#captain stede bonnet

[crowleysmullet]

The beauty of Stede Bonnet

[cottoncandiescupcakes]

OFMD x Porcelain Corsets

[beeesworld]

Do you fancy a fine fabric?

[stedes-incredible-library]

Hi! Same anon asking for fave lists, I’d love to hear from all the mods!

Hello! Here are some of our favourites in no particular order (mind the tags and also check the pairings!)

stuck in second gear by tediousdelusion [E], 69k nice

“I want a divorce.” Izzy’s said the words more times than once in the past eighteen years of marriage, but he means them this time. More than he ever has before, anyway. At the prow of the very expensive and very unnecessary boat parked in the driveway, Edward - Izzy’s idiot (soon-to-be-ex) husband - sighs and rolls his eyes. “Come on, Iz!” Ed shouts. He’s wearing a stupid fucking captain’s hat and has one foot propped against the rail. “The boat is an investment! And it’ll be fun.” Or, how Izzy Hands saves his marriage (and gains a boyfriend) by getting a divorce.

would you worship gravity by bitethehands [E], 60k

At precisely the seven-and-a-half hour mark, Izzy prepares the cabin for landing. Ed’s crackly voice buzzes over the loudspeaker with the announcement. He’s not thinking specifically of Finance Consultant Guy, nor of anything bar the inevitable banality of deboarding, so it genuinely catches him off-guard when a hand closes over his wrist. “Apologies for being forward, but what are you doing after this?” - Izzy is a flight attendant. Edward is a pilot. Stede is the first-class passenger who won’t stop chasing after them both.

piña coladas by faeeebaeee [E], WIP

The 80s are in full swing, and the golden decade of Nintendo Gameboys’ and Sony Walkmans’ has never looked better. In the neon jungle, Stede Bonnet, a young salaryman, meets enigmatic mechanic apprentice Edward Teach, and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship via fax machine, page beepers and gifts in the mail.

~Mod N

What Kind of Pirate Has a Friend? by @thetardigrape [E], 31k pre-canon

A story of Edward Teach and Jack Rackham, the two youngest pirates in Captain Hornigold's crew. Friendship, fucking, and fighting. Maybe some fuckery.

The Body Knows by @veeagainsttheday [M], 21k canon adjacent, magical realism, spooky vibes

Stede Bonnet thought he was finally free by faking his own death with a fuckery and leaving everything to his widow and children. He was wrong.

The World Beyond by @veeagainsttheday [E], 43k Alternate Universe

The Colorado River runs dry and sparks thirty years of Water Wars. Blackbeard is the most legendary water pirate in the desert; the Gentleman Pirate broke his heart. Now Stede is searching for the love of his life and Ed is planning his retirement. Unfortunately the remaining Cinco Gallos are still looking for Jim and the cults might be right about the biggest conspiracy theory of the last three decades...

~Mod A (I have a wildly hard time picking favorites of anything. What I've done here is pare down a selection of favorite authors, then shuffled through those for fics that truly haven't left me alone since I read them, then spun that down until I had the three that had the fewest hits. All three are by authors whose entire fandom catalogue I would recommend.)

tastes so sweet it hurts a little by florence_after_midnight [E], 8.3k

“Suits you,” Izzy says, hoping Ed hears the reverence in his voice. “You think?” Ed says, in a playful tone that makes it clear she’s not looking for reassurance but shamelessly fishing for compliments. Fair, Izzy thinks, she deserves all the praise in the world. He’s never been good with words, so he tries to put it all into the simple act of touching her. You’re the most beautiful woman in the fucking world, says the finger tracing the floral pattern of the lace. I’ve never loved anyone like I love you, says his thumb running up her sternum. I’d gladly worship at your feet all day, says his left hand finding hers, lacing their fingers together and squeezing tight. or: The one where Ed buys lingerie and Izzy loses his mind about it.

take the pain, take the pleasure by @shatteredhourglass [E], 10k

“If I didn’t know better,” Ed says, hand tracing down Jack’s arm slowly, deceptively gentle, “I’d think you were fucking around with my things, Jack.” In which Ed and Izzy collectively menace the men who choose to get involved with them. Or, five times someone wasn't allowed to fuck Izzy Hands' pussy, and one time they were

everybody's got their limits (nobody's found mine) by @oopshidaisyy [E], 16k

After 153 days, killing Stede Bonnet had begun to lose its appeal. (Or: Izzy gets stuck in a time loop.)

~Mod 🐁

[internerdionality]

The unholy trio:

Bonus:

lets make a new trope: gay characters who are actually seemingly impossible to kill to the point that all of their enemies are comically frustrated. functionally immortal gay characters. being gay making you immortal. unkillable gay trope.

[soapbubbles511]

👀👀👀

[nortism]

i’ll be honest, i’m not 100% sure stede has canonically said ‘jolly good’ but he has the right energy

[mytranssnakes]

Gay people love having breakups before theyre even together, and then get together anyway

[gentlebeardschild]

art

Ed can do both but Stede's got a-

[crab-boy-blues]

They are so important to me

🥹🥰🫶🏼💖👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

[cottoncandiescupcakes]

Stede all pirated up still looks like Gilderoy Lockhart he just looks like the dueling club version now LOL

[beeesworld]

Izzy: I think you're amazing... fascinating.

Stede: Go on.

Izzy: I've never met anyone with such a total lack of skills.

Stede: Oh.

Izzy: How you are still alive, I cannot say.

Stede: I do ask myself that question every day.

Izzy: No, I mean, I've met greater men than you. You know, better fighters, better shooters, better, uh-- Well, just better.

Stede: Alright.

Izzy: But they were all killed. And yet, here you stand.

[alasforher]

I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it

[stedes-incredible-library]

Happy OFMDMotiMarch! Today is March 3: Frenchie Friday!

OFMDMotiMarch is a month long fandom celebration. It is not exclusively focused on the creation of new fanworks and I was very excited to jump in with some recs!

Transformative Work by @mia-ugly and @pinehutch [E], 41k innovative take on the post-S1 reunion fix-it fic

“I heard you’re a writer,” Blackbeard says. 

There’s a sudden rustling sound as Blackbeard kicks something across the floor. Frenchie bends down to retrieve it, and sees that it’s a notebook. Wide and empty, like that one Lucius used to carry around with him. 

“Write us a better ending then.”

Captain Blackbeard has heard about Frenchie’s ‘bit of fanfiction.’ He asks him to write a better ending for his and Stede’s story. Frenchie tries his best but soon other people want to tell the story the way it should have gone, including Fang, Lucius, Ivan, Jim, and ultimately Ed. In the act of surviving and telling stories together, relationships are considered, examined, and developed. Meanwhile, a ship trailing seagulls grows closer and closer on the horizon.

This exemplary “bit of fanfiction” comes to us courtesy of the 2022 @ofmdbigbang. This fic has everything: Frenchie focus with backstory; rare pairs; tropes on tropes on tropes; a My Immortal reference; meta fanfiction references; Vine references; symbolically significant strawberries before The Last Of Us made us all cry over strawberries; mysterious seagulls… Seriously, everything. This fic will make you laugh, make you cry, make you squirm, and make you hot under the collar. It is phenomenal. I don’t often reread fics (stares at firehose of thousands of fics) but I have now read this at least three times and it’s hit me just as hard each time. The quality of writing is absolutely superb and the content is incredible. If you haven’t read it yet (the Big Bang was a little overwhelming! Kinktober came right on its heels! easy to get lost in the sauce!) you are in for a major treat, and if you have read it let’s be honest with each other: a reread would not go astray.

What better way to kick off con weekend than with a fic that celebrates fandom so gloriously?

~Mod A

[meep-meep-richie]

´´ Besides a ship only has one captain. ´´