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She was young, he’d been right, and so small. She couldn’t have been much above five feet tall, and it certainly had been an odd sensation looking down at his new monarch. But there was a strength in her voice – a strength with a tremor, for sure, and a lot of fake confidence that anyone with any observational skills would see right through – but a strength that had surprised him, given her history. She hadn’t been completely cowed by Conroy, he thought a little triumphantly. There was a fire in her eyes, an eagerness to succeed, but a wariness. She couldn’t hide her fear, no matter how imperiously she looked at him, how high she held her chin.
Or, the one where Lord Melbourne becomes Private Secretary to a twenty-two-year-old Queen Victoria sometime in 2017.
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23 Dec 2024
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everything i've had but couldn't keep by eggysoupy
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
04 Feb 2024
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“Aziraphale,” Crowley said to wide blue eyes, “I’m in love with you.”
If he had any expectation of Aziraphale’s next words — and he did not, could not possibly conceive of any reaction, had never allowed himself to even imagine — it was certainly nothing close to this.
“Oh, Crowley,” Aziraphale said with a rush of breath. “Again?”
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Crowley confesses often. Each time is his first, and each time the last. If he didn’t know any better, he’d say someone was messing with his memories.
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03 Jun 2024
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The Truth Remains by WanderingAlice
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
09 Feb 2020
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Raphael had been the third angel ever created, and he’d raised himself first with Michael’s clumsy help. Then he’d turned around and raised three more siblings, and loved them all so fiercely it hurt. He'd loved Aziraphale too, more than either of them really knew.
And then, he fell. He lost everything. The bond he held with his siblings was ripped away, leaving an aching, empty void. And while he still has Aziraphale, the angel doesn't recognize the archangel who taught him how to care about the Earth. And Crowley refuses to tell him who he was, or how Aziraphale's voice is the one thing that can soothe the ache in his soul that wants, so badly, to feel a connection again.
A story through the ages as an angel and a demon come to terms with their shared past.
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- Part 1 of Fighting the Current
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29 Jan 2024
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Pretend For Me by LollipopCop
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
15 Dec 2020
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Crowley was still as stone beside him. His ears were cherry-red. “So...if we pretend we’re in a relationship, we’ll be safe.”
“I believe so.”
“And that would, that would involve, what?” he spoke hesitantly, softly. “Holding your hand, telling you that you mean a lot to me, kissing you for them to see?”
Two great hands were constricting Aziraphale’s lungs. He fought back an undignified wheeze. “Yes, I think so.”
“I can do that,” he croaked.
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In a panic, Aziraphale tells the archangels he survived hellfire due to his soul mixing with Crowley's because they're in a romantic and sexual relationship. They want him to prove it. Cue a fake relationship.Series
- Part 1 of Pretend For Me
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23 Dec 2023
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How to Woo a Demon by Bookwormgal for Kedreeva, wingedspirit
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
24 Feb 2020
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After Nope-mageddon, Aziraphale feels more confident and relaxed. He no longer feels like he needs to keep Crowley at arm's length for their own protection. He can finally tell Crowley that he cares about him more than "friendship" can describe.
But he doesn't want there to be any chance for miscommunication. But directly talking about feelings in the past with the demon tended to be uncomfortable, so he would need to be a little subtler than that. Of course, human flirting wouldn't work. They already enjoyed traditional human dating activities together, but only as friends. Aziraphale needed something that Crowley couldn't possibly misunderstand.
Well, perhaps he could research what counted as demonic methods of courting someone. That should be familiar enough for Crowley that he would understand Aziraphale's intentions. What could possibly go wrong?
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05 Dec 2023
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Stede just needed a new crew member. He didn't mean to steal the one man who would willingly kill them all and send his precious ship to the bottom of the sea.
Ed is an omega who has learned what the world has to offer someone like him. Stede is an alpha who never fit into the role society wrote for him. They ignore how they are drawn to each other in favor for trying to figure out a space where they both can thrive, all while being pursued by the Queen Anne's Revenge.
There's not really much hope for a future with Blackbeard coming for them, but then again, Stede's never really listened to the odds much before. And after two months with this odd captain and his strange crew, Ed is learning that he might not want to kill any of them anymore. Not even Stede. Especially not Stede.
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23 Jul 2023
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1718. Still the Golden Age of Piracy.
Now free from his old life, Stede Bonnet, aka the Gentleman Pirate, set course for his ship, his crew, and a life full of adventure alongside his newfound love, Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard.
Things did not go as planned...(Or my humble take on what could happen in season 2, directly following that heartbreaking finale.)
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02 Apr 2023
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Dash Yourself Upon the Rocks by triedunture for pinehutch
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
06 Jun 2022
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“The expedition on which we are about to embark will be perilous. Some of us may not make it back. Some of us— Ah, yes, Frenchie?”
“Yeah, I was wondering.” Frenchie lowered his hand. “Are we even sure the Kraken really exists?”
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Captain Stede Bonnet is on a hunt for the famed Kraken of legend. He doesn't find what he expects--in fact, Ed finds him first.
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03 Mar 2023
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Stede presented as an Alpha later in life (at the age of 42) and is forced to participate in an annual mating run. The results are definitely not what he expected, especially since an Omega by the name of Edward Teach (Blackbeard) finds him instead. And of course, lots of sexcapades and shenanigans follow.
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12 Jan 2023
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"And Ed could do little more than let out an awed sigh as his eyes once again took in what must be hundreds of books. Not even all of the books Stede has ever read. Just the select few he liked the most. Entire lifetimes within each tome. Love and loss and adventure and knowledge. For some reason, all just hitting him then.
Ed had never been particularly interested in books. He mostly associated reading with his mother's stern lessons over her well-worn bible, re-reading the same passages over and over again until they were forever burned into his memory."
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Ed becomes fascinated by the books that have informed the worldview of the even more fascinating Stede Bonnet.
Ed's mother taught him to read when he was a boy, but through a series of miscommunications, Stede ends up reading aloud to Ed nearly every night (with Ed willfully taking advantage of Stede's misunderstanding to spend more time with him).
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17 Dec 2022
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It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that a gentleman who is about to inherit a duchy must be in want of a wife. But Stede Bonnet is no typical gentleman. He has no care for women at all. Still, his father insists that he must choose a bride by the end of the social season, or he will be forced to marry and produce heirs with the bride chosen for him. Disgusted, Stede agrees to try to find a woman he can live with.
But at the first ball of the season, the women are so vapid - and so not male - that he can't bear the thought of marrying any of them. So he runs away from the ball, looking to escape, and finds himself in a pub owned by a gorgeous ex pirate, who retired from the sea due to an injury...
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04 Dec 2022
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pliocene by UnfortunatelyObsessed for Emi_theSassiestSousa, nerdykai128
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
30 May 2022
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“Well you’ve gone and fucked it up now, mate.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Fuckin' beg then, man, it's just ocean for miles.” Ed motions out to the waves, where there is no sign of any sort of ship, their small dinghy pulled far up on the sand. “I told you when the clouds look like seagulls you take fuckin' cover. Goddamn ocean mutinied me.”
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26 Nov 2022
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And there's a chance that things'll get weird. Yeah, that's a possibility. by pintpotjudas for postcardmystery
Fandoms: What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
28 Oct 2022
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Viago gets dumped by the love of his afterlife, and everyone does their level (terrible) best to help him move on. Anton knows a thing or two about not getting the life you thought you were going to have. The camera crew are back to film every moment of it. More or less.
“Katherine left Viago a note.” Deacon says, turning to the camera and making a face as a moan of anguish echoes from behind the closed door of Viago’s chamber. “It seems that she met a younger man at the bingo hall, and they have- well, not ‘run’ away, because I do not think he can run with that metal frame thing he has to use to get about but- they have left.”
A crash comes from inside the room, and then more heartbroken crying.
Deacon winces. “Vladislav is comforting him.”
“We could just kill her if you like-” Vladislav can be heard saying.
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22 Nov 2022
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Freemanji: A Love Story by bad_idea_in_a_glass
Fandoms: Free Guy (2021), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Movies)
15 Oct 2022
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Antwan is doing court-ordered community service when he comes across a busted game console. A spur-of-the-moment decision takes him on an adventure he never could've imagined and he realizes that not all NPCs are blue shirt-wearing dickheads that actively want to ruin his life.
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- Part 1 of Freemanji
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15 Nov 2022
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Ed has been captured, and there's no way he'll agree to be the consort of Prince Stede in exchange to free his captive men. But then he realizes getting close to a prince might get him close enough to kill his father the king.
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- Part 14 of Smutty Gentlebeard AU one shots
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11 Nov 2022
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“One might think that living a cursed existence is a bad thing. Objectively so, some might say!” Stede turned on his heel, coat swishing out dramatically behind him.
“One might also assume that being made to walk the earth - er - one little isle of it, for all the days and nights thereof ever and after and so on to be a miserable existence. And they may be right to say so! But!” Here he turned to his audience, “What’s the difference between a curse…and a blessing?” He looked enquiringly around the little beach. None of the animals strewn about it appeared to be listening.
“Anyone? Swede?”
The sea lion shrunk back a little guiltily, not meeting his gaze.
“Black Pete?”
There was a rude short from the scraggly hound.
“No one? Really?” Stede sighed. “Alright. The secret is…perspective!” He made a little flourish. “Ta da!” There was a despairing whine. He chose to ignore that.
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25 Oct 2022
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In light of recent twitter based events, I wanted to make the stupidest AU I could. For fun.
Stede is peanut butter. Ed is jelly. The crew is bread. Buttons is Buttons. A lot of metaphors and preaching happen while Buttons makes a PB&J.
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24 Oct 2022
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Talking things through as a crew is easier said than done, and honest communication has never really been Stede’s strong suit. When it comes to Ed, he is willing to try.
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02 Oct 2022
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Ed is an engineer aboard the Revenge, an interplanetary research vessel on a multi-year mission to study Jupiter's moon Europa. An accident requires that Ed awaken from cryostasis over six months early, and finds his only companion to be Stede, the ship's onboard AI. They develop an unconventional friendship, but is it possible to have more?
This is classic mutual pining with a sci-fi twist, inspired by all of my favorite stories about the nature of personhood.
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“You–” Ed was struggling to parse what Stede was saying. “You’re playing your version of this song for me, right now? Like, in real time?”“Yes, Edward, that’s correct,” said Stede softly.
Ed’s brain momentarily seized up. He supposed it made sense that Stede was capable of learning a set of rules to do something like arrange and play a piece of music. There was something unnerving about this song, though. It felt, well–it felt organic . Reactive. Almost collaborative in a way. Ed was lost in the push and pull of it, until the last notes softly petered out.
“So, what did you think?” asked Stede. It sounded nervous again. Why the hell would someone program an anxiety response into a bot?
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- Part 1 of Starry Eyes and Counting Down to Zero
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20 Sep 2022
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“Come here.” Ed puts his hand back behind Stede’s neck and pulls him close. “Listen, I know you said no sex, but… would you try it, just once, with me? I promise we’ll stop if it ever gets to be too much. Solemn vow.”
Stede stays silent for a moment. He thinks of Mary, not even meeting his eyes as they performed their marital duties. And he thinks of Ed, pulling back after their first kiss, gazing at him as if Stede were the most beautiful thing in the world.
“Alright,” he whispers.
*Stede doesn't like sex. At least, he thinks he doesn't, because he's never had sex with someone he's actually attracted to before. Ed very patiently teaches him that sex can actually be enjoyable. There is crying. Bon apetit.
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17 Sep 2022