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Mermaid Bones



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    To escape the stress of a failing marriage and lifetime of regret, Stede Bonnet dives headlong into his passion for storytelling with a second career in TV.

    New to his executive position at a major studio, the chaotic production of a declining soap opera, Lavender Bay, consumes him professionally and personally. As Stede figures out where he belongs amongst a ragtag crew, the series' tempestuous star, Edward Teach, drags him out of his shell and into the kind of love and life he's only known in stories.

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    A soap opera OFMD SMAU inspired by Soapdish

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    Ed jerks his head in the direction of the couch in the nearby waiting nook, and prepares himself for impending disaster.

    The impending disaster follows. Eagerly.

    “I’ve organized everything chronologically,” he says, setting the overstuffed briefcase down and thumbing through some of the piles. “But I can, of course, rearrange the presentation order based on your personal preferences! Alphabetically? Most-to-least amusing? Oh! Or a mystery draw - just pick a random folder without looking! That could be fun, couldn’t it?”

    Somewhere, deep in Ed’s soul, a very tiny, very tired voice goes: there is something deeply wrong with you as a man, Ed. You’re into this. Don’t even try to fucking deny it.

    (Or: Stede Bonnet is getting his first tattoo. Maybe. If Ed is able to rifle through Stede's entire briefcase of ideas and pro/con lists and flow charts and excel spreadsheets, and figure out what he actually wants. Which might take some time. A Reverse Big Bang 2025 fic with art by bbyteach!)

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    16 Nov 2025

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    It was one of those little thoughts that popped into Ed's head unprompted every now and then. Like "What if I accidentally stabbed myself cutting this apple?" or "What if that pretty-looking cargo ship's bait in a trap?"

    "What if I got bitched?"

    It could happen. What even if Ed turned super easily and was begging for more and more in record time, his body betraying him faster than anyone had thought an alpha could be bitched? What if someone did that to him? Wouldn't that just be, like, the worst?

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    28 Jan 2025

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    They’ve lived here on the island for half a year, and Ed is happy, of course he is. He wakes up in Stede’s arms more often than not, and on the “not” days Stede is usually up making him tea or arranging fresh flowers on the nightstand.

     

    But every so often Ed catches himself holding his breath. He’ll be looking at Stede in the candlelight and be struck, as if by lightning, with the hurt of that night on the dock, when he waited for Stede until the sun rose. In those moments, Ed feels the world go off-kilter, like he’s looking up at his life from underwater.

     

    While out thrifting for furniture and decorations for the inn, Ed comes across a painting that leads him on a journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance.

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    28 Jan 2025

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    Wee John Feeney, also known as the drag queen Calypso, realizes that there's far more to the story of Izzy Hands, the club's manager. It's time to figure that out.

    (Past-drag queen Izzy, Izzy & Wee John friendship, Past Izzy/Ed)

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    27 Sep 2024

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    Frankie says this fucks.

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    Ed can hear birdsong. Birdsong signalling that something in the ecosystem has shifted, dramatically. In a way that was impossible to notice when you’re immersed in it. And it hits him all at once, the realisation that the last ten years are coming to an end, that his period of bare bones survival is going to start shifting into something more active, something faster, something with significantly more intent behind it. After all, nobody tells you when the aftermath becomes just…after. Nobody can tell you when you’re going to feel safe enough to start living again.

     

    or: Ten years after the world ended, Ed's running out of reasons to stay alive. Until one turns up on his literal doorstep, forcing him to reevaluate his definition of hope.

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