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1. Nothing Fades Like the Light by unpleasantdiversions

   Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M, Multi
   • Complete Work

   29 Jun 2022

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Stede Bonnet/Israel Hands
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet/Israel Hands
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Israel Hands
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet
   • Stede Bonnet
   • Israel Hands
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach
   • POV Stede Bonnet
   • Dom Stede Bonnet
   • Sadist Stede Bonnet
   • Under-negotiated Kink
   • Masochist Israel Hands
   • Soft Blackbeard | Edward Teach
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Miscommunication
   • Imprisonment
   • Lucius Spriggs Lives in the Walls of the Revenge
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Reconciliation
   • Post-Season/Series 01
   • Self-Hatred
   • Non-Negotiated Kink
   • Non-Sexual Kink
   • Additional Warnings In Author's Note
   • Dubious Consent
   • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
   • Kink Negotiation
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Emotional Infidelity
   • Izzy drags Stede into whatever fucked up genre he came from
   • the beatings continue and morale improves
   • Mentioned Crew of the Revenge (Our Flag Means Death)
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Violence
   • Consensual Violence
   • Non-Consensual Violence
   • Self-Sacrifice
   • Acceptance
   • Izzy's still kind of a shit in this
   • Stede is a conflicted sadist
   • Stede Bonnet Needs a Hug
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach Needs a Hug
   • Israel Hands Needs a Hug
   • Aftermath of Violence
   • Asexual Israel Hands

   Summary

   In which Stede Bonnet discovers his inner sadist, Izzy Hands discovers care & love as it fits him, and Ed gets to be as soft as he's ever wanted to be. Just not without a few scars along the way.

   Post season 1 reunion fic with a focus on Stizzy/Gentlehands as a leadup to eventual Steddy Hands. Accuracy around history, piracy, and medicine are on the backburner. It's eventually very hopeful and loving, I think, but it takes a little while to get there. Check the notes at the beginning (and beginnings of each chapter) for more trigger/content warnings.

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