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1972. Ed Teach meets Stede Bonnet in a gay bar. He's the perfect man-- or he would be, if it weren't for one thing.
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13 Oct 2025
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Ed propositions the man with the curls for some casual fun at his bar one night. They agree to keep it anonymous, but when Curls turns out to be the owner of the new queer cafe on the same block as Ed's bar (and also Ed's dream man), things get a little complicated.
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02 Aug 2025
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Stede's birthday is coming up and all he really wants is a pirate themed party. His boyfriend thinks he's being childish and stupid. The handsome stranger in the cake aisle disagrees.
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“Pirates, is it?”“Please don’t tease. I really don’t think I can handle any more ridicule today.”
“Shit, no I didn’t mean it like that. I’m a bit of a pirate nerd myself. Can I show you something?” He began unbuttoning his dress shirt before Stede could form the words to answer.
“What are you doing?” he started to ask, trailing off quickly as his mouth went dry at the sight of the man’s bare chest where he had pulled his undershirt all the way up. Stede was too distracted to finish speaking by the overall impression: a canvas of ink covered skin, muscular and soft in all the right places, a tantalizing trail of dark hair leading Stede’s eyes down, down…
Fuck. Focus, Bonnet.
He dragged his focus back to the inked images which were surely the point of this man’s public indecency.
~~~~(Mary to Ed, some time later):
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02 Aug 2025
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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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02 Aug 2025
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Everyone knows the fucking rule, nobody better than Ed: you find a weird bell, you don’t ding the weird bell.
Guess how many times Ed’s dinged the weird bell anyway. Yeah, Ed always dings the weird bell, it’s like a fucking compulsion, he just can’t not. Brain sees a bell, brain goes, what would happen if I dinged that?
Dinging occurs. Shit happens.
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A 5+1 (or really a 1+5) in which innkeeper-era Ed and Stede discover a magic bell that can take them back in time to past moments in their relationship. They decide to seduce each other (and themselves) at different points to see if they can avert some of the pain they all went through. Things do not, of course, go as planned.
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02 Aug 2025