#it's very very cold on earth but stede and ed warm each other up very very nicely

[petrichorca]

Stede and Ed hanging out in the snow on an ice ship. @y2jenn made this beautiful piece for @veeagainsttheday's and my post-apocalyptic ice piracy AU/climate change fic Runaway Effects. Go give Jenn some love because she's the best and I stare at this art all the time!! Also our fic is rated E for Explicit because, well, obviously they do more than just cuddle for warmth. ;)

[veeagainsttheday]

post the first line from the last 10 fics you posted (and are there any patterns?) - I got tagged by @scarrletmoon, @spirker, @mxmollusca, and @chaotic-neutral-knitter <3 <3 <3

You Made It Home with Silver String Unbroken

It occurs to Stede, halfway to the shore, that he shouldn’t leave Ed waiting back in the trees. 

Made for Each Other

The man wakes, warm, in his own bed, a ghost of pain in his belly but otherwise all right. For a second he thinks - maybe - but no, his head weighs as much as it always has. 

How to Make a Lifelong Romantic Commitment and Escape the Temple of the Snake

‘Where should I begin?’ Ed asks nervously. 

More of the Gravy Basket than of the Grave

‘Occludist Ed Teach completed his 88th Occludement in the last four months, breaking a record that had stood since 1924 for most Occludements in a three month span. Occludist Teach serves at the pleasure of the Crown as a former Apprentice Occludist, and thus is duty bound to perform Occludements, but he has been seeking out more than are required of him since the very public dissolution of his unorthodox friendship with independent Occludist Stede Bonnet, who purchased his Temple membership earlier this year. Bonnet, who has not performed an Occludement since the tragic end of the Badminton Affair in July, refused to comment.’ Occludist Weekly , November 2023

The Kissing Game

‘Can I kiss you?’

Five Ways That Could Have Gone Better (and One Way It Maybe Will)

‘Don’t do it, Stede. Killing in cold blood - you can’t come back from that.’

One Reason to Live

The hold is cold and Ed feels like his entire body has been pummelled for hours with a sack of sharp rocks.

Here Comes the Bride

The Kraken sits like a king before his court, slumped diagonally across a brocade armchair. 

lovers in a dangerous time

The US Navy detected it first: alien energy radiating along the jagged rim of the tectonic plate that underlies the Pacific Ocean, appearing on scans like a long-fingered hand prying up the edges of a sealed jar. The energy stretched, expanded, seeped into the gaps like hot magma until it became a wormhole, a portal through space, connecting Earth to a planet millions of light years distant. 

The Legend of the Gentleman and the Outlaw, by Lucius Spriggs (La Leyenda del Hidalgo y El Bandido, translated by Jim Jimenez)

Stede Bonnet, a handsome middle-aged gentleman with a full head of wavy blonde hair, arrived by train to Aspen, Colorado in 1893. He came with more money than sense, dressed in a flamboyant outfit more suited to a London nightclub than a rough and tumble mining town in Colorado. Bonnet was the lucky beneficiary of a massive inheritance, but the eccentric gentleman wanted to strike it rich again as a prospector in the silver mines of Colorado. 

Hmmm I do like to start with a line of dialogue! Otherwise there's not much of a pattern here. This is a fun ask though.

Also I think everyone I know has already been asked :D