#gentlehands
I fibbed. I suddenly realised how Chapter 15 should go. Because it’s a pinnacle chapter for Stede.

It’s emotional, I mean the whole damn fic is.

Also, this isn’t a GentleHands focused story but I do love a bit of tenderness between the two. Tender as hell.

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If You Could Read My Mind Love | Temptress of Dalliances | Ellipsus
A story of amnesia, lies, & love Ed & Stede fell in love in college. But after a terrible motorcycle accident one fateful Christmas Eve, they are torn apart. Ed in a comma and Stede mourning the man...
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November 5, 2026 at 7:31 PM
They didn't make me read "Gentlehands" in middle school to miss its very obvious point.
September 18, 2026 at 11:09 PM
January 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
It's a book about a kid who learns that his rich eccentric grandpa is a Nazi war criminal known as Gentlehands -- so named because as an SS officer he was always playing the aria O dolce mani.

It's what I thought of first, when I saw the working title too.

Nazis ruin so many good things...
August 1, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Maaannn. I was thinking of that book too.

O dolce mani hit different after reading Gentlehands....
August 1, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Tighten up your stance, Bonnet!

I wanted more pirate training in S2, but at least we got a little bit. And I loved every second.

#Stizzy #GentleHands #ofmdnsfw #ourflagmeansdeath #ourflagmeansdeathfanart
December 4, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Un-fucking-real. The sheer entitlement. Reminds me of reading Gentlehands in HS.
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.

www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
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January 24, 2026 at 3:24 AM
ladies with gentlehands, old people with pension plans

i have found a way to automatically crosspost from xitter to here.

links are unfortunately broken but it is what it is

if something else looks broken or it stopped working let me know ( on discord )
June 17, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Absolutely. I learned more from the summer reading lists than I did from being forced to analyze fucking Gentlehands for an entire month.
August 6, 2026 at 4:36 PM
it's STILL barely half lmaooooo that FUCKING time travel fic is like 70k+ words SMH
September 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
did not mean to do this so soon but why is this lowkey scaring me a little… wdym less than half the fics I’ve written this year have been Stizzy? wdym Steddyhands is my second most written about ship rn?? am I losing my touch???
March 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
not to incite beef with Sylvia but Gentlehands is the best ship name to come out of this fandom by FAR and you can quote me on that
February 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
this was the gentlehands edit that got my friend Dee to watch this show, and she messaged me at like 3 in the morning crying about how she thought Stizzy was canon LMAO
January 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Yaz's 2024 Wrapped
I have posted 1,078,835 words. Not written, POSTED. That's lowkey insane, ngl, and I probably won't ever write or post this much in a single year ever again. Unsurprisingly, Stizzy comes in first with 82 fics. When are the real Stizzy shipper awards? I'd like to collect mine tysm
December 30, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Spent an entire week trying to come up with a title for my drabbles thing and ended up just calling it GentleHands-The Anthology LMAOOOOO
What was the hardest fic to title?
December 13, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Gentlehands erasure but what else can I expect from you, our defector?
November 21, 2024 at 8:57 PM
keeping Izzy's hands steady ❣
def one of my fave ofmd pieces i've made!

•prints & more: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1689...
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#izzyhands #ourflagmeansdeath #ofmd #steddyhands #edizzy #gentlehands #gentlebeard #gaypirates #pridemonth #artsky #ofmdart
June 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
keeping Izzy's hands steady ❣
def one of my fave ofmd pieces i've made!

•prints & more: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1689...
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#izzyhands #ourflagmeansdeath #ofmd #steddyhands #edizzy #gentlehands #gentlebeard #gaypirates #art #mixedmedia #artsky
March 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The... The gentle hand. Gentlehands. It's so sweet, Cecil! 💕
June 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It was definitely a success! Wow!

I really enjoyed you two having fun and smiling together. It’s refreshing to have this lovely positivity.

Even if Con doesn’t enjoy Stizzy/Gentlehands, that’s fine. We don’t all have to share the same ship(s), but thank you for sticking up for it on our behalf!
May 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The romance novel cover Gentlehands is my favorite, unsurprisingly. It's fun and very hot!

Stede's getting to live out his pirate fantasy, and Izzy gets to be a hero in the story!
March 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Maybe they'll elaborate more on the Gentlehands bubble bath... 😅
February 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
And it's like Stizzy vs GentleHands. GentleHands sounds WILD to my ear because that doesn't feel like the right vibe at all
December 31, 2024 at 4:41 AM
If you're a fan of M.E. Kerr, then maybe you might like 'Someone Like Summer'?

Set in the same town as 'Gentlehands', in this #story we meet Annabelle who falls in love with Esteban.

But this is the summer of war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina, and M.E Kerr is calling you back to Seaville 🏖️
July 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM