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My piece for the A to Z of Ed Teach Zine, featuring the letter N for Ned, in which I predict Ed's catboy era before season two gifted us with the bell collar and onesie. Canon-divergent post season one, in a universe where Ed and Stede make it back to the Revenge and resume pirating.
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“How did you even get it in there?” Ed exclaims, pressing his fingers into his temples in an attempt to somehow will this whole scenario away, and then winces as another crash echoes from the cabin beyond.
Stede squeezes himself in between Ed and the door, patting behind himself for the knob. “Let me just—if you’d give me a moment—”
Ed seizes Stede by his lapel in a panic. “You’re not going in there, are you?”
“He’s an intelligent beast—he needs enrichment!”
“Yeah, I reckon chewing your arm off will be pretty goddamn enriching!”
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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
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This is scary story about a spider---
Actually, strike that.
This is a scary story told by a spider.
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Innkeepers-era horror-comedy told from the POV of the house spider who lives in the inn. Think Charlotte's Web meets Home Alone.
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Wave Hello to the Void by eefaevie, mxmollusca, zacharybosch
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
26 Dec 2023
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Stede Bonnet is a former professor of folklore and aspiring YouTube personality trying to find the Mothman.
Edward Teach is an ex-astronomer just trying to find a way out of small-town West Virginia.
Little do they know that what they actually find will change them both forever.
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The Ship of Theseus by emi_rose, mxmollusca, nordarknessdimsthesky
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
01 Dec 2023
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A multimedia sequel to In Favor with Their Stars, an OFMD sci-fi AU.
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It's 2063, and Ed and STE/DE have spent the last four years making a home for themselves together on Earth.
But four years is a long time, and four years isn't very long at all.
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- Part 2 of Starry Eyes and Counting Down to Zero
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Starry Eyes and Counting Down to Zero by emi_rose, mxmollusca, nordarknessdimsthesky
Fandom Our Flag Means Death (TV)
13 Mar 2024
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The Scientific Findings of E. Teach, Stedeologist by mxmollusca
Fandom Our Flag Means Death (TV)
24 Jul 2023
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Stede's finally out, single, and ready to mingle. The only problem? He's got no idea what he's into. Better ask his good friend Ed to help him figure it out...
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24 Apr 2024
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There's a strange tree growing in the park on Christopher Street.
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23 Apr 2024
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"I'm not going to hurt you," Stede said quietly. "I came to tend your wounds."
The demon raised his head then, and Stede finally saw his face. He had a strong brow, a short, silvering beard to match the long hair that hung around his naked shoulders, piercing brown eyes that somehow seemed to burn as they regarded Stede with suspicion, wild and powerful, unlike anything he had ever seen before.
He was beautiful. And that was the trickery of him, wasn't it? But Stede couldn't help but feel that someone like him could only have been shaped and sculpted by divine hands.
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Ed is a demon that Stede's monastery summoned and trapped in their garden. Stede is a novice monk that is tasked with caring for him and must not open the garden gate under any circumstances. But as the friendship and attraction between the demon and the novice grows, Stede finds himself shocked by his own desires.
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- Part 1 of Divine and Damned
Bookmarked by mxmollusca
22 Apr 2024
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When Prince Stede Bonnet goes on a quest to slay the great dragon in the mountain, he's not optimistic about his chances of returning.
Universe built by both of us, words by Lis and art by Rysi!!
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21 Apr 2024
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Stede is not good at eating.
Dining, he can do dining.
But eating?
He never figured out how to eat.
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17 Apr 2024