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Ed's tattoos have stories to tell.
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“Now, close your eyes. Try not to think about anything.”
Stede wonders what kind of game this is, exactly. Ed’s skin is warm as ever under his hand and it’s silly, but he fancies he can feel the small crosses and pin-prick stars as warmer still, heating up against his palm.
The pulse in Ed’s thumb beats in time with the pulse in Stede’s wrist.
Ed starts to hum. It’s a low rumble, gently swooping between deep tones; the design under Stede’s hand gets hotter and hotter. It feels red and sharp. Stede feels the vibration of Ed’s humming inside him as though it’s coming from his own chest.
Stede’s eyes are closed but he sees—feels—knows the room around him is receding. The walls are rushing away. The gentle rocking isn’t the Revenge riding the ocean swell, but their bed floating amongst waves. He can smell a sharp sting of salt and feel a biting wind on his cheeks.
Ed speaks, but the humming doesn’t stop. “Can you see it?”
He can.
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27 Nov 2023
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Edward had scrubbed that fool’s presence from the ship—or so Izzy had assumed. But then he arrived at the captain’s cabin and found Edward clutching a familiar bundle of blue silk. He thrust it at Izzy, and for a moment Izzy thought, happily, that he was being given the honor of disposing of this final trace.
Instead Edward ordered, “Put these on.”
(Or: the inevitable fic where Ed convinces Izzy to roleplay as Stede.)
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26 Sep 2022
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Ed didn't move except to prop his hands behind his head, seeming to give Izzy free rein to do as he pleased. Izzy wasn't fooled though. He'd been given a specific task and any deviation from it, even when Ed was this relaxed, would only end badly for them both. Oh, Izzy wanted it to end badly. They weren’t like the men who could lean shoulder-to-shoulder on cold nights, or shared hammock space easy as sharing a flask. The crack of Ed's fist was the most Izzy could hope for and if he was lucky, truly blessed for a night, Ed would strip off his gloves and land the blow against Izzy's cheek—not a single bit of leather between them.
For a moment, Izzy considered doing something to stoke that rage... until he realized it wasn't necessary.
The smoke must have been getting to him too. Ed's pants-leg was still drawn up above his knee, bare skin glittering like gold.
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Kinkmeme fill for Izzy taking care of Ed's knee over the years. Link to prompt in the author's notes!
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25 Sep 2022
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Being stranded on a desert island was a novel idea when he was reading about it – especially the flowery romance novels that he keeps on the top shelf, where he could keep them away from judgemental eyes. He’d spent more than one afternoon reading about luxurious castles made of leaves and trees, of songs and music and love found while being utterly lost. There’d even been a dream or two of Edward ravishing him on the sand, just the two of them in their own little world.
The reality is rather… unpleasant.
Most unpleasantly, he’s stuck here with Izzy.
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06 Sep 2022
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“I know you have no reason to trust me,” Ed says, eyes sad.
“Give it a rest, Stede. I tried to kill your friends. You want to get into bed with that? I knew you were a fucking lunatic, but that’s just suicidal, mate. It’s fucking over.”“But I am going to do everything in my power to get you and your crew through this.”
_____________________________When Stede finally returns to the Revenge, Ed won’t hear his apologies. It takes a deadly storm to bring down his walls and bring them back together.
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02 Sep 2022
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“You wouldn’t want flowers in your hair, would you, Izzy?” Edward asks, voice dropping into the soft, musical cadence that Izzy associates with his calmest moods.
“Not really, no.”
“What if I told you to?” Still low, still gentle.
“Then I’d put fucking flowers in my hair, Edward, what—”
“Will you come to the party if I tell you to?”(Or: Izzy gets to go to the ball.)
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31 Aug 2022
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Izzy looks to Edward, mouth working helplessly.
“Just let it happen, mate,” Ed suggests.
“I was hoping,” Stede continues, a little irritated by the lack of support, “that you’d let me—and Ed—know if there’s anything we could be doing differently, to make you more comfortable.”(Or: How Izzy Hands learned to stop worrying and love his co-captains.)
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- Part 1 of love like a powder keg
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05 Aug 2022
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Izzy has always been proud of his ability to give Blackbeard what he needs, no matter how exhausting that can be.
Edward has always assumed he was giving Izzy what he wanted, and that Izzy would tell him if it went too far.
Neither of them realize how bad it's gotten, until Stede proposes trying something different.
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A fic where Ed and Izzy make basically every BDSM mistake in the book, and Stede has to help them start from scratch.
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- Part 1 of Steddy Hands Kink Verse
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01 Aug 2022
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and if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away by Jack_R
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
11 Apr 2022
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‘Blackbeard said that,’ Izzy says. ‘Fucking Blackbeard told you to tell me to get you fucking pistachios.’
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01 Aug 2022
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“You little shit,” he wheezes. Voice half gone, blood vessels burst in his eyes, but still, somehow, hanging on. “Should’ve killed you in your crib. Unnatural, you are. She tricked me.”
Edward Teach, born on a beach. Literally.
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06 Jul 2022
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It's killing him. Ed's killing him.
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06 Jul 2022
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Stede stands on the warm sand at the beach, stripped of his luxurious coat and impractical shoes, his hair pushed off his face from where he'd slicked it back while using seawater to clean away the pigs blood. He breathes deeply and takes a moment to grieve the life he's about to leave behind for good.
Just a moment, and a moment only.
He closes his eyes against the warmth of the setting sun, and inhales the salty spray of water as a wave crashes on the shore; the ocean advancing and receding, beckoning him forward.
Calling him home.
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- Part 2 of on a homeward path we go
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06 Jul 2022
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In which Stede Bonnet discovers his inner sadist, Izzy Hands discovers care & love as it fits him, and Ed gets to be as soft as he's ever wanted to be. Just not without a few scars along the way.
Post season 1 reunion fic with a focus on Stizzy/Gentlehands as a leadup to eventual Steddy Hands. Accuracy around history, piracy, and medicine are on the backburner. It's eventually very hopeful and loving, I think, but it takes a little while to get there. Check the notes at the beginning (and beginnings of each chapter) for more trigger/content warnings.
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05 Jul 2022
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“What are you doing?” Izzy manages, his voice is very strange in his ears, like it’s coming from someone miles and miles away.
“Marrying you!” Ed laughs. Like it’s nothing. Like it’s a great bloody joke. “Don’t worry," he winks, "can divorce me soon as we get the discount on this fucking room."
Or how Edward Teach gave Izzy Hands a ring that he still hasn't managed to take off.
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02 Jul 2022
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Izzy rubbed a finger against the little tattoo under his eye, and remembered the promise he’d made a lifetime ago, to a young man with fire and smoke in his eyes and a beard as black as ink. A promise of devotion, of mine, yours, until the bitter end.
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02 Jul 2022
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"Dark Fate?" says Stede, making sure to pronounce the capitals.
"Very effective for star-crossed lovers. And at a bargain price, if I do say so myself. A potent mixture of unspeakably rare ingredients, brewed under a new moon, which will drag you through the depths of your own soul in search of difficult truths, and leave the undeserving to drift forever in a dreamscape of torment and emotional agony!"
"What?" says Stede. "No! That sounds awful!"
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27 Jun 2022
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The thing is, when you’re Blackbeard you’ve got kind of a reputation to uphold. When you captain a ship, when you lead a crew, when people look up to you, tell stories, build a legend – parts of that legend are always more accurate than others.
And maybe you just let it slide, some of the things people say. Some of the things they assume. Maybe you swagger around and wear black leather and are a handsy bastard and let the stories tell themselves.
Maybe you don't want to talk about it.
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08 Jun 2022
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“So you…” Ed trails off, clearly not sure if he saw what he saw. “You made a deal with a sea-witch.”
“Yes.”
“In exchange for a tentacle dick.”
“To find what I needed to find,” Stede corrects, face flushing at Ed’s response. “And yes, in exchange for a tentacle cock. And today it’s proven it comes with a warning system as well.”
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In which no one sails to Blind Man's Cove because Stede has a new magical instinct that serves as a warning system and also means he has a tentacle dick.
It's a lot to take for Ed, but Ed wants to give it a go.
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30 May 2022
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a little backup (in case the scene gets nasty) by oopshidaisy
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
28 May 2022
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“He’s not fucking dying,” Izzy insisted, like he could hold death at bay with the sheer force of his ire. Maybe he could. It would go a long way towards explaining how he’d survived so long despite pissing off everyone he met, which was something Ed had always wondered about.
(Or: Ed gets stabbed. Izzy handles it well.)
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28 May 2022
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23 May 2022