ofmd fics that are simply a cut above all the rest
fics that make me wanna die theyre so fucking good
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Stede finds the house. When he comes back to their room at the inn, he won’t rest—won’t let Ed rest—until Ed’s seen it. His eyes are bright in that way that makes Ed’s guts feel scooped out with a spoon. So Ed hurries into his boots and goes with him.
The once-white paint is stripped by weather and wear, a portion of the roof is caved in, and the spokes of the wraparound porch are all gnawed through by animals.
Ed gazes up at the broken windows and the birds that have built nests there. At his side, Stede is waiting, rocking back and forth on his heels.
"It’s perfect," says Ed.
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Or: Ed and Stede leave the island together, and they don’t look back.
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Stede remembers key moments from his relationship with Ed and finds a way to reunite with him aboard the Revenge and make his intentions (love) known. What comes after that is up to the two of them.
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Draft Letter to Restaurant Downstairs by ElapsedSpiral
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
02 Jan 2023
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The SMAU (is it even a SMAU?) literally no-one has been waiting for.
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Ed is an engineer aboard the Revenge, an interplanetary research vessel on a multi-year mission to study Jupiter's moon Europa. An accident requires that Ed awaken from cryostasis over six months early, and finds his only companion to be Stede, the ship's onboard AI. They develop an unconventional friendship, but is it possible to have more?
This is classic mutual pining with a sci-fi twist, inspired by all of my favorite stories about the nature of personhood.
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“You–” Ed was struggling to parse what Stede was saying. “You’re playing your version of this song for me, right now? Like, in real time?”“Yes, Edward, that’s correct,” said Stede softly.
Ed’s brain momentarily seized up. He supposed it made sense that Stede was capable of learning a set of rules to do something like arrange and play a piece of music. There was something unnerving about this song, though. It felt, well–it felt organic . Reactive. Almost collaborative in a way. Ed was lost in the push and pull of it, until the last notes softly petered out.
“So, what did you think?” asked Stede. It sounded nervous again. Why the hell would someone program an anxiety response into a bot?
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- Part 1 of Starry Eyes and Counting Down to Zero
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In which Stede and Ed are stuck ashore, and accidentally become pen pals. You've Got Ye Olde Maile!
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But what do you do Thomas, thats lefd you so wanting for a thrill that you need to spy thru a thiket of chiken scradch on the spelling atrossittys of strangers? Is Royal James a royal bore?
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"Dark Fate?" says Stede, making sure to pronounce the capitals.
"Very effective for star-crossed lovers. And at a bargain price, if I do say so myself. A potent mixture of unspeakably rare ingredients, brewed under a new moon, which will drag you through the depths of your own soul in search of difficult truths, and leave the undeserving to drift forever in a dreamscape of torment and emotional agony!"
"What?" says Stede. "No! That sounds awful!"
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JaneSane's OFMD reunion bumper special by GenXbutdoingthis (JaneSane), JaneSane
Fandom Our Flag Means Death (TV)
06 Sep 2023
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Post S1, pre-S2 release OFMD fics. Arranged in chronological order, not the order where they're spit out from my brain
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A not wholly exhaustive list of all the times Blackbeard tried to kill Stede by wilkiecollins
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
20 Jun 2022
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Blackbeard has to kill Stede so life goes back to normal, but there are a thousand ways to do it and it keeps going wrong. Alternatively: the one where Stede teaches Ed things and woos him completely off his feet while remaining entirely oblivious.
Note: Only the final chapter is explicit, and doesn't further the plot - those preceding are general/teen up for references to violence/violent fantasising.