#pavonis writes

[delta-pavonis]

Fic: Special Exhibition

Dreamling (human AU) || Rated E || 10k words || complete Alternate Universe - human, sequel to Placebo Effect, Doctor Hob Gadling, museum curator Dream, sequel to fake relationship to real relationship, Dream was an unrepentant slut in college, Hob is still an unrepentant slut, getting too deep into a relationship too quickly, Bisexual Hob Gadling, Lust at First Sight, Top Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Bottom Hob Gadling, Genital Piercing, Cock Piercing, Frenum piercing, Cock Rings, Cock Slut, Chaps, Face-Sitting, fluid bonding, Safe Sane and Consensual, Barebacking, swearing fealty, Leather, leather harness, Hob gets railed, deep dicking, Coming Untouched, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Multiple Orgasms, Prostate Massage, Rimming, Dirty Talk, Oral Sex, Anal Fisting, Cowgirl Position, Finger Sucking, Ass to Mouth, Impact Play, minor impact play using hands, Orgasm Edging, Orgasm Denial, Orgasm Delay, Light BDSM, Dom/sub Undertones, Porn with Feelings

Hob responded to the DM he got from @.TheArtofDreaming because it was by far the most interesting response he had gotten within 48 hours of posting that video with him saying he would do a fake relationship call. Wordsmithing aside, the fact that Dream had just laid out what was pretty much the exact kind of gig Hob had wanted when he made the silly thing was just serendipitous. Honestly, at first pass Hob had not at all expected @.TheArtofDreaming to be AMAB. It had been a pleasant surprise. Not that Hob had lied about his sexuality–no, he was as 3 of a 3 on the Kinsey Scale as one could get–but after Eleanor it has just been… harder. With people who presented more feminine. Not for lack of interest, but there was a lot of baggage to sort through. In contrast, texting with Dream was easy: he was engaging, responsive, thoughtful, and quick-witted. They were both passionate about what they did, for work and for play. So, yeah, lunch seemed like a great idea and maybe he could end up being friends with one of his favorite museum’s curators! Maybe he could even get a behind-the-scenes tour someday. Oh, what simple goals that naive Hob had set.

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[ninadove]

Felix / Rain :-)

You know me so well. 💜🦚☔️

Ask game here! 📝

[teejaystumbles]

for the final chapter of You Create Me Against Your Lips by @delta-pavonis

this was so much fun to paint :3 thank you Pavonis for giving me early access to your awesome writing and letting me illustrate it, I had such a great time! ❤️

[tj-dragonblade]

Last Line Tag Game

Tagged by @amielot and @teejaystumbles - thank you!

I am currently drifting from one wip file to the next leaving dribs and drabs on each. There is still intent to write a sequel to the Hob-in-short-short-cutoffs fic from last summer and the most recent blurb that I wrote went on that:

"Know why I picked this color?"

"Do tell." Dream is far more captivated by the wet curls of hair on the backs of Hob's thighs and where they climb the swell of Hob's arse before disappearing beneath the frayed edge of his shorts than the color of the car Hob is washing, but Hob's stories are always of interest, even when the man himself. Is a distraction.

"Saffron yellow, it's called. When I was born saffron was this crazy-valuable thing that I never even heard of until much later in my very long life." He bends along the side of the car, swirling soapy water across the bottom of the door with a rhythmic little bounce in his hips that Dream recognizes is deliberate and entirely for his benefit.

"And now I can just—" he waves the sponge around in a vague circle as he straightens up "—pop over to the shops and buy, for a very reasonable price, what would have been a king's ransom back in the day! Makes me appreciate, y'know?" He cocks a hip and rests the fist with the sponge on it, shakes out his wet hair, drags his free hand through it, then down the front of his transparently-wet shirt in a way that Dream cannot help but follow avidly with his eyes, as he's quite sure he's meant to. "It's so good to be alive, and there's always so much to experience."

Tagging, no obligation as always: @staroftheendless, @chaosheadspace, @delta-pavonis, @lenreli, @immacaria, @bruce-wayne-simp

[moorishflower]

Hello! Who do you recommend I follow for more awesome dreamling content like you have? Thanks!

OH MAN okay so uh you might follow a number of them already BUT, all of the people here are incredible and lovely and I interact with them regularly or semi-regularly!

@avelera (Writes Come live with me and be my love, as well as Giving Sanctuary, incredible meta insights)

@dancinbutterfly (Wrote Fuckboi Hob vs. The Endless Family Dinner, and turn, my beloved, and be thou like a young hart, also does fantastic meta!)

@fishfingersandscarves (Definitely best known for their art, but also writes Better Strangers, a Daniel/Hob fic I'm rabid for)

@delta-pavonis (Writes the Dream Songs series, which got me into the idea of BDSM for Dreamling. I'd never written it before!)

@teejaystumbles (More amazing art! Torte on AO3, wrote The Storms of Life)

@softest-punk (Wrote Knight of Cups and Shelter, good insights into the writing process in general, overall very cool!)

@gabessquishytum (Premier Horny for Hob content, very NSFW but my gosh is it all compelling)

@landwriter (Writes Oaths, also wrote Black Shore and Saint Morpheus, LANGUAGE META)

@pellaaearien (Writes Another Word for Ache, has the cutest and most powerful video game character)

@wordsinhaled (Really cool modern art style Dream content + lots of soft Dreamling art, has written a lot of good lil tumblr fics <3)

@messmonte/@alexxuun (First is the NSFW account, second is SFW, Alex's has been the singlehanded inspiration for like. At least 5 or 6 fics I think.)

@dsudis (Wrote Licking the Spoon and the Dream Problems series, powerful in the ways of tagging and also just in the art of writing in general)

@mandolinearts (More soft Dreamling art! Wrote and illustrated the piece about Hob Gadling and the comet!)

@xx-vergil-xx (Writes Hounds, one of THE long fics of the fandom. Come for the fic, stay for the unhinged metaphors of devouring as devotion!)

I have a lot of other people I'd recommend following but I either don't know their tumblr handles (only know them from discord lol) or they aren't on tumblr <3 But if you follow THESE people and then follow whoever THEY follow, you're set!!!

[landwriter]

Am very curious about 3 the bird one we see a decent amount of cat dream which makes sense but I have definitely been rotating other creatures versions of dream.

Love your writing thanks for sharing it!

Thank you! I feel ya, I think probably my cardinal (pun intended!!!) sin in the Sandman Fanon is that I'm not at all interested in Cat Dream as a concept. Undine Dream? Selkie Dream? Bird Dream? Absolutely. We've seen cat!Dream, I wanna know what bird!Dream looks like. (Paging my favourite bird peeps @delta-pavonis and @aquilathefighter if you have headcanons, I would LOVE to hear them)

'maybe bird DREAM, like bird’s dream, the bird is dreaming of it'

Sadly in this case I am only trying to make it clear to myself (in the usual confusing and inarticulate fashion) that the dream I want to describe is a dream belonging to a bird rather than a dream about a bird. But Dream would be SUCH a cool bird.

From the Shaper of Forms WIP where Hob uses The Power Of Narrative against Dream (It's super effective!)

[valiantstarlights]

Heads Up, Seven Up

Thank you for tagging me, @valeriianz ! 🙇‍♀️

This is from the Charlie's Angels AU I randomly started writing the other day because @mallory-x said there needs to be more fics where Hob flips his hair. 😂 Inspired by this scene from the 2000 movie.

No pressure tagging: @arialerendeair @sleepsonfutons @gabessquishytum @delta-pavonis @teejaystumbles

Rules: post the last seven lines you wrote! Then tag others!

"Go back and talk to the bartender, Dream," Death urges him from his earpiece. She sounds giddy, which is exactly how Dream felt when Hob smiled at him as he placed drinks on Dream's serving tray to offer the guests. "He's making eyes at you even now."

"I cannot," Dream says in a low voice, resisting the urge to turn around and check if his sister is telling the truth. He is not a teenager anymore, and he still has two drinks left on his tray. "Not yet, at least."

"Oh, for fuck's sake," Desire says in his earpiece, before they appear out of nowhere to pluck the remaining two drinks. "It's not like you actually work here," they say snippily. When Dream opens his mouth to retort, Desire cuts him off with a glare. "No. You're welcome. Now go. And yes, I will be drinking these, and Destiny will forgive me for drinking on the job when I tell him I was forced to be subjected to your abysmal flirting skills." And after a pointed sip at one of the champagne flutes, Desire turns and walks away.

Dream stares after his sibling for a second, shakes his head a little, then goes back to the bar, conscience clear as he slides the empty tray towards Hob.

"Oh, hey again," Hob says, visibly lighting up at the sight of Dream, before he turns serious and leans towards him a little. "You okay?" he asks softly. "I saw someone scold you as they got their drinks."

"I am fine," Dream says, a little distracted by the closer proximity. Hob's eyes are so dark and lovely, and Dream wants to tuck the stray lock of hair falling across his forehead behind his ear. He realizes that he has been staring too long and quickly looks away. "Thank you for your concern."

"I can't watch this," Dream hears Desire mutter in his ear. "I'm going to turn into an alcoholic if I do."

[aetheltrythh]

Favourite authors and fics

Some of my favourite authors and fics :-).

Most of it dreamling and most of it is explicit.

Authors

Moorishflower - pretty much everything, but what I like most is:

Beautiful, Strange and New - I am just weak for retired!Morpheus/Hob/Daniel.

Siren AU - I am not much into the gore of it but the story arc is of truly epic proportions.

Softestpunk - pretty much everything

Delta Pavonis

find me in your rhytm - dance, and also incredible worldbuilding for such a short fic

High enough - swordplay!

Divination - shibari!

Some other fics

Death of translation by landwriter- for a linguistically-minded person such as myself, this is a delight.

The Art of weapon-related seduction by Aria - swordplay and archery :-)

Today I bury you in me by thedarklings - this is really really slow burn, but the arc is epic

How longingly by cuubism - this one may seem ordinary but I find it incredibly sexy and gentle

Insatiable by TJ_dragonblade - filthy sexy mess

In general, I love me some D/s undertones, service top Hob, m/m/m threesomes, competence kink, shibari, swordplay, dance, banter and teasing, poetry and other literary references, science references, clever plots, a bit of pillow princess Dream, some of monsterfucking (which is entirely the fault of the Sandman fandom :D ), and romantic filth, and I lots of other stuff (and always finding kinks that I didn't know I had or needed :D ).

If I was a faster writer I would have time to read more fics :D. Alas, I am not.

To conclude, I just want to thank everyone for writing such wonderful stories and smut.

[aralezinspace]

Sandmaniversary Celebration 💫

I wanted to write/create something for the Sandmaniversary this weekend, but I'm visiting my parents and my brain has been filled and worn out by summer Shakespeare (we open next week holy shit i'm totally frekaing out but also super excited) anyway

so instead I decided this would be a great time to not only celebrate the show, this world Mr. Gaiman has given us, but also celebrate each other, the fan creators! In no particular order, these are some of my fave writers and artists in this incredibly talented fandom!

@delta-pavonis @teejaystumbles @honeybeezgobzzzzz @just-french-me-up @just-some-random-blogger @7-wonders @cuckoo-on-a-string @peachesofteal @withoutyouimsaskia @writethrough @undiscovered-horizon @roguelov @dotieeee @lilpunkrock @lis-likes-fics @deicidis @rosaren2498 @daddyjackfrost

Y'all have expanded my enjoyment of Sandman and the Dreaming exponentially, I love revisiting your works and finding something new every time! So here's to our Sandman blorbos, our favorite realms, and here's to you who keep the stories growing 💗🥂

[seiya-starsniper]

Last 10 fics/Writing Patterns meme

Tagged by @beauty-of-nyx and I'm going to actually combine it with a tag game I saw @queerofthedagger play!

Rules: Post the first lines of your last ten fics posted to AO3 (Sort by date posted), AND see if there's a pattern!

1. A Thousand Years of Longing

Repairing the damage done to the Dreaming during Rose Walker’s time as dream vortex is a long and arduous task for Dream.

2. first time, forever

Dream paces obsessively around the tiny bedroom, feeling both claustrophobic and too exposed at once.

3. Summer Loving

The thing was, Murphy knew that his crush on Hob Gadling was obvious.

4. A Reprieve

“You,” Dream of the Endless growls as he pins the Corinthian down to the silken sheets, the nightmare’s own dagger pressed at the edge of his throat, “are not supposed to be here, little dream.” 

5. green-eyed nightmare

Jealousy is one of humanity’s ugliest emotions.

6. In the Stars

“You know, when I told you to write new stories for yourself—this isn’t quite what I had in mind,” Theo tells Loki as he ascends the last steps of the throne room to meet the God of Stories face to face for the first time in years.

7. turn off the sun, pull the stars from the sky

Dream had always known that his life was not his own.

8. That's Just the Way You Make Me Feel

Of all the places one would have expected to lose their grip on proper behavior in public, Lucienne had put summer carnival at the very bottom of her list.

9. Begin Again

Hob Gadling has lived a long life.

10. Don't Threaten Me With a Good Time

“I am searching for some wayward creations of mine,” Dream tells Hob late in the evening of their reunion meeting.

I already know a big pattern is that I love to open a story from Dream's POV, or with dialogue from Dream, no matter what ship it is ahahaha. I have also noticed, I prefer to open fics with some sort of action taking place. Let me know if you spot anything else!

no pressure tagging @tj-dragonblade @kydrogendragon @delta-pavonis @moorishflower @softest-punk @five-and-dimes @aisalynn @rriavian @chaosheadspace @teejaystumbles, very curious to see what you guys come up with!

[delta-pavonis]

Fic: Placebo Effect

Dreamling (human AU) || Rated E || 10k words || complete Alternate Universe - human, Hob is minorly Tiktok famous, for his woodworking ASMR videos, Hob is also a doctor, Dream listens to Hob’s ASMR, Dream is a museum curator, Dream needs his fucking lunatic parents to stop harassing him about not being married yet, Hob takes on the holiday shifts for colleagues because he doesn’t have a family to go home to, Hob is really fucking bored and decides to offer to do a fake relationship video call, you see where this is going, fake relationship to real relationship, the entire set of Endless sibs are little shits in the best way, getting together, phone sex, dirty talk, sexting, inappropriate work behavior, sex at work, Dream went to art school, Dream was an unrepentant slut in college, Hob is still an unrepentant slut, frenum piercing, reference to previous toxic relationship, sex toys, anal fingering, oral sex, blow job, anal sex

>> You are no doubt being inundated with such requests, but at the endless prodding of my siblings I decided to try: I would like to take you up on that offer of a holiday meal call as a fake partner. Even my littlest sister and my sibling-who-hates-me have taken pity upon my plight and encouraged me to do this, just so they don’t have to listen to our parents harass me for the entirety of another dinner. I am amenable to discussing terms, but you would probably benefit from some pre-event background on my family’s unique flavor of crazy before you agree to this. He doesn’t even get his phone back into his pocket before it vibrates with a notification.

inspired by a prompt @gabessquishytum got

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[pellaaearien]

WIP Tag Game

@softest-punk tagged me, thank you, you are a delight. <3

RULES: post the names of the files in your WIP folder. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

...I do not have a WIP folder. I barely have a WIP. Nevertheless, I shall make an attempt.

These are things I've vaguely thought about writing at some point, but only one is actually in progress, and there's no guarantee the others will ever come to fruition.

Dreamling

AWFA sequel

Married fishbowl rescue

I haven't watched Trigun AU

Oracle AU

Doctor/Rose

Locum Tenens

Family Reunion

FFXIV

Two Souls Intertwined

Deckerstar

Low Lays the Devil

Genderbent AU

Dragon Age

Unbound

I'm sorry for being the way that I am tagging @signiorbenedickofpadua @dsudis @delta-pavonis @cuubism & @the-apocrypha

[teejaystumbles]

Last 10 fics/Writing Patterns meme

Tagged by @seiya-starsniper, thank you!

Rules: Post the first lines of your last ten fics posted to AO3 (Sort by date posted), AND see if there's a pattern!

What an interesting idea!

The sharpest lives (are the deadliest to lead)

When Dream of the Endless steps into the almost empty New Inn, what he finds is not what he was expecting. 

2. Ambivalence

Listen. Hob Gadling is on his way back home from the Tesco round the corner when the first car nearly hits him.

3. Kaleidoscope

Daniel paced the hall of his throne room. He had been doing it for quite some time and Matthew had begun to give little croaks of anxiety every minute or so.

4. I’ll cry and I’ll cry if your light ever dies

Hob stepped into a ballroom full of faceless white ballerinas, twirling and whirling to Tchaikovsky's Flower Waltz.

5. Your Love Is Sunlight

It's a simple escort job through the Gendaran Fields to Lion's Arch but the caravan is big and a few adventurers have been hired as guards. Dream would normally not waste time with something like this, but he is expected in Lion's Arch and therefore joining the caravan is no hassle.

6. Through a window in the dark

Hob sat alone in his living room, nursing a bottle of wine. Gwen had left an hour ago when she realized he needed time to himself. 

7. yesterday is but today's memory (tomorrow is today's dream)

He sits naked on the sofa. Naz enters the flat, talking about something. He doesn’t listen. He grabs Naz’s arm. “No, not now.”

8. Be my Valentine

Hob sighed as he pulled another colorful card out of a sepia envelope. 

9. Pull down the stars

Hob dreams. He thinks so, at least. 

10. Flatter the mountain tops

Dream smells the humans before he hears them.

Okay, well! I guess I tend to start a fic with setting up a situation with as few words as possible, hoping to create interest so the reader wants to know what's going on. :D Standard writing practice, probably, and what I simply enjoy when reading and writing. ;) Ambivalence I started intentionally like Sandman's Sound and Fury, where the "listen" is repeatedly used to give glances into the lives of several people during 24/7, for all the comic readers. ^^

I tag out of curiosity, without pressure of course, @moorishflower, @dsudis, @cuubism, @delta-pavonis, and @karalynlovescake 🥰

[hardly-an-escape]

Heads Up, Seven Up,

thanks for the tag @valeriianz! <3

Rules: post the last seven lines you wrote! Then tag others!

I too have been really struggling to write lately, but I'm easing my way back into it. this is from something I've been fiddling around with for a little while... it needs editing.....

He’s mature enough to admit to himself that he misses it, sometimes, now that Dream has gained enough strength of body and mind to do it all for himself. There’s something so intimate about that contact with another person: about being needed in that particular intense way. It’s heady. But Hob, for all his faults, is trying so hard not to be an asshole these days. So he doesn’t touch Dream that way, now that he isn’t needed that way. No matter how much he might like to. Until now.

and argh as usual I don't know who to tag... I'll throw out @delta-pavonis @pellaaearien @beatnikfreakiswriting @omgcinnamoncakes and @signiorbenedickofpadua (and as always, only if you want to! <3)

[moorishflower]

WIP Tag Game

Ahaha oh geez thank you @delta-pavonis for tagging me <3 I have fewer WIPs than some of my friends but I am still plugging away at writing!

RULES: post the names of the files in your WIP folder. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

Most of these are Dreamling but there is 1 original in there!

baby acquisition

Basic Needs (Shelter, Food, Reproduction)

Intermediate needs

Wolf and Horse

This is Fine (A Wedding Song)

Anyone who wants to play can play <3

[landwriter]

WIP Game 📝

Tagged by @im-not-corrupted and @that-banhus. Thank you pals!

rules: list your WIPs and describe them

Because I do not hate myself and also am on mobile I will only list the WIPs I am actively working on! Have only been able to write for the first time this month like, this past weekend, but here’s the three I went to immediately:

Lighthouses - the seventies san francisco humans AU! 20K from a Spotify wrapped prompt and still not done! the timeless tale of an oblivious homosexual moving to The Big City and falling in love with his new (off limits) best friend that he’s in a writing course with. ft. near misses, attempted feelings confessions via Literary Reference, falling in love over landline, the chest hair agenda, furtive jacking off, cigarettes, and a surprise virginity kink. Guest starring all the historical queer ephemera I can squeeze into it! which is. a lot

Oaths - my ongoing longfic (ok it’s longfic for ME, just bog-standard novella length for fandom at large) about bandit Hob and cursed elphin twink Dream, aka Gloam’s Excuse To Go On About Landscape, set in 1539 in Selkirkshire. Now with trochaic tetrameter! THANKS, Banhus (but really.) A historic AU based on the ballad Tam Lin with a historically & regionally accurate amount of belief in the existence of fairies and the supernatural. May seem like a love story or adventure. Is actually just 50k+ on the concept of going home. Currently working on trying to make people cry buckets at the last chapter

Shaper of Forms - haven’t talked about this one yet anywhere (incredibly) but @softest-punk caused it back in January and if I ever finish this and publish it you can forward your complaints directly to them. Part paean to queer sex and part uncomfortably personal dissertation on the enormous joy and persistent devastation of being human and existing in an imperfect body. Bones and blood and grieving and envying flowers and all that. Horribly earnest.

I hope this whets y’all’s appetite because knowing something I’m working on is at all anticipated is such an enormous motivation!!!

tagging @moorishflower @delta-pavonis @teejaystumbles @hardly-an-escape and anyone who wants to share!!