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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.
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26 Dec 2023
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Ed’s used to visitors, though the novelty of his home has worn off in the last eighteen months or so, the uninvited guests becoming fewer and further between. He’s used to curiosity, and questions he rarely feels like answering. He’s used to people forgetting that this is, in fact, his home, and not some out of the way tourist attraction.
He’s used to strangers.
But he’s starting to think that perhaps, not all his visitors need to stay strangers.
or: Ed has a simple life. He has a self-built, off grid, mostly self-sustaining house tucked away in the middle of a forest. He has five chickens, and a partially feral cat. He lives alone, and he likes it that way. Until the appearance of an incredibly nosy, incredibly handsome stranger three weekends in a row has him questioning every self-imposed rule he's ever set himself.
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- English
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- 6/6
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08 Dec 2023
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Ed's minding his business when the new neighbor's kid comes around holding a human puppet. It's creepy as hell, but as soon as the kid's father rounds the corner, Ed doesn't mind.
ETA: Podfic available here from Kninjaknitter my darling dearest
“Hello,” says the strangest voice Ed’s ever heard, jolting him out of his reverie, sending his heart speeding into chaos.He opens his eyes and he’s staring straight at a stuffed animal in the shape of a human person. It is bald with a tiny hat and too-big eyes and it wears a blue shirt and a name tag that says Jeffy in the sort of scrawl normally reserved for words written in blood.
A puppet, he realizes several seconds beyond when it would have been appropriate to respond.
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- 8/8
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23 Nov 2023
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it's a long night, can i spend it with you by This_Will_Be_Our_Year
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
16 Nov 2023
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“So what’s the number?”
Stede adjusts his position, still backed against the wall.
“Sorry?”
“How many dates until I can have you in my bed?” Ed’s eyes are gleaming with mirth.
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Stede’s having the time of his life, but he won’t go home with Ed until their fourth date.
Ed thinks he can fit all four into one night.
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21 Nov 2023
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Stede Bonnet, recently divorced and feeling geriatric, is made to attend a halloween party hosted by one Lucius Spriggs. There he meets Edward Teach, who encourages him to step out of his comfort zone and be a little bit brave.
Or, the missing clothes swap scene from episode 4x01, but make it modern and sexually charged.
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20 Nov 2023
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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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- 12/12
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13 Nov 2023
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Take a whirl back in time with us to the 1990s, as college student Ed's best friend Stede invites him into his dorm room to watch the season 4 premiere of The X-Files, promising to catch him up on all the important details of the show as they go.
Turns out Ed's got more to learn than he realises- about the appeal of Fox Mulder first, but even moreso about the appeal of Stede Bonnet.
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- English
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08 Nov 2023
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Creating art was his greatest source of joy. Stede especially enjoyed sculpting with clay because he liked seeing it come together. Making something malleable and soft and shapeless turn into something solid and definite was like an antithesis to the rest of his life, which always felt like it was just beyond his control. A ship he was captaining but didn’t know how to steer.
Stede understood clay and tools. People and relationships, on the other hand, he often did not.
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Or, five times Stede Bonnet destroys his own art, and one time he does not.
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- English
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24 Oct 2023
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I love you, Ed thinks.
This isn’t how it was supposed to go.
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- Part 3 of s2 codas and oneshots
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23 Oct 2023
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Stede slams Ed bodily against the wall, doesn’t even have a moment to begin to feel bad about it before Ed is giving the barest of nods in permission.
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20 Oct 2023
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Sometimes, slow is hours spent questioning why Ed even wanted to take it slow in the first place.
Like he hasn’t already been waiting a lifetime for a love story like this.
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- Part 2 of s2 codas and oneshots
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18 Oct 2023
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The man walking down the motorway in the two-piece suit in thirty-six-degree heat catches Ed’s eye for a number of reasons.
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13 Sep 2023
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Ed has been nude modelling for five years. He's seen enough sketches of himself from every angle to know his body better than any lover has ever known it. He's reached a point in his career where he believes that he's seen everything that the artists sketching him have to offer.
That is until he meets Stede Bonnet, who draws his scars into constellations and makes them worth looking at.- Language:
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- 5/5
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11 Sep 2023
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in which Ed is (probably canonically!!) sleeping on Stede’s couch, and late night sleepover antics ensue.
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07 Sep 2023
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So the thing is that despite all of that—or maybe because of it—he’s head over heels, arse over fucking teakettle, in love with Stede, and he all but has been since they met ten months ago.
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Stede gets dumped. Of course Ed is there for him. It’s what friends do. Right? Even when they’re…well, let’s just say pine isn’t just a tree.
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26 Aug 2023
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“The mosaics are fucked. The whole building is fucked. You listening to me? You have to leave. Now.”
The Gentleman blinks at him, and at the moment Ed’s not sure who’s near them, emergency responder wise, his last check had the building reading as clear, but he can never really be sure who’s within hearing distance at any given point during something like this. He just hopes the next words out of his mouth are drowned out by the cacophony of noise around them.
“Stede, please.”
or: probably not the best idea to fall for the one other person regularly putting themselves in dangerous situations for the greater good, but Ed will be the first to argue the virtues of high risk: high reward.
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26 Aug 2023
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“I think you’re my best friend,” Stede says, wide eyed and serious, and that’s not—that’s not the phrase Ed was bracing himself for. “Maybe the best one I’ve ever had. You know that, right? I just needed you to know that. Thought it was important that you knew that.”
or: why can't a couple be both best friends and lovers?
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12 Aug 2023
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Ed’s shared his forest with a lot of people over the years. College kids, retirees, hermits. The young and the old. People who’ve missed their families desperately, and those who were grateful for a five month reprieve. He’s gained a few friends out of it, heard a lot of sob stories and a great deal of personal rants, but he’s never done this. He’s never fallen in love.
or: Day 148 of firewatch, from Ed's perspective.
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- Part 2 of seven point three miles
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08 May 2023
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Stede wonders what the man looks like. He doesn’t sound young like the first profile. Maybe a man in his late thirties? Or forties, perhaps? “Yes, of course, but I—” He shifts on the sofa, feeling embarrassed. “I’m rather new to this, I’m afraid.”
The man hums, and another shiver runs down Stede’s spine. “To phone sex?” he asks. “Paying for it? To talking to a man?”
“All of the above,” Stede sighs. “I mean, I’ve talked to men before, obviously, but…”
“Not for sex.”
Stede figures that the safest way to figure out if he's actually attracted to men is by calling a phone sex line.
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- Part 1 of Phone Sex AU
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- English
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- 58,864
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 3
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08 May 2023
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Edward, unable to sleep, is joined by an equally sleepless Stede who helps him trace some constellations.
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05 May 2023