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1718. The Golden Age of Piracy.
Former pirates Stede Bonnet and Edward Teach retire to run an inn on land.
Things do not go as planned…
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This is a story about growth.
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07 Dec 2023
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Ed looks down, ready to get on with things, and he startles. He’s—Stede—this fucking guy has shoved his hand through the hole in the wall, fingers lined up and thumb out like he’s—nah—he wants to—
“Are you trying to shake hands?”
“Yes, I thought—”
Ed blinks. “Through a glory hole?”
“Oh Christ,” the man allegedly named Stede says, “I’ve messed this up already, haven’t I? I’m so sorry, Jeff, just forget I—hang on—damn.”
It's a glory hole meet-cute! Multiple chapters of Ed and Stede falling in love through a hole in a bathroom wall. Sex, feelings, pining, bad decisions -- all contained within. Now COMPLETE.
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- English
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- 33,368
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 1,066
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- 2,185
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04 Dec 2023
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In hindsight, thought Ed, maybe it was kind of dumb of him to assume that all their issues would vanish once they put piracy behind them.
Or, Ed and Stede learn to communicate, and help each other heal along the way.
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- Part 2 of Post-Canon Innkeepers Era Fics
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24 Nov 2023
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Ed Teach is a certified star in the ballet world. His name on a poster can sell out tickets for an entire show's running easily, which is why returning to the stage after being signed off work for a year with a knee injury is particularly daunting. Ed has a legacy of his own creation to live up to, and he's determined to show everyone that his star hasn't dimmed while he's been unable to perform. He can't let anything distract him, least of all the new handsome blonde dancer at his company.
Stede Bonnet is a household name in the ballet world, but that's because he's the son of famous ballerina Sarah Bonnet and wealthy 'patron of the arts' Theodore Bonnet. Everyone has an idea of who Stede is before he even gets a chance to show them. And what he wants more than anything is to prove himself and show that he's not some little rich boy nepotism baby who bought his way into the big leagues.
However, ballet can be a cutthroat world, and when strange occurrences keep happening as the company prepares to put on a production of Swan Lake, the question has to be asked of just how far someone will go to reach the top.
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- English
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- 168,819
- Chapters:
- 12/?
- Comments:
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- 442
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19 Nov 2023
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When Stede and Ed meet in their early thirties, they’re both unhappy with their lives. They spend a few hours together, then go their separate ways. Over a decade later, they’re both on new paths in life, but their connection feels just the same. Can they move forward together?
Second-chance romance with a happy ending!
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18 Nov 2023
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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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- English
- Words:
- 55,476
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Comments:
- 574
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- 1,164
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17 Nov 2023
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Edward Teach has made a massive mistake-- what's a few more?
A Gentlebeard lovers to exes to lovers fic set in the modern era.
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- English
- Words:
- 111,161
- Chapters:
- 21/21
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- 1
- Comments:
- 1,157
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10 Nov 2023
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What Would You Have Me Do, Captain? (or Naked or Otherwise) by GildedCage (DemonicHoarde)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
08 Nov 2023
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This is set post season 2, episode 5:The Curse of the Seafaring Life
Stede and Ed have been taking it slow. It's been lovely.
But now, Stede is ready for more but Ed's ongoing need for space makes him worry that the new Ed isn't quite as into him as the old Ed was.
______________________________Ed and Stede have been taking it slow. It's been lovely.
But now Ed feels like he's had enough space and is ready for more. But is Stede ready?
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How is he supposed to tell?
Thank goodness for Lucius and a fortuitous trading stop off.
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08 Nov 2023
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Blackbeard is dead, as far as anyone knows. In his place lives the man Edward Teach, who has escaped to a small coastal town in the middle of nowhere in the hopes of a fresh start where he can forget his chequered past. He doesn’t want much, only a simple and quiet life which he has found as the lighthouse keeper of the town of Saint Bellamy.
He is content with his solitary life on his own small island, until the day a stranger washes up on the beach after a storm. The man is unlike anyone Ed has ever met, and as Ed helps to nurse him back to health, he discovers that he’s not the only one with a secret past.
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- Part 1 of Even Lovers Drown
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- English
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- 72,860
- Chapters:
- 17/17
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08 Nov 2023
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31 Oct 2023
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Healing isn't a linear process, old habits die hard, and sometimes it gets worse before it gets better. But with a little patience, and effort, and strategic Floor Time, Ed and Stede will find their way.
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Stede stops beside him, hand on the small of Ed’s back, and Ed leans into the touch, offers his cheek when he feels Stede leaning in. It’s such a tiny gesture, that buss on his beard, but Ed can’t actually remember the last time anyone thought to do it. Stede has softened Ed; Ed has allowed himself to be softened.
A year ago, if someone had told Ed he would be thinking about raising chickens, he’d have laughed himself to an early grave. Then again, a year ago, Ed expected to find himself on the wrong end of a cannon sooner or later, gone out the way of Calico Jack. Now he’s here, in a home he’s going to build with the man he loves beyond all reason, with nothing more pressing than how to fix a leaky roof or where to acquire a set of furniture not bitten with dry rot.
There are many things Ed wishes he’d done differently, but there are an equal number he wouldn’t change because they all led him here, to this kitchen on a sleepy morning, Stede’s warmth at his side.
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29 Oct 2023
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kissing is what lovers do (and we're not lovers) by afterism
Fandom Our Flag Means Death (TV)
25 Aug 2022
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A vaguely canon-compliant friends-with-benefits scenario where they've been having sex since episode five but still don't kiss until episode nine, because they're both idiots who don't talk it through as a crew.
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18 Jun 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
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 21,395
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Collections:
- 5
- Comments:
- 1,096
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- 3,846
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17 Jun 2023
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It's 1811 and Edward Teach is one of the most sought after portrait painters in London. Recently engaged Stede Bonnet commissions him for a set of portraits as a wedding gift to his future wife. The two grow closer as Stede sits for his portrait and sparks fly...
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- Part 1 of Regency Boys
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20 Feb 2023
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Ed Teach is a brilliant engineer whose job is taking him halfway around the world for the next six months. Stede Bonnet is in the throes of a midlife crisis, just divorced from his wife and leaving his father's business. When a laundry delivery service mixes up their addresses and leads to a passionate night together, these two wonder if they can build a relationship together long-distance, or if their feelings for each other will come out in the wash.
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- English
- Words:
- 91,893
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 1,278
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- 1,099
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- 309
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- 21,277
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07 Feb 2023
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"And Ed could do little more than let out an awed sigh as his eyes once again took in what must be hundreds of books. Not even all of the books Stede has ever read. Just the select few he liked the most. Entire lifetimes within each tome. Love and loss and adventure and knowledge. For some reason, all just hitting him then.
Ed had never been particularly interested in books. He mostly associated reading with his mother's stern lessons over her well-worn bible, re-reading the same passages over and over again until they were forever burned into his memory."
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Ed becomes fascinated by the books that have informed the worldview of the even more fascinating Stede Bonnet.
Ed's mother taught him to read when he was a boy, but through a series of miscommunications, Stede ends up reading aloud to Ed nearly every night (with Ed willfully taking advantage of Stede's misunderstanding to spend more time with him).
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- English
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- 154,775
- Chapters:
- 14/14
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
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- 232
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- 17,378
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04 Feb 2023
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It’s Paris in the summer of 2024, and world-famous diving champion Ed Teach is representing New Zealand in what could be his final Olympics. After coming back from an almost career-ending injury he’s focussed everything he's got on winning gold at these Games, but when he meets Stede Bonnet—a first-time diving rival representing Barbados—at the infamous free condom handout and then discovers they're roommates, he’s suddenly got a lot more to think about.
As Ed’s synchronisation with his long-term diving partner Izzy Hands begins to falter and Stede struggles with his confidence, believing in each other might be the only thing that gets them both through. In between, they're going to take this brief, fated time together to connect in every possible way they can.
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- Part 1 of Love Beyond Borders
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 82,609
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Collections:
- 6
- Comments:
- 1,001
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- 1,290
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- 386
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- 25,706
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01 Feb 2023
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After their movie night, Stede leaves Edward's apartment and goes home...or, at least, *tries* to go home. A night of introspection and conversation results in some surprising revelations.
AKA: What if Fancyman got a clue and had been an effective communicator?
Story picks up following Chapter 53 (post 263) of source material (Piña Coladas)
Note: this is my very first fanfic ever, so feedback is greatly appreciated! :-)
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19 Jan 2023
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When Ed gets stuck behind the same slow driver for a long stretch of his road trip through the Pacific Northwest, that's one thing. When he finds himself at the same rest stop as the offending driver, it's quite another.
This Stede guy is a bit of a lunatic. But when Ed crosses paths with him again several days later, this time stranded on the side of the highway and in need of some assistance, Ed winds up on a slightly different road trip than the one he'd planned to take—with a man he absolutely doesn't plan to fall in love with.
Clearly, plans change.
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- Part 1 of We Belong Awake
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 352,593
- Chapters:
- 43/43
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 3,009
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- 3,200
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- 166,302
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13 Jan 2023
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Mystery Work
Part of ladohstry private works
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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11 Jan 2023