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  1. Public Bookmark 26

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    "When we get out of here, we are going for a drink."

    Cliff splutters and twists his fingers into the fabric of his jeans because it's rare that he catches anyone's attention, let alone someone as forward as Marie-Claire.

     

    alternatively: i've watched the cardboard stegosaurus far too many times, and decided i needed to know what happened to these silly little characters before and after the play. and now they're all i think about ;-; i love them so much <3

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    20 Jun 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 29

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    Mary Allamby has great reasons to hate the fucking ocean, but this sits above all others: when she's 19, her ship is raided by fearsome pirate Benjamin Hornigold, who insists that one of his crew choose someone from the crowd for nefarious reasons. Edward Teach chooses Mary, but instead of assaulting her like he's commanded to he keeps her safe all night, forging a deep friendship and a sizzling chemistry that will burn on for more than two decades.

    Bonded by shared trauma, Ed meets Mary again ten years later on the eve of her arranged marriage, and she begs him to give her something real to remember throughout all the coming years of suffering social expectations.

    They all meet again fifteen years later, when Mary's now-departed ex-husband Stede brings home his newfound love, Ed, to meet the family...

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    05 Apr 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 36

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    Stede learns to be a sailor, a pirate, a Captain, and, just maybe, the kind of person he wants to be, all on the way to finding Ed.

    (The kind of person he wants to be will end up committing mild insurance fraud, exploding a ship, doing some light indirect murder, and making some truly questionable choices while on laudanum, but that will come later.)

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    24 Oct 2024

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    The circumstances of Ed and Stede's reunion are similar to their first meeting, except for the laudanum, reckless self-sacrifice, and agonizing history between them.

    Not that Stede seems to care about those last two. Probably because of the laudanum.

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    23 Oct 2024

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    For ten years, Mary Allamby Bonnet has barely given any thought to her "late" husband Stede. She's been far too busy enjoying her life as his wealthy widow. Until the night that Stede appears at her door, badly wounded, in the arms of the most feared pirate in history.

    Until that moment Mary had never truly believed the Wanted posters that claimed Stede as a "known associate" of Blackbeard's. Yet here he is, in her home, less the legendary pirate captain than simply Stede's Ed, a man terrified of losing the love of his life. He won't, though. Not if Mary has anything to say about it.

    Or, Mary and Ed nurse Stede back to health and in doing so form a friendship.

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    23 Oct 2024