#spriggyhands

[stizzysupremacy]

ahhh I have such a good idea for a secret reverse sugar baby modern AU. it's sprizzy in my head but I think you could substitute other Izzy ships with only minor changes to details.

So basically the premise is that Ed left and took with him half the income that was propping up Izzy's tight budget. now that Izzy has to cover rent and bills in full instead of just half, he is struggling financially. He really can’t afford to live, honestly. But he's a proud man so he tries to hide it. Tries to tough it out and make it work.

But Lucius (or whoever you fancy) notices and tries to help without making it obvious he is helping because Izzy probably won’t accept help, especially from Lucius, off all people.

Lucius, trying to be subtle, starts:

-timing his smoke breaks so he can run into Izzy and annoy Izzy into ‘stealing’ the cigarette right out of Lucius’s mouth. because Izzy won’t ask to bum one, and helping izzy hands avoid nicotine withdrawal is basically a public service. Lucius is a hero for that.

-“ugh, I told them no pickles! Here, eat this stupid sandwich, I don’t want it anymore, I loathe pickles!” (Lucius likes pickles just fine) or getting ‘just sooooo full’ from drinking elaborate iced coffees that he can’t possibly finish more than half of his lunch and he doesn’t want to waste food but he’s going out straight after work and won’t be able to bring it home to put in the fridge for tomorrow and really you may as well eat it, Izzy, or it’s just going to sit in the trash bin stinking up the whole place.

-asking Izzy to walk him to the tube station after work ‘for safety’ but it’s really so Lucius can swipe an extra ride for Izzy on his transit card. sometimes when it’s cold and miserable enough to make Izzy ache Lucius will opt for cab or rideshare instead as soon as they hit the street, insisting it will be cheaper to split the ride. always drops Izzy off first, conveniently forgetting to split the fare

-buying izzy a cozy cashmere scarf and claiming that it was Buy One Get One Free when Lucius was scarf shopping for himself, but he didn’t see any other colors/patterns he liked and this one just screamed Izzy Hands. (And maybe a knit cap that Lucius claims he stole from the lost and found because it coordinates with the scarf so well)

-begging Izzy to come over and ‘fix’ something ‘broken’ at his place, conveniently near dinner time, just so Izzy can spend a few hours somewhere where the heat and lights aren’t turned way down low to save on utilities. Somewhere warm and bright, where the WiFi service hasn’t been turned off because of all the past due bills.

-constantly starting bets that Izzy can win. This backfires when Izzy starts to feel bad about taking Lucius’ money because he thinks Lucius is a typical starving artist type. Not knowing that Lucius makes $$$$ on furry art commissions and just doesn’t tell anyone about it because his friends, much as he loves them, have zero moderation and would cajole Lucius into partying all his savings away.

And all the while he is being sneakily generous, Lucius is trying to figure out how to trick Izzy into letting Lucius buy him a new winter wardrobe, treat him to lunch every day, and buy back the motorcycle Izzy had to pawn to pay off some debts Ed left when he blew town.

[musicallyfomentingchaos]

Petition to change the official Lucius/Izzy ship name to "RevengeAmputees" or "NonPlatonicProthstetics" or "Wood4Wood"

[svorica]

izzy pulling lucius out of the water and giving him very heterosexual mouth to mouth

[dragonmuse]

Fic Complete: Credit for Experience

Chapter 2.  Our Flag Means Death. Israel Hands/Lucius Spriggs. Modern AU.

Did you do something? I just got a delivery of the world’s most over the top fruit basket. I’ve never seen so many pears in my life. A truly obscene amount of kiwis. From Teach. The note says ‘Sorry about the near death experience, but hey at least now you know if god is real or not. Let me know. P.S. he goes by Hands, but you gotta watch out for the mouth.’ Is she mocking me, you, or apologizing? All three? Asking sincerely. I have no idea how to react and I got the impression that you know her pretty well.

[maxer-blaster]

You know that tumblr post that's like "imagine the hero gets really hurt and the only person they can think to go to is the villain, who gets really quiet and says, "who hurt you?".

I need that with Lucius and Izzy.

[buumbaby]

the men that you are...

[internerdionality]

New fic up!

Chapters: 1/6 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Israel Hands/Lucius Spriggs, Black Pete/Lucius Spriggs (background), Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Israel Hands (Unrequited), Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet (Background) Characters: Israel Hands, Lucius Spriggs, Black Pete (Our Flag Means Death), Stede Bonnet, Blackbeard | Edward Teach Additional Tags: Hate Sex, Hate to Love, Enemies to Lovers, Daddy Kink, Extremely Dubious Consent, Misogyny, Slut Shaming, overuse of slut shaming slurs, seriously I just looked up slut in a thesaurus and tried to use every single result at least once, Israel Hands Has Issues, Israel Hands is Bad at Feelings, Israel Hands Needs Therapy, Lucius Spriggs is a Little Shit, Lucius Spriggs Pretends to Be a Ghost, Tired Lucius Spriggs, trying to hit the perfect triumvirate of tags for both of them there, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Frottage, Biting, Bondage, Desk Sex, asphixiation, Rough Sex, basically they’re both switches but from opposing and complementary starts, don’t read this on the bus, Work In Progress Summary:

Five times that Izzy and Lucius hate-fucked, and one time that they didn’t.

[thetardigrape]

You know, Lucius spent the entirety of the first time he was around Izzy making choking and gagging noises and I feel like that makes their subsequent interactions make a lot of sense.

[kaelleid]

Izzy Fic Recs (Aug 28th-Sept 9th)

My favorite of the Izzy fics that I read between Aug 28th-Sept 9th. See other recs here.

A Real Boy by trinityofone

Frenchie convinces Stede to hire the cursebreaker. Stede can see the logic in it: a way to cleanse the ship after all their troubles, clear the air between the reunited crews. “A little vibe adjustment,” Frenchie says.

eyes on me (in the center of the ring) by Anonymous

The crew of the Revenge have been captured, and (for some reason) it's up to Izzy to flirt them out! What happens next (Izzy displaying even one iota of game) may surprise you.

Work in Progress by sweatervest (Izzy/Lucius)

After a disastrous interview, crime novelist Israel Hands abruptly retired, leaving his popular Detective Leyendecker series one book short of finished. For the last 10 years, he's been content to work as an editor at Edward Teach's small press. But now Ed's working on a merger with Stede Bonnet's press, and Izzy's expected to work with their star author: romance novelist L. Steele...

beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth by sugarybowl & wishingonalightningbolt (Izzy/Lucius)

Ed, Izzy, Fang, and Ivan make up the London-based rock band Kraken, which rocketed to fame in the 1990s. When ballad singer Stede Bonnet reaches out about a collaboration, Izzy has to work with Bonnet's songwriter, an overeager composer named Lucius, to write something that aging rockstar Ed and new-on-the-scene Stede can perform together...

Cut Me Back by sweatervest (Izzy/Lucius)

Lucius had never thought what it would be like for Izzy Hands to look at him like he’s a task worth doing right.

Sore Must Be the Storm by unopposablethumbs (Izzy/Calico Jack)

Izzy Hands has had a fucked up time since he left the Revenge in the wake of the Kraken's rampage--Calico Jack shows up just in the nick of time.

Sanctified be the Holy Name by Biweatherman & gapsinthedays (Ed/Stede/Izzy)

Father Hands, a loyal priest of the Kraken, grapples with his devotion to his god and his hatred of Edward’s companion, Stede. As he balances a fickle god, a kind one he has never forgiven, and a seemingly incompetent crew, Izzy must also contend with his own perceptions of what it means to worship.

[saltysalmonkid]

Spriggyhands singer au as That Image... yea....... im unwell

[thetardigrape]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Israel Hands/Lucius Spriggs Characters: Israel Hands, Lucius Spriggs Additional Tags: Minor Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet, Minor Black Pete/Lucius Spriggs, Past "Calico" Jack Rackham/Israel Hands, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Touch-Starved Israel Hands, Israel Hands is Bad at Feelings, Israel Hands Needs a Hug, No beta we die like the badmintons Series: Part 6 of They Were Roommates Summary:

Izzy works as the manager of The Hole, a cabaret owned by Ed and Stede. Ever since he ruined things with Jack, he's stayed out of relationships, afraid of making a mess of things. But it's taken a toll—it's been years since anyone touched him, apart from some one-night hookups.

So when Lucius asks Izzy to let him sketch him and begins touching him to move him into the right pose, it's much more than Izzy can handle. Lucius notices and decides to do something about it.