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Morpheus rolling up to the Dreaming like

Chapter Seven: Return of the King

Happy holidays to those who celebrate the season! May it be joyful and calm to those who need it.

Figured a holiday treat was needed for today! Be safe everyone.

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me as a 14th century knight: this sucks i'm gonna fms (translator's note: fall on my sword)

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Nearly a year has passed since Morpheus' abduction, the anniversary nearly coinciding with the winter solstice. Hob is determined to replace those memories with something warmer.

Happy solstice, festive Saturnalia, bitchin' Yule everyone 💖

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drop this sunflower🌻 into the inboxes of the blogs that make you happy! lets spread a little sunshine ☀️

awwww thank you!! You and your blog make me so happy too!! 💖

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I just watched the Superman trailer and DC, imma need you to stop doing my baby dirty like that like what did Green Lantern ever do to you

I’m just saying they should give me a bajillion dollars to make a green lantern movie I’d treat him right

So many people hate Guy Gardner for shit ass reasons and I don’t want this movie to give them a justified one 😭

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Thinking I need to get back on my Morpheus/Reader and Morpheus/OC bullshit 🧐

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a dragon finds a clutch of goose eggs and attempts to hatch them

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I’m gnawing on this like a bone just may have to write it aaaahhhh

hob who pushes away the memory of his witch trial and refuses to confront his fear even 800 years later vs his husband king of nightmares whose job it is to make people confront their fears but can't surpass his consorts power without he knows will be a terrible argument. discuss.

This is genuinely fascinating actually!!!!

Because imagine how good Hob is at compartmentalising and suppressing his trauma. He has to be, in order to survive. And that's fine, Dream understands, but his function is to help process that trauma and Hob. Won't. Let him.

Because Hob is secretly terrified of being anything less than functional. He doesn't want to be a burden; he needs to be as normal as possible. That way, he won't ever give Dream a reason to abandon him.

So when Hob starts to dream of deep waters or pitchforks or anything of that nature, he's quick to switch up the narrative. He'll try to distract Dream, or use his own consciousness to make the deep water into a shallow kid's pool. Dream wants to scold him and lecture him again about the importance of nightmares, but he also doesn't want to drive Hob away!

Ultimately its Delirium who offers a little advice to her brother-in-law: if he keeps avoiding the truth, then he'll end up in her realm instead of Dream’s. And it won't be half as nice. If he processes this pain in his nightmares, at least he'll have his husband to comfort him. In the realm of delirium, he will be alone. It's his choice to make.

And in the end, Hob will always choose Dream. Of course he will. He has a feeling that everything might actually turn out okay.

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the Borgia: "but how do we even find this assassin?

ezio, in this cunty ass outfit:

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OCs who own my heart ➻ Camille "Female Rage" Rohan Three Hundred Years of Longing on AO3 "You should have seen the look on his face when he realised the blood on my hands was his... It was like cutting into butter, again and again. I couldn't even feel my arm. By the time I stopped, there was more blood on me than left in him."

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Immortale: Italian, 'immortal' Hob Gadling finds himself entangled in a struggle that spans millennia. Dream of the Endless sends his blade to ensure their wager is unaffected. When they both meet famed Mentor Ezio Auditore, things take an expected and yet somewhat surprising turn.

FINALLY IT'S HERE my entry for the @sandman-connect4 fic game, filling prompts prison, willpower, belt, forum

I almost didn’t finish this on time because Ezio and Hob sprinted away with it while laughing maniacally- what I thought would be maybe 9k ended up being LITERALLY DOUBLE THAT

This work isn't a direct sequel, but it does come after The Tale of the Blade in the Dark

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Music hive mind! I’m in a masquerade themed drag show next week and am looking for songs that are dark and dramatic with the vibe of “masquerade as a metaphor for dysphoria, passing, and/or being in the closet” send me your recs!!

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~~Read It Here~~

Immortale: Italian, 'immortal' Hob Gadling finds himself entangled in a struggle that spans millennia. Dream of the Endless sends his blade to ensure their wager is unaffected. When they both meet famed Mentor Ezio Auditore, things take an expected and yet somewhat surprising turn.

FINALLY IT'S HERE my entry for the @sandman-connect4 fic game, filling prompts prison, willpower, belt, forum

I almost didn’t finish this on time because Ezio and Hob sprinted away with it while laughing maniacally- what I thought would be maybe 9k ended up being LITERALLY DOUBLE THAT

This work isn't a direct sequel, but it does come after The Tale of the Blade in the Dark

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This crown but for Consort of the Dreaming Hob

I've always liked this design, and the halo motif just seems right, especially if you're going for Hope!Hob

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It's my 12 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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Damn

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Lamia and the Soldier (1905) by John William Waterhouse