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the-cloudy-dreamer · 6 months

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“And here we are! Mister Gadling if I may introduce you to the owner of this estate, Lord Morpheus Endelas?'' The portrait of a severe looking man hangs at the top of the staircase, with an ornate golden frame. It is the only thing occupying that wall.

It looks lonely.

“Lord Morpheus? So, if he is the owner of this estate, why is his sister the one rushing to sell it? Where is he?” Hob asks, confused.

“Nobody really knows. He was quite the renowned painter at the time but went missing at the peak of his career months after his only son died in a tragic accident,” Mister Edwards explains.

Hob’s heart clenches in sympathy, as if to lose one’s child seems horrible enough, but to be expected to carry on after such a loss seems unthinkable to him.

“Hold on, missing? Missing implies that he is still out there! Doesn't he get a say in what happens to his state? He could come back and rightfully unleash his wrath upon us for going through with this! Sir, you have to understand that if I am to take up this job offer I need to know I’m not risking my entire career and reputation over it.”

He feels perplexed “Wasn't anyone else concerned about this? How is picking apart a missing man’s home and selling all his worldly possessions to the highest bidder even considered acceptable? What was the Endelas family even thinking? The man lost his only child, surely he just needed some time away?” It didn't seem unreasonable to Hob.

He didn’t like it. Something about this felt wrong.

“It is believed even by his own remaining family, that Lord Endelas killed himself. Saying he is missing is the polite way to not address the fact that no body was ever found! Even before his son’s death he was infamous for his melancholic moods and tendencies towards neglecting himself to the point of damaging his own health significantly. So I’m hardly asking you to do anything immoral here! You are a good man Mister Gadling, and if the thought of taking this job distresses you so much I will accept that and find someone else to do it, but Lady Endelas wants this to be done sooner rather than later and I think you are the best choice for it.”

Hob turns his attention back to the portrait and contemplates for a moment.

He truly did look lonely up there.

“I will give you my answer tomorrow morning, Mister Edwards,” he concludes.

“That’s all I ask for Mister Gadling, for you to consider it. Thank you.” Edwards inclines his head and promptly turns around, heading back downstairs.

Hob looks helplessly at the portrait of Lord Morpheus, already knowing he will take the job come morning.

Damn him and his bleeding heart.

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Ta-dah! illustration that's part of my gothic romance dreamling AU for @dreamlingnation spooky event !! the prompt that inspired this was "cursed painting" the comic pages for the ficlet above are already in the works so stay tuned for that and more!

special thanks to @academicblorbo for helping me edit this, you are the best friend!

#the sandman #the sandman fanart #dream of the endless #hob gadling #dreamling #dream x hob #dnhouseofhorrors #lord morpheus #cloudy illustrates #really need a title for this AU #spooky ooky #gothic romance dreamling au

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bookgeekgrrl · 11 months

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My media this week (4-10 Jun 2023)

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📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🙂 i've been having a horrible time pulling myself together (deadratz) - steddie, 74K - angsty getting together fic

🥰 Red Queen to Overwatch (BootsnBlossoms, Kryptaria) - excellent 00Q AU - Bond moves in across the hall from freelance tech genius Q but Q think his oldest brother Mycroft might be a problem…

😊👂‍ Rotten To The Core (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #8) (T.E. Kinsey, author; Elizabeth Knowelden, narrator) - back at it again with Emily & Flo in this cozy mystery series

🥰 A Man of Good Fortune (softestpunk) - 43K, Dreamling regency omegaverse AU - absolutely delightful, warm and fluffy; great worldbuilding

😊 Baby, You're the End of June (Oh_i_swear & thiccbuckybarnes, author; britbrit99, artist) - 155K, stucky no powers omegaverse mpreg - quite enjoyable, loved the very slow burn - great embroidery art!

🥰👂‍ We Could Be So Good (Cat Sebastian, author; Joel Leslie, narrator) - imma just quote TJ Alexander's review bc they're a great writer and better than me with words: "It's late 1950s New York City, and two reporters for a liberal pinko newspaper are falling in love with each other. Nick and Andy are exquisite. The vibes are immaculate. And for those of us who are wary of reading about queer historicals because we’ve all read That Type of Story Where Things End Terribly: this is not that. And thank fuck." Cat continues her incredible streak of 'low angst, mostly vibes' which I absolutely adore.

😍 Paper Things (saltandanchor) - 73K, Inception Pretty Woman AU - the PW is really just the initial set up for this incredible fic, loved loved loved it even tho I know nothing about inception except that JGL & TH had insane chemistry [this fic was begun 10.5 years ago and the author recently finished it after an 8 yr hiatus!!!! so never give up hope!]

💖💖 +108K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

(Baby, Baby) Can't You Hear My Heart Beat? (E_Greer) - Ted Lasso: Keeley/Roy/Jamie, 37K - my fave tag for this story: "author's shameless adoration of cranky older partners"

your blood is my territory (saltandanchor) - Shameless (US): Ian/Mickey, 10K - canon-divergent (i think) AU where Ian dances in a club and Mickey won't look at him - I don't think I watched Shameless past s3 but this felt very true to their characters

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Hot Ones - LL COOL J - this was possibly my fave Hot Ones ever

Hot Ones - Jenna Ortega

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Re: Dracula - June 5: Simple Seriousness

Into It - While Writers Strike, Special Effects Artists Try To Unionize

Vibe Check - Welcome to Club Renaissance

Culture Gabfest Plus - The Spider-Verse Proliferates

⭐99% Invisible #539 - Courtroom Sketch

The Waves Plus - Finding Love Without Romance

⭐Sidedoor - Recording the World

⭐Outward Plus - Pride Special: Is “I Do” Best for You?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Fairy Castle

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Temple of Pythons

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Frozen Dead Guy

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Tabor Opera House

Re: Dracula - Bonus 3: Antisemitism and the Gothic

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Seventh-Inning Stretch

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Alive: 2007 (Live) [Daft Punk] {2007}

Random Access Memories [Daft Punk] {2013}

Presenting The Prodigy

Nitzer Ebb

Sister Machine Gun

Electronic Radio • 2000s

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Radio • Party

Sneaker Pimps Radio • Chill

My Mix #5 [Duran Duran, ELO, etc]

The Age Of Pleasure [Janelle Monáe] {2023} - I just put this album on repeat all day long from 7:30 to 17:30

Save Ferris

Tomorrow Never Comes [Rancid] {2023}

Rancid

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the-cloudy-dreamer · 6 months

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Gothic Romance Dreamling AU (General Plot)

“Robert Gadling is a professional appraiser who’s being offered a job cataloguing the contents of an old, abandoned family estate.

The former owner Lord Morpheus Endelas, a infamously mercurial painter, went missing months after his only son’s death.

After formal investigation decides to classify Morpheus’s disappearance as a cold case, the remaining Endelas family hires an auctioning house to sell out their brother’s estate.

Through cataloguing the estate Robert begins to know Morpheus and to piece together the last months of his life, particularly the late man’s obsession with something called the “the ancient order of mysteries”.

What does this order have to do with Lord Endelas , late son Orpheus Endelas and Lord Endelas own disappearance?

More importantly why can’t Robert stop having dreams about this man he’s never met before?”

#gothic romance dreamling au #the sandman #dreamling #dream of the endless #hob gadling #cloudy rambles #cloudy illustrates #at long last I think I feel confident enough in revealing the general plot to this!!#that’s right folks it’s a mystery within a mystery!#with a dash of ghost and romance!#queer stuff happens here I prommy #dnhouseofhorrors #gotta credit the event that started this brainrot in my head!

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the-cloudy-dreamer · 6 months

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So I am —uhh writing a dreamling gothic romance AU comic???

I have most of it plot out and im currently trying to script and storyboard some of it!! ( already got 3 pages from the first part of act 1 almost done!).

I got to say this was very unexpected but the muses seem to be in agreement that this is what I should dedicate my free time with so guess this is something that’s been done and that you’ll see in this blog! Not sure how soon or not since this will be done in my spare time tho.

Anyway this was inspired mostly by @dreamlingnation little house of horror event and I hope I get to share some of what I’m doing with you all soon 🖤

In the meantime here’s a confused Hob panel from my sketched storyboard

#the sandman #dreamling #dream x hob #hob gadling #cloudy rambles #cloudy illustrates #I think this fandom has truly made me want to get back into writing and hey! I used to be fairly decent at it so we’ll see what happens!#this is the first time I’m writing something in English tho #but I am optimistic about it! and happy! just typing on my note app about it has been fun lol #it’s the spooky season that’s shaking my brain into spooky action ✨#gothic romance dreamling au

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the-cloudy-dreamer · 6 months

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Gothic Romance Dreamling AU! Moodboard

“Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same”

My idea for this in a short sentence is: To know someone is to love them, even if the person in question is dead.

General aesthetic: Dark, gothic romance. There’s a sense of beauty fading, of time running out.

Things that inspire this: Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, Kate Bush Hounds of Love.

#gothic romance dreamling au #the sandman #dreamling #dream of the endless #hob gadling #i promise im working on a title but it’s sooo hard!#moodboard #this is a general vibes and inspo sheet don’t mind it too much! it’s all about the aesthetics ✨#cloudy rambles

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the-cloudy-dreamer · 6 months

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I’ll be updating this post with everything important that’s related to my AU! ( and yes, I promise to update the banner when I finally have a title for this story!)

So far we have:

-General tag #gothic romance dreamling au (everything related to this story will be tagged under this!)

-Announcement (my first ever post about this story with a hob storyboard panel)

-General Plot ( do you want to know what this story/ comic will be about? click here!)

-Moodboard ( we are going for horror /romance aesthetic vibes here! I also talk a bit about what inspires my story)

-Lord Endelas portrait + ficlet ( Morpheus portrait done for @dreamlingnation house of horror! + a ficlet that could be considered the prologue to Act 1 of the story)

( I need to make another master post for my blog as well, I'll link this there as well once I have the time to do so!)

#the sandman #dreamling #dream of the endless #hob gadling #dream x hob #cloudy masterpost #gothic romance dreamling au #cloudy rambles #cloudy illustrates #current wip #I hope you stick around for this story! I'm just so excited to work on it even if updates will be very slow

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the-cloudy-dreamer · 6 months

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I’m having a lot of fun playing at writing with my Gothic Romance Dreamling AU! I’m going to post some things about it because I want to get a masterpost for it set up, so please be patient while I’m insufferable about my new blorbo shaped project ✨

#gothic romance dreamling AU #cloudy rambles #cloudy illustrates #the sandman #dreamling

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the-cloudy-dreamer · 6 months

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I LOVE the start of your dreamling gothic romance au! The painting caught my eye right away, and I wish I could read the entire story right away! Please please please post the completed work on tumblr/ao3 once it's done!

I noticed that you used the word "state" instead of "estate". Estate is the term for a person's belongings/house/land, so I think that's probably the word you were looking for. Feel free to ignore this; I'm just a random tumblr commenter, and I'll (very!) eagerly read the whole fic without this correction, but I thought I might as well let you know.

Hello there friend!

First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to read what I wrote. I’m also very happy you enjoyed the art and that you want to follow more of this.

I’m a horror fan at heart and this is my attempt at mixing my love of a genre with my current hyper fixation, hopefully it will turn out okay! I am excited to write and draw more for this.

As for posting on ao3/ tumblr: that’s my current plan! I will however warn you that posting for this project will be slow since this is something I do on my free time and I don’t have a lot of it.

As for the second part of your ask: Not only is english not my native language but everything I’ve written so far for this AU was done over a good amount of pain killers so I’m surprised I didn’t make anymore mistakes!

Thank you for pointing this out to me, state and estate are two very different words and the mix up here is significant! So I appreciate it!

#thanks for the ask!#gothic romance dreamling AU!#for real I need a title for this but I’m so bad at naming things lol #the sandman #cloudy rambles

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the-cloudy-dreamer · 6 months

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Last Line Tag Game

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 you like).

Thank you @mathomhouse-e & @ginoehfor tagging me!!

So I was hoping I would be able to write some of my gothic romance dreamling! AU so I could share it with you all but alas...no time! adult life is cruel like that BUT I do have a couple of drawings so here:

A redraw of Levi Ackerman's last panel in the AOT manga:

And my beloved Dream of the Endless:

Both of this are mostly done ( specially Dream's that one just needs a few details here and there) I've been using both of this as testing grounds for some cool color + lighting so I might be able to finish this under the guise of practice this week but we'll see.

I shall tag @virgo-dream @rainy-days-and-nights @wolfgirl-valentineand uhhhh whoever else wants to do it? I'm so bad at tagging people on top of my head, so sorry 😔 !!!

#tag games #thanks for the ask!#levi ackerman #dream of the endless #the sandman #attack on titan #cloudy rambles #cloudy illustrates

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