mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
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After escaping the clutches of the English navy, Ed and Stede abandoned piracy to build a new life together, away from the danger and chaos of the world they’d left behind. But sailing off into the sunset could never be that simple. Not when you’ve scorned the most powerful empire on Earth. Not when you were once the most notorious pirate on the sea. And not when the Golden Age of piracy is finally reaching its inevitable and climactic end.
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- Part 2 of If You Were Mine to Keep
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Late on a Sunday Evening by mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
14 Oct 2024
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It’s a Sunday evening. Stede is in the kitchen, at the stove, barefoot in a pair of flannel pajama pants and one of Ed’s old t-shirts.
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Thought We'd Find Salvation (at the bottom of a glass) by mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
24 Oct 2023
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After the dinner party from hell, Ed and Stede make a go at talking it through.
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If You Were Mine to Keep by mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
12 Mar 2023
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Caught between the gallows and the end of an English sword, Ed accepts the Act of Grace: marry into the aristocracy, leave the English ships alone, and live to sail another day. But who in their right mind would ever agree to marry the mad devil pirate Blackbeard?
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- Part 1 of If You Were Mine to Keep
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The Soft Animal of Your Body by mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
10 Apr 2022
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At the end of a long day, Ed and Stede unwind together.
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Ed’s used to visitors, though the novelty of his home has worn off in the last eighteen months or so, the uninvited guests becoming fewer and further between. He’s used to curiosity, and questions he rarely feels like answering. He’s used to people forgetting that this is, in fact, his home, and not some out of the way tourist attraction.
He’s used to strangers.
But he’s starting to think that perhaps, not all his visitors need to stay strangers.
or: Ed has a simple life. He has a self-built, off grid, mostly self-sustaining house tucked away in the middle of a forest. He has five chickens, and a partially feral cat. He lives alone, and he likes it that way. Until the appearance of an incredibly nosy, incredibly handsome stranger three weekends in a row has him questioning every self-imposed rule he's ever set himself.
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Bookmarked by mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
08 Feb 2026
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Our saltwater solution reduces gravity’s pull by over 80%, ensuring you'll effortlessly stay afloat! We keep the water at a steady 36 degrees—matching your skin’s temperature. This blend of weightlessness and warmth blurs the lines between your body and the water, as your nerves can’t tell where you end and the surrounding environment begins.
Weightlessness. Yeah. If anything’s gonna be Ed’s cure-all, it’s gotta be weightlessness, right?
Ed’s carried around weight for most of his life. He’s tired. His muscles ache. His joints are all ground down to dust.
Also - the word solution is right there. Which proves it.
This is it. This is Ed’s solution.
(Or: Ed's on a wellness journey for his fuckass brain. It's not going great. The guy at the float tank place is being way too nice about it. Please mind the tags!)
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Bookmarked by mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
03 Jan 2026
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“I am not getting on that fucking horse.”
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Ed gets on the fucking horse.
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Bookmarked by mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
29 Sep 2025
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Ed and Stede are together again, and it's right and good. But Ed can't keep himself from daydreaming about the way things were during their first few weeks together on the revenge, before Stede left. Stede finds a way to take them back, just for a night.
_________________________Those memories have a golden hue. Every day had been something new. Every act of affection and care that Stede paid to Ed had been another unexpected pleasure. Ed used to steal the smallest, most innocent touch and savor it for the rest of the day like a candy on his tongue. He used to spend his nights remembering warm smiles and kind words from the day and imagining more. More. Everything.
“I just miss it sometimes,” Ed finally says, the confession escaping him in a heavy breath.
Bookmarked by mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
24 Jun 2025
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Honey, don't feed me, I will come back by serpent_and_dahlia
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
19 Apr 2025
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Bubbles shielded Ed’s modesty, a dense carpet of them covering the surface of the water so that all Stede could see was his face, the silver mass of his hair piled messily, fetchingly atop his head, and—just above the cloud line, peeking in and out of view—the slope of his bare shoulders, the suggestion of a clavicle. A smear of bubblebath clung to his jaw. A stray lock of hair, damp with steam, stuck to the side of his neck.
The sheer eroticism of the image nearly sent Stede to his knees; more devastating, perhaps, than if Ed had stood before him completely bare.
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Ed's wearing the sack, and the bell. He's doing his best to make himself useful, to win back the crew's trust. He's just maybe not doing such a great job taking care of himself in the process, but luckily Stede has a solution: time for a bubble bath.
Bookmarked by mysterybees (Pamplemousse)
20 Apr 2025