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over my head (but it sure feels nice) by daydreamcrash
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
02 Apr 2024
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For all he knows, there could be hundreds of these missed connections.
Well, hundreds might be a little overzealous… But the point is, dammit, that Stede could, if he very well wanted to, be a player. Or at least, like, a seasoned lover. An aficionado of romance. If he only knew when someone was flirting with him.
(or: The first time that Ed made a pass at Stede, Stede was completely oblivious to it. At a friend's party, he gets another chance.)
Bookmarked by Michelle853
20 Jul 2025
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It’s the summer of 1959, and classics professor Stede Bonnet is determined to become a new man. He’s made two monumental changes so far: he’s resigned his position at the University of Chicago, where he has taught for his entire career, and he’s left his wife Mary, to whom he has been married for nine years. Now he’s off to the only place in the United States where you can get a no-fault divorce: the deserts of Nevada. He’s checking in to a so-called Divorce Ranch just outside of Reno, where he’ll spend the requisite six weeks establishing residency. After that, it’s off to California to assume his new teaching position and his new life.
It's the summer of 1959. Ed Teach has been living in Reno since he was a teenager. He's a radio DJ, an artist, a handyman and a fixture of the community, particularly popular in the underground gay nightlife scene that is still recovering from the brutal vice raids of the McCarthy era.
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- Part 1 of From Reno, With Love
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- English
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- 86,000
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- 12/12
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Bookmarked by Michelle853
19 Mar 2025
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This came from my own prompt: "Fanfic idea where Stede and Ed go on a date, Ed really likes Stede, but he's not so sure about dating a guy with kids. So they decide to just be friends. And it's easy and it's wonderful. Until Stede starts dating a guy who says he loves kids, but Ed KNOWS he's lying."
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16 Dec 2024
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Stede and Ed - in a flash of either stupidity or genius - come up with a plan to pose as a couple for the holidays. This way, Stede could avoid being set up by Lucius as well as having to come up with a reason why his mysterious partner suddenly wouldn't make the Christmas party Lucius is hosting. It should be easy, in theory. It's only for the party, and maybe the odd time Stede and Ed are seen together in the days leading up to the event.
Except, of course, it isn't.
Because not only does this simple plan get painfully out of hand from the onset, they've been in love with each other for years. They just never told one another. And, they don't intend to.A modern day holiday romcom.
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- English
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- 13/13
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Bookmarked by Michelle853
28 Jul 2024
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Edward was a little bit of a stuffy, old fashioned name. And Teach, well, that made Stede think of a professor. And however silly that kind of assumption may be, when he had spotted this man’s name in the listings, he’d pictured a bespectacled man in a cardigan, not… Well.
Written for the tumblr prompt "nanny/single parent au".
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- English
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- 65,844
- Chapters:
- 11/11
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- 574
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12 Jun 2024
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Let The Rain Kiss You by BonnetPetit for ListingToPort
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
22 Oct 2023
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Ed has been in love with Stede since the moment they met. However, since the moment they met was Ed offering Stede a tattoo apprenticeship under the famous artist Blackbeard, he hasn't been able to do anything about it. But while he can't pursue anything romantic with Stede, Ed can be his friend, and what an incredible friendship they have. Best friends, and Ed's never had one of those before. Not one who really sees him, anyway. It's why he still can't tell Stede he's in love with him, even when he leaves to open his own tattoo studio, because what if he ruins everything? The last thing Ed wants is to lose his best friend.
But dinner, an unexpected fight and a getting caught in the rain creates a perfect storm, and Ed learns that hidden feelings have a way of making themselves known.
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10 Jun 2024
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Other People's Holidays by MarriedState (passingfair)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
22 Sep 2023
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When Stede's holiday plans keep getting canceled, his new office crush offers to let him come and spend the holidays with him and his family. Which will definitely be totally fine and normal, two adult men who certainly don't have feelings for each other, staying in one's childhood home, when they've interacted roughly three times before. Not unusual at all.
- Language:
- English
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- 36,252
- Chapters:
- 9/9
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- 1
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- 927
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Bookmarked by Michelle853
20 Jan 2024
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Ed had met Mary when they were both freshman in college. Well Ed wasn't exactly enrolled, but Mary would always prop the window open so Ed could listen to the lectures about painting. He had never even thought about marriage before Mary had told him about her upcoming nuptials, since then it had been on his mind a lot. But the consideration of finding someone he would want to marry all changed when he met Stede.
He locked eyes with the most well-dressed man he had ever seen in his life, and he was walking straight towards Ed. His heart stammered at the small smile he received from the blonde and he nearly passed out when he came to the bar next to Ed. Ed couldn't even think of anything to say before he felt a hand on his shoulder, matching the one he saw land on his newfound crush. They both turn to see Mary forcing a smile. "Ah good Ed you finally got to meet my husband, Stede. Stede, this is Ed, the friend from art school I was telling you about."
Thus began the most heart aching 15 years of Ed’s life.
Bookmarked by Michelle853
13 Jan 2024
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Ed is the faculty coach for the academic competition Erudicious. He is going to crush his rival Stede Bonnet at the finals this weekend.
...metaphorically.
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- Part 38 of Smutty Gentlebeard AU one shots
- Language:
- English
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- 8,609
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by Michelle853
30 Dec 2023
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Stede Bonnet has just moved into Orange Crescent. There’s a house on the corner, opposite Stede’s own, with a garden full of flowers and a gleaming motorbike on the driveway. He’s forgotten to buy sugar.
Edward Teach has his morning disturbed by his new neighbour. Enamoured at first sight, he invites Stede round for a chat, and then another, and then another.
This is the story of them.
- Language:
- English
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- 48,280
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Comments:
- 686
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Bookmarked by Michelle853
10 Jun 2023
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Edward Teach has been running Queen Anne's Flowers for nearly twenty years and he's bored out of his skull. It's the same arrangements, the same people, day in and day out and nothing ever changes in this seaside town. Anything new or different is gone in a matter of months.
So when a new tattoo/piercing shop opens up next door, Ed thinks it'll be just another business that will go under quickly. It's a direct rival to his friend Izzy's shop, and he makes a promise to stay away. But Ed finds himself drawn to the enigmatic owner and his eclectic shop and staff that are nothing like anything he's ever experienced before.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 38,013
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 179
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- 426
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- 75
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- 5,899
Bookmarked by Michelle853
11 Feb 2023
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Ed Teach is a brilliant student. And twenty three years old.
Ed Teach is dazzlingly beautiful. And twenty three years old.
Ed Teach had admitted to Stede in office hours that afternoon he found older men very attractive. Ed Teach had said this as his remarkable eyes rolled up and down Stede’s body. Ed Teach had leaned forward and the low, tattered scoop of his fashionable sleeveless shirt had revealed two flashing pieces of jewelry in each of his nipples.
And Ed Teach is twenty three years old.
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- Part 24 of Smutty Gentlebeard AU one shots
Bookmarked by Michelle853
05 Feb 2023
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“You’re looking for… what, a bisexual woman, right? A bisexual woman, who you’ve never met and don’t need to form any attachments to, who’s looking to get laid, who finds both you and your wife attractive, who both you and your wife are attracted to, who you can take home for a whirlwind one-night stand to spice up your marriage?”
“... Yes?”
“Yeah, we call that a Unicorn.”
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Or, Stede and Mary go looking for a three-way to save their marriage. Ed helps.
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- English
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- 9,541
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- 1/1
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- 4,432
Bookmarked by Michelle853
06 Dec 2022
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Ed has a mostly work-from-home office job. He is rich and successful, but he hates it. And it’s not the job; he just hates working. Always has, always will. A bright spot comes into his dreary, digital world when a new coworker, Stede Bonnet, shows up on screen during a biweekly committee call. A work crush might spice things up. But before he can act on said crush, Ed has to figure out if Stede hates working as much as he does. (An office AU but not a "The Office" AU.)
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03 Dec 2022
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Only once they were out of sight of the café did the man stop and take his arm away, giving Stede a sheepish little grin. “Looked like you needed rescuing back there,” he said, and then held out his free hand. “I’m Ed.”
Stede, still a little dumbfounded, grasped Ed’s hand in a weak shake. “Stede. Stede Bonnet. I’ll pay you back for the tea, I promise. I get paid next week.”
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A modern AU where Ed saves Stede from embarrassment in a café, and then suddenly accidental sugar daddy happens. This is a prompt fill from the OFMD kink meme, the fic is all complete and a new chapter will be posted weekly.
ETA: A podfic version of this fic, read by the incomparable SD_Ryan, is available here!
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 57,695
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Collections:
- 6
- Comments:
- 1,416
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- 1,785
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- 526
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- 34,349
Bookmarked by Michelle853
13 Nov 2022
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When Ed first hears about the new gay bar in the area, he doesn't put much thought into it.
But whatever he'd been expecting, it wasn't this.
- Language:
- English
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- 6,465
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- 1/1
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- 1
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- 36
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- 539
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- 62
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- 2,743
Bookmarked by Michelle853
12 Nov 2022
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Lighthouse Bookshop had been there seemingly since time immemorial. Over forty years at that spot, sitting proud, a beacon at the heart of the community, and when the old owner decides to sell, it's the perfect vessel for Stede's odd restlessness.
And the building is connected to a famous cocktail bar run by a mad genius behind the stick.
One problem: Stede's still married.
ETA: Podfic available thanks to the inimitable KninjaKnitter at this link
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- Part 1 of sleeves touching sleeves
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 55,338
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Collections:
- 9
- Comments:
- 1,021
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- 1,855
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- 649
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- 30,433
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12 Nov 2022
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On Brand: How to Pirate Your Way to Greatness by bitchbusy
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
17 Oct 2022
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Ed's a famous marketing agency owner who's bored of the trade. Stede's a sad corporate marketer who's recently divorced. Stede accidentally texts Ed and sexting ensues. Featuring way too much information about marketing strategy, dirty talk as far as the eye can see, and a fluffy ending.
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- Part 1 of On Brand
Bookmarked by Michelle853
18 Oct 2022
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A modern AU in which Ed is a glassblower, because glassblowing is sexy. Ed/Stede medium burn, E rating applies from chapter 4 onwards.
Stede's life is boring, flat, made up of things he didn't choose for himself. He commissions some glass art from Ed as an anniversary gift for Mary, and Stede starts to learn what it is like to want things for himself.
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“Hey, it’s blond guy!”
“Uh,” Stede looks up to see leather and purple and strikingly tumbling hair. “Hi. Stede Bonnet. Blond guy?”
“Yeah man, I’ve seen you in the shop, I call you Blond Guy in my head. Good to have a proper name for you, Stede. I’m Ed.”
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 50,552
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Collections:
- 7
- Comments:
- 830
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- 2,019
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- 31,534
Bookmarked by Michelle853
16 Oct 2022
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Stede is ready to 'get back out there' after his divorce, but he's more than a little bit intimidated by the concept of online dating. After a series of truly terrible first dates, he's close to giving up on love altogether. Perhaps he's too old for all this Grindr nonsense.
And then, along comes a bartender called Edward Teach.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 42,669
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Comments:
- 671
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- 4,459
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- 1,153
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- 64,246
Bookmarked by Michelle853
02 Oct 2022