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  1. Rec 11

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    Izzy's spent years trying to inoculate himself against the kind of performative onstage groping that used to leave him aching for more. You swallow a little of Ed’s poison every show, and eventually, you're immune.

    a legally-distinct-from-Warped-Tour early 2000s bandom AU ❤️

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    04 Mar 2024

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    What Izzy knows that the blogs and magazines don’t is that Ed hooks up with guys, sometimes. He knows that he’s done this in particular, and maybe that’s why he can’t stop thinking about it.

    God, it's like time travel.

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    “Shh. Shh.” The hand on Izzy’s shoulder turns to iron, fingers bruising through his jacket. “Relax, mate. You trust me, don’t you?”

    Izzy does. He trusts Blackbeard, he has to trust Blackbeard, because the other option is a life where he can trust no one and there’s still a small, sickly part of him that isn’t prepared for that. Blackbeard doesn’t feel fear, but Israel Hands does. Every day of his life, he’s felt fear.

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    Izzy tries to manipulate Blackbeard, and it goes wrong in exactly the way he hopes for.

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    16 Feb 2024

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    “You’re pent up, boss,” Izzy says instead. “It isn’t healthy for a man to go without certain things for too long. Makes his blood unstable. And I figure you might benefit from something discreet.”

    Very discreet. Can’t have tales going around of you going limp and blubbering for your lost boyfriend, can we? Izzy thinks what would really be ideal is a mute, provided he can find one in whatever flavor the captain is in the mood for.

    Of course, mutes can also be made. Izzy Hands is nothing if not a problem-solver.

    Exactly the fucked-up dynamic I was looking for. And that quote! Is that not some delicious Izzy characterization? Everything from his dialogue to his concerns to his solutions.

  3. Public Bookmark 15

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    Ed and Stede decide to make a baby. Stede's friend offers to be a surrogate.

    “Fuck. Might as well enjoy it, right?” Ed says.

    “Right,” Stede agrees, rocking Ed in his arms. Ed hums contentedly, following the sway.

    “And who knows?” Ed says. “Maybe you'll like it.”

    Stede wrinkles his nose. Memories of being with Mary tunnel back and he mentally bats them away. It's nothing against Mary, of course. Just... no. “And maybe Hell will freeze over,” he deadpans.

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    15 Jan 2024

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    It hurts Stede to watch the way Ed's gaze lingers on children with their fathers, hand-in-hand at the market. Stede thinks there's quite enough of his own genes out in the world already, but Ed's? Ed deserves that. He deserves to right the wrongs of his own childhood— to pour all of the love he was deprived of into a child of his own.

    Whack-a-mole with my bulletproof kinks. Sweet and tugs on the heart a little, too.

  4. Rec 62

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    Ed Teach is ready to end it all, until a kind stranger stops to compliment his boots.

    It's the middle of the London Blitz in 1940, and the world is falling apart around them, but over the course of one perfect day, Stede Bonnet is determined to show him that there's plenty to live for.

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    11 Jan 2024

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    “I’m a fucking pirate, mate. You know that? Spent the last year stealing shit. We’re going to keep stealing time, okay? We’re going to steal all the time we need.”

    The setting is so vivid and the story is so true to the show.

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    On the run, a young Edward Teach finds himself hungry and lost on some Caribbean island. That's where he spots another boy, an aristocrat, sleeping in the shade, surrounded by flowers.

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    11 Dec 2023

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    The three boys have smiles like gargoyles and Ed revises his earlier assessment: this sleeping boy does not belong to them. They are not of the same species. And Ed isn’t sure what they’re planning on doing with this snake, with this boy, but he’s certain he doesn’t like it.

    Something about the way Ed sees Stede doesn't belong with people like the Badmintons!

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