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  1. Rec 36

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    Stede and Ed are not having sex.

    To the uninformed, the things they do together may strongly resemble sex, but Stede knows better.

    This is just mutual stress relief between two professional, platonic, regular, normal co-captains.

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    16 Nov 2025

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  2. Rec 7

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    “So, we’re innkeepers then.”

    Two whim-prone middle-aged guys, in the throes of first love, make an emotionally charged decision to upend their lives completely.

    Things turn out... pretty well, actually.

     

    Post-S2 domestic fluff with a bit of character stuff thrown in because I love them both so much. Basically just gentle Gentlebeard, fixing up their inn and learning how to be together.

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    20 Jul 2025

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  3. Rec 29

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    Stede wakes to shafts of golden light creeping across the bedsheets and strands of silver hair across his face. He smiles, reaches up to draw it aside, and Ed stirs in his arms. They’re both naked, skin warm against skin, and when he turns onto his side to wrap an arm around Ed, his cock brushes the bedsheets and there’s something—something wrong

    He sits up and throws the bedclothes off in one motion, and—

    There’s a cage around his cock.

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  4. Rec 6

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    They take it slow.

    Nothing in Ed’s life has ever been slow, or easy, or gentle. Every moment’s been a fucking fight, his mind careening ahead at 30 knots, day in, day out.

    But Stede is ease and gentleness, sweetness potent as marmalade. For him, every new day is a possibility, a wonder. And so, Ed thinks, watching the silhouette of their ship retreating into the sunset, he can take it easy with Stede. They can take it slow.

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  5. Rec 66

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    Lot of titles Ed’s held in his lifetime, some more welcome than others.

    Boyfriend, though.

    Boyfriend.

    That’s fucking something.

     

    or: and they were boyfriends (oh my god they were boyfriends.)

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    25 Feb 2024