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    One day, over breakfast, their ankles intertwined beneath the table, Stede holds a forkful of hot fluffy pancake and sweet strawberry syrup out to Ed and says, “I have a confession.”

    “Yeah?” Ed asks, around his mouthful of warm sugar. “What’s that?”

    Stede hesitates, his thumb rubbing absently up the length of his fork.

    Then, he tells Ed, not breaking their eye contact, his elbows on the table and framing his half-eaten breakfast, “Nobody ever told me they loved me before you.”

    for ofmd fluffvember, day two: soft and "i have a confession."

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    30 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 58

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    Bubbles shielded Ed’s modesty, a dense carpet of them covering the surface of the water so that all Stede could see was his face, the silver mass of his hair piled messily, fetchingly atop his head, and—just above the cloud line, peeking in and out of view—the slope of his bare shoulders, the suggestion of a clavicle. A smear of bubblebath clung to his jaw. A stray lock of hair, damp with steam, stuck to the side of his neck.

    The sheer eroticism of the image nearly sent Stede to his knees; more devastating, perhaps, than if Ed had stood before him completely bare.

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    Ed's wearing the sack, and the bell. He's doing his best to make himself useful, to win back the crew's trust. He's just maybe not doing such a great job taking care of himself in the process, but luckily Stede has a solution: time for a bubble bath.

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    02 Jul 2025

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    A long time ago, Antigone and Rudyard Funn inherited a business, a very old house, and the skeletons in its closets.

    The past is doing a lot of catching up lately, it seems. A certain secret agent might be rather interested indeed in what the oldest funeral home on the island is keeping locked away. No, sorry, the other secret agent.

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    28 Jun 2025

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    A minute doesn’t seem that long, really, but when five of them pass in some of the thickest quiet Ed has ever experienced in his life, they feel like an eternity. Ed’s hands have gone clammy-cold and he thinks he’s actually about to start shivering with anxiety when he finally gets the air in his lungs to ask, “So… What do you think?”

    Stede inhales, as if he’s surfacing from beneath the sea. His face is flushed pink, hectic splotches of color high on his cheeks as he whirls to meet Ed’s eyes with glassy tears filling his own.

    “Is this for me?” Stede asks, his voice cracking on the last word, and Ed’s smiling before he even realizes the expression is coming onto his face.

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    28 May 2025

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    On the first night in their new home, Stede and Ed have a lot of tension to release, and a lot of talking and exploring to do.

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