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  1. Public Bookmark 26

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    A Peter Pan book AU. Stede has been forced to grow up and put his childish dreams away, but one night he gets a mysterious visitor that brings it all back.

    Stede is dreaming.

    He rarely remembers his dreams; his father would say that he spends so much of his awake life dreaming that his sleeping mind has no need to provide more material. But sometimes, a dream breaks through. This time, he’s dreaming of Neverland. It’s an old favourite, and it used to feature more heavily in his dreams when he was a child. He used to be able to see it in great detail, back then. But the map of Neverland that he holds in his mind is locked away in that box, with his Belief, safe and secure, never to be looked at. He only has a dim recollection now. It’d sharpened into focus for a short while, when Alma had gone through her pirate phase a few years ago. But she, unlike her father, had done the proper thing and left it behind as she grew.

    But tonight? Tonight it’s so clear that he can smell it. There’s brine, and gunpowder, and adventure.

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    11 Sep 2024

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    “Can't believe you’ve got a tattoo for me,” Stede whispers, throat swollen from his silly, besotted tears. “Because of me. That's just–”

    And then it's Ed who pulls back, tilting his head in what looks like…confusion?

    “Wait,” he says, with an eyebrow raised. “What do you mean, a tattoo because of you?”

    Stede pulls back, too.

    He is equally confused.

    Ed squints at him.

    “You said ‘a tattoo',” Ed reiterates, inexplicably emphasising the ‘a’. “I mean. I understand why this one might get a bigger reaction, or whatever. I get it's maybe more meaningful than the others. But–”

    “Hang on,” Stede interjects, his brain snagging on ‘this one’. On ‘the others’.

    The others?

    What does that mean?

    (OR: Three months post-innkeepers, and Stede has yet to recognise the significance of several of Ed's tattoos. Fluff & Feels. Two-shot.)

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    20 Jun 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 71

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    "It's been three nights since Calypso's party, and everything has changed since then. 'Taking it slow' is probably off the table now, what with the pair of them abandoning piracy to build a life of domestic bliss together in this little Eleutheran cove, but it feels as though they're still trying to find the edges of what their new world might be..."

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    In which Ed and Stede enter their Innkeepers Era, get stuck into renovating their new home, and lay a few ghosts to rest.

    Unapologetic fluff with a moderate dose of smut.

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    19 May 2024

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    Stede takes in a deep breath and smiles. “Ed, I—” he says, but that’s as far as he gets before Ed’s pulling the gun out of its holster.

    He aims, and Stede manages to yelp and duck just in the nick of time. The wood behind him splinters. “Fucking hell!” he yells, and springs back up into standing position. He takes a second to mourn the scarred wood before turning to Ed. “I know I cocked things up, but there’s no need to be dramatic!”

    1717. The Golden Age of Piracy. Stede Bonnet sets about wooing the love of his life through any means necessary.

    Things do not go as planned.

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    08 May 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 58

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    This is a story of strategy. Of intrigue. Of history’s most brilliant tactician at work, battling fantastic odds to achieve victory at any cost.

    Or, Ed learns of the existence of Stede’s sexy little reading glasses and embarks upon the romantic mission of a lifetime to make sure he’s able to see them on his perfect face forever and always. There may or may not be ghosts.

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    02 May 2024