Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💗

omg.. friendship and love 🥺

fav fics is hard... since i have 185 of them now 😂 and there's a significant recency bias. but for Sandman, probably:

Complex Mathematics - OG fic or just series in general. I just like this version of these guys :3 I'm fond of them. and it makes me happy when people like them :)

Here in the Darkness - Hope & Morpheus reverse-verse manifesto. They're my blorbos in particular. Really happy with how this turned out especially since it's actually finished unlike so many of my long fics 😂

how longingly - favorite smut :] dream's first time with a guy (hob). smut is hard to write so when I manage one that I feel good about I take the win

Patron Saint - Hob & Death friendship fic w/ background Dreamling. Really helped me understand Death as a character. And I think her dynamic with Hob is just really interesting. I technically have a WIP that's a companion piece to this but I haven't worked on it much recently.

In Waking Dreams - my first proper committed Dreamling fic that I've had basically since joining the fandom. It's changed so much over the course of writing. Really hoping I can stick the landing on this one.

Bonus: Deja vu, Deja Connu - "Dream was actually all of Hob's past lovers in disguise" fic. It takes me an actual Eon to write a chapter of this but I like how the existing ones turned out and really like the future stuff that's in progress :)

fics... so many fics all the time

Inspired by @beatnikfreakiswriting 's latest chapter of Please Wake Me/For My Love Lies Patiently which is amazing. Go check it out!

Bonus calligraphy today bc I had to get silly.

12, 13, 14 for spilled ink-verse!

12. What emotions do you expect your readers to feel?

I'm hoping it'll be a bit of everything! There are so many things I want to cover. Funny, fluffy, sad, smutty. And if anyone has any specific scenes in the spilled ink verse they want to see from Dream's POV or questions they wanted answered in the writing, please let me know! I have a list going and everything.

13. What common trope(s) do you feel are used in this chapter/fic?

I'm going to use some popular Dreamling fic tags for this: Touch-Starved Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus is Bad at Feelings, Hob Gadling Loves Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Hob Gadling Hates Shakespeare, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus has a Praise Kink (that last one's just mine, oops).

14. What have you been finding frustrating with writing this chapter/fic?

Me. I'm the frustration. (I'm going to do a little cut because this answer got embarrassingly long.)

I'll give a bit of inside baseball talk here in that I was originally planning a 5-10k word fic based on this ask. I was plotting it out and getting nervous that the tone would turn people off because it's so different from the original fic. It was something almost entirely focused on Dream's traumas (essentially a list of all the reasons he could really use some therapy) and the first time I'd ever written Dream's POV in the verse at all. So then, I was going to do a fic before that fic, with the intent of introducing readers to Dream's POV with something a little bit more light to start with. I started thinking of all the bits and pieces of his history I was never able to put to paper, and all of the funny (and very sad) things going on in his head throughout the entire first fic. Then I started thinking about all of the parts of his history that I'd been afraid to commit to (specifically in regards to his tattoos), again with the fear that the tone shift would turn people off. All of this to say, I'm a mess. I ultimately decided that I'm going to do what is essentially a collection of ficlets covering all of the scenes/ideas that I've not been able to write because of Hob's POV. That way, I can still cover the things from the original ask without it being nonstop sad times. Summary of the above: the most frustrating part of writing this fic is my own overthinking, but I've decided I'm just going to write what I want and people can skip the chapters that don't interest them.

(ask me about my wips game)

The Honk Zone Presents: Absurdist Sandman AUs

Dreamling, but no one likes hair pulling or has a praise kink AU

Hob is just so so on living AU

Witchfinder General Hob AU

Dream, but when Hob calls him a friend he's just like "ok bestie" AU

Dream is a neurotypical extrovert AU

Dream does Eat Pray Love after Calliope divorces him AU

Commitmentphobe Orpheus AU

Incel Basement Dweller Orpheus AU

Death makes time for her siblings AU

True Crime Wine Mom Dream AU

Flat Earther Dream AU

Disney Live Action Sequel Enjoyer Dream AU

Agony Aunt Columnist Destiny AU

Live Laugh Love Author Despair AU

Couple’s Counselor Desire AU

Marie Kondo Organizer Delirium AU

Dreaming Union Leader Mervyn AU

Agoraphobic Destruction AU

Hitchcock’s The Birds (but it's all just Jessamy and Matthew) AU

Anger Management therapist Lyta Hall AU

The Corinthian Ken Barbie AU

Instagram Influencer John Dee AU

Destiny’s Wet Hot Summer AU

Made by myself and @chaosheadspace @ml-nolan @chaosclimber , @beatnikfreakiswriting

So...speaking as a professional, what would you rec as the best examples of twink obliteration written to date?

I'm a professional?! You flatter me, sweet anon! 🥺🥺💕💕

Well, aside from my own wares....

@blueberrymffn's The Road to Absolution, definitely. A top fave for me! And not just because I inspired V to make it. Many other's of V's works are also great. Love they. <3

Temve's Here Comes A Candle! Perhaps another I inspired.

Replay by an amazing anon writer! A classic, really.

@beatnikfreakiswriting's would you let me know, who doesn't love an academic AU, plus the UST and everything! *chef's kiss*

@cuubism's how longingly, which I had the enjoyment of seeing and reading today.

@arialerendeair's and V's Colour Forecasting! Also Aria's Checkmate series, because yes. And Aria's many other works too.

Heat Wave by spqr!

@softest-punk's The Wager, as well as many others by them too! Shelter is also a classic.

@moorishflower's Those who have yet to decide! And many of theirs too.

@notallsandmen's Putting Fire Out With Gasoline. Including bratty bow which I am totally normal about. I am not.

There are many other great ones, but uhhhhh.... *gestures* This should be enough for this.

Last line tag game

Tagged by @beatnikfreakiswriting, thank you!

Guess what this is from lol

It’s four days after Dream had found himself at Hob’s food truck, The White Horse, the earliest he could manage to come back. The day before yesterday he had published a glowing review for it, completely disregarding his former assignment, refusing to give the Magpie any sort of acknowledgement. Then he’d had to answer for that to his editor, who dressed him down until Dream had raised an eyebrow and showed Cornell the statistics for his article, clicks and comments miles above his usual reviews. Cornell had sighed and rolled his eyes, and given him a few days off while he would be drafting out a new strategy. Which was fine by Dream, who had waited for an opportunity to go and see Hob again. And maybe eat some of his food again. Okay, definitely eat some of his food again. Dream’s mouth waters just at the thought of it. He’s here earlier than last time, having found the place easily by looking it up on social media, which it already had a fairly impressive presence on. He also, just in case, marked the spot where he was parked on his GPS.

Tagging @academicblorbo, @notallsandmen, @immacaria, @tj-dragonblade

No pressure, only if you want, as always

@notallsandmen @ml-nolan @chaosheadspace @chaosclimber @beatnikfreakiswriting

so this started out as a joke doodle of true crime wine mom dream AU but then it got away from me and became goth dream will fight anyone for princess di AU oops

FUCK IT UP DR GADLING!!!

For @beatnikfreakiswriting ‘s fantastic fic “How to Get Fired From Your Exploitative Academic Job, by Hob Gadling, PhD” (nsfw)

ALSO!!!

Please donate to the University and College Union Strike Fund if you can, link below!

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“Are you calling me old?”

“It certainly seems that I am,” he agrees. Hob flips him off, and Dream sticks his tongue out at him. Hob is absolutely falling in love.

“Aren’t you a year older than me? What does that make you?”

“Positively decrepit,” Dream replies, before performing an extraordinary manoeuvre that twirls a mass of noodles to wrap perfectly around his chopsticks. It doesn’t distract Hob from the smile on his lips, or the amused look Dream’s giving him.

This little moment from ch.5 of “would you let me know? / I could make some time if you wanted” by @beatnikfreakiswriting has stuck with me for some unexplainable reason. Just them being dicks to each other (affectionately).

Last line tag game

tagged by @beatnikfreakiswriting, @teejaystumbles, @meadowziplines 🥰

from the third part of Wish, a fic that is truly strange, weird, peculiar, and generally absurd

“Who the fuck kidnaps a pregnant lady?” Matthew exclaims. Dream slants a look at him, and Matthew amends, “Uh, I mean, a pregnant dude.” Hob’s pretty sure that wasn’t the part of the statement Dream objected to and that calling Ye Olde Lord of Dreams dude might actually be worse. “Does that make it worse or better?” Matthew wonders. “Their fate was sealed the moment they threatened my child,” Dream says, ominous as a storm front. “Now their minds belong to the Dreaming, where they will be fed upon by nightmares bearing the faces of their most deeply held fears. For eternity.” “Definitely don’t kidnap pregnant ladies,” Matthew mutters.

tagging @arialerendeair, @im-not-corrupted, @the-apocrypha :)

Last sentence game

I was tagged by @just-french-me-up! Thank you kindly ❤️

I am sure no one who has been follow me for any significant amount of time will be surprised that I'm giving you a little more than just one line... I just can't help myself ;)

“How did— You.” “Me…?” said Hob, somewhat taken aback. Had this man—his…clustermate?—already caught a glimpse of him without his noticing? The man did not answer, and a second later Hob was swaying back in his chair in the pub with a sensation of having just been bodily kicked out of an exclusive club by an overeager bouncer. He squinted as his eyes tried to readjust themselves to going from sunlight to the much more dimly lit pub, then started as he realised that the strange man had followed him there and stood by the side of the table, taking in the surroundings. “Hm. England.” He turned his head towards the nearest window. “London.” “You—” “The South Bank. Northwestern Greenwich.” His eyes fell to the table, and he reached down to where Hob had left his wallet after paying for the whisky and flipped it open. With deft fingers, he slid the driving licence out and gave it a cursory glance before casually tossing it back on the table. Looking down at Hob with dispassionate disdain, he said, “You may tell your master to employ more careful spies in future, Robert Gadling,” before disappearing again. Hob blinked. When he looked down at the wallet, he found it still closed and undisturbed. “I— What…?”

"Wait," you may say to yourself, "are you writing a Sense8 AU in the year of our Lord 2024?" - Yes. Yes, I am. "Weren't you working on something else?" you may then ask. "Perhaps even two things?" - Yes. "Didn't you say you had a policy against letting yourself have more than two WiPs going at any given time to increase the chances of actually finishing what you've started?" - ...No comment.

I'll go ahead and tag @mathomhouse-e, @aralezinspace, @im-not-corrupted, @beatnikfreakiswriting and @tj-dragonblade this time 😊

DREAMLING AU ↳ would you let me know? by @beatnikfreakiswriting

last line tag game, thanks @beatnikfreakiswriting and @signiorbenedickofpadua! I'm finally plugging away at my CHBB fic again so I can't share that, but here's a little bit of something else:

“I have been thinking about your hands,” he said, kissing the sharp peak of each knuckle in turn, “since I sat down at that table last night. You really have got the loveliest hands. Long fingers. You probably didn’t even realize how distracting you were being, fiddling with those stupid little straws… playing with the condensation on your glass.” Without further preamble Hob sucked Morpheus’s right forefinger into his mouth up to the middle knuckle.

hoping to get it posted by the end of the year!

I'm very behind due to the holidays so I truly do not know who's done this round of the last line game, but I'll tag @valeriianz @omgcinnamoncakes @tryan-a-bex and @cuubism (no pressure as always)

LAST LINE TAG GAME

Tagged by @staroftheendless , thank you ❤️

This ended up being a whole paragraph, but anyways:

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From ”Over the line” (1889 canon divergence with phone sex)

”You left your hat and gloves, you know? D’you… Need them?”

Hob winced, nearly cuffing himself on the back of his head over how awkward he sounded.

”I do not require clothing.”

Blooming hell, that was not helping.

Hob’s earlobe burned between his fiddling fingertips.

The words set his imagination alight — visions of pale skin, like an illuminated manuscript for Hob to desecrate —

”Then what are you wearing now?”

The words fell from Hob’s lips before he even registered the impulse, gasping at his own boorishness.

”What am I wearing?”

The tinny echo of his stranger’s incredulous response reverberated through him.

The silence that followed seemed to go on for eons, throbbing with his heartbeat.

The stranger was going to smite him on the spot, he would hang up, he would never see or hear from him again, this would be the last time he ever heard his voice —

”Hm. You little animal.”

The affectionate diminutive curled around Hob’s throat, nearly purring from the onslaught of relief and embarrassment and lust and unabashed joy igniting his veins.

Tagging @chaosheadspace , @ml-nolan , @valeriianz , @reallyintoscience , @beatnikfreakiswriting @gabessquishytum , @seiya-starsniper

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many as you like).

Last line tag game

Was tagged by @chaosheadspace! So, latest stuff from latest thing I've written. :D

This is a quick au, though I've recently gotten over myself with a thing in it which was being difficult.

Model dreamling! Inspired by Ferdie's latest thing because. He's very inspiring.

Hob’s look becomes soft and intense as he undoes the first button of Hob’s shirt ― and he can hear Constantine grumbling, more to herself then them, this might be even better actually―considering Hob’s closer to the chaise lounge, as he gently forces Hob onto it, the awe in those lined brown eyes making him shiver. Or maybe it’s Hob’s hands going to his hips as Dream undoes another button, chest hair showing.  The tips of Dream’s fingers tingle and twitch as he slowly unbuttons Hob’s shirt, brain caught on the soft patch of chest hair as he sits on top of Hob, thighs pressed against Hob’s hip, the other’s groin against him, a searing warmth under him as Hob reclines onto the chaise.  Dream bites down a shiver as a thumb manages to get under his shirt, the hot touch of it on the skin under his shirt all he can focus on for the moment. Perfect. Make the people wish they were you, he hears Constantine say, and his first thought is that he wishes he was doing this without a full crew in the same room, as he reaches the end of Hob’s shirt, revealing a dark happy trail going into black trousers. His insides clench as he stares at where their bodies meet, and a sound gets pulled from him as Hob’s hand ― furthest from the camera, brushes his jaw, forcing his head up, his eyes meeting Hob’s, and Dream’s own hands rest on the other’s stomach, dark hair under his thumbs.  Hob cups his jaw, thumb brushing his cheek in the same tempo of the one under his shirt and Dream’s mind crashes, his hands travelling up Hob’s chest, feeling hair under his fingers and Hob continues to stare at him, devotion simple to see.

Hehe, building UST and tension, a fave thing. :D

Tagging uhhhhhhhhhhhh. @five-and-dimes @beatnikfreakiswriting @seiya-starsniper @rooftopwreck @valeriianz, no pressure ofc~

Doodle practice tonight is Marcel, for one of my favorite fics. Thank you @beatnikfreakiswriting

…RIP Marcel.