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Stede’s been picking up on it for a while, Ed’s hesitance to share when he’s upset, or worried, or feeling hurt. They’ve managed to talk a few things out by now, namely that they’d give pirating a break, that they wanted to do it together.
That had been huge, actually. Still – he can’t help but feel that Ed’s walking on eggshells, as though the wrong words might spook Stede into fleeing.
Deep down Stede knows he won’t, neither of them will, but yeah – he knows the feeling. They’ve still got a lot of talking to do.
Just needs a little elbow grease.
“I love you,” he whispers, sliding even closer, lightly carding his fingers through Ed’s hair.
The forced smile relaxes into a real one, warm and pleased. “Love you.”
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Ed and Stede have some work to do on the inn…among other things. They’re up for the challenge.
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- Part 1 of So We’re Innkeepers, Then?
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13 May 2026
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Sometimes friendships come in all different shapes and sizes. You also never know what or who they may lead to.
A chance encounter at the park has more of an impact on Ed's life than he could ever truly imagine.
Inspired by the book and film, “About A Boy.” The title of this fic is also taken from the song “Something To Talk About,” by Badly Drawn Boy.
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- Part 1 of A lot to talk about
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12 May 2026
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Wrote this a few months ago from a silly idea. I'll just keep reading it over and over if I don't rip the bandage off and post it. My first and most likely only fic (really ficlet/idea). It's really short, but if you decide to read it, hope it's not too terrible.
So,
First love feels pretty fucking weird, and who better to talk to about it with besides your friend?
It begins just as their glasses clink in Stede's cabin at the end of S1.E7Bookmarked by CC_443
11 May 2026
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Historians Will Not Say They Were Very Good Friends by hecatesthirdface
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
24 Apr 2026
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In the spring of 1897, Stede Bonnet hired a rag-tag crew to renovate his family’s long-abandoned estate in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Among this crew was groundskeeper Edward Teach. Eager to stay updated on the project, Stede began a regular correspondence with Ed.
Years later, upon the discovery of their correspondence carefully tucked away in a clothes-stuffed closet of the manor, historians concluded that they were not, in fact, just very good friends.
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04 May 2026
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It’s summer of 1928 in northern England. Edward Teach is a thief of some renown and skill, making a good living with his friend Izzy and their gang. But things go awry when his gang joins forces with Calico Jack and Ed is forced into hiding in a castle owned by Stede Bonnet. Will Stede discover he is harboring a criminal? Will Stede turn him in to the authorities? Or will Stede become the treasure Ed is most afraid to lose?
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02 May 2026
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i don't know anything (but i know i miss you) by ShowMeAHero
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
28 Mar 2022
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“What the hell’s happened to you?” Stede demands. It’s his voice, in his body, and he almost seems living, and it’s— It has to be the last thing Ed ever sees. He has to die with him burned on the insides of his eyelids.
Stede’s eyes are tracking over him, rising up to meet his eyes, locking with him. It feels so real. He can’t help the hysterical laugh that comes up and out of him, impossibly grateful for this last delusion.
Without hesitating, he lurches forward, grabbing Stede and yanking him into his arms. Stede makes a confused noise of protest, briefly, but it fades instantly and his arms come up, too, wrapping around Ed without hesitation. He doesn’t smell the same; instead, he’s all salt and sweat and sun, baked into his skin. Ed buries his face in his hair, fingers clawing at the impossibly real feel of him, the hallucination made solid in his arms.
“Thank fuck,” Ed says into his hair, voice breaking. “I didn’t want to die without seeing you one last time.”
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28 Apr 2026
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Stede was about to sigh more, to offer up further theatrics, to playfully banter as they so often did…
Yet one word, a single word, seemed to carry more moment-shattering power than the entire crew combined. World-shattering power, really.
Because…what had Ed called him?
Stede is caught off-guard when Ed uses a new pet name on him, one that hits a little too close to home.
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24 Apr 2026
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Salvage diver Ed Teach is no stranger to the story of Blackbeard and the Queen Anne's Revenge- after all, the famous pirate is a distant ancestor. But then Professor Stede Bonnet, maritime archaeologist and many-times-great-grandson of the original, waltzes through the door of his shop and requests his services in finding the wreck. What are the odds?
Ed's had enough of the cutthroat world of salvage diving, and he's this close to leaving it all behind. But Bonnet's quest sparks an interest he hasn't felt in years, and he agrees to help the oddly charming man. Nothing to do with the fact that the Queen Anne might just be the last treasure trove Ed needs to escape his life. Definitely nothing to do with the way Bonnet's cheerful enthusiasm makes his heart skip a beat.
Together they'll hunt for the wreck... and then they'll reckon with what comes next.
COMPLETE!
SEQUEL/ PREQUEL NOW COMPLETE! Here Be Monsters.
PODFIC NOW AVAILABLE from the amazing Kninjaknitter, here.
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- Part 1 of Finders Keepers
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11 Apr 2026
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Ed and Stede can never get up on time. They decide to get an alarm clock each. Things do not go as planned.
Or: perfectionism, self-care, reciprocity, sharing-the-load, and just letting go.
I don't write fiction normally, but this came to me in a dream, so here we are.
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04 Apr 2026
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Of course the travel agency had chosen to send Ed on this work trip with his recently hired, newly divorced, absolutely devastatingly handsome colleague that he totally did not have a crush on.
But he couldn’t exactly hit on his coworker when they were stuck for weeks together in another country, despite the fact that it was actively driving him insane to be in such close proximity to him all the time.
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When Ed and Stede get lost in Iceland, they happen upon an eerie place, and have to deal with the consequences of being poisoned by a strange substance (cuddle pollen, it's cuddle pollen).
OFMD AUpril Day 8: Supernatural – Medicine – Fae/Folklore
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01 Apr 2026
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Floating in Your Waves of Light by bUtterscUp, Smolbus
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
27 Aug 2025
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Wealthy landowner turned lighthouse keeper Stede Bonnet has been dreaming of going out to sea. Those dreams are definitely not getting any weaker when he finds a pen pal, a mysterious seaman named Jeff. One morning, after a stormy night, Stede finds a man lying on the beach, injured and half-drowned. But as he nurses the man back to health, Stede starts to suspect that this man is not really a stranger to him at all, and perhaps so much more...
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22 Mar 2026
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Picture Taken Moments Before Disaster by serpent_and_dahlia
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
20 Nov 2024
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Stede felt fizzy and golden, like a champagne bottle someone had shaken up. Full of wild, unfamiliar urges. He wanted to lie down on top of Ed, smother him with the full press of his body weight. He wanted to twist the length of his hair into a rope and then bite down on it like a horse’s bit. He wanted to duck his nose into Ed’s armpit and spend the rest of his life only breathing that specific, delicious musk straight from the source. He wanted to shrink down to the size of beetle and crawl inside Ed’s bellybutton. He wanted to bite the very tip of Ed’s perfect, beautiful nose.
Maybe they should skip Jackie’z, just go straight back to the ship? Back to bed. Stede could feel his face heating, just thinking about it—a reflexive sort of shame. But there was nothing to be ashamed of, was there? He was allowed to have these sort of thoughts about Ed—he’d probably encourage it!
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The morning after Calypso's Birthday, Ed and Stede walk to Spanish Jackie'z to grab that drink, and Stede briefly considers making better choices.
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19 Mar 2026
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All The Things We Should Have Said by CommunionNimrod
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
30 Oct 2023
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Don’t you want to kill the fucker who did this?
Yeah. Yeah he does. But it’s … well, it’s kinda fuckin’ complicated now, isn’t it?~
My take on the conversation Ed and Stede would have had between Zheng's offer to team up to the final scene of the season 2 finale.
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19 Mar 2026
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Five years after her father is killed first by a jungle cat, then by a carriage, and then by a falling piano, Alma Bonnet decides that his absence in her life is, quite frankly, complete horse shit. Obviously the only way to find him is to run away and become a pirate. Because that makes complete and total sense.
Somehow, it doesn't end with her dead.
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19 Mar 2026
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Ed Teach is a beloved librarian with a secret. Stede Bonnet is a volunteer reader who is feeling a bit aimless after his recent move. When they meet at Ed’s Saturday Storytime event, it seems inevitable that these two will become friends. But can they become something more?
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11 Mar 2026
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It has been six months since Stede Bonnet last saw Edward Teach.
Six months since Stede met him.
Got to know him.
Kissed him.
Made love to him.
Watched him leave.
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- Part 2 of After the Fall
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09 Mar 2026
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Edward Teach is starting over. He’s got a new house on the beach, he’s got freshly painted walls, but he’s got no furniture in the living room. Just when he thinks he’ll never find anything that suits the new him, he happens upon the perfect living room set. And it’s just sitting there, on the side of the road! What sort of lunatic would abandon perfectly good teal velvet furniture?!
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08 Mar 2026
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At first, Ed thinks (hopes) that maybe it’s dead. Part of his new optimistic approach, you see. The power of positive thinking.
Maybe it’s dead.
It’s probably dead.
It looks dead.
How can you tell if a spider is dead?
Gingerly, Ed grabs the corner of the blanket on the ground, which has been acting as Ed’s mattress/pillow/sheet for the past few days, and gives it a sharp flick.
The spider is not dead.
(OR: An exploration of Ed's arachnophobia, which just might be symbolic of something else. Ed-centric feels, humour and loving stede/ed - mind the tags! Season 2 spoilers!)
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07 Mar 2026
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Newly out of the closet Stede Bonnet is looking for love after a 20-year arranged marriage, but Ed Teach is a lone wolf who doesn't "do" romance.
So Ed and Stede are just friends! Really good friends! Best friends, even! And they're definitely not going to date. Well, not each other anyway - Stede’s actually going on lots of dates! How else is he going to find a boyfriend by Lucius’s impending wedding?
And Ed? He’s totally cool and supportive and not at all jealous.
Will Ed’s past heartbreak keep him from a Happy Ever After? Will Stede admit that no one compares to Ed? Will they find a sleeveless tux for Pete before it’s too late?
Find out in “Let It Once Be Me” - a romantic comedy by Writer Hardly Know Her.
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06 Mar 2026
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(It Won't Be) Lonely This Christmas by ourflagmeansbex
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
13 Dec 2023
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(Modern AU) Stede Bonnet is newly divorced and starting a brand new chapter of his life, alone. He knows this transition is for the best, even if he does feel a little lonely sometimes in his new apartment, especially over the holidays...
He certainly doesn't expect to have such an intriguing upstairs neighbour as Edward Teach.
And he certainly doesn't expect a chain of events to lead to having Christmas Dinner with him. As well as Ed's menacing ex...
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28 Feb 2026