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  1. Public Bookmark 47

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    Ed moved to this small, nowhere bit of beach town to get away from his life and get back in touch with himself— whoever the fuck that is, anyways— so the absolute very last thing he ever expects to see in his local-turned-personal-favorite hole in the wall pub is his ex husband.

    Or for said ex husband to come up to him to say hi, talk, and catch up.

    Fuck.

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    08 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 83

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    Stede Bonnet is a romance novelist, not that anyone knows it when he's writing under a pseudonym. After all, surely nobody wants to buy a gay romance written by a single, middle-aged man who has spent most of his life married to a woman? But Stede’s latest book and unexpected hit, Crossing Swords with the Pirate Captain, is being turned into a movie and his favourite actor, Ed Teach, has asked to audition for the lead role.

    Action hero Ed Teach is sick of the grind and performative masculinity that the action genre, and his agent Izzy, demand. He wants to branch out, he wants to come out and auditioning for the romantic lead in a film about gay pirates feels like the perfect way to do that.

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    20 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 16

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    It’s the morning after Stede and Ed’s first real date, and Stede will take any excuse to see Ed again. Shenanigans ensue.

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    11 Jan 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 28

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    Stede Bonnet leads a seemingly normal life—owner and head librarian at Bonnet’s Books, surrounded by employees-turned-friends—yet he harbors a very abnormal secret. There is a curse on his bloodline, one that caused him to be born as a sort of half-kraken creature. He conceals his true form through the use of magic, and while he can’t seem to find a permanent fix, it gets the job done! Mostly.

    He’s long accepted the fact that there are some things he may never have. He’s treading water, and it’s all fine, truly it is, except then Edward Teach walks into his library, into his life, and Stede suddenly wonders if he might drown after all. Ed is charming, gorgeous, and kind, and he’s searching for a new direction in his life with a determination Stede wishes he had. He accepted his fate long ago, but Ed makes him wonder, what if it weren’t like this? And is it worth it to risk everything for a chance at a deeper connection he’s always yearned for?

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    29 Nov 2024

  5. Public Bookmark *

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    {Once Upon A Time…

    There was a red-haired sorcerer who lived alone in a high tower, and a blond prince who lived in a palace full of people. And they were both of them desperately lonely.

    The Kingdoms of Empyrion and the Sorcerers of Apollyon have hated each other for hundreds of years, ever since the Great War. They do not interact, other than to occasionally try to kill one another. And they certainly do not make friends.

    Crow is an exhausted sorcerer who just wants everyone to leave him the hell alone: for the Sorcerer’s Council to stop harassing him to live up to his potential, and for wannabe Empyrion Heroes to stop attacking his tower to try and kill him. Until one day when he meets Prince Azra of the High Fells, who doesn’t behave anything like he’s supposed to…

    Part fairy tale, part fantasy, all love story. There’s magic, and grand romantic gestures, and Heroes and a handsome Prince, and a Villain. There are even some wild heroics, though not necessarily from who you would expect. At its core it’s simply about two (relatively) sane people living in a mad world who find each other.

    The smut isn’t until later chapters.}

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    14 Nov 2024