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A Cure For Boredom by emmagrant01
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
28 Mar 2012
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They'd never talked about sex in the year they'd known each other. Well, that wasn't quite correct: Sherlock had never said a word about sex; John had bemoaned his personal dearth of it on many occasions.
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Bookmarked by optimismbagel
04 Nov 2025
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!!!!!!!!
Feel incredibly feral about this
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Humans cannot see Death at work.
But Hob can.
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Bookmarked by optimismbagel
03 Nov 2025
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Hob can see Death even before the bargain, background dreamling but barely. mostly hob & death throughout 600 years of friendship. stunningly beautiful
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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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02 Nov 2025
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“An Endless?” Hob asks, softly, because it feels like a question that needs to be soft.
“That’s what we are,” Death responds, trying again for a small smile. “Me and D—”
“Don’t,” Hob interrupts, far stronger than he meant to, and Death looks surprised for as long as it takes him to get out, “Don’t, please. I-I want to hear it from him.”
Sympathy colors Death’s gaze even as Hob feels his face burn. Six hundred years, Hob thinks—he’ll be damned if he finds out his Stranger’s name from anyone but the odd man himself.
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It's 1989 and Hob Gadling thinks he's been stood up. Death herself is kind enough to inform him otherwise—and, well, now Hob's got to bloody do something about it, doesn't he?
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Bookmarked by optimismbagel
02 Nov 2025
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love the hob & daeth interactions, stellar rescue, morpheus needs to be wrapped in a cat blanket
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"If Sherlock's brain is a hard drive, then these attacks are an electro-magnetic pulse." Sherlock Holmes does not do anything by half, not even a migraine. It falls to John to witness one of the greatest minds he has ever known tear itself apart, and he must do his best to help Sherlock pick up the pieces.
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Bookmarked by optimismbagel
01 Nov 2025