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The core concepts had always seemed fairly simple to Stede: block like that, swing like this, try not to get stabbed. Izzy made it look infinitely more complicated and somehow, too easy. He moved like water, without hesitation.
Izzy decides Stede needs proper swordplay lessons.
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31 May 2026
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reaching the starlight by CherryMilkshake, eldritchmochi
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
28 Dec 2021
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[the_shadowhand]
I would be willing to help you come up with ideas, if you want, so long as you’re willing to teach me your ways with dirty talk.
It’s… hard for me, I suppose. I never know what to say, let alone with the presence you have.[catsire]
Why Herr Shadowhand, are you flirting?[the_shadowhand]
Not intentionally. More… admiring a skill you have that I lack.Caleb is not disappointed. He’s not disappointed when they meet and The Shadowhand has the same casual fake flirty tone as his text. He’s not disappointed when they end up filming together, his feelings most definitely not returned. Caleb can live with the heat of his fixation on the other man as they, somehow, become friends beyond their work. He can handle himself just fine.
It doesn’t matter that The Shadowhand is gorgeous and brilliant besides. He likes Caleb well enough and there could be hope, if Caleb wasn’t such a fucking mess. They can be friends, and coworkers of a strange sort. It’s fine.
It’s fine.
Until it’s not.
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- Part 1 of fighting the forces of gravity
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The fix-it AU where Izzy has one coping skill, and it's Edward beating the shit out of him until he cries.
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31 May 2026
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Never Like This by Faith Wood (faithwood)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
02 Aug 2021
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The Winter Soldier thrashed, drowning. It was taking forever. His mask seemed to be stuck. He pulled on it, struggling to draw breath, sinking and resurfacing, clawing at his face, the panic in his eyes terrible.
Steve's would-be killer. The very worst HYDRA had ever conjured. A symbol of death and everything he stood against. And Steve just couldn't bear it. He was ready to go, but this guy clearly wasn't.
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The premise: the Winter Soldier's mask doesn't come off quite as easily. Meaning, Steve never saw Bucky's face, and he didn't hold back during the fight on the Helicarrier. This is where the story picks up and is no longer canon-compliant. Though, I've stolen some ideas from the sequels and deliberately contradicted some future plot points/established canon.COMPLETED
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29 May 2026
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walking down a crumbling line by Asher_2179, darthpumpkinspice
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
29 Nov 2021
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“You don’t have to be diplomatic with me, soldat, just truthful.”
EKO Scorpion era Zemo has a chance encounter with the Winter Soldier after a mission in Sokovia gone wrong.
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27 May 2026
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17 Mar 2026
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“I’m sure you won’t be offended when I say that you will essentially be a substitute for me."
or, John fucks Sherlock because Mycroft won't.
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- Part 1 of Legwork
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13 Mar 2026
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The British Government accidentally clones Sherlock Holmes. Which brings a baby to 221B Baker Street.
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- Part 1 of Nature & Nurture
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11 Mar 2026
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Lunar Landscapes by J_Baillier
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
09 Apr 2016
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An accident forces John to face the fact that Sherlock's downward spiral had started long before his flight to exile even left the tarmac.
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03 Mar 2026
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“Are you asking, Mr. Hands, if you can leave us for a month or two to sail up north?” Stede clarifies.
“Ah, you have no idea, Bonnet,” Izzy says. “Since I was a lad, there’s nothin’ I’ve wanted more than to get out there with those—those—” Izzy makes pinching gestures at the horizon, so utterly enraptured with the thought of whales that he’s apparently forgotten the name of them.
It is, Stede hates to admit, unbelievably endearing.
“Of course you may go, Izzy,” Stede says.
“What?” Ed blurts out. “Wait. Didn’t we just talk about this?”
(Izzy is desperate to go a-whaling. Stede is desperate for him and Ed to distance themselves from their rancid codependency. Ed wants his matelot's forgiveness and his boyfriend's devotion, but first and foremost he wants to maim a fucking whaler.)
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26 Mar 2024
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Lady of Shalott (a late-flowering rose) by Transformatron
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
31 Dec 2023
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An Omega’s emotional and material needs must be met before they can present. They must want for nothing, know no scarcity, and (most importantly of all) feel safe.
Perhaps Stede should have considered this before he reclaimed captaincy of the Revenge and helped Ed lay the Kraken to rest – especially since, six months later, one very bewildered Israel Hands goes into the first heat of his life.
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31 Dec 2023
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Izzy looks to Edward, mouth working helplessly.
“Just let it happen, mate,” Ed suggests.
“I was hoping,” Stede continues, a little irritated by the lack of support, “that you’d let me—and Ed—know if there’s anything we could be doing differently, to make you more comfortable.”(Or: How Izzy Hands learned to stop worrying and love his co-captains.)
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- Part 1 of love like a powder keg
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24 Dec 2023
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The crew of the Revenge are only together for less than a year but it is decades of choices that lead them to that ship. The lead them all, including Blackbeard and his crew, to Stede Fucking Bonnet.
Israel Hands has lived a long life.
He is used to pain.
He is used to disappointment.
He always knew he would die one day, he just didn’t realize this was how it would go.
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A fic that explores Izzy's life from the very beginning and all the choices he made that led him to Blackbeard, then to the Revenge, and then to everything after.
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- Part 1 of Here Be Monsters
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18 Sep 2023
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Stede Bonnet's Guide to Being in a Throuple by georges1982_96
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
20 Aug 2022
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Stede fell in love with Ed the day they met, the moment the man walked into Stede’s newly opened bakery and breathed reverently, “Holy shit, this is fucking insane.”
The only hitch? Stede is pretty sure Ed is married and off-limits.
Until a few weeks later, Ed kisses him.
Otherwise known as the fic where Stede assumes Ed and Izzy are married so he's now part of a throuple, and ends up saving a marriage that didn't actually exist in the first place.
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- Part 1 of OFMD Modern Day Throuple AU
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07 Aug 2023
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Though his first attempt at hiking the Appalachian Trail in 1998 was ultimately a failure, Blackbeard's blog about the adventure was not. Now world-renowned as a thru-hiking influencer (don't call him that), Ed is only missing completion of the AT to round out the Hiking Triple Crown. What better time to try again than on the 25th anniversary of his failure? His manager/ editor/ moderator/ boyfriend Izzy is along for the ride, although he's not going to go quietly after what happened last time. No matter what Edward thinks, Izzy knows he can't simply re-do the events of his past.
Freshly divorced, Stede Bonnet takes to the trail the same week, looking for a new lease on life. He's inexperienced, sure, and maybe he lacks in physical fitness, but what he does have is gumption. Gumption, and a few dozen pounds of the most expensive new hiking gear on the market. That can get him all the way to Maine, right?
When their hikes collide, sparks will fly whether they like it or not, and their past on the trail may come back to haunt Ed and Izzy in a more literal sense than they ever imagined.
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05 Aug 2023
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If it had been nothing more than an accident of sex, Izzy wouldn’t have gone with her. She’d have fought her way out, somehow, found a new crew, forgotten all about the tall, bearded woman and her enchanting voice.
But it wasn’t.
When all was said and done, it was very simple: from that moment on, Izzy knew who she belonged to.
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08 May 2023