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Ed Barbanera (né Teach), nervous of flying, calls his best friend Stede Bonnet from the airport.
For twenty years.
This is a record of those conversations from the end of 2004 to early 2025.
When it begins, Ed and Stede are in their mid twenties and have been performing comedy together in Melbourne Australia, since they met at university six years earlier but recently Stede has decided to leave their sketch comedy troupe called Henry The Horse, just as they are gaining awards and offers of TV work, to settle into a more domestic life and secure work as a teacher.Bookmarked by rox712
01 Feb 2026
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When Ed, a burnt-out rock star, ducks into Stede’s quiet vintage record shop to hide, he’s not prepared for the handsome, clueless owner or the connection that sparks.
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21 Jan 2026
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The day they get married, the things he knows about Stede could fit on a post-it note.
First: he’s fucking rich.
Second: he needs a husband to stay that way.
Third: he is built like a brick shithouse. Pretty eyes, nice hair. Penchant for weird socks.
(Or: 5 times Ed doesn't tell his husband he loves him, and 1 time he does.)
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02 Jan 2026
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They're on the run, post the Republic, but they're happy. They're together. They have their crew. There's nothing that Ed and Stede want, except…
In the sticky cooldown, Ed says, hesitantly, “Do we want to talk about the Izzy thing?”
“What?” Stede says, because his brain is thrumming pleasantly and it takes him a second to process Ed’s words.
Then, “No.” A quick denial, heart thudding. “What thi—“ Then stops. “No.”
“Stede.”
Stede and Ed want Izzy, but they want to do it properly. As he deserves. A 5+1 of Georgian courting rituals: Five Times Ed and Stede Court Izzy, and One Time He Courts Back.
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21 Nov 2025
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Stede Bonnet is a recently divorced, mild-mannered English teacher with a passion for literature and a tendency to overthink. After relocating from Auckland to Wellington in search of a fresh start, he begins receiving anonymous text messages meant for someone’s long-lost love.
At first, he’s hesitant to reply, worried that reaching out might ruin the mystery and scare off the sender. But he eventually finds himself texting with Ed Teach, a brooding theatre technician whose presence turns Stede’s quiet new life upside down.
As their connection deepens, Stede finds himself rethinking everything: his love life, his career, and even his growing friendship with Lucius, a fellow teacher facing marital struggles of his own.
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19 Nov 2025
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Izzy is always the first one to arrive at the pub, signing off on shipments and taking stock, and if Edward shows up it will be just before last call, when Izzy is dead on his feet and can’t say no to a single thing. Truthfully, though, he rarely can.
Every day starts and ends exactly the same way, until a particularly chatty history professor begins sharing his morning commute.
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28 Oct 2025
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“That one with the leather and the hair, he’s getting cast for sure.”
“Oh, yeah. Doesn’t even matter if you can actually bake, when you look like that!”
“He’ll be this year’s Chigs, or Sandro. Everyone’s flavor, you know?”When Ed Teach gets cast on The Great British Bake Off, he understands the assignment. Look hot on camera, banter with the judges, bake memorable shit.
He isn’t there to make trouble. He isn't there to make friends.
And he certainly isn’t there to fall in love with fellow baker Stede Bonnet.
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20 Oct 2025
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In 1919, telegraph operator Stede Bonnet returns from the Great War with no memory and no voice, unable to recall what happened to break his mind. On his first night at home, he sees the translucent image of a man he knows is Ed in the mirror, except that this Ed comes from 1719.
Just as Stede knows that he's lost his Ed, this Ed has lost his Stede, and neither of them knows why. Reaching out across these broken lines of connection over two centuries, they'll work together to remember the endings of their stories, and to find what they've lost.
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10 Oct 2025
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Home had meant different things at different times to Izzy. Sometimes it was just a room, a place where he existed, managed to survive. Other times it had been truly a place to live, to enjoy, somewhere he did more than just survive in. He had expected, when he was a young naive kid and the world hadn’t poisoned his positivity yet, that he could go from simply just existing in a room under some else’s roof to having a home that was his own, that he loved, and that would be the end of it. He never used to think he would revert, tumble back down the ladder, fall back in to the abyss of simply existing in a room because a basic human need was shelter.
Ed was all the home he ever needed, in the end.
Izzy's got a new life to navigate as he heals - he's safe, he's being looked after, and he's learning how to be in a polyamorous relationship with his ex-husband and his new(ish) boyfriend. But his past won't leave him alone, not just yet. All he wants is his happy ending, which he knows he will have. Eventually. But you can't heal wounds that people don't know you have...
Picks up directly from Part 1 - Happier Than Ever. Title and chapters from Taylor Swift's 'The Archer'.
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- Part 4 of Once Upon A Time
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27 Aug 2025
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"But something else beside the man’s cash box pulls his attention—something soft and odd and wonderful.
Stede darts toward it and gently picks it up.
A fabric doll.
It’s unlike any doll he’s seen before—adorable and strange in the best way. Mismatched buttons for eyes. Long silver hair. A scruffy gray beard. He wears what looks like an old-fashioned white linen shirt, grayish beige breeches, grey stockings, and black, buckled shoes. There are little tattoos embroidered on his arm—tiny anchors, stars, skulls, and a snake, among others, swirls of thread meant to look like ink.
Stede hugs it to his chest without thinking.
He loves it immediately."When they’re young, Stede and Ed each get a doll that looks uncannily like the other—though they’ve never met. They grow up just a few miles apart, treating their dolls like best friends: sewing them tiny outfits, bringing them along on every adventure, and confiding in them like old friends. It’s sweet, a little odd, and maybe even a touch magical.
Years later, when Stede and Ed finally cross paths as adults, they’re struck by a strange, impossible realization: each of them looks exactly like the other’s childhood doll.- Language:
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26 Aug 2025
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After returning to the Revenge and reuniting his crew, Stede tries to move on with Ed. Sure, they aren't soulmates (which definitely doesn't keep Stede up at night), but what they have is real. Stede is even taking steps to improve his pirate skills by training with Izzy, his new first mate. But things quickly grow much more complicated as Stede realizes that there's a lot that he doesn't know about Ed and Izzy...
(An Ofmd Reverse Big Bang collab with art by Rights (imrights.bsky.social))
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24 Jul 2025
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Stede B. Bonnet: Huh?
Edward Teach: accident
Edward Teach: ignore.
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A month after breaking up, Edward Teach accidently sends an Instagram notification to his ex-boyfriend.Bookmarked by rox712
23 Jul 2025
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Ed has seen hundreds of people fall to the warmth of his mother’s embrace by now—shy teens with newly-purchased flags around their necks like a cape, obviously, but also kinksters and furries and middle-aged lesbian couples and totally unassuming men who are probably at least ten years her senior.
Ed hasn’t seen much of his mom in the last fifteen minutes, though, because he’s been sort of kind of following a random guy through the Gayborhood Market.
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30 Jun 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
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10 Jun 2025
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Izzy is hired to investigate Stede Bonnet and gets sucked into a tangled plot. When an old partner returns after three years gone, things get even more complicated. This is a steampunk detective AU featuring fast burn Stizzy, angsty second-chance Ed/Izzy, and VERY slow-burn Steddyhands.
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- Part 1 of Clockwork
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01 May 2025
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Edward Teach is a pop star about to embark on his latest tour when he develops vocal nodes. Stede Bonnet is the voice specialist who treats him. Sparks fly.
“Right. And could you please describe your singing voice to me? Or sing something you feel showcases your voice, if you feel comfortable. For my usual clientele, I’d suggest their go-to audition song, but I don’t get the sense that you do much auditioning.”
There’s a long pause during which Stede takes note of the guy’s eyes. Not a literal case note, that would be inappropriate. His eyes are large and brown and expressive, quicksand eyes. Eyes a person could get lost in. Right now, they’re slightly narrowed at Stede. He seems to decide something.
“Listen,” the client says. “I appreciate you not wanting to make it weird, but I promise I’m used to it.”
“Used to it?” Stede asks, and there go the eyes again. Stede has the oddest sense of being taken apart, exposed, like the recurring dream he has of walking through the halls of his secondary school without a single stitch of clothing on, down to the same vague, unsettling sense that it should be more awkward than it is.
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22 Apr 2025
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Stede Bonnet-Banes is an omega past his prime. He’s never been able to perform the one task he’s supposedly been built for - to produce an heir - and his alpha has never let him forget it. His life is centered around keeping his alpha happy, but things take a turn when the ship they’re on is raided by the fearsome Blackbeard, and Stede is kidnapped.
Blackbeard is a name bandied about in stories and whispers, a terrifying alpha raiding ships, more demon than pirate. But things aren’t always what they seem, and Stede finds that the longer he’s on this ship, the less he wants to go home.
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- Part 1 of Turning the World
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08 Apr 2025
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It’s humiliating enough for his feelings for Edward to be called love. Love is soft and sentimental, all kittens and perfume, and what Izzy feels for Edward is more akin to the way a ship needs the wind and the waves, no matter how roughly they beat at its sails and hull.
And don’t all sailors succumb to the sea eventually?
His grip tightens on the oars. No. Fuck that. If Bonnet is what it takes for Edward to ride out whatever storm Blackbeard has become, Izzy will deliver Bonnet to him.After Ed, grieving and angry, banishes Izzy from the Revenge, there's only one thing Izzy can think of doing to earn his forgiveness. Unfortunately, it's going to involve spending a lot of time with Stede fuckin' Bonnet.
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- Part 2 of Hands full of flowers
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21 Jan 2025
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He knows his duty. He knows what they are here in England to do. He has been bred for this, all of his father’s hopes placed on him as if he were a prize racehorse that has been aimed at the Epsom Derby.
He’s even been sent to a top trainer - Mister Buttons is reputed to be the best minuet dancing master in ——shire, and Stede has suffered under his tutelage for many years now. His father has insisted on it; made sure that Stede knows the minuet and cotillion and the scotch reel. Has paid no heed to Stede’s youthful protestations that dancing is unmanly, that the boys at school tease him for taking extra classes. That they do the bare minimum required, and then run away to hunt, or take swordsmanship classes.
It is not like Stede needs any more fuel onto the fire of unmanliness, even though there’s something in him that delights in it all. The swirl of silks, the bright colours, the achievement of being able to complete a social task without faltering. But he’s learned early that everything he yearns for is everything he ought to reject.
A Regency ball, a planned match, a dashing war hero...
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18 Jan 2025
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Follow Your Dreams Down by D0m1n0_3ff3ct, Magziraphale_Writes (fantasticallyobscure)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
17 Jan 2025
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Izzy Hands gets a job at Stede Bonnet’s new community centre after getting fired from his previous company. Struggling at home in his marriage to Ed, he first finds both respite and a challenge in the centre, but as he gets to know the people there, he finds something more than a job – he finds parts of himself he’d long thought dead and something that feels an awful lot like family. Even Bonnet manages to worm his way under Izzy’s defences and Izzy, who has never felt something for anyone other than Ed, has to face up to the fact that he might be falling for a blond idiot, and hard. Trying to bury that is initially easy with how much work is involved in keeping the centre running and turning Stede’s whims into something achievable. But when Ed surfaces from a bout of depression and becomes curious about these new people in Izzy’s life, the delicate balance between work and home life threatens to come crashing down.
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18 Jan 2025