#stede whump

[tabbystardust]

Oh no Stede is in trouble! 😱 Will Ed find and rescue him? 🥺

Art for the OFMD Reverse Bang. [AO3 link]

@unencryptxd wrote an epic Stede whump fic for this, read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58106197/chapters/147938140 (please read the tags carefully)

[ramsaybaggins]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet Characters: Stede Bonnet, Blackbeard | Edward Teach Additional Tags: Whumptober 2024, Stede Bonnet Whump, Whump, Established Relationship, Happy Ending, Stede Bonnet Loves Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Blackbeard | Edward Teach Loves Stede Bonnet Series: Part 6 of Whumptober 2024 Summary:

"Ed!" he grinned. "Looks like it's going pretty well, eh?" He must have spotted Ed's expression as his smile faltered. "Are you okay?"

"Am I okay?" Ed said incredulously - almost yelled. "Stede, you've been fucking stabbed!"

Whumptober 2024 day 6: NOT REALISING THEY'RE INJURED

[greykolla-art]

If it isnt too stupid/already been done, Stede helping Ed recover (literally the scene in OFMD and reversed)

UNO REVERSES YOUR ANGST!

(I had to rest my hand for a bit and touch some grass, but IM BACK TO DRAWING YOUR SUGGESTIONS!😎)

This is my one of my favourite hurt/comfort trope with them! Thank you!

[fairfowl]

As promised! Izzy-centric fic recs!

These are all gonna be pre S2 (and all Steddyhands because I was obsessed for like a year)

@crabgrave

Starting off strong with

1) Battle of the Boyfriends

This fic makes you laugh before it makes you cry. A steddyhands centric dramady mostly from Izzy's point of view, and I love this Izzy very much.

Isn't he precious? They absolutely hurt his feelings

2) Doldrums

This one is a two part series that starts with Izzy leaving the Revenge as Stede and Ed reunite post S1. He recruits Calico Jack and becomes captain of his own ship while he and Jack have a lot of sex (I actually enjoy Jack in this one lol) Ed and Izzy eventually partially work things out

The second part involves Izzy back on the ship in the beginning stages of steddyhands

I think the real strength of this series is Izzy's interactions with everyone, but especially Stede and Oluwande

3) The Nook is for Talking Shit

This is a Calico Jack hate!fic and I'm here for it. Also steddyhands because I've got a problem

In this fic Stede and Izzy bond offer a mutual enemy, and Izzy teaches Stede how to craft the perfect insult

I like that they laugh together, and I really like it when Stede stands up for Izzy ♡ (I also like that Izzy has a very good reason to hate Jack that involves him having been injured very badly)

4) Navigating By the Light of Your Stars

A delicious sandwich of a trilogy where the bread is BlackHands and Stizzy relationship studies, and the meat is steddyhands smut.

Featuring: GrayAce!Izzy, whump, Stede’s introduction to BDSM, and discussions of mortality ♡

5) A Pirate Triptych

Another steddyhands trilogy!

This is one I've seen on many recommendation lists and it is worth it. These men and their guilt I swear ♡

Post S1 Izzy schemes to get Stede back into Ed's good graces at his own expense.

If you like Izzy whump this is the fic for you

6) More Vivid than Sunsets, Brighter than Stars

On a shorter and sweeter note this little steddyhands bdsm fic explores Izzy running his mouth and Stede and Ed going a little too far in order to punish him. Everyone gets their feelings hurt ♡

Everyone is characterized well here but Ed is kind of the star of the show, he has to mediate this incident and he's hilarious

7) House of Mirrors

This one is pure Izzy whump with steddyhands caretaking. Izzy is sick, Ed spirals, Stede is Exhausted (tm)

I reread this one often

anyway I think this is what I have for now, I might post another list at some point because there are a couple of longfics that are very near and dear to my heart, plus S2 is not gonna stop me from reading new fic. I look forward to seeing more amputee!Izzy

[izzyhandslightofmylife]

Punching bag! Izzy is the best type of Izzy I'm so sorry. Like on one hand there's Ed, and Ed is trying so hard to be good, because the Kraken's gone, he's gone, and he doesn't want to take the blame for it so he takes it out on Izzy. Because if there's one thing he knows about Izzy it's that Izzy is loyal, if there's one thing he knows about Izzy it's that Iz loves him. And this is just the way it is. Izzy needs it, or Ed thinks he does, so he takes whatever Ed gives because being hit is better than being ignored.

On the other hand, you have Stede, who's always preaching about kindness and forgiveness on his ship but who still makes fun of Izzy. who still ignores Izzy. who still makes fun of Izzy. Stede who wants so desperately to be seen as a 'real pirate' that he'll do anything to prove it. Stede who also knows that Izzy is loyal to a fault, Stede who loves (or claims to love) his crew and doesn't want to hurt them. Stede who sees Izzy as the one thing he's allowed to hurt because everyone is good and Izzy is always there and Izzy just isn't.

Ed and Stede who refuse to admit that their love isn't the same that it once was. That the separation changed them and that these grand acts of romance won't just fix it. Ed and Stede who don't actually want to talk, don't want to fight because it'd bring up all the pain they caused each other. Ed and Stede who have Izzy, always standing next to them or at their feet, Izzy who's right there and so easy to get mad at when they don't want to get mad at each other.

Izzy who's starving for love and will do anything to get it. Izzy who's so fundamentally convinced that he's unlovable, any scrap of love is accepted even if it comes with unimaginable violence. Izzy trying to protect the crew because the crew are good and he isn't, and they're all so happy with their captains, and he doesn't want to shatter the "family" again.

please, I'm begging you guys, write more of this. Just. Izzy as a punching bag.

[sungmee]

['holding out for a hero' playing in the background] i drew a funny stizzy rescue before, so here's a more serious one

[phantom-ellie]

Oh my god. Hello, fellow Stede suffering enjoyer. I identify with Stede heavily. I also absolutely love reading and writing fics where Stede suffers. I made a collection on ao3 of fics where Stede suffers. I'm 2/3ds through a fic where the whole purpose is to basically completely ruin every aspect of Stede's life to see how far you can push a character emotionally/through angst.

I've found that most people enjoy the character like love the most to suffer the most. It seems to be some sort of weird facet of human nature. I can usually pick out which character a fic author loves the most by who has the most physical or mental damage happen to them over the course of a fic. It's always Ed, Stede, or Izzy.

And I absolutely don't give a shit if people have a problem with it or not. A lot of it is me working through my own trauma and issues (through writing my fic I learned I was autistic as was most of the women in my family and worked through a LOT of issues there), and other parts of it is entertainment, and I am allowed to enjoy what I enjoy. The only problem with Stede whump is that there isn't enough of it. Everyone is writing Izzy and Ed whump all the time. Sigh.

The fact that you would rather have Stede and Ed suffer than be happy together, so much so that you construct an elaborate head canon where STEDE IN PARTICULAR SUFFERS makes you a fucking asshole.

Aksjdhdhs this is so funny to me.

First of all, i dont owe you a response, i want to clarify that you reaching out anonymously to tell me this in this way rather than opening a conversation with me says more about you than me.

But as my first ever anon hate, I want to use this as a teachable moment because this is a big moment that i got anon hate for the first time LOL.

So once, and only once, I will address this.

Personally, I am a therapist in training. My life and career is built on helping people because I love people and see the best in the world as a whole.

Personally, I cannot watch dramas because watching people in (unresolved) pain has a significant impact on my mood.

To add to that, I cannot read or watch things with an unhappy ending, with very few exceptions.

For that reason, i LOVE hurt/comfort. Through my career & my personal life i have witnessed a lot of pain and suffering, and it makes me sad, but its a fact of life. So what I do is i write the pain and suffering that I see, that Ive felt, that i sometimes still feel, and i make it into content that ends happily, with love, support, self advocacy and understanding. I like to have characters comfort one another, but I like to emphasize personal growth. That is, i LOVE when characters can begin to rely on themselves through the process of pain and suffering, rather than only relying on a love interest.

I wonder which of my many posts made you reach out for this comment, because l, of all of the headcanons and writing ive posted within the past two weeks, i believe one (maybe two?) Posts have not ended happily and with relief, acknowledgement, & comfort. So no, enjoying the relief from pain is not something that makes me an asshole. Even if i didnt enjoy happy endings, many people find comfort in those stories because it helps them remember that, even when things end unhappily, there is ALWAYS something to enjoy along the way. You cannot know a person by the content they create, not unless that content frames the abuser or the person causing pain as a protagonist, that MAY suggest something else, but we can never know for certain.

Now, to address why its always Stede.

Ill be honest with you, i have never related to a character more than i have related to Stede.

He is flawed, blunt, oblivious, but hes also kind, empathetic, and someone who sees the best in everyone. When i describe Stede, i describe him as me before I spent years working on myself in therapy, and before i became a therapist myself.

So why do i hurt him so often?

Well, if Im honest, its because I think of the ways ive been hurt, and on top of that i think of the ways i caused MYSELF hurt because i was so blinded by trauma and self hatred that I didnt see it - i didnt see that i was increasing my own hurt, i didnt see that i was hurting others.

I was lucky to have a therapist point this out. The way my self hatred hurt others, the ways it was self-sabotoging.

Stede will see it one day, and I like to create scenarios where he does. I like to explore how this impacts him, often using the lense of how it hurt me.

When i wrote my april fools post about stede, it was after a revelation in my friends DMs about how my own traumatic experience with bullying did, and still does impact my perception of vulnerability.

Importantly, i like to end it with comfort, because i like to remind myself, and others who relate so deeply to stede, that there is hope. We can feel this desperately lonely, this deeply traumatized, and we can come out the other end. We can be deserving of comfort and warmth, we can be self-compassionate. Moreover, that self compassion will make us kinder.

Being kind to myself has made me kinder. I hope some day it can do that for you, anon.

Oh, and my ideal season 2 is an episode 1 reunion. Me coming up with ideas that happen to be angsty doesnt mean i want that. Hence the "eating my own face" at the top of the post LMAO

I hope this helped you understand me a little better, and if Im incredibly lucky, youll think twice before sending something like this to someone else. But i wont hold my breath.

Enjoy the knowledge that you were my first anon hate, and anyone reading this, please remember that this will be the last time i address one of these 🥰

[cottoncandiescupcakes]

I'm bad but I wanted season 3 to end with a historically accurate Ed and Stede dying within a month of each other ( Ed was shot and stabbed(a lot of times) on his ship after betraying Stede and sailing off with his ship, by the Virgina governor who send pirate hunters after him and his cut off head was put on display as a warning to pirates and Stede was caught on his own ship to be hanged. He begged for his life while in prison and moved the female population to tears and they tried to have him pardoned, apparently, but it was no use. I assume real Stede was probably considered very attractive for the time because of the ladies' reaction to him while real Ed was apparently a fearsome sight who put his beard and hair on fire and just tried to look as crazy and scary as possible to make people fear him )

I would have loved to see that sad ending :( i know bad

[blackbonnet-ruined-my-life]

A whumpee who cares about their appearance. They always looked after their hair in particular. It was soft and silky and just beautiful. Caretaker always admired whumpee’s hair. But when they get rescued, their hair is so matted and tangled and dirty. They sit at Caretaker’s feet, sobbing silently while caretaker does what needs to be done. It’s only hair, whumpee tells themself, it’ll grow back but it’s just another thing that they lost to whumper. Another thing that caretaker was too late to save.

[thehappyfeminist-22]

Since we're all doing Ed whump, I thought I would throw this out there. This is technically Stede whump, too, because the poor guy is going through it.

Modern AU where Ed is in the hospital. He's been injured somehow and is in a coma, hooked up to all sorts of scary machines, including a ventilator. Stede stays right by his side, worrying and wringing his hands. He tries to put on a brave face, but he's so scared. Ed looks so small in that hospital bed and he's far too pale for Stede's liking. Stede does all he can for him, holding his hand and talking to him (he doesn't know if Ed can even hear him, but on the off chance that he can, he's going to make damn sure Ed knows he's there and he's safe), reading to him, gently wiping around his eyes and the corners of his mouth with a cool cloth, making sure his lips don't get too dry. He brushes his hair, too, but there's not much he can do with Ed on his back and all the tube's in the way. He kisses his forehead and whispers that he loves him so much and promises that he'll be right here when Ed wakes up, although he's terrified by the possibility that he might not. Stede tries to keep himself occupied as best he can by reading and doing word searches and keeping all their friends updated on Ed's condition. He tries playing his Switch, but all his favorite games remind him of Ed. The farm they made together on Stardew Valley, the island Ed helped him build and decorate on Animal Crossing, the ranch they built on Slime Rancher, the intricate world that they crafted from scratch on Minecraft. He can't bear to touch any of them without Ed to play with him. He can't focus on any of it for very long anyway because his eyes keep drifting up to the frail man in the bed. He spends hours just watching Ed breathe. Their friends visit in shifts and have to pry Stede away from Ed's bedside so he can go get some food at the cafeteria. There is a couch in Ed's room, but it's uncomfortable and they can tell Stede hasn't been sleeping much. It goes on like this for days (weeks?) and Stede is trying so, so hard not to lose hope, that his precious Ed is still in there somewhere, but the doctors are starting to tell him that he might have to make a decision soon, and he's starting to realize that he might never hear Ed's voice or see those beautiful brown eyes again. He sits by Ed's bedside and breaks down into tears late one night and pleads with him to wake up, to please come back to him, don't leave him in this world alone. Ed doesn't stir. Stede buries his face in his hands and cries impossibly harder. Then he hears something. A tapping sound. He looks up and Ed's hand is moving, flailing helplessly and bumping into the railing on his hospital bed. Stede grabs it and squeezes and pleads even more desperately for Ed to wake up, please just wake up, please come back to him! A few tense seconds tick by. The only sound in the room is the steady beeping of the machines.

And then Ed opens his eyes.

They're wide and scared but so full of life that fresh tears of joy pour down Stede's face.

Ed has never liked hospitals. Stede can tell by the way he's squeezing his hand so tight that he's scared and agitated and he wants this stuff off him NOW, but Stede squeezes back and tells him that everything is going to be okay, they'll get this scary ventilator off him soon, as he calls desperately for the nurses.

The nurses tell Stede that he should step out of the room while they get Ed unhooked from the ventilator, but there's absolutely no separating them. They just have to work around Stede as best they can because Ed won't let go of his hand. Ed chokes a little as they remove the tube from his throat, but he visibly relaxes once it's out. When things finally calm down and it's just the two of them, Ed tries to talk, but his throat is so sore and he hasn't talked for so long that he can only make a pitiful, garbled noise come out. Stede gently shushes him and tells him not to try to talk just yet, to save his energy. He keeps reassuring Ed over and over that he's safe and everything is going to be okay. Ed manages to motion that he's hungry. Of course he is, the poor guy hasn't eaten in days, but his stomach is very sensitive because of this, so Stede manages to scrounge up some warm broth for him just to get something in his stomach and it feels so good on his throat. Ed can't quite manage the spoon on his own just yet, so Stede sits on the edge of his bed and carefully feeds him the broth one sip at a time.

Later, they're cuddled up together in Ed's hospital bed and Stede says, "You came back," like he can hardly believe it. Ed manages a very weak, "Never left."

They have a long road of recovery ahead of them, but everything is going to be okay.

[butterscup95]

“No…” he whispered. “No, that’s not… how could you be…”

“Finally figuring things out?”

“You’re dead.”

“Of course I am. I have been for years.”

“Then why are you here?!” Stede cried. “If you’re dead, and I’m here, then that would mean that I’m dead!” Stede’s father chuckled, his grin widening.

“Ed!” Stede called out, spinning around in circles. “Ed!”

What if Stede ended up in the gravy basket during the events of Mermen?

[tabbystardust]

"Safe Now" by tabbystardust [AO3]

Art for the OFMD Reverse Bang. @denizbevan wrote an absolutely beautiful fic for this, read it here:

I surrender to the future / I’ll stay with you if you let me

[ramsaybaggins]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet Characters: Stede Bonnet, Blackbeard | Edward Teach Additional Tags: Whumptober 2024, Whump, Stede Bonnet Whump, Sunburn, aloe - Freeform, Established Relationship, Ed taking care of Stede, Blackbeard | Edward Teach Loves Stede Bonnet, Stede Bonnet Loves Blackbeard | Edward Teach Series: Part 5 of Whumptober 2024 Summary:

Ed could see from a little bit away that Stede was lying face down on the sand, head laying on his bundled up shirt. Then he realised he was lying in the full sun.

Whumptober 2024 day 5: SUNBURN | Healing Salve

[greykolla-art]

@camillescreations here you go sweetie! 😘

Gather around my fellow angst-goblins!

I don’t draw enough of Stede being hurt, this was fun! 🤗

[appleteeth]

Happy Day 1 of Stede Whump Week! This fic is a little kinder than yesterday, but there's still a good heap of whump to feast on.

[saltpepperbeard]

I can’t even imagine how painful it must have been for Stede to come home and see that life had easily continued on without him. He left the world of piracy because he felt that he didn’t belong, that he had ruined all the parts of it he had touched, and that he had hurt his loved ones.

So he goes home to what’s familiar, to where he thinks he might have some sort of belonging…only to find that everything happily went on without him. That his portrait was painted over. That his son had forgotten him.

Like, in that moment, he has nothing. No crew, no love, no family, no belonging. The last little bit of familiarity he had is now foreign to him. What he knows doesn’t even know him anymore.