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After escaping the clutches of the English navy, Ed and Stede abandoned piracy to build a new life together, away from the danger and chaos of the world they’d left behind. But sailing off into the sunset could never be that simple. Not when you’ve scorned the most powerful empire on Earth. Not when you were once the most notorious pirate on the sea. And not when the Golden Age of piracy is finally reaching its inevitable and climactic end.
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- Part 2 of If You Were Mine to Keep
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Late on a Sunday Evening by mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
13 Oct 2024
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It’s a Sunday evening. Stede is in the kitchen, at the stove, barefoot in a pair of flannel pajama pants and one of Ed’s old t-shirts.
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Thought We'd Find Salvation (at the bottom of a glass) by mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
24 Oct 2023
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After the dinner party from hell, Ed and Stede make a go at talking it through.
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If You Were Mine to Keep by mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
12 Mar 2023
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Caught between the gallows and the end of an English sword, Ed accepts the Act of Grace: marry into the aristocracy, leave the English ships alone, and live to sail another day. But who in their right mind would ever agree to marry the mad devil pirate Blackbeard?
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- Part 1 of If You Were Mine to Keep
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The Soft Animal of Your Body by mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
10 Apr 2022
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At the end of a long day, Ed and Stede unwind together.
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Ed can hear birdsong. Birdsong signalling that something in the ecosystem has shifted, dramatically. In a way that was impossible to notice when you’re immersed in it. And it hits him all at once, the realisation that the last ten years are coming to an end, that his period of bare bones survival is going to start shifting into something more active, something faster, something with significantly more intent behind it. After all, nobody tells you when the aftermath becomes just…after. Nobody can tell you when you’re going to feel safe enough to start living again.
or: Ten years after the world ended, Ed's running out of reasons to stay alive. Until one turns up on his literal doorstep, forcing him to reevaluate his definition of hope.
Bookmarked by Pamplemousse
05 Aug 2024
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Ed’s used to visitors, though the novelty of his home has worn off in the last eighteen months or so, the uninvited guests becoming fewer and further between. He’s used to curiosity, and questions he rarely feels like answering. He’s used to people forgetting that this is, in fact, his home, and not some out of the way tourist attraction.
He’s used to strangers.
But he’s starting to think that perhaps, not all his visitors need to stay strangers.
or: Ed has a simple life. He has a self-built, off grid, mostly self-sustaining house tucked away in the middle of a forest. He has five chickens, and a partially feral cat. He lives alone, and he likes it that way. Until the appearance of an incredibly nosy, incredibly handsome stranger three weekends in a row has him questioning every self-imposed rule he's ever set himself.
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Bookmarked by mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
08 Feb 2026
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Our saltwater solution reduces gravity’s pull by over 80%, ensuring you'll effortlessly stay afloat! We keep the water at a steady 36 degrees—matching your skin’s temperature. This blend of weightlessness and warmth blurs the lines between your body and the water, as your nerves can’t tell where you end and the surrounding environment begins.
Weightlessness. Yeah. If anything’s gonna be Ed’s cure-all, it’s gotta be weightlessness, right?
Ed’s carried around weight for most of his life. He’s tired. His muscles ache. His joints are all ground down to dust.
Also - the word solution is right there. Which proves it.
This is it. This is Ed’s solution.
(Or: Ed's on a wellness journey for his fuckass brain. It's not going great. The guy at the float tank place is being way too nice about it. Please mind the tags!)
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- 12/12
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Bookmarked by mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
03 Jan 2026
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It’s the summer of 1959, and classics professor Stede Bonnet is determined to become a new man. He’s made two monumental changes so far: he’s resigned his position at the University of Chicago, where he has taught for his entire career, and he’s left his wife Mary, to whom he has been married for nine years. Now he’s off to the only place in the United States where you can get a no-fault divorce: the deserts of Nevada. He’s checking in to a so-called Divorce Ranch just outside of Reno, where he’ll spend the requisite six weeks establishing residency. After that, it’s off to California to assume his new teaching position and his new life.
It's the summer of 1959. Ed Teach has been living in Reno since he was a teenager. He's a radio DJ, an artist, a handyman and a fixture of the community, particularly popular in the underground gay nightlife scene that is still recovering from the brutal vice raids of the McCarthy era.
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- Part 1 of From Reno, With Love
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- English
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Bookmarked by Pamplemousse
25 Nov 2023
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“I am not getting on that fucking horse.”
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Ed gets on the fucking horse.
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Bookmarked by mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
29 Sep 2025