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“What I’m saying is— I understand.”
He catches Dream’s hand in his. His touch is careful, soft like a summer breeze. It makes Dream’s breath catch somewhere under his breastbone.
“I know how it is to live against everyone’s expectations. How to live in spite of them.”
Dream stares at their intertwined fingers, feels Hob’s pulse in his fingertips. It’s a beautiful, quiet thing; it’s the first time he’s felt quiet in ages.
(Or: Dream de Endless was suppose to be his family’s most prized jewel, but when he is taken, he loses the last thing the world considered valuable about him. Broken down to his core, he does not expect anyone to want him again. Until Robert Gadling walks into his life.)
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“I enjoyed it. It was…” he trails off, lips twitching into a smile. “Fun. But I would like to try more. With you.”
Again, Hob has to take one breath, then another, to keep from spluttering. “With me.”
Dream shrugs. “I trust you. You are my friend.” He bites at his lower lip, and Hob tries to not stare and think of how he knows exactly what Dream’s mouth tastes like. “And like you’ve said. It’s not like that. It can be. Just between friends.”
(Hob is great at sex. Dream is curious about sex. Friends with benefits is the best solution. Easy, right?)
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Hob leans back in his chair, a tight look in his eyes. “I think we both know why the divorce happened,” he says, a sharp edge back into his tone like earlier in the day. Except this time he seems to be painfully aware of it. “Gods, sorry.”
“No, you’re not.” Dream is surprised to find it doesn’t sound like an accusation.
Hob smiles and it’s back to being sad.
“No, I’m not.” He looks away. There’s a tick in his jaw muscle, like he wants to say more, but in the end he just sighs and stands up.
(Or: How Dream and Hob learn to heal, listen and love again.)
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Monument of a Memory by CinnamonCake, last_illusions (injured_eternity)
Fandoms: Marvel, Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
27 Feb 2018
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Sometimes the truth is like a second chance.
The ashes of the Triskelion have barely cooled when Steve arrives unbidden at Stark Tower. He doesn’t quite know what he’s looking for, so it’s a good thing someone seems to; Sharon thinks she should be getting hazard pay (she should); Phil is beginning to understand why Fury was perfectly happy to stay publicly dead; Natasha and Sam in no way signed up to be relationship counsellors and want their money back; Bucky is waiting for the other shoe to drop like an anvil on his head; and bureaucracy is as impossibly, torturously stupid as it always is. Honestly, the fine print in superhero contracts needs a lot of revision.
Or: the one in which we accidentally wrote half of (and preemptively fixed) Captain America: Civil War before D23, except gayer.
Note: For anyone who prefers waiting for WIPs to finish before reading, all substantive plot has concluded with chapter 5! 6 is essentially a (long) epilogue of pure fluff to recover from the previous 150,000 words; no major plot developments occur.
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- Part 1 of bring your heart, i'll bring my soul
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Acronyms, Definitions, and Notes on Canon by CinnamonCake, last_illusions (injured_eternity)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Comics), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Captain America - All Media Types, Iron Man (Movies), Iron Man (Comics), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV)
30 Nov 2017
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A guidebook of sorts to the Monument-‘verse: an index of acronyms; a list of terminology and definitions; and notes on sources of canon, including headcanons and MCU deviations.
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bring your heart, i'll bring my soul by CinnamonCake, last_illusions (injured_eternity)
Fandom: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Iron Man (Comics), Iron Man (Movies), Marvel, Marvel (Comics), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
27 Feb 2018
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The past was ever restless.
After the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Steve heads back to Manhattan. By way of honesty and a handful of key choices, the team is led to a less divisive, albeit just as personally catastrophic, version of Captain America: Civil War. This series, which is currently laid out as a trilogy with assorted in-universe short stories and one-shots, focusses on found family, building relationships, and trying to save the world without breaking it too badly first.
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In 1916, Roderick Burgess successfully summons Death, and Hob Gadling wakes up in the trenches alongside three dead soldiers.
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28 Jan 2024
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Hob Gadling has seen the same man sitting still like a statue every day for a week and looking terribly upset, all he really wants is a peaceful lunch break but he can't bring himself to ignore someone in need - especially a very gorgeous someone who looks like they're on the verge of a breakdown. A chance meeting becomes far more, and gives Morpheus a means to heal.
-An AU where they meet on the university campus and Hob gets more than he bargained for when he decides to be a good person-
(This story is a self-contained arc and not hinged on future series entries!)
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- Part 1 of Corvid Chronicles
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27 Jan 2024
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In which storms are brewing, wine is drunk, and the prince of stories tells stories of his own.
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17 Jan 2024
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leave me there, dreaming by of good fortune (mishenjared) for staroftheendless
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
14 Jan 2024
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Hob Gadling, a cavalier of a prestigious order, finds his life turned upside-down when his hometown suddenly disappears from the face of the earth. He's at his lowest when he meets a mysterious, starry-eyed elf, who happens to be the solution to one or more of his problems.
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14 Jan 2024
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Much to his annoyance, Dream of the Endless discovers that his best/only friend, Hob Gadling, has slept with nearly everyone he knows.
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10 Jan 2024