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"D’you need any help, love?" Stede asks. "Would you like me to touch you? Or just, hold you?"
"Mmm. Yeah."
"Which one, darling?"
Ed peaks over his shoulder. "Second one. The uh… the hold one."
He looks cautious, like he’s not sure he’s allowed to have this. It’s awakening something in Stede... the same something he gets with babies and small animals, where he wants to cry and swaddle them in every possible comfort and also explode. He doesn’t, though. Just, absoooorbs the energy back into himself, like some kind of Buddhist monk, and says, "Of course.'"
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Set early post-S2. Stede wakes up to find Ed touching himself. Cue earnest, emotional sex.
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"I’m so sorry," Mary kept repeating. "I didn’t mean for you to find out like this."
"Right," Stede said, through the buzzing in his ears. "I imagine your plan had less of the 'me seeing his penis.'''
Stede catches Mary cheating. It turns out to be the wake-up call he needs to get honest with himself and make some much-needed changes. He stays up all night on an adrenaline high, writing a letter that will blow up the life he's known. When it comes time to send it, though, he panics. Enter Mailman Ed.
Or: the peak of Stede's midlife-crisis-slash-gay-awakening, played in 5x slow-motion.
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"Outside, the sky is stained with fireworks. Ed’s always liked fireworks, the way he likes most things that fill up his mind and body for the moment. The lighting of the wick. The wait, silence made loud with waiting. And then the Boom— the way it kicks in your chest as it bursts.
Stede kisses him in pink, works his shirt off in green. In blue, they slide his trousers down, peeling him out of that stupid fucking leather. In purple, they’re naked together."
Ed and Stede's night together, after the wall slam. Formerly titled "Undertow"
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Ed and Izzy are 16-year-old best friends, and the only out trans people in their small, conservative US town. During the 11th grade camping trip, Ed gets stir-crazy and convinces Izzy to sneak off on a nighttime adventure. Teen hijinks ensue.... but Ed's impulses don't always take safety into account. When they find themselves in over their heads, Ed and Izzy get some help from an unexpected source.
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Post-breakup-Ed seeks distraction and release in sex with Izzy. One night, Izzy unexpectedly refuses. Ed initially reacts in Kraken-mode, and has to face what he's become.
Rough content. No rape between Ed and Izzy, but the threat is there. There are allusions to Ed's history as a victim of sexual assault. See notes for detailed warnings.
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The downside to being stuck on a desert island is that Stede's not awfully good at adapting. The upside is that he and Ed can finally have some peace and quiet– that is, if Ed ever wakes up from the gunshot wound in his stomach.
Stranded in the middle of who-knows-where, Stede learns the art of reflection and how to embrace the man who looks back.
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29 Jul 2026
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“My turn to tell you you’re not too much?”
Swallowing around the sudden knot in his throat, Ed gives a weak laugh. “Suppose so.”
Stede pushes himself onto his elbows with a little grunt as cool air touches his chest, running a hand through his hair in a futile attempt to tame his bedhead. “You are not too much,” he rasps. “You are exactly enough. And I like it very much.”
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The Morning After the Night Before.
Sequel to Everything's Coming Up Rosés but can be read alone.
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- Part 2 of The Silk of Human Kindness
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05 May 2026
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New Forms of Holy Water by error_in_progress for CatsForTheCatGod
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
21 May 2022
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“Sorry, got distracted.” Ed smirks, looking pointedly over Izzy’s body, watching with satisfaction as a pink splotch appears on his chest, edging up his neck. It would have been very smooth and suave if not for the fact that he almost falls over straight afterwards, hopping around on one leg trying to take his boot off.
Izzy huffs a laugh at him but when Ed glances up it’s laced with that fondness, one of Izzy’s arms tucked behind his head, the other lazily scratching the hair on his belly.
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24 Jan 2026
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“The Eldar would beget children only in days of happiness and peace if they could."
JRR TolkienMirkwood is fraught with war when its Queen falls pregnant; its citizens are too busy on the frontline to raise a child, and so the elfling grows up to become untamed. Unsuited for Mirkwood society, Legolas is sent on patrol to the edge of the Kingdom, isolated and fated to live out his years alone.
A chance meeting with a ranger may change that fate.
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10 Jan 2026
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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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18 Nov 2025