#thistleandpoppies

[im-not-corrupted]

I need some Trust issues, please!😏

This one seems to be rather popular! You can find more snippets here and here!

It could take centuries for him to return to Hob, if ever. And though he wished otherwise, it…it seemed realistic. And he hated that. If he hadn’t said it wrong. If he hadn’t said I think you’re lonely instead of the millions of other things he could’ve said, if he hadn’t been thrown so badly off loop by his Stranger sprouting that stuff about Lou, if he actually had backtracked instead of continuing…maybe things would’ve gone differently. Maybe his Stranger wouldn’t have left so abruptly and left Hob in the old London street alone. Maybe he would’ve stayed longer and given the two of them a chance to truly talk. Maybe, maybe, maybe. If he had to, he would wait. A hundred years, or five hundred, or another million if he had to. For his Stranger, he would wait as long as it took. However. What if he could offer an apology, instead?

[the-apocrypha]

Got tagged by @cuubism to do one of these, which I guess is what the kids are doing nowadays lol. Mine has a mask because we're in the middle of another surge where I live.

Tagging the last five people who liked/rb'd something off my tumblr! Feel free to make yourself into a cute little guy too. @adevotedreader @mad-madam-m @sarkka @e-does-stuff @thistleandpoppies

[cuubism]

Okay, since it’s not explicitly prohibited to send several asks for the wip game, I’m gonna be adventurous! What about the new king Dream knight Hob fic you mentioned? (Yes, I’m a sucker for king x knight dynamics, sue me🥲)

i too am weak for any king x knight dynamic, go crazy for that shit whenever i encounter it 😂 the premise of the new one (for which i wrote like 4k in 2 days but haven't finished yet) is that Dream is a beautiful prince who swore he would never have an arranged, political marriage, he would only marry for love, and Hob is his devoted knight who's been pining for him for... literally forever, but was always like "a prince would never marry someone who's not another royal 😢 it's fine though it's literally fine I'll just devote my life to him it's fine"

and it was basically fine like that until their kingdom got attacked, they didn't have the forces to defend themselves, none of their supposed allies saw sufficient incentive to help them, so Dream was like "fine you guys are always trying to rope me into some political marriage or other already, how about this time if someone steps up and supplies forces to stop this country getting burned to the ground then i'll agree to marry you (or your son, daughter, etc etc)"

(this is all just the most contrived scenario you can possibly imagine created solely for the purposes of drama and pining XD does it make logical sense? probably not, but it doesn't have to)

their allies are all shitty people apparently because they're like "helping to prevent thousands of civilians from dying? pass. helping to get to marry a beautiful prince? SMASH!"

meanwhile hob

so of course Hob, always a rational actor as we know, is like "I'll just have to figure out how to come up with enough forces so that Dream marries ME instead"

[cuubism]

For the WIP game, a sequel to Trade Secrets, pretty please🥰

it's just more porn 😎 dream playing on hob's possessiveness -- and getting exactly what he wants as a result

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This is testing Hob’s patience because he’s here as Morpheus’s personal bodyguard, and Morpheus is currently draped over the arm of the foreign king, body pressed close, lips close to his jaw as he speaks directly in his ear. He never behaves like this when he’s in his own palace. Among his own people he’s stoic and reserved, almost unknowable. And he had been very insistent that his stories about seducing foreign dignitaries had been just that: stories, that his words alone were sufficient to achieve his aims. Which means he’s doing this just to get under Hob’s skin. Hob shifts where he stands, back against the wall, surveying the room. He’s supposed to be concentrating on security, but he feels hot, itchy, aggravated. Jealous, he whispers to himself. Morpheus isn’t his to keep. But oh if Hob doesn’t want to slam that foreign king against a wall. And then push Morpheus up against one for very different reasons.

Morpheus is definitely gonna get it after that behavior XD