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Ed Teach is a barista who lives at and co-runs a DIY space. Money is tight and times are tough, so when he literally runs into trust fund kid Stede Bonnet, whom he recognizes from the cafe as one of his regulars, at the local university, his housemates convince him to rope him in as a bankroll. Stede is game to help out, but it quickly becomes clear that neither has their mind solely on business.
(An Our Flag Means Death SMAU, cross-posted from Twitter.)
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10 Dec 2025
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Ed and Stede meet as strangers one night on a New York subway platform when Stede discovers an abandoned newborn baby. Both men are instantly infatuated with him (and each other). When they attend the court hearing for his case, the judge spontaneously decides to offer Stede custody, which he accepts– only to realize afterwards that she assumed they were a couple.
The two men immediately craft a plan to pretend to be together in order to keep the baby, creating fake backstories, coaching their friends, and moving in together... into the same bedroom... and the same bed. But what they didn't anticipate was falling head over heels in love, not only with their son, but with each other.
Inspired by the TRUE STORY outlined in this article
Features: a very fast slow burn, fake dating, only one bed, pining while fucking, and other tropes
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- Part 1 of Baby Baby Baby
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06 Jul 2025
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Stede gets a book about pirates from his brother-in-law. Inside, he finds a curious name—his name, Stede Bonnet. It's barely a mention, two measly paragraphs in a longer story about the legendary Blackbeard, with whom he apparently sailed for a time. That night, he dreams about Ed. He learns he already knows more than he'll find in any book.
And Ed? Ed dreams too. He dreams about drowning, mostly.
Until he sees Stede.
The title comes from my best girl Margaret Lanterman, AKA The Log Lady, in one of her iconic Twin Peaks episode intros: "The beautiful thing about treasure is that it exists. It exists to be found."
If you are a podfic enjoyer, you can find it here, and don't forget to leave lindie a little heart. thanks!
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14 May 2025
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Cloudburst, 1986
Stede Bonnet is twelve the first summer his father leaves him alone in an old holiday shack in a tiny Australian seaside town called Cloudburst. His only company over years of solitary vacations is the hint of another boy who stays in the same house in the winter season, and the art Stede begins to draw, inspired.
Three decades later, Stede is a newly divorced, newly out children's book illustrator struggling to break through art block, and he hopes that going back to where it all began will be the key to rekindling his joy.
Cloudburst, 2024
Ed Teach was the most famous pro surfer in the world for far too many years, and all he wants now is anonymous peace and quiet in the tiny town where he used to escape his violent father for a few weeks every winter.
But someone else has just bought the old holiday shack and moved in there. Someone who collides with Ed in the waves one morning, and brings the past crashing back into the present.
Someone Ed already knows, but has never met before...
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06 Feb 2025
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There is just so much out here. So much more than Stede has ever seen, and when the gate rolls shut behind him, he is suddenly very small and alone.
He has no map, very little food, and his Geiger counter is already clicking slowly away, but he's alive and he's free.
With a deep breath of fresh air, he starts walking.
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2277. War, war never changes.
Vault dweller Stede Bonnet is about to set out to find adventure and renown in the wasteland.
Things will not go as planned…
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19 Dec 2024