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I think it's very significant Hua Cheng's power involves rain because the event that started Xie Lian's suffering was a drought, so it's as if when he emerged to protect him, he said: "if it was wrong for gods to answer prayers for rain, a ghost will. And the heavens will bleed for it".
"Xie Lian didn't know whether to laugh or cry."
Yeah, it is my favourite scene from TGCF…
Your Highness, pull yourself together!
THERES ANOTHER ONE😭😭😭
they really put their ship name in a chapter title and expected us not to notice
The most unrealistic thing about mxtx's novels is that the youngest has to wait the longest
just imagining him admiring huacheng smashing qirong's head into the ground like that
oh my god I figured out how to draw without having a mental breakdown oh my god oh my god-
When you realize that Qi Rong was the original shipper of Hualian because he called Hua cheng a dog and Xie lian dog fucked 🥰
modern tgcf in which hualian make each other bentō boxes when they go out without the other.. xie lian gets the most carefully prepared, way too luxurious meals while hua cheng opens the box to.. i'll leave that to your imagination
SORRY sorry. i need a minute. i just remembered hob was never really written originally to fall in love, and that at the same time that in-fiction hob was taken off guard by what he began to feel for rue, at-table brennan himself had been blindsided by what was unfolding. hob was meant to be a plothound. a benevolent busybody. a sleuth. for hob's writer, his creator and god, love was never considered as a part of his story, and yet it came to him anyway. and yet it slipped in through the space between the periods in his name. and yet it found him in the dark cold of his tent and held him in warm arms. k.p. hob is a character who, pulled gently by the hand of another, stumbles, falls, and then runs away from the future that had been imagined for him. what a thing a story can be when it's cracked open by love.
Dream is Reality in Waiting
His head’s still aching, though the pain has become less physical and more… dreamlike? Mental? Emotional… The thing that’s truly driving him around the bend, beyond his messed up brain, is the realization that there are so many things there now, in the back of his head. Things that he’s never been fully aware of while awake. There are things he feels, things he knows, and cannot tell how exactly; and what’s more, that title Lucienne insists on calling him? The very title he refuses to listen to, to pay attention to, because it terrifies him. The words themselves, as well as the implications they carry.
Lord Consort of the Dreaming. That’s what Lucienne calls him. That’s his official title. Because he’s a married man! Has been for decades! The kicker? He didn’t remember. He never does while awake. And that, that’s the part that’s burning most inside him. Because what kind of husband is Dream, what kind of husband is he, that he’s not aware of any of it for a good deal of his every day?!
The text above is a sneak peek from my brand-new Sandman fic: Dreamling, Jessamy lives, Fishbowl Rescue and... does it count as Secret Relationship when one half doesn't remember when awake?
Hob is a simple man, a man of principles, of convictions, with a simple life… except for where said life has lasted for several centuries now, he’s met beings that are both older and more powerful than any god, and is married to one of them! So maybe his life isn’t simple at all. Still, he’s the kind of man whose word means something; even when the person he gave his word to clearly never expected him to remember it…
What if Hob were Modern Johanna Constantine's dad?
I asked myself that question several months ago, and this was the result:
Hob Gadling never intended to have a child again, couldn’t imagine doing it, having them, and losing them. When little Jo comes into his life though, he couldn’t regret her. He also could have never imagined how insane his life would get, once she’s in it. Then again, it’s not like he was exactly normal from the start, was he?
It's a 4 part miniseries:
Fathers & Daughters
Stranger
A Thousand Years
The Gift
To the Edge of Night
Another truly incredible author I got paired with for the Centennial Husbands Big Bang 2024 was @ginoeh who wrote "To the Edge of Night" (which can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/CHBB_2024/works/54197224)
All the fanarts made for this story can be found in its own gallery right here: https://www.deviantart.com/princess-lalaith/gallery/91239395/to-the-edge-of-night
The main one is this:
Dreamling Abbey
My experience with my final writer was very particular because of how little time we had to coordinate, yet I knew from the start that she'd written a great fic and like all the others deserved all the love, and the fanarts! I loved working with @merinsedai who wrote "Dreamling Abbey", a fic everyone should go read! (can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/CHBB_2024/works/54234643)
Like with the others, it has its own little gallery in my DA page: https://www.deviantart.com/princess-lalaith/gallery/91268391/dreamling-abbey
This is the main one:
Endless Courting
“What have you done?!” The Stranger demands as he spins around, usually blue eyes going pitch-black and seeming to pierce right through Hob’s flesh and straight into his soul. “I… I don’t… what?” Hob has no idea what he’s even talking about?! The last thing he, the very last thing either of them expects is when from one moment to the next, everything changes. The rain seems to have stopped falling, their surroundings go unexpectedly blurry. It’s like… almost like the world around them disappears (or maybe they’re the ones who disappeared from the world). Hob opens his mouth to ask what the hell’s going on exactly… when he notices something else: they’re not alone anymore. There’s a woman to one side of them… or are they three? It’s so confusing! “What… what’s going on?” Hob asks, blinking repeatedly, trying and failing to comprehend what’s going on (a part of him wondering if he’s dreaming, or perhaps hallucinating). “Hob Gadling,” The Stranger pronounces formally. “These are the Fates, the Three-Who-Are-One, the One-Who-Is-Three. The Hecate.” The Stranger bows his head at them as he introduces them, which prompts Hob to imitate him. “My ladies,” he murmurs as respectfully as he can (because what else can he possibly do?). “Morpheus, it’s been a while.” One of the ladies (Hob cannot pinpoint which one, exactly) says. “You look… agitated love.” Another of the ladies points out. “Well, that’s why we’re here, isn’t it?” Another adds, almost immediately after. Hob can barely keep up. He wonders if his Stranger… if Morpheus feels the same way, or maybe it’s Hob’s own humanity that makes him feel that way. “What…?” Morpheus begins. “Oh no dearie,” The Fates seemed to take turns speaking throughout the sentence. “This time… we shall be the ones to ask the questions.”
LWJ & HC: If the love of my life desires it, I shall let him have it, regardless of whether I abhor the object or recipient of his attention.
LBH: Shizun always chooses others. I will make it such that he has NO ONE ELSE TO CHOOSE BUT ME!!!!!!!!
*proceeds to nearly destroy the entire human realm*
Hua Cheng and Lan Wangji are on different ends of the same love and devotion spectrum
Luo Binghe, from what I know, is his own spectrum entirely
Discuss
Ah Dream, he already knows pet. 😅
Morpheus: I am the King of Dreams and Nightmares. Everyone: And what about it?
I’d also like to add that watching their 18th century meeting you can kinda hear the difference between Hob and Johanna- whilst Hob obviously doesn’t speak like a 14th century peasant, he doesn’t have an emphasised ‘posh accent’ like Johanna does cause obvs he isn’t from the nobility :)
Also, now I’m thinking about it comparing his accent in his first scene in the pub with interviews with Ferdinand Kingsley - his accent in the pub seems less like recieved pronunciation (RP) (the ‘Queens English’), mainly cause he drops his ‘t’s when saying “everyone does i(t), you all just go along with i(t).” - and he keeps this even when he’s dressed up all posh in the 1500s, whereas Kingsley was privately educated a a boarding school and then went to acting school lol
To be fair I’m probably over reading this, but now I’ve got brainworms lol 😂 also imagine an edit with Hob speaking in his original accent and it sounds like this 😭:
Help from british dreamling or hob gadling fans needed:
What can you tell me about Hob's accent?
To me (not a native speaker, but i know my way around english) it sounds "standard modern southern english". But what would you say???
Comedian!Hob au Hob is like the only person on earth that actually makes Dream chuckle. It becomes a personal challenge for Hob to ALWAYS make that gloomy looking Goth guy in the back amused. His personal goal? Get him to, honest to god, laugh out loud. They both are a little obsessed with each other without ever speaking once. Hob's material starts including more and more "So my crush and I" and references to "Tall, Goth and Pretty" and he wonders how much he could sneak before it becomes abundantly obvious that yes, yes I'm talking to you mysterious bane of my existence in the back.