wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
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leave that vision of hell to the dying by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
28 Sep 2025
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Hob Gadling was celebrating beating Death herself at a game of dice (he only cheated a little) when he loudly declared to his compatriots that he is never going to die. It's what prompts his beautiful Stranger to materialize over his shoulder, proposing... a wager, of sorts. They'll just have to keep meeting century after century if his Stranger is ever going to collect.
Hob supposes they've both lost after he's left drinking alone in 1989. So thirty-some years later, when his Stranger rematerializes with an apology and little explanation, there's hardly pretense to resume where they left off. There just remains the task of figuring out the rules of whatever game they're playing now.
Or: the Vampire AU in which Hob learns that Dream is exactly the supernatural creature he suspects, fairy tales are exactly as bloody as their origins suggest, and Twilight is never, not ever, to be cited as an authoritive source on things tall, goth, and brooding.
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Unwelcome guests occupy the Heart of the Dreaming, all vying for the burden that the Morningstar has left in Dream's care. Unsettled by their last conversation and in search of his friend, Hob Gadling chooses this moment to learn how to lucid dream and unknowingly puts himself in the middle of it.
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- Part 1 of season 2 dreamling vignettes
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walking around with this bullet inside me by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
29 Jun 2025
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There are two people in the entire world who have the number of the prepaid burner phone that’s been burning a hole through Hob’s pocket for far longer than it ought to. That's going on four years now. Four years, two people in the world, and it’s never once rung. Until it does.
Hob gets a long awaited phone call signaling that his oldest friend is alive, and he's back, and he's carving a bloody path through London’s underbelly as he takes his revenge. The transatlantic flight home gives him plenty of time to replay what memories he has of his stranger before he up and vanished. What he finds is a violent terf war, his stranger a bit more feral, maybe, but it's familiar enough to ache.
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- Part 1 of hungry and hollow
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Butcher, Grave Digger, Ghost by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
06 May 2025
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Before Lord Gortash ever ascends as Archduke, before the Absolute plot's execution, before even a champion of Myrkul joins their ranks, there is Enver and there is Vesmyr, and many moments of undeniable gravity between the two.
In which Enver thinks he is being quite obvious and admirably patient in his efforts to court the scion of Bhaal, but it goes about as well as domesticating feral cats.
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the work of words that hands and mouths will do by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
23 Sep 2024
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Dream--or, Morpheus technically now, as it seems everyone except Hob is required to call him--newly human and newly showing any sort of interest in what being human has to offer (so Hob thought), makes an earnest attempt, which Hob regrets ever suggesting, to meet new people. It goes slightly too well. And there's far too many of them for Hob's liking.
Caught between a few centuries of yearning and the risk hanging over Hob's head like a noose that his dearest friend will decide to call upon his former sister after all, and that it'll all be Hob's fault for upsetting the delicate balance they'd struck since Dream's retirement, tensions comes to a tipping point when Dream presses the issue.
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- Part 1 of Retired!Dream AU
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season 2 dreamling vignettes by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022)
08 Jul 2025
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hungry and hollow by flight_on_broken_wings, wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022)
29 Jun 2025
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ties that bind by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series)
17 Jan 2023
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post-campaign shadowgast by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series)
02 Jun 2021
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Hob's beloved stranger comes back to him, but he seems... changed. Damaged. Hob wants to help, but it's hard when his friend can barely even admit that he's hurting.
It's hard to come home and find home destroyed, everything you created gone, the pieces you crafted of your own soul turned against you. Dream barely wants to think about it. But if he is ever to create again, he's going to have to let that pain in.
Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
08 Mar 2025
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Returning to Hob felt like a formality, right until Dream stopped outside the crumpled skeleton of the White Horse Inn.
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
27 Oct 2024
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All time H/C Dreamling favs
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“You accused me of treating this like a game. I am sorry if I’ve led you to believe that it is only a game—though I won't deny that part of it is.” Bren gives a disarming smile. “My life is either games or murder, after all.”
“Or mail fraud,” Thelyss says dryly, not even a little disarmed.
“The mail fraud is a sort of game as well.”
A sigh. “Is this your way of telling me that you intend to continue playing?”
Bren smiles again, sharper. “If you would let me.”(In which Bren Aldric Ermendrud decides to seduce the Shadowhand and finds that the best way to convince someone to be vulnerable with you is to be vulnerable in turn.)
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- Part 1 of aBiA
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
07 Nov 2023
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What Magic Art Is This? by aWordyBody
Fandom: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
16 Jan 2023
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“It never happened; yet it is still true. What magic art is this?” – From Sandman, Vol 3: Dream Country, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Morpheus is a prolific theatre director who possibly cares way too much about art. Hob is a stagehand who just wants steady work at the same theatre, year after year.
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
17 Jan 2023
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Cat's Paw by mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game), Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski
21 May 2022
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For better or worse, Caleb Widogast was a witcher. He didn’t know if his affinity for magic would have made him a sorcerer in another life; he only had this one. His former masters had taught him to channel his gifts towards one thing and one thing only, and he had spent the better part of his life trying to unlearn that lesson, trying to be a protector instead of a murderer—and sometimes being a protector only meant he got to choose who would live and who would die.
Sometimes it was a hard choice. Other times, however, it was very easy.🟍
Or: a Shadowgast Witcher AU in three parts, with art by @Kurocyou.
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- Part 1 of shadowgast witcher au
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
25 Dec 2022