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“You little shit,” he wheezes. Voice half gone, blood vessels burst in his eyes, but still, somehow, hanging on. “Should’ve killed you in your crib. Unnatural, you are. She tricked me.”
Edward Teach, born on a beach. Literally.
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04 Aug 2023
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stories we’ve heard, and others we tell ourselves by CrypticSymbol
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
02 May 2022
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“One calling card and you come running, is that it?” Izzy had asked, disgust oozing from his voice. Ed noted a hint of disappointment too. He just couldn’t help himself from doing so, it seemed. The renewed adoration that bled out of Izzy just months before had been cauterized.
And it had been more than one calling card, to be fair. Though there was no point in arguing semantics with Izzy Hands.
The previous mysterious parcels had been trinkets and gifts left waiting for him to find, like the least challenging treasure hunt in the history of piracy, but this last one was different.
or, Jeff the Accountant is invited to a masquerade ball, and sometimes it's easier to talk things through when you're Jeff and he's Godfrey Thornrose.
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03 Aug 2023
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It was then that Stede noticed him. He would later introduce himself as Ed, but in that moment to Stede he was just ‘that-bloody-idiot-who’s-standing-on-the-rocks-in-the-middle-of-a-fucking-hurricane.’
Or, Ed called himself The Kraken and I took that literally.
(Now complete!)
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- Part 1 of Both Shelter And Warning At Once
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03 Aug 2023
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The Scourge of Housecats Everywhere by UnholySpectacle
Fandoms: Twilight Series - All Media Types, Twilight (Movies), Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer
18 Jul 2021
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Bella Swan had given up hope of becoming a vampire and moved on with her life. When her circumstances unexpectedly change, however, Bella finds help in the most unlikely of allies ... one Aro Volturi.
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02 Aug 2023
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Saltwater on Skin by CandyQueenAO3
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
05 Sep 2021
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Ezra fell, an award-winning novelist, has just sold the one millionth copy of his newest book. While celebrating with friends and family on a rented yacht, Ezra falls overboard and is washed ashore on an uncharted island. Ever the optimist, he keeps his spirits up while he awaits rescue. That is, until he gets the distinct feeling that he isn't ALONE on this island; that there's SOMETHING else out there.
Watching him.
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EXERPT FROM EPILOGUE CHAPTER 10:
As they’d glided silently over the dark, chilly waters of the ocean, Crowley had allowed himself to relax a little and be held. Normally he’d be the one doing all the carrying - he was a very tactile person and much preferred it that way - but every so often, he could see the appeal of being cradled against the bare chest of a literal angel.
Then everything had gone wrong.
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- Part 1 of Ilha de Queimada Grande
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- 49/49
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02 Aug 2023
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Rita Skeeter and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Persnickety for Marriage1988
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
26 May 2016
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Rita Skeeter always believed that revenge was a dish best served cold, but no one outwits a master spy and his swotty fiancée.
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02 Aug 2023
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He scratched at the back of his neck. "I mean, you didn't even like kissing."
I didn't like kissing you. But the words burned unsaid on her tongue. "It's fine, Ron." Hermione patted the tome in her lap. "And I'll be here with my book. As expected."
SS/HG HEA...Always :)
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02 Aug 2023
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How My Light is Spent by Azira_Amane
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
20 Apr 2020
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Navigating the dating world when you can't see it can be tricky. For Crowley, that was never a problem; he's usually too busy to contemplate a relationship. The same goes for Aziraphale, though he doesn't have Crowley's excuse - he just isn't really all that much into people as a whole.
One chance meeting on Crowley's usual route home changes all that.
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02 Aug 2023
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During a raid on a smuggler ship, Ed finds a merman named Stede locked in the hold. Inspired by art by feriowind.
Inside is a tub that looks like it was cobbled together from wooden boards. And inside the tub is a merman.
He sits on the bottom of the tub, his back slumped against its wooden side. His tail is curled beneath the water’s surface, nearly tucked into a perfect circle in the cramped space. He looks pale and haggard, and there’s a shackle around his neck attached to a heavy chain in the wall.
He’s the most magnificent and most pathetic thing Ed’s ever seen.
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- Part 1 of Water/line
- Part 1 of I can't stop making them into mermaids
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12 Jul 2023
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Some Kind of Night Into Your Darkness by Morbidmuch
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
16 Jul 2023
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In a sleepy northern village, Severus Snape spends his days teaching chemistry to dunderheaded students and his Sundays reading in a small café. An encounter with a newcomer in town will challenge everything he thought he knew about himself.
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Stede is beside himself when he's hired to acquire and restore the infamous sword of Blackbeard, the scourge of the Caribbean and Stede's childhood obsession. He didn't expect that the sword would come with the ghost of Blackbeard attached, for Blackbeard to be so interested in him, nor for his simple offer to help Blackbeard's soul move on open the gates to a relationship right out of his deepest fantasies.
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- 12/12
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20 May 2023
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“Oh, man. Did you… did you ask the sea for its gift while you were actually on the sea? …Mate.” The creature took a step toward Stede, then another, until Stede was backed up fully against the desk. “You didn’t read anything in the book but the spell, did you?”
“I - I don’t know what you’re talking about?” Stede squeaked, leaving dignity fully behind him. No wonder his apprentice had threatened so many times to leave him.
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In which Stede is not a very good sorcerer, and Ed is the sea demon whose summoning he didn't get quite right.
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- Part 1 of Sea Demons & Ghost Ships
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- 11/11
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24 Feb 2023
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Right, vacation, he can do this. With or without Nigel's ghost following him around, he was going to relax. Stede made his excuses to the crew and walked until he couldn't hear their playtime with the black powder.
Once he was at a safe distance, he striped down save for his gauzy undershirt and waded into the water. Instinctively, he drove in right before his legs twisted together and thickened into a powerful tail and his gills fluttered open to the sea like the first deep breath of clean air after hours in a stuffy room.
In his youth, he stuck to the warm shallows and hidden coves, safe from his father's judgmental eyes and the strong current his mother said would drag him away. Now, older and either more confident or less afraid of death, he drug himself on his hands in the sand, deeper until he could flex his tail fully and take off.
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Stede Bonnet was well used to keeping his heritage a secret, he'd kept it successfully for decades, but now, maybe, he could finally show someone who just might care about him.
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04 Feb 2023
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While pirates might be more willing to believe in the mythical and fantastical than the average human, Ed still didn’t expect to witness literal proof of magic board his ship and promptly befriend him, let alone learn that the tales his mother used to tell him were all true. At first he thought the gods were playing a joke on him. (Really? The kraken?) But Stede was nothing like what Ed imagined. And he certainly didn’t imagine falling in love.
“Naked,” Ed found it important to point out numbly as the now human-shaped creature worked to stand. His broken brain valiantly attempted to process the fact that the monster straight out of a nightmare had transformed into what could arguably be called a man, complete with soft blond hair sans horns. But he was still far from human. Though he now possessed human-looking skin, dark teal scales still spiraled up and down his body and a stray tentacle waved through the air before retreating into his fucking back what the actual fuck.
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02 Feb 2023
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“Captain,” Izzy said. Or gasped. It was hard to tell with the normal breathy quality of his voice. “A storm."
“I can feel that, Iz,” Edward said, grumpily. He lurched out of his chair, stumbling as the ship dipped forward. The dirty windows darkened as water covered them. All of the candle’s flames guttered, throwing the room into darkness. “There weren’t supposed to be storms.”
The clouds had told him so. Floating near the horizon in fluffy, soft lumps, the furthest thing from any storms.
“We’ve gone off course, captain,” Izzy said. The long-suffering tone of his voice was really very annoying. “We’re somewhere…different.”
That piqued Ed’s interest. “Different?” He ran a hand through his beard, the occasional tangle catching his fingers. “Different how?”
In which, Edward Teach's ship is blown off course and he is thrown overboard into unknown waters. There he meets creatures of myth and legend, and feels alive for the first time in a long, long time.
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01 Feb 2023
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Ed meets Stede on a beach in Barbados a month before the Revenge is finished. Ed decides that kidnapping a wealthy (handsome) man might break the monotony of being Blackbeard. Stede is a little too on board with being kidnapped.
Basically, an alternate meeting slow-burn AU, with lots of humor, hijinks, and building sexual and romantic tension.
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- 35/35
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31 Dec 2022
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"So what brings you out here anyway?"
Ed's out of the blue question at least answers Stede's anxieties about radio etiquette. He pulls the walkie from his pack and stares at it, deciding how much of his life he actually wants to share with this complete stranger.
"What brings you out here?"
or: Stede takes a job as a remote forest fire lookout in the summer following his divorce, with a plan to find out who he is, and what he wants his life to be. With the help of the enigmatic lookout on the other side of the forest, he ends up getting more out of the experience than he could ever have hoped.
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- Part 1 of seven point three miles
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06 Dec 2022
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There’s something…off about The Gentleman Pirate. It takes Ed a little while to put it all together, longer than it would have if Stede weren’t so fascinating, so goddamn distracting. It’s little things, at first: how Stede is not a good enough pirate to be that blasé with his personal welfare, how confident he seems that things will work out in the end, the glimmer in his eye he gets when danger comes close and whispers in his ear. It’s maddening and familiar, too, because Ed swears he’s met Stede before. Maybe on a ship somewhere, or in town, a shared look before a shared bed; though, if the sex were as good then as it is now, Ed’s sure he would remember. As Ed watches and waits — and desperately tries not to fall in love — he grows more and more convinced that the truth is a terrifying third option; a monster parents tell their children about at night and all sailors dread. Stede Bonnet is The World Ender.
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- Part 1 of The World Ender
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- 11/11
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01 Oct 2022
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“What if it’s not a death?” Lucius was saying to him, hunkered into the small confines of Ed's blanket fort. “What if life just begins again?”
“Beginning again starts with finding Stede,” Ed told him, resolute.
Ed travels to Bridgetown to confront Stede at his home and figure out for himself why the hell he left him there at the dock. Heartfelt confessions, a fancy art show party, a talent show with the crew, a fuckery, and the shenanigans of lovestruck co-captains ensue. Canon-divergence from ep10.
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- 7/7
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23 Sep 2022
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Stede needs help; the Revenge unfortunately runs into a man Stede had an affair with prior to his pirate days. Stede decides the best way to give him a polite brush-off is to pretend he and Ed are together. Fake relationship to getting together, with smut, passive aggression and a few feelings thrown in for extra fun.
Set in the ephemeral co-captions time period.
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Ed supposes he’s handsome, if you like boring white dudes. He’s tall, slim-built, short dark wavy hair and an at-best medium quality jaw line. Dressed like a prick, he’s wearing all the fancy sort of stuff Stede wears but he’s not pulling it off, in Ed’s opinion. Not enough bright colours, wearing all that silky lacey posh shit but in beige and browns like a coward. Yeah, he’s a coward; Ed’s decided. He guesses maybe his shoulders are okay, if you like skinny guys. Can kinda see why Stede fancied him. If there weren’t a lot of other options around. And if he squints.
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09 Aug 2022