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a Big, big thank you to @llflorence for commissioning this art of Dream for her Dreamling fanfic The Blood of Bucephalus 🖤

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#dream fanart #illustration #art #dream of the endless #digital art #fanart #the sandman fanart #the sandman #sandman fanart #morpheus #dreamling fic #gorgeous art! #go read the fic! #and shout at Morpheus with me

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See, I'm not sure I think it tastes like soap so I mustn't have that gene... but having said that, I really don't like fresh coriander. I don't mind it in a recipe (though I don't add it to mine) but never fresh.

When I was young and innocent I worked at an American summer camp. Where they served watermelon. Yum. But on top of the watermelon they had sprinkled some green leafy thing.... 'wtf is this,' said I. Except I didn't swear because this was a summer camp. 'Tis cilantro,' replied one of my co-workers. Cilantro? Cilantro? I'd never heard of cilantro at this point in my life and I still question why it was put on the watermelon. Even picking the stuff off didn't help. It still tasted of bloody cilantro. I'd been really looking forward to that watermelon as well. It had been a long, hot day.

Well, the watermelon was ruined. Cilantro/coriander has been my enemy ever since./ dramatic recount.

CORIANDER

Thoughts?

Go.

hello my friend. I love coriander. I know there's supposedly discrete sets of people -- those who like it and those who think it tastes like soap -- but actually sometimes I can taste the soapiness. and I still eat it anyway. love it fresh on top of my black beans and rice; love it in my guacamole; love it ground in curries. I love it. husbando always uses a shit ton of the fresh stuff when we have burrito bowls for dinner, love that too.

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Well, it is here—my first ever big bang! I’ve kept VERY mum on this throughout the whole process, but I am super proud (and dreadfully nervous) to present to y’all:

nothing grows in corpses (in the earth of me)

Just over 100k words in a universe where the show ends the same way as the comics do until Death decides it doesn’t. Things…fall apart in a spectacularly ghastly fashion.

Ft. angst, whump, hurt/comfort, the VERY long road that is physical & psychological recovery, and by and large Hob being a life-loving bastard and Morpheus being a grave-obsessed bitch. Please heed the full tags list. Got nearly every category of Dead Dove: Don’t Eat in there.

But it’s not all heavy! Have some spectacularly captured comedy from my amazing artist @shrugsinchinese ! You were such a joy to work with, and I am so glad you were the first person who shared in the complete story. 😊

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@the-centennial-husbands-bigbang

#centennial husbands big bang #dreamling #the sandman netflix #hob gadling #morpheus #chbb2024 #the sandman fanfiction #fic rec #make time to read this it is really really good #but also mind the tags as it is heavy #but excellent

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My illustration for @the-centennial-husbands-bigbang!

This piece is for the incredible fic Nothing Grows on Corpses by @starbase-yorktown!

#amazing art for an amazing fic #the picture really captures the scene! #chbb2024 #the sandman #dreamling #hob gadling #dream of the endless #Guenevere #johanna constantine #matthew the raven #centennial husbands #centennial husbands big bang

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Baked Ziti from A Hundred Years, Then by @nuttersinc

I read this fic on my flight and added it to my list because it had a lot of food mentions. I was originally supposed to make three dishes from it today, Baked Ziti, Leek Soup, and Eton Mess. But I've been low energy and mood since I got back and my grocery delivery had one key ingredient missing, so I chose to make only one main dish, Baked Ziti.

It's a cheesy pasta casserole and very easy to put together, great for days when brain doesn't want to brain. I used Italian sausage and cheeses like provolone, mozzarella, and gouda. I was out of parmesan my beloved, so I skipped it, but you should add it if you want a nuttier taste.

Now for the fic ~~

There's not a lot of description about the recipe for Baked Ziti itself but the scene starts with details about Butter Chicken. As I've already made butter chicken a few times, I skipped it, but I'll add some lines about other food. It's a gorgeous fic with alternative endings for each meeting between Hob and Dream. The food scene happens in chapter 6 after Dream is rescued by Hob and Johanna and he enters Hob's dreams, where he is cooking.

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Hob is dreaming of standing in his kitchen, raiding his fridge, when Dream steps into his dreams.

“Are you hungry?” he asks, tilting his head and taking in the way Dream is standing in the middle of his kitchen with his hands thrust into the pockets of his coat. “You look hungry.”

When Dream nods, because yes, he is, he’s in fact ravenous.

[Hob here offers multiple foods to Dream who is so hungry he eats everything.]

Hob opens the oven and takes out a steaming lamb stew with dried plums and a baked ziti.

Dream settles himself at the kitchen island on a high chair- he could conjure a more comfortable arrangement, but this is Hob’s dream and he doesn’t want to interfere, guessing that the impromptu casualness of the midnight feast has a hidden layer of meaning for Hob. He demolishes the bowl of mediaeval leek soup and the Moroccan lamb stew and the ziti... Still, the food keeps on coming and the empty plates pile around them.

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The story is gorgeous and I hope you give it a read. I plan to make the other recipes too, but for today this is all I can do. *crawling back to bed*

#baked ziti #dreamling #food as love language #a hundred years then #fanfiction recipes #looks delicious

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when you find a fanfic writer whose work just sings to you… i would read anything you write…. i would wade into a tag no matter how deranged… i would travel to the ends of the earth for you if only to soothe your little oyster shell just so you would be comfortable enough to make another pearl whenever you felt like it … i would love you tenderly and support you as you carefully place every grain of sand onto your little castle, regardless of how long it takes, if only to enjoy your words just a little longer

#ao3 #fanfiction

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#the sandman fanart #dream of the endless #hob gadling #dreamling #wonderful art

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“Oneiros would play with the child. He would tell it tales.”

#dream of the endless #orpheus #the sandman #sandman fanart #this is so lovely

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Give us Dream and Johanna please!

(And I’m serious because how could you not after all the signs?)

Okay, after today’s Lucienne and Matthew news, which very likely mean unbridled moping in the rain, can I just say the following:

I’ve basically felt from day one they should replace Thessaly with Johanna. For a million reasons. Mostly because it makes show-narrative sense, but also because I’m selfish and would love to see less bi-erasure in fandom (it is a lofty goal, I know). So we see a bi woman have f/f AND m/f relationships and don’t just hype the same sex one and then ignore the other one as “straight”, as usually happens.

I’m still wildly convinced (well, hunch-style 🤣) we’re getting ConstantDream in the show. I’ll be embarrassed about it later if it doesn’t happen yet will survive, but I wrote a million times about it, so may I just draw attention to two of many:

The cinematography/framing (so many romance shots!)

His eyes in the lower one (you know when they get all sparkly with a slightly golden glow, right?)

The rain!

Her saying, “None of us can be trusted.”

Matthew saying he doesn’t like her in S1 (which is a direct mirror of the scene we’ve talked about, where he says to Lucien that he never liked Thessaly).

The way it already makes sense (Dream took Johanna’s nightmares away—she could just dream of him out of gratefulness or whatever. Same thing as with Thessaly really, easy to do).

The soundtrack. Yes, we have musical clues, read the meta.

Slight spoilers, proceed at your own risk…

The fact we’ve literally no news about AGoY and know that Wanda/Ruby have been rolled into one, which could totally mean Wanda’s arc has been changed (she doesn’t need to die in a storm/collapsed building, she might as well die in a fire).

The way that Johanna would protect Lyta for all the right reasons because of her experience with Astra.

And did I mention the rain? THE UNGODLY AMOUNT OF RAIN.

Need I go on?

#the sandman #dream of the endless #johanna constantine #constantdream #morphanna #I’d be so pleased with this!

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Morpheus—John Watkiss

#john watkiss #the sandman #dream of the endless #morpheus

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Dream and Matthew—Shawn McManus

#the sandman #dream of the endless #sandman art #shawn mcmanus

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#wolf & raven comic #wolf and raven dreamling #the sandman fanart #the sandman fan comic #love all the updates!

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Sleep of the Just | Inspired by Mucha's "The Times of the Day: Night’s Rest"

#gorgeous #dream of the endless #the sandman fanart #wonderful art

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Hiiiiiii

Some Hob Gadling and Dream I made today! I want to draw a loooot of domestic fluff with those two, I want to draw some fanfic scene, some love, some 1389/1489/1589/1689/1789/1889 and 1989 scenes, and a little angst too!

I've red soooo many beautiful fanfics lately, I want to draw from them soooo much!

I hope you'll let me do it, dear authors!

#the sandman #dream of the endless #sandman hob gadling #dreamling #wonderful art

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#sometimes still sing badgerbadgerbadgerbadgermushroommushroom #was it rathergood.com? I can't remember

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I'm doing an informative survey for myself. Please reblog and vote if you can!

#log out? #but how would I keep track of my history? #never

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If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

#writing motivation #ao3