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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.
Bookmarked by Merrykho
11 Sep 2026
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Head Over Heels in the House of The Kraken by Eevla, GelatinousStand
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
28 Aug 2026
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A modern fairytale full of fluff and smut and fine fabrics!
Fashion designer Ed’s team has hired him a new PA. The guy is cute, but doesn’t seem to be hearing anything Ed is saying? Meanwhile, newly divorced and disowned Stede reports for his first day of his first job outside of the corporate world, but oh my god, he didn’t expect his new boss to be so hot? Wait, what was he saying?
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10 Sep 2026
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Izzy still doesn't precisely know how to feel about work this morning, but it's somewhere between scorn and dread.
He's already encountered the new General Manager's influence; Edward's unilateral decision last week to change his signature block to read co-General Manager, for fuck's sake, which Izzy had had to push back on. Izzy's also had actual contact with him; brief, over Teams. His impression of the man wasn't precisely flattering.
Day one of the High Income Tax Policy and Enforcement Branch, and Izzy doesn't really have any idea what to expect.
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Israel Hands has been the Executive Officer to Edward Teach, General Manager of High Income Tax Enforcement, for a long time. He knows this job, he knows Edward, and he knows how to keep his life separate from work - for the most part.
And then the branch is restructured to include Stede Bonnet, General Manager of Tax Policy, and his team of fucking clowns. Suddenly Izzy has two bosses, irritating coworkers, and a rapidly disintegrating line between the personal and the professional.
Not to mention Edward's behaving more erratically than usual.
(It's a romcom).
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- Part 2 of no new year's resolution
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Bookmarked by Merrykho
07 Sep 2026
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He could leave at any time. He could. It was all within his power. He was strong enough. He could walk away, make it all stop. He was in control of that, always had been, always will be.
That was the mantra Izzy kept repeating to himself as he parked up his car in the street behind the bar. Turning off the engine, he let his hands rest on the steering wheel for a moment, taking slow, deep breaths. No one would know. He just needed to act normal. He’d been doing that for months now, no one had said a word.Izzy tries to break free of his abusive relationship with CJ, going to the only people in the world he knows he can trust - his ex-husband Edward Teach and his new boyfriend, Stede Bonnet.
Inspired by the song 'Happier Than Ever' by Billie Eilish. Please mind the tags, abusive relationship, descriptions of violence and injury. But then lovely care and cuddles after.
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- Part 1 of Once Upon A Time
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Bookmarked by Merrykho
07 Sep 2026
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Stede buys a small-town café next-door to a Christmas store, where he becomes obsessed with the idea of rekindling the romance between the unusual couple who own it.
Ed and Izzy aren't in a relationship. The Christmas store is a front for their money laundering scheme, and Ed wants out by December.
Quite frankly, Stede Bonnet seems like easy prey.
Bookmarked by Merrykho
07 Sep 2026