sparklespriggs (nerolinks)
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skaterbois drabble collection by sparklespriggs (nerolinks)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
14 Oct 2025
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A collection of little snapshots in the lives of skater boy Ed and ballet boy Stede. Sweet, silly and always with lots of feelings!
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- Part 18 of ed was a punk, stede did ballet
- Part 10 of rho's gentlebeard fics
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never break the chain by Baby_kraken, sparklespriggs (nerolinks)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
11 Aug 2025
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Stede is out like a light as soon as he and Ed curl up in bed, sweaty and achy and content, but Ed’s taking a little longer to drift off. Even though he’s exhausted, he’s not in a rush to fall asleep. It’s nice to bask, just for a bit, in the heat of Stede’s body pressed flush against his front, in idly kissing the back of his neck and shoulders, in their hands firmly intertwined over Stede’s heart. The handcuff around Stede’s wrist suddenly pops open and Ed very carefully closes it again. They can take them off tomorrow.
Ed and Stede are handcuffed together at Pride. Ah well, guess they'll have to be stuck together forever now!
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- Part 16 of ed was a punk, stede did ballet
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suck around & find out by Baby_kraken, sparklespriggs (nerolinks)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
18 Jul 2025
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Stoover has been making eyes at Ed from beneath the stairs all afternoon. Since Stede has abandoned him, left him bored and lonely and horny, whatever else is Ed supposed to do?
(Or, Ed debates a hard-hitting moral dilemma; is he cheating on his husband if he fucks a hoover with the same name?)
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up in flames by Baby_kraken, sparklespriggs (nerolinks)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
16 Jun 2025
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It's been three weeks since Pretty Ballet Boy and Hot Skater Boy started dating and it's all moving so fast. Everything between them has been perfect.
Until it's not.
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- Part 6 of ed was a punk, stede did ballet
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podfic of "Hooked On You" by PolitestMenace by sparklespriggs (nerolinks) for PolitestMenace (GayPirateAficionado)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
02 Jun 2025
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Ed imagined being massaged to death by mermaids, but falling in love with one? He had no idea what he was in for.
Inspired by art by Sailor’s Ruin.
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ed was a punk, stede did ballet by Baby_kraken, sparklespriggs (nerolinks)
Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
14 Oct 2025
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the love story of skater boy ed & ballet boy stede. all tooth-rotting fluff & big feelings, sprinkled with some silliness & smut. updates are non-chronological & depend on what we're feeling most inspired to create, but the fics will always be reshuffled so they stay in chronological order.
a collaborative series with words by sparklespriggs, art by baby kraken & audio by both of us!
soundcloud podfic playlist here!
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a collection of my gentlebeard fics for easy reading, minus collaborations! (see the "ed was a punk, stede did ballet" series for the main stuff i'm writing rn :))
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Ed owns a picture framing shop, he spends all day making frames, it’s always the fucking same! Make another frame and so on and so forth, again and again and again and AGAIN! ITS ALL SO FUCKING BORING!
Until someone brings in a picture of a pretty blond man….A Graphic Novel Fanfic written and illustrated by BabyKraken
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Edward Teach is a pop star about to embark on his latest tour when he develops vocal nodes. Stede Bonnet is the voice specialist who treats him. Sparks fly.
“Right. And could you please describe your singing voice to me? Or sing something you feel showcases your voice, if you feel comfortable. For my usual clientele, I’d suggest their go-to audition song, but I don’t get the sense that you do much auditioning.”
There’s a long pause during which Stede takes note of the guy’s eyes. Not a literal case note, that would be inappropriate. His eyes are large and brown and expressive, quicksand eyes. Eyes a person could get lost in. Right now, they’re slightly narrowed at Stede. He seems to decide something.
“Listen,” the client says. “I appreciate you not wanting to make it weird, but I promise I’m used to it.”
“Used to it?” Stede asks, and there go the eyes again. Stede has the oddest sense of being taken apart, exposed, like the recurring dream he has of walking through the halls of his secondary school without a single stitch of clothing on, down to the same vague, unsettling sense that it should be more awkward than it is.
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“Come help me find an apothecary nearby,” Ed calls to Lamp, who’s still laying in front of the door. Ed pulls up the Conjure browser on his phone and searches for apothecaries in his area. There are a dozen or so results that pop up by the time Lamp has reluctantly left his post by the front door and flopped down next to Ed on the couch, pushing his head under Ed’s arm so he can look at the search results.
One of them jumps out immediately: “Stede’s Stupendous Shop of Spellcasting Sundries,” Ed reads aloud. What the fuck is that name? It’s fascinating and hilarious. Ed needs to go there immediately. He looks up reviews for the shop, and they’re either 5 stars or 1 star, nothing in between. He checks one of the 1-star reviews — left by someone supposedly named Calico Jack, which is a weird name — and it starts with, “There’s this angry chicken, right,” and Ed stops reading there because that sounds like the coolest fucking thing he’s ever heard, and he wants to experience it for himself.
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Stede's a lonely apothecary owner looking for love. Ed's a jaded potions master looking for his place in the world. This is how they find what they're looking for in each other. -
Seaglass by Roberta Seaport (Deepdarkwaters) for TheFierceBeast
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
12 Jan 2023
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Stede Bonnet owns a fancy yarn shop in a cosy little seaside town. Life is mostly peaceful, a bit stressful, often lonely—then the empty shop next door is taken over by a leatherworker with kind eyes and a surprising fondness for cashmere, and everything changes.
(Fluff and sock garters and seashore walks and midlife revelations and a loophole in The Sweater Curse.)
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- Part 1 of Seaglass
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Stede draws his attention back to the head massage, alternating pressure from the kind of bruising that’s enough to knead a migraine away, to gentle, delicate strokes through his hair. He grows almost meditative with it, forcing his eyes away from Ed’s face and simply enjoying the feeling of body heat and cool, damp-silk hair against his palms. Truthfully, he could do this for hours, rather than the usual three-to-five minutes that’s usually afforded to customers when they…
When…
It’s been longer than three-to-five minutes.
A quick glance at the clock reveals it’s been far, far longer than three-to-five minutes.
Stede doesn’t mind, obviously. And Ed doesn’t seem to be about to question it. But the snide little Lucius-like voice in the back of his mind points out that almost twenty fucking minutes is maybe a bit of an overkill.
Stede yanks his hands away from Ed’s hair like it’s covered in bleach.
“Okey-doke!” Stede manages, voice shrill and a little strangled.
From across the salon, the real Lucius snorts.
(OR: Stede's a hair stylist. Ed shows up for an appointment. And shows up. And shows up. And shows up...)