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He always seemed so proud of that role and being one of the first to represent a trans person onscreen as a real person and not a joke or trope.
He has to know that this is undoing all that, right?
I’m disappointed in everyone working on that project but he’s the one that hurts.

Blackbeard’s Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹🏴‍☠️ @bbsheartbreak.bsky.social · 1d

#OFMDWhumptober Day 9

I’m sorry.

archiveofourown.org/works/72182711

wanted to hear your voice one more time
BlackbeardsHeartbreak
Summary:
Someone left Ed a voicemail while he was in the shower.
Whumptober 2025 Day 9 |self-harm |helplessness|
(survivors guilt|"oh, shit"|

Fandom:
Our Flag Means Death (TV)
Relationship:
Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede
Bonnet
Characters:
Blackbeard Edward Teach, Stede
Bonnet, Fang (Our Flag Means Death), Ivan (Our Flag Means Death, Lucius
Spriggs
Additional Tags:
Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Whump, Self-Harm, Exes, Estranged Ed and Stede, Suicide Attempt, Hopeful Ending, Ambiguous/Open Ending

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Blackbeard’s Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹🏴‍☠️ @bbsheartbreak.bsky.social · 1d

Us NYers do like to make cesters into chesters.

Blackbeard’s Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹🏴‍☠️ @bbsheartbreak.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible. Daddy’s Beard 🤣

Blackbeard’s Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹🏴‍☠️ @bbsheartbreak.bsky.social · 1d

Kayaderosseras or Schaghticoke

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Blackbeard’s Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹🏴‍☠️ @bbsheartbreak.bsky.social · 1d

John Lithgow has been a vocal trans ally since playing Roberta Muldoon in The World According to Garp in the early 80s.
Such a disappointment.

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Blackbeard’s Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹🏴‍☠️ @bbsheartbreak.bsky.social · 2d

Which episode?
Is it a Sidney episode? I feel like things got real when he showed up.

Blackbeard’s Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹🏴‍☠️ @bbsheartbreak.bsky.social · 2d

I love Dad but I’m so angry that he let us believe we were about to see them slow dance.

For almost ten seconds we KNEW we were getting a slow dance! AND THEN IT WAS CRUELLY RIPPED AWAY!

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Blackbeard’s Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹🏴‍☠️ @bbsheartbreak.bsky.social · 2d

I do too. If not then they’re similar enough that the same jokes apply. 😄

Blackbeard’s Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹🏴‍☠️ @bbsheartbreak.bsky.social · 2d

🤣 I can’t wait!

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Blackbeard’s Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹🏴‍☠️ @bbsheartbreak.bsky.social · 2d

Is Lynx there the same as Axe in the US?

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Blackbeard’s Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹🏴‍☠️ @bbsheartbreak.bsky.social · 3d

They are lovely 💜🩵

I was so excited that I couldn’t fall asleep any Wednesday night that month. I tried!

Blackbeard’s Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹🏴‍☠️ @bbsheartbreak.bsky.social · 3d

Ha! Thank you! I do think of Gob’s dead dove every time I see it because it’s the only dead dove I know of, and I always think, “well, it can’t have anything to do with that!”

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Blackbeard’s Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹🏴‍☠️ @bbsheartbreak.bsky.social · 3d

The ones that showed up are the ones I’ve left behind, which is why I have no collection.

Blackbeard’s Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹🏴‍☠️ @bbsheartbreak.bsky.social · 3d

The core strength necessary to stay upright, not to mention holding a full grown man up with just his dick and his hands!🫢🥵

Blackbeard’s Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹🏴‍☠️ @bbsheartbreak.bsky.social · 3d

That’s a recent one for me too, sometime in the last year, I think.

Is this where I admit that I still don’t know what ‘dead dove’ means and I won’t look it up because I might see dead birds?

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Blackbeard’s Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹🏴‍☠️ @bbsheartbreak.bsky.social · 3d

I just want to strangle my beloved Ed in this one. I love their messiness so much.