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    It’s the summer of 1959, and classics professor Stede Bonnet is determined to become a new man. He’s made two monumental changes so far: he’s resigned his position at the University of Chicago, where he has taught for his entire career, and he’s left his wife Mary, to whom he has been married for nine years. Now he’s off to the only place in the United States where you can get a no-fault divorce: the deserts of Nevada. He’s checking in to a so-called Divorce Ranch just outside of Reno, where he’ll spend the requisite six weeks establishing residency. After that, it’s off to California to assume his new teaching position and his new life.

    It's the summer of 1959. Ed Teach has been living in Reno since he was a teenager. He's a radio DJ, an artist, a handyman and a fixture of the community, particularly popular in the underground gay nightlife scene that is still recovering from the brutal vice raids of the McCarthy era.

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    05 Dec 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 26

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    Follows on from previous work, but can be read standalone. Whilst pretending they haven't done the dirty all over Stede's cabin floor, Captain Bonnet innocently asks for lessons in the fine are of choking.

    “Here,” he says, voice so low it’s barely there. “You want to press where you can feel the blood moving, under the jaw." His hand presses down on Stede’s. “Light, at first…get a feel for it.”

    “I see,” Stede mutters, feeling the blood pump under his fingers. “Like this?”

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    03 Dec 2023

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    Stede can't find anyone to go to the baseball game with, so he asks the tattooed man in the elevator to go with him as a last-ditch effort. Ed agrees, and Stede is very pleased to have made a new friend!

    They are just friends... right?

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    03 Sep 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 5

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    Missing scene: Izzy asking Jack to get Ed off the ship before the British arrive. Also includes a bit of Jack's perspective after he gets to Ed.

    (Marked "chose not to use warnings" because I've ended it where Jack's character ends: getting smashed by a cannonball, which is technically MCD.)

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    03 Feb 2023