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Stede is a lonely and anxious corporate attorney who finds himself stuck in a mid-life rut. Blackbeard is a successful outsider artist with a dangerous reputation who feels trapped by his fame. When they meet on an art gallery roof one fateful evening, they discover just how much opposites attract.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?
-Robert Hayden, from Those Winter Sundays
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Arachnologist Stede Bonnet has finally found a rare spider that he's been seeking for a long time, and it marks the beginning of a whole new phase in his life. What better way to commemorate it than to get a tattoo from a brilliant artist? Unfortunately, it turns out that tattooist Ed Teach is severely arachnophobic.
Against all odds, that might make them even more perfect for each other...
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- Part 10 of Silly Spicy Sweet One-Shots
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the light that never warms (until it does) (fuck you, thermodynamics) by ghostalservice, Kninjaknitter, MerryFinches, nomadsland
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
13 Nov 2025
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In a world where Mark Watney was the notorious pirate Blondbeard, Edward Teach is stuck on Mars.
Fuck.
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"But something else beside the man’s cash box pulls his attention—something soft and odd and wonderful.
Stede darts toward it and gently picks it up.
A fabric doll.
It’s unlike any doll he’s seen before—adorable and strange in the best way. Mismatched buttons for eyes. Long silver hair. A scruffy gray beard. He wears what looks like an old-fashioned white linen shirt, grayish beige breeches, grey stockings, and black, buckled shoes. There are little tattoos embroidered on his arm—tiny anchors, stars, skulls, and a snake, among others, swirls of thread meant to look like ink.
Stede hugs it to his chest without thinking.
He loves it immediately."When they’re young, Stede and Ed each get a doll that looks uncannily like the other—though they’ve never met. They grow up just a few miles apart, treating their dolls like best friends: sewing them tiny outfits, bringing them along on every adventure, and confiding in them like old friends. It’s sweet, a little odd, and maybe even a touch magical.
Years later, when Stede and Ed finally cross paths as adults, they’re struck by a strange, impossible realization: each of them looks exactly like the other’s childhood doll.- Language:
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31 Jul 2025
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A bizarre and fun meet-cute, based on the prompt I got from Really Quite Random OFMD Prompt Generator by Quaintly Fig
Ed is a veterinarian.
Stede is a magician.
There's an ex involved.
Someone says, "I think it's turning green."Bookmarked by VetiverPress
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People Are Just People (Like You) by 515253545, fake_geek_boy
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
25 Apr 2024
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The world has opened back up.
Ed's having a hard time doing the same.
Somewhere else in the Greater Toronto Area, some guy's hosting a radio show for aliens. In trying to convince extraterrestrials of all that Earth has to offer, Signs of Life is also sort of showing Ed what's out there for him, if he’s ready to step back outside.
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