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Despite his better instincts, Captain Robert Gadling reluctantly attends one of his employer’s extravagant parties. Beneath the house, in the shadowed stillness of the basement, he stumbles upon a secret. Terrifying, unknowable, and impossible to resist.
Hob’s heart stuttered. The figure was man-sized from head to hips, lean as a dancer, skin the opal pallor of a drowned sailor. Yet, below the waist, humanity surrendered to abyssal myth. Hips tapering into a monstrous tail.
Even cramped within the ostentatious bowl, the creature’s every shift hinted at impossible strength pinned in a cage too small.
Hob found his voice only as a rasp. “My god…”
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31 Aug 2025
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In order to achieve self-actualization, you have to start at the bottom.
Engaged in an unwise (for his own heart's sake) friends-with-benefits relationship with Dream, Hob's nonetheless determined to bully his dear stranger along the path to caring about himself. He just has to figure out what Dream needs.
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- Part 3 of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
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28 Aug 2025
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Superbloom by Moorishflower for fishydwarrows
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
02 Aug 2023
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“This happened,” Dream says, “because I was immoderate with my desires. So perhaps. If those desires are fulfilled. The effects of them will end.” He does not, strictly speaking, know this to be fact. But it makes the sort of sense that his sibling would enjoy, and even if it does not work…it cannot hurt to try.
Having established that he and Hob are friends with benefits, Dream proceeds to develop anxieties over it.
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- Part 2 of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
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28 Aug 2025
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Hierarchy of Needs by Moorishflower
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
20 Jul 2023
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"You are always welcome," Hob had said, with such warmth in his voice that Dream had listed towards him like a pale fern grown in darkness, starved for the sun. "Any time, day or night. My home is your home."
After the Dream Vortex, after Desire, after the Corinthian, Dream is drawn back to warmth, and comfort, and safety, to Hob.
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- Part 1 of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
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26 Aug 2025
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After their meeting in 2022, Dream seems more willing to see Hob more often than before, which delights the immortal immensely. Finally, after so many years, his friend is starting to open up a bit - about his experiences, the missed meeting, his name and titles.
And Hob dreams of him as always, only this time, it's not just a dream, but the Dream. Dream, in his castle, with galaxies on his coat and a smile on his face.
or idiots go from friends to lovers through meetings, both in the waking world and the dreaming. there may be dancing involved, as well as pining
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- Part 1 of endless journeys (to happiness)
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24 Aug 2025
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first kiss at an elf king's dream of his wedding