do you think stede helped him out of those leathers. do you think he helped him comb his hair. gently cleaned his nicks and tears. or just stood by with warm water and some towels (he's good at towels now!) bc ed needed space. do you think they rehearsed ed's apology together-b
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it just hit me that la vie en rose PERFECTLY encapsulates what went wrong. you really think one party could fix everything. just sell your treasure, sink your leathers, start all over again? that easy?? you really thought you could just gloss over your first k1ll-
logically I KNOW ofmd is unlikely to be loved by everyone in the world but my friend telling me she simply couldn't get into it bc it's boring is makin me do a double take. it's just a really fun little story, boring is NOT a word I'd ever use. like did we watch the same show
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if I'm supposed to suspend my disbelief long enough to accept that ed and stede are perfectly happy to run an inn together now, I could have easily suspended it to accept izzy survived and stayed with the family he's found along the way like 🤷🏻♀️
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something something ed tries to escape his life and hard decisions by becoming a fisherman, all that he manages to fish out are the same leathers he sunk earlier, has a lil realization about who he needs to be for now, I-
if you all feel like a trip down memory lane, liquid gold is finally up on ao3 in its entirety and I'm feeling the teensiest bit emotional - it was so good while it lasted :')
by going SO fast instead of slow and trying to forget it? you really thought your crew were tight for life? you really thought ed was NOT going to panic? you really thought stede was NOT going to go a little crazy? that's some rose colored glasses there my friend
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hey literally keep your negative thoughts about fics to yourself. this stuff exists for free, I can't stress that enough. it's FREE and it costs US time and effort and emotions instead. 'hope you suffer trying to publish' is not the hot take you think it is. neither is
I'm begging y'all to give T-rated stories a chance. Smut isn't the end-all be-all and it really really feels that way in this fandom. Suffer a good slow burn, and no, that doesn't mean they only kiss in the second chapter.
rhys darby thriving so hard after he thought his career was over stede bonnet brave enough to leave his life behind and start over at sea something something it's never too late to do it right babes
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they really said your mental illness might be the reason you did shitty things to the people around you but it's not an excuse. and a part of getting better is making amends and owning up to your bs. my silly little pirate show rly said that
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if we're being really real. as someone who once thought they'd messed up their life so irrevocably that there was simply no one waiting for me on the other side, and then very much learning otherwise, It Hit. you're loved whether you like it or not 🤷🏻♀️