : @ofmd-buys-boats
Source: Tiny Crew Big Raffle's IG
== Craft Fair Creator Feed ==
Our friend Archem aka @yerbamansa over on BSKY is one of the OFMD craft fair team members, and they have put together a feed for creators that participated in the craft fair and have shops or do commissions! This feed is pretty great because it has all the creators info so you can easily check out what they have up for sale! Check the feed out here! (Right now it's open in general but may go back to bsky logged in only, just fyi)! I also wanted to share some of the gorgeous graphics Archem made for our dear creators-- and the first up is the one, the only Pogo!
Source: Archem's Bsky
= Pogo NR =
As it shows above, Pogo does a lot of fabulous work (one of my fave Vianton artists!) and for the craft fair she not only donated multiple sets of smoochie stickers, painting, and fanfiction tags, but an amazingly stunning Mermaid Skeletons Tufted Rug! As ArchEm mentioned above, you can check more of her work out on these socials! Bsky / Etsy / Ko-Fi
Source: OFMD Craft Fair
= Pirate Pam =
Another one of our fabulous crewmates, Pirate Pam, donated a Custom Book Binding! Talk about gorgeous! I'm so impressed by all the talent on this ship!
Source: OFMD Craft Fair
Wanna check out some of her book binding work? This is only one of so many awesome ones you can check out in her thread on bluesky!
Source: Pirate Pam's Bluesky
= Dimply Owl =
Another of our wonderful crewmates, Ally, aka Dimply Owl donated these insanely cute Crochet Dumbo Octopuses! She donated multiple of them and if you missed them and you'd like to, you can order some on her Ko-fi! Wanna follow Ally on her socials / check out her fics? Visit AO3 / Bluesky / Ko-fi !
Source: Dimplyowl
= Deanbird =
Another of our magnificent crewmates @deanbird, donated several different items to the OFMD Craft Fair! Seriously check out how many! Wanna check out more of her fabulous work? Visit: Bluesky / Instagram / Ko-fi
So many people have already received their Invitations to High Tea and 1/2 of a Pyramid! Even David's impressed!
Source: David's Bsky
== Love Notes ==
Hey there crew. It's been a while. I'm sorry this edition is so small after such a huge amount of time. Trying to keep them to 2-4 days, but we'll see how that goes with how behind I am. It's been a lot lately. Home, work, the world, the fandom, just a lot's been happening all at once. I've been trying to focus on a few things that I've had to work on outside the fandom as well as taking some mental health breaks and that's been keeping me busy.
So tonight, for the love notes, I just wanted to take a second to say thank you. So many of you have been so kind to me and so many others over this past year + that I've been here. Even if I just get to see your name pop up on my notifications for a like or a reblog, or if we chat, or I just get to catch glimpses of your works across the various platforms, it brings me a lot of joy.
Some of you, I only really know through tags. Others I know from discord, or bsky, or instagram. Some of you I've never spoken to outside of tumblr-- but I can honestly tell you, you have improved my life by being here.
Others of you, I consider you some of my closest friends. Friends I've never met, miles away around the world, and your influence on me is so incredibly profound -- and even if we never meet each other in person, I will never be the same because of you.
I'm so very blessed and lucky to have found this place-- to have found you all. I know a lot of you feel the same way about the people you interact with here on the day to day.
That being said, the world is a complicated place. Sometimes things don't go the way we planned, whether on a personal, fandom, or global level. Sometimes people disappoint us, and spaces we thought fit us shift in shape. No matter what changes for you in this world, I want you to know that your kindness, and your interactions with me and everyone else have made a positive difference. Thousands and millions of tiny interactions continue to happen within our fandom every day. Some of them don't go the way we hope they will-- but the majority of them, are beautiful. Sometimes we have to learn from them, and they help us grow, and sometimes they nourish us in hard times. We are a community of wonderfully kind people who were brought together by chance. Thank you for being here. Thank you for making my life better, and this world a better place.
IMG Source: Beth Evan's IG
