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Dahlia 🏴‍☠️🍊🌈
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edteachsbadknee.bsky.social
hiiiiiii gongeous :)
a digital drawing of Ed Teach, looking to the right with a soft expression on his face, one hand on his tummy and the other hanging down by his side. he’s shirtless with visible top surgery scars and heart-shaped pierced nipples, and he’s wearing leather pants with three cutouts on either side from hip to thigh that leave little slivers of skin exposed. the drawing is shaded in desaturated shades of purple, and the background is a pastel purple with a white border.
December 19, 2024 at 10:27 PM
serpentanddahlia.bsky.social
fuckin rhea seehorn man
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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midthirstling.bsky.social
I literally haven’t drawn in months but I have muscle memory for these two apparently
Rough sketch of Ed lying in Stede’s lap as they look at each other adoringly. I have not worked out the pose or anything so it’s wonky as fuck, but I remember how to draw their faces somehow.
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
serpentanddahlia.bsky.social
hi pals! I know I told some people that the next RWYLM chapters would be coming this weekend but I fucked up my shoulder and it's slowed me down some (i'm fine i promise!)

you all are lovely and i know there's no pressure, but i promised updates when i could so here's a snip to tide you over 💜
By the time Ed was all dressed and ready to go, the tree service people were apparently only just arriving, so he and Stede had some time to kill before they could hit the road. They decided to have breakfast down in the farm’s restaurant, which would’ve all been fine and good and—dare Ed say it—chill, except then Stede went and proposed that they swap shirts. Stede’s had long sleeves, you see, to cover up Ed’s tattoos while they were out and about in public, so that was really only logical. He had a point, and Ed couldn’t come up with a better solution, so the next thing he knew he was back in the bathroom, pulling on Stede’s slightly-too-large button-down, which still somehow smelled like Stede in spite of being doused in rainwater yesterday. He left it unbuttoned down to his sternum, because what the hell—he was still Ed Teach. As they ate, though, Ed began to fear that perhaps he’d miscalculated. He caught Stede staring down his gaping neckline a few times, but he couldn’t even be properly smug about that because fucking christ he definitely hadn’t realized just how tight his old Butthole Surfers t-shirt would be on Stede. Those arms oughta come with a warning label. Did Stede work out now? Ed had a whole ass personal trainer and sometimes he even actually went to the sessions instead of just cancelling them last minute, and he didn’t have fucking arms like that. Was owning a bookshop really that sweat-intensive, building Stede muscles like that? Ed tried to focus on his food—just as fucking delicious as last night: ricotta pancakes with lemon and chamomile syrup and white chocolate pastry cream and a scattering of flower petals overtop—and he somehow managed to not ask his sorta-ex-husband if he thought he could bench press Ed, which (in Ed’s view) was a show of remarkable restraint. “So I told her, Carol—that’s not Battus philenor, that’s obviously Limenitis arthemis, as any child would know.” Across the table, Stede was rambling on about the latest drama in the Amateur Lepidopterist’s of New England group while he picked at his omelet. “I just assumed she would want to know about the mix-up, but she’s the one who started making ad hominem attacks!” Ed made a vague hum of agreement and stuffed more pancake in his mouth, letting the sound of Stede bitching about Carol’s choice of font in her listserv emails wash right over him. It was relaxing, in a way. Like there was some corner of his soul that had never left. Like they did this every morning over breakfast. The thought gave Ed a small pang of grief, but he ignored it. They were going to be friends. And when they were friends, that meant that Ed could grab brunch with Stede when he came home for visits, listen to him pop off about shit like this any time he wanted. “Honestly, I’d take Comic Sans over this nonsense! Curlz, in 2025? I’d say it’s deranged, but frankly I think that’s insulting to insane people—I’ve known plenty of nutters with exquisite taste.” That jolted a laugh out of Ed, and he nearly choked on a bite of pancake. Across the table, Stede beamed at him. Friends.
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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sailorsruin92.bsky.social
Fans of the Conchords like male butt cheeks too, fyi 🍑

#OFMDTVAU #ofmd #fotc #ofmdfanart
Ed dressed as Bret, with his striped sweater and holding a hot dog sign. Stede dressed as slutty Murray, with beige jacket, red shorts and a backpack. Stede also has a goatee
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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xrayvex.bsky.social
😳 4 😏 relationship
Ed Teach looking at Stede Bonnet in astonishment in Our Flag Means Death s1 ep 5, after Stede causes chaos on purpose during his game of Stark Revelations
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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gentlethempirate.bsky.social
guess what? it’s that time of the year again 🙂‍↕️ (hallmark gentlebeard fanart season) 🎄✨
crusty picture of gentlebeard fanart digital sketch
November 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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babykittenteach.bsky.social
12/23/23
Three close-ups focusing on Stede's hands and Ed's neck. The first, helping him put on the cravat. The second, putting on the cat collar. The third, holding up a day collar necklace.
November 10, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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babykittenteach.bsky.social
03/01/24
Comics-y drawing of two Eds, back to back, one in his leathers looking angry and holding a dagger, the other in his blue rob looking happy, holding a breakfast tray.
November 10, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
pematson.bsky.social TrishEM @pematson.bsky.social · 3d
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
serpentanddahlia.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you've seen (i think this is right, unless I'm forgetting...)

- Lorde
- Chappell Roan
- My Morning Jacket
- Beyonce
- Kelsy Karter
judysoranges.bsky.social Judy #LongLiveOFMD 💔 @judysoranges.bsky.social · 3d
Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you've seen

-Joist Klein
-Elton John
-Journey
-Rick Springfield
-KISS

That’s some weird shit
olrhys.bsky.social mariah scarey 🍄✨ @olrhys.bsky.social · 3d
Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you've seen

The Academy Is…
Jack’s Mannequin
Noah Reid
Noah Gundersen
Noah Reid
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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mikecaulfield.bsky.social
Ritalin, a drug so addictive they had to invent an extended release version because people kept forgetting to take their second dose
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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gelatinousstand.bsky.social
Today's the daaaaaaaaay!

Please enjoy No Shenaniganry Allowed Aboard Jeff's Inn on the Sea, my Big Bang with @pogonr.bsky.social. Fake dating! Lots of pining! Extreme silliness! Smut! Ed and Stede being idiots for each other! Gorgeous art INCLUDING trademark sloppy smoochin! 💖

Enjoyyyyyyy 🥰
No Shenaniganry Allowed Aboard Jeff's Inn on the Sea - Chapter 1 - Juniper (GelatinousStand), pogo - Our Flag Means Death (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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flagmeanssteph.bsky.social
happy thursday, darlings!! @emcolbs.bsky.social and i are here with ch 35, aka the PENULTIMATE (😭) chapter of out of the bag 🏡🐈 where has stede been?? what's he been up to?? who will he cuddle first, ed or krakatoa?? we answer all this and more 😌

enjoy!! archiveofourown.org/works/63564631
title card for Out of the Bag by suchgreatheights. a sofa with scratched-up corners is in the center of the image. in the foreground is a fluffy calico cat running out of a paper bag. above the sofa is summary text: Friends, Ed can do. Friends, that's easy. Except there are mochas, and there are movies, and there's this whole queer discovery he's helping Stede navigate, and there are a hell of a lot of chocolate muffins. Sometimes the journey is the most important part. crop of emcolbs' art from chapter 35 of out of the bag. visible in the crop is one end of a couch with no one sitting on it. krakatoa is peeking over the arm of the couch with a toy mouse in her mouth, looking excited!!!
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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margaritaville.bsky.social
i humbly present you with: love wants me dead; a fic about love and loss and grief and family.

archiveofourown.org/works/73843696
E love wants me dead by ingydar Our Flag Means Death (TV) 07 Nov 2025 No Archive Warnings Apply, Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet, Archie (Our Flag Means Death/Oluwande Boodhari/Ching Shih | Zheng Yi Sao/Jim Jimenez, Black Pete/Lucius Spriggs, Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet, Crew of the Revenge (Our Flag Means Death, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Magical Realism, as in both are magical and barely realistic, Grief/Mourning, Gender Issues, Religious Guilt, Suicide Attempt, Hate Crimes, Weddings, Murder, Pregnant Sex, Fail sex, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Blackbeard | Edward Teach Whump, Vaginal Sex, Anal Sex, Trans Male Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Bottom Blackbeard I Edward Teach, Top Stede Bonnet, the david jenkins school of plumbing and electricity, discordant comic relief, ed teach typical internal dialogue Ed stands in front of the mirror and puts his hands on his belly. There's nothing there, really. Just the pudge of comfort, of settling down. He purses his lips at the picture he makes. A man longing for something he can't have. Language: English Words: 11,343 Chapters: 1/4 Hits: 0
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
serpentanddahlia.bsky.social
Happy WIPWednesday! Being "just friends" is going great and definitely not making Ed have impure thoughts about sugar daddy-ing his own husband 😌
THEY’RE EVEN TEXTING LIKE FRIENDS AGAIN—SILLY MEMES AND IDLE THOUGHTS AND VIDEOS OF THIS ONE PITBULL ON TIKTOK WHO’S OWNER LIKES TO GIVE HIM SPA DAYS. [MORE EXAMPLES OF THEM TEXTING] SO THAT THEY DON’T EVEN HAVE TO BE IN THE SAME ROOM TOGETHER IN ORDER TO DO A BIT, MAKE EACH OTHER LAUGH. [MORE EXAMPLES] ED’S GLAD HE DIDN’T HAVE A CELLPHONE IN HIGH SCHOOL, HE NEVER WOULD’VE GOTTEN ANYTHING DONE. WELL. ED WAS REALLY MORE THE SLACK OFF AND GET AN A ANYWAY TYPE. BUT STEDE NEEDED TO STUDY FOR THINGS, HE WOULDA FLUNKED OUT FOR SURE IF THEY’D BEEN ABLE TO BUG EACH OTHER NONSTOP LIKE THIS [MORE TEXT EXCHANGES GO HERE—SOMETHING TRANSPARENTLY UNROMANTIC] SHIT LIKE THIS SHOULDN’T BE MAKING ED SMILE, TWIRL HIS HAIR AROUND HIS FINGER. BUT THERE’S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT GOOFING OFF WITH STEDE THAT FEELS BETTER, FEELS EASIER THAN ANYONE ELSE. FORGET TWENTY-TWO—ED FEELS SIXTEEN AGAIN. PASSING NOTES IN CLASS AND MAKING STEDE LAUGH SO HARD AT THE LUNCH TABLE HE SNORTED SODA UP HIS NOSE AND SOMEHOW IT ONLY MADE STEDE MORE ATTRACTIVE ED’S SMILING AT HIS PHONE, TEXTING STEDE ABOUT THE PARTY. STEDE’S SENT HIM A PICTURE OF SOMETHING ONE OF THE VENDORS GOT WRONG? AND THEY’RE CRACKING JOKES TOGETHER ED STAYED HOME TO GO TO THE MOVIES OR SOMETHING WITH ANNE WHILE STEDE WENT TO PICK UP SOME OF THE RENTALS. HE’S TEXTING ED TO LET HIM KNOW IT ALL WENT FINE BUT UGH LOOK WHAT THEY TRIED TO GIVE US FOR THE LINENS/VOTIVE HOLDERS/WHATEVER, AS IF WE WOULD AGREE TO (SOME HYPER SPECIFIC DETAIL THAT ED BARELY KNOWS WHAT IT MEANS) (ALSO ED REALLY LIKES THIS WE BUSINESS) STILL, ED HAS ART DIRECTED ENOUGH OF HIS OWN ALBUM COVERS AND PHOTO SHOOTS TO RESPECT THAT YOU GOTTA HONOR THE VISION ED: YEAH BRO THAT’S FUCKED UP HE THINKS, CHEWING HIS LIP ED: DO WE NEED TO RENT THEM? LET’S JUST BUY WHATEVER WE NEED. I’M SURE YOU CAN FIND ANOTHER USE FOR ALL OF IT LATER, NUMBER OF PARTIES THIS TOWN HAS STEDE: I SUPPOSE. ARE YOU SURE? ED: YEAH, COURSE. YOU HAVE MY CARD, GO TO TOWN. THIS WAY YOU CAN GET (SOME OTHER THING STEDE HAD WANTED BUT THE RENTAL COMPANY DIDN’T HAVE) STEDE, JOKING: I LOVE IT WHEN YOU SWOOP IN AND PLAY MY BILLIONAIRE BENEFACTOR. VERY DASHING OF YOU AND THAT SHOULD NOT BE MAKING ED THIS HORNY BUT THE IDEA OF GETTING TO TAKE CARE OF STEDE LIKE THAT, FINALLY? GETTING TO INDULGE HIS EVERY WHIM? ED PICTURES STEDE IN LA, SHOPPING AT THE GROVE OR WANDERING ABBOTT KINNEY. ED IN HIS BASEBALL HAT AND SUNGLASSES BUT THE PAPARAZZI HAVE FOUND THEM ANYWAY, SNAPPING PICTURES OF ED TRAILING AROUND, CARRYING SOME OF STEDE’S BAGS. TUCKING HIS HAND INTO THE BACK POCKET OF STEDE’S TIGHT LITTLE JEANS WHILE HE BROWSES. STEDE KISSING HIM AT THE CHECKOUT COUNTER AS ED’S CARD GETS SWIPED… ANNE: WHO’S GOT YOU SO SMILEY? ED IS CAUGHT OUT. CAN’T ADMIT IT’S STEDE. AND HE HATES LYING TO HIS MOM. UHHH JUST GABE, CHECKING IN ON ME ANNE RAISES A BROW. OH REALLY? LET’S SEE. SHE LEANS OVER HIS SHOULDER. ED SHRIEKS AND COVERS THE SCREEN. WE’RE SEXTING!! ANNE GIVES HIM A LOOK. OK FINE. KEEP YOUR SECRETS. BUT AREN’T YOU A LITTLE OLD TO BE LYING TO YOUR MOTHER ABOUT A BOY?
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
serpentanddahlia.bsky.social
WAIT I cannot believe I forgot to mention—if you, too, love floatie Ed you can have him in your very own home as a sticker and/or magnet!! The holographic one is very cute, he’s currently the cover model on my notebook 🥰

www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Pu...
Lime green composition notebook covered in an assortment of stickers, including holographic floatie Ed — available for purchase at @sailorsruin92’s redbubble shop
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
serpentanddahlia.bsky.social
Feeling a little guilty* about all the mental devastation lately so in case anyone needs a RWYLM palate cleanse, for #TakeTwoTuesday I present Off the Deep End -- my very silly, low angst RBB collab with @sailorsruin92.bsky.social

*not THAT guilty tho😌

archiveofourown.org/works/671108...
art by @sailorsruin92 to accompany my fic, Off the Deep End. A comic in 5 panels: 1. Edi sitting in a poolside lounge chair, his legs crossed. He has on blue swim trunks, sunglasses, and pink and slides. He's just spotted Stede (in the foreground) who is taking off a yellow swim cover to reveal a mint green speedo and freckled/sun burnt shoulders 2. Stede tucks his hair into a bright red swim cap. Ed leans into the corner of the frame, watching Stede and looking love struck 3. Stede dons a pair of mint green goggles (to match his suit) 4. Stede dives into the pool 5. Ed watches Stede diving in the other frame -- Ed's glasses are tilted down his nose and he has hearts in his eyes, a hand held to his chest. He is in love. More art by @sailorsruin92: Ed in black swim trunks and his pink slides, wearing sparkly purple swim floaties on his arms in front of a pastel purple background dotted with sparkle stars and hearts
November 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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aloc.bsky.social
it's very cold indeed, hate colldddd🥶
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
serpentanddahlia.bsky.social
thinking SO MANY rwylm thoughts right now. you don't even understand 😭
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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rysi000u.bsky.social
Ed is so blushy!!!
November 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
serpentanddahlia.bsky.social
Who’s got art of young Ed with full beard? I’m thinking rwylm thoughts and I need visuals 👀
November 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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margaritaville.bsky.social
chapter three out now! take care of yourselves ❤️ i love you
archiveofourown.org/works/738436...
Chapter 3: love wants me dead Notes: • Chapter Summary for CW Purposes (See the end of the chapter for more notes.) Ed wakes from a beautiful dream. He doesn't notice at first. He's used to the heft of it, the weight that he carries around. He waddles into the bathroom in the middle of the night and sits down on the toilet. He stares into the darkness. The moon isn't out tonight; it's just the faint light from the stars that keeps him from bumping into things as he walks back to bed. He lies down and goes to rest his hands on it, and it feels like waking from a dream. Like those dreams you have where you're falling, except this one was about flying. His hands fall flat onto his stomach with a dull thump.
November 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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mooshy.bsky.social
feels like a good day to re-share this art i comm'd a while back
drawing of ed teach in stede's teal outfit
November 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM