Two weeks ago!
Ta da!
40,000!
archiveofourown.org/works/81536051
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Screenshot of the fics tags and summary, reading: The traces you leave behind by hideplueshi Fandoms:Our Flag Means Death (TV) • Mature • Major Character Death • M/M • Complete Work 10 Apr 2026 Tags • Major Character Death • Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Israel Hands • Blackbeard | Edward Teach • Israel Hands • Background Crew • POV Blackbeard | Edward Teach • Epistolary • hurt with little comfort • Emotional Hurt • grief and grieving • Alcoholism • Depression • Suicidal Ideation • Blackbeard | Edward Teach Needs a Hug • Sad Ending • With a bit of hope • Terminal Illnesses • Izzy is dying • Israel Hands Whump • Blackbeard | Edward Teach Whump • POV First Person • fic contains art • Artist Blackbeard | Edward Teach • Podfic Welcome Summary Recommended by his therapist, Edward starts to write a grief-journal while his husband is losing the fight against cancer. Language: English Words: 7,489 Chapters: 1/1
Remember the sad EdIzzy thing I was talking about? It's posted now 🖤
archiveofourown.org/works/82863551
Please read the tags and CW, though, I'm serious when I say it's sad with only a little bit of comfort.
#ofmd #ofmdfanfic #ofmdfic #EdIzzy #IzzyHands
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Throwback thursday to maybe my favorite thing I’ve ever (co-)written (with @fakegeekboy.bsky.social 🐈⬛!)
Was rereading it this morning 😅 #ofmdfic #ofmdfanfic
archiveofourown.org/works/553735...
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The interruption of the gender narratives in #OFMD (as an incomplete story) is also one reason why this story is so important to me. Highly recommend reading this #OFMDfanfic if you're interested in reading about t-m Stede being brave and exploring his feminine side. 🏳️⚧️
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It's Wednesday! Please enjoy this new ChaoticAccountants fic: In which Ed receives a letter from his highschool sweetheart ten years after they broke up.
VERY low angst, but please be aware of the CW.
@whataccountantsdo.bsky.social
archiveofourown.org/works/82673236
#OFMD #OFMDFanFic
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Forever is a Feeling Ch. 4 is coming soon! Have a snip.
#WIPWednesday #OFMDFanfic
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Stede studied him now across the metal patio table; they were seated outside to take advantage of the beautiful March day. Ed looked tired, lines at his eyes, worn. Thinner too, maybe. “Are you eating?” The thought was out of Stede’s mouth before it really registered. Ed huffed out a laugh. “Yeah, of course. Come on, I'm around food all day.” “That's not an answer.” Stede paused, wondering how far he could really push this as Ed’s friend, trying not to feel that weirdly precarious between-state of not being solely that. It had seemed like a cheeky joke, at the start, to call these things husband meetings. That’s what they were after all—meetings in which they conducted the business they had as husbands. It was mostly squaring the payment for the insurance premium and making sure Ed hadn’t received any of Stede’s bills. But it seemed that checking in with each other was also on the list, or at least, on Stede’s list. Ed shifted, leaning back in his chair and meeting Stede’s eyes. “Maybe not enough. There’s been a lot. I get busy.”
#WIPWednesday for Ch 5 of In Name Only in which Ed and Stede have a husband meeting. #OFMDfanfic
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Happy first anniversary to The Botany of Desire 🔥🔥🔥🌺🍆🍆
If you read it early on, check out the art that was eventually added 🫠
#TakeTwoTuesday #OFMDfanfic
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Title card for OFMDfanfic “In Name Only” created by latinkraken: Title card has a background of warm, medium brown woodgrain. The title is on a diagonal teal sticky note in black cursive. It's overlapping a purple sticky note in a handwriting font that says “by LyraTalise.” In the top right corner in white font is “marriage of convenience” and beneath that in the same font “glacial burn.” The bottom left corner has the same white font and reads “rated E” and “80k words.”
Ch 4 of In Name Only in which Ed and Stede and get married. #OFMDfic #OFMDfanfic
archiveofourown.org/works/810500...
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If you like all this space stuff but feel like there isn’t enough Ed and Stede, this fic is waiting for you! And the podfic is def the best way to enjoy it!!! #OFMDFanfic
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There are fics for that!
#OFMDfanfic
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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It's heeeeere!
#OFMDFirstTimesWeek No. 2!
Day 1...set in Vegas
archiveofourown.org/works/81531706
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Ch29: the intricate threads of relationships of "Tales from the past" is up, in which Izzy learns sth crucial about relationships:
archiveofourown.org/works/701209...
#ofmd #ofmdfanfic #IzzyHands
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For easter I present this ongoing WIP fic of Ed going through a memory box while packing to move. Some chapters have art by @inkirtis.bsky.social and it is not yet complete
archiveofourown.org/works/648700...
#OFMD #OFMDFanFic
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#WIPSnip and #WIPWednesday from the RBB with @gaywatson.bsky.social - The Art of Fakery unless I find a better title.
Ed is as down bad in 1830s Cornwall as any other time in place.
#OFMDfanfic
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Ed’s throat bobs. He turns to face Stede. “I don’t want to be Blackbeard anymore,” he says quickly. He looks down quickly, as if afraid of what he’ll see in Stede’s eyes. “I know that.” Ed’s head snaps up. “You do?” “That’s why you shaved your beard, isn’t it?” “It is. It’s just–I like how I feel with you. Like last night—Blackbeard couldn’t have done that, but Ed could, with you.” Stede puts his free hand over Ed’s, where it's gripping the railing. “I understand, but I do think Blackbeard is part of you, darling.” “I really fucking hope not,” Ed mutters. “The cleverness, the brilliance, your fighting skills,” Stede continues. “You won’t lose all that. If you’re saying you want to retire, though, then we will retire.” Ed’s eyes go wide and full of hope. “‘We’?” “Of course!” Ed exhales. “I wasn’t sure. You ran away to be a pirate, it’s your dream—” “It was my dream only until I met you,” Stede says simply. “Besides, I don’t think I was running towards piracy or anything else. I was running away, like I’ve always done. You’re the first thing I’ve ever run towards, Ed Teach. Where you go, I go.
#WIPWednesday and the “living on your breath” boys are making a plan. We’re in the endgame now…
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Ed, Actually, an Our Flag Means Death fanfic, turned into 3 paperback books. Front cover art by self-induljennt Spine art bywaldosakimbo
Ed, Actually, an Our Flag Means Death fanfic, turned into 3 paperback books. Back cover art by itsghostyx, panodtortur, and lauravian.
Photo of the inside of book 1. On the pages are text and an image of a band poster.
Photo of the inside of book 1. On the pages are text and an image with messages between Ed and Stede.
🎤 Ed, Actually by @bonnypitty.bsky.social
“I see you, I love you, I’m not going anywhere.” 🥹😭
Stede meets QAR frontman Ed; fainting, mutual pining, romance, and a considerable amount of sobbing ensues (peak El Fic experience 😌)
#OFMDbookbinding #OFMD #OFMDfanfic
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#TakeTwoTuesday for some angsty musicians. Messy exes to lovers goodness based on lovely art! #OFMDfanfic
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[ID: Title card for OFMDfanfic “In Name Only” created by latinkraken: Title card has a background of warm, medium brown woodgrain. The title is on a diagonal teal sticky note in black cursive. It's overlapping a purple sticky note in a handwriting font that says “by LyraTalise.” In the top right corner in white font is “marriage of convenience” and beneath that in the same font “glacial burn.” The bottom left corner has the same white font and reads “rated E” and “80k words.” End ID]
Ch 3 of In Name Only in which Stede doesn't go on a date, and Ed helps with an emergency. #OFMDfic #OFMDfanfic
archiveofourown.org/works/810500...
#Podfic Playlist on Soundcloud: on.soundcloud.com/SzT6bGfLrwa2...
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Stede is a grammar nerd even in the sack #WIPSnips #OFMDfanfic “living on your breath”
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Hey crew! Does anyone know the name of or have a link to this fic? It’s Ed and Stede age gap, Ed is a big director filming in Italy. Anyone??
#findafic #ofmd #ofmdfanfic
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GOOD FRIDAY! Chaotic Accountants are at it again!
Have a short little miscommunication hurt/comfort-esque adjacent fic
(I dont know how to label this one...)
archiveofourown.org/works/81954206
#OFMF #OFMDFanFic
@whataccountantsdo.bsky.social
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#WIPSnips #OFMDfanfic Come Home to My Heart
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Ed hates to prod a sore point, but he must. “If it is not an imposition, I would love to see them sometime.” He laughs self-deprecatingly. “I hardly know where to look for them in such a large house.” Bonnet sets down his spoon. “I suppose you will find this out on your own. I’m quite ashamed to say that my father keeps his more valuable paintings in storage to retain their value.” He is unable to meet Ed’s eyes. “Art should be enjoyed, not locked away!” Ed is entirely fucked. Yet perhaps it is not a total disaster, as it sounds as if the paintings might be on the premises. “That is unfortunate. I was quite hoping to see Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy.” It is a desperate gambit, but Ed looks up through his eyelashes at Bonnet. “Goodness, I would hate to disappoint your hopes. Unless…” Bonnet’s face brightens, and he leans forward conspiratorially. “Later, after dinner… Do you want to do something weird?” Ed’s heart begins to race. He must see the art, but more than that, it feels reckless and new to say “yes” to the manic light in Bonnet’s eyes. Nothing in Ed’s life has felt that way in a long, long time, and he’s tired of caution. Ed senses that Bonnet is, as well, given the passion of his outburst about how art should be seen. Ed doesn’t even need to hear what Bonnet’s proposing. He’s all in. “Yes, please.”
Here’s a peek at what @gaywatson.bsky.social and I are cooking up for the RBB!
What is Ed up to? 👀 🖼️
#WIPWednesday #OFMDfanfic
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snip of the chapters beginning, reading: Izzy nearly forgets his line when he spots Fang in the New Unicorn's drag night audience. Sitting at their crew's usual table, he looks like he belongs exactly there, amidst Izzy's queer little family. With Jim, who's already done with their number, and Archie and Oluwande, while Pete carries a tray of drinks over to the table and sits down as well. Leaving a chair for Lucius, who had the opening set and is already out of drag, talking to Swede at the bar. He'd known Fang was in town, of course – visiting to check on Ma Black's dog, making sure his former foster was happy, healthy and well cared for in her new home. And while Pete and Lucius had made it to the Black's house as well, Izzy had been stuck at work forever, before rushing back home and getting ready for the drag show. He'd felt so bad for turning down the dinner invitation and not being able to meet Fang, but apparently his old friend had meant it when he texted back that Izzy's shouldn't worry about it.
Sorry for the delay, but for everyone who's been waiting: CH28 of Tales is up, in which Fang visits the New Unicorn and Izzy gets a present.
archiveofourown.org/works/701209...
#ofmd #ofmdfanfic #IzzyHands
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Cups (When I'm Gone)
Rated Teen and up
A lesson in how to keep things casual by Edward Teach.
Things may or may not go to plan.
#OFMDFanFic
archiveofourown.org/works/777707...
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Ed is faster, having fewer layers, and it is extremely distracting. He’s bare when Stede is still wearing his shirt, trousers and stockings. Bare but for his stockings, that is, and he’s not moving to take them off. “I see now why you asked me to keep my stockings on,” Stede croaks. “Feel free to, uh, keep yours on, too.” Ed’s eyes are fixed on Stede’s chest as he undoes the ties of his shirt, and his cock is plumping up. Stede’s mouth waters, and his hands are shaking as he pulls his shirt over his head. It’s gratifying to see Ed gasp at the sight of his naked torso, and then again once Stede has pulled down his breeches and smallclothes. “You’re so fucking hot,” Ed groans. Stede scoffs, by force of habit. Ed raises an eyebrow. “Still? Let me show you.” He comes around Stede to his back, pressing a kiss to his shoulder. He gently guides Stede to stand in front of the nearby looking glass. “Is this okay?” Ed asks, propping his head on Stede’s shoulder. Stede has never quite looked at himself this way, but to his surprise, he finds he doesn’t mind it. “It—it’s okay.” “Let me tell you what I see.”
#WIPWednesday and a little bit of spice for the “living on your breath”boys - who are in love and about to fuck for a whole week about it 🙌
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Stede clicked through the contact section at the top of the app and tapped Ed’s number to call it. “Holy shit. I didn’t even know that could happen. Witchcraft,” answered Ed. “Speaking of witchcraft, how’s your cat situation?” Stede asked, propping himself against his headboard with his pillow. “Hard to say. I have seen no more or less cats than usual. Do you think I need to wear both of them?” “You may need to consult with Frenchie for the full scoop, but I feel like one earring would at least have you at half power, but then it probably has something to do with resonances.” “Yeah, I have a feeling I didn’t get it quite right. I may need to align my chakras.” Stede giggled. “Best of luck with that. How’s soup?” “How’s soap?” “Bubbling along,” they answered together, this time both bursting into giggles.
#WIPWednesday for Ch 3 of In Name Only, in which Ed and Stede have a phone call. #OFMDfic #OFMDfanfic
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Today is Tolkien Reading Day!
I think I'll reread some of his poetry 🤗
In the meantime, here's the #OFMDfanfic of the time Stede and Ed ran away from their lives, and inserted themselves into LOTRO, and met each other...
archiveofourown.org/series/4716556
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