https://archiveofourown.org/works/46722802/chapters/117673738Ed Teach, the most successful Olympic diver in the world, expected to come home to Aotearoa from the Paris 2024 Olympics with four gold medals. He didn't anticipate bringing back one more golden thing: Stede Bonnet, his competitor-turned-lover-turned-teammate. And now Stede's by Ed's side for knee surgery, a year-long recovery, and the realisation of a childhood dream- opening his own diving school and aquatic centre.

Stede's finding his own place in the world after divorcing, coming out, and becoming a central figure in the wildest Olympic diving drama in history. He'll have to face up to his past to carve a new path forward, but he'll have Ed and a whole new found family by his side throughout.

Together they're facing a year of change, working on themselves in parallel, toward a shared future. Along the way they'll keep building the intense physical and emotional bond that burst into life in Paris, and shifted everything for both of them.

Parallel Placement by Claire Gregory

A good Start: Stede brings a sweet breakfast to the top without waking Ed after the lighthouse F*c*ery

A good start

Paralell Placement Intro

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46722802/chapters/117673738

1 Parallel Placement

2 parallel Placement- Hold

this took extra time record because I have a summer road construction project going on all summer. Jackhammers, cement trucks, cement saws, all very noisy. "BEEP BEEP BEEP of the trucks backing up! I'm trying to keep it out of the audio, but some of it is getting through because it has become ignorable background sounds and I hear it on the review. Some of it, I am re-recording but some of it is going to have to stay. The cat purring in the cave tour might be audible depending on your listening device. Left it in because Claire said it could be the ambient waterfall noise, and Trix is suggesting that it is the sound that the glow worms make.

UGH! Was giving a listen this morning just to enjoy the story and found some tech stuff that I thought was fixed and was not. so repaired and re-uploaded 6/7 9amcst

parallel placement 3

4.1 parallel placement inward

Art by the amazing Mossgroves https://twitter.com/mossgroves_art/status/1549947133704404992

Podfic of CartoonMayor's  "This Could Be Love" ch 4

find CartoonMayor here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/39427899/chapters/98676828

find SD_Ryan here: archiveofourown.org/users/SD_Ryan

[podfic] This Could Be Love Ch 4

This is Chapter 8 for “Kalahari Down” by oatmilktruther
Rated: Explicit
Pairing(s): Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet
Fic Summary: 
"What was coming, he still couldn’t mark beyond the word “trouble” lit up in gold when it came rolling in over the east field that late May before the first licks of the summer he turned 19.
Trouble rolling over the hill and right up to Ed.
Trouble pulling his stetson, loose around his ears like it wasn’t quite fit to him, from his head, down to his chest. Trouble tilting his head to Ed, like Ed was a fine lady, like Ed was anything but a ranch hand perched on a borrowed horse. Trouble asking, soft and sturdy as fresh wheat bread, 'how do you do'?"

This is a complete 1880s-1890s cowboy AU clocking in just under 46k that will update weekly as we work through beta'ing each chapter. This is about finding yourself, finding your home, and finding the person you want to share both with. This is about doubts we have in ourselves and how they poison the rest of our judgments. This is about Edward Teach in leather chaps being the most fuckable rider this side of the Mississippi. This is about how one man can hear one Orville Peck song and turn it into 46k words with absolutely no restraint.

Chapter Summary: Sleep now, upright / Late start, feel fine / Dreaming ‘bout the time / But you can’t now, never mind!

Original fic found here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51218605

The Intro/Outro is “Kalahari Down” by Orville Peck. You can find it here: https://open.spotify.com/track/29VSdjZG2XZCHzKwgjvsER?si=d7ebd453f57348d3

Author’s Tags:
alternate universe - cowboys, Cowboy AU, Neither of those tags are canon so whatever sticks, Angst with a Happy Ending, Time Skips, Epistolary Elements, 1880s, 1890s, Rough (emotionally) sex, Reunions, Offscreen Animal Death, Offscreen animal pregnancy/birthing, Breaking Up & Making Up, Implied Period Typical Homophobia, Ed's hatred of steam locomotives, offscreen minor character death, First Kiss, Ed and Stede start the story at age 18 and are in their mid 30s by the end, Stede's love of steam locomotives, First Love, Getting Together, Implied/Referenced Gun Violence, Ed's ambiguous country accent, Baking cornbread as a love language, Bareback bronc riding as actual bareback bronc riding, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, this fic deals with heavy themes but there are many moments of light and joy and love and sex, and a happy ending chapter so good it made my beta cry four times, specific content warnings in each chapter's notes, Ed POV

Chapter 8 for “Kalahari Down” by oatmilktruther (OFMD)

6 Paint Your Palette Blue And Grey

15 Paint Your Palette Blue And Grey

18 Creatures Great And Small

"I can make your storm feel sky blue" by CartoonMayor
Chapter 5

ICMYSFSB Ch. 5

"I can make your storm feel sky blue" by CartoonMayor
Chapter 6

ICMYSFSB Ch. 6

Ed had a crush.

Not just a crush, he was a smitten kitten, he was the human embodiment of heart eyes, his chest felt like it had been stuffed full of fluffy pink cotton candy, he was a fucking goner.

He knew that first day. That first fucking second. Knew his whole world was about to be turned upside down.



Ed is head over ass for the cute blond at his co-working space but hasn't said word one to him. Until one day, he thinks up a brilliant (read: boneheaded) plan to ask him out

Smitten Kitten Ch 1

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42781167

Something had been bothering Ed for days, now. When asked, he always waved off Stede’s concern and said he was fine; Stede knew by now it would be fruitless to try and pry it out of him. Knowing that didn’t make the waiting any easier. It started a week ago when they’d stopped by Stede’s apartment after work; they’d spent a little time here since they’d been together, mostly on principle. Ed’s home had a nicer bed, a bigger shower, and the thought of trying to cook anything in Stede’s little kitchen made Ed weep. It just made more sense to stay at Ed’s.

OR

Ed works himself into a tizzy over something. Stede has anxiety about it. Everything works out in the end.

Champagne

Audio stories of Our FlagMeans Death Fanfic: 
Aka: Disgusting smuts and LGBTQ+ and other NSFW things... and fishing equipment. in audio form. 
SPREADSHEET OF OFMD podfic here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dBUd6JdqCNF41FV18BAc564udYERfS6DtTz2vt5CNMA/htmlview

Paralell Placement Intro

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