let’s do soup

These are two middle-aged men who probably haven't had any experience kissing someone they love, so they're obviously gonna be a bit out of practice.

I know that it was passionate and sweet, and they deserve that.

please enjoy messy lesbians being, wow, just, really stupid. and some hot sex. god bless. 

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet, past Stede Bonnet/Lucius Spriggs Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet, Crew of the Revenge (Our Flag Means Death), Israel Hands (mentioned) Additional Tags: Inspired by Ocean’s 8 (2018), but make no mistake the heist elements and plot are gossamer thin, because really what this is about is, Exes to Lovers, Pining While Fucking, Angst with a Happy Ending, Alternate Universe - Gender Changes, Cunnilingus, tdick in vagina sex, FOR MEEEEEE, Butch Stede Bonnet, Stede Bonnet Has a Praise Kink, Fat Stede Bonnet, Light Dom/sub, Dom Stede Bonnet, Dry Humping, Stede Bonnet Being a Bitch, stede bonnet being insane, Blackbeard | Edward Teach is Down Bad for Stede Bonnet, it’s embarrassing but we forgive her because she’s sooooo hot, Heist, no beta we die like my tits, Food Poisoning, i’m mean to izzy even though he doesn’t appear onscreen um because i don’t like him, Messy Lesbians, Coming in Pants, (panties) Summary:

Ed’s fresh out of prison and she has a heist to run.

Only, it’s not just any heist, it’s her One Last Job, and the only person she knows who’s crazy enough to help her pull it off is her ex:

Stede fucking Bonnet.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"