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1. The Nettles in the Garden Don't Go Away by JRaylin441

   Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   11 Jun 2025

   Tags

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   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet
   • Stede Bonnet
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach
   • Will add more as I write it - Character
   • "Calico" Jack Rackham
   • Israel Hands
   • Mary Allamby Bonnet
   • Alma Bonnet
   • Louis Bonnet
   • Lucius Spriggs
   • Black Pete (Our Flag Means Death)
   • Frenchie (Our Flag Means Death)
   • Oluwande Boodhari
   • Jim Jimenez
   • Roach (Our Flag Means Death)
   • Soulmates
   • But kind of a mishmash of all the soulmate tropes
   • gift giving as a love language
   • and also as an unavoidable event in a relationship
   • Repression
   • both sexual and emotional
   • depending on the day and the character
   • Magical Realism
   • No beta we die like Lucius
   • In that it's not beta'd right now
   • But might be later
   • Canon typical bullying
   • canon typical toxic masculinity
   • Lots of Angst
   • will eventually be
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • I promise
   • Alternate Universe - Soulmates
   • Izzy's canon Enormous boner for blackbeard
   • I guess there's no more dancing around the fact that this is a
   • Slow Burn
   • It just takes a While for them to meet
   • Dancing
   • Okay and it turns out I was wrong again
   • And it's a slow burn even once they meet
   • Autistic Stede Bonnet
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach Has ADHD
   • and a whole heap of other mental health stuff on top of that
   • for both of them
   • Found Family
   • Canon divergent after season one
   • canon compliant with season 1
   • Canon divergent after that

   Summary

   When Stede is nine years old, he loses his new red, silk handkerchief.

   A soulmate AU where Stede and Edward unwittingly share everything they own. It doesn't change anything, and it changes everything

   Language:

   English

   Words:

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