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“Well, welcome in,” Stede says. He’s genuinely delighted by how… genuinely delighted Mr. Moonlight seems to be by his shop. “We’ve got just about everything you could need for sewing or crafts projects, plus we’ve got a bit of a vintage shop going if you just look about, and then there’s an alterations department out the back,” he says. “I’m Stede, by the way.”
The man—always moving, always in motion, it seems— stops revolving in place for a moment to face him. “Stede? With a ‘D’?” He asks, and at Stede’s nod, he holds out a hand. “I’m Ed.”
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Lighthouse Fine Fabrics and More (Alterations & Repair Services in Back) is Stede Bonnet's pride and joy—the cozy catch-all haberdashery and crafts shop he's always wanted. Life is good, until Edward Teach needs some black fabric dye. Then it's great.
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Come Close and We'll Begin by lookinglass for TheFierceBeast
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
30 Jul 2024
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It’s… odd. And a bit overwhelming, honestly. Just allowing himself to enjoy things without fear of the consequences.
He can have this, Ed reminds himself. He can luxuriate in softness and not have to worry about why, or how, or at whose expense. He can have a gorgeous closet full of too many clothes, and he can build another shelf just for little frivolous trinkets. He can lay back and let the love of his life feed him another lush bite straight from their garden.
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After retiring from piracy, Ed and Stede learn the shape of their new life together.
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Let me take care of you, Stede doesn’t say, when he wraps a soft shawl around Ed’s shoulders to keep out the early Spring chill.
Let me take care of you, he doesn’t say, when he leads Ed to their bed and gently presses him down onto the feathery mattress, the silken sheets enveloping him like a caress.
Let me take care of you, he doesn’t say, when he feeds Ed another bite, and then another, of the most decadent, fucking delicious cake he’s ever eaten.
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Ed had an idea. It was a little weird, and probably not the best idea for a very well-regarded artist who was at the whim of shareholders and a board, but. If he was going out, he might as well go out with a bang.
He straightened up the stack of flyers, grabbed one of his staple guns out of his workshop drawer, and set out down the street. He started in the immediate radius of the Walmart, tacking flyers up to light posts and bulletin boards.
COME WATCH ME EAT AN ENTIRE ROTISSERIE CHICKEN
3rd NOVEMBER WILL BE THE 40TH CONSECUTIVE
DAY THAT I HAVE EATEN AN ENTIRE ROTISSERIE CHICKEN12 0’CLOCK NOON
THE CHICKEN WILL BE CONSUMED ON THAT ABANDONED PIER BY WALMART
THIS IS NOT A PARTY--
(This is absolutely not as absurd as it sounds, but it's still pretty absurd.)
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They take it slow.
Nothing in Ed’s life has ever been slow, or easy, or gentle. Every moment’s been a fucking fight, his mind careening ahead at 30 knots, day in, day out.
But Stede is ease and gentleness, sweetness potent as marmalade. For him, every new day is a possibility, a wonder. And so, Ed thinks, watching the silhouette of their ship retreating into the sunset, he can take it easy with Stede. They can take it slow.
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Ed picks Stede up at a bar for what ought to be a one-night stand, but it turns out they're attending the same academic conference the next day.
“Yes, please, a – Loose Cannon, did you say? Really, how charmingly nautical.” There. Words. Sub-optimal words, but words nonetheless. He grins, aiming it toward the stranger while taking him in in smaller doses. Leather boots, faded, artfully ripped black jeans, a purple cropped shirt under a silky, billowy black – kimono? Overshirt? Facial scruff. Lots of hair, salt and pepper, pepper only just winning out, for now. Tattooed knuckles, forearms, collarbone. Earring, silver stacking rings on most fingers, a nose stud that somehow softens the whole, well, lewk and – okay, he’s staring. He stares some more as the man reaches to accept his own drink, revealing more tattoos up the arm and an inch more of skin below the crop top. The stranger makes some obscure gesture to the bartender, then meets Stede’s eyes, which he worries might actually be protruding from his skull, like a cartoon. AwOOga.
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- Part 1 of Pirates of the Care-i-Bae'n
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20 Jan 2025
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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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09 Nov 2023
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Stede Bonnet and Ed Teach are falling in love. The only problem is Stede Bonnet and Ed Teach also happen to hate each other.
(It’ll make sense when you read it, promise.)
Modern AU where these two lunatics own rival pirate themed theme parks at the English seaside. Unbetaed.
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pliocene by UnfortunatelyObsessed for Emi_theSassiestSousa, nerdykai128
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
30 May 2022
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“Well you’ve gone and fucked it up now, mate.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Fuckin' beg then, man, it's just ocean for miles.” Ed motions out to the waves, where there is no sign of any sort of ship, their small dinghy pulled far up on the sand. “I told you when the clouds look like seagulls you take fuckin' cover. Goddamn ocean mutinied me.”
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13 Nov 2022
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In 1718, Ed waited all night on the dock, but Stede never showed. And then to add insult to injury, he went and died. Drowning his grief in rum and violence, Ed finds himself pursued by monsters, ghosts, and the British Navy.
Aboard Ed's own ship, Jim Jimenez is waiting for their chance for revenge against the people who've hurt their family, Ed included.
A chance meeting with an old rival at Ocracoke Island shifts the trajectory of all of their lives, and sends them hurtling back toward past hurts. Now they'll have to work together to come through the other side of the storm, and to build a new future from the wreckage of all they have been.
This story is now COMPLETE
There's also now a podfic of this story by the incredible Kninjaknitter, available here!
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Bookmarked by lookinglass
18 Sep 2022