#retired dream is a fuckboy wip

[seiya-starsniper]

SNIPPET - Dreamling Bingo (Robin Hood AU Retired Dream)

For @dreamlingbingo Square A3 - replacing Robin Hood AU with the Adoptable Prompt: Retired Dream

Snippet itself is rated General, actual fic will be Explicit

other snippets under the tag #retired dream is a fuckboy wip

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“Before we go on,” Hob says, trying his best to get some blood back into his brain and out of his cock, “We need to set some rules.” 

Murphy, predictably, frowns in confusion. 

“Are you referring to play rules?” he asks. 

“Not quite,” Hob answers. “I mean rules for how things are going to be, after we have sex.”

This time, Murphy outright grimaces and sighs in frustration. The sour look on his face tells Hob he knows where this conversation is going. 

“Humans have such complex feelings about sex,” he complains. 

“And you didn’t before?” Hob shoots back.  “Mr. ‘I sent a woman to hell because she had regrets about being with me?’”

“That was—” Murphy wrinkles his nose and grimaces. Oh, Hob knew all about Murphy’s past relationships, at least, the ones while he was still Endless, and how poorly those had ended.

“Was—?” Hob asks, letting the question hang between them. Murphy may have been able to get away with not communicating clearly when he was still inhuman, but that sort of thing didn’t work in his new existence.

“I was different then,” Murphy says after a brief silence. “Everything was so much…more intense. My loneliness, my responsibilities, my entire existence.”

“And now?” Hob asks. 

“Now,” Murphy replies, sticking his tongue out playfully and shrugging. “Now I can just focus on my pleasure. My wants. My needs. And the world would not end for it.” Hob snorts and rolls his eyes fondly.

“Sure, sure,” he says with an easy smile. “Far be it from me to disagree with a fun time. But you and I both know that doesn’t mean you’re not breaking hearts along the way while you’re finding yourself.” 

Murphy’s face twists in discomfort, and Hob knows he’s plucked a sensitive string. He wonders just how many hearts Murphy has broken since becoming human. He feels kind of bad for them, really. Murphy was so pretty and so emotional. There’s probably a few songs about him out there in the world if Hob had to guess. 

“I suppose you’re right,” Murphy finally acquiesces with a sigh. “Just because I am no longer directly tangled with the collective unconsciousness does not mean I am not affecting others. It is just…different.” He looks distinctly uncomfortable now, like he’s expecting some sort of judgment from Hob about his behavior. But Hob knows better than to throw stones in glass houses. Part of the reason he’d even wanted to live forever was so that he could bed as many women as he wanted. And men too, once he realized he enjoyed their company as well. 

“You remember what I said when I first set you loose on the world?” Hob asks, more gently this time. Murphy tilts his head, thinking, and isn’t that a sight? His friend has to actually struggle to remember things now. 

“You said,” Murphy replies then pauses. Then his eyes widen. “You said that I should treat others how I would wish to be treated myself.”

Hob smiles. “Golden Rule of living forever,” he replies. 

Murphy snorts. “And how would you wish for me to treat you then?” 

“Not like a one-night stand, for one thing,” Hob replies easily, stepping closer into Murphy’s personal space. “I’m your friend, not some fling you pick up at a club.” He reaches a hand to caress Murphy’s face. “So you communicate with me all your needs, or we don’t do this, okay?” 

Murphy inhales sharply and sways into Hob’s touch. “Yes,” he replies, eyes fluttering.

[moorishflower]

10 Stories/10 First Lines meme

Okay oh gosh I was tagged by a BUNCH of lovely folks, including @softest-punk @xx-vergil-xx @that-banhus @pellaaearien and MORE holy shit

So the rules are: post the first lines of your 10 most recently published AO3 stories. I am going from most recently updated here!

If I Please You (Dream/Hob, 1389 AU, WIP) The pendulum swing of the ruby is what catches Herry’s eye.

Imprimatur (Dream/Hob, Gutenberg oneshot, complete) It's the ink, maybe.

Radio Silence (Dream/Hob, The Last of Us fusion, complete) Ten years ago, the world ended all at once.

Foundations (Dream/Hob, epilogue to Hallmark-Adjacent, always human AU, complete) “Shit,” Hob says, looking up at the exceedingly posh, exceedingly clean, exceedingly well-appointed houses of Alexander Square.

Here there be dragons (Dream/Hob, siren/scifi AU, complete) Hob is off-planet when the story hits the galactic news crawl.

Hallmark-Adjacent (Dream/Hob, always human Hallmark movie AU, complete) Morpheus finds himself thinking about the liminal spaces of the world.

Ab instrumento ad corpus (Dream/Hob, the one where I succeeded in writing fisting but it took 27k to do it, complete) Dream has come to enjoy the tactile pleasures of the Waking.

I Wanna Hold Your Hand (Dream/Hob, the one where I kind of succeeded in writing fisting but it turned into angst first, complete) His Stranger's hands are beautiful.

Fey Divorce Court Isn't A Thing (Dream/Hob, established relationship 'performing for the Fae court', complete) What no one tells you about being married to an Endless, eldritch, unfathomable being is that, eventually, once those three things become sort of incorporated into your worldview, the rest of it becomes rather domestic.

Maybe sprout wings (Dream/Hob, inspired by The Odyssey/Hob dies and achieves immortality through the Dreaming AU, complete) "You know there's a new man in the Dreaming, right?"

Honorable Mentions (i.e not written completely by me or not posted yet)

Fuckboi Hob vs The HR-Worthy Confrontation (always human AU, which I co-wrote with @dancinbutterfly <3) It is a perfectly beautiful late winter afternoon.

Oreo Sandwich AU (my current WIP which is a retired!Dream/Hob/Daniel getting together fic currently parked at 119k of three-way longing and misunderstandings) Hob wakes to the sour bite of bile in his mouth, a pounding head, and the sound of his doorbell ringing.

If you see this floating around feel free to participate my head hurts too much to tag people rn <3<3<3 love you all~

[cheyla-v]

hi! i hope you're having a good day!

do you have any fanfic recs for yoi? or even any others that you liked?

Sorry it took so long for me to answer this! Apparently I see asks about fanfic recs and I take that as an opportunity to reread all of my favorites, lol. 

And wow, do I ever have fanfic recs for YOI. In years past, I would have recs for other fandoms but I've been almost exclusively reading YOI fanfic since I discovered it. The only exceptions are when Scioneeris (There Be Dragons, Harry) and StarLight_Massacre update (Rise of the Drackens and her Dracken universe, Beguile and Devotion of the Black Heir). 

This list is LONG, as a heads up, as I’m a very prolific reader (and truthfully, this is the condensed list, that’s gone through several rounds of cutting). There’s also numerous WIPs on this list, so sorry if that’s not your thing (but I’d still recommend giving them a shot). I’m putting it under a Read More just because it’s so long. I did put some warnings where I remembered to but there’s probably some I forgot, so read the tags carefully. 

Authors in general that I would recommend - EmHunter, theangryuniverse, Linisen, seventhstar, crossroadswrite, shysweetthing, nerdlife4eva, louciferfish, IncandescentAntelope, Aurum_Auri, lilithiumwords, lucyamui, Farasha

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One-Shots

The Boy Who Watched - Rosie_Rues

hood & glove - Fahye; hawberries - Otayuri

Katsuki Yuuri: Ascended Fanboy - exarite

Love Born in the Eye of the Storm - ScribblerQueen!

Nikiforov’s Law - LavenderProse

Timezones and Tricky Translations - ilien - Otayuri; Yuri & JJ

to sweep me off my feet - ADreamingSongbird - Superhero/supervillain AU

The Unknown Unknown - opalish - Superhero/supervillain AU

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Multi-Chapter

Bury Me Beautiful - IWillBeTheEndofYou - Kid Yurio; minor character death; parental abuse/neglect; this is really REALLY realistic for me, as someone who's worked in the system on multiple sides  - Would also recommend their Fragile Things series, which are ficlets that take place after this fic

Confidential Information - Adrianna99 - Secret Agent AU; injury warning; minor character death

crust and sugar over - ShanaStoryteller

Dear Mama - Ferrero13 - Slow burn

Driving Mr. Katsuki - CullinanKatsudon - WIP

Gold and Silver - LadyOfLoriens - Omega-verse

into your house into your bed into your dreams into your sleep - Vitali - WIP

Katsuki’s Pet Needs - nerdlife4eva - Pet store AU

Language Barriers - Galloping_Monroe - Slow burn; college AU

Lessons in Love - fangirlandiknowit - WIP - Kid Yurio

November’s Secret - LanaBerry - Slow burn; minor character death

Off-Season Gossip - WhiskeyDreams  - Would also recommend their one-shot Jacky and Becky’s Bizarre Adventures, which is like a stand-alone sequel

on growing: - crossroadswrite - Kid Yurio

the “real” viktor nikiforov - thishasbeencary

To Save a Drake - theMidgey - WIP - Non-human characters

Sixty Impossible Things - Wynn - WIP

The Stars, the Moon, and a Soul to Guide Us - theangryuniverse - WIP - Arranged marriage AU; omega-verse; neolithic AU

starstruck - shizuoh - Kid Yurio; trans characters

Through the Eyes of a King - the angryuniverse

The Unraveling of Victor Nikiforov - Glaucus_Atlanticus - Knitting; asexual character representation

World In My Eyes - mimilop - WIP - Omega-verse; kid Yurio

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Series

Breaking the Ice - BertholdovonMoosburg - Skygem's Retirement AU

i was a college fuckboy - tootsonnewts - Otayuri; College AU

The Katsuki/Nikiforov Collector’s Edition - AlexWSpark - Gaming/Streaming AU

Kiatina’s Dragon AU - kiatina - Harry Potter AU (kind-of); magic AU

Leader/Follower - rhinestonekitty - Ballroom dancing AU

Ordinary People - louciferish - Superhero/supervillain AU

Podium Family Fluff - MaxMattel666 - Omega-verse

The Skater, the Dancer, and the Hellcat - KasumiChou - Kid Yurio; pure fluff

Transitions - SadieHerondale - Transgender character AU; parental abuse/neglect; transphobia

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Works Rated E (separately labeled in case those reading this are minors or that’s simply not your thing)

all the types of dating - igneousbitch - College professor AU; geology AU

Anteros - sparrow30 - Porn star AU

The Art of Scraping Through - capn_fuzzy, IncandescentAntelope - sugar daddy AU; camboy AU; omega-verse

Be My Sex Coach, Viktor! verse - lucyamui - Series - porn star character

Beneath Your Beautiful by EmHunter, Bunnycube - Camboy AU

Beside the Dancing Sea - lily_winterwood - Series - Selkie AU - The first fic Beside the Dancing Sea seems to have been removed or hidden from public view recently on AO3, which is odd

Call Everything on the Ice ...  - shysweetthing

Camboy Omegaverse - Aurum_Auri - Series - Omega-verse; camboy AU; stalking 

centripetal force - braveten - College AU

Chorus in Aurorae - Salty_Caramel - Omega-verse; neolithic AU

Danse Macabre - Aurum_Auri - Serial killer AU; suicidal thoughts; minor character death; domestic abuse references; psychological grooming/stockholm syndrome

Dog People - stillmadaboutpetra - Series - Bipolar character (love love LOVE this depiction); suicidal thoughts

empty spaces between stars - astudyinrose - Slow burn; mentions of domestic abuse

Find Me! Keep Me! - Ars_Matron - Omega-verse

Florentine - Mazarin221b - Series; BDSM AU

Give Me Too Much & More - Cbear2470 - Series - Sugar daddy AU; polyamory representation

Hungry Hearts - voxofthevoid - Series - Vampire AU; suicide attempt; depression; unhealthy relationships

I Write Sins, Not Tragedies - cuttlemefish

i’ll be your sinner in secret (i’ll be your hero and win it) - seventhstar - Superhero/supervillain AU

Law Firm of Handsome Nerds - nerdlife4eva - Series - Side of Seungchuchu; lawyers AU

Let Me Fall for You - HuntressFirefall - Abusive coaching dynamics; slow burn

A Love Most Unique -  heartsdesire456 - One-shot; asexual representation; BDSM undertones

(Lucky for you) That’s what I like - intothedestiel - Sugar daddy AU

Miliy - fangirlandiknowit - Camboy AU

Money Shot - Ashida - WIP - MMA AU; sugar daddy AU

Moonlit Nights and Starlit Seas - MidnightJournalist - Series; WIP - Mermaid/Cecaelia AU; mpreg mentions

Nerve Endings - Phyona - Sugar daddy AU

A Practical Guide to Winning the Olympics (Dos and Don’ts) - Anna (arctic_grey) - Pairs skating AU; injury warning

pulses that beat double - threerings - Historical AU; sugar daddy AU

Rivals - Reiya - Series - Slow burn; rivalry AU

Snowbound - ajwolf - One-shot - Olympics AU

Stranger Things - ShardsInMySkin - One-shot - Olympics AU

Stress - strawberijammie - Series - College AU

Sugar - weberina - Series - Sugar daddy AU

Sugar High - arekushia, ryoseirui - WIP - Sugar daddy AU

Sweetsilversub - phlintandsteel - BDSM AU; demisexual representation

Technically Arranged - ajwolf - WIP - Royalty AU; minor character death

The Thirsty Games - Aurum_Auri - Series - Omega-verse

Twinkling Keys - Aurum_Auri - Sugar daddy AU; foot kink

Undiscovered Country - shysweetthing - Depression; eating disorder

Victor Effing Nikiforov - shysweetthing

Victor Nikiforov is the pregnant omega that all other pregnant omegas hate (because of just how much his pregnancy AGREES with him) - phlintandsteel - Omega-verse; mpreg

The White Demon and Kaito-sama - Laronica - Dragon AU; omega-verse; injury warning

With Two Hands - whatsup_buttercup - Space AU; royalty AU; omega-verse

10 Things I Hate About Your Sweater - EmHunter - Series - Lots of Bollywood references

[seiya-starsniper]

Trick or treat!! 🎃

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FRIEND! 😄🎃

Have a snippet from my #retired dream is a fuckboy WIP

Murphy does text Hob his next piercing. Two barbells cleanly run through on his nipples. Hob doesn’t bite his phone, but it’s a near thing with how much he wants. He can tell Murphy also purposely cut the bottom of the photo just shy of making it more naughty too, just to tease him even more. He texts back a series of fire emojis, then asks Same guy as last time? No, Murphy answers. We are no longer speaking. These were done by a woman in Thailand.  Hob snorts. He’d bet money he could guess why. His loss, Hob replies. And your gain, Murphy answers.

[seiya-starsniper]

retired Dream is a fuckboy?? 👀 (also lol that tried to autocorrect to ‘fun boy’) xo @hardly-an-escape

Oooooo yes, this one is so much fun! And retired Dream can be both a fuckboy and a fun boy, as a treat 🤣

The basic premise for this one is Dream becomes human, but Hob tells him to go live life as he pleases (an echo of what Dream told Hob when he was first immortal) and Dream...goes off to travel and work off thousands of years of sexual tension 😂😂

The whole thing started off in this short fic I wrote ages ago and since then I've just been prodding at it and trying to give it a real plot and not just make it a pwp lol. Here's a little bit of the fic now in the initial draft!

Murphy, as promised, does not disappear the next morning. In fact, he gives Hob a rather enthusiastic goodbye that has the immortal seeing stars and questioning whether it was possible for an orgasm to detach one’s soul from their body. Wherever he’d learned that trick with his mouth, Hob was tempted to send the other person a gift basket. And maybe a proposition of his own.  “Don’t be a stranger,” Hob says, as he kisses Murphy goodbye in his doorway. “And you should send me some selfies of any new piercings you get.” Murphy smirks against his lips. “Only if you send me one back. Preferably if the reaction is…positive.” Hob snorts. “Real roundabout way to ask a man to send you a dick pic, Murphy.” “I have been told one needs to be—subtle with such things,” Murphy replies, fluttering his lashes as he steps back from Hob and into the hallway. Hob unashamedly rakes his body over the form of his friend, his now friend with benefits they’d decided last night, and hums approvingly. “You know you never need to be subtle with me,” Hob says. “I think 600 some years earns you the right to be as crass as you want. It’s good for a man’s ego too, you know,” he adds, waggling his eyebrows. Murphy rolls his eyes. “Goodbye Hob,” his friend says. “I’ll see you around.” Then he’s turning and walking down the stairs towards the building exit. Hob is almost certain the man is sashaying his hips on purpose, giving Hob one final show before he’s gone for who knows how long.

[seiya-starsniper]

Seiya's 2024 Dreamling Bingo Masterpost

I've returned for Dreamling Bingo 2024! And I've already replaced a prompt for my first fill 😅😅😅

UPDATE 11/3/24 - FINAL CARD! I barely made my blackout goal but I made it! The green circles are completed fics, and the yellows are works in progress! See below for final links.

Thanks for another wonderful event @dreamlingbingo team!

A1 - Lost In Translation Meeting the Family - Chapter 5 of So Tell Me Where To Put My Love (Tumblr || AO3)

A2 - Technology - Audiobook Narrator AU (Snippets: #audiobook narrator dream wip)

A3 - Robin Hood AU Retired Dream (Snippets: #retired dream is a fuckboy wip)

B1 - Creature: Half-Human - ocean lullaby (Tumblr || AO3)

B2 - FREE SPACE - Cruel Summer (Tumblr || AO3)

B3 - Nipple Stimulation - Dangerous Affairs (Tumblr || AO3)

C1 - Rescue - a half-remembered dream (Tumblr || AO3)

C2 - Alpha/Beta Relationship (Snippets: #dreamling omegaverse regency sequel wip)

C3 - Blowjob - you're the only real thing i've ever touched (Tumblr || AO3)

[seiya-starsniper]

WIP TAG GAME

Tagged by @softest-punk 💖💖 I think someone else tagged me too but I can't find the post! sorry :X

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 have a much bigger pile than this, but I'm limiting it to things I want to get done in 2024 LOL

you know I love you right - Dreamling (tumblr prompt)

I love your smile - Dreamling (tumblr prompt)

You're All Right - Dreamling (tumblr prompt)

omegaverse forced marriage (snippet 1, snippet 2)

Dreamling Bridgerton AU enemies to spouses to lovers (CECIL THIS IS YOUR FAULT)

Marrying the Divorce Lawyer (snippet 1, snippet 2)

Break Me, Shake Me Pt 2

Retired Dream is a fuckboy

Hellmuse Fic Pt 2

Hob gets the Corinthian's skull

From Eleanor, with Love (A View to a Dream sequel)

A Dream for a Viscount Pt 2

Set the night on fire chapter 3/4

Tagging @zigzag-wanderer @teejaystumbles @arialerendeair @blueberrymffn @gabessquishytum @chaosheadspace @valeriianz

[seiya-starsniper]

WIP Search Game

Tagged by @lenreli and @ginoeh! Love you both <3

My words are:

jewel, comfy, difficult, break, silver (from len) & shiver, dark, sleep, hot, red (from ginoeh)

Putting them under a cut since this is going to get a bit long, and probably nsfw!

Jewel - surprisingly, jewel is nowhere to be found in any of my WIPs! I may need to remedy that!

Comfy - It's not an exact match, but it's the closest I could find. This is from the next part to Break Me, Shake Me:

“Tell me what you need,” Hob says, rubbing comforting circles along Dream’s lower back. “I’ll get you whatever you want.”

Difficult - From the "Retired Dream is a Fuckboy" WIP: (first draft can be found here!)

“Hob,” Murphy interrupts his thoughts, drawing out the vowel in his name. There’s a bit of mischief in his expression, which both thrills and unnerves Hob. “While I may no longer be able to perceive your daydreams, it is not difficult to parse your thoughts.”

Break - From my "Dream thinks coffee is a courting gift" WIP

"Then you should not be offering it as an apology," Dream says, as if Hob were breaking some sort of social code. He probably does think Hob is breaking some sort of social code. For all the unlimited knowledge Dream seems to contain, he does have a hard time grasping some human intricacies from time to time.

Silver - From the "Retired Dream is a Fuckboy" WIP:

“You look at me the same way others have,” Murphy says, flicking his tongue out and swirling it around the glass. “The same as the man who gave me this,” he adds, sticking his tongue out and flaunting the silver stud for Hob to fully appreciate. “Right before I wrapped my lips around his -” “All right, that’s enough out of you,” Hob says.

Shiver - From the "Hobrintheus Tentacle Sex in the Dreaming" WIP (first draft can be found here!)

The possessive tone in which the Corinthian stakes his claim sends a shiver down Hob’s spine. Hob has always enjoyed how much the Corinthian covets him, loves it even more now that he inspires it in both the nightmare and his creator.

Dark - from Chapter 5 of Midnight Pleasures

Dream huffs. “Were it up to me,” he says, brushing a thumb against Hob’s lips, “I would lock you away for safekeeping. To keep you bound in blood to me by some task impossible to achieve.” Hob inhales sharply at the sudden possessive and dark tone. “You wouldn’t,” he answers immediately, but he is not as convinced as he wishes he were.

Sleep - from the Dragon AU

When he settles himself back into his human form, Dream retreats into his cave and settles down for sleep. He dreams of a simpler time, a time when he was not the last of his species, and when humans were not so odious to live amongst.

Hot - from my still untitled Spy AU

He imagines Dream, rumpled with sleeplessness, dressed in tacky pajamas, a cup of hot tea in his hand. Hob has never been privy to such an image, the Quartermaster of MI6 would never allow such a moment of vulnerability with any of his agents, least of all Hob.

Red - from my "Dream is fae instead of Endless" AU

When he catches the man in the woods, Hob immediately knows he’s won something more than just eternal life.  “Touch me,” the man says, eyes glowing an otherworldly red, “and eternity is yours.”

Tagging @tj-dragonblade, @honeyteacakes @silver-dream89 @27dragons @phinofthestorm

Your words are: sand, heat, blue, wine, run