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For In That Sleep Of Death by AconitumNapellus for pfrye23
Fandoms: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV)
28 Oct 2019
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Illya finds himself slipping between waking and dreams, between now and the past, between security and fear. What is happening to him?
[Content warning for holocaust mention, war related trauma, graphic scenes, and implied male on female rape.]
Written for the LiveJournal Hallowe'en Challenge to a prompt by Pfrye23.
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09 Jun 2025
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Ethan shows up on Benji's doorstep, bleeding and bruised. They come to terms with why Benji left. As much as they can.
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30 May 2025
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“I couldn’t care less about the American” by Yoshifan456
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies)
22 May 2025
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On a sixteen hour flight Ethan and Benji have to endure a terribly homophobic man sitting next to them. Being the emotionally mature adults they are, they promptly decide to pretend to be two newlyweds flying towards their perfect honeymoon.
But pretending to have feelings ends up being not that fun, when you actually have those feelings. They figure it out though, and not in the American's favour.
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Written for the Benthan The Final Countdown event with prompt:Benji and Ethan are on a 15+ hour fully booked flight, seated in economy.
Why are they on this flight; how do they pass the time?
Maybe they've chosen movies to watch beforehand, syncing the moment they press play. Or they start a heated match of some local multiplayer game.
Oh, and how do they feel about airplane food?- Language:
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29 May 2025
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For svmadelyn's badfic-summary challenge, summary from hyperfocused: Rodney MmmKay's mother always told him smart boys never get the hot guys. Can he pretend to be dumb so hunky pilot John Shep Hard will ask him to the Atlantis: Under the Sea prom? W/ my OC Princess Ancienta. Warnings: ANGST M/M plz rd/rvw
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09 May 2025
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Ethan's a businessman about to testify against a crime boss, who's put a hit out on him. Benji's the bodyguard brought in to protect him. But Ethan's not sure how unassuming Benji can actually do the job. Until he sees him in action.
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06 Apr 2025
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To be Loved is to be Changed by SuperHeroTiger for LBIGreyhound13, callie_caje, sunsetuniverse, lunasquared
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
11 Jan 2025
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Erik started to forget that touch could mean something other than suffering.
And then Pietro came along, shattering not only his cell but his very reality in the process. A hand on his arm. Another curled up in his hair. A touch that didn’t carry pain, but hope, and freedom, and something that felt dangerously close to safety.
Erik’s skin tingled long after Pietro had pulled his hands away, and he realised how deeply he had missed such gentle contact.
He learnt very quickly, however, that Pietro did not feel the same.
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Or, Erik is touch starved and Pietro is touch averse, and all the mess that comes with it.
(Set in the Dark DOFP timeline)
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08 Mar 2025
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Graves scoffs and tries to remember how his lonely evening walks had somehow become a tradition he shared with the wispy Magizoologist. A ritual that had somehow bloomed seemingly from nothing. One day, Newt was just there – and had been ever since.
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01 Mar 2025
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Hob and Dream are accosted by a thief on their way home one evening
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- Part 1 of Fluffbruary Fills 2025
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03 Feb 2025
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A Family Stands Tall by Aria_Lerendeair
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
15 Nov 2023
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Hob is enjoying a very pleasant evening with his Endless family in The New Inn, when two party crashers appear.
Night and Time have arrived to remind their children that there are Rules to be obeyed, and are surprised to find, of all things, a human standing in their way.
UPDATE: Now with second, bonus chapter!
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13 Sep 2023
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When Hob sees Roderick Burgess wearing a ruby he recognizes at one of the man's parties - he knows that his Stranger can't be far away, and might in fact be the rumored devil in the basement the man has.
After watching his friend take vengeance on Burgess and his captors, and after acquiring a name (and a position!) that he has been waiting centuries for, it's not weird that he has strange dreams, right? Even about castles, his friend, and a land called the Dreaming...
(Title is Latin for Justice)
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- Part 3 of Aria's Dreamling Bingo Fics 2023
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14 May 2023
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in death's waiting room by darjeelinh
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
06 Jan 2023
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In Death’s waiting room sat her brother.
or, after the Wake, Dream is stuck in purgatory.
He had to confront his regrets before he could move on.- Language:
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08 Jan 2023
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It's 2022 and Hob's got his Stranger back in his life. His Stranger, who's now his friend and who drops by more than once a century. Bloody fantastic, if you ask him.
Though of course, it doesn't last. Dream disappears again; this time to fight the hordes of Hell that have invaded the Dreaming.
Hob could just sit this one out, but hey- That doesn't sound much like him, does it? So he does what any sensible bloke would do, not that he's ever been one: sneaking into the Dreaming, hell-bent on fighting this war on Dream's side, where he belongs.
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28 Dec 2022
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It came sudden. His friends head snapped around, fanthomless eyes staring directly at him. One pale hand reached out and took hold of his arm, fingers as long as spider-legs which dug themselves painfully into his flesh.
“Find me.”
Hob awoke with sweat sticking to his brow, breath caugh in his lungs, with shaking hands he pushed back his fringe.
And stared.
There on his arm, just below his left elbow and clearly visible on his tan skin were indents, a row of half-moons, remnants from spindly fingers with long nails, leaving in their wake quickly fading marks.
What if Dream of the Endless had retained a small fraction of his power while being held captive by Roderick Burgess?
What if his power had been just enough to keep sending small messages to the only man that had ever dared to call him “friend”?- Language:
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02 Nov 2022
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The first sign is so small, it’s not surprising that he misses it, in hindsight.
After all, who considers it an ability to simply make other people smile by smiling at them?
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Hob is the anthropomorphic personification of Hope. It takes him an embarrassingly long time to figure it out.
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- Part 1 of Hopefully
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08 Oct 2022
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“I heard a rumor,” Mona purrs, elbows bracketing the steaming tea mug in front of her, delicate chin propped on her knuckles. “About a certain Roderick Burgess.”
“Oh?” Hob picks up his cup of Earl Grey from the counter, taking a sip. “What might that be?”
“Apparently, he’s captured Death,” she replies as Hob chokes on his tea.
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(Hob attempts to save Dream from the fishbowl. It doesn't quite go as planned - with some unfortunate consequences.)
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02 Oct 2022
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Giving Sanctuary by Avelera for Steerpike13713
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
07 Jun 2023
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In 1689, Hob Gadling and Dream meet once more, after Hob has lost everything. That night, their meeting goes on longer than expected when the conversation turns to what it means to live, to lose, and to be the fathers of dead sons. Unable to bear the thought of sending a man who so echoes Dream's own grief back into the night alone, Dream breaks his own rule and invites Hob to stay with him for a time, at least until he can get back on his feet.
The story of two grief-stricken, divorced, and widowed fathers to sons they lost too young truly seeing one another and there, at their lowest point, doing their best to put themselves and each other back together.
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- Part 1 of Giving Sanctuary
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26 Sep 2022
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Hob Gadling was not by nature a cautious man but even he knew the value of keeping track of those who would be too… intrigued by his condition. In 1926, a chance conversation in a bar alerts Hob to the fact that Roderick Burgess has captured another immortal, one that sounds eerily similar to his friend.
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- Part 1 of Cautionary Tales
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20 Sep 2022
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Fly And Have Hope My Little Dream by Baba1975
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
21 Aug 2022
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Thousands of years ago Morpheus had fallen in love with a human who after seeing him for a moment decided to look for him, today seeing the brown eyes of Hob Gaddling who decided to disguise himself with a stupid hat and glasses to get him out of his misery feels as if at last something fits within his metaphysical being
A little fic of dream having self confident problems and Hob being there for him.
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21 Aug 2022
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When everything seemed too much for him to manage, Dream seeks refuge in the house of his only friend.
The problem is that the situation is not so simple, and now his family decides that they want to help him solve his problems, even without him asking for help.
However, Dream only wants help from one person, and is not a Endless.Series
- Part 1 of Safe
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15 Aug 2022