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Stede's new island life is shaping up slowly but surely... and then he finds something strange in the water.
A selkie AU (...sort of)!
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15 Jan 2026
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Ed and Stede meet at Costco and it's like BAM
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28 Nov 2025
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As a woman, Ed had always known what was expected of him. As a man, he can finally make his own choices.
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13 Nov 2025
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The man—Stede, Ed did hear Frenchie right, because his name tag says it right next to a sparkly ladybug sticker—gives Ed a little wave, just his fingers, even though Ed’s right there and they’re already talking. Cute. Ed mirrors it. “I’m an apprentice. Jim’s teaching me. I know I’m older than them but, well, you could say it’s kind of a new passion? They’ve just recently set me loose without supervision.”
That checks out. The guy doesn’t have many piercings, just a large hoop in one of his earlobes and a tiny stud shaped like a flower in his nose. No tattoos that Ed can see, either. Not that any of that is required to be a piercer, but it’s pretty strange to see an employee at a place like this who hasn’t already used a good portion of his body as a canvas. Stede’s skin, in comparison, is blank. Untouched.
Not that Ed is going to be weird about that or anything.
Ed meets a guy who's probably the love of his life when he's getting a new piercing, and then he somehow manages to fuck it all up. Or does he?
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08 Sep 2025
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Ed Teach had made a name for himself, that was for certain; a celebrity ad man among a sea of gray suits. And that was why the suggestion to bring him in was absolutely absurd.
“He’d never work here. He’s too good, plus he doesn’t tie himself down.”
“There’s that can-do spirit I’ve always heard about!” Lucius jokes.
“We could at least try,” Jim presses.
There’s no way. “It’s not even what he does,” Stede tries to remind them, but he can already tell which way the tide is turning.
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It's 1964, and Stede Bonnet runs a small but mighty ad firm in New York City. When their creative director suddenly quits, his agency reaches out to an unconventional replacement.
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A Mad Men-inspired AU
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05 Aug 2025