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Stede is just going through the motions in his life, his marriage to Mary, suffering through board meetings at Bonnet Enterprises. When Mary suggests he pick up a hobby, he decides to volunteer at the local public library on Saturdays, running a literary classics (mostly 19th century) book club. Then one Saturday, a man in leather comes in looking for a book about how to grow cactuses and makes Stede feel all sorts of things that are baffling to him. His name is Ed, and he's a famous video game streamer on Twitch. Ed comes back, and back again, until they become real friends, inching ever closer to something more and helping each other grow in unexpected ways both separately and together.
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This is a podfic for Please Let Me Hold You.
Stede is just going through the motions in his life, his marriage to Mary, suffering through board meetings at Bonnet Enterprises. When Mary suggests he pick up a hobby, he decides to volunteer at the local public library on Saturdays, running a literary classics (mostly 19th century) book club. Then one Saturday, a man in leather comes in looking for a book about how to grow cactuses and makes Stede feel all sorts of things that are baffling to him. His name is Ed, and he's a famous video game streamer on Twitch. Ed comes back, and back again, until they become real friends, inching ever closer to something more and helping each other grow in unexpected ways both separately and together.
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Paleoanthropologist, Lucius Spriggs, has been on an archeological dig in Vancouver Island for the past three years, with nothing to show for it. Now, at the end of the dig, he's ready to finally be done and move onto the next project. But when his co-lead for the project, Jim, tells him about a major find, his entire attitude about the dig changes. And human history itself is forever changed.
Meanwhile, in 45,000 BCE, a lone sailor washed up half dead on the shore of a random island, further north than he ever meant to go, and met the love of his life.
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An ancient Egypt AU for OFMDReverseBang, based on the prompt: Ed is joyriding in his chariot pulled by his trusty horses, Izzy and Fang, when he sees Stede on a papyrus skiff, looking beautiful while picking flowers in the marshes under the sun. He loses control of his chariot and crashes into the sycamore grove of a fancy villa which he learns belongs to the pretty man picking flowers!
A GB-centric fic, though other characters feature in very minor roles.
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This extensive essay contains all the inspiration and meaning behind my depiction of the Revenge crew as ancient Egyptians, as they appear in my artwork, "Crew for Life".
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Stede pulls out one of his leather-bound journals, flicks through a few pages, runs his finger down the paper like he’s checking an index. “The last time I made you come myself was four weeks ago.”
“Sorry, do you keep a sex journal?”
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In which Ed has a habit of focusing too much on the destination and not enough on the journey, and Stede takes it upon himself to show him the error of his ways.
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10 Aug 2025
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"But something else beside the man’s cash box pulls his attention—something soft and odd and wonderful.
Stede darts toward it and gently picks it up.
A fabric doll.
It’s unlike any doll he’s seen before—adorable and strange in the best way. Mismatched buttons for eyes. Long silver hair. A scruffy gray beard. He wears what looks like an old-fashioned white linen shirt, grayish beige breeches, grey stockings, and black, buckled shoes. There are little tattoos embroidered on his arm—tiny anchors, stars, skulls, and a snake, among others, swirls of thread meant to look like ink.
Stede hugs it to his chest without thinking.
He loves it immediately."When they’re young, Stede and Ed each get a doll that looks uncannily like the other—though they’ve never met. They grow up just a few miles apart, treating their dolls like best friends: sewing them tiny outfits, bringing them along on every adventure, and confiding in them like old friends. It’s sweet, a little odd, and maybe even a touch magical.
Years later, when Stede and Ed finally cross paths as adults, they’re struck by a strange, impossible realization: each of them looks exactly like the other’s childhood doll.- Language:
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19 Jul 2025
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suck around & find out by Baby_kraken, sparklespriggs (nerolinks)
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18 Jul 2025
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Stoover has been making eyes at Ed from beneath the stairs all afternoon. Since Stede has abandoned him, left him bored and lonely and horny, whatever else is Ed supposed to do?
(Or, Ed debates a hard-hitting moral dilemma; is he cheating on his husband if he fucks a hoover with the same name?)
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19 Jul 2025
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Stede and Ed's relationship ended months ago, but Stede hasn't been able to let it go. He's amazed when Ed agrees to participate in The Ex-House with him, sharing a tiny house on live television for six weeks to win the grand prize.
“Hello, Edward!” he says, forcing brightness. Remembers to look at his face - two seconds at a time is perfectly acceptable, look at the face, not directly into the eyes - tries to remember to turn his lips up into a friendly smile. Behind Ed, the door whooshes closed again and leaves them in silence.
Ed’s fully clad in leather, which is always a good look for him. Slight hint of eyeliner. One arm bare, showing off the winding snake tattooed into his skin. Beard trimmed short. Hair up, as well, properly styled. Small silver dagger earring dangling from one ear.
He looks unapproachably hot. The kind of guy that would skim over Stede without a second glance. The kind of guy that would sniff out Stede’s oddness in a second and push Stede down as a way to lift himself up. There are probably people watching on their televisions right now, wondering how the hell the two people in this room were ever together in the first place.
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05 Jul 2025
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Ed's an artist, Stede's a bookseller. They're both a bit surprised to have met the love of their life at this late stage in the game.
This is them figuring out what to do about it.
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- Part 2 of Temptation 'Verse
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