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Homeward Wind 'verse by orphan_account
Fandom: The Hobbit (2012), The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
08 Jul 2013
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This series take place within 'The Homeward Wind 'verse'. This universe involves a major canon divergence: before the events of The Hobbit, Bilbo was sent away to live with the Eagles of Manwë. The stories below deal with the repercussions that this change has on the quest to reclaim Erebor.
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09 Mar 2023
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A seduction through physical objects. It starts with a scarf loaned to Will on a cold day, but Hannibal, as usual, isn't satisfied with anything small.
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- Part 1 of What Dreams
- Language:
- English
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- 32,188
- Chapters:
- 15/15
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- 44
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08 Mar 2023
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"Why don't you tell me your name?"
"Hob." Quite possibly the worst fake name Dream has encountered thus far. There's another pause. "I mean. Not Hob." A punched out breath. "Fuck."
"You don't know your name?"
"Of course I know my name. But I'm not sure you're supposed to know my name."
2023 Dreamling Bingo Fill for A5 - Phone Sex (and others).
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- English
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- 11,267
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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- 2
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06 Feb 2023
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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
- Language:
- English
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- 25,250
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 3
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18 Jan 2023
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While in a disguised form for a waking world meeting, Dream has a chance encounter with Hob Gadling. It turns out Hob is far less inhibited when he isn't meeting his Stranger - and far more alluring.
Then they meet again, and suddenly Dream is tripping and falling into a marriage with a man who still doesn't know who he is - but loves him so dearly.
Then again, and again.
Meanwhile, Hob might be catching on. Dream is not quite so clever as he thinks.
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16 Jan 2023
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“... Mr. Gadling will be your photographer today.”
Hob hears Morpheus’ shoes scuff and halt on the wooden floor before he turns around, taking a deep breath and holding it as he finally meets Morpheus’ eyes for the first time in five years.
Christ, Morpheus looks at him like he’s staring at a ghost. It almost makes Hob laugh.
“Hello,” Hob croaks. He knows this is the part he usually shakes hands with his model, but he doesn’t move his hand. He doesn’t want to touch Morpheus.
Or: Phographer/Model AU but they're exes.
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14 Jan 2023
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That I Should Wedded-Be by Moorishflower
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
30 Sep 2022
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'Would that we were married,' Hob thinks unkindly. 'If we were married I could give you a shake and not have to worry about chasing you off for another century.'
*For an explanation of the tag (yes, that one) see the end notes for the second chapter.
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- Part 1 of They're Husbands, Your Honor
- Language:
- English
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- Chapters:
- 8/8
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30 Dec 2022
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It's been 10 days since Dream of The Endless was rescued from Fawney Rig by one Hob Gadling, who takes it upon himself to see to Dream's recovery. While with Hob, Dream is provided with something he'd been missing even before his imprisonment: to be cared for.
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21 Dec 2022
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Hob saw two things immediately, obvious as anything, in what he felt distantly sure must be the wrong order.
The stranger was surpassing handsome: tall as he was, but lean where Hob was broad, with pale skin, black hair as long as a maiden’s, eyes as sharp and bright as the bite of water in winter, and a mouth that made him think, suddenly and irrationally, of wild roses; and more was the pity for all of it, because the other thing, the thing Hob ought to have noticed first, was that he was staring at Hob like he meant to kill him.
In which Hob and Dream make poor first impressions, become fuck buddies, and, somewhere along the way, start trying to save one another. Out of friendship, of course. A love story.
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- English
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- 12/12
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21 Dec 2022
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This Rough Magic by Avelera for maybemalapert (laconicisms)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
02 Jun 2023
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After the disastrous 1889 meeting, Hob Gadling turned to the occult to find a way to contact his stranger and apologize. Yet despite becoming a fairly adept occultist in the process, Hob ultimately lost his nerve and never cast a single spell to contact Dream.
Unfortunately, that was not the end of the matter, when Hob's dabbling brought him to the attention of Roderick Burgess, who is now convinced that Hob is a fellow Magus, capable of convincing Dream to give Burgess the gift he gave to Hob all those centuries ago: immortality.
Now, Hob must use wits, magic, and a great deal of charm to convince Roderick Burgess he is indeed an ancient, powerful Magus who wants nothing more than to help Burgess become immortal too, if he is to get himself and Dream out of Fawney Rig.
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- English
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- 8/?
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21 Dec 2022
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Maybe sprout wings by Moorishflower
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
21 Dec 2022
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There's a dead man in The Dreaming.
Hob Gadling navigates life after death, falling in love, friendship with otherworldly entities, and ravens. A retelling of a story about stories. A study of a complicated man.
See end notes for art! <3
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07 Dec 2022
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Those who have yet to decide by Moorishflower
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
03 Dec 2022
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"I’ve got a thing coming up next week," Hob says, "Rocky Horror themed, if you’ll believe it. Have no idea how they got that past Doctor Smythe, but here we are. Are you interested in coming with?"
Dream of the Endless attends a party, loves his boyfriend, helps his boyfriend into a corset, lusts after his boyfriend, and is allowed to have a queer identity, as a treat.
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- English
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07 Dec 2022
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01 Dec 2022
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Morpheus lets what happened at the gala undermine his recovery despite his best efforts, Hob tries to help despite having his own issues to work through. Can they make it through Morpheus's press tour and book release without damaging the fragile relationship they've been building?
-An AU where they met on the university campus, Hob got more than he bargained for by being nice to a stranger, and Morpheus is doing his best-
Picks up shortly after 'On Broken Wings'
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- Part 2 of Corvid Chronicles
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- English
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01 Dec 2022
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“I heard a rumor,” Mona purrs, elbows bracketing the steaming tea mug in front of her, delicate chin propped on her knuckles. “About a certain Roderick Burgess.”
“Oh?” Hob picks up his cup of Earl Grey from the counter, taking a sip. “What might that be?”
“Apparently, he’s captured Death,” she replies as Hob chokes on his tea.
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(Hob attempts to save Dream from the fishbowl. It doesn't quite go as planned - with some unfortunate consequences.)
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30 Nov 2022
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Giving Sanctuary by Avelera for Steerpike13713
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
07 Jun 2023
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In 1689, Hob Gadling and Dream meet once more, after Hob has lost everything. That night, their meeting goes on longer than expected when the conversation turns to what it means to live, to lose, and to be the fathers of dead sons. Unable to bear the thought of sending a man who so echoes Dream's own grief back into the night alone, Dream breaks his own rule and invites Hob to stay with him for a time, at least until he can get back on his feet.
The story of two grief-stricken, divorced, and widowed fathers to sons they lost too young truly seeing one another and there, at their lowest point, doing their best to put themselves and each other back together.
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- Part 1 of Giving Sanctuary
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- English
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30 Nov 2022
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Hob Gadling was halfway through his third drunken karaoke rendition of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" when he learned that he had a husband.
A husband who was apparently trapped in a jar.
In 1389, Hob married a man in his dreams, a lover conjured only by his imagination -- or so he thought. Five hundred years later, a mysterious ransom letter has Hob questioning everything he knew about his dream husband, who coincidentally disappeared from his dreams seventy years ago.
Several miles away, trapped in a glass bowl, said husband is really regretting letting his marriage be only a story in dreams.
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- English
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- 6/7
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30 Nov 2022
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Hob is the anthropomorphic personification of Hope and the newest Endless.
He has a lot of learning, a lot of growing, and a lot of change to deal with. These are some of the stories.
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28 Nov 2022
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“Kneel,” said Dream.
Hob knelt before him. Dream pressed his own thumb to his lips and wet it. He took Hob’s chin in the other hand and tilted his face up. “Some do this with ash. To acknowledge death. Mortality. It would not befit you,” he said, and smudged his wet thumb in a sign upon Hob’s forehead. “Now you wear my mark,” he said.
“I have always worn your mark, my Lord,” said Hob.
“Then remember you are mine and to me you shall return,” Dream said.
On the look of stained glass, the smell of churches, the taste of your friend’s mouth, and the feeling of receiving a sacrament several centuries overdue. Or: the entirely accidental but inevitable divinity of Hob's devotion.
AMAZING art by fishydwarrows!
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- English
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18 Oct 2022