#the throuple of dreams

[what-do-you-mean-theyre-evil]

VERONICA 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭!!!!

#do you like my tears #is this why you do this to me? #romance club #dracula a love story #the throuple of dreams #vlad x lale x aslan #vlad x laia x leo

[nynevefromthelake]

The sun☀️ the moon🌙 the star ✨

#Sandman #dream of the endless #morpheus #hob gadling #Calliope #dreamling #dreammuse #immortal throuple #hob x dream x calliope #Sandman fanart #fanart

[laurasbailey]

laudna does anything remotely terrifying or destructive and these two are just

#text #literally episode 1 and episode 71 #they're the dream throuple actually

[tuesdaygray]

thinking about. the consistent thread in challengers (2024) of wanting your life to be about more than "hitting a ball with a racket."

how tashi is the first character to bring this up and whether or not she means it (she's really only planning to do a year of college) she knows inherently that being well rounded is practical. that she's not from the same place as the country club, tennis academy, daddy's money kids. this should be an unattainable dream for most, but it's hers and she has it and it's terribly ingrained into her life but "what if this doesn't work out?" and then it doesn't. she gets injured and she gets stuck in this loop of the past, in her own potential, in what could have been. when it feels like everyone is counting on you to do and succeed at one thing ("she's going to make her family millionaires"), the one thing that is the framework and catalyst for everything you know, how do you come back from that? her life could now, realistically, become about something else because she actually can't have her dream anymore, but she becomes obsessed, holding on with white knuckles and performing alterations because she can't let it go, until she admits sardonically in a mostly abandoned applebees that her life really has only been about one thing.

and patrick. who challenges tashi's original statement. who has no problem devoting his life to tennis because it's a "good way to avoid having a job." who never had any dreams beyond playing the sport he's always had a knack for, coasting by on natural talent, never having to try. realizing too late that what really made it worth it was tennis as a relationship, not the selfish ego stroke it had been when he was good enough to win tashi's number. and he's stuck in arrested development, just like her. he never grew up, he never let go of the past, of what it felt like to play doubles with his best friend, of what it felt like to watch tashi at the top of her game. but he's painfully aware. he's made his bed and he's tangled in the sheets and he loves it and he hates it and above all else, he misses the way it used to be.

then there's art. whose decision to go to stanford is never questioned because it's unspoken general knowledge that he couldn't have gone pro right away. he never expected to be this big time professional player, he was always just concerned with doing a "really good job." and because of this, art's life is the one that probably should have been about more, the foundation was laid for it. but he's stuck too, a passive actor in a life he chose and was probably never meant to have. the holder of and heir to tashi's and patrick's unrealized dreams. (was it ever his dream?) and after eight years, after attaining it and living it without a real passion for it, he's ready to give it up because, out of the three of them, he wants his life to be about more than "hitting a ball with a racket" because it's "embarrassing to be doing this shit when you're 40." but he's the one who bears the weight of success, alone at the top, where the people he loves can only dream of knocking him off. so shouldn't he be grateful for it?

#challengers #tashi duncan #patrick zweig #art donaldson #this is mostly incoherent i fear but i've been shaking these characters around in my mind for days #patrick and tashi have dedicated their lives to an unrealized or adjusted dream #art has attained said dream and wants to give it up #hitting a ball with a racket is all i know how to do #save me deeply tragic toxic challengers throuple save me #txt.t

[gabessquishytum]

Human au/Immortal throuple idea!

Hob and Dream are best friends but Hob has a secret. He has been in love with Dream his whole life. But as far as he knows, Dream is only interested in women.

In fact, when Hob meets Calliope in a college course, develops a crush and invites her out for drinks, he sees the exact moment Dream falls in love with her. He watches it happen and feels his heart break again. Because Calliope is amazing. hob already knows it. But what can he offer either of them?

So Hob encourages Dream and Calliope to date, and pretends it’s fine. Dream has had flings before but this time, Hob knows it is serious. Still he hangs out with them all the time. More than he should, but Hob can’t ever turn them down when they invite him out. Their other friends joke about Hob being their constant third wheel.

After a year, Dream proposes and Hob helps throw them an engagement party. And Dream and Calliope both jokingly fight over who gets Hob as their best man. They share.

But Hob is at his limit. He had tried to quiet his heart but it’s just too painful to be so in love. And as long as he is in their lives, he knows he will never get over them. So quietly, Hob puts in an application for a grad program in the states, as far away as he can get. He doesn’t have the heart to tell them, not when they’re so excited for their future. He doesn’t want to ruin their happiness.

The day of the wedding, hob is heartbroken but so happy to see them happy. He means every word of his speech, where he tells the crowd how well matched they are, and how they are his best friends. He hugs them goodbye. Even if they don’t know it’s goodbye forever, he tries to memorize those last moments. And then as Dream and Calliope depart for their honeymoon in Greece, Hob shuts the door in his packed up apartment and hops on a plane.

Dream and Calliope don’t hear from Hob on their trip—but they assume he wants to give him space. But when they get back, they find a letter from Hob waiting. Hob tells them he has loved Dream for years but he knows his feelings aren’t returned. He tells them that he is not angry and that he knows Calliope will make Dream so happy. He admits that he loves Calliope too. He tells them to take care of each other but that he needs to move on and he is sorry but this is the only way he could think to do it. If he saw them he knows they would have been able to talk him out of it.

Dream falls to pieces. He calls Hob over and over but Hob has changed his number. He has deleted his social media. Hob doesn’t want to be found. Calliope is stunned by her own heartbreak. And she’s never seen Dream like this.

Their first year of marriage is rocky. Without Hob’s joyfulness Dream drags Calliope into depressive spirals. Without his gentleness, they grate on each other’s nerves. They realize how much Hob had been the glue that helped them work. Their sex feels more like fighting for dominance than making love. Calliope is sure Dream resents her for Hob’s leaving. And sometimes he spits at her that she is right, he does. It’s clear something is missing. Now they realize not only have they lost Hob, they’re on the verge of losing each other.

Calliope, because she is a queen, finally sits Dream down to talk about Hob. He tends to fly into a rage or collapse into sadness at the mention of Hob’s name these days. But she makes him talk to her about him. About their friendship. And slowly they realize that not only did they depend on Hob, but they might have been in love with him too.

So there is only one thing to do. They have to track Hob down and convince him to give them a chance. But how will they find him when he is determined not to be found? And if they find him, what if he has already moved on?

Oh I love it!!! 3 dumbasses is the only thing better than 2 dumbasses.

I'm imagining that they rally all their friends and family to try and track Hob down. Calliope's sisters put out feelers around Europe, Death contacts all of her colleagues in the medical field, and Delirium has the amazing idea to get in touch with their brother Destruction (now know as Ollie) who also disappeared at one point and knows the best places to go to track Hob down. With a plan of action and hope in their hearts, Dream and Calliope's relationship actually settles into something more like it used to be. They feel united and they finally start to comfort each other instead of fighting.

Ollie's work pays off and he tracks Hob down studying for his PhD and living in the middle of bumfuck, nowhere. He's changed his name and even altered his appearance slightly - long hair tied back in a ponytail, beard sleek and neat around his jaw. Ollie sends the information to Dream and he and Calliope are on the first flight out to the nearest airport.

Hob is... not mad that they tracked him down. He's fucking lonely and he misses his two best friends, and he's not sure if he made the right decision. Never getting to see them hurts even more than seeing them in love. When they show up on the doorstep on his trailer he's so relieved he could cry.

Calliope smacks him on the chest, hard enough to make him stumble, and she says a lot of thing that mainly boil down to "I'm so mad that you didn't even give us a CHANCE to love you." And Dream is all teary eyes and trembling lips, holding onto Hob’s sleeve like he's going to just disappear into thin air. Eventually they all go inside, and Hob makes tea. Just like he always used to.

Dream and Calliope get on either side of Hob and twine themselves around him like vines on a trellis. They need his support and strength to allow them to grow. And they feel awful that they never even realised just how important he was. He should have been an equal partner in their relationship from the very beginning. And now they have him back, they're both practically trembling with want. They need to show him that they want him to come back and be with them always!

Meanwhile Hob is just trying to work out if this is just a wonderful dream come true... or if his two loves are really crowding him up against the wall and kissing every inch of him they can reach?!

#the sandman #immortal throuple #dream x hob x calliope

[ourelectricshadows]

MY PROBLEM WITH ANY STRAWHAT SHIPS IN ONE PIECE is that there are very few of them that I would see getting together during canon like..... i think the strawhat's whole thing is that they love each other and they love LUFFY in a way that is not exactly just friendship but not exactly romance either.... not exactly found family but not exactly a polycule either and yet sort of both at the same time yknow? that's the basis of their whole relationships, and so pairing any two of them together while they're still travelling feels ever so slightly wrong

#one piece #ramblings #im just gonna tag the ships i was thinking about when writing this okay? #buckle the fuck UP im a multi-shipper #sanuso #frobin #zorobin #usonami #sanusonami #im Not tagging namivivi because they are the exeption....... i love lesbians #zosan #the TENDERNESS OF IMAGINING ANY COUPLE THROUPLE WHATEVER #GOING OFF TOGETHER AFTER THE CREW HAS SEPERATED OR AFTER THEIR DREAMS ARE ACCOMPLISHED #AND FALLING IN LOVE THEN BC YEAH THEYVE BEEN A LITTLE IN LOVE ALL ALONG BUT THE LOVE USED TO BE SHARED AND NOW ITS JUST THEM #IDK WHAT IM SAYING AT THIS POINT BUT DO YOU SEE THE VISION #shipping #one piece ships #strawhats

[headcanonthings]

Hob: Can I buy you a drink?

Dream: I have a wife.

Hob: *looks at Calliope*

Hob: *checks his wallet*

Hob: Okay, but she can only get something small.

#incorrect quotes #incorrect sandman quotes #the sandman #hob gadling #dream of the endless #dreamling #hob x morpheus x calliope #hob x dream x calliope #dreamlingope? #do they have a ship name yet? #because they need one #immortal throuple #morpheus of the endless

[grunklestanofficial]

Hope this becomes the dynamic once they actually start dating

#The real dream would be establishing Jimmy/Clark/Lois as the power throuple for the next few generations of comics but we're on CN #my adventures with superman #superman #clark kent #lois lane #jimmy olsen

[dr3amofagame]

fuck it i'm making this c!awesamdreamity sitcom AU (dr3 edition) a real thing for the funnies alone. why the hell not

premise: they get thrown into a sitcom. that's it. they're in a sitcom world that plays by sitcom rules, which means that everything that occurs Has to conceivably work within the genre. that means no throwing dream in a cell underground and treating him as a prisoner, sam, that's not funny enough. they can't leave or escape, and if they try to do something that Doesn't work within the genre they'll either just be completely unable to do it or they'll be foiled in some genre-specific way (ex: sam tries to build a cell on the property anyway and ends up in a three-episode arc about his fight with HOA)

the main point of this set up is that anything is technically possible as long as it works within the bit. also, yes, there's a laugh track, and whether or not the characters can hear it has everything to do with what's the funniest option (c!sam fucking hates the thing, for the record.)

highlights of this include:

the sitcom Demands A Relationship. because neither c!quackity nor c!sam is willing to do the whole married couple spiel with c!dream, that means that c!awesamq are the ones that are officially "together." this goes so fucking badly and is like, the primary reason why i'm making this a thing in the first place

c!dream isn't Allowed to be a prisoner, but he does have to stay within the house. between the genre and c!awesamq's opinions, he's not really going to end up as just "the roommate" or family or you know, an official third part of the throuple, so the maid it is

a level of violence is allowed but like, the actual pain/consequences has everything to do with whether it works For The Bit or For The Drama. like, c!q might hit c!dream with the car and nothing will happen bc it'll be played off as a punchline, for example, but also a dramatically timed fall might lead to someone walking around with a broken arm for an 'episode' or two. there's no magical accelerated healing here, just the Power Of The Bit

similarly, a lot will be allowed to slide as long as you're genre savvy about it. c!quackity won't be able to get away with outright torturing c!dream for hours, of course, but pushing him around is fine as long as it's funny enough. especially if it comes with a side of romantic drama

speaking of the romantic drama, hoo boy are c!awesamq a fucking TRAIN WRECK. like my god are they so toxic. c!sam is literally the quintessential asshole condescending boyfriend on that server and c!q has a quick fuse, a hell of a temper, and generally reacts to being talked down to with several knives and cursing. they take to a domestic romantic relationship as a fish does to . uh. lava maybe. like it's BAD

think screaming slammed doors things being thrown there's a glass sailing towards c!sam's head screaming over the banisters holes in the drywall fine! FINE! [laugh track] bad. it'd be gloriously, ridiculously toxic. the crowd goes wild

c!quackity has to contend with the fact that his husband is absolutely down horrendous FOR THEIR STUPID GODDAMN MAID .

the maid also wants his husband more than quackity :/ sidelined in his own relationship once again (i wonder why, Q)

how well they adjust has everything to do with how well they acclimate to the genre. c!quackity does the best job--he knows how to play a crowd and do so well. c!sam by FAR acclimates the worst. he's inherently completely offended by the idea of everything about his job and the prison being turned into Entertainment, into something Funny, into A Show To Consume and basically reacts to the sitcom thing by trying to ignore it. this, of course, means that he ends up generally being the butt of the joke

c!dream is. well. at least he's got less stress about dying i guess. and is generally a lot less injured bc starvation and torture lead to lower comedy ratings smh. is still kinda in hell but you know yesterday he got to watch c!quackity hit c!sam over the head with a frying pan and literal cartoon birds appeared so

honestly he's kinda quietly having an existential crisis and lowkey earning sympathy points from the proverbial audience by being the one that comes off the least as Just The Complete And Utter Worst

(meanwhile: c!sam is yelling at c!quackity for how he's apparently cut up all of his dress shirts while c!quackity screams back about something something and he can stick the scissors up his ass)

[laugh track]

#c!awesamdreamity hell house AU #c!awesamdreamity #not going to be making Anything serious with this it exists solely for the meme #c!quackity slamming open the door of their broom closet to find c!awesamdream making out: #c!awesamq domestic toxicity. GOLD FUCKING STAR #and yea theyre both fucking dream on the side bc theyre a goddamn hell throuple

[furiosophie]

may i visit you in the dream realm sometime?

one day, perhaps

i just think these three immortal beings who've been through a lot of shit deserve some chill time in the dreaming, as a treat

#dream of the endless #calliope sandman #hob gadling #immortal throuple #dreamling #dream x calliope #look i just think hob and calliope would get along #let them laugh about how clueless dream is about relationships #it would be cathartic #in fact that's probably what hob is doing rn talking shit #dream has thought about storming off no less than four times but also this is the most loved he's felt in two millenia so maybe it's okay #the sandman #id in alt text #soph arts #dream x hob x calliope #dream/hob/calliope

[what-do-you-mean-theyre-evil]

WHY GIVE ME THE OPTION OF POURING MY LOVE INTO TWO TALISMANS IF I CAN ONLY HAVE ONE MAN!?!?!

#dracula a love story #they're all in love #why are you doing this to me #choosing only one route fucking hurts #romance club #vlad x laia x aslan #vlad x lale x leo #the throuple of dreams

[confusedgoldenflower]

MIZU x AKEMI x TAKAYOSHI

I except nothing less. Taigen is allowed IF AND ONLY IF he mans the fuck up, doesn’t get butthurt over Mizu and grows.

Akemi and Mizu, if they get a man, need a real man, not a man child clinging to falsities his daddy and master told him. He’s obnoxious. He’s a good, loyal but annoying friend at best as it stands. They’re not compatible romantically/sexually (if memory serves, the flashbacks of nonexistent dick Mikio overlapped w her time w Taigen/some scenes that could be read as romantic, a man who caused her great hurt who made it so she’ll likely need a LOT to be able to be vulnerable w a man ever again), neither is he with Akemi anymore. I’m hoping the overlap was just there to show her starting to think about it or as a weird red herring for his bi/gay awakening. He could get someone else in S2, who knows. As S1 is, they don’t deserve each other. The throuple. Mizu and Akemi as a pair with some more development, but not w him.

Takayoshi, however, has shown that he can be understanding and he should be a trained swordsman. He didn’t seem to mind allowing Akemi to lead and there’s a big hint that she’ll be the “pants wearer” of the relationship going forward. I think Akemi’s moved on from Taigen, maybe not realizing it but has, and Taka also has a pretty significant “fault” being his stutter.

I just see more potential with Taka not Tai.

Having throuple representation would be incredible regardless!

But bringing in a new character for it could also really work. Like a gentle lady Mizu finds in England—oh, that’s an idea…👀👀 no I have enough fanfic wips damnit. She could free someone from a work house or mine!

#blue eye samurai #blue eye samurai ideas #mizu blue eye samurai #akemi blue eye samurai #mizu x akemi #mizu x Akemi x takayoshi #takayoshi #Taigen #ALSO. WHAT IF MIZUAKEMI GOT W THE MIXED SEX WORKER IN KAJIS HOUSE #I cant find her name or at least indication the name belongs to her in the character lists #I’m sure these r just crack ideas now #shooting for a lesbian throuple is prob too much #but a perosn can dream #the other “girls of Kaji aren’t accounted for at the end tho #I’m sure miss white hair blue eyes didn’t do w them for obv rsns #but I’d assume Akemi will be sending for the others? #I’d be just as happy w that as the pair getting a gentlelady too #just pls don’t be Taigen. pls pls pls. his ass is too annoying and self serving and obstinant #not that Mizu doesn’t have leaps and bounds to make but he makes my brain angry #god the next season is gonna be even darker w what F said about the other two #how can the writers and artists and voice actors be mentally ok #I’d need so much levity #I think words r getting away from me now

[izzymarksthespot]

Death: “Why are Dream and Hob sitting with their backs to each other?”

Lucienne: “They had a fight.”

Death: “Then why are they still holding hands?”

Lucienne: “They get sad when they fight.”

#has this been done yet? #my corintheus rotten brain does have space for dreamling of course it does #i actually love them as a throuple #the sandman #the sandman netflix #dreamling #dream of the endless #morpheus #hob gadling

[gabessquishytum]

Older couple dream and calliope are shopping for a sugar baby because it keeps life interesting and they both love domming and spoiling the crap out of someone—together ❤️

They go on websites but no one is a perfect fit. Until over the holidays, Orpheus brings home a friend who has no family to spend the season with.

Hob is their son’s age (20s). He is their son’s friend. He comes in with college debt and three jobs and a big smile, offering to help with chores and cooking while he’s staying there. He’s also a baby pansexual who gets tipsy at dinner and starts talking about how he is looking for new experiences, enough that Dream is rock hard in his pants at the dinner table. Instantly Calliope and Dream lock eyes and know. Hob is meant to be theirs to spoil, cherish, punish and pamper.

So not only do they need to woo Hob into their bed (they have so many plans already) but they also have to somehow break the news to Orpheus…

Omg baby pan Hob getting seduced by his best friend's parents is,,, very hot, ok. Poor Orpheus. Sorry, kiddo.

Listen, Hob was just made to be pampered. He's a pretty little twink with big brown eyes and that teeny tiny waist, and Dream and Call both want to eat him alive. The very night he arrives, they agree that he's the one. And the very next morning, they start seducing him.

Dream makes a full spread of breakfast and insists that Hob not even lift a finger except to enjoy his food. The whole time he gets Hob talking about college, about how he wishes he had more time to study, and how he desperately wants to make everyone proud. Dream has to bite his tongue - he's so close to throwing Hob over the table and fucking him senseless. But not yet.

Because Calliope asks Hob to drive her into town, which he eagerly agrees to do. Anything to help his kind hostess! She ends up bringing Hob to a highend spa, and insisting that he join her. It's no trouble, he can use the family membership. And oh, it's wonderful to see the sweet boy relax as he's massaged, manicured and oiled up.

Hob returns home with Calliope is a daze of warmth and delight. When Dream sits beside him on the sofa and Calliope joins them to sandwich him in, poor Hob is so cute and flustered. But as soon as Dream grasps the back of his neck, Hob melts and sinks into Calliope's arms. He's so sweet and needy, it's incredibly easy to give him what he wants. And he follows orders so nicely, always so eager to please. He's just the perfect little puppy.

Thankfully Orpheus is out with some local friends, so he doesn't see or hear any of Hob’s afternoon of pleasure in his parents' bed! But the new tryad won't stay a secret for long. Hob is already addicted to having Dream and Calliope's attention on him, and there's no way he'll be able to hide how horny he is...

It is a little unfortunate that Hob stumbles into the kitchen wearing Dream’s shirt and a pair of Calliope's panties - and comes face to face with his Orpheus. But hey. When your parents are THAT hot, you just have to learn to accept these things!

#the sandman #immortal throuple #dream x hob x calliope #nsft

[isbergillustration]

Still funnelling all my post degree free time into Cyberpunk 2077 so here is my V. His hobbies include grappling with the fact that he's exclusively attracted to octogenarian millennial rockerboys who were in Samurai and also violent crime.

#cyberpunk 2077 #sketchbook #portrait #ink #colour pencil #my friend's weird markers i borrowed do not love them #(the markers not the friend) #my art #he wears all johnny's clothing because he's good at cosplaying his live in boyfriend #he is trans #and bi despite previously stated extremely specific type #and he is trying very hard to date both kerry and johnny but the game will not let him have the samurai poly throuple of his dreams #actually should be pan shouldnt he with this colour scheme

[nurserard]

betty having a wet dream about her lesbian coworker and then immediately going downstairs to have breakfast with her boyfriend is crazy. i think she should’ve had a little infidelity. as a treat

#and i think veronica should’ve gotten over her jealous self and joined in #betty/drake/veronica the throuple of my dreams #btw do you guys remember when toni and cheryl fake seduced hermosa #sheesh #shooting the breeze #riverdale