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Ed wants the most unexpectedly popular item in the Tree Change fandom's latest charity auction. Will Stede obliterate their budget trying to win it for him?
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While researching a story on B&B Industries, investigative journalist Edward Teach begins to suspect that Edwin Bonnet has been covering up the murder of his only son for the last two decades. As Ed pieces together the events that took place many years ago in a remote Pennsylvania forest, he discovers that Stede Bonnet may have suffered a fate worse than death.
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In 2025, best friends Ed and Stede are a week away from opening the flagship store for their joint fashion brand, Gentlebeard. Stede finds an ornate mirror in a new antiques shop, and purchases it for the store, despite warnings from a strange blond Scotsman.
In 1718, Ed and Stede are getting ready to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. The crew brings them an anniversary gift, an ornate mirror that they found on a raid, despite Frenchie's insistence that the mirror is cursed.
The mirror may not be cursed, but 2025 Ed and Stede, and 1718 Ed and Stede quickly learn that it is magic when they swap places.
There's just one tiny problem: there aren't any instructions for how to get home again.
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The Middle-Aged Parent's Guide to Digital "Gardening" Terminology by blooming_aloe
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
12 Jul 2025
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Lucius is out of town, which leaves Alma in the uncomfortable position of answering her father's obliviously awkward questions.
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Edward had everything a unicorn could want: a forest draped in eternal springtime; animal friends to keep him company; and the clearest, purest pool of water, a mirror in which to admire his own beautiful countenance.
Lost in the loveliness of his perfect home, he pays no attention to the world outside. Until one day, when he overhears two hunters in his forest, and learns that he is the last unicorn in the world. Unable to shake the hunters' words from his mind, and no longer content with his solitary existence, he sets out on a quest to discover what happened to the other unicorns.
He is joined by a bungling magician and an indomitable scribe, whose journeys seem to be curiously intertwined with his own. But whether they will be a help or a hindrance is a mystery.
As Edward draws closer to discovering the fate of the other unicorns, he will face his deepest fears, fight against an ancient evil, and risk losing himself in the process.
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Still Life with Sunflowers and Peaches by blooming_aloe
Fandom Our Flag Means Death (TV)
22 May 2023
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Ed owns a peach orchard. Stede is one of the foremost art restoration experts in the world. It's love at first sight for Ed. It's going to take a friendly nudge for Stede to figure out how he feels. We have pining! We have smooching! We have smitten co-captains! We have Lucius being SO EXTRA!
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The Shitty Dead Dads Club by WellSussed (drcfxtina), Zigster
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
30 Jul 2024
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“Where you putting yours?” Ed’s eyes are roaming over Stede as if he’s trying to guess where he might want his tattoo.
Stede rolls up the billowy sleeve of his shirt to show off his right forearm. Oddly, Ed stares for a moment before nodding. “I want it to be where I can see it all the time. A reminder.”
Ed nods again. “I get that. That’s what mine is for too. My dad just died….”
“Mine, too,” Stede replies, sitting up eagerly. “I’m sorry for your loss,” he rushes to add since most people are sad about this sort of thing.
“Nah, my dad was a dick,” Ed says. “Sorry for your loss, though.”
“Um, my dad was a dick, too, actually,” Stede tells him, stifling a giggle. “I want some flowers. He always hated that I loved flowers, thought I was too ‘soft.’ But I’m taking his money and opening a florist stop, so I get the last laugh.”
To Stede’s surprise, Ed looks excited. “A florist shop! Sounds amazing, mate! Good for you.”
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Stede Bonnet's life changes the moment Ed Teach walks into the tattoo shop he's sitting in. They bond over their terrible dead fathers, become friends, get tattoos, go to the Ren Faire, and fall in love along the way.
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Bookmarked by blooming_aloe
16 Jun 2026
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The day of Prince Stede Bonnet’s wedding dawned dim and dreary. Much like his heart, he supposed, knowing that it had finally lost its chance at true love.
The next day of Prince Stede Bonnet's wedding was quite the same. Only he didn't remember the day before, because it was still his wedding day. And although he didn't know it, tomorrow would also be his wedding day.
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Or, an arranged marriage time loop fic.
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- Part 13 of Smutty Gentlebeard not-quite-one shots
Bookmarked by blooming_aloe
05 Jun 2026
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When his mate, Ed, is poached, Stede pursues the ship over 3,000 leagues. Mercifully, the sea goddess intervenes. Stede reunites with Ed, but as Ed is no longer able to live undersea, they must forge a life in an unknown land.
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10 May 2026
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Stede Bonnet has inherited his father's house in the super exclusive neighborhood of Caribbean Cay. It's been sitting vacant while his father was in hospice, and it needs a lot of work.
Blackbeard's Crew is the best full renovations firm in the city, and Bonnets always hire the best.
It's too bad that his high school nemeses, Nigel and Chauncy Badminton, live in Caribbean Cay, as does his ex-wife and her new beau.
Bookmarked by blooming_aloe
04 May 2026
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Historians Will Not Say They Were Very Good Friends by hecatesthirdface
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
28 May 2026
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In the spring of 1897, Stede Bonnet hired a rag-tag crew to renovate his family’s long-abandoned estate in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Among this crew was groundskeeper Edward Teach. Eager to stay updated on the project, Stede began a regular correspondence with Ed.
Years later, upon the discovery of their correspondence carefully tucked away in a clothes-stuffed closet of the manor, historians concluded that they were not, in fact, just very good friends.
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- Part 32 of The Gospel of Ace4Ace Gentlebeard
Bookmarked by blooming_aloe
24 Apr 2026