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A compilation of Ed and Stede fics set during season 2, organized (roughly) by the episode they start in/after

big thank you to every single (brilliant, amazing) author who has ever written an ofmd fic, and also to the AO3 tab I've had open since november filtering for this sort of thing

post-canon fic recs

list under the cut!

Ed Teach + tongue 👀

Source (Season 2 - October 6th 2023)

simonenathan: Our Flag Means Death S2 @ourflagonmax is out now - watch it on Max or Neon if you please. The show is about something weird that once happened to me but I’m not gonna say which bit 🤫

But this is also Michael Sheen

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Ed doesn’t judge Stede for killing Ned. Stede has just murdered someone—a thing that seems completely contrary to who he is, a thing that “good guys” don’t do. But, Ed never expresses disappointment in him for this. Just like he doesn’t get jealous of his pirate popularity in the next episode.

Instead, he’s concerned for him.

That means a lot in this relationship between two people traumatized by shame-based abuse. I think it goes beyond Ed thinking “who am I to cast stones?” as well.

I think Ed simply does not need an idealized “Stede Bonnet” — for this relationship to work. He loves Stede, full stop.

Which— by the way, I’m just saying— proves what Ned said to be absolute bullshit.

In the same way, Stede doesn’t judge Ed for The Kraken. He only ever expresses fear and care for Ed himself. (And the other people who got hurt by Ed.)

It really turns the performance-based-love narrative that they’ve both been taught on its head. And I love that. To me, it’s an important part of this love story.

It’s all about loving someone more than the concept of them… something that Stede’s father or Izzy and Calico Jack were never willing to do for Stede or Ed.

It’s about how love is not a transaction, it’s much more complex. Because people are complex. So love must grow/change with them, and they with each other, in order to love each other properly.

The Fall - (2023)

Crowley's expressions of love in season 2

Bonus:

AGSHFHSJAKS,

Twilight with PFach energy would could be the gaggle of girls following Daddy Cullen as he splashed out the cash.

'Dad, I got an A,'

'Carlisle I hand -crafted my own Car!'

'I released my own fashion label-'

'I threw Jasper outta the window!'

And every single sentence would just get him blowing bubble gum bubbles, giving a half-hearted thumbs up till Esme comes round the corner with a horny:

'That's one fine ass, Doctor Cullen.'

And then he'd check himself out in the reflection of his car, grin and just reply: