Pirates of the Care-i-Bae'n
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Ed picks Stede up at a bar for what ought to be a one-night stand, but it turns out they're attending the same academic conference the next day.
“Yes, please, a – Loose Cannon, did you say? Really, how charmingly nautical.” There. Words. Sub-optimal words, but words nonetheless. He grins, aiming it toward the stranger while taking him in in smaller doses. Leather boots, faded, artfully ripped black jeans, a purple cropped shirt under a silky, billowy black – kimono? Overshirt? Facial scruff. Lots of hair, salt and pepper, pepper only just winning out, for now. Tattooed knuckles, forearms, collarbone. Earring, silver stacking rings on most fingers, a nose stud that somehow softens the whole, well, lewk and – okay, he’s staring. He stares some more as the man reaches to accept his own drink, revealing more tattoos up the arm and an inch more of skin below the crop top. The stranger makes some obscure gesture to the bartender, then meets Stede’s eyes, which he worries might actually be protruding from his skull, like a cartoon. AwOOga.
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- Part 1 of Pirates of the Care-i-Bae'n
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Ed meets Doug and Mary for the first time. Everyone has feelings about it.
Stede’s a planner, a worrier, maps out every potentiality, has already catastrophized the evening half to death, and they’re barely past Princeton. He has made predictions, ranked them in order of likelihood and assigned them a numerical rating of their disaster-ness on a seven-point Likert scale where 1 is Peachy Keen Jelly Bean and 7 is Set Me on Fire and Push Me Into the Hudson With the Other Garbage.
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- Part 2 of Pirates of the Care-i-Bae'n
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- Part 3 of Pirates of the Care-i-Bae'n
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For Day 7 of OFMDAUPril: Professor & Nude Beach.
Stede gives a big talk at a conference. Ed takes him on a boat ride after. This takes place sometime after The Odd Couples but before the epilogue of Old Bae Season.
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- Part 4 of Pirates of the Care-i-Bae'n