North Star: OFMD Minneapolis/Gay Bar AU
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Izzy is finishing college and has to take a literature class for a requirement. As he works through a course project on Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse, he is forced to reflect on love in general, love in the time of the HIV/AIDS crisis, love between trans and cis people, gay love, and—ultimately—his love for Edward. Written as extensions of fragments from A Lover’s Discourse, other readings Izzy does for his project, and drafts of his project.
Part of the North Star series I’ve been working on—an AU set in Minneapolis, initially centered around a gay bar called Jackie’s Place in Bottoms Up.
Fic is complete.
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- Part 1 of North Star: OFMD Minneapolis/Gay Bar AU
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Written for the Fate and Fortune Fic Challenge, in the North Star AU. After Izzy graduates college, he and Ed go camping at Itasca State Park to get some time alone in the woods. Ed is trying to figure out how to balance being soft and cruel in his relationship to Izzy; Izzy is figuring out the next steps in his life, both with and without Ed. After this trip, Ed is going to visit his mother for the summer. I tried some experimental things with writing in this fic, and there's a little bit of mixed media but not like The Tender Gesture Says. This fic will make the most sense if you've already read that. Hope you enjoy.
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- Part 2 of North Star: OFMD Minneapolis/Gay Bar AU
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I wrote this as a backstory for Izzy and Ed in Bottoms Up–a gay bar in Minneapolis SMAU. However, I think it works well as a standalone.
Izzy is coming out as trans in 1997. He goes to Jackie’s Place, hoping to run into Ed. He does; he loses at cribbage; they go home to have a scene.
CWs: This fic includes rather graphic depictions of BDSM chest play on a trans man, including hypodermic needle play. There’s some mixed signals between experienced partners. There is also discussion of death, dysphoria/dysmorphia, HIV/AIDS, and being disowned.
Also contains my version of the origin of the ring Izzy wears to hold up his neck kerchief.
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- Part 3 of North Star: OFMD Minneapolis/Gay Bar AU
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With the Birds I'll Share This Lonely View by anneiled
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
01 Jun 2022
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A short moment in the Bottoms Up AU. It's 1999, and Ed is part of Izzy's top surgery recovery team. CW: the quotidian gore of post-surgery care.
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- Part 4 of North Star: OFMD Minneapolis/Gay Bar AU
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An Our Flag Means Death gay bar social media AU
Newly out and separated from Mary, Stede stumbles into his Minneapolis neighborhood gay bar, Jackie's Place, on Pirate Night. The crew adopts him and with a Grindr tap, his life changes. Ed, a disenchanted leather daddy, is fascinated with Stede at first sight. Hijinks ensue.
I'm porting this here from Twitter for archival purposes (haha).
I interpreted SMAU in this way: the fic is written in group chats, Instagram posts, Twitter threads, and text threads, interspersed with interludes of narrative.
There is no on-page sex but there is a lot of frank discussion of sex/NSFW visual content in this fic. Be warned.
Word count is actually ~20k
I coded this so that the images would scale to the size of your screen. On my side of things, it's best read on a phone.
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- Part 5 of North Star: OFMD Minneapolis/Gay Bar AU
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This is an interlude in Bottoms Up, an OFMD SMAU where Stede meets Ed at Jackie's Place, a gay bar in Minneapolis. You might still like it if you don't want to read the other piece, but it does start in media res. It's also not super spoilery.
While Ed neglects Stede at Wednesday karaoke, Stede is poring over the yes/no/maybe sex list that Ed filled out and sent to him earlier that day. He has made a decision (to suck Ed's cock).
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- Part 6 of North Star: OFMD Minneapolis/Gay Bar AU
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A continuation of the AU from Bottoms Up. This one is not a SMAU (but Lucius takes pictures) and is not sad. Stede, Ed, Izzy, and the crew go to Gay 90s for a suspension play demo. Fuckery happens. Stede takes the two prickly, cranky leather bois home for conflict resolution and group sex. Chapters 1 and 2 do not have sex, if you're just looking for jokes.
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- Part 7 of North Star: OFMD Minneapolis/Gay Bar AU
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Stede Bonnet has a lot of questions about fucking Ed that his trusty group chat crew can't answer. He turns to Izzy for advice--who else knows Ed better than his accountant and best friend of 30 years? Why not flirt with Izzy while he's at it?
"Lite-SMAU"--I emulated text threads but the rest is narrative.
Fic is complete!
Text-only version: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eMZQOUCx7CcNf_0Bg-COLypUge0l3rwgV6hxolyBIqA/edit?usp=sharing
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- Part 8 of North Star: OFMD Minneapolis/Gay Bar AU
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Stede bravely goes to get his nipples pierced with his emotional support boyfriends. He is definitely not sick, nope, not at all. Flufftober 2022!!
Series wise this is post-Twenty Questions and pre-Bonnet's Plaything.
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- Part 9 of North Star: OFMD Minneapolis/Gay Bar AU
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On one of their Monday night dates, Stede puts together his first scene for Izzy. The goal: annoy him till he pops. It’s a challenge for a novice top, but Stede prepares himself well with some assistance from Buttons, Karl, and Jim.
Chapter One is the build-up and first half of the scene. Chapter Two has the PIV.
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- Part 10 of North Star: OFMD Minneapolis/Gay Bar AU
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A 5 1 fic, in which Stede’s love language is gift giving. Set in my contemporary Minneapolis AU. Stede and Izzy kind of like each other now :).
I am puttering away at one of these for Ed and Izzy, and one for Izzy to Stede and Ed. This is set post-Twenty Questions in the series.
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- Part 11 of North Star: OFMD Minneapolis/Gay Bar AU
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With an annotated copy of The Ethical Slut in hand, Stede Bonnet embarks on a new journey: working through the ups and downs of opening up his relationship with Ed when he gets entangled with Izzy. The crew returns with lots of adventures, including an engagement, a union drive, a relationship rearrangement, therianthropy, and other delights. Izzy and Ed have journeys of their own and work on their shit. A modern mixed media AU set in the Twin Cities with fix-it elements and send-ups of Season 2, and a sequel to Bottoms Up.
Fic updates on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tags are added as we go. Brief content warnings/sex scenes are in each chapter’s end notes, when applicable.
Here is the screen reader version of fic, with image descriptions, updated as chapters are posted.
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- Part 13 of North Star: OFMD Minneapolis/Gay Bar AU