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Izzy Hands learns to accept kindness, and possibly even give kindness in return.
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16 Feb 2023
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“Oh, Ed. What are we going to do with you?” Evelyn propped her elbow on the table and her face on her hand. Her earrings were bright green, peridot maybe, and they looked incredible, glimmering like spring. Ed never had a sister.
“Put me in a bag and shake me up? That’s what my mum used to say.” She’d never actually done it though. Maybe she should’ve, might’ve shook something loose. Done them both some good.
Ed is possibly having a small midlife crisis. He's dealing with it pretty well, until he meets this blond guy outside the library.
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- Part 1 of Temptation 'Verse
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15 Feb 2023
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Spring is as much of a dying season than it is a living one. Ed had died in the spring.
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after season one, ed fakes his death and ends up on a welsh island populated solely by nuns. there he makes wine and tends the old wood-fired boiler, thinks about his mother and makes friends with a teenage nun; dreams in horrific red and black. then one night a rowboat eases ashore, and his safe, drunken wheel of routine gets shattered for good.
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15 Feb 2023
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Stede sits down to read his nightly bedtime story to the crew of the Revenge, only to discover that Lucius has saddled him with a particularly trashy novel in which a gentleman and a pirate begin a hot and heavy romance. Ed has been on board for several weeks, and everyone is sick of the slow burn and apparently ready to shove them down the path to a real romance by whatever means they can.
As Stede reads (and tries to work out who the author of the story might be), they'll bicker their way through romance tropes, story structures, and what it means to have a happy ending. And if by the end of this night Edward Teach isn't in Stede Bonnet's bed, Lucius will probably have to eat his match-making hat...
A hilariously silly meta love letter to Our Flag Means Death and the fanfic writing and reading community ❤️
[This fic is now COMPLETE!]
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- Part 1 of Romancing the High Seas
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25 Jan 2023
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“Would you like me to pick you up anything special for the crossing?” Stede checks.
“Oh, I dunno. You know what I like,” Ed grins.
Me, it’s me, it’s me! Stede’s heart rejoices. He can’t go wrong with such wind beneath his wings.
“I’ll have to see if I can find a treat for when you get bored at sea,” he tells Ed. “Something to keep you occupied.”
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Quite simply, Stede and Ed "romance" their way across an ocean.
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23 Jan 2023
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Stede is not used to being touched. Ed insists touching is good for the body, and decides to help Stede, you know, for the health benefits.
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- Part 1 of Bodies Doing Good
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18 Jan 2023
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Ed Teach aka Blackbeard is a NYC nightlife legend, opening his first club in his early 20s and turning it into the place to see and be seen in the 90s and beyond. He’s also the mastermind behind three other iconic nightclubs across Manhattan.
He is so fucking bored.
Enter Stede Bonnet—recently divorced & out of the closet—who is following his dream of opening a nightclub. Along with his motley crew, his small but mighty queer venue has garnered a fast reputation for its creative theme nights.
Originally posted as a social media alternate universe (SMAU) on Twitter.
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11 Jan 2023
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pliocene by UnfortunatelyObsessed for Emi_theSassiestSousa, nerdykai128
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
30 May 2022
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“Well you’ve gone and fucked it up now, mate.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Fuckin' beg then, man, it's just ocean for miles.” Ed motions out to the waves, where there is no sign of any sort of ship, their small dinghy pulled far up on the sand. “I told you when the clouds look like seagulls you take fuckin' cover. Goddamn ocean mutinied me.”
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27 Nov 2022
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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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06 Nov 2022
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Laid up after a skirmish, Blackbeard is in need of entertainment. Stede is obliging.
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23 Oct 2022
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The 80s are in full swing, and the golden decade of Nintendo Gameboys’ and Sony Walkmans’ has never looked better. In the neon jungle, Stede Bonnet, a young salaryman, meets enigmatic mechanic apprentice Edward Teach, and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship via fax machine, page beepers and gifts in the mail.
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14 Oct 2022
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Gay people flirting
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12 Oct 2022
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After Captain Bonnet finishes their bedtime story and turns in for the evening, the crew make up some of their own.
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Fan fiction within fan fiction, benches!
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03 Oct 2022
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The downside to being stuck on a desert island is that Stede's not awfully good at adapting. The upside is that he and Ed can finally have some peace and quiet– that is, if Ed ever wakes up from the gunshot wound in his stomach.
Stranded in the middle of who-knows-where, Stede learns the art of reflection and how to embrace the man who looks back.
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03 Oct 2022
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Stede is ready to 'get back out there' after his divorce, but he's more than a little bit intimidated by the concept of online dating. After a series of truly terrible first dates, he's close to giving up on love altogether. Perhaps he's too old for all this Grindr nonsense.
And then, along comes a bartender called Edward Teach.
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02 Oct 2022
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The first time he fucks Stede Bonnet, Edward Teach is sure of three things:
Stede Bonnet’s mouth tastes both warm like brandy, and sweet like the flesh of an orange.
Stede Bonnet’s skin smells like fresh air, and sun, and the good type of dirt.
Stede Bonnet is going to be the greatest, most wonderful mistake of Ed’s life.or: Ed and Stede enter into a co-captains with benefits arrangement. It stays about as platonic as you'd expect.
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18 Sep 2022
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Blackbeard, scourge of the seas, legendary plunderer, epic maimer, and committer of patricide, was in a meadow picking flowers for the boy he had a crush on.
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05 Sep 2022
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Ed meets Stede on a beach in Barbados a month before the Revenge is finished. Ed decides that kidnapping a wealthy (handsome) man might break the monotony of being Blackbeard. Stede is a little too on board with being kidnapped.
Basically, an alternate meeting slow-burn AU, with lots of humor, hijinks, and building sexual and romantic tension.
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04 Sep 2022
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The Revenge spots a drifting, seemingly abandoned ship. Is it haunted, overrun by demons, or full of vampire-mermaids? Probably none of the above, Ed and Stede think, though some of the crew have different ideas. There does seem to be something wrong about that ship though. It warrants some investigation.
This is a ghost story/horror genre (not too scary) multi-chapter story set in the wonderful Co-Captains time before everything went to hell. This story is now complete.
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Ed cracks a most delightful grin and puts his hand on his heart. “Tell you what, if I die before you, promise I’ll come back and haunt the fuck outta you, mate.”
“That would be absolutely lovely. Thank you.”
Ed laughs again and Stede watches his face light up. His eyes are adjusting to the dark, and he can see the outline of Ed’s features again, and can catch the flash of white teeth. Stede could swear that when Ed tosses his head laughing, the faint light from the moon and stars flows like water through the silver in his hair.
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04 Sep 2022
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Stede Bonnet and Ed Teach are falling in love. The only problem is Stede Bonnet and Ed Teach also happen to hate each other.
(It’ll make sense when you read it, promise.)
Modern AU where these two lunatics own rival pirate themed theme parks at the English seaside. Unbetaed.
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17 Aug 2022