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It’s 1972. The Cold War is on, velvet suits are in, and glam rock is about to launch into the stratosphere. So is geologist Stede Bonnet – the first scientist accepted into NASA’s Apollo training program. When veteran astronaut Ed Teach gets bumped off of the crew for Apollo 17, can Stede possibly fill his shoes?
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27 Apr 2025
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When Ed and Stede's friend groups merge, they meet at a birthday party, and Stede's life is turned upside-down. As they collide again and again, he not only has to figure out what Ed means to him, but what he means to himself.
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Or: The five times Stede wasn't ready, and the one time he was.Series
- Part 1 of Five Birthdays and a Funeral
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18 Dec 2024
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The universe is burning out.
Ed and Stede craft a life from what's left.
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02 Dec 2024
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When Ed gets stuck behind the same slow driver for a long stretch of his road trip through the Pacific Northwest, that's one thing. When he finds himself at the same rest stop as the offending driver, it's quite another.
This Stede guy is a bit of a lunatic. But when Ed crosses paths with him again several days later, this time stranded on the side of the highway and in need of some assistance, Ed winds up on a slightly different road trip than the one he'd planned to take—with a man he absolutely doesn't plan to fall in love with.
Clearly, plans change.
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- Part 1 of We Belong Awake
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29 Nov 2024
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Stede cracks one eye open, just a bit, because if there is a bird in his apartment, it’s probably frightened, and don’t frightened birds try to nest in your hair? Or something?
Anyway. He doesn’t want to spook it further, so he just peels one eye open. Just a bit. And—
Stede freezes, doesn’t move, doesn’t breathe.
There’s a tiny man on his coffee table.
He’s sitting beside Stede’s abandoned teacup, and he’s fussing with something in his hands—oh! It’s a ring, big enough that he could wear it as a belt! He’s struggling with it a bit, dragging it across the table, and he drops it with a clatter just as he passes the corner of the still-quietly-playing turntable.
“Fuck,” he murmurs in a shockingly human-sounding—if quiet—voice, and then his head whips around and he’s looking at Stede.
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It's 1976, Stede Bonnet's just moved to Paris, and there's a fairy in his house. Words by Lis, glorious art by Mint!
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- Part 2 of Lis's AUgust 2024 Art Collabs!
- Part 1 of Fairy Lights
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18 Sep 2024