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1. The Seven Lamps of Architecture by cloudydreamer, Quilling

   Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   05 Aug 2023

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Hob Gadling
   • Dream of the Endless | Morpheus
   • Hob Gadling
   • Aristeas the Raven (Sandman)
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Alternate Universe - Historical
   • 15th Century Venice
   • Magical Realism
   • Gothic Atmosphere
   • The Dreaming is both a setting and basically its own character here
   • Literary and artistic references and allusions
   • Meta on storytelling and narratives
   • Dream goes by all of his names here
   • POV Hob Gadling
   • In which he gets to peel back each of the layers like an onion
   • (or a tulip bulb - this will make more sense later)
   • Sexual Content
   • Falling In Love
   • hero’s journey
   • Happy Ending

   Summary

   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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