#ofmd wedding

[aha-my-villainous-thoughts]

So our pirate dad confirmed the Widow Evelyn Higgins and Mary Bonnet pairing, and I have to finally post this Queen of Hearts wedding portrait I did of them for the Tying the Knot zine last year! (There was meant to be a nsfw companion piece but I haven't finished it yet)

Have we got a ship name yet??

[hansoeii]

Do you think of me?

[bizarrelittlemew]

they were gonna get stitched hitched 😭

(source)

[gentlebeard]

okay confession time: when lucius got on one knee to propose, i first thought he was gonna give pete a blowjob 💀

[toneelspeelster]

wuthering heights by emily brontë

[poison-into-positivity]

Thinking about “he just happened upon the ship that I was bleeding out on”, and… Stede still doesn’t know the lengths Ed went to in order to meet him, does he?

“The chances of us meeting each other in the first place [were slim].” No they were not. Babygirl your man tracked the Revenge to two different locations, sent his first mate to personally find you and invite you aboard, and obliterated a Spanish naval vessel, all just so he could have one conversion with you.

Ed was down catastrophically from day one, but Stede still thinks that Ed saving his life was a happy accident.

[kori-senpai]

I have never played smash bros in my life

(Edit: I did a part two ayeee ✨ you guys are persuasive (affectionate))

[preciseshadow]

Lucius' arc this season really went: reunite with boyfriend, be traumatized, push Blackbeard off the ship, work through trauma with art, get engaged, 24 hour sex marathon, run scam with fiancé, get arrested, escape, get married 💕

[ipomoea-batatas]

Don’t think about the navy crashing Ed and Stede’s wedding

Don’t think about them looking into each other’s eyes and a thousand wordless emotions passing between them

Don’t think about Ed, still looking into Stede’s eyes, saying “Frenchie, keep going”

Don’t think about Ed telling Stede “If we’re gonna die today, I’m gonna die as your husband” and them squeezing each other’s hands before catching swords thrown to them from offscreen

Don’t think about Frenchie continuing to recite their vows and them saying “I do” to each one while fighting off the navy and

Don’t think about Frenchie pronouncing them mateys and them falling into the potc spin kiss in the middle of the battle

[theofficialpresidentoftheusa]

✨Silver & Gold✨

[sugashook]

commission

[saltpepperbeard]

hi everyone how are we doing i'll go first i am absolutely agonized over corporate greed robbing us of stede getting to marry for love and ed getting to be the beautiful bride he's always dreamt of being

[soupbtch]

Ed notices Stede tucking flowers through his powdered wig in the captain’s cabin as they get ready together. He grows quietly fascinated watching Stede’s fingers as they sort through the flowers scattered on the desk, picking the smallest, brightest ones to loop gently into his wig. He’s never seen anyone handle anything so delicately before.

He steps closer, and Stede looks up and asks, “Would you like some in your hair, as well?”

Ed’s eyes widen at the question before he remembers he’s not attending the party tonight as Blackbeard. He can be anyone he wants. He can be someone who wears flowers in his hair. He might even like it.

“Yeah, sure,” he huffs in a small voice, and Stede gestures for him to take a seat.

Stede reaches around to pluck a flower from the pile. “May I?”

In the past, Ed has never liked people touching his hair; and though he barely knows Stede, he finds himself trusting him anyway.

Stede begins gently placing flowers in Ed’s hair, weaving the stems through his waves. No one has ever touched Ed so tenderly, with such great care as if he were reverent and beautiful and delicate. He feels himself melting into the soft press of Stede’s fingertips against his scalp.

“There,” Stede says quietly. “Go have a look.” He doesn’t need to find a mirror to see how he looks – he can read it on Stede’s face.

From then on, trusting Stede becomes an easier decision to make. Then something natural and instinctual, like breathing. Ed trusts Stede again later that night as he slips the red silk from his fingers, and once more a few days later when he asks Stede to run him through on the deck of the ship. Inhale. He trusts Stede with the next ten years of his life. And still, as he waits at dawn with his feet dangling over the edge of the dock. Exhale.

His vision tunnels. He’s cold. Suffocating.

“Like treading water,” Ed had said a lifetime ago. “Waiting to drown.”

Miraculously, he breaks through the surface. He has to force the air back into his lungs, will them to deflate and hope his body remembers how to fill them back up again.

“Breathing the same air,” Stede says to him. And it’s painful, and he hiccups and chokes, but slowly, gradually, it gets easier. He whispers his goodbye to Blackbeard as Stede lays him gently down on the bed. But his breathing is still jagged, irregular; one step forward before stumbling back.

He’s sputtering on salt water again when he finds a letter in a bottle. He finds the man who wrote it. He’s wielding a sword, and Ed trusts he won’t get gutted this time as he sprints towards him from across the beach. He inhales automatically as they intertwine, pressing their promises to each other's lips.

“Almost ready? Want me to put the flowers in your hair?” Frenchie asks.

“No thanks,” Ed exhales. “It may be our wedding day, but I trust Stede will be here any second now to do it himself.”

[magnusthepuppet]

“the merman scene was corny”

shut tf up it was ed’s coma-induced dream about the love of his life no shit it was gonna be corny

[blackladynerd]

The minute I saw the Instagram ad for this jacket I thought “Perfect for Ed’s wedding outfit.” The brainrot is deep. 😫

[gbweddingweek]

You wish Ed and Stede got to have the wedding they deserve? Let's give it to them!

Gentlebeard Wedding Week will run from Monday 6th to Sunday 12th May 2024. It is a fan-run event for writers, artists, cosplayers, musicians and everyone in between to create a piece of artwork around a set of wedding-themed prompts.

The prompts will be posted to this page once they are ready, so watch this space!