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    Stede Bonnet is a former professor of folklore and aspiring YouTube personality trying to find the Mothman.

    Edward Teach is an ex-astronomer just trying to find a way out of small-town West Virginia.

    Little do they know that what they actually find will change them both forever.

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    03 Nov 2023

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    Stede Bonnet is an exhausted and heartsick anesthesiologist, stuck in a rut in his job and his marriage. When he meets a brilliant transplant surgeon after one of the worst cases of his life, he thinks everything might change.

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    11 Jul 2023

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    The Royal Health Inspection Crew of the English Royal Navy suspends Stede’s commercial fishing food vendor license and Blackbeard receives an invitation to the Tri-decadal Gathering of the Court of the Pirate Brethren. This is where the spider monkey comes in.

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    It's been a few months since The Incident and everyone is doing just fine.

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    03 Feb 2023

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    Blackbeard’s name carries weight. To bring him to their side would change things. People would fall into step for him. Charlestown had brought many to heel, but just as many shied back. This would be… good for them. James simply needs to persuade the man. He has persuaded people before.

    Black Sails/OFMD crossover

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    09 Jan 2023

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    Ed is an engineer aboard the Revenge, an interplanetary research vessel on a multi-year mission to study Jupiter's moon Europa. An accident requires that Ed awaken from cryostasis over six months early, and finds his only companion to be Stede, the ship's onboard AI. They develop an unconventional friendship, but is it possible to have more?

    This is classic mutual pining with a sci-fi twist, inspired by all of my favorite stories about the nature of personhood.
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    “You–” Ed was struggling to parse what Stede was saying. “You’re playing your version of this song for me, right now? Like, in real time?”

    “Yes, Edward, that’s correct,” said Stede softly.

    Ed’s brain momentarily seized up. He supposed it made sense that Stede was capable of learning a set of rules to do something like arrange and play a piece of music. There was something unnerving about this song, though. It felt, well–it felt organic . Reactive. Almost collaborative in a way. Ed was lost in the push and pull of it, until the last notes softly petered out.

    “So, what did you think?” asked Stede. It sounded nervous again. Why the hell would someone program an anxiety response into a bot?

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    10 Dec 2022

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