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Mar. 5th, 2024 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotI'll just jump right in!
I'm an Ed/Stede shipper first and foremost. Not a big fan of Izzy. I love genderbending and will happily take any of these as f/f! You can also feel free to do any of these as AUs within the canon timeline (for instance, say they get away from the Academy together and one of these happens, or Stede goes to sea a different way and thus meets Ed in a different situation); I'm not really into other setting AUs unless you're Doing Something with it that plays into the plot.
I've chosen a lot of sexy tropes but the fics can be as sexy or unsexy as you want - they don't need to be E-rated. A more humorous/detached tone is also fine.
Let me tell you about the tropes I put in my sign up and why I like them for these two:
Gentle Sex Because One Partner Is Ill/Injured - I love how gentle Ed and Stede are with each other and this plays right into that. Whichever one of them is hurt is adamant that they still want to have sex but the other makes sure to keep them out of pain the whole time.
Taking care of character who was dosed with sex pollen and is humiliated - Again, I love them taking care of each other! Should probably stop saying that, this whole fest is about caretaking. Anyway. I could see this working so well with either in an AU prior to the end of s1: maybe Ed's desperate not to have to confess how he feels to Stede when Stede demands to help, or Stede gets dosed and is totally unused to feeling Like That and having Ed help him turns out to be a revelatory experience.
Sex is cure for injury/disease; comforter is a virgin and nervous they'll do it wrong - Likewise. While technically Stede's not a virgin and likely neither is Ed, in another sense they both are, so I think it fits. Maybe they've each only had one kind of sex (Stede's only been with Mary, of course; maybe Ed's only done hand stuff or frottage).
Touch-Starved Character Having Overwhelming Tender Long Foreplay First Time Sex - SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
Older Character is Comforted After Lifetime of Trauma - ALSO SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. They both have so much delicious trauma to dive into. (I'm always particularly fascinated by Stede's trauma as, imo, an autistic and aspec person without the words to describe either of these viewpoints but the definite knowledge that he's Different (derogatory).)
Character stoically hiding trauma finally gets to talk about it - And while they've touched on their traumas in the show, there's still a lot left to actually discuss. Would love to read Ed getting to open up about believing he wasn't good enough for fine things/Stede or the fact that he committed suicide by crew, or for Stede, how fucked up his marriage was or how much of a failure he'd felt like as a pirate prior to meeting Ed or the whole Chauncey thing.
Past trauma triggered by nightmare - Could be rolled in with the above.
I'll do the traumatic thing because I can handle it - Love this, so in-character for either of them (I mean, it's literally canon for Stede in 2x06). And of course they're wrong, or their idea of "handle it" involves some kind of hidden breakdown ...
I'm an Ed/Stede shipper first and foremost. Not a big fan of Izzy. I love genderbending and will happily take any of these as f/f! You can also feel free to do any of these as AUs within the canon timeline (for instance, say they get away from the Academy together and one of these happens, or Stede goes to sea a different way and thus meets Ed in a different situation); I'm not really into other setting AUs unless you're Doing Something with it that plays into the plot.
I've chosen a lot of sexy tropes but the fics can be as sexy or unsexy as you want - they don't need to be E-rated. A more humorous/detached tone is also fine.
Let me tell you about the tropes I put in my sign up and why I like them for these two:
Gentle Sex Because One Partner Is Ill/Injured - I love how gentle Ed and Stede are with each other and this plays right into that. Whichever one of them is hurt is adamant that they still want to have sex but the other makes sure to keep them out of pain the whole time.
Taking care of character who was dosed with sex pollen and is humiliated - Again, I love them taking care of each other! Should probably stop saying that, this whole fest is about caretaking. Anyway. I could see this working so well with either in an AU prior to the end of s1: maybe Ed's desperate not to have to confess how he feels to Stede when Stede demands to help, or Stede gets dosed and is totally unused to feeling Like That and having Ed help him turns out to be a revelatory experience.
Sex is cure for injury/disease; comforter is a virgin and nervous they'll do it wrong - Likewise. While technically Stede's not a virgin and likely neither is Ed, in another sense they both are, so I think it fits. Maybe they've each only had one kind of sex (Stede's only been with Mary, of course; maybe Ed's only done hand stuff or frottage).
Touch-Starved Character Having Overwhelming Tender Long Foreplay First Time Sex - SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
Older Character is Comforted After Lifetime of Trauma - ALSO SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. They both have so much delicious trauma to dive into. (I'm always particularly fascinated by Stede's trauma as, imo, an autistic and aspec person without the words to describe either of these viewpoints but the definite knowledge that he's Different (derogatory).)
Character stoically hiding trauma finally gets to talk about it - And while they've touched on their traumas in the show, there's still a lot left to actually discuss. Would love to read Ed getting to open up about believing he wasn't good enough for fine things/Stede or the fact that he committed suicide by crew, or for Stede, how fucked up his marriage was or how much of a failure he'd felt like as a pirate prior to meeting Ed or the whole Chauncey thing.
Past trauma triggered by nightmare - Could be rolled in with the above.
I'll do the traumatic thing because I can handle it - Love this, so in-character for either of them (I mean, it's literally canon for Stede in 2x06). And of course they're wrong, or their idea of "handle it" involves some kind of hidden breakdown ...
