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1. Tupping the Velvet by kitty_shark

   Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   15 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach
   • Stede Bonnet
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach's mom
   • Original Animal Character(s)
   • "Calico" Jack Rackham
   • Anne Bonny
   • Israel Hands
   • Fang (Our Flag Means Death)
   • Other Character Tags to Be Added
   • Gay Rams
   • Farming and Ranching
   • Wool
   • Sheep
   • Horny Teenagers
   • Semi-Public Sex
   • Minor Character Death
   • Workaholic Blackbeard | Edward Teach
   • Angst and Fluff and Smut
   • when your best friend is a baby and a ram and gay as christmas
   • Buzzkill Israel Hands
   • Stede Bonnet is a Gay Lunatic
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach Likes It
   • very minor past teenage Blackbeard | Ed Teach/"Calico" Jack Rackham
   • Jack doesn't even get a line
   • listen we all dated embarrassing boys in our teens
   • except for the lesbians who made better choices
   • Blackbeard | Edward Teach is Down Bad for Stede Bonnet
   • Competent Stede Bonnet
   • Fluff and Humor
   • Eventual Smut
   • Eventual Romance
   • Eventual Sex
   • Happy Ending
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Podfic Welcome

   Summary

   AKA "The Gay Ram Fic"

   Tupping (verb, noun): The act of sheep copulating; traditionally refers to a ram mating with a ewe

   Tipping the Velvet: An erotic historical Sapphic romance book series-cum-tv series that was very life changing for queers of a Certain Age

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   Ed is a shepherd whose favorite ram has no interest in lady sheep. Izzy tells him to get rid of it, but when Ed looks for alternatives, he finds farmer and local gay lunatic Stede Bonnet, who rescues gay rams and sells their wool under his brand, "Revenge Wool". Ed is immediately a goner.

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   All my thanks to elky and kelly for their generous beta-ing and advice!!

   Language:

   English

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   Chapters:

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