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Strange Pilgrims: Being the Account of a lost Angel, the Journeys of a Demon, the meaning of Free Will, of the Unravelling of a Prophecy, and of Being Unravelled by it in Turn by sousverre
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
14 Jun 2023
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"Look, the whole of London's cracking up," she told him. "I'm finding it hard enough to work as it is without my commute being screwed up by the buses going on strike, and half my books turning into birds. That angel is wrecking everything, but in particular, my life - and you're too busy hating yourself to open your eyes and deal with it. I'm telling you, it has to stop."
"Is that all still happening?" Crowley said vaguely. "But I found him."
"Oh my God, you can tell you don't commute," Anathema said. "The buses went on strike, Mr. Crowley."
"That's perfectly normal for London. You'll learn."
"You're not listening! Not the drivers, the buses. They're organising - meeting in secret, holding little candlelight vigils. Nobody else really knows what's going on - everyone's just assuming it's, like, general TfL incompetence or something - but it's only a matter of time. So what are you going to do about it?"
"Er... have they submitted a list of their demands?" Crowley said helplessly.
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12 Jul 2025
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Forty-five year old Ed Teach is a registered nurse at The Lighthouse, a lavish independent living community. When he is assigned to a new resident, 81-year old Stede Bonnet, he discovers an unexpected kind of love.
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19 Mar 2025
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“That one with the leather and the hair, he’s getting cast for sure.”
“Oh, yeah. Doesn’t even matter if you can actually bake, when you look like that!”
“He’ll be this year’s Chigs, or Sandro. Everyone’s flavor, you know?”When Ed Teach gets cast on The Great British Bake Off, he understands the assignment. Look hot on camera, banter with the judges, bake memorable shit.
He isn’t there to make trouble. He isn't there to make friends.
And he certainly isn’t there to fall in love with fellow baker Stede Bonnet.
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22 Jan 2025
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a fancy man, a fancy ship, & a brigade of imbeciles by Fool_for_love
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
24 Sep 2022
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The ship is lonely. Maybe Stede should have expected that. It was never built for just him, bumping around the corridors like a particularly clumsy ghost. No, it was built for a family. For Stede’s family, specifically.
In light of their absence, he supposes he’ll have to find a new one. Well, for now, he’d settle for a crew. But how does one go about finding the right sort of pirates for a venture like his?
Turns out, one doesn’t. The right sort of pirates find you.
In which the crew of the Revenge comes to be. Crew backstory because I tear up over these idiots every single day.
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25 Nov 2024
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When Stede Bonnet left a life on land to sail the seas as The Gentleman Pirate, he thought he would figure out his true calling. He never expected that rescuing a strange, gray-bearded mercreature covered in tattoos and healing scars would be the thing to give him direction. In discovering who the merman is, he discovers parts of himself he'd kept hidden, and that maybe their lives really aren't so different, after all. They're both looking for the same thing: a person to see past all the trauma and who truly sees them. Ed is like something from Stede's wildest dreams, and Stede is willing to risk breaking the rules society has put on both of them in order to find a new place for them, all while they define what their relationship looks like.
And if he can figure that all out, maybe Stede isn't such a bad pirate after all.
(A fic told with accompanying screenshots and gifs from the sims 4.)
(text-only version can now be found here.)Series
- Part 1 of breathing underwater
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19 Nov 2024