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Chicken Soup for the Middle-Aged Soul by ghostalservice, nomadsland
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
16 Jan 2024
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Mysterious things are afoot (a-big-foot?) at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Stamford, CT.
Ed’s a TEC/DICK/SLEUTH/GUMSHOE who’s been out of the game for a few years. He’s happy to be indulging his hobby with a bunch of other nerds.
But when he meets a blond with LEGS/GAMS/PINS that could kill…
Why’s Nigel Badminton slumped over his scoring table with a pencil through his eye?
Why is Chauncey Badminton running screaming from the building straight into traffic?
And why do the lights keep flickering?
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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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08 Feb 2024
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minor angst 14/10
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It’s ten minutes until midnight on New Queer’s Eve, and Ed is standing up on the balcony looking down into the churning crowd, wireless microphone in his hand as he checks his watch and wiles the time away watching the partygoers below. He'll lead the countdown to midnight, flip the switch and turn on the electric kraken, triggering the bubble cannons. People will cheer, and Wee John's music will drive people to gyrate on the dance floor, drunk or high or both, until the sun rises.
Without fail, that’s the way it’s been for the past decade. Fucking exhausting. Once Ed says his piece, he’s definitely heading straight home to take a few ibuprofen and call it a fucking night. Maybe fall asleep to a Golden Girls rerun.
As Ed checks his watch for the hundredth time, willing the world to rotate faster, the spotlights sweep over the crowd, shifting and swirling. For a moment as the lights coalesce together, highlighting a gap in the dance floor. For the length of a single heartbeat, there’s a man dancing in the center of the lights, illuminated as if heaven itself were opening up to shine down on him.
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17 Jun 2024
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this is soooooooooo good
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A modern AU in which Ed is a glassblower, because glassblowing is sexy. Ed/Stede medium burn, E rating applies from chapter 4 onwards.
Stede's life is boring, flat, made up of things he didn't choose for himself. He commissions some glass art from Ed as an anniversary gift for Mary, and Stede starts to learn what it is like to want things for himself.
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“Hey, it’s blond guy!”
“Uh,” Stede looks up to see leather and purple and strikingly tumbling hair. “Hi. Stede Bonnet. Blond guy?”
“Yeah man, I’ve seen you in the shop, I call you Blond Guy in my head. Good to have a proper name for you, Stede. I’m Ed.”
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rock the night (or day, depending on your availability) by Quilly
Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
25 Jan 2024
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A modern AU where Stede is a suburban fisherman, Ed is a rockstar, and the gang's all here.
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20 Jan 2024
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fisherman stede ghosts ed a little 14/10