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When I see Ed walk out of the sea ready to burn down the world for Stede, I always think of Love Crime... 🔪❤️

I was originally planning to make gifs of this scene and made a whole video segment instead. 🤣 It's simple, but enjoy. :)

"No one can be fully aware of another human being unless we love them. By that love, we see potential in our beloved. Through that love, we allow our beloved to see their potential. Expressing that love, our beloveds potential comes true." -H

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His side profile is so pretty...

I am going to ignore Nightmare Ed.

'Beauty' is correct

Also I've been drawing his side profile wrong this whole timeeee

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A sketch I meant to finish months ago, and with the waters these two are in, I felt it was needed for something light-hearted to share.

Stolas does love romcoms. He would absolutely love Our Flag Means Dearh and relate to Stede.

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I've been tracking this down for a while now and I've finally found confirmation of what I suspected: the current Google Maps imagery for Piha Beach in Aotearoa New Zealand was taken during setup for filming of Our Flag Means Death's Season 2, Episode 8!

On the left is the north end of Piha Beach with the inn set. On the right is the south end carpark with the film crew base.

Why is that cool to me? Because it truly was a fleeting moment in time, no more than a handful of days of possibility, and yet we can see it right now on Google Maps, at least until they update it. As an archaeologist I love a moment preserved in time.

The specifics of how I pinned down the imagery and the date are in this Twitter thread, but the short version is, I was hunting for a better visual on the area immediately surrounding the inn while writing Full Fathom Five, and noticed that the carpark in particular seemed to line up exactly with images from the final day of filming.

The final day of filming overall was 13 December 2022, filming at Piha was on 12 December 2022, and this aerial image was taken on 11 December 2022.

I had already been through the first image to make a comparison to the aerial map and it looked like a match, but Google Maps had 2024 in their attribution. [Noting that I'd put 13 Dec on my image notes, but I'd got that tangled with the last day of filming in the Kumeū studio the next day, and it was 12 Dec on location].

Thankfully Google Earth came through with the actual date.

Which means we now know that for now, if you hop onto Google Maps (not Google Earth, because they have a different image for the north end that does come from 2024) and zing on down to Piha Beach, you can take a look at a preserved moment in time from the filming of S2Ep8.

You can hop straight to the inn here.

And straight to the parking lot here.

And remember to put the layers into Satellite mode to view the aerial imagery.

Everything that's shown at the north end lines up with what we've seen both in the show and in behind the scenes content, all of which I delved into in this Twitter thread last month. That goes into a lot more detail about specifics, but the evidence is solid across the board.

The sandy path that runs beside the inn is a distinct feature seen in the show.

The peak that sits behind it, likewise (from Google Maps user uploads here and here).

The inn itself, and the way the path gives way to an unseen carpark, from Simone Nathan's TikTok video.

Based on all of that, it's easy to see that we've got our inn right here circled in red, preserved in that moment in time, even though it was no doubt taken down as soon as filming was done.

Prep looks like it took a couple of days before filming; filming was pretty much done in a day, according to an article at the time.

So, there you have it- it's a minor little thing and it won't be up forever, but for now you can hop into Google Maps and see an aerial view adjacent to the filming of S2Ep8 at Piha. The other beach scenes from Eps 1, 3 and 8 were filmed at Te Henga/ Bethells Beach.

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I'm curious--how do you guys go about creating your OCs?

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Something that always stands out to me in 1x4 during Izzy’s “I have to do everything around here” rant to Ed is Ed’s dismissiveness. And after doing some research on pirate ship roles, i get why. Besides the fact that Ed is having fun for the first time in maybe years, part of Izzy’s duties as Ed’s second in command would be to handle crew disputes and act as a go-between for his captain and the crew.

So when Izzy is complaining to Ed about “massaging the crew” and all that bullshit, he’s literally just complaining about doing his job. These aren’t legitimate complaints, they’re Izzy blaming Ed for not being able to handle doing his own fucking job.

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Part 3 of 3

Part 1

Hope you enjoyed it.

I've done a lot of these to do with the SAMU and just never posted them yet.

Eb and Fran is have a specific way of texting.

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Part 2 of 3

Part 1

Part 3

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So I found this prompt in another fandom and figured I would give it a try with the boys because yeah. It fits them... ☠️ Also, to try and post things on Fridays since WIP Wed seems hard to manage. I'll just call it Francis Friday. 🤣

This is in parts because it's a long convo from Eb's pov view. It is based off the modern Sweettooth SAMU with Francis as the mob boss. This is an alternative first meet.

God's, poor Ed. He goes through it in this verse. He always goes through it. (What is it with these characters and awful fathers? 😵‍💫)

Part 1 of 3 is below. PG-13. Hint of alluded spice and language.

Part 2

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"When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and no one will ever love in the same way after us."

For pride month with Francis and Eb! It's drawn after this unnamed pair mid 1800s. I've had it on my phone since early writing of Fox and the Rose.

Also, the second illustration is untextured. I couldn't decide which I liked better.

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Working on revisions and oh boy, why do both of these assholes always fight? Truly, it leaves me baffled how each time they sit down damn near a squall is going to happen if not they circle back for round two.

I swear its foreplay for them.

Problem is one can't fight himself out of a wet paper bag while the other knows how to kill quite well when the situation calls and could easily kill the other with a swipe. Isn't hard to guess which one.

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So I had a friend tell me again they've been watching Interview with a Vampire and they remind them of my Francis and Ebenezer except with a child. XD

Me: Yeah well, with the way Francis acted to Cratchit's kid he would ideally steal one he liked and make Ebenezer be the assistant parent.

I have thought about Beryl, if Francis met her, he would adopt her because oh boy that tenacious attitude she has he would want to mentor.

I mean. It's partly what started a split off modern AU called Sweettooth. 👀

It would be a battle for Ed not to have her grow up to be a female Francis, tho. Francis is training her how to weild a knife. Fight. Defense... Medical knowledge... so on... Meanwhile Eb is watching and sweating like-

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Tried this and uh-

Yeah. Checks out.

It knows. 👀

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Doom.

I write doom.

Original template cr: @mhuyo from Twitter

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Any of my Eb mutuals have a fandom type discord? I'm not on Tumblr like I used to be- or social media as a whole anymore- but I miss fan geeking over Scroogeverse content with everyone. I know there is a small handful of us left, but Eb will forever be a comfort character to me.

Chatting really helps with inspiration to keep working on content and also getting updates so I don't miss others works. I literally will unless I'm tagged.

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sound on!! bbgirl watching his crush <3

audio pulled from that one bts clip of taika directing s1 ep1

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WIP Wednesday! I plan to throw down little snippets each week as I work on the overhaul of Fox and the Rose.

Uh... the overhaul section of chapter 4 has gotten, well, spicy. Enjoy. It has definitely been split in two separate chapters now being their spice filled it up to 16k so far. 😵‍💫🫠

Snip below the cut.

Revised Chapter 4; Be Mine

At hearing his name roll off that distressed smoky cadence, Francis groaned low and only took the swell in deeper as his fingers drove a brutal pace. Ramming again and again into Ebenezer's prostate on each pass, the slick sound wrought absolute debauchery echoing in his ears before Ebenezer's rise crashed like a bolt of lighting immediately thundering out of him like a surging storm. He cries out, hips jolting up, thighs shaking as his cock erupt ropes of silky spend into Francis' throat. With satiation, Francis' swallows it and keeps sucking him down like he’s consuming fresh caught oysters so recherché in their briny, mineral sweet flavor. A decadent sovran he continues to indulge until the oversensitized peak screams in the flesh below through trembling vibrations, but even then, only after this esquisite essence is siphoned dry.

Limp and gasping, Ebenezer's heart crowds his throat as his vison fades to sparkling blankness, his every sense tingling sharp. His chest heaves with glistening sweat shimmering the downy hairs along his chest and damp over his forehead. Francis sits up as he slides his fingers out of him slow while Ebenezer twitched with a weak whine at both the loss and sting of it after while Francis rocked back on his heels to look down on him, a wolfish gleam of achievement sharpens at the display he's made.

Francis' stare is dark and hungry, one hand comes up to wipe the glistening slick from his mouth as the other gently cradles his own neglected member. Ebenezer can barely think but keens weakly as he watches the tower of a man loom over him. He put a hand around Ebenezer's throat, thumb stroking his Adam’s apple as Francis stalked closer.

Ebenezer's lips part automatically as that gap is closed, and Francis chased his hot breath inside. A tongue breached past teeth to lick inside his mouth as Ebenezer curiously taste thick, sweet salinity surrounding the masculine spice of mind fuzzling musk. The sharp heat of it permeate a masterful charge that made his eager body curl heat inside him again.

“Do you taste yourself?” Francis rasped low like the hiss of a viper painting its venom on his tongue.

Ebenezer shivered, a deep noise rattled out of him before his wild stare made contact. His hands soar up and cling to Francis' shoulders for leverage as he ferverously lanch forward, seeking more from this kiss.

The taste of himself on Francis' lips, teeth, and tongue spread a static drunken flurry like the intoxication of a drug to alter his mind. He lets it. Welcomes it. His fingers flutter along the broad shoulders as he wants *more*.

Meanwhile, Francis stilled and only let him explore, studing with taste, touch, and sight. This wasn't just kissing. This was Ebenezer showing him exactly how he felt about him and the euphoric bliss given to him in ways he was too shamed to speak. In ways he clearly never had or thought he ever would. Ebenezer skirred in a frantic manner over him with lips and fingers like he wanted Francis ingrained in his memory. To be left in his hide like marks from a branding iron that's ache remained long after.

It was a dangerous malleable display of despirate urgency that's chemistry screamed need to be rucked over a fire to fulfill. What's desire to, sent a hot, predative urge through Francis like craving water during a drought. To offset that delicate openess and scunner danger's edge would taste just as sweet. Alike the smooth, briny nectar still lingering on his tongue, Francis intend to quench that impulse to his greedy fill as any creature would...