#sandmanniversary2023

[rexwrendraws]

Sandcastles: Year One, A Sandman Fan-Fic Anthology ⏳

To celebrate The Sandman's one year anniversary this past weekend (how has it been a year already!?), I started a self-indulgent project and decided I wanted to take a crack at typesetting for the very first time.

So, I'm very proud to present: Sandcastles, an 180-page digital anthology that celebrates some of my favorite Sandman fics from the past year! Sandcastle collects shorter fics ranging from gen to mature, and is print-ready and available to be downloaded for free. Through this anthology, I hope others can get the same joy from these fics the same way I did over the past year (think of it as a glorified fic rec list)! (And, if anyone's interested, the print-ready files are available for download as well, if anyone wanted to print their own copy of Sandcastles!)

✨ Download Sandcastles here!

Thank you to all the authors for giving me permission to include their work in this anthology! This is my love letter to all of your work! Please check them out and leave a kind word or two!

The fics included in Sandcastles, in order of the Table of Contents, are the following:

Companions - Picture_Yourself (@anthrossandman)

Fridays - hardly_an_escape (@hardly-an-escape)

Warning Sign - issylra (@issylra)

Snacktime - fishydwarrows (@fishfingersandscarves)

Stray - softestpunk (@softest-punk)

Aulon Raid - moorishflower (@moorishflower)

Unbidden Miracles - mostlybuddingthoughts (@mostlybuddingthoughts)

Available - softestpunk (@softest-punk)

Points of View - cuubism (@cuubism)

Fern-Fevered - notallsandmen (notallmaenads) (@notallsandmen)

The Last - secondjulia (@secondjulia)

Scratch a Little Itch - sanyumi (@valeriianz)

Simple Dreams of Comfort - softestpunk (@softest-punk)

The Apocalypse is Nigh! - cuubism (@cuubism)

To Those Who Dare Wonder - Astrophel_Hireath (@mentallyinvernation)

The Perils of Inebriation - Lilibet (@the-slow-arrow)

Touch - softestpunk (@softest-punk)

Passing the Time - Anonymous

I'm Stuck on You (I'm Mighty Glad You Stayed) - hardly_an_escape (@hardly-an-escape)

Hob Gadling vs. The British Museum (Unknown Artist, c. 2022, Oil on Canvas) - TheAllKnowingOwl (@theallknowingowl)

This also counts as my submission for Day 1 of @mr-sadman 's Sandmanniversary 2023 prompts (Collection) :)

_ _ _ _ _ (Post & files updated — 29.08.2023)

[mr-sadman]

The Sandman TV Show celebrates its one year anniversary...

in less than a WEEK!!

Friends, time does fly really fast and we can't believe it had been almost a year already since our dear show aired for the very first time! To celebrate the occasion, the Modmin team of Mr. Sadman cordially invites you to

Sandmanniversary Weekend!

To celebrate, we offer you a whole weekend of daily prompts, fic read-alongs, games and more! This is an event to celebrate the entirety of the show that we all love and cherish so much!

Without further adue, here is our wonderful promptlist

Our lovely FAQ

You have read well, this is an all-ship, gen event to celebrate the myriad of ways we enjoy and love the Sandman!!

Do not hesitate if you have more questions, we don't bite!

TLDR : Sandmanniversary Weekend is happening from August 4th to August 6th celebrating all things Sandman TV. All mediums are encouraged, as well as all sorts of content (SFW, NSFW, Triggering, etc.). We are on tumblr, here, as well as Twitter, AO3 and Discord!! Don't forget to tag #Sandmanniversary and #Sandmanniversary2023 for us to see and reblog!

[tryan-a-bex]

Fireflies and a Missing Person

For the #sandmanniversary2023! Read it on AO3 Prompts: for Aug 4-6, stargazing, hunt, raven Gen, 1172 words, broken bone, missing person

Lucienne sighed deeply as Gault caressed her bald head and pointy ear tips. There was really nothing so lovely as lying on the grass in Fiddler’s Green, with her head in her love’s lap, watching the stars swirl above them. Gault always joined her in stargazing initially, but was quicker to be distracted, or maybe just slower to lie down on the grass when her neck got tired of craning at the sky. They quietly rehashed their days, each taking comfort in the other’s interest in the minutiae of her life.

Today, Gault was celebrating another trans person who, through the shapeshifting dreams she brought, had realized that he could, if he wanted to, take steps toward having the shape he really wanted on the outside as well as the inside. Gault found him as a she and left him as a he, and it was one of the greatest privileges of her life.

For Lucienne, today’s annoyance had been Mervyn Pumpkinhead. Or rather, the lack of Mervyn. Usually he was around, even ubiquitously, whenever Lucienne needed him to do any little thing. Today, she’d started keeping a list when he hadn’t appeared for a few hours. It happened occasionally that he forgot to tell her about some big project he was taking on, and she wouldn’t see him for a few days.

“Awwwk! Hey Lucienne! Hi Gault! Have you seen Mervyn?” Matthew flapped over to them across the dark field, landing beside Lucienne’s knees.

“I haven’t seen him all day,” Lucienne complained as Gault shook her head in agreement.

“He was going to play poker with us tonight, and he never showed up!”

“Sometimes he gets involved in a big project and doesn’t come around the castle for a few days. But I’ve never heard of him not knocking off at quitting time,” Lucienne admitted.

Matthew hopped sideways and shook his head.

“I have to say, I’m getting a bit worried about him. I’ve been looking all over.”

“Really?” Gault asked. “You haven’t found him? Do you need our help?”

“Would you? Could you help me hunt for him?”

“Of course! Where have you already looked?” Lucienne jumped up and stretched out the magical raven wings Dream had given her, giving Gault a hand as she rose and fluttered her glowing wings as well, and together they leaped into the air after Matthew.

It was quickly apparent that the new moon which had made stargazing so delightful wasn’t helping with an aerial search. They needed more light. Lucienne’s eyes drifted to Gault as she pondered the problem, and the gorgeous glowing lines of her body suddenly gave Lucienne the answer she was looking for. 

“Fireflies!”

“Fireflies?” Matthew asked.

“Ahhhhh!” Gault nodded.

Lucienne, as Steward of the Dreaming, had some authority to ask dreams for help, so it was no big thing for her to summon a dream of fireflies and request that they sweep along the ground before the three friends. With the fireflies lighting the terrain, it was quickly clear that they had not yet found Mervyn. 

As they covered ground, the fireflies flowing over trees and dipping into little streambeds sunken in the landscape, Lucienne also searched her mind for any hints Mervyn might have left, or any parts of the Dreaming he might have found difficult to leave. Wait, hadn’t he been complaining about a tree? And a little stream? 

“He was muttering yesterday about a Tree of Wisdom dream, where the Tree is located at the end of a long, deep ravine, its fruit only accessible after a difficult quest, but he has to go periodically to check that the little stream that waters it has not become blocked by leaves.”

“Oh, I know where that is!” Gault exclaimed, leading them in a more westerly direction.

—

The ravine was deep and dark as they glided along above it, the depths twinkling with the lights of the fireflies. They were nearly to the end when the fireflies started to gather at a certain point, and Matthew, Gault and Lucienne flew closer to see what had caught their interest.

“Took you long enough to get here!” Mervyn’s vociferous complaining reached them before they could see his head. 

“I’ve had the worst day! Had to hike all the way out here, didn’t I? Muck about clearing decaying leaves from that damn little stream. Then the path crumbled on my way back up, dumping me back down here on my ass. And this hell-forsaken rock went and cracked my leg, so do you think I could get back up? No! And you lot! Not even coming for me until after dark! No one cares about the working man.”

Lucienne put an arm around him to help him up, while Gault gathered the pieces of his broken leg. Matthew hopped around, his worried chattering a counterpoint to Mervyn’s ongoing grumbling. 

“How are we going to get him up the hill? His leg is broken and it’s not even flesh, will it heal? Does it hurt? That path looks dangerous even if it wasn’t dark. We can’t fly him home. This is terrible!”

“Maybe the roc?” Gault suggested to Lucienne. Lucienne considered. The open space in the middle of the ravine was barely big enough for the humongous mythical bird to land, but she thought they could make it happen. 

“Yes,” she agreed, “Over there.” She requested the roc’s aid as they began to help Mervyn over the uneven ground to the centre of the ravine. The fireflies continued to light their way.

By the time they got there, the roc was circling above. 

“Do you think you can manage?” Lucienne shouted up to it as it examined the terrain and the broken Pumpkinhead. It dipped its head in acquiescence. As Gault held Mervyn’s head aloft and Lucienne supported his body, the roc dove down to grab him, head in one claw and body in the other, against Mervyn’s increasingly loud protests. Lucienne was pretty sure they were token protests. Anyway, she couldn’t think of any other way to get him out of the ravine. The three rescuers rose into the air after them, Gault with the broken leg once more in her hands. 

—

The poker game was not only later but louder than usual. Lucienne had decided to provide hot chocolate drinks, on the theory that warm chocolate was soothing to people who had fallen into ravines or participated in daring rescues. Mervyn didn’t seem too interested in his. He’d patched up his leg with his tools, brought to him by Matthew, and was proudly regaling the poker group with the (only slightly exaggerated) tale of his adventure. It looked like they were letting him win, possibly. Lucienne wasn’t all that familiar with poker, but he seemed happy about how it was going. Gault brought her cup of hot chocolate and cuddled next to Lucienne on the loveseat.

“Looks like he’s going to survive then,” she remarked. Lucienne leaned on her shoulder.

“All is right in the Dreaming once more,” she agreed.

Thank you to @best-wishes for the great beta read!

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Now with art by @ibrithir-was-here!

[purplesauris]

Trying to Recognize Myself (When I Feel I’ve Been Replaced)

Rating: Explicit

Pairing: Dream of the Endless/Hob Gadling

Hob has lived a very, very long life. 

He's proud of it too, though he can't brag about it to anyone but his partner (who is partially the reason he's immortal in the first place). And part of being so old, having lived so long while fancying and vying for an eldritch's attention, is that he attracts a particular crowd. A crowd he's had plenty of time to get used to, that he relates to more than he relates to humans sometimes, but one he attempts to keep some distance from.

He might be mired in the supernatural, but even he has a limit to how much trouble he'll let come to him.

Despite that, he has quite a few good friends all mixed up in the occult, from Johanna Constantine (who looks exactly like her ancestor) in the exorcism business to the twins that infrequently show up to the New Inn, mostly on full moons, and offer to lay down a few simple wards in exchange for Hob keeping the pub open past the witching hour. He likes those two best, mostly because they conduct themselves well and don't try to drag Hob any deeper than he's shown interest in going.

Right now, he really wishes the supernatural being accosting him were as deferential as the twins.

Read more on AO3!

[sleepsonfutons]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dream of the Endless/Hob Gadling, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Hob Gadling Characters: Dream of the Endless, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Hob Gadling Additional Tags: Self-Indulgent, When You Have A Crush On The Monster Under Your Bed, Hob Gadling Has A Crush On The Eldritch Something Under His Bed, Dream Is The Monster Under Your Bed, Holding Hands, Getting Together, Stargazing, Alternate Universe, Sandmanniversary 2023 Series: Part 2 of Dreams From Under The Bed Summary:

Hob's connected with his under the bed neighbor and while he loves their hand holding and starry ceiling views, his heart yearns for more.

[fleabagoftheendless]

Wrote this one on the prompt 'Collection' for Sandmanniversary 2023. Hope y'all enjoy it!

[ao3feed-corintheus]

soulmates. of a sort.

soulmates. of a sort. by RyuuSiren13 It is not until everything is over - after the Vortex is dealt with, after Calliope is freed, after plans for the future have been tentatively made - that Dream looks around and sees the love that he has been searching for all this time. Words: 1195, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, Other Characters: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Matthew the Raven, Lucien | Lucienne (The Sandman), Hob Gadling, Calliope (The Sandman), Modern Johanna Constantine (The Sandman TV), The Corinthian (Sandman), Merv & Fiddler’s Green & Gault are there in the background Relationships: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus & Everyone, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Everyone, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Hob Gadling, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/The Corinthian, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Lucien | Lucienne, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus & Matthew the Raven, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Calliope, everyone else also gets along but they’re in the background Additional Tags: Oh Boy What Have I done, Mr. Sadman's Sandmanniversary 2023 (The Sandman), Sandmanniversary, Sandmanniversary2023, Soulmates, Platonic Soulmates, Romantic Soulmates, They’re dating but they’re also a QPR but they’re also a flaming mess, a love letter to sandman from an aroace, Introspective Dream of the Endless, introspective, AU, Everything is Beautiful and Nothing Hurts, Comfort, Light Angst, Soft Dream Of The Endless | Morpheus, The Corinthian is His Own Warning (The Sandman), but he’s mostly just vibing

[ineffably-ryuu]

Happy Sandmanniversary2023, everyone. Thanks for the great year. Let’s do it again. ;)

For the prompt “soulmates”

Or, continue below

Dream is not sure when he realizes it.

Perhaps it begins that moment he escapes from the cage and returns to the Dreaming, Lucienne’s hand warm and soft and real in his. Perhaps it begins with Matthew’s grating voice in his ear, giving him hope in Hell itself, with Johanna’s rueful smirk and understanding eyes.

Perhaps it begins when Hob Gadling’s bright amber eyes meet his own and their light is immediately eclipsed by that of the grin which follows. Perhaps it is even with the first Corinthian’s tears and spite and the second’s three-mouthed gaping surprise and shocked laughter when he is remade with nothing taken away, just a few things added.

It might even be that moment in the doorway, an untethered moment in space and time, the heat of Calliope’s body pressed against his, the scent of her hair clashing with the fresh breeze bringing with it the faintest hints of petrichor and ozone as the world changes just beyond their reach.

In the end, all the moments blend into one another, a confusing cascade of memories and thoughts and emotions that feel at once more ingrained than the marrow of this form’s bones and also completely removed from who he is and always has been. Perhaps this is what it's like for mortals when they dream.

Dream doesn’t know. He doesn’t know if it even matters.

Ever has love come upon him like an ambush predator in the night, one heartbeat calm and the next constricted in a vice, chasing the air from lungs that do not need to breathe and sending endorphins through a body that chooses to have them only for the knowledge of what it means to feel.

He does not know how to react when this is not the case. When love is something he almost does not recognize, when it is instead a thing of persistence, of endurance. When he looks back and realize it has been following him for centuries - millennia, more - and he had not even realized what he was running from.

He does not know when or how he recognizes this warmth that has seeped into his bloodstream, that wraps around him and grounds him in both the Waking and the Dreaming in a way he has never felt.

Perhaps it dawns on him that hazy afternoon spent in the Dreaming, the warmth of Hob Gadling pressed against his side, the snickers and cut-off exclamations of muttered arguments from where Lucienne sits across from them, Matthew perched on one shoulder and the newly remade Corinthian leaning over the other, the echoing voices of his other arcana, Merv, and Johanna Constantine in the distance, Calliope’s laughter a layered chime above them.

He is, of course, the last one to realize this.

Somehow, they manage to go from there. Despite his immediate, instinctive retaliation, despite his fears and rage and everything that he is, they all choose to stay. They make it work.

But still, Dream does not know what it is. What they are. For a being who has always been defined by his function, his name, it is… unsettling.

It is not a harem, despite what the Corinthian likes to claim whenever others are within hearing distance. His nightmare simply likes to rile up the others, a small dog nipping at ankles to get one’s attention. Half the members have no interest in carnal acts, whether with him or any other, and the dynamics are at once too complex and too straightforward to qualify as such.

It is also. Not. Not a harem.

From the shocked and not quite disgusted noise Desire had made when they’d seen them together, followed by the exponentially more disgusted noise they’d made upon realizing their own involvement in this tangled mess, not even they have any label for it.

It is not a polycule, for such emotions don’t quite suit them all, or even their majority. They are not merely friends, not even simply family, because they have all been hurt too severely by fairweather fools who had once sought those titles. Lucienne had suggested some sort of polycule QPR - or queer platonic relationship, as she explained - but none had been able to agree on the matter.

Matthew had asked why they needed a name, and then had promptly followed up his protest with increasingly absurd suggestions. Hob, in his imminently practical and earthly way, had stated that they were friends and partners with the assuredness of one who has told Death “no thank you” more times than any other. Calliope had merely smiled in that occasional, mysterious way of hers and said that he would realize it in time.

Dream had not yet found it within himself to bring it up with the others.

However, the thought would not leave him be. The more time that went by, the more his tangled emotions around the subject grew, internal vines covered with urushiol and curving thorns that grew until they rooted in his fear and doubt.

To name them would be to make them real. And as Lucienne had once pointed out, dreams do not last long when subjected to what most consider reality.

Eventually, Dream thought it would perhaps be best if they simply… didn’t… label this new and fragile web between them all, lest the weight of naming such a delicate thing prove too much a burden to bear. Lest the gossamer threads connecting them all evaporate with the gaze of a morning sun, the heat of their combined attention.

Some petals are not to be stroked, regardless of how silken they feel within one’s grasp.

The topic still comes up, occasionally, with some members sniping between themselves on what the “correct” term would be. Matthew had ended the last debate early by suggesting “Dream’s Dashing & Dazzling Devoted Darlings,” thus prompting a chase across his kingdom as the Corinthian and Johanna tried to catch and strangle his raven. Most of the group has simply gone blank faced before shaking their heads and wandering off.

Hob had collapsed in laughter, and continued to bring it up in each conversation since, no matter how many times the Corinthian stabbed him in retaliation.

It was.. sweet. In their own way.

They are all so different. Endless and dreamkin and mortal and divine. Their personalities are no more alike than their being, and yet they are somehow able to coexist, not just with him, but with each other. Dream is certain that somehow, when they see each other, they feel the same warmth that he does. The same feeling of meeting ones eyes and realizing, Oh, I know you. As though they all have a piece of one soul, cradled alongside their own.

Which brings him to the term that he has been denying all this time. It is. Cliche. Modern. Sentimental and overly foolish. Even for him, as Lucienne might privately think, if she knew.

And yet.

Dream looks at them all gathered together, laughter and yelling and forceful pushes belying gentle, casual touches, and wonders if they aren’t.. soulmates. Of a sort.

Calliope glances at him from across the green and smiles as she meets his eyes.

*********************

AN2: I wrote this in a burger diner at midnight while munching on queso fries with a 56 hour sleep deficit and high on painkillers. Hope you enjoyed nonetheless.

takes the sandmanniversary prompt “soulmates” and crumples it up, tears it apart, and puts it back together with duct tape and glitter glue with my gremlin aroace hands

y’all will see what I mean in an hour or two

[valiantstarlights]

[Tiny Dream AU] Playtime

Hob is working, but Tiny Dream wants attention. He wants to be played with. Look, he even has a sex dungeon ready.

For sandmanniversary2023 Day 1: Collection / Stargazing / Size Kink

I'm honestly still in shock that I've written something like this. The Sandman fandom has changed me as a person. 👀 Anyway, please enjoy, and I hope you all still think well of me after reading this. 🙇‍♀️ (For scientific purposes, here's the AO3 link. 😏)

CW: This is pure unapologetic filth. The main CWs are: soft dom Hob, horny Tiny!Dream having a vulva, sex dungeon and sex toys, size kink, size difference, multiple orgasms, and dirty talk.

Important: A typical Barbie doll is 11.5 inches (29cm) tall. Tiny!Dream is 12 inches (30cm) tall.

"Hob."

"Just a minute, darling," Hob says distractedly. He's currently uploading his students' grades, and it's a task that he has difficulty with (due to the university's crap online grading system), so he is justified in ignoring Dream for just one measly minute.

A truly heart-wrenching sigh sounds from behind him, and Hob, despite himself, turns to look.

Dream's floating doll castle, which had originally been the dollhouse of a New Inn employee's child that they have recently outgrown, is in its usual place in the corner of his study. The black banners are still flying in an unseen wind, the highest tower is still where the rookery is, and Hob can't really tell right now if Dream has changed anything about the exterior, except--

Oh.

That's new.

Usually, the interior of the doll house ("Doll castle," Dream had insisted), shows only a single room: the room where Dream currently is. Hob doesn't quite know how it works, if it rotates, or if it has a bigger-on-the-inside technology like the TARDIS. (Hob doesn't say that to Dream, though, because he has enough daddy issues already.)

Well, the room where Dream is at right now is a room Hob has never seen before.

Oh, he's seen the library, the gardens, and even the swimming pool, but this is the first time he's seeing the sex dungeon.

He wonders if Dream made the room just now, as he often builds and decorates rooms while Hob is working to amuse himself. And after, he would proudly tour Hob around, showing him the changes he made and his latest rooms, like a very lovely Sims youtuber. (Yet another thing that Hob won't say to Dream, in case he gets irrationally jealous, and cause all Sims youtubers to lose inspiration and have nightmares for a year minimum.)

(Hob doesn't think that Dream would actually do that, but he's not willing to risk it.)

"I'm bored," Tiny Dream says imperiously upon a throne-like bondage chair, his feet already on the stirrups. He's only wearing provocative black lingerie that shows off his pretty little tits, and isn't that a treat to see. He gestures to the large array of toys and tools on the stainless steel instrument table placed close to the viewing area, so Hob could easily access them. "Play with me."

Hob licks his lips as his eyes roam over Dream's form. Dream preens and thrusts his chest out some more for inspection. Lovely thing. "Haven't conjured a fucking machine for yourself yet, darling?"

Dream sticks his lower lip out. Not a pout--god forbid, Dream would never admit to doing that--but close. He's so adorable when he's horny. "I prefer when you play with me."

Hob hums and wheels his office chair closer, surveying the little toys and tools. He knows they work just as well as the human-sized ones, and doesn't require batteries to operate. "You know I still have to upload my students' grades, yeah?"

Dream huffs and shoots a glare over Hob's shoulder towards his laptop. Hob hopes he won't set it on fire like he did the last time. "Do they take priority over me?"

Hob smiles at him and pokes him gently on the tummy. The pad of his forefinger almost encompasses half of Dream's stomach area. "You know nothing in this world has priority over you."

Dream raises his chin, and Hob does not miss the little 'hmph!' sound he made, though his cheeks flush with pleasure at Hob's words. "Then prove it."

"Taunting me?" Hob asks, and gently caresses Dream's cheek. "That's not very nice." He picks up the little handcuffs from the instrument table and shows them to Dream. "Color?"

Dream sighs, impatient to begin as always, but answers dutifully. "Green."

Hob makes a kissy sound because he cannot possibly give Dream a kiss on the lips right now, and snaps the handcuffs around Dream's wrists before fastening the chain on the hook above the chair. "All good?"

Dream nods. "Yes."

Hob then adjusts the stirrups so Dream's cute little butt is exposed even more. He spies the tell-tale wetness dripping from Dream's pussy and hole, and tsks. "What a mess you're already making, darling. So wet for me and we haven't even begun."

Dream squirms but does not close his legs. "It's not my fault you made me wait."

"For a few seconds?" Hob asks incredulously. "No, I don't think that would do. I think good boys need to learn how to wait." He picks up a couple of vibrating dildos from the instrument table and flicks their switches. They turn on and buzz against his fingers. "How many times do you think you'll cum with these while I finish my task?"

Dream whines. "Hob, please--"

"How many, Dream?"

"I don't--"

"You don't know? Poor baby," Hob coos. "Shall we find out? Will you count for me?"

Dream squirms a little, but nods bravely, and Hob could hear a tiny squelching sound against the seat. Adorable. He's going to have the chair covered in his slick by the time Hob is done with him.

--

Hob...does his best to upload his students' grades correctly, and in doing so takes longer than he usually would have, as he keeps getting distracted with the sound of Dream orgasming again and again behind him, and him actively listening for Dream saying his safeword. He feels like he's taking ages.

By the time the task is finally done though, he is rock hard inside his trousers, and he has counted a grand total of 37 orgasms. And not once had Dream uttered his safeword or, in his overwhelmed state, changed back to human-sized Dream.

And when Hob finally shut his laptop down and looks behind him--

"Oh, my love."

Dream looks wrecked. He is a drooling, teary-eyed mess, weakly fucking himself on his toys that Hob had made sure would not slip out of him with a couple of harnesses. His holes look beautiful around the toys, puffy and swollen and lovely pink in color. Were it not for the harnesses, the dildos would have slipped out completely. As it was, they remained buried deep inside Dream, and possibly reaching deeper inside him as time went on and he got looser.

And the chair Dream is sitting on? Entirely drenched in slick and cum. A section of the dungeon floor near the chair is even wet. Dream must have orgasmed so hard he squirted. Perhaps multiple times.

Hob bites his lip and touches himself through his trousers, just watching Dream for a few seconds more, as he moans weakly and squeezes around his toys, though he shudders and releases more slick when he turns his head a little and sees Hob's attention is now focused entirely on him.

Beautiful thing. Hob has never seen anything quite so exquisite. Hob unbuckles his belt and undresses, taking his time with it and watching Dream ride his toys a little harder when Hob's cock is revealed, already thick and coated in precome.

Hob smirks. Too bad that's currently not for Dream to play with today, no matter how much he begs.

"Okay, love?"

Dream shudders at the sound of his voice and nods, moaning Hob's name weakly. But he says something else too, though it was too low for Hob to catch.

"What was that, lovely?"

"Thir-thirty seven," Dream says, staring into Hob's eyes lovingly. "I counted. You told me to count a-and I did."

Oh, Hob's chest is bursting with pride. He turns off the toys, ignoring Dream's whine, and reaches for the rope on one side of the room to ring the castle's dumbwaiter for some water.

Because of course Dream's doll castle has a dumbwaiter in every room.

The water arrives immediately, and Hob carefully maneuvers the small pitcher to pour water over an equally small glass, puts the straw in, and holds the glass in front of Dream's face.

Dream drinks the water dutifully. Hob makes him drink until the pitcher is empty, then returns the serving tray to the dumbwaiter to send it back to be magically cleaned.

"Color?"

"Green," Dream says.

Hob strokes his cock and holds his precome-covered thumb in front of Dream's face.

Dream immediately leans forward and starts licking the surface like a cat. When he is done and has placed a kiss on the pad of Hob's thumb, Hob withdraws his hand and just gazes at him with love and pride both.

The toys are still inside Dream, but they seem like an afterthought to him at the moment, more focused is he on angling his body to better show himself off to Hob's loving eyes.

"My good boy," Hob murmurs, and gently unclasps the harnesses and even more gently pulls the dildos out of Dream's body. Dream mewls at the action, his tiny little pussy and hole twitching cutely even as they gaped for a second when the toys are removed. Hob caresses his long pale legs softly with a forefinger. "Oh, my sweet, obedient little boy. You did so well for me."

Dream sobs as his legs tremble at Hob's words and his touch. "Want you."

"And you will have me," Hob promises him. "But later. When you're back to human-sized. Now, I know you've been gagging to have the double-ended dildo inside both your holes while you're in this form, and I think you deserve--"

"No," Dream shakes his head. "I want..." He falters for a moment, shy, and Hob urges him on with soft comforting sounds. If he can provide whatever it was, then Dream will have it. "I want your thumb."

Hob's forefinger, currently rubbing Dream's left leg up and down, freezes in place. "Darling--"

Dream whines. "I'm loose enough," he says. "I can take it. I made sure I could."

Hob looks towards the dildos he set aside doubtfully. They weren't big enough to prepare either of Dream's holes for his thumb.

And then it hit him.

"You changed the toys' size while I had my back turned."

Now Dream pouts. "It's not my fault you weren't paying attention to me."

Hob could not help but grin at that sign of disobedience. It seems like Dream still has some brattiness left to fuck out of him.

"Well," Hob says generously, and resumes rubbing Dream's leg with his forefinger, "now that you have my full attention, let's see how well you stretch for me, hmm?"

Dream looks up hopefully. "You'll give me your thumb?"

Hob chuckles. "I don't think so, naughty boy. I'm afraid that's a treat for the truly well-behaved boys. And while you had been good counting your orgasms for me, and you did tell me how you got yourself stretched so beautifully, you also did not follow my instruction to the letter. And we did talk about safewords and shapeshifting in general before we did this play, yes?"

Dream nods, but now he looks miserable, probably thinking that Hob isn't going to give him any reward at all.

Hob is not that cruel. And especially not to Dream, whom he loves most in the world. "Oh, darling." Hob carefully wipes a tear from Dream's cheek. "I will give you a reward. Just not my thumb right now."

"The double-ended dildo then, please," Dream says, politely now. "And I won't change its size or...or be naughty again."

Hob rubs his forefinger on Dream's head in a patting motion. "Good boy. But I was thinking if maybe you would like to have something else instead."

Dream tilts his head curiously. "What do you suggest?"

Hob rubs Dream's arms to check if he's still okay, and Dream nods once. "What about my pinky?"

Hob immediately feels Dream's entire body perking up at that, and hurries to add, "Not entirely inside, of course, but...well, just the tip."

--

Dream is having the time of his life as Hob (very carefully) fucks him with the very tip of his liberally lubed pinky. He's holding on to the connecting chain of his cuffs for dear life, and his legs had all but wrapped themselves around Hob's wrist, toes curling and entire body rocking with Hob's thrusts.

"Hob, oh, please--your pinky is stretching me so good--" Dream's head is tilted backwards, and Hob could bet that his eyes are rolling up his head as well. "More. More, please. Fill me. Fill me, I need it--"

Hob makes gentle shushing noises but continues to give Dream what he wants. "Look at your pretty little pussy, darling, slicking my finger even further and looking so tempting. And your tiny hole gaping so wonderfully wide. Do you really think you can take my thumb someday?"

Dream sobs. "I can take it now. Please! I promise, I promise, I can take it--"

"I said no, darling," Hob says sternly, though Dream just whines at the sound of his strict voice and more slick gushes out of him. "Now, are you just about to cum?"

Dream nods wildly. Orgasm number 40 is far behind them, and frankly, Hob doesn't know what number they're on right now. "Alright, baby. One last orgasm out of you, and then I'll give you some lovely aftercare."

Warning issued, Hob fucks him harder, and Dream wails as almost a quarter of Hob's pinky breaches him. "Feels good?" Hob asks, an idea forming in his head. When Dream does not answer verbally and just nods, Hob knows that he's about to squirt at any time.

He stills his pinky while the tip is still inside and, before Dream could cry in protest and curse his balls to shrivel up, Hob has leaned forward and thrust just the very tip of his warm tongue inside Dream's slutty little cunt while his pinky resumes thrusting in and out of Dream's loose hole. Dream's legs tighten around his wrist in shock, and when Hob flicks his tongue just the tiniest amount, making contact with Dream's swollen clit--

Dream shrieks and his thighs tremble, his pussy squirting all over Hob's tongue, with Hob immediately lapping up his juices, moaning all the while, his own cock drooling precome on the floor at Dream's taste.

When he surfaces, Dream is limp, body twitching intermittently, but his legs remained tight around Hob's wrist, and he smiles when he meets Hob's gaze. "Do I taste good?"

Hob licks his lips and gently arranges Dream's legs back on the stirrups, then uncuffs Dream's wrists, massaging his arms and carefully laying him down on the seat. "Always, darling," Hob tells him. "You know you always taste so fucking delicious, even when you're tiny."

Dream moans and licks his lips. "Want to taste you as well," he slurs out. "Cum on me. I want to finger myself with your cum all over me."

Hob curses. "Darling--"

"Please," Dream says. "Just one more. Just need to see you play with yourself too. Show me that I can make you feel good, too."

Hob is helpless to resist. Dream is looking up with him with literal heart eyes, and he has even waved away his lingerie, leaving him entirely naked. He really wants to be covered in cum from head to toe.

Hob stands and starts pumping himself, looking at Dream spreading his legs wide, wet gaping holes on display, and even--

"Fuck."

"Yes?" Dream asks innocently even as he places his palms on his asscheeks to open himself up further, to make sure he catches Hob's seed inside both his holes.

The final straw is Dream opening his mouth, tongue out, waiting so very patiently for Hob to shower him with cum.

Hob groans and aims as best he could, stroking once, twice, thrice, his cum landing on Dream's chin area and filling his mouth but not his nose, his flat abdomen, his long, pale legs, and yes, the greatest amount right at his spread open holes.

Dream moans throatily as he gets covered. "So warm," he mumbles, sounding cumdrunk and totally out of it. "You came so much."

Hob wrings the last drops over Dream's waiting mouth, which has already swallowed his earlier shot. Dream receives it gratefully and even cheekily leans upward to lick at the head of Hob's cock. Hob shouldn't even feel the tiny tongue, but the smallest pressure of it has him shivering, and another dollop of cum is wrung out of him. "Fuck, Dream, you absolute minx--"

Dream rubs the cum on his abdomen over his breasts, squeezing his tits together and pinching his nipples. "We should've used the nipple clamps."

"Next time," Hob promises breathlessly. "And I'll attach vibrators to them, too."

Dream shudders at that image and his hands fly to his holes, one hand fingering his pussy, and the other one fingering his hole, getting a copious amount of Hob's cum inside him.

"Fuck," Hob says, enthralled at the slutty display. He wishes he could have filmed their session.

"Tell me," Dream says. "Tell me what you want to do to me next time."

His insatiable little boyfriend. Just one more he says, but at this rate, and if Hob doesn't put his foot down and get him some more water and provide him aftercare, they're going to be at this all night.

"If you're good," Hob begins, "I'll let you play with my cock all afternoon. I know it's almost as big as you, darling, so don't even think about putting me inside you, but you can worship me as you like; lick me or rub your cute tits on me--"

"I'm going to sit at the tip," Dream tells him, still fingering himself and getting more worked up as he speaks. "Right where your slit is. And I'm going to grind on you until your precome drenches my entire lower body. Until you cum right into my holes. I'm going to wrap my legs around you and make sure all your tasty cum is deposited inside me I could taste it on the back of my throat."

Hob groans at that and his cock twitches at the image. "Dream--"

"Tell me," Dream pleads, and Hob realizes that the rhythm of Dream's fingers are becoming erratic.

Hob smiles down at him and runs his forefinger up and down Dream's cum-slick torso. Dream mewls at the contact and thrusts his fingers faster. "I didn't think tiny you would be so much sluttier than human-sized you, but here you are, proving me wrong. How can my good boy be such a whore? Always wanting my cum all over him and pushing it deep inside his holes? What are you trying to achieve here, baby? Are you trying to get my seed to take? Is that it? You want to be round and pregnant when we do this next time? Lactating from your pert little breasts while you squirt all over yourself on my tongue? On my thumb?"

Dream wails, high and helpless, as Hob's words and his accompanying daydreams make him cum once more, his own fingers deep inside himself, while Hob gently massages his breasts with his fore and middle fingers, rubbing his cute little nipples.

Hob watches him raptly, his beautiful, ridiculously sexy boyfriend, and waits until he stops cumming, murmuring soft words all the while and helping him down from his high.

As he's waiting, he rings the dumbwaiter for some more water, and once again carefully handles the tiny pitcher and the glass that came with it.

"Here, darling," Hob says when Dream's orgasm tapers off, leaving him limp and lying on the seat, totally drained. "Have some more water."

Dream gratefully sips from the straw, and Hob once again gets him to drink until the entire pitcher is empty.

Once it is, and once Hob has set the tray back inside the dumbwaiter, he turns his entire focus on Dream, who is still absently scooping more of Hob's cum inside his holes.

"Feel better?" Hob asks him, rubbing at his legs and calves in between his forefinger and thumb.

Dream hums, still idly fingering himself. "Yes, thank you."

"Feeling adequately played with?"

Now Dream smirks up at him and squeezes his holes, making Hob's cum drip from them. Hob groans and looks away so he wouldn't be tempted to lick Dream all over. Like the little minx is probably wanting. "Yes, Hob. Thank you for playing with me."

Hob snorts at that and shakes his head. "Alright, enough of that, you ridiculous thing. Time to bathe, and then you're gonna turn human-sized for some proper cuddling."

Dream hums and allows Hob to lift him from the seat carefully with his hands, then scoops his entire body up with a single hand. Dream waves his hand so the doll castle's sex dungeon is replaced with the master bathroom, and he waits patiently as Hob fiddles with the giant bathtub with one hand and it fills with warm fragrant water.

"I love you," Dream says, still sitting on the palm of Hob's hand and playing with his fingers. "Thank you for indulging me today."

Hob leans down to kiss the top of Dream's head. "Of course, darling. Anything you need."

[mr-sadman]

Day 1 - Friday 4th

Our Sandmanniversary Weekend is a go!!!

Here are our lovely daily prompts

Make sure to head out to our lovely Masterpost if you have any questions/concerns about the event!

Don't forget to use #Sandmanniversary and #Sandmanniversary2023 for not only us to see and reblog, but to share the fun as well!

[purplesauris]

Feed the Beast On Broken Dreams

Rating: EXPLICIT

Pairing: Dream of the Endless/Hob Gadling

Summary: He still remembers the sudden shift of gravity, the sucking feeling in his chest as his heart skipped one, two, three beats before collapsing in on itself like a dying star.

“I still can’t—hah— believe you didn’t know we were soulmates,” Hob breathes, arching inexorably into the pull of his heart toward Dream. 

Dream grumbles from his perch between Hob’s legs, biting meanly at his belly and using one hand to pin Hob’s hips to the bed. “You did not tell me.”

Huffing a laugh, Hob twists his hands in the sheets and moans, low and needy when Dream’s fingers crook with gentle insistence inside him. He doesn’t know how long they’ve been here, Dream touching to his heart’s content, Hob a more than willing participant. It could be seconds, minutes, hours, each one of them pulling slowly like taffy while also rushing by like white-tipped waves, ebbing and flowing. Here, between them, sunk deep into the heart of the Dreaming, time is immaterial, useless to king and consort as they lose themselves in each other.

“Suppose it was well hidden,” Hob admits, hand grabbing at Dream’s shoulder as he noses along his belly, lingering over Hob’s sternum. 

Lingers over the mark that only Hob bears to show their connection, one forged and painfully nurtured over hundreds of years. 

Lux cordis mei.

Read more on AO3!

[mr-sadman]

Day 3 - Sunday 6th

Our weekend is sadly almost over! But keep on sharing the Sandman love and keep on creating!

Here are our (last) daily prompts)

We love you all and thank you so much for making this event amazingly wonderful!!

Make sure to head out to our lovely Masterpost if you have any questions/concerns about the event!

Don't forget to use #Sandmanniversary and #Sandmanniversary2023 for not only us to see and reblog, but to share the fun as well!

[mr-sadman]

Day 2 - Saturday 5th

It's officially been a year, on the day, since the Sandman tv show aired for the first time!!! Let's celebrate this wonderful and gorgeous show who has brought us so much joy and love!!

Here are our daily prompts

Make sure to head out to our lovely Masterpost if you have any questions/concerns about the event!

Don't forget to use #Sandmanniversary and #Sandmanniversary2023 for not only us to see and reblog, but to share the fun as well!

[purplesauris]

A Little Dirt Never Hurt Nobody

Rating: Gen

Pairing: Dream of the Endless/Hob Gadling

Summary: Hob knows he’s a bit of an oddball, has known that ever since the fourteenth century.

Hob knows he’s a bit of an oddball, has known that ever since the fourteenth century.

Despite all his years, he hasn't changed all that much— certainly not physically, though he wishes he could get rid of his trick knee, but he's changed plenty mentally. Has to, in order to keep up with the constantly changing times. And how exhilarating to be able to do so!

So he changes, and as the years go by he starts thinking about what he can bring with him. Proof that he was where he said he was, even if he never ends up telling anyone. Having a sword collection only gets him so far as to be seen as a history junkie, and keeping clothes from every Era just makes him look like a reenactor. And he might be a medieval history professor, and he might give live weapons demonstrations and he might speak fluent middle English, but dammit that doesn't mean he wants to relive his history. The world has progressed so beautifully, thank you very much.

He starts his collection once he realizes he isn't aging, while all his friends— the ones still alive— are wrinkled and grey.

Read more on AO3!

[tryan-a-bex]

@grabowskibeepboop I love Matthew the Raven!

@themirokai’s Matthew the Emotional Support Raven Series is what for me into writing fanfic!

I loved the art for one of them so much I commissioned the same artist for art for my series!

Tumblr masterpost for the series

More art!

Sorry it wouldn’t let me do the thumbnail links anymore:

https://www.tumblr.com/wyvernquill/700104682877648896/matthew-gives-dream-a-gift-inspired-by-this-post

https://www.tumblr.com/shadowtruthsandashes/723454664103821312/i-saw-a-picture-of-tom-looking-like-a-cute-little

https://www.tumblr.com/ytoccc/694110183529578496/dream-bird

https://www.tumblr.com/disc0bandit/705727915909939200/anyway-go-and-read-my-stranger-my-dream-by

https://www.tumblr.com/mashumaru/728004638731862016/matthew-the-raven-and-speedwell

https://www.tumblr.com/mimisempai/702408277534834688/matthew-may-be-a-rookie-but-no-matter-how-vast

Gifs

With the Corinthian

With Rose

Phone background

My story

My favourite comic panels ever

[mr-sadman]

Thank you to all for a wonderful weekend of celebration!!!

We do accept late submissions, so feat not if you didn't have time to post your work during the weekend!!!

The Sandman TV Show celebrates its one year anniversary...

in less than a WEEK!!

Friends, time does fly really fast and we can't believe it had been almost a year already since our dear show aired for the very first time! To celebrate the occasion, the Modmin team of Mr. Sadman cordially invites you to

Sandmanniversary Weekend!

To celebrate, we offer you a whole weekend of daily prompts, fic read-alongs, games and more! This is an event to celebrate the entirety of the show that we all love and cherish so much!

Without further adue, here is our wonderful promptlist

Our lovely FAQ

You have read well, this is an all-ship, gen event to celebrate the myriad of ways we enjoy and love the Sandman!!

Do not hesitate if you have more questions, we don't bite!

TLDR : Sandmanniversary Weekend is happening from August 4th to August 6th celebrating all things Sandman TV. All mediums are encouraged, as well as all sorts of content (SFW, NSFW, Triggering, etc.). We are on tumblr, here, as well as Twitter, AO3 and Discord!! Don't forget to tag #Sandmanniversary and #Sandmanniversary2023 for us to see and reblog!