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Dreamling Nation proudly presents:
1st Sandman Anniversary Celebration ✨
On the 5th of August of 2022, Neil Gaiman blessed us with the TV adaptation of one of his most beloved works, The Sandman. 365 days later, the Sandman fandom has blossomed into a beautiful, brilliant and unhinged community. This week, we celebrate this community, the show that brought us together, and all the amazing creations that were born from it! 💖
We want to dedicate each day from August 5 to August 12 to the Endless and all the great fan creations they’ve inspired. For this event, we’ve come up with a list of activities and prompts, so everyone can participate in their own way! Wether you choose to share your own works, your favourite fics and art or to create something entirely new, this celebration is for you!
We look forward to celebrating together and wish you a wonderful Sandman Anniversary! ✨
✨THE EVENT✨
5/8 - Saturday - Death
share the first post/creation you saw in the fandom!
6/8 - Sunday - Desire
share your favourite smut creation!
7/8 - Monday - Despair
share your favourite song/playlist/video!
8/8 - Tuesday - Destruction
share your favourite pairing (non dreamling only)!
9/8 - Wednesday - Delirium
share your favourite meme/crack post!
10/8 - Thursday - Destiny
share your favourite meta and/or headcanons!
11/8 - Friday - Dream
share a fic rec list with your favourite fanfics!
12/8 - Saturday - Hob
share your favourite side character!
✨PROMPT LIST✨
5/8 - Saturday - Death
ankh / darkness / “come with me”
6/8 - Sunday - Desire
kiss / longing / “I need you”
7/8 - Monday - Despair
sadness / hope / “I’m afraid”
8/8 - Tuesday - Destruction
endings / new beginnings / “let’s do it together“
9/8 - Wednesday - Delirium
drugs / imagination / “what are you thinking about?”
10/8 - Thursday - Destiny
fate / book / “that could change everything“
11/8 - Friday - Dream
story / dream / “am I dreaming?”
12/8 - Saturday - Hob
trust / friends / “what would you do without me?”
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In The Dark of The Night
This is my first entry to the @dreamlingnation's event for the Sandman's first anniversary! The prompt was 'darkness' and I hope you guys like it!
Tags: Vampire AU; Witch AU; Vampire!Dream; Witch!Hob; Fantasy AU; Blood play (kind of?? Just to be sure); Fluff; Cuddling;
When Hob opens his eyes, darkness surrounds him. He barely can see his own hand in front of his eyes, let alone the corners and silhouettes of the room he is in. However, the room is not unknown to him.
He knows that, at his feet, there’s an antique chest full of papers and books that holds many secrets and that, at the far right of the room, a writing desk stands filled with fountain pens, quills, colourful inks and blank paper. Next to the soft bed, a big wooden wardrobe half filled with his clothes accompanies a basin of clear cold water under a mirror. It’s not the room he grew up in nor the one he currently sleeps in, but it is his room because it belongs to Dream and they belong to each other.
Soft blankets wrap Hob’s body and memories from last night come back to him slowly. The jokes, the laughter and the shared caresses. It all comes back slowly to him and he knows that, if he reaches out behind him now, there will be a somewhat cold weight leaning against his back.
Dream’s arms are wrapped around his waist, bringing him closer to his chest, while his head rests between Hob’s shoulderplates. His skin is almost warm against Hob’s own, his blood still running inside the vampire’s veins and making the usually deadly cold body almost warm to touch. The thought of his blood running through the other’s veins is marvellous, it’s addicting, it’s intoxicating and Hob sighs contentedly at it.
Both of them have come a long way until they reached that point of familiarity and intimacy. Dream was scarred over past relationships, one worse than another, and Hob held too much responsibility into his own hands, a prejudice against each other’s races pushing them even more apart. But, somehow, they still ended up here, together and curled around one another with contentment.
He turns around on his lover’s arms, one hand coming to caress his face as his eyes stare at him. A smile appears on his lips as Dream presses against his hand, satisfaction clear on his expression. Like a cat, Hob thinks, thumb pressing against his cheekbone.
Where yesterday has been filled with hurry and laughter, the thrill of finally being together after days pushing them forward, today is filled with softness, love and rest. There's no need to hurry today, they aren't needed anywhere and, even if they were, Hob highly doubts they would go anywhere besides their bed and kitchen.
Because, yes, it's their bed now. Their bed, their kitchen, their sofa, their house, their home. After fighting so long to be together, just the fact of laying down here without the threat of anyone coming for them is a miracle.
And a miracle Hob is not willing to give back.
Pulling Dream closer to himself, he kissed the crown of his head, unruly hair tickling his nose. He keeps kissing him, his hand coming down to rest against his hips while he puts the other under Dream's shoulders. The darkness is quietly subduing around them, soft light beams coming through the curtains to wake them up. Outside, the city slowly comes to life as the humans fall asleep and the creatures of the night rise.
Dream's eyes flutter open, blinking unseeingly before focusing on him with the attention of a predator. Shockingly blue eyes look at every feature, even imperfection of his face as if trying to commit it to his memory and Hob smiles. Slightly sharp canines catch into his lower lip, drawing blood, and then his husband is kissing him.
His tongue drags over the blood before catching Hob's lip between his teeth and sucking. A moan escapes his throat as Dream's teeth deepens the cuts and more blood fills his mouth. They pull each other closer, legs intertwining as Dream pulls away to allow Hob breath.
"Good awakening, love," Dream says, voice low and raspy, and Hob kisses him again. His mouth tastes of copper and salt and home.
"Good night, duck," Hob answers, smiling at him and not noticing how the darkness disappeared from around them. The rest of the world doesn’t matter, for his whole world is there, right between his arms.
#1st Sandman Anniversary#DNSandmanAnniversary#dreamlingnation#dreamling nation#dreamling#the sandman#dream of the endless#hob gadling#dream x hob#fanfic#my fanfic#mine#alternate universe#vampire au#witch au#fantasy au
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Day 4 of @dreamlingnation anniversary event —Destruction
share your favourite pairing (non dreamling only)!
Hands down my favorite sandman non-dreamling and non-romantic pairing is this two:
To elaborate a bit further, Brief Lives is my favorite Sandman arc and I think a good part of why it’s my favorite it’s because of the dynamic between this two!
If you want proof that Dream has a much softer and patient side then you won’t have to look further than Brief Lives and how kind he is to his little sister.
Alternatively Delirium is peak baby sister energy! she’s sweet and cares so much about her brother and trying in her own way to keep her family together.
She’s also very insightful and seems to see through Dream and understands him with the sort of childish wisdom that she seems to possess.
I love them so much and I can’t wait to see them together in the series 🖤
#dnsandmananniversary#1st sandman anniversary#the sandman#sandman comics#brief lives#dream of the endless#delirium of the endless#neil gaiman
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I'll do yesterday and today for @dreamlingnation Sandman event, why not?
5/8- Death
Didn't actually get to watch Sandman until 22/9 for reasons, but I immediately jumped on ao3. Searching waaaay back in my history, the first story I have listed is:
6/8- Desire
Come on, how am I supposed to choose when there's such a wealth of first class smutty goodness in this fandom? Truly, I have been blessed.
But, Leandra's (@nuttersinc) fic was one of the first I read and remains an absolute favourite so how can I not rec it? Shoo, go read if you haven't already:
👀 if I do the fic rec day there'll be... so many more. 😅
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Sandman Anniversary — Day 1 & 2 — Death & Desire
BOTH one of the first I saw in the fandom & one of my first/favorite Dreamling smut reads: Licking the Spoon by @dsudis
Also, one of my first digital drawings and I *think* maybe my first time EVER making art for somebody else's fic, which was terrifying but I just could not get the image of touch-starved Dream discovering food and spoons in Hob's kitchen out of my head.
I think I posted some others before this, because this one was hard & I had no idea wtf I was doing with digital art lol (still don't, but now I'm happier about it!) Anyway, this fic is super smutty, but so sweet and gentle and caring and extremely well written and I keep coming back to it ❤️
On Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42298905
#DNSandmanAnniversary#1st Sandman Anniversary#I hate holidays and celebrations of all kinds but I think this might be an exception#Dreamling#Dream of the Endless#Hob Gadling#Ao3
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Day 2 of the @dreamlingnation 1° Sandman Anniversary.
Share your favourite smut creation!
I didn't even think for this one, tbh. Cara' stable boy AU got me by the throat ever since she posted it and I re-read it regularly.
#dreamling nation#dreamling#the sandman#dream of the endless#hob gadling#dream x hob#1st Sandman Anniversary#DNSandmanAnniversary
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Day 3 of @dreamlingnation Anniversary event- Despair
share your favourite song/playlist /video!
There’s only one person in this fandom that I could rec here and that’s @wintersmitth 🖤 her Sandman videos were the first I ever saw in the fandom and I adore them all! You can find them all in here !!
I will, however, give a special feature to this one: https://youtu.be/aHts-FQNxik a Fem! Hob Dreamling video 🖤!!
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I bounced a lot of ideas with San and witnessed her creative process doing this and it was amazing to see the end result! So you should all definitely check it out, you won’t regret it!
#dnsandmananniversary#1st sandman anniversary#the sandman#Dreamling#Dreamling nation#video rec#Dream of the endless#seriously you all check her videos! you won’t regret it 🖤#Youtube
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Day 3 - Despair
This is the third day of @dreamlingnation event for the first anniversary of The Sandman and, in a true moment of despair where I had to wake up at 5am to go to class, I wanna show my current top 10:
1. Gold Guns Girls - Metric
2. Grrrl Like - Dope Saint Jude
3. T-Rex - K.Flay
4. Seize The Power - Yonaka
5. Teenagers - My Chemical Romance
6. Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
7. Can't Hold Us - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
8. Daylight - David Kushner
9. Dirty Little Animals - Bones UK
10. Go! - Santigold
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Day 2 of @dreamlingnation anniversary event: Desire
share your favourite smut creation!
Smut is not something we are lacking in this fandom but when I think of smut creations within the sandfam I think of @staroftheendless 🖤
There’s plenty of fluffy and smutty fics from her and you can find them all here for your reading pleasure.
I also want to shout out her side blog @smutoftheendless in which monthly smut prompts are shared! this is the current list for august which I highly recommendchecking out if you are into writing or creating that spicy content ✨
#dnsandmananniversary#1st sandman anniversary#the sandman#fic rec#dreamling#seriously tho cara? impecable vibes always on her fics so you all go read this
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