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Our saltwater solution reduces gravity’s pull by over 80%, ensuring you'll effortlessly stay afloat! We keep the water at a steady 36 degrees—matching your skin’s temperature. This blend of weightlessness and warmth blurs the lines between your body and the water, as your nerves can’t tell where you end and the surrounding environment begins.
Weightlessness. Yeah. If anything’s gonna be Ed’s cure-all, it’s gotta be weightlessness, right?
Ed’s carried around weight for most of his life. He’s tired. His muscles ache. His joints are all ground down to dust.
Also - the word solution is right there. Which proves it.
This is it. This is Ed’s solution.
(Or: Ed's on a wellness journey for his fuckass brain. It's not going great. The guy at the float tank place is being way too nice about it. Please mind the tags!)
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07 Sep 2025
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old gods and koroks by foxtails, mossgroves, y2jenn (self_induljennt)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
02 Apr 2025
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He ducks under the ridge of the skull, unclips his bow, slips an arrow into the housing, and creeps around until he has a decent view of the trail. The stranger has slowed, staring up at the leviathan as they approach, hands on their hips. Ed steps out into view, raises his bow, and pauses.
The stranger, as unknown as he currently is, is cute.
Hylian, most likely. A little shorter than Ed, but broad looking under his tunic and cloak, pack sticking up over the top of his head, and visibly stuffed with god-knows-what. There’s a physical map sticking out from one of his pockets, and leaves in his hair, and he’s clearly not been gifted with powers of observance, because Ed’s been aiming a bow at him for the best part of two minutes, and he still hasn’t noticed.
And then, all at once, his gaze drops, and his eyes widen, and he all but screams.
“I’M FRIENDLY!”
or: what if Ed and Stede just happened to be citizens in the Kingdom of Hyrule? And what if they had a serendipitous meet cute at the Great Eldin Skeleton and then fell in love? Suspend your disbelief, because this is that fic.
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23 Jun 2025
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Ed has resigned himself to the fact that he's not going to be getting a happy ending. He's bored with his art and unsure if he can be the kind of person he wants to be, and he's tired of trying and of waiting around to see if his life gets better. Just when he's started to plan on not being around for much longer, enter Stede Bonnet. It's still not easy to choose to live, but...with a little help, maybe Ed can give it a go.
A fic about learning to love being alive, even after you've long since given up on it.
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09 Jun 2024
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In a world where a goose appears when you're on the path to your soulmate, Stede keeps being led towards the sea.
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20 Apr 2024
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There's a thought Stede has never thought before.
He's finally ready to think it, and to meet himself on the other side.
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A slow, meandering exploration about coming out.
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15 Mar 2024
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In 1919, Edward Teach, is looking for a fresh start after the horrors of the Great War. He responds to an advert in the paper for a groundskeeper position at Direfold Manor, a remote estate in the northern moors of England inhabited only by two people: the reclusive Stede Bonnet, lord of the estate, and his valet Mr. Nathaniel Buttons.
It does not take long for Ed to realize that things at the manor—including the residents—are not all as they seem.
This fic is an OFMD-flavored love letter to romantic Gothic horror and was written for the fandom writing prompt event A Fortnight of Horrors hosted by ShowMeAHero. Each chapter in the story will cover a different prompt.
Huge, HUGE thanks to the amazing and talented ClaireGregory (AO3 | Twitter) for providing both hype and historically-accurate feedback on this story.
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13 Jan 2024
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Before I get into the matter at hand, I must apologise for contacting you out of the blue like this. You do not know me, and all rules of etiquette state that correspondence such as this should be saved only for those one knows personally, but I feel this is a worthy exception to the rule.
Stede finds love letters between his wife, Mary, and her lover, Doug, hidden at the back of their wardrobe. Curious, he reads the ones he finds, and uncovers the details of her affair. In many of the letters, Doug has mentioned a man named Ed, whom Stede assumes is Doug’s partner. Eager to do the right thing and protect Ed from his own inevitable heartbreak, Stede writes a letter of his own.
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01 Jan 2024
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Ed’s used to visitors, though the novelty of his home has worn off in the last eighteen months or so, the uninvited guests becoming fewer and further between. He’s used to curiosity, and questions he rarely feels like answering. He’s used to people forgetting that this is, in fact, his home, and not some out of the way tourist attraction.
He’s used to strangers.
But he’s starting to think that perhaps, not all his visitors need to stay strangers.
or: Ed has a simple life. He has a self-built, off grid, mostly self-sustaining house tucked away in the middle of a forest. He has five chickens, and a partially feral cat. He lives alone, and he likes it that way. Until the appearance of an incredibly nosy, incredibly handsome stranger three weekends in a row has him questioning every self-imposed rule he's ever set himself.
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27 Nov 2023
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01 Nov 2023
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In the adventurer’s paradise of Aotearoa (NZ), Stede Bonnet has dreamt of being a travel guide since he was a boy.
Unfortunately, being the heir to coach tour company Bonnet Adventures means he’s doomed to a life behind a desk, planning experiences he’ll never have.
Edward Teach is what they call a world-weary traveler. Having guided nature tours in some of the most extreme environments around the world, he’s seen and done it all – and he’s bored out of his skull.
When Stede abandons his family to lead a trekking tour of the country, he quickly realizes that he’s in over his head, and looks to more experienced guide, Ed, for guidance.
Facing high-maintenance travel bloggers, treacherous natural elements and the ever-present feeling that they’ll never be enough, Stede and Ed find new purpose - and each other - on the adventure of a lifetime.
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 57/57
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31 Aug 2023
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Blow the Man Down by JavidDenkins
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV), Blow the Man Down (TV)
11 Jun 2023
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Hey, sluts.
Congratulations. You've found me.
I hope you've enjoyed playing so far.
I know I certainly have.
We're almost done. Just a bit further to go.
Welcome to my FAR LAG SPAR RUMP, no---
my FLAG RAP RASP RUM, no---
this is my
RPF
ARG
SMAU
LARP.Now let's figure out who Javid Denkins is together.
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- 21/21
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14 Aug 2023
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Lock and Key: An OFMD Narrowboat SMAU by thereluctantrose
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
21 Apr 2023
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A recently out and divorced Stede Bonnet buys a canal side pub and narrowboat, despite having zero experience with either. Along with his rag tag pub staff and the boys from the boat works across the canal, he's carving out a little space where he feels he belongs.
Ed Teach, a blues pianist who's lived on his narrowboat in London for years, is burnt out from a long tour and a bitter break up. He decides a boat trip North is just what the doctor ordered to clear his head and find the music again.
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- Part 1 of Lock & Key
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- English
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- 50,068
- Chapters:
- 37/37
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27 Jul 2023
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Ed's minding his business when the new neighbor's kid comes around holding a human puppet. It's creepy as hell, but as soon as the kid's father rounds the corner, Ed doesn't mind.
ETA: Podfic available here from Kninjaknitter my darling dearest
“Hello,” says the strangest voice Ed’s ever heard, jolting him out of his reverie, sending his heart speeding into chaos.He opens his eyes and he’s staring straight at a stuffed animal in the shape of a human person. It is bald with a tiny hat and too-big eyes and it wears a blue shirt and a name tag that says Jeffy in the sort of scrawl normally reserved for words written in blood.
A puppet, he realizes several seconds beyond when it would have been appropriate to respond.
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22 Jul 2023
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Ed's a small business owner having a midlife crisis; he gets stranded in a weird airport in the middle of the USA when his flight home to Auckland gets diverted. He doesn't know he's about to meet the love of his life.
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14 Jun 2023
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Talking things through as a crew is easier said than done, and honest communication has never really been Stede’s strong suit. When it comes to Ed, he is willing to try.
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- Chapters:
- 8/8
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05 Jun 2023
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Ed returns to the Revenge, ready to finally begin his life with Stede – only, he’s not quite sure what that life will be.
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- Part 2 of Time in a Bottle
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- English
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- 111,292
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- 9/9
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12 May 2023
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It’s the summer of 1959, and classics professor Stede Bonnet is determined to become a new man. He’s made two monumental changes so far: he’s resigned his position at the University of Chicago, where he has taught for his entire career, and he’s left his wife Mary, to whom he has been married for nine years. Now he’s off to the only place in the United States where you can get a no-fault divorce: the deserts of Nevada. He’s checking in to a so-called Divorce Ranch just outside of Reno, where he’ll spend the requisite six weeks establishing residency. After that, it’s off to California to assume his new teaching position and his new life.
It's the summer of 1959. Ed Teach has been living in Reno since he was a teenager. He's a radio DJ, an artist, a handyman and a fixture of the community, particularly popular in the underground gay nightlife scene that is still recovering from the brutal vice raids of the McCarthy era.
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- Part 1 of From Reno, With Love
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- 12/12
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03 May 2023
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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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- English
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- 12/12
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- 384
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06 Mar 2023
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"Hey Iz. Got offered another job so won't be coming back. Cheers."
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What if Ed went to meet Stede when the Revenge ran aground? Canon AU.
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- English
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- 28,492
- Chapters:
- 13/13
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06 Mar 2023
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“I heard you’re a writer,” Blackbeard says.
There’s a sudden rustling sound as Blackbeard kicks something across the floor. Frenchie bends down to retrieve it, and sees that it’s a notebook. Wide and empty, like that one Lucius used to carry around with him.
“Write us a better ending then.”
(Captain Blackbeard has heard about Frenchie’s ‘bit of fanfiction.’ He asks him to write a better ending for his and Stede’s story. Frenchie tries his best but soon other people want to tell the story the way it should have gone, including Fang, Lucius, Ivan, Jim, and ultimately Ed. In the act of surviving and telling stories together, relationships are considered, examined, and developed. Meanwhile, a ship trailing seagulls grows closer and closer on the horizon.)
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 4/4
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27 Feb 2023