Nikki

@bookknobs.bsky.social

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She/her. 🇬🇧 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 🐺 🦇 Here for gay pirates, werewolves and vamps. Reader. Writer. Bookbinder. https://ko-fi.com/bookknobs pfp by @rocketlollyart.bsky.social

My silly doodle of Uncle Hec from Hunt for the Wilderpeople

A pile of Hunt for the Wilderpeople badges next to a badge maker, featuring my little doodle of Uncle Hec

A set of pink, 3D printed book binding tools against and dark blue and pink background.

A screenshot from Rhys’ most recent Instagram post. He’s dressed for adventure in a sand colour shirt and hat. The golden hour sunlight makes him look even more like sunshine.

My Pantone birth chart featuring all the reds.

A bluey green Nissan Figaro

A beautiful pink Nissan Figaro in the sunshine.

A little doodle of Ed. He’s wearing soft pink PJs - a shirt and shorts - with bunnies, teapots and flowers on them. His hair is up in a bun, tied with a purple scrunchie and he’s wearing pink bunny slippers.

A silly little sketch of Stede holding his fern. He’s in his signature teal suit.

A silly little sketch of Stede holding his fern. He’s in his signature teal suit.

Buttons from OFMD in one of Stede’s wigs. This one is long and curly.

Baby birds peeking out from under the lid of the compost bin.

A drawing of Grace on the left hand side of the page. He’s standing sideways in his orange spacesuit. On the right is a tiny Rocky in his ball.

Stede hasn’t slept. Between his wife attempting to murder him in his sleep, and realising that actually he is very much in love with his co-captain, it had been rather difficult to settle his mind. Instead he’d spent the night plotting. He’d even tracked down Doug and, yes, apologised for his behaviour at the art show, but also discussed some of his plans with the man. And Doug’s no Ed, that’s for sure, but it turns out that he’s actually quite lovely.

Together they’d eventually woken Mary with breakfast in bed (Doug’s idea, though Stede made a mental note to do the same for Ed sometime when he saw how touched she was). Then Stede had left the two of them to… erm… prepare for the day. He’d hurried the children outside, and away from the house, keeping them occupied with visiting the animals for more than an hour!

The three grown ups are just sitting down for morning tea, Mary and Doug having finally emerged from the bedroom (a fact which Stede finds a little baffling - what on earth could they have been doing all this time!?) when there’s a knock at the door. Stede huffs, knowing he’s making what Lucius calls his ‘bitchy’ face, but really he’s just eager to properly outline the rest of his plan so they can set things in motion and he can get back out there to find Ed and make things right.

Unfortunately it’s the English Navy at the door.

A photo of the TV - Muppets Treasure Island is in and Stede Bonnet, I mean Fozzie Bear, is singing with the crew.

The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones by Alex Croucher held in front of a bookcase.

The UK version of A Prince Among Pirates by Abdou held in front of a bookcase.

A CU of Viago from the previous screenshot. Rainbows and hearts have been added with the text ‘Gay Panic’

A bowl of Kelloggs Frosties, my Girl Dinner of choice.

Taika from the Hunt for the Wilderpeople anniversary screening. He has his legs crossed and is wiping his eyes.

Rhysie with a mustache, reclining in some outdoor seat thing. It’s night and he turns to the camera and grins.

A white woman with longish ‘straight’ hair meeting Kristian Nairn at a con in 2014 (maybe).

Baby Nikki from 2007 at her first convention meeting Anthony Head

Rhysie traversing a canyon, pulling himself along a rope with his big, natural biceps.

A zoomed in screenshot of Rhys Darby pulling himself along some ropes over a big drop.

A screenshot of DMs between me and Rae (thisreader)
Nikki: He loves kink?
Rae: Dear Rhys, thank you for always finding the most unhinged sort of response lmao
Nikki: Human festivals sounds like kink to me

Rhysie reclining on a big chair. He’s wearing his dark blue shirt with the palm trees on, shorts (legs out!) and holding a drink in his hand. He also has a killer moustache and is grinning at the camera like he knows exactly what you’re thinking.

The box of the game Hero Slam

A photo of the ‘Swamp of Tentacles’ card from the game Hero Slam.

A game card from Hero Slam. It has an illustration of an octopus with big eyes and its enormous brain on show under a glass dome. It’s called ‘The Very Clever Octopus’

A stand full of Slick Pete’s car cleaning products

The game board from ‘I Saw It First Egypt’

An ‘art’ board with a penis on. It’s covered in duck egg blue silk and gold braid.

A sleepy ragdoll kitty

The same photo, only Taika has been added. He’s dressed as Zorro with a black eye mask and hat and his mouth is open wide between Rhys’ legs.

Stede Bonnet in his nightie and pink bird robe. He’s standing on the deck of The Revenge telling CJ to ‘get off his ship. Now’ and has a determined look on his beautiful face.

Stede Bonnet entering Spanish Jackie’z for the first time in his white suit - the caption reads: I have decided I am, in fact, a snack. It’s just that no one’s hungry.
Beneath is a picture of Ed looking desperate, with the caption: [under his breath] I’m starving.

Ed and Stede having a snake snack. Stede’s saying ‘that’s me’

A recent picture of me trying on glasses. I have curly brownish hair and the front sections are clipped back out of my face.

Stede Bonnet from OFMD. He’s just been gut stabbed.

A screenshot of a five star review that reads:

Hermit Wizard
*****
I didn't even know this was a LGBT bar when I arrived. I wasn't even gay when I got there. But after a great night of food, drink and men I sure am now! Great place.

Stede Bonnet in OFMD. He’s just been gut stabbed.

Me trying on some super cool retro glasses with a big cheesy grin on.

Stede, not Rhys, being ‘arrested’ outside 221b Baker Street

A screenshot from mobshity’s Instagram. They have shaggy long hair and are wearing a black something I don’t have a name for and chaps whilst chopping logs.

A cross stitch of a moon and clouds.

A screenshot of an Instagram post from nothinghappenedtoday. It features a handrawn schematic for a ‘sock resizer’ that looks suspiciously like something else. The caption reads:
Schematics for Dr. Harold Listrom's "Sock Circumference Resizer" -- a late-1800s invention designed for gently widening the opening of men's hosiery without damage or tears. For use when your delicate socks have become too tight and uncomfortable from lack of use. Just insert and twist the dial at the flared base -- An internal worm screw will expand the segments, lightly dilating the sock to a more relaxed fit.
Drawn with an extra-fine Rotring Art fountain pen with Platinum carbon ink on a 11x14" Strathmore 300 Bristol Board. #PenAndInk #Drawing #FountainPen #DrListrom

A screenshot of the RSVLTS website showing a yellow Powerline tracksuit from their Goofy Movie range.

A cross stitch bookmark with a smiling moon, a pumpkin with bat wings and a funny little bat guy.

A screenshot of an Instagram post from medievalistmatt that reads:
Aristocrat: I'm want an outfit that captures the smoldering intensity and raw masculine allure of street mimes.
Tailor: Sure. Anything else?
Aristocrat: It also needs to say: these legs don't quit.
Tailor: I got you.
Underneath there is two images of a blonde man in a striped jacket, ruff and white tights

Ed Teach with his huge Disney princess eyes.

Screenshot of a Thread from Jonathan Edward Durham
@thisone0verhere
I feel like most of my generation's trauma comes from some combination of The Neverending Story, The Land Before Time, that one episode of The X Files (you know the one) oh and then also 25 years of believing we're broken because we can't do actual magic to stay both informed and stable at the same time or whatever

“You beat Izzy Hands in a duel?” he asks, disbelieving.
“What? Like it’s hard?” Stede replies snootily, casually brushing some grime from his cuff.

A screenshot of a mannequin torso wearing an elaborate chain… thing.

A spinning name picker wheel revealing the winner as Fantail!

A photo of the book I found at the library called ‘Bored Gay Werewolf’. It’s resting on my lap and I’m holding a cuppa tea.

A flat lay of some of the materials included in my fic binding kit. including a punch cradle, awl, bone folder, spacers, ribbon, thread and end bands.