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As a woman, Ed had always known what was expected of him. As a man, he can finally make his own choices.
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13 Nov 2025
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The man—Stede, Ed did hear Frenchie right, because his name tag says it right next to a sparkly ladybug sticker—gives Ed a little wave, just his fingers, even though Ed’s right there and they’re already talking. Cute. Ed mirrors it. “I’m an apprentice. Jim’s teaching me. I know I’m older than them but, well, you could say it’s kind of a new passion? They’ve just recently set me loose without supervision.”
That checks out. The guy doesn’t have many piercings, just a large hoop in one of his earlobes and a tiny stud shaped like a flower in his nose. No tattoos that Ed can see, either. Not that any of that is required to be a piercer, but it’s pretty strange to see an employee at a place like this who hasn’t already used a good portion of his body as a canvas. Stede’s skin, in comparison, is blank. Untouched.
Not that Ed is going to be weird about that or anything.
Ed meets a guy who's probably the love of his life when he's getting a new piercing, and then he somehow manages to fuck it all up. Or does he?
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08 Sep 2025
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Ed Teach had made a name for himself, that was for certain; a celebrity ad man among a sea of gray suits. And that was why the suggestion to bring him in was absolutely absurd.
“He’d never work here. He’s too good, plus he doesn’t tie himself down.”
“There’s that can-do spirit I’ve always heard about!” Lucius jokes.
“We could at least try,” Jim presses.
There’s no way. “It’s not even what he does,” Stede tries to remind them, but he can already tell which way the tide is turning.
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It's 1964, and Stede Bonnet runs a small but mighty ad firm in New York City. When their creative director suddenly quits, his agency reaches out to an unconventional replacement.
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A Mad Men-inspired AU
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05 Aug 2025
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Whatever Happened to Blackbeard? by PerpendicularPotato
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
25 Jun 2025
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Edward blinked at the piece of paper in his hands.
It was one of his old wanted posters. The one with the big nose and the crazy eyes and the writing on the back.
They had all had crazy eyes though, hadn’t they?
This specific one however had been re-titled in bright red paint ‘The Gentleman Pirate’s Bitch’. And underneath—presumably in thoughtful consideration for the wide-spread illiteracy amongst pirates—there was a crude drawing (in both senses of the word) helpfully illustrating that very statement.
It's been a few years—post-piracy, post-myth, post-Blackbeard—and despite all odds, Edward has done the work and found peace.
But the world never got to witness the legend’s grand downfall, so now they just won't stop poking the corpse and drawing dicks on its face.
And for some reason, this time... Edward just can’t look away.
The celebration of a life post-public gaze, the reclamation of narrative and the most meta revenge-hatefuck fantasy imaginable—staged by two soft fucking lunatics in love.
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06 Jul 2025
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“This luck is a gift,” she told him once, right in front of her fireplace as she sewed up the hole in grandpa’s pants that just kept ripping. “This luck brought me here, and it brought me your momma. And, it brought me you.”
“But what is it?” he’d asked in turn.
“It’s a feeling. You know it in your heart, and your heart finds what it’s looking for.” She kissed his temple. “What you are looking for.”
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Twenty-two-year-old Edward Teach treks through miles of snow in search of a village for food, but the pull in his chest guides him somewhere else entirely: a tower in the woods.
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14 Jun 2025