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Stede Bonnet boards a flight to Honolulu for one last family holiday before he and Mary quietly end their marriage. Instead, a hijacking leaves both pilots dead, armed men outside the locked cockpit door, and Stede alone at the controls of a Boeing 737 he has no idea how to fly.
Hundreds of miles away, air traffic controller Ed Teach becomes the only voice Stede can trust. With more than a hundred lives depending on them, Ed must talk him through turning, descending and landing it—one switch, one breath and one increasingly intimate radio conversation at a time.
Somewhere between the Pacific and the runway, terror becomes trust, trust becomes intimacy, and the man guiding Stede home begins to sound like someone he cannot bear to lose.
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- Part 1 of Bonnet 417
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14 Aug 2026
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Finally, at 42, pop star Edward Teach is about to get his fairytale ending. He’s got the perfect guy—handsome, kind, patient, and most importantly: crazy about Ed. When his boyfriend proposes, it should be an easy yes, yes, a million times yes! There’s just one problem. Ed’s kinda sorta already married, and he hasn’t spoken to the guy in seventeen years.
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- Part 1 of Right Where You Left Me
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- 39/39
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12 Jun 2026
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Ed is a burned out actor making a stab at reviving his troubled career by appearing in a big Hollywood franchise headed by Pete Black. Stede is an antiquarian bookseller, looking to fill his empty days after his divorce. Ed and Stede discover an undeniable connection when their lives suddenly intersect, but the timing really couldn't be worse. If they want to stay together, they'll need some creative problem solving.
Collaboration with art from Sailor’s Ruin.
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01 Mar 2026
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Ed Teach is a brilliant engineer whose job is taking him halfway around the world for the next six months. Stede Bonnet is in the throes of a midlife crisis, just divorced from his wife and leaving his father's business. When a laundry delivery service mixes up their addresses and leads to a passionate night together, these two wonder if they can build a relationship together long-distance, or if their feelings for each other will come out in the wash.
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- 12/12
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06 Feb 2026
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Now alone together for the first time in their future inn, Ed and Stede are dizzyingly happy together. Except that they haven't had sex, and Ed can't help but wonder if Stede has stopped wanting him...
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In which two former pirates try going slow once more, until they're both ready for their second first time.
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02 Feb 2026
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if music be the food of love (then darling, you're a feast) by Fool_for_love
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
04 Feb 2023
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“Hey, so, those two, right, they get together in the end?” Ed asks.
“I would protest spoiling it, but I think it's rather obvious, isn't it?” Stede says. His nose wrinkles as he smiles. “The tension is certainly there from the beginning. It just takes them a while to get there.”
“Good. Would have been a shit story otherwise."
Former local grunge legend Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard of Blackbeard & the Krakens, has fallen on hard times. Following slanderous accusations from ex-bandmate (and ex-lover) Calico Jack, Ed is blacklisted from all his usual venues. His career is over, and, so far as he’s concerned, so is his life. He spends his days wallowing in a dingy Seattle apartment, fighting with his manager and bemoaning his loss of purpose.
Enter one Stede Bonnet, Ed’s obnoxiously loud next-door-neighbor. Stede Bonnet is an overly enthusiastic playwright who cares way too much about Shakespeare and writes like a dandy from the 18th century.
He’s the most interesting thing to happen to Ed in years.
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- English
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- 107,057
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- 24/24
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24 Jan 2026
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Adopting a secret cat in a no-pets-allowed apartment building is one thing. Kissing the new property manager after he discovers your secret cat is another.
Learning the property manager thought he was straight until you kissed him and accidentally sent him into a tailspin—well, it's a weird twenty-four hours for Ed Teach.
So: friends. Friends, he can do. Friends, that's easy. Except there are mochas, and there are movies, and there's this whole queer discovery he's helping Stede navigate, and there are a hell of a lot of chocolate muffins.
Sometimes the journey is the most important part.
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 36/36
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14 Dec 2025
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Ed's an artist, Stede's a bookseller. They're both a bit surprised to have met the love of their life at this late stage in the game.
This is them figuring out what to do about it.
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- Part 2 of Temptation 'Verse
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- English
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- 149,755
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- 25/?
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02 Dec 2025
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Recently and amicably divorced Stede Bonnet is slated for a big promotion, when new hire Ed Teach swoops in and steals his job… and then his heart.
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- Part 1 of The Underground
- Language:
- English
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- 179,392
- Chapters:
- 45/45
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- 438
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Bookmarked by merbee
28 Oct 2025
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When college chancellor, Stede Bonnet, meets heavy metal legend, Blackbeard, an unexpected attraction draws the men to each other, upending their lives and and leading them into a romance that seems determined to survive, despite the many challenges they face along the way.
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- Part 1 of The Sunset Cove Universe
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- English
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- 673,907
- Chapters:
- 66/66
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- 1,397
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11 Oct 2025
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Stede Bonnet is married with two kids. He works for his father, but knows this isn't his passion. He loves photography, but it's just a hobby for him. When his favorite photographer, Edward Teach writes a book about his life, he's tasked by his father with publishing it. Edward Teach is married to one of his oldest friends, Jack Rackham, but isn't happy. He's bored with his career and annoyed with his manipulative husband. He meets Stede Bonnet, who is publishing his book, and realizes he may have found his soul mate, but he's married.
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- English
- Words:
- 131,852
- Chapters:
- 65/65
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 109
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- 182
- Bookmarks:
- 40
- Hits:
- 8,200
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28 Aug 2025
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Crossing Swords with the Pirate Captain by BookknobsandBroomsticks
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
16 Jan 2025
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Stede Bonnet is a romance novelist, not that anyone knows it when he's writing under a pseudonym. After all, surely nobody wants to buy a gay romance written by a single, middle-aged man who has spent most of his life married to a woman? But Stede’s latest book and unexpected hit, Crossing Swords with the Pirate Captain, is being turned into a movie and his favourite actor, Ed Teach, has asked to audition for the lead role.
Action hero Ed Teach is sick of the grind and performative masculinity that the action genre, and his agent Izzy, demand. He wants to branch out, he wants to come out and auditioning for the romantic lead in a film about gay pirates feels like the perfect way to do that.
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28 Jun 2025
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There are some times when Stede is stopped in his tracks in sheer awe and adoration of his co-captain. Times when he commits the vision of Edward into core memory, so he can have it forever, or as long as his mind will allow.
When a small raid goes south and Stede is held captive aboard another vessel, he's grateful he has little snippets of Edward to rely on to get him through the ordeal.
He's even able to capture a few more moments and lock them away in his mind when his knight in black leather arrives.
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22 May 2025
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"Was there anything that Stede Bonnet couldn't do? He gave importance to everything. Made everything meaningful. Made life less dull.
And again Ed thought that this was the way life ought to be: stars above him, ocean below him, Stede beside him. His guide, his freedom, and his heart. What more could a man need?
At a certain point, Ed stopped looking to the sky, shifting to watch Stede with wonderment instead, rapt in the passionate way he wove his tales, painting the sky into a storied mural. And Ed thought he would be content to be this way with him forever. Even though the dinghy was too small to lay comfortably in, and the hard wood hurt his back, and he really would have killed for a pillow that wasn't a lumpy sack of oranges."
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In which Stede goes to Ed on the dock, but doesn't immediately tell him what happened, and Ed starts freaking the fuck out about it.
Two middle-aged gay pirates have to figure out how to actually communicate with one another and reckon with their pasts at the same time.Bookmarked by merbee
18 May 2025
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I surrender to the future / I’ll stay with you if you let me by Deniz_B
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
12 Jul 2023
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In the aftermath of a successful raid, everything suddenly goes terribly wrong.
Stede is kidnapped, and Ed and the crew work together to rescue him.
While Stede is healing physically, he continues to have flashbacks, and blames himself for what happened.
Ed wants to do all he can to help...but will Stede let him?Series
- Part 1 of Unearthed Treasures
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- English
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- 33,122
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 134
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- 304
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- 71
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- 7,830
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18 May 2025
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The true history:
The Pacific Clipper was a Pan American Airlines scheduled commercial flight from San Francisco, California, to Auckland, New Zealand that operated from 1939 to 1941. All tickets were first class and cost around $15,000 in 2024 US dollars; passengers ate five course meals prepared by chefs from four star restaurants. From December 1941 to January 1942, the Pacific Clipper completed an unplanned nearly around-the-world flight: the first commercial circumnavigation of the globe. Oh, also, there is an actual historical guy referred to as ‘the Swede’ who was the First Engineer on the crew.The Our Flag Means Death version:
Our crew:
Captain Stede Bonnet
First Officer Frenchie
Second Officer/Navigator Buttons
Third Officer Wee John Feeney
Fourth Officer Archie
First Engineer The Swede
Second Engineer Pete
First Radio Officer Edward Teach
Second Radio Officer Jim Jimenez
Radio Operator Oluwande Boodhari
Purser Roach
Asst Purser Lucius Spriggs- Language:
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04 May 2025
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“You live in LA?” Stede asked, and Ed stiffened a bit next to him. Stede chuckled softly. “It’s a big place, Ed. Tonight’s just tonight.”
Ed was silent as they stepped into the elevator, and he let out a long breath once the doors slid shut on the two of them. “I like you,” he said, his eyes on Stede’s in the mirrored door. “It’s just…my life….”
Stede reached out and took his hand, giving it a light squeeze, then tugged until they were facing each other. “Tonight’s just tonight,” he said again, lifting his free hand to cup Ed’s cheek and letting his eyes drop to Ed’s mouth. “We can handle that.”
“Yeah,” Ed breathed. He leaned in and let his nose brush Stede’s, his breath a tease against Stede’s lips.
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24 Apr 2025
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27 Mar 2025
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bruised like violets, burned for better by suchgreatheights
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
23 Oct 2023
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What if the midnight explosions in the Republic of Pirates had plunged the whole town into chaos and fighting?
What if Stede didn't quite make it out before Ed returned from his first night out fishing?
A frantic search. A close call. A safe space.
A breath, and another, and another.
They talk it through.
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26 Mar 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.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 105,522
- Chapters:
- 30/30
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 2,984
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- Bookmarks:
- 174
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- 20,050
Bookmarked by merbee
29 Jan 2025