true_birate
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It only takes one unfortunate twist of fate to alter the futures of Flint and Silver forever. Early on in their journey, Silver contracts an illness that puts his brain and, consequently, the Urca’s schedule and Flint’s whole plan in jeopardy. When Flint is forced by circumstances to confront his strange fascination with their crew’s new incompetent cook, they develop an unlikely relationship that changes the course of Flint’s war and, inadvertently, his life and heart.
For all of Silver’s scheming, for all his careful balancing acts, it was Flint’s heavy-handed moves that had brought him to this fragile brink. And Flint, whether out of arrogance or ignorance, hadn’t seen it coming.
But Silver had. And he wasn’t going to let it stand.
No more silent swallowing of consequences not his own. No more pretending the captain’s games didn’t leave blood on other men’s hands. If Flint wanted to drag him into the fire, Silver would make damned sure he got burned too.Or: come for the sickfic, stay for the complex, developing homoerotic relationship between two idiots from the 18th century.
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After Skeleton Island, Silver drags Flint inland toward Savannah, toward the impossible promise of Thomas Hamilton alive and waiting. Silver thinks he’s accounted for Flint’s temper, Flint’s grief, Flint’s war. He hasn’t accounted for Flint’s refusal to go quietly.
One bloody chance on the road is all it takes for Flint to seize control back. But Flint learns there is no contempt sharp enough, no war loud enough to drown out a love that’s sunk clear to the bone.
Loving John Silver was its own trial by fire. It didn’t absolve a fucking thing. It didn’t throw a shroud over betrayal or sweeten the poison. It was a force that compelled in spite of sense – love the man anyway, love him because he is wrong and still yours.
Or: The one where Flint chooses Silver.
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Flint’s devotion to football, as Silver quickly finds out, is almost touching. Except it keeps pulling his attention away from Silver, who, by most metrics, should be his favorite thing. He knows this. Flint knows this. The world should know this.
There are only so many ways to balance the scale.On truly dire days, when the stakes were high and the ref apparently blind, Silver had seen him slide down onto his knees, right there in front of the TV. Flint, already intense under normal circumstances, looked like a supplicant at a particularly brutal altar. The football gods, Silver thought, had never received a more sincere believer.
Or: Silver vs. Football.
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Billy Millais has spent twenty years imagining justice. Then Youngblood sends him aboard the Nautilus as liaison, unarmed and neck–deep in history, and the shape of it drastically changes. His first time getting fucked by the man who ruined him might be the only kind of victory he’s ever going to get.
He was a captain now.
He was, officially, a weapon with a name.
And yet his cock didn’t give a single disciplined fuck about rank or oaths when that voice slipped past his defenses and went straight for the tender meat of his brain. A treacherous heat uncurled at the base of his spine. Traitor flesh. Traitor heart.Or: Millais’ first time – of course it would be with Dakkar or not at all.
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Black Sails, White Coats, Red Flags by FreakingPlane, true_birate
Fandoms: Grey's Anatomy, Black Sails
25 Dec 2025
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Callie Torres and Arizona Robbins are fine. Actually, for the first time in a while, they’re good. Really good. After surviving a shooting, car accident, plane crash, limb loss, and infidelity, they’ve never been stronger. They’re going to therapy, they’re happy, maybe more than they’ve ever been.
That is, until two men drop into their lives with all the grace of a nuclear bomb. Unreliable, unstable, and undeniably wrong, James Flint and John Silver are sure to disrupt the life they’ve painstakingly rebuilt for themselves. They’re salt in the wound and impossible to figure out.
Worse, their tongues are sharp as knives, and Silver’s ruined leg is just like her own, meaning Arizona can't stay away. So, when Arizona starts helping them settle into the modern world, she doesn’t tell Callie. They’ve been through enough. It’s only for a few weeks, where’s the harm? But then it becomes more than that. And it threatens to tear them all apart.
Or: Two lesbian surgeons accidentally adopt two time-displaced pirates.
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He had nothing to bargain with but his life. Luckily, it finally had value.
Or, what if Jack Rackham arrived at Skeleton Island just a few hours later?
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14 Jan 2026
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It just keeps getting better and better! (Worse for Silver. And everyone else. But still!!!)
Ch 16
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“If falling was inevitable, he would rather jump. Deciding to submit was still a decision, and Silver would never let anyone take that choice from him. He knew how vulnerability could be wielded as a weapon, how a prisoner could strangle their captor with manacles. Besides, the aftermath of Mrs Barlow’s death had proved that if Flint truly respected someone, he would blame himself for their demise. If Silver had successfully become his partner in the same way that she had, his descent would be Flint’s downfall.”
In which Silver is smart enough to seduce Flint in order to manipulate him, but stupid enough to believe that is truly what he's doing.
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16 Dec 2025
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We Were Always Meant to Fall (Apart) by sexy_sorcerer_sapphic
STUNNING WRITING. THE PROSE IS UNREAL. FLINT IS AAAAAAAA. SILVER IS SILVER IN THE BEST, MOST FUCK UP WAY IMAGINABLE.
Read this. Then read it again. It's so worth it.I can't believe this is free, I would so pay money to read this. Wouldn't even blink.
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The thing is, Silver doesn’t believe in ghosts.
Bookmarked by true_birate
16 Dec 2025
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to reread. because it's brilliant, and there are words to say about it. a great many words.