this is fucking happening!!

Good Habits Wordcount: 4.2k Summary: Stede likes to masturbate by humping the bed. Ed likes to watch. He should probably let Stede know about that. OR: Ed makes his bed by pretending to be a heavier sleeper than he really is, and now he has to lie in it (while Stede humps it).

Piss Off, Hard On Word count: 3k Summary: Stede can't pee until he does something about this pesky erection. Ed could just leave him to it, but where's the fun in that?

Self-Indulgence Word count: 9.8k Summary: After Stede comes back, Ed stays holed up in his cabin and spends a lot of time crying. And Stede spends a lot of time… jerking off, apparently? Ed doesn’t quite get it. But he’s eager to help Stede however he can.

Behind the Curtain Word count: 11.2k Summary: Ed is in love with Stede. Ed is also sharing a bedroom with Stede. This is fine! (Ed is 99% sure it’s fine, anyway.) Written for the OFMD Big Bang 2022.

Big Deal Word count: 4.8k Summary: Ed insists that Stede's tiny dick is the perfect size. Stede calls his bluff. A sequel to Little Wonder.

With Teeth Word count: 3.1k Summary: Ed wants Stede to bite him, but Stede misunderstands the assignment. (podfic version read by Tipsy_Kitty)

Kitty and the Captain Word count: 2.8k Summary:

This is it. It’s nighttime, they’re alone together, and they're no longer taking things slow. They've said the big words. They love each other. Ed immediately grabs Stede by the shoulders and kisses him, hard and soft and with all the promise of all the things he wants them to do together. This is the moment. "I've been meaning to ask," Stede pulls away to say then. "What is a ‘handy’, actually?"

(podfic version read by Tipsy_Kitty)

Ed and Stede's Very Successful Second Time Word count: 3.4k Summary: Ed wants the next time they make love to be perfect. Things do not go as planned.

There were two s1 Ed beards, so one could be blocked and curled while the other was in use.

Tattoos were kept on as long as possible, because putting them on and taking them off was time consuming. But three days was really the limit for them looking good and staying on securely.

DJenks requested that Ed have a full sleeve tattoo fairly late in the game before shooting. The snake was an efficient way to get a full sleeve, and also made placing smaller bits easier. Freckles were used for navigation.

DJenks asked for the back piece tattoo we see on Ed in s2e1. The skull and snake part were done by Dean Sacred and the lettering by Nancy Hennah.

Initial plan for Ed's chest piece was two ships having a fight, but it was too wide. The final chest piece was one tall ship with some bigger stars around it. There was initially a mermaid who didn't make the cut. "We always lived in fear of him having his top off."

NH talked about how much fun the hair cage styles were for s1e5 and the wedding in s2e1-- "because we weren't being period correct we had leeway."

A variety of makeup looks were tried for the beginning of s2, including one where the eyemask went all the way to the hairline. It's meant to look like it could be replicated using charcoal and oil, stuff the crew would have had access to.

Nathan Foad started a mini-trend of ridiculous sideburns in the 6 months he was wearing That Facial Hair around LA.

There was initially a wig set aside for Rhys. Not the white one he wears for s1e5, but a longer blond one. It wasn't used after tests because his own hair was so good.

Ed's s2 wig wasn't so much intended to be longer for story-telling purposes, it was just that he was wet a lot of the time and that pulled the curl out. But there were longer pieces around the front.

When Ed washed up on the beach in the Gravy Basket scene, he got black metallic sand in the wig. It was impossible to fully remove and was still in at the end of the season.

Normally Taika's hair would be slicked back with solid gel, but that's water-soluble and wouldn't have worked for s2e3. In that instance it was slicked back with glue? or something glue-like? and plumber's tape fashioned into a headband. The wig stayed on until when Ed was apparently falling into the water with the cannonball in the last take (really being pulled sideways).

Fang's tattoos were designed by Iniya Taylor in Auckland. A henna artist (whose name I didn't catch) designed Archie's pieces, which NH placed. Mads was thinking about getting one of her tattoos for real.

Of Ed's nail art in s1e10: "That was Taika, he'd gone and gotten it, and it was gels, we couldn't get it off. Taika said 'no one will notice, don't worry about it.'" (And then everyone noticed and was so excited and wrote meta about it.)

Did you know what you were unleashing when you put the wig in a bun in s2? "No."