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    It's fine that he's married—until it isn't. So Ed takes off on a train for points west to collect himself, and collect wisdom from some old friends, sending dispatches back home to Ma in the form of pithy postcards he finds along the way.

    Basically: sometimes you have to leave just so you can come home again.

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    one thousand years ago, Lis/Ghostalservice won a fic commission from me as part of Our Flag Means Pride's fundraiser. i wish i had written this faster, but time makes fools of us all. i adore you, you make me laugh every day. i hope you like these words about trains and postcards. xoxoxox

    big BIG thanks to KnivesInFeet and @tightenupmate for the thoughtful and speedy beta!

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    24 Oct 2025

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  2. Public Bookmark 56

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    Stede Bonnet has started a new tradition - Friday night pizza! Will takeout finally make his newly hectic life easier?

    Meanwhile, Edward Teach is lumbering through the doldrums of running a reasonably successful pizza shop when an odd, recurring online order catches his eye...

    **This is a SMAU cross-posted from Twitter/Bsky! This will all be embedded images, including the prose.**

    Currently ~51,879 words of prose & ~270 graphics/images.

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    24 Oct 2024

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  3. Public Bookmark 21

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    There’s a kitten on the kitchen table.

    Why the fuck is there a kitten on the kitchen table?

    It’s a tiny scrap of a thing, soaking wet and staring up at him with big, round yellow eyes from where it’s swaddled in one of his and Stede’s towels. When Ed narrows his eyes at it, it emits a pitiful, high-pitched meow.

    Stede rescues an abandoned kitten during a storm and decides to keep it. Ed is definitely not jealous of the kitten. Nope. Not one bit.

    (Written for OFMD Kinktober 2024 Day 24: Collar/"Good Kitty")

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  4. Public Bookmark 4

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    If anger and violence aren’t an inherent part of raising kids, what does that mean for the anger and violence that HE got the business end of when he was a kid? Was there something about him that set his dad off in a way that wouldn’t have if he was a different kid? If he was looking after a little version of himself instead of Alma or Louis, would it still feel easy to not strike him? Was he just a more hittable kid?

    Being a stepfather to Stede’s kids has made Ed realize some hard truths about his own upbringing.

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    16 Oct 2024

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    a sudden night meeting can lead you...

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