[ID: OFMD fanart of Ed strangling Izzy. Ed is on top, lit in red tones and wearing the red silk robe. Only one bright eye is visible as his shadowed face stares down at Izzy. One of his hands clenches around Izzy’s arm, and his hair flows out below him, with two tendrils curling like tentacles. A glowing white circle backs his head.
On the opposite side is Izzy, who is toned in cyan. Ed’s other hand has a snake tattoo that looks like it’s biting Izzy as it strangles him. Izzy’s eyes are bright red, as is the blood on his teeth, and he grins with a pleasured look as many dark tentacles surround him. Izzy is backed by a glowing white ouroboros. The two are visually divided by a cyan wave. End ID]
“For years, I’ve followed your every whim, I’ve managed your increasingly erratic moods, I’ve massaged this crew when they were worried about your judgement…” Izzy Hands + Edward Teach in Series 1 of Our Flag Means Death
Pairings:Stede/Ed, Ed/Izzy, Stede & Izzy learning not to completely hate each other
Tags: poly negotiations, no one in this show is okay, Ed just straight up failing to notice he’s been functionally married to Izzy for the past 30 years and should have checked first before getting a new boyfriend, Stede has no idea what polyamory is but he’s going to make these idiots talk about their feelings if it kills him, Ed Stede and Izzy are Lucius’s own personal soap opera, there’s hardcore BDSM going on just out of shot but this is mostly just people drinking tea and talking about their feelings
~*~
“You’re a fucking lunatic,” Ed says, and it sounds exactly as much like a compliment as it always should, coming from him. “God, I love you.”
“The feeling is entirely mutual, darling. Now for God’s sake, talk to your… your Izzy, before he shoots one of us.”
Pairings: Ed/Stede, Ed/Izzy, Stede & Lucius bromance, Stede & Izzy learning not to immediately murder one another on sight
Chapter: 3/5
Tags: poly negotiations, no one in this show is okay, Ed just straight up failing to notice he’s been functionally married to Izzy for the past 30 years and should have checked first before getting a new boyfriend, Stede has no idea what polyamory is but he’s going to make these idiots talk about their feelings if it kills him, Ed Stede and Izzy are Lucius’s own personal soap opera, there’s hardcore BDSM going on just out of shot but this is mostly just people drinking tea and talking about their feelings
~*~
Izzy rolls his eyes. “Tell Ed, next time he’s thinking about calling me a whore he can do it to my fucking face.”
sitting in bed grinning like an idiot and hugging myself because i’ve finished drafting the last chapter (still debating with myself about whether there’s going to be an epilogue) of The Lucius Spriggs Guide to Healthy Non-Monogamy and I think it’s probably my favourite romance scene I’ve ever written
Ed is crying and Izzy has threatened to murder everyone in the room at least once including himself and Stede is so very in love with the experience of watching Ed love that he doesn’t even care that Izzy’s plotting to kill him and they’re all fucking deranged and I’m just delighted with all of them
Pairing(s): Stede/Edward, Edward/Izzy, Stede & Lucius bromance
Rating:T
Chapter:2/6
Tags: poly negotiations, no one in this show is okay, Ed just straight up failing to notice he’s been functionally married to Izzy for the past 30 years and should have checked first before getting a new boyfriend, Stede has no idea what polyamory is but he’s going to make these idiots talk about their feelings if it kills him, Ed Stede and Izzy are Lucius’s own personal soap opera, this is mostly just people drinking tea and talking about their feelings
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“I’ve, I’ve thought about it. I’d never do it, I’d cut my own hands off before hurting you, but when I’m having a wank, sometimes I can’t keep from thinking about it. About what it’d be like if you were… If your crazy fit mine that way.”
There’s still so much he doesn’t understand, but he feels like he’s starting to see the shape of it, at least. “Izzy’s crazy fits yours, doesn’t it?”
Pairing(s): Stede/Edward, Edward/Izzy, Stede & Lucius bromance
Rating:T
Tags: poly negotiations, no one in this show is okay, Ed just straight up failing to notice he’s been functionally married to Izzy for the past 30 years and should have checked first before getting a new boyfriend, Stede has no idea what polyamory is but he’s going to make these idiots talk about their feelings if it kills him, Ed Stede and Izzy are Lucius’s own personal soap opera, this is mostly just people drinking tea and talking about their feelings
~*~
“No, no, it wasn’t like that. They, well, Ed at least, think I told them to.”
Lucius raises a single, disbelieving eyebrow. “Blackbeard thinks you told him to fuck his ex, the same ex who has Blackbeard’s signature tattooed on his face?!”
Thelma Thornton is literally glowing in this sweltering hot ass heat as the sun blows it’s hot stankin breath all over us today. Sis Thornton is serving up some living life like it’s a golden Egyptian temple artifact filled with the finest blooms of don’t touch my hair #hiya because it will literally cut you, however if you know how many licks it takes to get to the center of this artichoke Pom Pom you will have an incredibly small tasty piece of her heart waiting for you after she takes a long luxurious bath of course, I mean no one wants a musty artichoke and she is a lady of leisure so she’s not jumping in a quick shower (which she would call a hoe bath), so be patient, let me lay these big strong black holy hands on you and get your blessing kind of realness… We all know patience is the key to all things worth having it’s just hard AF to put into practice especially when it’s hot AF, your musty AF, tired AF, can’t move AF, no pool AF, the arrowhead deliveryman is late AF so you ain’t got no water AF, and you ain’t got no ac AF #hollerifyouhearme #practicewhatyoupreach #livingmybestlife #doyouboo #donttouchmyhair #ouch #itoldyou #betterlucknexttime #howmanylicks #lilkim #livinmylifelikeitsgolden #stillusingthisstoryline #tired #iknow #butitfeelssogood #hotashell #heatwave #layinghands #blackhands #blacklivesmatter (at Bloom & Plume)
[ID: A digital, colorless sketch of Izzy and Edward from Our Flag Means Death, imagined to be significantly younger. Izzy is clean shaven, with a few strands of dark hair falling in his face, and a small cut on the bridge of his nose. He is wearing a loose, billowy shirt that is open at the chest. He is sitting down and holding his sword in in his lap, dragging a cloth over the blade. All that is seen of Edward is his long dark hair spilling over Izzy’s shoulder as he rests his head in the crook of Izzy’s neck, as well as one arm draped around Izzy’s opposite shoulder. A speech bubble from Edward says, ‘mmph.. Iz.. where would I be without you?’, to which Izzy responds, ‘Dead, probably.’ Izzy’s expression is neutral and focused on his task, but he is blushing slightly. /end ID]
Ed gets clingy when he’s drunk… Izzy pretends not to notice.
