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Day drunk, Ed told him the truth with only a little bit of editing, focusing less on the murderous fantasies and more on the psychology of killing, the way his body had to operate separately from his mind, which he felt pretty confident that Stede could understand on some level. That the urge stuck with him, even when he tried to force it away.
Stede, the person who lit fires next to bookshelves, began to analyze him.
“Hang on a minute. You reached some type of understanding with yourself after the kraken fuckery, didn’t you? It was hard, but you were able to feel more at ease with yourself afterward, by seeing it play out?”
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Ed still wants to kill Stede after the fuckery. Stede has an idea.
Bookmarked by cedar_ruins
27 Dec 2024
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S1 alt scene-some excellently unhinged role play
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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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- 86,000
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- 12/12
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Bookmarked by cedar_ruins
15 Dec 2024
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All time favorite literally one of the top 5 fics in the fictiverse
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Ebb and Flow by JoQuickly, Rotten_Soldier
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV), Point Break (1991)
16 Oct 2023
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Kinktober 2023, Day 16: Beach Sex, Biting, “Look at you”
After a series of bank robberies in Los Angeles, perpetrated by the elusive Gentlemen Pirates, a gang of thieves dressed as 18th century gentlemen, Ed Teach, a new graduate of Quantico, is recruited by the FBI’s Bank Robbery division to infiltrate the gang based on his mastery of one special skill: surfing.
The trouble is, Ed’s never surfed a day in his life.
Fortunately for Ed he meets Stede, who not only gives him lessons in surfing, but in life, and who can also pound him into the sand harder than any wave.
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- English
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- 10,247
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- 1/1
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- 65
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- 1,450
Bookmarked by cedar_ruins
15 Dec 2024
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little one shot historic spy fic But Beach! And Surfers!
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The paparazzi starts taking pictures at the same time the guy on the segway collides with the Uber.
“Edward! Jack! Over here! Are you two together? What does Anne think of all this?”
Ed and Jack exchange a panicked look before Ed makes a decision and dives for the segway guy. He’s blond, white, about Ed’s age - that’s all he has time to register before he’s kissing him.
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- Part 3 of Smutty Gentlebeard not-quite-one shots
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Honestly, fuck Jack. Ed could do so much better than fuckin' "Calico" Jack. Just because he'd been in a funk for a few years that didn't mean... Well, Ed knew he was attractive. He could be sexy. He could. And he could pull someone so completely opposite to Jack they might as well be from different planets.
Enter the gorgeous posh blond bloke at the end of the bar.
Oh, he would do nicely.
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Ed and Stede have the worst exes in the world, but with a little bit of fuckery and a fabricated relationship (that's maybe getting a bit too real), they can help each other get them off their backs.
But what happens when their attraction to each other grows, and yet they’ve only agreed to touch each other when other people are around?
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- English
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- 100,426
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- 10/10
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07 Sep 2024
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A meditation on time and space and the ending of a marriage. Ed and Stede meet at a bar while Stede's traveling for work. This story is about the ripples from that night.
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26 Jul 2024
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Meditation on ending of a marriage- after Stede meets Ed in a leather bar
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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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Edward Teach has made a massive mistake-- what's a few more?
A Gentlebeard lovers to exes to lovers fic set in the modern era.
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- English
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- 111,161
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- 21/21
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Bookmarked by cedar_ruins
05 Jul 2024
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modern au
breakup, learn a few things, see if you can fix it after all
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It all started with a hermit crab.
Well, that’s not entirely true. It all started with a dock. A kiss on a beach, a sunrise.
It started with the reckless, irresponsible mistake of falling in love with Stede Bonnet.
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And it ended in the same way that fairy tales often do: happily, with an 'ever after' to match. -
Don’t let me die with my soul in the air by veeagainst
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
23 Feb 2023
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Ed's point of view throughout season 1.
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Edward Teach has been doing a lot of growing up and a lot of work at putting himself in a position to be happy in his life. He's begun to run his own business, created a safe space for people to explore their sexuality in BDSM and even as a 401k like a real grown up person. What he doesn't have is happiness for himself.
When he bumbles across Stede Bonnet late one night online, he ignites a friendship with a man stepping out on his own for the first time in his life, trying to find himself and beginning everything from scratch from a divorce.
What follows are two men that are utter idiots, a story of love, longing, friendship and long suffering friends that somehow survived what happened between them.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 234,276
- Chapters:
- 32/32
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 961
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- 386
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- 11,494
Bookmarked by cedar_ruins
12 Jun 2024
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Indifference to friends to lovers, "this really happened to me" flavor
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California, 1974.
Stede Bonnet is fairly new to trucking, which he started as a means of getting some time away from his failing marriage. He enjoys the time on the road, but he finds it a bit lonely-- that is, until he meets seasoned driver Edward Teach.
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For subscription purposes.
I post a lot of fic in different fandoms, so this is a fandom-specific series purely to make it easier to subscribe, in case anyone wants to be kept up to date on what I'm posting, but not EVERYTHING that I am posting.
All fic are standalone unless otherwise indicated.
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- 189,571
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“I moved to a new flat because I’ve just walked out on my wife of twenty five years. And our two children. Without telling them. Well, I left a letter, but it was brief.”
I started to think he’d hung up. Then he said “go on”.
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A preposterous AU with a preposterous meet cute. Featuring Ed's terribly named sex shop, Stede being a proud ally of the LGBT community and surprisingly tame sex given the premise. Unbetaed.
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- Part 1 of Baddy Zaddy
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 57,698
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Collections:
- 1
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- 593
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Bookmarked by cedar_ruins
26 May 2024
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Stede Bonnet's father sends him to a brothel to lose his virginity before his marriage. Edward Teach's first mate sends him to the same brothel for a night of R and R. Guess who accidentally end up in a room together?
"He doesn’t want what he’s heard the other boys go on about; doesn’t long for creamy skin or pink lips or rosebud nipples. He wants scars and calluses, muscles and tattoos. An outlaw, a brigand, a highwayman, a man who will seize what he wants and claim it without even a hint of mercy…and who, in Stede’s arms, will reveal his secret heart and open himself to Stede's tending and care like a flower opens its petals to the sun. Stede wants a pirate. A man he knows he’ll never, ever have."
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Enough to Enrage the Gods (As I Drowned) by Skrifores
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
02 Jun 2022
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Ed’s aware that from the outside that might seem faintly ridiculous. Stede’s a posh boy with no real idea of what he’s doing, afterall, but he really doesn’t give a fuck. It’s been a very, very long time since he felt anything new and this is fun as fuck. Everything’s buzzing, he’s obsessed with this man, thrumming with feeling every moment they’re together. So Izzy and anyone else who might make a face like he’s finally lost his marbles can fuck the fuck off.
Ed has known since he was a child that he is not someone God intended to have fine things, and Stede is for sure a fine thing. But he has also known since he killed his father that a lot of things which are supposed to be up to God can be in his hands if he wants them enough.
So he’s gonna see where this goes. He’s gonna lean the fuck in.
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Edward Teach is in love for the first time. Obsessively, fervently, overwhelmingly in love. I did the thing where I was gonna write porn then feelings happened.
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- Part 1 of As I Drowned
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Inspired by It Happened One Night (1934).
Stede Bonnet is a rich society darling attempting to run off with Charles Vane against his father's wishes. Edward Teach is an exhausted journalist just trying to eke his way through life. When the two meet on a bus headed from Florida to New York, their lives will change permanently, obviously.
The story is much better than this summary.
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- Part 2 of The Gospel of Ace4Ace Gentlebeard
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And then, the most beautiful man walked through the door. Blond hair, full and with curls so perfect, Ed wanted to slide his fingers through it and mess it up. Green-hazel eyes, a warm smile, and a well-fitted suit in bright teal. How anyone could pull that off, Ed didn't know, but this man did. He was barrel-chested, with arms Ed thought would feel very good wrapped around him. And he was looking in Ed's direction. Or Mary's, more likely. The blond looked confused, and how the fuck does he look both sexy and confused? "Do I have a boyfriend now?" The man said, and Ed knew he must be Stede. "Only, Nigel seemed certain that I do."
Or, An adventure on the fake-boyfriends-to-real-boyfriends pipeline.
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In the not too distant future, Bonnet Corp attempts to slow the rapid incline of global temperatures but their botched experiment with the atmosphere sends Earth into an eternal winter. Twenty years later, pirates roam the barren wastelands of ice and snow while the other few survivors huddle in walled communities. Stede Bonnet, son of the CEO responsible for the geoengineering disaster, thinks he can solve climate change. Edward Teach is the infamous ice pirate Blackbeard, bored with the grind and never-ending winter. Ed joins Stede on his quest for “the Kraken,” which Stede believes holds the key to reversing climate change.
Their bond grows as they face marauders, fierce storms, and thrilling adventures together. Will their improbable friendship become something more? Or will Stede’s obsession with his quest prevent him from seeing what’s right in front of him—the man who loves him?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 42,460
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 576
- Kudos:
- 307
- Bookmarks:
- 82
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Bookmarked by cedar_ruins
26 May 2024
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Future polar ice adventure AU featuring ICE SHIPS
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like i'm not made of stone by smallestchurch for wardrobespierre
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
25 Jun 2023
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It's another year after the end of Turn on the Light, another anniversary. And they've got one small thing to work out. Or, actually, two.
Podfic available by my personal superhero SD_Ryan right here.
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- Part 3 of sleeves touching sleeves