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The Dread Pyrate Blackbeard and The Gentleman Pirate meet at last…or do they? Does it count when you can't see the other person?
A Soulmate AU in which our pirates must discover how to see each other for who they really are.
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The bathroom light is on, and Olu almost collapses with relief until he hears it — silence, stark and deafening. The apartment is dark save for the bathroom light. Olu doesn’t flick any others on. He makes his way to the bathroom by feel and memory, breathes deep as he walks in. There’s a rag in the sink tinged bright red at one corner, and a mouthguard air drying on a paper towel next to the toothbrushes. There’s a pack of cotton balls left open on the toilet bowl and some used ones in the bin, scattered like rose petals. He plucks two strips of boxing tape from the floor, crumples them up before tossing them away.
Olu goes on his own journey of reflection and self-discovery as his partner Jim prepares for one of the biggest fights of their career.
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Stede Bonnet loves his job as artistic director of Revenge Community Choir. They might not perform on the biggest stages, but what they don't have in prestige they make up for in heart and gusto. A chance opportunity with the Philadelphia Symphony might be the big break Stede's choir needs. Stede will have to work with illustrious guest conductor Edward Teach to make sure his singers' voices soar. Will the two of them be able to work in harmony?
Written for OFMD JanuAUry 2025, Day 9 - Music
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The crew are coming to visit, and Ed is grappling with things left unsaid. When he has a moment alone with Jim, he thinks now might be the perfect time to make amends.
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Dickonomics by cgandyraham, DidEveryoneGetCake, ferventrabbit, insidethevoid
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
18 Mar 2025
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We wrote this while watching a rerun of RuPaul's Drag Race, please enjoy! It's RuPaul's fault.
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Stede sobers almost immediately as he watches Ed march down the steps and round the corner, as he hears the word “coward” leave his own lips. He stands on the deck for an excruciating ten seconds — it’s an eternity, he thinks, the months and months of searching for Ed rolled up into the span of three shaky breaths.
A missing scene after Ed and Stede's fight in "Man on Fire."
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Stede arrives at The Queen Anne for a Christmas party with the crew. He's brought a special gift for Ed, and has a surprise or two in store.
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- Part 2 of Exit Zero
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The Bonnets go down the shore to Cape May, New Jersey during the same week every year. It’s tradition. But this year, everything about the Bonnet family has changed. The kids are off to summer camp, Mary is on a trip with her fiance, Doug, and Stede is newly single with no earthly idea what comes next. He books a room at The Queen Anne B&B — run by mysterious proprietor Blackbeard — and vows to make the best of his vacation alone. Stede’s life is about to change again in ways he could never have expected.
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- Part 1 of Exit Zero
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Canvas(s): Not just for sails anymore by ferventrabbit, the_widow_olivia
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
02 Nov 2024
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Stede Bonnet is newly divorced and ready to turn over a new leaf. Ed Teach is trying to escape the monotony of his day-to-day life and do something in the community. Sparks fly when the two are paired up at a "Get Out The Vote!" event.
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Ed has been thinking about Calypso's Birthday since they arrived at the inn, specifically about Stede shoving him up against a wall - the strength of his arms, the look in his eyes. Maybe it's finally time to ask for a repeat performance.
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A record of the kingly duties of Maximilian, cat about town by ferventrabbit for dance_across
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
20 Oct 2024
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Maximilian may be a new cat on the island, but it looks like he'll need to teach these clueless human innkeepers a thing or two.
This fic is a remix of "Leave a Mark" by dance_across.
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So many men have demanded that Ed reflect back what they wanted to see in themselves. Stede isn’t like that. Stede wants Ed. All of him. Even the bits that have been gathering dust for years.
Ed wears a set of lingerie that he's kept in the back of his closet before now. Stede does what anyone would do after seeing Ed in lingerie, bless him.
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Ed notices Stede looking at him more than usual, leaving them both a bit hot and bothered. He proposes a failsafe plan to give them both a reset. What could go wrong?
Set sometime between 2x05 and 2x06.
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They’ve lived here on the island for half a year, and Ed is happy, of course he is. He wakes up in Stede’s arms more often than not, and on the “not” days Stede is usually up making him tea or arranging fresh flowers on the nightstand.
But every so often Ed catches himself holding his breath. He’ll be looking at Stede in the candlelight and be struck, as if by lightning, with the hurt of that night on the dock, when he waited for Stede until the sun rose. In those moments, Ed feels the world go off-kilter, like he’s looking up at his life from underwater.
While out thrifting for furniture and decorations for the inn, Ed comes across a painting that leads him on a journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance.
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Paint the Sky by ferventrabbit, shieldmaidenofmithrilhall
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
03 Jun 2024
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It’s been a month since Ed and Stede met on the top of a mountain during a solar eclipse. Ed’s supposed to meet the kids for the first time this Friday, but a new solar event, the impending aurora borealis, upends their well-laid plans.
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- Part 2 of Written in the Stars
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Stede remembers the little song he and Ed sang at the floating market, and Ed decides it’s as good a day as any to show Stede the true meaning of “all things milk.”
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Leather and silk, Stede thinks. He’d laughed at the time, been a bit thrilled and overwhelmed at the tremulous line they walked, the hum of possibility between them. Ed had meant it about the two of them, about fingers running over new fabric, basking in the seams. But Ed is both of those, too: strong - so strong - and achingly soft in ways that Stede knows have snagged against the sharp edges of the world. Stede will dedicate his entire life to holding these things dear, to reveling in Ed’s beautiful contradictions.
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A sea witch gives Edward Teach a gift - Blackbeard, a shadow, a sentinel - to keep him safe. Her condition? He must keep Blackbeard close, or she will make sure he sleeps soundly forever. Stede Bonnet threatens to ruin her plans.
A twist on Sleeping Beauty in which Stede is our intrepid prince and Ed is what it says on the tin.
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A missing scene following the events of season 2, episode 4, “Fun and Games.” Ed’s agreed to come back to the Revenge with Stede for the night, but they’ve got two dinghies to row back to the ship—will the distance between them linger?
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- Part 2 of missing scenes (in timeline order)
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Filled by ferventrabbit for shieldmaidenofmithrilhall
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
20 Apr 2024
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Stede knows that Ed is happy here. He can feel it in the way Ed places his chin on Stede’s shoulder to watch the sunset, in the way Ed kisses him good morning. But Stede wonders if he can ever be enough, if Ed isn’t missing out on something greater by choosing him. Stede wonders if he can ever be all the family that Ed needs.
Stede thinks about what it would be like if he could carry Ed’s child, which leads where all roads lead during Bottom Stede Week.
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- Part 7 of Tales from a Seaside Inn