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1. I Want to Know What Love Is by BookknobsandBroomsticks

   Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   02 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet
   • Stede Bonnet
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach
   • Lucius Spriggs
   • Israel Hands
   • "Calico" Jack Rackham
   • Anne Bonny
   • Crew of the Revenge (Our Flag Means Death)
   • Bar Owner Blackbeard | Edward Teach
   • Bookstagrammer Stede
   • Getting Together
   • Slow Burn
   • "Calico" Jack Rackham Being an Asshole
   • Power Ballads
   • Stede wants to know what love is
   • He wants Ed to show him
   • Alcohol
   • I mean they spend a lot of time in bars...
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach is Down Bad for Stede Bonnet
   • Stede Bonnet is Down Bad for Blackbeard | Edward Teach
   • Fancy Dress Party
   • karaoke night
   • Ed's Out To Kill
   • Seduction
   • Eventual Smut
   • Art
   • Podfic Welcome
   • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting

   Summary

   Stede’s been bringing his queer book club to Ed’s bar for a couple of months now, and Ed’s been nursing a bit of a crush (okay a lot of a crush) basically since the moment he walked in. He doesn’t intend to act on it, doesn’t really think Stede would be interested in him anyway, but then he overhears them talking about their most recent book - a smutty romance that Lucius picked. Stede didn’t enjoy it, doesn’t think relationships like that exist in the real world. That all-consuming, ‘can’t keep your hands off each other’, desperate wanting. And, well, he can’t have that. Stede might just be the guy of his dreams, so if nothing else Ed knows he can show Stede what it feels like to be wanted.

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