Quilling
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- The Sandman (TV 2022) (10)
- The Sandman (Comics) (6)
- French History RPF (1)
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture by cloudydreamer, Quilling
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
05 Aug 2023
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Moonlight made pools of yellow on the marble. What was this place? And the man he caught a glimpse of, the first night this place opened up to him, from between the windows that could have been doors. That was his Stranger from the Tavern of the White Horse, almost a century ago, Hob was sure of it.
Hob had come to suspect that on that otherwise ordinary summer evening, he had embraced immortality and perhaps, given up his soul with perfect happiness. What a fable that would be.
November, 1475. Hob Gadling arrives in Venice, explores a mysterious world of cosmic grandeur, trades ink-stained love confessions with his stranger, and embraces the most important lesson of all: that life is a story all on its own, past and present and an ending that isn't really an ending at all
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Some Finesse Required by Quilling for starsniper
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
26 Jul 2023
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The one where Daniel spends his summer taking coffee orders, looking at cat pictures, and playing matchmaker.
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“Yes of course. The floor is yours, professor – ” the beautiful young man – Hob gave himself a kick mentally; he really needed to stop thinking about a student this way – paused in his reply in order to reach across the table for a copy of the syllabus, scanning it quickly. “Professor Gadling.”
Hob felt his insides go a little bit liquid at the sound of his own name; his ability to focus crumbling into dust. This seminar was very much not going the way he’d imagined.
(Or, yet another University AU no one asked for, with a twist - or a few)
Art by the brilliant @the-cloudy-dreamer: 1 , 2
Doodles by me: 1 , 2 -
On the intentional superimposition of fantasy onto the real, by Hob Gadling, PhD (done entirely to the benefit for and told from the perspective of Dream) by Quilling for The_KickIt_Domain, behold_me, chaosheadspace
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
18 Mar 2023
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“I used to imagine – what would it be like if I was actually one of your students. What if I was actually as young as I looked. I imagined you noticing me, telling me I’d earned some special prize. Letting me – teaching me something that was very much not on any curriculum, as if I’m someone who had never, you know… So,” Dream’s voice trailed off. “That’s it, really. Bone-crushingly embarrassing, I know.”
(Or - what happens when the aforementioned scenario was no longer doomed to exist only in the hypothetical)
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- Part 6 of the honk zone
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Dream meets Hob in a hotel lobby, proposes a game of chess with personal stakes, and got much more than he bargained for.
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- Part 1 of Checkmate
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The Dreamling Chess AU
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the honk zone by BeatnikFreak, behold_me, chaosheadspace, CourfeyracFredMariusCratchit, notallsandmen (notallmaenads), Quilling, tharkuun, The_KickIt_Domain, Wildshadows
Fandom: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
04 Mar 2024
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What Dreams Cost by Quilling
Fandom: French Revolution RPF, The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
05 Feb 2023
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- 2
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Requiem for a Dead Queen by Jay Tryfanstone (tryfanstone)
Fandoms: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett, DUNNETT Dorothy - Works
19 Apr 2013
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London, 1587. A Crawford, a fair Crawford, unmistakable as a parakeet among pigeons.
Bookmarked by Quilling
17 Mar 2025
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"So, what's the thing that makes you poor company, stranger?" Morpheus opens his mouth -- it is none of your business, my heart is broken, I am contemplating going home and committing suicide because I am clearly and patently not designed to be loved in any meaningful way -- but is interrupted by Hob's cheerful continuation, "Because I've just been dumped by my girlfriend of two years."
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- Part 1 of Hallmark 'verse
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In which storms are brewing, wine is drunk, and the prince of stories tells stories of his own.
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18 Oct 2022
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A world where people are given, through reoccurring dreams, 1 to 5 details of their soulbond. The face, the place, the day, the time, or the name. Average is 2 clues. Unlucky bastards get only 1. Lucky people get 3 or 4. No one gets all 5.
Maverick is one lucky unlucky bastard. Even though it is his only clue, he knows exactly where he will bond with his soulmate: Charlie's house. But, as it turned out, Charlie wasn't the One at all.
Now, heartbroken, Maverick wishes he didn't know that That House is The Place.
Because Iceman just moved into it.
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- English
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- 9/9
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Bookmarked by Quilling
08 Oct 2022
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“You know what kept me going, century after century?” Hob is angry enough, desperate enough, that his voice drops low, quiet. “Even when I had nothing?”
The music around them crests, waves crashing against the unyielding shores of time –
“Chimneys,” Morpheus answers, bland.
Oh, what a bastard.
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Or, dreams are memories, Hob reflects about life, and Morpheus learns a thing or two about what it means to be saved, and to be loved.
UPDATED: with art for chapters 1 and 4!
and with formatted epub version || pdf / printable version || cover art by the wonderful Holly (@redhothollyberries)Series
- Part 1 of when that piano sang again
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Bookmarked by Quilling
30 Sep 2022