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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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- Part 1 of Pretty-Verse
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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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09 Aug 2024
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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...)
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22 Jun 2024
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Ed takes a deep breath and then spits the words out as fast as he can, not looking Stede in the eye. “You seemed like you might be kinda interested in puppy play stuff, but I didn't know how to get you to talk about it so I bought you all this shit in case you wanted to try it but it's fine if you don't, I can return it. Well, I probably can't, because, sex stuff, but like, fuck, I don't know, I'll chuck it away. Fuckin’ burn it or something. Whatever. Pretend this never happened.”
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Or: Stede shows some interest in puppy play, and Ed is very enthusiastic about helping him explore it.
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13 May 2024
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Stede Bonnet Golden Retriever BoyFriend Truther — read when fin.
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“He’s my husband, I can’t—” Stede gulps. “I’m married, Ed. I made vows. I’ve got to stick to them.”
“Is he sticking to them?” It comes out sharp. There’s genuine anger in Ed’s voice now, as though he’s personally affronted that Stede isn’t being satisfied. “To have and to hold, yeah?” Ed says, his voice low and gravelly. “When was the last time he held you, Stede?”
Stede whines desperately, tilting his head to give Ed more access to his neck. Hot lips drag up to Stede’s ear.
“When was the last time he had you?”
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12 Mar 2024
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Does the Body Good 2: Does the Body Even Gooder by zemph147 for ghostalservice
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
11 Mar 2024
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Stede and Ed are sent on temporary sex mutiny.
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- Part 2 of Bodies Doing Good
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10 Mar 2024
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Wave Hello to the Void by eefaevie, mxmollusca, zacharybosch
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
26 Dec 2023
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Stede Bonnet is a former professor of folklore and aspiring YouTube personality trying to find the Mothman.
Edward Teach is an ex-astronomer just trying to find a way out of small-town West Virginia.
Little do they know that what they actually find will change them both forever.
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28 Feb 2024
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Get lit and read the fuck out of this. As a treat.
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Blackbeard is dead, as far as anyone knows. In his place lives the man Edward Teach, who has escaped to a small coastal town in the middle of nowhere in the hopes of a fresh start where he can forget his chequered past. He doesn’t want much, only a simple and quiet life which he has found as the lighthouse keeper of the town of Saint Bellamy.
He is content with his solitary life on his own small island, until the day a stranger washes up on the beach after a storm. The man is unlike anyone Ed has ever met, and as Ed helps to nurse him back to health, he discovers that he’s not the only one with a secret past.
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- Part 1 of Even Lovers Drown
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12 Feb 2024
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Ed is an engineer aboard the Revenge, an interplanetary research vessel on a multi-year mission to study Jupiter's moon Europa. An accident requires that Ed awaken from cryostasis over six months early, and finds his only companion to be Stede, the ship's onboard AI. They develop an unconventional friendship, but is it possible to have more?
This is classic mutual pining with a sci-fi twist, inspired by all of my favorite stories about the nature of personhood.
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“You–” Ed was struggling to parse what Stede was saying. “You’re playing your version of this song for me, right now? Like, in real time?”“Yes, Edward, that’s correct,” said Stede softly.
Ed’s brain momentarily seized up. He supposed it made sense that Stede was capable of learning a set of rules to do something like arrange and play a piece of music. There was something unnerving about this song, though. It felt, well–it felt organic . Reactive. Almost collaborative in a way. Ed was lost in the push and pull of it, until the last notes softly petered out.
“So, what did you think?” asked Stede. It sounded nervous again. Why the hell would someone program an anxiety response into a bot?
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- Part 1 of Starry Eyes and Counting Down to Zero
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Ed still isn't used to being vulnerable. But Stede's praise unlocks a part of him he didn't know he had.
And fuck, it feels good.
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21 Jul 2023
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It’s almost like a tale that Ed is composing in the midnight hours. He wonders how it will end. He wonders if anyone would entertain a story about a pirate and his gentleman.
For years, Edward Teach dreamed of a young blond man with shy smiles and a wild, ridiculous nature. They could never speak to each other, but in the long run it didn’t matter. They could touch, they could feel. Then the dreams stop, and Ed is left adrift.
Were they dreams if Ed can remember the soft skin of the other boy’s hand in his? Is it real if his only friend is someone he met in solitude?
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- Part 4 of Pez's pre-canon gentlebeard stories
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21 Jul 2023
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The Postman Always Rings Twice by ClaireGregory for emi_rose
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
09 Apr 2023
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Ed is just trying to deliver a package when he finds himself seduced by artist Mary Bonnet.
The next time he visits, he finds himself seduced by her husband instead, and discovers that he's stumbled into an unusual arrangement.
He's more than happy to follow their lead.
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10 Apr 2023
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With a lantern held aloft, already clad in his dressing gown and cap, he peers out over the dark gleaming surface of the sea and suddenly catches a flash of something. He sucks in a surprised gasp, trying not to drop the lantern. There is a vague stirring in the brine; squinting, Stede can just make out a shape moving amongst choppy waves.
Marshalling his shock, he deliberates. Perhaps he should call out to see if it’s someone who needs assistance? It could be a lost sailor or fisherman who drifted too far from shore and has fallen overboard. Lighthouse keepers are supposed to help others, Stede reasons. They are supposed to provide a guiding light.
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09 Apr 2023
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Stede is the lighthouse keeper of Revenge's End. Surrounded by friends, Stede has everything he could want, but he also wants, well, more.
Then a Kraken strikes, nearly destroying the town and Stede, but something sparks between them. Cosmic. Confusing. Candescent. The Kraken saves Stede before disappearing into the waves.
Stede can't shake the encounter and the sense that the Kraken might need saving too. Embarking on a ship with his band of many, many, many friends, Stede pursues the Kraken out to the perilous sea.
What Stede doesn't know is that the Kraken was once a man, a man who's now broken and clinging to the frayed threads of his humanity, and hoping for someone just like Stede to come along and help him break free.Series
- Part 1 of The Kraken and the Lighthouse Keeper
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09 Apr 2023
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A sequel to Ochre, Resin, and Light. Because this world now lives full time and rent free in my brain.
With the exhibition creeping ever closer, Edward, Izzy and Stede work to define themselves and make sense of the attraction between them. Edward has to perform the balancing act of maintaining both his marriage and making sense of his new crush in the face of increasingly loud visions, Izzy needs to find stable footing with Stede, and Stede learns the hard way that sometimes, doing something as simple as getting lunch can lead to the most dangerous of encounters.
And yet-- all these challenges pale in comparison when a second painting appears that looks achingly familiar.
Or-- Part 2 boogaloo horny about paintings, but now they're mega horny about each other for realsies.
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- Part 2 of Ochre, Resin, and Light
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Bookmarked by roximonoxide
02 Apr 2023
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A little Stede Bonnet backstory
Hands, hair, shaving, a seafarer barber, longing for the sea, and a ship
(Only passing mention of Buttons and Lucius. Frenchie has a few lines of dialogue!)Series
- Part 1 of The Pirate and the Barber
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26 Mar 2023
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Stede finds the house. When he comes back to their room at the inn, he won’t rest—won’t let Ed rest—until Ed’s seen it. His eyes are bright in that way that makes Ed’s guts feel scooped out with a spoon. So Ed hurries into his boots and goes with him.
The once-white paint is stripped by weather and wear, a portion of the roof is caved in, and the spokes of the wraparound porch are all gnawed through by animals.
Ed gazes up at the broken windows and the birds that have built nests there. At his side, Stede is waiting, rocking back and forth on his heels.
"It’s perfect," says Ed.
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Or: Ed and Stede leave the island together, and they don’t look back.
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24 Mar 2023