The big reunion

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stylized big man :] for funsies! inspired by some other ones ive seen on twitter and by my friends.

Currently thinking about The New Inn and how Hob literally made Dream his own little corner of the waking world to come back to. This man literally bought a pub next door to The White Horse so that when His Stranger deigned it fit to see him again (because of course Hob didn't know he was imprisoned), he wouldn't have to look far from where they'd always met. He literally wrote instructions on the barrier of The White Horse directing him to the place he bought SPECIFICALLY for this, specifically for when Dream showed up.

And I hesitate to call it a home in Dreams regard, but I absolutely do believe Hob lives in a modest flat above the Inn. Part of this is because it makes financial sense- why buy a house elsewhere and have the extra cost of that + travel (home -> brief stop at the pub -> work -> pub for the rest of the day, waiting for Dream -> home). But also, living there means that when His Stranger shows up (because Hob knows he will, he wouldn't have bought a whole pub for the man if he thought he wouldn't), Hob will be the first to know. If he lives there, it doesn't matter if Dream comes knocking at 3 am, Hob will be there to open the doors for him. He asks his bartenders, daily, if someone unusual had come in - pale, hair as dark as night, beautiful as the sun is bright - and at this point they answer him before he even asks. Even if His Stranger was waiting until their next centennial meeting in 2089, just on the off chance that he wasn't...Hob would be the first to know of his arrival.

So anyway, while I wouldn't refer to the inn as Dreams home (yet...) I would call it Hob's, and he built it with His Stranger in mind. And I don't even think Hob would realise the gravity of this after Dream escapes from his imprisonment. Dream returned to his realm and found it partially deserted- his subjects had left in his absence (save for a key few), he returned and found his family had continued as usual (or as usual as the endless are) without him, the waking world only felt his absence because of the consequences it brought (people not waking up, etc).

Yet there is Hob Gadling and his inn.

There is a place, built specifically for when Dream returned to him. A small corner in the waking world where someone- no not just someone but Hob- had built him a pub, a resting place, with the intention of waiting for him. Hob had carved out this little place, so close to The White Horse, with the intention of making it easy for Dream to find, to come back. After so many people leaving him, or moving on, or just plain not knowing he was even gone in the first place- to come back and find a pub, dedicated to him and his companionship with Hob Gadling...thats gotta do something to you man.

So anyway, yeah. Thinking about how Dream feels when he meets up with Hob, after a century of imprisonment, to find that despite their last meeting...Hob had waited for him. And not only that, but he had built an Inn for him- had made a safe place in the waking world, anticipating his return. Hob had never lost faith in him, and Dream would never turn his back on that again.

Probably not canon anymore but it's funny how everyone imagines Peter's face to be scarred or heavily changed when in reality (or at least in 2012) he literally straight up doesn't have a face.

Like, THAT ISN'T just a covering for his face. That's his actual face

Could it be lighting? Maybe? But I don't think that's how lighting works. I don't think his face is naturally allergic to light.

I don't think this is canon anymore because The Seventh paints Peter's broken mask as this huge mystery and unless the mystery is about bringing this back, I don't think this is the surprise we might be getting.

BUT HEY this was all borderline if not 100% canon at one point in time

edmond olivine......... farm sounds edition tiny tsun obsessed with girlfriend 4x his (cup_ ) Size....

Since there's a quest log/journal, presumably Ronan is writing in one relatively often in canon.

So imagine, during a short rest, Lae'zel happens upon him scribbling rather furiously in his journal. She asks him what he's writing about at this moment so intensively, remarking that it generally seems like a waste of time. Looking over his shoulder, she sees he's drawing something and he hands her the leather-bound journal to show her fully, stating he's been thinking about new 'battle maneuvers' in order to solve the issue of covering distance in a fight.

Whats been drawn are crude stick figures with notable features tacked on to them in order to denote personage. The first instance is of what's presumably the dragbonborn (a figure with a tail, four horns, and a triangular head) hoisting what's probably Lae'zel (a figure with a frown and many sharp teeth, jagged pointy ears, and a very big sword) into the air and throwing her into what's probably a bunch of goblins. There is a little blurb under this in very neat and tight script about how this may be difficult due to the weight of Lae'zel's armor, followed by another drawing of the same kind of thing, but this time with Ronan presumably throwing Astarion (a figure with curly hair and shorter pointy ears, with a much smaller dagger) into a fight, with the annotation that he is lighter and more throwable(?).

Even with his difficult to read expressions, Ronan seems rather eager for her opinion, prattling on about how he once worked with a gnome in his soldier-for-hire days and they had done this exact premise 'a few times'. Lae'zel sneers, pointing out that everyone in their group is bigger than a gnome and she's stronger than Ronan, something she could and would easily prove-

As she's ranting about their capabilities, Lae'zel absentmindedly flips to the previous page in the journal before Ronan can stop her. There, under the entry of the previous night in camp is another, smaller simple drawing, this time of just the dragonborn and the Astarion figure standing next to each other. They're quite close, the little sticks for arms touching at the ends, and what this represents is lost on Lae'zel as the journal is unceremoniously ripped from her hands.

"That part...is not battle maneuvers." He mumbles, half-turned away and holding the journal close to his chest.

Lae'zel tsks, tells him to keep work-shopping them and also do not, under any circumstances, try to throw her. Ronan begrudgingly agrees.

why does everything i get really into always end up being so god damn niche. by the year 2035 i am going to be blogging exclusively about the interpersonal relationships between the pillbugs and snails hiding underneath the bricks lining the flowerbeds in my parent's garden.

the amount of time i spend thinking about Even carrying the metacrisis doctor’s fob watch is really quite disproportionate to how much ive fleshed out that part of the story in my head

that feeling when you mention the teeniest tiniest, smallest fact about a movie or book to someone and they're like wow how do you know that and

do i tell them that for some reason a bunch of weirdos loved that fact and put in a billion fanfics?

and worse, do i tell them i read every. single. one. of those fanfics??

“Nose to Nose” (digital drawing) — CW

i drew hlvrai gordon and half life gordon today at school.love them

walking the fine line between being honest with my therapist but also not being so honest that she decides im not stable enough to know my own gender and not give me that nice little dysphpria letter

Help I'm being held hostage by fem!Nie Mingjue AU

hi, saw live music, life is worth living again, bye 🫡

I can't really stop thinking about Jeeves putting on/taking off his drag in Bertie Wooster's room. sitting at his little fancy table with the mirror (I do know the word I've forgotten it).

Does crying over fictional characters count as grieving? Even if they're not real, we've gotten attached to them, ofter enough to want to refer to them like we would a friend. If a character we love in such a way dies or goes through something horrible, and we cry over them and when we are asked if anything is wrong and we respond that no, you're just too emotional over a fictional character, is that a lie? Many have said that the fate of a favourite character is often decisive in overall mood, even outside of fandom spaces. Have we simply been grieving for someone who never existed this whole time?