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nothing else could come between by yaz113 for Trashdog13
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
09 Oct 2025
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An ill-advised one-night stand with frat boy Jack Rackham sparks a torrid affair, one that no one—least of all Stede Bonnet—is prepared for. What starts as a reckless fling quickly leads to unintended consequences, and soon, Stede finds himself facing a future he never expected.
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24 Sep 2025
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Finally, at 43, pop star Edward Teach is about to get his fairytale ending. He’s got the perfect guy—handsome, kind, patient, and most importantly: crazy about Ed. When his boyfriend proposes, it should be an easy yes, yes, a million times yes! There’s just one problem. Ed’s kinda sorta already married, and he hasn’t spoken to the guy in seventeen years.
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22 Sep 2025
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Edward Teach doesn't have an anger problem. At least, he doesn't think he has an anger problem until a road rage incident ends in a car wreck that takes Izzy's leg. When Izzy takes his life, Edward reaches rock bottom.
Six years later, and Edward is getting better. He is in love with Stede Bonnet and going to therapy when his therapist recommends a group for people with anger problems. At least, Edward thinks he is getting better.
Meanwhile, Stede decides the supportive thing to do is be there for Ed, even if it means volunteering at the soup kitchen run by Roach that just so happens to be held at the same time as Ed's meetings. As Ed tries to heal, Stede finds himself struggling to save the homeless people that come to the kitchen - especially one dark man with a missing leg.
(Tags will change as the story unfolds, I promise)
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24 Jun 2025
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Ed and Stede broke something they'd barely had. When Alma asks for their help to drive her cranky chihuahua halfway across the country, they both agree to see each other again. But figuring out what went wrong will require untangling the strands of the past.
Collaboration with art from Sailor’s Ruin.
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10 Jun 2025
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Houseboat-owning divorcé Stede is coerced by his coworker Lucius into joining Bumble, where he matches with former boxer/current gym owner Edward. They have a disastrous first date where they run into Izzy, Ed’s reformed ex from a decade ago (their relationship was mutually toxic, but not nearly as toxic as canon).
Stede is certain that Ed and Izzy still love each other and they were the right person at the wrong time, Ed is convinced that the apparent hatred between Izzy and Stede could actually be love, and Izzy thinks he must help Ed and Stede figure out that they’re good for each other because they’re too stupid to do it themselves. Meanwhile, Stede wants to learn how to be gay, Ed has a crisis over men in skirts, and Izzy learns friendship from his homophobic dog. Chaos ensues.
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- Part 7 of Soft Steddyhands
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08 Apr 2025
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Ed had been enjoying the rut he was spending with this Omega, Stede. He was funny and cute and incredibly hot--and they had enough fun that Ed might've been thinking about asking him out after everything was done.
Until an accidental slip up resulted in Ed biting Stede and mating him.
Thanks to threats from Stede's dad, they can't get it removed for three months. So Stede asks the Alpha to pose as his actual mate in the meantime.
Is three months enough for Ed to convince Stede to wear his bite for real?
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21 Mar 2025
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- Part 6 of Our Flag Means Omegaverse
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15 Mar 2025
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What is an omega who isn't allowed to be an omega? What sort of omega marries a female beta in the hopes of saving the family name? Stede Bonnet knows he's about to find out as his father courts a woman he's never met and he becomes sole heir of the Bonnet family fortune. He's never had a say in his life, not really, not since the day he'd presented as an omega, but now? Now Stede has nothing to lose as he sets out to experience at least one night of being true to himself. It's worth any risk, any cost, just so he has that one night to hold onto as he bows his head to his father's whims.
Edward Teach works the ships for Hornigold, barely legal shipping and imports, but it pays the bills and fuels his desire the life of power and wealth he's always wanted. As he begins to make a name for himself he stumbles on a sweet omega in a tavern on the cusp of getting into trouble.
The scent of lavender and a pair of hazel eyes changes the course of his life forever.
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- Part 3 of Our Flag Means Omegaverse
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07 Mar 2025
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An old photograph from a forgotten love affair threatens the comfortable fictions of Stede Bonnet's middle age existence.
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10 Jan 2025
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The third time the video loops, Stede finally reads the text.
somebody come get their dad!! @gentlebonnet
single, 45, two kids, no pets, successful, interested in men
house-trained but timid around unfamiliar men and loud noises
obsessions hobbies include being obnoxiously well-dressed, boats (obviously), reading, farmer’s markets, things that involve painstaking detail
offensively thoughtful, emotionally available, annoyingly cute crier,loudoutspoken
free to a good home—no chasers, no gold diggers
serious inquiries only
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Stede never put too much thought into the app his children used to pass their idle hours. He'd occasionally let them drag him into some choreographed dance or silly skit, tickled pink at the thought of his children feeling secure enough to ask him to participate in their antics without fear of ridicule.
A single stitch from a handsome salt-and-pepper stranger changes that.
Enter Edward Teach, former frontman of QAR, current directorial darling, and devoted raccoon dad.
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04 Jan 2025
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Lines of Lightning on Your Skull by LivingInATimeOf_Ships
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
11 Oct 2025
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"He's staring again. He can't help it. Lucius knows it's rude, knows that it makes Izzy uncomfortable these days, but he can't help it.
The thin red line that marks a jagged edge on Izzy's forehead is a mystery that's just too good to ignore. From where he sits, turned ever so slightly to the side, it’s very visible to Lucius’s curious eyes. Sure, the missing leg and haunted expression to match the rest of the Leather Crew from Ed's Kraken Era are interesting enough-if disturbing-but Lucius knows about those things.
He thinks.
Admittedly, nobody's really gotten Jim, Archie (who Lucius is a little intimidated by), Fang, Frenchie, or Izzy to talk about their time under Blackbeard's sole employment, but Lucius thinks he can imagine. Ivan is gone, to where nobody will tell him. When he’d asked, Fang had burst into tears."
Listen, I know this sounds super dramatic, but in truth it's pretty damn soft. I wrote it for my brain to take a break from being stressed, so hopefully it'll do that for yours, too.
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- Part 1 of Izzy Hands Modern AU
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26 Dec 2024
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The small man looked amused. "You're going to stand under the hand dryer and press the button at ten second intervals? Is that your plan?"
"That or... Or take the shirt off and hold it under and press the button at... ten second intervals..." Yeah, no, that sounded really dumb.
"And you're going to hold up all the poor fuckers who need to take a leak that queue up behind you while you do it? Dressed like a fucking Wall Street suit?" The man took a cigarette out of a pocket in the tight black leather vest he wore, a fucking clove (how original) he lit with a fancy silver zippo encrusted in what looked like emeralds.
"What's my alternative?" Frenchie's patience for this guy was waning.
"Dirty martini down your ass. You'll reek of it all night. Possibly get stopped walking home or to your bus. Maybe get picked up for public intoxication."
"Okay, so what do you suggest?" Frenchie could feel the alcohol in his blood bidding him to parry where the man lunged.
"I'd suggest taking the damn thing off."Bookmarked by Startink
06 Dec 2024
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Stede is just going through the motions in his life, his marriage to Mary, suffering through board meetings at Bonnet Enterprises. When Mary suggests he pick up a hobby, he decides to volunteer at the local public library on Saturdays, running a literary classics (mostly 19th century) book club. Then one Saturday, a man in leather comes in looking for a book about how to grow cactuses and makes Stede feel all sorts of things that are baffling to him. His name is Ed, and he's a famous video game streamer on Twitch. Ed comes back, and back again, until they become real friends, inching ever closer to something more and helping each other grow in unexpected ways both separately and together.
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27 Nov 2024
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"Ed finally saw why the club was called Bottoms as they were led into a larger room. There were rows of people with their lower halves on display, just ready to be fucked, their upper halves and faces hidden by what looked like some sort of private pod attached to a wall. Some were standing bent over, while others were laying down, their legs up in stirrups. The light was dimmed down to a soft glow, and there was music playing loud enough to muffle the sounds of skin slapping against skin, but not so loud that they’d have to yell to hear each other."
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Ed's had a crush on his boss Stede ever since he started working for him a year ago. When he gets the perfect opportunity to get the crush out of his system, he takes it. He doesn't count on it being such a good experience that he can't stop thinking about it.
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17 Sep 2024
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As The Wolf Waits Below, So Hungry and Lonely, He Cries to The Moon; "If Only, If Only" by LivingInATimeOf_Ships
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
17 Jul 2025
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Werewolf Izzy Hands.
The wolf staggers back, and it looks around the clearing. Ten men lay dead or dying, some with gruesome wounds, guts piled outside their bodies, steaming in the cooling air.
For some reason, it looks to Ed, whose face is pale. He's shoved Stede half behind him and has withdrawn a dagger of polished silver. His expression is grim and resolute.
The wolf tucks its tail between its legs, whines, almost like it's frightened. It continues to stand guard over Lucius, protecting him from an attack that will never come. Its sides heave.
“Hey puppy,” Lucius says stupidly, uneasily trying to scoot himself back, “easy there.”
The wolf snaps his head around and stares at Lucius. His eyes are wide and wild, but there's a glimmer of something familiar there. Lucius can't figure out why. There's a tiny speck of black high on the wolf's face, under his eye. It almost looks like an x. Next to the spot is blood, and Lucius isn't sure whether it's from someone else, or from the deep scratches across the wolf's muzzle. Some of them are jagged and have torn bits of flesh around the edges.
The wolf flinches when Lucius moves."
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25 Aug 2024
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Fifteen years after the world's messiest divorce, Izzy has found himself to be quite content with the little life he's created. He loves his friends, his work, his idyllic seaside home - and although it's been hard, he's done his best to put the past exactly where it belongs. In the past.
That is, until, his ex-husband moves in next door with the man he left him for.
Suddenly Izzy's world is thrown into turmoil once again. He'd much rather ignore him than bring up all of those painful memories, but it seems that Edward is determined to reconcile things between them in order to make up for how badly their relationship ended. It doesn't help that Izzy - although he's loathe to admit - is still hopelessly in love with the man who broke his heart, and is terrified of it being shattered all over again.
There’s no way that they can work things out well enough to be friends, and they could certainly never be more than that again, right?
…right?
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23 Jul 2024
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In the hunt for a legendary treasure, Blackbeard & his crew are cursed to become selkies, only able to transform back into their human selves one night every seven years. There is allegedly a way to break the curse, however after fourteen years, the crew are no closer to figuring out how to do so, with the exception of one: Fang.
After hearing how Fang broke his curse, Ed plans to trap a stranger into taking his sealskin so he can kill them and be free of this wretched curse. However the person who takes it is the last person Ed ever thinks he can go through with killing - the kind-hearted blonde man who rows out every day to talk to his seal friend, clueless to the fact that he's been charming infamous pirate Blackbeard.
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09 Jun 2024
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Ed and Stede meet as strangers one night on a New York subway platform when Stede discovers an abandoned newborn baby. Both men are instantly infatuated with him (and each other). When they attend the court hearing for his case, the judge spontaneously decides to offer Stede custody, which he accepts– only to realize afterwards that she assumed they were a couple.
The two men immediately craft a plan to pretend to be together in order to keep the baby, creating fake backstories, coaching their friends, and moving in together... into the same bedroom... and the same bed. But what they didn't anticipate was falling head over heels in love, not only with their son, but with each other.
Inspired by the TRUE STORY outlined in this article
Features: a very fast slow burn, fake dating, only one bed, pining while fucking, and other tropes
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- Part 1 of Baby Baby Baby
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29 Apr 2024
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There is a mysterious, secretive new tenant in Edward Teach's apartment building. Soon he realizes he's seen their face before.
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16 Mar 2024
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Stede Bonnet is an immunologist working at a disease lab.
He had no way of knowing that the recent death of a co-worker would bring upon the end of the world.Or
Stede Bonnet and Izzy Hands discover love and a reason to keep living after the end of the world. And maybe, just maybe, they’ll save the world.
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06 Mar 2024