that’s just my face

new wdw chapter up! hope you're enjoying the emotional whiplash.

good morning, here’s 3400 words of flirting and kink negotiation, if you even care

first chapter of part 3 in “the harder the pain, honey, the sweeter the song” is up! (it’s tagged for whump but that’ll be the next chapter; this is pretty fluffy tbh.)

behold: the scene that immediately precedes the best things in life come in threes

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Missing Scene, Canon-Typical Historical Inaccuracy (Our Flag Means Death), Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Our Flag Means Death Kinktober 2023, Kinktober 2023, Comfort No Hurt, "Take your sword; run me through", somnophilia (sort of), Face-Fucking, Rutting, Stede Bonnet Has A Caretaking Kink, Blackbeard | Ed Teach has a caretaken kink, Soft Dom Stede Bonnet, Top Stede Bonnet, Bottom Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Dirty Talk, Delightfully Bitchy Stede Bonnet, POV Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Banging While Injured, hand wavy depictions of pirate medicine, hand wavy depictions of how bodies react to physical trauma, Blow Jobs, First Time Blow Jobs, well well well if it isn't the consequences of my own actions, Dubious Consent, no beta we die dramatically like Spaniards, they're soft but they're kinky your honor, please read the note for more details on dubcon + somnophilia Series: Part 3 of Kinktober 2023 Summary:

That night Ed had bared his stomach (and his stupid, foolish heart), and said, Take your sword; run me through, like some kind of desperate, horny teenager—Stede had helped him back to the Captain’s quarters and patched him up. (Ed had talked him through it, of course, same as he talked him through the stabbing and the pulling out.)

(Hahaha. Fuck.)

Which was fine.

But.

Stede had insisted he take the bed. He’d be fine sleeping on the couch, he said. “It’s the least I can do. I stabbed you, after all.”

And, sotto voce, “Even though you were begging for it.” As if Ed, in his enstabbened state, wasn’t listening to him.

As if Ed was ever not listening to that lunatic.

 A Kinktober compilation Day 3: rutting Day 5: "open up" Day 6: somnophilia Day 9: "I can take more" Day 12: "Don't stop" Day 14: "God, your mouth" Day 15: "Let me take care of you" Day 22: face-fucking

the fact that ed can stand there in the jungle looking with big dopey disney eyes at stede's disappearing form as he runs off, LEAVING HIM THERE ALONE, ON LAND, telling him to WAIT, and he just TRUSTS. THAT STEDE WILL COME BACK??? no. no I'm sorry I have expired

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet Additional Tags: Our Flag Means Death Kinktober 2023, Kinktober, Prompt Fill, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Edging, Blackbeard | Edward Teach is a Little Shit, Hand Jobs, Revenge won't just be the name of the ship y'know what I'm saying, Switch Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Switch Stede Bonnet, but he has regrets Series: Part 2 of Kinktober 2023 Summary:

Ed invents edging. Stede's mad about it.

Chapters: 5/? Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet, The Badminton Twins, Fang (Our Flag Means Death) Additional Tags: Autistic Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Blackbeard | Edward Teach Has ADHD, Autistic Stede Bonnet, Blackbeard's Home Renovation and Restoration, Bonnet Creek, Warning: Badminton Twins, Slow Burn, because they're both idiots (affectionate), Blackbeard | Edward Rides a Motorcycle, Stede Bonnet Has a Motorcycle Fetish, Disney World, Epcot, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Work In Progress, no beta we die dramatically like Spaniards, Disabled Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Māori Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting Summary:

This guy’s so fucking pretty, is the thing.

He says, “You work for Blackbeard?”

Ed frowns a second, then looks down at the Blackbeard’s Home Renovation and Restoration logo on his t-shirt. He says, “Yeah. Yeah, suppose I do.” He sticks out his hand. “Name’s Ed.”

“Stede.” His hand is soft, but not soft like dough. Soft like silk. A fine, expensive thing that's treated that way. Ed’s got to let go before he bends over and rubs his face against it like a cat.

here have some silly words about Ed and Stede* at Disney World

*season 1 style, but post-canon is coming

https://archiveofourown.org/works/47173750?view_full_work=true

I know the joke is like, haha, how did we all collectively decide that THIS GUY is the soft Dom of Blackbeard’s dreams?

Consider: All he does is give. He pays his crew wages, regardless of their plunder. He makes sure they have creative and recreational outlets. He sees Ed, whom he has just met, secretly brush the corner of some of his fabric against his face, and his reaction is, “Like that? You’ll love this!” and takes this complete stranger into his secret closet, lets him touch whatever he wants. Lets him wear his clothes. Brings him breakfast in “bed” the next morning. Agrees to take him to a party he himself doesn’t really want to go to. Lets him wear more of his clothes. Has a private breakfast spread for him what we can assume is every morning.

Consider: “On your feet! We’re having a day!” Ep7 is probably my favorite because imo it does more to further the romance than anything else outside of the moonlight scene. Our well-coiffed sunshine could have let Ed nap, but instead convinced him to do something new—which is what Ed wants; it’s what he’s wanted from the beginning. (Classic infuriating soft Dom behavior: knowing you better than you.) And Ed is rewarded with unearthing Stede’s petrified heart, realizing it isn’t a stone—more importantly, showing Stede it wasn’t a stone—and establishing and toasting their partnership. Alone. In Stede’s designed-for-flow candlelit quarters. Their faces…this far apart.

Sure, you say, that’s some real service top energy, but soft Dom?

Consider: “Good, because I kind of enjoyed it.” “Stand down, Ed!” “Get off my ship. Now.” “Unhand me or bleed.” He doesn’t do it a lot, but when Stede issues an order, it is followed. Maybe with grumbling or pouting (@ Ed, u precious babygirl) or insults, but no one really challenges him once he puts his back into it.

Stede knows finery, and he knows Ed is the finest thing he’s ever had. He knows you treat fine things gently, with love, but also that you put up hard boundaries to protect them.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet Additional Tags: Kinktober 2022, technically, Top Stede Bonnet, Service Top Stede Bonnet, Bottom Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Orgasm Control, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Gags, Light Dom/sub, Light Bondage, Dacryphilia, Men Crying, men crying after sex, Crying Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Autistic Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Soft Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Soft Dom Stede Bonnet, Sub Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Forced Eye Contact, no beta we die dramatically like Spaniards, Post-Canon Series: Part 6 of Kinktober Summary:

“It’s just,” Ed finally mumbles, “like, it doesn’t matter, but what if, like, you. Sometime. Made me cry.”

“Ed, darling,” Stede says, “you know I never want to make you cry.”

“I know,” Ed says. “But this—this’d be different. Not a—not a sad cry. I mean crying as like, as. Whatever. As. A sex thing.” He’s stumbling all over his words but he can’t help it; they’re tripping out of him, spilling out of him like a waterfall. Because now that he’s put it out there, out in the universe, he really. Well. He really fucking wants it, is the thing.

check out my mediumly-extensive selection of mostly gentlebeard fics. more below the cut—

wild is the wind: M! Stede/Ed. 75,850 (complete!). film-noir!AU. Wellington, 1942: Stede Bonnet, the only son of a powerful local businessman, is missing, and it’s Blackbeard Investigations’ Ed Teach’s job to find him. Ed finds him, no problem—but when he finds out why Stede ran, he can’t bring himself to finish the job. to make matters worse, Stede has something valuable of his father's, and Bonnet will stop at nothing to get it back. the thing is, though...Ed's found something of value, too: Stede. and Ed's not giving him up without a fight.

working on a whipping fic for kinktober—hopefully up this weekend—but until then, please enjoy the kinky fruits of my labor thus far

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet Additional Tags: Our Flag Means Death Kinktober, Wall Sex, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Face Slapping, Teasing, Begging, Stede Bonnet's Black Cravat, a truly shocking amount of parentheticals, Autistic Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Check-Ins, Orgasm Control, no beta we die dramatically like Spaniards, Post-Canon, Established Relationship, Established Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet, Top Stede Bonnet, Bottom Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Soft Dom Stede Bonnet, Power Bottom Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Bratty Blackbeard | Edward Teach Series: Part 4 of Kinktober Summary:

Ed is good at everything. Including waiting. But, damn, man, there’s a limit to what someone can take.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet Additional Tags: Trans Stede Bonnet, Top Stede Bonnet, Bottom Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Post-Canon, Established Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet, Pegging, Vaginal Fingering, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Cunnilingus, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot Series: Part 3 of Kinktober Summary:

a little cock worship, as a treat