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It takes practice to disconnect from what you're feeling. Stede Bonnet has been perfecting the art of not breathing his whole life.
Sometimes I just like thinking about ickle Stede's lonely, miserable life until I hurt my own feelings about it.
A companion piece to Sweet Tooth. Inspired by that moment in Ep8 when Ed comes back and Stede breathes his name like he's never breathed before and an illustration by @self_induljennt
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23 Feb 2026
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Five times Stede didn't fancy Ed, and one time he did.
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- Part 1 of Slowly
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16 Dec 2025
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Stede loves haunted houses but hates Haunted Houses. When Lucius tricks him into going through a local haunt with the gang, his nervous ticks play up. Ed, who runs the haunted house, is delighted by this chattering weirdo.
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- Part 2 of Modern Meet Cutes
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- English
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- 4,704
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- 1/1
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10 Dec 2025
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A crew conducts a daring raid on the ship of the Mad Wizard Low, rescuing a man who's lost his memories. As Stede adjusts to his new life onboard a pirate ship, fleeing from the wrath of the wizard and trying to avoid the navy of the Immortal King, he tries to piece together what happened to him.
How long was he locked away? What did Mad Low want with him? And is he really just an average human mortal man?
Haunted by a recurring dream of a beautiful man in a raven mask and the burning conviction someone he loves very much is out there, Stede searches for answers, and begins to suspect he may have had a role in a failed magical ritual that plunged the world into chaos and flooding—held only at bay by the mysterious Blackbeard.
- Language:
- English
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- 141,187
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Collections:
- 1
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- 204
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- 1,753
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14 Nov 2025
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The leather used to be like armour. Protection against a world out to fucking get him when his own skin felt far too softly vulnerable to leave so delicate and exposed. He relished in everything it stood for back then. Found euphoria in the hyper-masculine status it brought him, and the power that came with it. Willingly let it consume him until it became his whole world, because the one beyond the doors of the bars was never any better.
He built himself a reputation. Blackbeard, the leather daddy Dom.
As Blackbeard, the world could never harm him. As Blackbeard, his own dysphoria could never touch him. As Blackbeard, he knew he was safe.
It’s still true, all these years later, but his leathers are worn with age just like the rest of him, and Ed is so tired of playing pretend.
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- English
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- 10,677
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- 1/1
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- 1,323
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27 Aug 2025
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Ed should’ve known dinner would be a shitshow from the moment Anne and Mary exchanged that look in the shop and invited him and Stede to their home that night. He’s known them for over 20 years and they’ve never changed. They’re touching Stede, whispering things, things that must be so utterly pornographic that Stede shudders and gasps for air. It’s all a tactic though, a ploy to make Ed jealous.
And fuck, if it isn’t working exactly how they want.
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27 Aug 2025
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Edward Teach moved to suburbia for a change. He's been wanting a change for a long time, but so far nothing has stuck, instead he finds himself bored and tired, and most of all lonely. Until one evening there's a knock at his door and he opens it to a sleeping handsome blonde who asks to pick up his order for fries and a shake.
Night after night, Ed finds out his neighbor sleepwalks, and each time he sets his work aside and goes out to keep him company. And night by night he wonders what Stede might be like when he's awake. Because despite the fact Ed knows he's just another dream to Stede, he feels as if he's found a best friend he's never had.
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20 Aug 2025
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Love at the Bottom of the World by Steve Bonnet (MartinKBlackwoodESQ)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
02 Apr 2024
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Stede Bonnet runs away to Antarctica to work in a remote weather station. Things do not go as planned.
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13 Aug 2025
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A Bright Light Expanding by Steve Bonnet (MartinKBlackwoodESQ)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
17 Jul 2024
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In a post-apocalyptic future, Ed is rescued by a kindly stranger with a secret. Wanna guess who it is?
It starts out spooky but gets cute fast. Then it gets weird.
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13 Aug 2025
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Learning at the Foot of One of the Greats by Internerdionality
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
13 Oct 2023
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“Bonnet,” Izzy snapped, “spit it out. What the fuck kind of ‘pirate skill’ could you not fucking wait to learn until morning? Need some fucking pointers on the fine art of buggery?”
A brilliantly red flush appeared on Bonnet’s fair skin, rising up from his chest. It suffused across his neck and crawled upwards, covering his cheeks and even the tips of his ears.
Izzy felt his eyes grow to the size of doubloons.
“You can’t be fucking serious!”
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- Part 3 of Season 2 Screaming
- Part 14 of Inty's Our Flag Means Death Works
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11 Aug 2025
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you are a call to motion by WellSussed (drcfxtina) for AwkwardAngel7
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
08 Aug 2025
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When Stede Bonnet delivers a misplaced package to his neighbor, little does he expect that the man was previously Blackbeard, the porn star who was his gay awakening--the literal man of his dreams. As he gets to know Ed, Stede falls for him, but surely Ed would never be interested in him?
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Ed Teach is annoyed when his hot neighbor recognizes him as Blackbeard and appears to find his physique wanting compared to what it used to look like. As Ed gets to know the man better, though, he falls hard. Will the ghost of Blackbeard stand in the way of Ed's happiness?
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- 2/2
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09 Aug 2025
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Stede is just going through the motions in his life, his marriage to Mary, suffering through board meetings at Bonnet Enterprises. When Mary suggests he pick up a hobby, he decides to volunteer at the local public library on Saturdays, running a literary classics (mostly 19th century) book club. Then one Saturday, a man in leather comes in looking for a book about how to grow cactuses and makes Stede feel all sorts of things that are baffling to him. His name is Ed, and he's a famous video game streamer on Twitch. Ed comes back, and back again, until they become real friends, inching ever closer to something more and helping each other grow in unexpected ways both separately and together.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 302,586
- Chapters:
- 61/68
- Comments:
- 3,367
- Kudos:
- 471
- Bookmarks:
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08 Aug 2025
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After a chance encounter with someone from Stede's past, some of the crew realize that they don't know as much about him as they thought they did.
So they do the sensible thing and, rather than asking Stede, mount a detailed investigation. Tragically, they're several hundred years too early to start a podcast.
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06 Aug 2025
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Stede and Ed's relationship ended months ago, but Stede hasn't been able to let it go. He's amazed when Ed agrees to participate in The Ex-House with him, sharing a tiny house on live television for six weeks to win the grand prize.
“Hello, Edward!” he says, forcing brightness. Remembers to look at his face - two seconds at a time is perfectly acceptable, look at the face, not directly into the eyes - tries to remember to turn his lips up into a friendly smile. Behind Ed, the door whooshes closed again and leaves them in silence.
Ed’s fully clad in leather, which is always a good look for him. Slight hint of eyeliner. One arm bare, showing off the winding snake tattooed into his skin. Beard trimmed short. Hair up, as well, properly styled. Small silver dagger earring dangling from one ear.
He looks unapproachably hot. The kind of guy that would skim over Stede without a second glance. The kind of guy that would sniff out Stede’s oddness in a second and push Stede down as a way to lift himself up. There are probably people watching on their televisions right now, wondering how the hell the two people in this room were ever together in the first place.
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- Part 1 of The Ex-House
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 65,131
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 1,298
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- 520
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06 Aug 2025
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“When I was a child,” Stede says slowly, faraway and nostalgic. “My mother - she never really spent much time in the kitchen, of course; we had dedicated household staff that handled all the cooking, but there was one thing she used to make herself. She’d melt brown sugar until it bubbled, and it was just on this side of burnt, but not quite? And she’d pour it out and let it harden in these big sheets of transparent, amber-coloured toffee. I used to break off shards and suck it into razor-sharp points; would run around pretending I had a knife, or a prison shank. They made excellent props when playing at being a pirate.”
Stede is sort of lost in the tangent. He’s good at telling stories, even real-life ones, and Ed finds himself getting a bit lost in it, too.
“Your eyes are like that,” says Stede.
“When the sunlight gets them. Like the taste of it. Smoky and sweet,” says Stede.
“Like melty, burnt toffee. They’re so lovely, Ed,” says Stede.
These are the things that Ed collects.
(OR: Ed keeps buried treasure after all. Stede finds his secret stash. Post S2 oneshot with Big Ed feelings as he slowly comes to grips with the fact that he's VERY loved - but we already knew that)
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- Part 1 of Ornithology
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06 Aug 2025
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Stede Bonnet owns a fancy yarn shop in a cosy little seaside town. Life is mostly peaceful, a bit stressful, often lonely—then the empty shop next door is taken over by a leatherworker with kind eyes and a surprising fondness for cashmere, and everything changes.
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06 Aug 2025
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Seaglass by Roberta Seaport (Deepdarkwaters) for TheFierceBeast
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
12 Jan 2023
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Stede Bonnet owns a fancy yarn shop in a cosy little seaside town. Life is mostly peaceful, a bit stressful, often lonely—then the empty shop next door is taken over by a leatherworker with kind eyes and a surprising fondness for cashmere, and everything changes.
(Fluff and sock garters and seashore walks and midlife revelations and a loophole in The Sweater Curse.)
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- Part 1 of Seaglass
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 26,148
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Collections:
- 5
- Comments:
- 868
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- 1,606
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06 Aug 2025
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Mise en Place by GayPirateAficionado, PolitestMenace (GayPirateAficionado) for routinesardine
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
05 Aug 2024
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Ed is whiling away the time during an airport layover. Little does he know that the peculiar exchange he overhears in this restaurant will change his life.
An #OurFlagMeansPride fic commission for routinesardine, with art by Sailor’s Ruin.
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- Part 1 of Sweets for the Sweet
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06 Aug 2025
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Ed’s a retired enforcer for Spanish Jackie that can’t seem to shake his old life. Stede is the heir to Bonnet Group, whose father will do pretty much anything to keep that legacy alive. They meet, as most do, completely by accident and when they need each other the most.
That’s all to say:
Ed and Stede get to be happy! After and between some really rough shit, of course.- Words:
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06 Aug 2025
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Ed is an engineer aboard the Revenge, an interplanetary research vessel on a multi-year mission to study Jupiter's moon Europa. An accident requires that Ed awaken from cryostasis over six months early, and finds his only companion to be Stede, the ship's onboard AI. They develop an unconventional friendship, but is it possible to have more?
This is classic mutual pining with a sci-fi twist, inspired by all of my favorite stories about the nature of personhood.
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“You–” Ed was struggling to parse what Stede was saying. “You’re playing your version of this song for me, right now? Like, in real time?”“Yes, Edward, that’s correct,” said Stede softly.
Ed’s brain momentarily seized up. He supposed it made sense that Stede was capable of learning a set of rules to do something like arrange and play a piece of music. There was something unnerving about this song, though. It felt, well–it felt organic . Reactive. Almost collaborative in a way. Ed was lost in the push and pull of it, until the last notes softly petered out.
“So, what did you think?” asked Stede. It sounded nervous again. Why the hell would someone program an anxiety response into a bot?
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- Part 1 of Starry Eyes and Counting Down to Zero
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 62,072
- Chapters:
- 21/21
- Collections:
- 10
- Comments:
- 2,703
- Kudos:
- 2,634
- Bookmarks:
- 1,051
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- 49,921
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06 Aug 2025