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Once upon a time there was a tower, and a man who was foolish enough to trespass upon it.
After being dared by his friends to take a single rose from the garden of the dark tower outside of London, Hob Gadling discovers that he has inadvertently run afoul of the tower's keeper, a man who calls himself Dream, and who wields powerful magics. To prevent the deaths of his friends, Hob offers himself as a hostage: to be Dream's captive and confidant for all eternity, trapped together in the dark tower.
However, once there, Hob discovers deeper and deeper mysteries with each passing day. What is the significance of the roses? What is the beast that roams the gardens at night? Why will Dream offer him no answers, and why can none of his servants speak of the tower's past?
And why has Dream forbidden Hob from entering the topmost floor of the tower?
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30 May 2026
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You're the One I Need by Moorishflower for fishydwarrows
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
15 Oct 2023
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"Uh-oh," Delirium says. Dream studies the car, the white smoke billowing out from beneath the bonnet, listening to the alarming clunking noise that the engine is making.
On his hip, Orpheus, unusually solemn child that he is, gazes soulfully at the car.
"Caw boken," he declares.
Divorced novelist and aging goth Dream Nickson agrees to accompany his sister Delirium on a cross-country journey to Greece, partially to seek out their estranged brother and partially to deliver his son, Orpheus, back to his waiting mother. When their car breaks down before they've even managed to leave England they receive unexpected help from hobby farmer Hob Gadling, whose cheer and kindness mask tragedies of his own.
Trapped by mechanical failure and a sudden storm, Dream now must deal with his trauma, his past, and feelings he'd thought he would never experience again, all in the course of a single day and night spent with a handsome stranger.
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20 May 2026
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17th Century Knife Restoration by Moorishflower
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
01 Dec 2023
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'400 year-old pocket knife restoration,' the title says, and the still thumbnail is a picture of an anonymous man's hands dipping an unidentified object – though he's willing to guess it's the aforementioned four-hundred year-old knife – into what looks like a baking soda bath.
And then it cuts to a video of the knife.
His knife.
Hob Gadling watches an ASMR video about knife restoration and gets a bit in his feelings about the whole thing (sometimes immortality isn't all it's cracked up to be). Thankfully, he has a friend who understands.
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04 May 2026
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When Hob Gadling needs a plus-one for a colleague's wedding, he does what any reasonable six-hundred-year-old immortal would do: he asks the anthropomorphic personification of dreams to pretend to be his boyfriend.
What could go wrong?
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09 Apr 2026
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Touch was never something Alastor sought—only something to tolerate at best, avoid at worst. But when Lucifer offers an alternative—cockwarming, stillness, closeness without expectation—he hesitates. Just this once, he lets himself take it.
But warmth turns to want, restraint frays, and Alastor realizes too late—he doesn’t just need touch.
He wants it. And now, he can’t stop.
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