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11 Oct 2022
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Morpheus’s expression melts into unreadability. “Would you have come to my rescue again, Hob Gadling?”
“Yes. God, yes, I would have. Of course, I would have."
Hob learns where his friend has been, and even Dream of the Endless might, on rare occasion, need a hand.
ART BY EV | chapter 3 | chapter 4 | chapter 5 | chapter 5 animation
ART BY TASHINA | chapter 5
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08 Oct 2022
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Roderick Burgess has the Lord of Dreams trapped in his basement, but he won't talk or agree to the terms of his release. Morpheus is alone, naked and weak in his cage, so he can do nothing when Burgess gets an idea on just how to break the stalemate. The guards are willing to cooperate.
A difficult story of trauma and recovery.
Now with incredible fanart by Amielot:
Chapter 2
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Plus a couple of additional fanarts here and here.FINISHED
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30 Sep 2022
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In 1989, Hob Gadling gets stood up. He waits.
A story about meticulously constructing an inn with soft focus, 80's goths and Berlin, a folding chair, The Princess Bride, blondes, blood, fear, Fates, and what was always written. What will always be.
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30 Sep 2022
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Dream has changed.
But how changed?
Can Hob reconcile the differences and what does it mean for the two of them as a whole?
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30 Sep 2022
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Come live with me and be my Love by Avelera for fishydwarrows
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
16 Feb 2023
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Dream wagers with Desire and loses. The price he must pay? Living out a year among humans, not in the manner of his choosing but as a married "woman", at least as far as those around him will see.
Desire's one concession to Dream: that he may spend that year married to Hob Gadling, who didn't sign up for any of this.
Now with art by fishydwarrows!
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19 Sep 2022
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“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act 4, Scene 5)A short series of connected stories concerning an Endless, an immortal, many dream things, and a number of mortals.
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14 Sep 2022
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It’s the right day, but the year is all wrong, and Dream suspects that there’s something else not quite right even before he finds himself standing in front of the shuttered remains of the White Horse Tavern. Still, he’s chilled in a way he’s not accustomed to feeling, reminiscent of the hopeless, free-falling frost that climbed up his spine and inside his gut the day he was meant to meet Hob when he was imprisoned. And that’s what it is, he realizes, this cold feeling. Hopelessness.
Should Dream seek him out, would Hob welcome him as a friend, or turn his shoulder as he would on an intruder? It’s what he would deserve, Dream muses as he’s preparing to turn heel from the tavern’s closed gates, even though as he’s resigning himself to shame he’s also gearing up to make this his next mission, his next purpose: to find Hob Gadling.
Alternatively: Dream and Hob find each other in 2021, and see no reason why they have to wait centuries to see each other again. And again.
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11 Sep 2022
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William really does mean to leave.
He holds his hat in hand and drapes his coat over his arm because he really, really does mean to go.
Missing scene for Episode 6.
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05 Jun 2022
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They’re not labeling it, but Eliot buys a vest that needs to be laced up at the back, thinking Quentin can help me with this without a second thought. They’re not labeling it, but Quentin sleeps in his room sometimes even when they don’t fuck, if his brain is particularly loud or he’s feeling especially lonely. Eliot knows the schedule of Q’s father’s chemo appointments, because Quentin always comes back a bit of a mess, a little in need of giving up control of simple things like ‘where do I find food today’ or ‘what shirt should I wear’ to someone else. And maybe you could say that’s just being a good Dom, but...
Eliot’s Dommed for boys before. He’s done it with a kind of regularity once or twice, even. It was nothing like this, groggy morning coffee cups and lunch between classes, Quentin quiet and boneless with his head in Eliot’s lap while he and Margo gossip. This was something new. Maybe it didn’t have a label, but it felt like something edging up towards– a relationship?
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19 May 2022
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She Walks In Beauty by Bead
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)
14 Aug 2017
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Thorin Durinson, head of Durinson & Company, an architectural firm specializing in environmentally responsible design and restoration, focuses all his creative abilities on his work and his affection on his family and old friends. And then one grey day, a woman in a red coat literally walks into his life, and just like that, everything changes.
Inspired by a prompt from lostunderthemountain on Oct. 11th, based on this gorgeous photoset.
ME: Mmm, rolled up sleeves, and who are you looking at, dearie, in that last frame?
lostunderthemountain: OH! Modern AU in New York: Thorin Durinson is the is the Head of a global company that is continually under threat from Smaug’s (cause like they differ on many opinions or something….).
Anyway, one morning he’s getting out of a taxi outside of the company’s building when he catches sight of one Miss Bella Baggins (not that he knows her name) and instantly his world freezes…until Fili shoves him to try to get him to move…
Title from Lord Byron's poem "She Walks in Beauty"
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- Part 1 of She Walks In Beauty
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02 May 2022
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When Bilbo finds a case of old family photographs, he becomes determined to find the original owners: what he does not expect is to become quite so involved in their lives, or that those photographs should prove quite so important.
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02 May 2022
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Butterfly Effect by eyra
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
11 Nov 2018
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Yoga wasn’t for him. Yoga was for interesting people. Luminous people; people who took gap years and spoke a foreign language. People who ate lentils and burned incense and had fantastic, colourful friends with fantastic, colourful lives full of travel and silent retreats and those baggy trousers with elephants on them. Yoga was decidedly not for people like Bilbo, who wore cardigans and ate beans on toast and whose linguistic capabilities stretched only as far as a rusty Spanish A-Level.
Just your regular story of boy meets yoga instructor.
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They say that everything can be cured by saltwater - sweat, tears or the sea. Bilbo Baggins chooses the last option, taking his recently orphaned nephew and moving to the charming Oak Cottage, overlooking England’s grislier shores. The house charms him instantly, and though he knows nothing at all about the sea, or about making ends meet on his own so far from everything he’s known his whole life for that matter, he’s quite determined to stay, and see his nephew get better, odd sounds in the night be damned. He’s living in a modern world, after all, and the nonsense he’s been hearing about the house being haunted by its former owner, the mysterious Captain Durin, is just silly superstition… isn’t it?
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05 Apr 2022
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Quentin goes on a blind date!
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01 Apr 2022
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Skill Is A Flame, Courage Is A Fire by WriterRose
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)
02 Apr 2023
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'Hobbits may be children of Eru, but they were favorites of Yavanna. The old folklore tell that the Good Lady of the Earth was so stricken with these homely, peaceable beings who cared for and used her earthly creations to their fullest intent and purposes that she had blessed them with a Gift of their own; the ability to hold sway over the natural elements.
These abilities assist the Hobbits in their daily life, and if the Valar forbid, they were ever attacked by those who wished them harm, they’d have the power to defend themselves.
Though, Hobbits haven’t needed to use their abilities for battle in centuries, and even so, to use one’s Gift in front of outsiders is considered highly taboo. After all, no one wanted Yavanna’s Blessing to become a curse that sent trouble to their borders.
However, when one is so far from home, secrets have a way of coming to light. Especially when one’s friends are in danger and need saving.'
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Or, Hobbits are benders and Gandalf doesn't seem to care that Bilbo's a pretty bad one and drags him away on an adventure anyway.Series
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23 Feb 2022
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Child of the Earth and Sky by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Hobbit (2012), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
21 Jun 2013
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Certain events in Bilbo’s life were always destined to come to pass, but the will of Belladonna Took is not to be trifled with, and her choice may yet change the lives of many.
This is the story of how Bilbo became the kin of the Eagles of Manwë, and all that happened after.
(Original idea and prompt from Ewelock’s amazing art, eva4art's gorgeous follow-up piece, and reddresscloudysky’s excellent speculation on tumblr).
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- Part 1 of Homeward Wind 'verse
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08 Feb 2022
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though the stars walk backward by baggvinshield, killaidanturner
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types
19 Jan 2016
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Bilbo wakes, always in Erebor, with dark shadows to one side and the first light of a terrible dawn to the other.
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03 Feb 2022
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Eliot looks for a new roommate in NYC.
Quentin looks for an apartment to share.
They become roommates and co-inhabit the apartment platonically until 2020 strucks. (No explicit mentions of ... 'the thing' though - no worries).Pining, getting closer because of the lockdown, casual sex, or is it? Eliot does not 'do feelings', angst, obstacles to overcome, etc etc etc
You know the drift.
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08 Aug 2021