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  1. Public Bookmark 26

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    Sometimes it’s like Stede can read Ed’s thoughts—except for all the times when it’s painfully obvious that he can’t.

    Especially the whole, y’know, Ed being in love with him thing.

    Ed flicks some ash into the daffodil bed. “Thought you quit.”

    “I did.” Stede says, all eyelashes and dimples as he makes a “gimme” motion with two fingers.

    Ed sighs and hands over the pack and a lighter. He isn’t present as he does it, not really. He’s thinking about that other life, where Stede takes Ed’s cigarette from his lips without asking.


    A modern AU based on Lucy Dacus' album, Forever is a Feeling.

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    02 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 42

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    To the world, the anonymous artist Blackbeard is brilliant, famous, and mysterious. To Ed, the years-long career is a crushing weight flattening him into nothing. Desperate for a change, he begins a new chapter as an art professor at a tiny little liberal arts university, where he is captivated by a history professor with an affinity for pirates.

    Ed falls a little bit in love. Then a lot.

    Stede is exactly the sort of person who belongs in the world of elite academia. Where Ed has never felt like more of an imposter, Stede welcomes him in with unchecked enthusiasm. He is unique, and he is dazzling, and he turns Ed's entire world golden.

    And then he falls in love with Ed too, and Ed’s life begins to change.

    Across the academic year, light and color flood his world, spill onto his canvases, and illuminate parts of himself he's never even dared to explore. Stede is at the center of it all, loving Ed the way Ed never knew he could be loved, teaching him how to find hope in the darkness—and how quickly the darkness closes in again when the light threatens to vanish.

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    31 Jan 2026

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    When Stede is nine years old, he loses his new red, silk handkerchief.

    A soulmate AU where Stede and Edward unwittingly share everything they own. It doesn't change anything, and it changes everything

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    08 Dec 2025

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    When newly divorced and newly out Stede Bonnet is dragged to a rock concert by his assistant, he thinks it will be a fun night out and a chance to be more social after isolating himself. Little does he know, he is about to attract the attention of the legendary Blackbeard, frontman of Queen Anne's Revenge.

    Their meet-cute hits a bit of a snag when an incident at the concert threatens the nationwide tour Blackbeard and his band are about to go on, putting Stede under a spotlight he never wanted or asked for.

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    19 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 5

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    A Princess Diaries 2 AU! Prince Stede Bonnet is the Crown Prince of Genovia who is given 30 days to marry or he forfeits the crown which will instead go to Lord Edward Teach. Stede would hate his guts even more than he already does if he wasn't so in love with him.

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    18 Aug 2025