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Kinda wanna write crack fic where Hob's reaction to Dream's "Your cup is empty, you need more wine." in 1889 is a fetching grin and a "Are you trying to get me drunk, old stranger?".

The corner of Dream's mouth quirks into the tiniest of smiles.

"Mayhaps." he says.

Hob raises his brow, rolls his cigar between his thumb and index finger before he takes a measured drag.

"In that case." he replies a dark glint in his eyes "I have a fine bottle of wine reseverd for us. But only if you drink with me. A small price to stop me from asking questions, I suppose?"

Dream's gaze dips to his own untouched glass.

"I suppose it would be." he agrees.

And then, because Dream chooses a certain level of realism for the human shape he meets Hob in, they both get absolutely plastered and end up in bed together.

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Late night Dreamling feels

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by Moorishflower

“Is this…?” he asks, and doesn’t know how to finish the sentence. Is this Earth? Did you remake Earth? Earth 2.0?

“It is the dream of a new beginning,” Dream rumbles.

All things that begin must end, all dreamers eventually wake, and the cycle begins again, and again, and again.

Words: 8999, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 7 of The Wine-Dark Sea (Siren!AU)

Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Hob Gadling, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus

Relationships: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Hob Gadling, Dream of the Endless/Hob Gadling

Additional Tags: Science Fiction, Sirens, Non-Human Genitalia, Tentacles, Macro/Micro, Size Kink, Consentacles, Cannibalism, Blood Drinking, Rimming, Oviposition, Orgasm Delay, Licking, Monsterfucker Hob Gadling, Devotion, Many Worlds Theory, Outer Space, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus Loves Hob Gadling

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soap bubbles

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Hob and Dream's storyline maps perfectly to a romance arc though. Allow me to demonstrate (borrowing from Gwen Hayes who wrote what I consider to be the holy scripture of romance novelists, Romancing the Beat):

1389: the Meet Cute. This is obvious. Hob is there, mouthing off about how he's Never Going To Die and Dream is instantly interested. He's so interested Hob actually gets immortality out of the bargain. Hob, too, is clearly interested. There's an initial spark. You can see there's SomethingTM going on here. This scene also contains the first No Way, the first reason It'll Never Work: Dream tells himself that Hob will not actually want to live forever, and Dream we know IS immortal so obviously they could never *really* be together.

1489: the Adhesion. The part where it becomes clear that they're going to have to jump onto the plot and start rowing. Dream fully expects Hob to be like "okay done with life now" but no, he finds Hob thrilled by chimneys and playing cards and he's going to have to come back in another hundred years because Hob refuses to be tired of life.

1589: the second No Way. It'll NEVER WORK because Dream is disgusted by Hob's (in his opinion) shallow version of success and maybe a little mad that he got married?? to someone else???? rude. He's going to fuck Shakespeare about it. There could never be anything between them because Hob is just like the rest of them, there's nothing special about him, he's greedy and shallow and much less interesting than the adorable twink across the room.

1689: the This Could Work. Hob is miserable. He's been miserable for 80 years. Dream sees him at his absolute lowest and yet?? and yet he doesn't want to die??? Maybe Dream can keep him. Maybe Dreams can have a little Hob, as a treat.

1789: Deepening desire. Do I need to justify this one. The way Dream looks at Hob, the way Hob looks at Dream, the way Hob straight up propositions him and Dream does his best impression of a fucking brick because he was into it! He watched Hob absolutely wreck two thugs twice his size in heels without hesitation or breaking a sweat and he was turned the fuck on. They're SO CLOSE to acting on it. Hob is Peak Hot here too btw.

1889: Maybe This Will Work. Dream is so pleased when he sees Hob this time. Hob is different. Hob has ChangedTM, the narrative arc has forced him to grow, he's a suitable partner for an unending metaphysical concept who looks great in eyeliner. Hob looks slightly less hot in the fashion of the day but it doesn't matter because Dream loves him, the first No Way has been addressed. Unfortunately Hob then says "you love me :D" and Dream freaks the entire fuck out because he's Not Ready. The arc isn't complete yet. He has not had to do the Dark Night of the Soul so he's not ready for whole-hearted love. The Inkling of Doubt, Deepening Doubt, Retreat, Shields Up, and Break Up happen like snorting a line of coke and Dream storms off into the rain being Dramatique, Hob is on the verge of tears.

1916-1989: the Dark Night of the Soul. Dream is literally in a little Christmas ornament sulking. Hob shows up in 1989 and waits and drinks and is v. emo about being stood up (which he literally says) and then worse! more drama! the pub's been sold. They can never get back together because it won't be there in another hundred years. everything is AWFUL.

2022: Death takes her sulking little brother on a whirlwind adventure during which he remembers that he does quite like people. And then she, as is traditional at this point in the narrative, is like "remember that one human you're in love with? he's still around. Maybe apologise? you'll feel better." So anyway Dream does. The Grand Gesture here is as grand as they get: Hob has a) spray painted a sign for his clueless eldritch horror of a boyfriend and b) been waiting in the same pub for thirty years apparently, which as shows of devotion go is fairly huge, Hob is STILL THERE which addresses the first No Way. Dream though. Dream swallows his pride, which is 80% of his weight by volume (the other 20% is eyeliner), walks straight up to Hob, and calls him a friend without any prompting. Hob looks at him like Dream just handed him the universe. We see them back to normal, talking as friends, whole-heartedly in love.

TL;DR: Dream and Hob are in a romance novel

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by Quilling

The one where Daniel spends his summer taking coffee orders, looking at cat pictures, and playing matchmaker.

Words: 4986, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Hob Gadling, Matthew the Raven, Jed Walker, Modern Johanna Constantine (The Sandman TV), Citizens of the Dreaming Ensemble

Relationships: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Hob Gadling

Additional Tags: POV Outsider, Alternate Universe - Office, Daniel is Dream’s intern here, Gen Z Daniel Hall, Fluff and Humor, Some plot (sorry), Love Confessions, Happily Ever After

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Dreamling in the Depths Color Version

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DREAMLING AU ↳ spilled ink and daffodils by @issylra

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dream of the endless. based on comic art:

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Art log, Dreamling painting practice ✨

This could be considered a part 2 to this post.

Went out today for a silly little mental health walk and I thought it would be so nice to paint something with sunset colors! I’ve been working with gradients so this seems like a nice fit to keep within my line of practice.

I’m also trying to become better at having more than two characters engaging / interacting so—-is this a tender moment or is Hob telling Dream he���s an idiot sandwich? You decide!

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I'm not too invested in ships Becoming Canon typically, but i am gonna stake my claim here - Dreamling isn't bait. Cynically it doesn't make sense to queerbait in such a basic 101 way anymore, the writers and actors all agree that The Vibe was intentional, and narratively the show seems to be setting up a happier ending - Dreams happy ending is explicitly With Hob. Ineffable husbands Happened, dreamling will as well, and in like 4 years when the final season comes out this post will exist to prove that I was Right

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it was pointed out to me today that ( for various reasons) this could all been seen as a sequence and I honestly didn’t plan for it to be that way but now I cannot unsee it! The mind works in mysterious ways ( specially with blorbo fanart).

The year is wrapping up and I’m feeling happy to all the progress I’ve made as an artist—so I thought hey let’s put this all together so I have a post to go back to and remind myself of happy tidings 🖤

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Dreamling Dads!AU commission for @aurelia-which-means-sunrise! Matthew is a wretched cookie thief and Tulip is very territorial of her batch 💕 (This is also NOT the first time Dream's been floured during this whole baking debacle and to be honest he's starting to suspect they're not as "accidental" as Kian seems to want him to believe) I can't thank you enough for such a fun comm, and with my baby Kian!!

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Art Log, Dreamling painting practice part 3✨

Because I’m incapable of doing things if there are not in a set of three—this could be seen as continuation of this last two posts

So I didn’t add my color swatches on this one because I got…quite lost doing this? I wanted to go for soft dusky colors but warm colors are so hard for me to do and adding the light source behind them didn’t help me 😅.

This will be a doozy to write down on my actual art log but oh well 😭

We are doing this to practice and learn folks so it’s okay! I quite like the pose and the overall vibe here! They are cozing up together because cold weather is upon us and I am inflicting this on my blorbos 🖤

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Hob meets Death.

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Bella Notte 🍝

Suggested by @polvillodecanela

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funny how roderick burgess went on for years begging for immortality from morpheus and still wasn’t granted one then there’s this random peasant from 1389 who called morpheus’ sister stupid then BOOM he is now a 21st century professor