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pirates in waiting and storms to be tamed by suchgreatheights
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
02 Apr 2026
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To the world, the anonymous artist Blackbeard is brilliant, famous, and mysterious. To Ed, the years-long career is a crushing weight flattening him into nothing. Desperate for a change, he begins a new chapter as an art professor at a tiny little liberal arts university, where he is captivated by a history professor with an affinity for pirates.
Ed falls a little bit in love. Then a lot.
Stede is exactly the sort of person who belongs in the world of elite academia. Where Ed has never felt like more of an imposter, Stede welcomes him in with unchecked enthusiasm. He is unique, and he is dazzling, and he turns Ed's entire world golden.
And then he falls in love with Ed too, and Ed’s life begins to change.
Across the academic year, light and color flood his world, spill onto his canvases, and illuminate parts of himself he's never even dared to explore. Stede is at the center of it all, loving Ed the way Ed never knew he could be loved, teaching him how to find hope in the darkness—and how quickly the darkness closes in again when the light threatens to vanish.
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03 Feb 2026
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Stede is just going through the motions in his life, his marriage to Mary, suffering through board meetings at Bonnet Enterprises. When Mary suggests he pick up a hobby, he decides to volunteer at the local public library on Saturdays, running a literary classics (mostly 19th century) book club. Then one Saturday, a man in leather comes in looking for a book about how to grow cactuses and makes Stede feel all sorts of things that are baffling to him. His name is Ed, and he's a famous video game streamer on Twitch. Ed comes back, and back again, until they become real friends, inching ever closer to something more and helping each other grow in unexpected ways both separately and together.
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03 Feb 2026
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They don’t touch this specific type of discomfort very often. That itchy, muscle-achy dissatisfaction of being held just so, of walking a tightrope. Ed gets frustrated, the whole scene becomes unfun — and that’s important to them. If the scene isn’t fun, well. There’s no use trying it.
The reason they’re doing it today, a random Thursday in October, is because Ed had toyed too much with a boundary Stede had placed.
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- Part 3 of ofmd kinktober ‘24
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25 Dec 2025
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Stede knows Ed entirely and completely and absolutely up to a certain point. The certain point is kind of making itself known right now.
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25 Dec 2025
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When Stede meets a startlingly well-dressed man at an otherwise rather tacky Sexy Santa Night at the bar, he quickly develops one objective: hold this man's attention by any means necessary. Even if it means pretending to be terrible at pool.
Despite Stede's ruse, Ed might just see him more clearly than anyone ever has before. And Stede might be getting some life-changing Christmas wishes granted tonight that he didn't even know he had.
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24 Dec 2025